Two Remarkable Women and How I Was involved

The theme of this update:

Amazing women who made an incredible impact.

  Jane recently celebrated her 90^th birthday and is still going strong!

Peggy would have celebrated her 100^th in two weeks. She never slowed down!

While she’s no longer with us her legacy lives on within Toronto’s Irish community.
And even more so, within my orbit. Peggy was my mother.

Peggy was a champion of the arts who spearheaded numerous fundraising initiatives from the moment her Dublin feet hit Toronto’s ground in 1954. For decades she helped others and left an indelible mark of kindness, compassion, tenacity, and humility.

Over the last several years a labour of love manifested with a documentary that will screen on the centenary of Peggy’s birth, June 1st.
If you live in or near Toronto I invite you to join us for a special evening that will be celebrated ‘The Peggy Delaney Way’

TICKETS:

Click website:  https://hotdocs.ca/whats-on/watch-cinema

1.   Select June 1st in the calendar and scroll down to Peggy’s picture.
2.   Click MORE DETAILS
3.   Click green TICKETS box
4.   Select number of tickets
5.   Check preference: mobile / home tickets OR pick up at box office
6.   Checkout by filling in contact info (this is NOT for Hot Docs membership – merely to track your tickets)

Where: Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema (506 Bloor Street West
When:  Saturday, June 1^st|
Reception: 6:30 – 8:00 Screening: 8:10 – 9:35
Tickets: $15.00 online / $20.00 at the door

I hope you’ll reserve the evening in recognition of a milestone celebration for a vibrant and beloved member of Toronto’s Irish community.

(click trailer below)

The other phenomenal woman is another force of nature. In fact, she spent a great deal of her life ensconced in nature. Considered the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees, Jane Goodall still travels around the world, writing, speaking, and spreading hope through action.  As a conservationist, humanitarian, and crusader for the ethical treatment of animals, she is a global force for compassion and a UN Messenger of Peace.

The Jane Goodall Institute contacted me through my site last month commissioning me to narrate the intro to a video Jane would see at her birthday celebration.  What an honour to be a small part of this milestone event for such an iconic figure.

Her team requested a hyped-up David Attenborough-styled narration.  So, here’s me, monkeying around in the recording booth, so to speak.