Newsletter 02/2011

 

Dear Friends of Canada,

At the beginning of our winter break, we would like to draw your attention to another series of film screenings for schools in the coming year. New teaching material is also available for download on our website and new films have been added to our media library in the Marshall McLuhan Salon.

We look forward to welcoming you to the Salon soon and wish you Happy Holidays and all the best for the New Year.

The Marshall McLuhan Salon Team
Embassy of Canada

 

Latest News

Winter break: Marshall McLuhan Salon closed from December 19 to January 6

The Marshall McLuhan Salon will be closed for the winter break from December 19, 2011 to January 6, 2012. Guided visits for school groups will be offered from January 9 and the Salon will reopen to the general public on Friday, January 13, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Coming soon: film screenings for schools

As in previous years, the Marshall McLuhan Salon will offer film screenings for upper secondary level students on topics of current interest, such as multiculturalism, integration and la Francophonie. For further information and to make appointments, please contact us at info@mcluhan-salon.de.
 

NEW MATERIAL

New Teaching Materials available at www.mcluhan-salon.de

The teaching material on our website has been supplemented with texts on Canadian cultural heritage and pieces on Inuit cinema from the Arctic. Another new addition is the bibliography containing Canada-related literature recommendations specially tailored to the upper secondary level curriculum in the German Land of Hesse. Registered users may download the material at www.mcluhan-salon.de/en/material-for-teachers. 

New films available in the Marshall McLuhan Salon

We would like to draw your attention to the following selection of films, which address subjects such as politics, history and environmental protection.

Topic: About Canada, Politics & History

The Hour: Prime Ministers and Presidents
© CBC, 2009
15 minutes each (in English)
Four brief portraits and interviews with the former Canadian prime ministers Brian Mulroney, Joe Clark, Paul Martin and Jean Chrétien shown on The Hour, the popular CBC talk show hosted by George Stoumboulopoulos.

Topic: Society and politics, multiculturalism and immigration

Immigrant Stories (The Act That Made Us Canadian)
© CBC, 2007
6:44 minutes (in English)
This television report tells the stories of several immigrants who came to Canada from all over the world for very different reasons.

Topic: Nature & Geography, Ecology / Canada’s indigenous peoples, Inuit

The Hour goes Eco© CBC, 2009
15 minutes each (in English)
Brief portraits and interviews with Inuit environmental activist Sheila Watt-Cloutier, Greenpeace activist Tzeporah Berman and probably the most famous Canadian environmentalist, David Suzuki, on the CBC talk show The Hour.

Une communauté solaire en Alberta
© Radio Canada, 2008
6 minutes (in French)
Report on the community of Drake Landing in Okotoks, Alberta, whose energy needs are met solely by solar power.

Media Centre search

All new films and texts can also be researched under News in our Online Media Centre.

 

UPCOMING EVENTS

The McLuhan Year, marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of Herbert Marshall McLuhan, is coming to a close. Rounding off the celebrations, we had the pleasure of welcoming a large audience to the second McLuminations event in October, moderated by Baruch Gottlieb and with the participation of McLuhan experts Martina Leeker and Steffi Winkler. The concluding lecture in this year’s McLuhan series was on the topic of McLuhan’s media practice delivered by Graham Larkin, who presented some interesting finds from the McLuhan archives of Library and Archives Canada. Reports on the events and interesting links can be found on our website under Marshall McLuhan Collection.

Next year the Marshall McLuhan Salon will once again host exhibitions in connection with transmediale, the international media art festival held in Berlin. Between January 31 and February 5, 2012, the work of Canadian artist Jeremy Bailey will feature in the Marshall McLuhan Salon. During the Berlinale film festival from February 9 to 19, Canadian artists will be the guests of the Marshall McLuhan Salon as part of the Forum Expanded section of the festival.

Up-to-date-information about all upcoming events can be found under News and Events.