Lakehead presents In Conversation with Anne Dagg, the world’s first giraffologist
Dr. Anne Innis Dagg feeding giraffes at the Brookfield Zoo, Chicago, 2016. Photo credit: Elaisa Vargas.
November 2, 2020 –Thunder Bay and Orillia, Ont.
Lakehead University’s Office of Community Engagement and Lifelong Learning is pleased to present “In Conversation with Anne Dagg: The Woman Who Loves Giraffes”.
On Sunday, November 15, Lakehead invites you to gather online to go behind the story of the critically-acclaimed documentary The Woman Who Loves Giraffes. Written, produced and directed by Alison Reid, the documentary follows Anne (now 86) as she retraces the steps of her unprecedented solo journey to South Africa back in 1956, to study giraffes in the wild. The film offers an intimate window into her life as a young woman, juxtaposed with a first-hand look at the devastating reality that giraffes are facing today. Dagg and the species she loves have each experienced triumphs as well as setbacks. The Woman Who Loves Giraffes gives us a moving perspective on both.
The evening will feature a live virtual Q&A with Dagg and Reid – to hear from Dagg, herself, about her experiences in South Africa as well as her later life as an author, activist, teacher and mother.
The recording of the documentary, The Woman Who Loves Giraffes, will be available to watch on a computer, tablet or TV prior to the live virtual event on November 15.
Tickets are $15 each for students, faculty, staff and alumni, and $20 for the public. Tickets can be purchased at www.lakeheadu.ca/cell. A portion of the proceeds will support Green Haven Shelter for Women in Orillia and the Faye Peterson House in Thunder Bay.
Get the popcorn ready! We’ll virtually join you there on Sunday, November 15 at 4 pm EST!
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Media: For further information or to arrange an interview, contact Jaclyn Bucik, Media, Communications & Marketing Associate, at 705-330-4010 ext. 2014 or jbucik@lakeheadu.ca
Lakehead University is a fully comprehensive university with approximately 9,700 full-time equivalent students and over 2,000 faculty and staff at two campuses in Orillia and Thunder Bay, Ontario. Lakehead has 10 faculties, including Business Administration, Education, Engineering, Graduate Studies, Health & Behavioural Sciences, Law, Natural Resources Management, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Science & Environmental Studies, and Social Sciences & Humanities. Lakehead University’s achievements have been recognized nationally and internationally, including being named Research Infosource's Research University of the Year in our category for the fifth consecutive year (2020); ranked, once again, among Canada’s Top 10 primarily undergraduate universities in Maclean’s 2021 University Rankings; as well as included in the top half of Times Higher Education's 2020 World Universities Rankings for the second consecutive year, and 98th among 766 universities from around the world in THE's 2020 Impact Rankings (which assesses institutions against the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals). Visit www.lakeheadu.ca.
