Celebrate Women Virtually in 2021!
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CFUW - Sudbury, in partnership with the YWCA and LEAF Sudbury presents the 25th annual Celebrate Women on March 25 at 7 p.m. This year's event will be held virtually. You will receive a link by email shortly before the event.
This year's author is the prize winning Canadian novelist Mary Lawson. She will be talking about her new book A Town Called Solace which, like her previous books, is set in Northern Ontario. Tickets are only $10. |
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Tickets & Books
Tickets can be purchased using credit card, etransfer or cheque.
To pay by credit card, please click here to register via Eventbrite.
To buy your tickets and/or book via etransfer or cheque, please click here to complete the registration form. The event link will be sent a couple of days before the event to those who have registered.
The book, A Town Called Solace, can be purchased from CFUW Sudbury for $30. Two book orders will be made.
Please note that etransfer or cheque payments MUST be received before March 23, 2021 in order to receive the event link.
Etransfers should be made to celebratewomenpymt@gmail.com. Please include your email in the message box of your etransfer and don't forget to fill out the registration form - WE NEED YOUR EMAIL IN ORDER TO SEND YOU THE LINK TO THE EVENT!!!
Cheques, payable to Celebrate Women can be mailed to:
Shelley Machum, Treasurer.
604-2000 Regent Street
Sudbury, Ontario P3E 5T5
If you have any questions please email cfuwsudbury@gmail.com or call Christine Tworo at 705-691-0935.
To pay by credit card, please click here to register via Eventbrite.
To buy your tickets and/or book via etransfer or cheque, please click here to complete the registration form. The event link will be sent a couple of days before the event to those who have registered.
The book, A Town Called Solace, can be purchased from CFUW Sudbury for $30. Two book orders will be made.
- The deadline for the first order is February 15. The books from this order will be available for pick-up in Sudbury only.
- The second book order will be made after the event. The second deadline is April 5. The books from the second order will be available for pick-up in Sudbury, North Bay, Muskoka and Orillia. Please indicate your pick-up location preference on the registration form.
Please note that etransfer or cheque payments MUST be received before March 23, 2021 in order to receive the event link.
Etransfers should be made to celebratewomenpymt@gmail.com. Please include your email in the message box of your etransfer and don't forget to fill out the registration form - WE NEED YOUR EMAIL IN ORDER TO SEND YOU THE LINK TO THE EVENT!!!
Cheques, payable to Celebrate Women can be mailed to:
Shelley Machum, Treasurer.
604-2000 Regent Street
Sudbury, Ontario P3E 5T5
If you have any questions please email cfuwsudbury@gmail.com or call Christine Tworo at 705-691-0935.
Book Sponsorships
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Major Sponsors |
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In addition to attending Celebrate Women Virtually 2021, another way to support the work of CFUW Sudbury, YWCA Sudbury, and LEAF Sudbury is through a book sponsorship. For a $100 contribution, a copy of A Town Called Solace will be placed in a secondary school, post-secondary, or public library of your choice, and your support is recognized with a dedication in the book. Individuals, groups, and businesses often choose to honour or remember friends, family, and colleagues in this way. Click here to download the book sponsorship form. Funds raised support scholarships totaling $8,000 for young women in Sudbury.
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About the book:
As A TOWN CALLED SOLACE opens, we meet a family in crisis: their rebellious teenage daughter, Rose, has disappeared. Weeks have passed with no word, but still Rose's little sister, Clara, keeps a daily vigil at the living-room window, hoping that Rose will come back. Feisty and fierce, Clara is not only missing Rose; she is also missing her elderly friend and next-door neighbour, Mrs. Orchard, a retired schoolteacher who is away in hospital. While standing at the window, Clara keeps an eye out for Rose and an eye on Mrs. Orchard's house.
Then, one afternoon, a strange young man in a strange car pulls into Mrs. Orchard's driveway and proceeds to move into the house as if he owns the place. Which it turns out he does: Mrs. Orchard has died and left it to him. Soon we discover that Clara's beloved Mrs. Orchard has a complicated and tragic past, and the real mystery at the heart of this novel is what happened between her and Liam, the man in the car.
A TOWN CALLED SOLACE is told in three distinct, compelling voices – Clara's, Mrs. Orchard's, and Liam's – cutting back and forth to carefully uncover the layers of grief, remorse, and love that connect families, both the ones we're born into and the ones we choose, and steadily building towards an assured, heart-wrenching and (despite its losses) uplifting ending.
Then, one afternoon, a strange young man in a strange car pulls into Mrs. Orchard's driveway and proceeds to move into the house as if he owns the place. Which it turns out he does: Mrs. Orchard has died and left it to him. Soon we discover that Clara's beloved Mrs. Orchard has a complicated and tragic past, and the real mystery at the heart of this novel is what happened between her and Liam, the man in the car.
A TOWN CALLED SOLACE is told in three distinct, compelling voices – Clara's, Mrs. Orchard's, and Liam's – cutting back and forth to carefully uncover the layers of grief, remorse, and love that connect families, both the ones we're born into and the ones we choose, and steadily building towards an assured, heart-wrenching and (despite its losses) uplifting ending.
About the author:
MARY LAWSON was born and brought up in a small farming community in Ontario. She is the author of Crow Lake, and The Other Side of the Bridge, both international bestsellers. Crow Lake was a New York Times bestseller and was chosen as a Book of the Year by The New York Times and The Washington Post, among others. The Other Side of the Bridge was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Lawson lives in England but returns to Canada frequently.