An Evening with Sally Armstrong: The Fine Art of Protest

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Wednesday, September 19th, 2012
7:30 PM to 9:30 PM

The Salt Spring Grand(m)others to Grand(m)others, benefiting the Stephen Lewis Foundation, are presenting an evening with Sally Armstrong.  An Order of Canada recipient, multi-award-winning journalist, author, and human rights activist, she has covered stories in Swaziland, Bosnia, Somalia, Rwanda, Congo, the Middle East and Afghanistan.

�I have written for over two decades about women who dared to take on the extremists who highjacked their culture and religion and seek emancipation,� says Armstrong.

Grand(m)others to Grand(m)others is delighted that Sally Armstrong has so generously offered her time and expertise to benefit the organization�s ongoing fundraising efforts on behalf of African grandmothers who are raising families orphaned by HIV/AIDS.

Here�s a list of Sally Armstrong�s books:

Veiled Threat:  The Hidden Power of he Women of Afghanistan (2002)

 Bitter Roots, Tender Shoots:  The Uncertain Fate of Afhanistan�s Women   (2008)

 The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor   (2007)

Her new book, being published March 1, 2013, examines the state of the world�s women and the dawning of a new age that�s altering the status of women everywhere.