{"id":51470,"date":"2025-01-27T15:12:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T20:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=51470"},"modified":"2025-01-27T15:15:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T20:15:27","slug":"munro-beattie-lecture-2024-2025-imps-and-imposters-where-do-stories-come-from","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/event\/munro-beattie-lecture-2024-2025-imps-and-imposters-where-do-stories-come-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Munro Beattie Lecture 2024-2025 \u201cImps and Imposters: Where do Stories Come From?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n\n\n<p>The Office of the Dean of the&nbsp;Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences&nbsp;and the&nbsp;Department of&nbsp;English Language and Literature invite you to join us for the 2024-2025 Munro Beattie Lecture, \u201cImps and Imposters: Where Do Stories Come From\u201d, with author, actor, and playwright, Ann-Marie MacDonald. It will take place at 7:30pm on February 4 at the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ann-Marie MacDonald is a novelist, playwright, actor, and broadcast host.&nbsp; Her work has been honoured with numerous awards, including the Chalmers, the Governor General\u2019s, Gemini, Dora Mavor Moore, John Drainie, the Gascon-Thomas, the Canadian Authors Association, the Canadian Booksellers Association, and the Commonwealth Prize.&nbsp; Her writing for the stage includes the plays,&nbsp;<em>Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning, Juliet)<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Belle Moral:&nbsp; A Natural History<\/em>, and&nbsp;<em>Hamlet-911<\/em>; the libretto for the chamber opera,&nbsp;<em>Nigredo Hotel<\/em>, and book and lyrics for&nbsp;<em>Anything That Moves<\/em>; her novels are&nbsp;<em>Fall On Your Knees<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>The Way the Crow Flies<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Adult Onset<\/em>, and&nbsp;<em>Fayne<\/em>.&nbsp; Ann-Marie graduated from the Acting Program of The National Theatre School of Canada in 1980.&nbsp; In 2019 she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.&nbsp; She is married to theatre director, Alisa Palmer, with whom she has two children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2025\/01\/MB-2425.jpg\" alt=\"Munro Beattie Ann-Marie MacDonald\" class=\"wp-image-51472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2025\/01\/MB-2425.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2025\/01\/MB-2425-512x342.jpg 512w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2025\/01\/MB-2425-320x213.jpg 320w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2025\/01\/MB-2425-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2025\/01\/MB-2425-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2025\/01\/MB-2425-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":51472,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[],"cu_event_audience":[3],"class_list":["post-51470","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_event_audience-anyone"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2025-02-04 19:30:00","cu_event_end_date":"2025-02-04 21:30:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"off-campus","cu_building":false,"cu_event_meeting_room":"","cu_event_meeting_address_full":{"address":"Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre, Cooper Street, Ottawa, ON, Canada","lat":45.4171396,"lng":-75.6955057,"zoom":14,"place_id":"ChIJHwz5h6wFzkwRH0JSLUSGr6o","name":"Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre","street_number":355,"street_name":"Cooper Street","street_name_short":"Cooper St","city":"Ottawa","state":"Ontario","state_short":"ON","post_code":"K2P 0G6","country":"Canada","country_short":"CA"},"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":"","cu_event_cost":"Free","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"Stephanie LeBlanc","cu_event_email":"stephanieleblanc@cunet.carleton.ca","cu_event_phone":"613-520-2310"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/51470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/51470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51473,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/51470\/revisions\/51473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=51470"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=51470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}