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An evening with Andy Bichlbaum of the Yes Men
Fundraiser for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, BC Office
Fraserview Hall (8240 Fraser St, near Marine Drive, in Vancouver)
Doors open and dinner served at 6:00 PM
Tickets $75 (includes buffet Indian dinner)
For tickets: contact Dianne Novlan at 604-801-5121 x221 or [email protected]. Tickets must be purchased in advance with credit card or cheque; we do not sell tickets at the door.
For table reservations: Table reservations are available when 8 tickets are purchased at once (or multiples of 8).
To find out about the benefits of sponsoring the gala as an Event Patron, please contact Dianne at the phone number or email above.
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ABOUT THE YES MEN
“Hilarious, therapeutic, inspiring. The Yes Men are geniuses.” — Naomi Klein
Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonnano are university professors by day, satirists and “identity correctors” by night. For the last decade, The Yes Men have been making headlines posing as corporate executives and politicians in an effort to wake us up to the danger of letting greed run our world.
The Yes Men have successfully passed as spokesmen for the World Trade Organization, Dow Chemical Corporation and ExxonMobil on TV and at business conferences around the world. At the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, they joined other activists in publishing false press releases from Environment Canada that drew international attention to Canada’s shameful record on climate policy.
The Yes Men say they use hoaxes “(a) in order to demonstrate some of the mechanisms that keep bad people and ideas in power, and (b) because it's absurdly fun.”
We’re very excited at this chance to inject some humour into this annual celebration of the CCPA’s work. Please join us for what promises to be a quirky and thought-provoking evening. (Who knows what kind of mischief this solo Yes Man will get up to!)
Find out more at www.theyesmen.org and www.theyesmenfixtheworld.com.