Amber Bowerman foundation to celebrate its work in her memory
[This post has been updated] Almost a year ago, highly respected freelance writer and editor Amber Bowerman was killed in a multiple murder-suicide in a Calgary home. Her shocked friends, of whom there are many in the magazine business, immediately talked about some tangible and lasting means to commemorate her life and interests.
The Amber Webb-Bowerman Memorial Foundation was created and next Tuesday, May 26, a news conference is being held in Calgary to announce the many positive things that have come of the tragic loss. It will be held at 11 a.m. at The Odyssey Coffeehouse in the SAIT Campus Centre in SAIT’s main campus at 1301-16 Ave. N.W.
Soon after her death, The Alberta Magazine Publishers Association (AMPA) created an arts and journalism scholarship in her name. Bowerman had written for a number of Alberta publications, including Avenue Magazine and Alberta Views, and was working as a publications editor of the weekly student newspaper at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology at the time of her death.
[UPDATE Magazines Canada and the National Magazine Awards have donated space for the foundation to hold a silent auction during MagNet and the Magawards, June 2 to 5 in Toronto. Bids may be made on a Canadian Rockies package courtesy of Fairmont Hotels & Resorts valued at $1,500. The package includes two nights at each of the stunning Fairmont Mountain Resorts—Banff Springs Hotel, Chateau Lake Louise and Jasper Lake Lodge.]
Present at the news conference will be: Chris Bowerman, Foundation President; Kathe Lemon, Foundation
Vice-President; Susan Webb, Amber’s mother and other foundation board members, friends, family and Amber's colleagues.
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The Amber Webb-Bowerman Memorial Foundation was created and next Tuesday, May 26, a news conference is being held in Calgary to announce the many positive things that have come of the tragic loss. It will be held at 11 a.m. at The Odyssey Coffeehouse in the SAIT Campus Centre in SAIT’s main campus at 1301-16 Ave. N.W.
Soon after her death, The Alberta Magazine Publishers Association (AMPA) created an arts and journalism scholarship in her name. Bowerman had written for a number of Alberta publications, including Avenue Magazine and Alberta Views, and was working as a publications editor of the weekly student newspaper at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology at the time of her death.
[UPDATE Magazines Canada and the National Magazine Awards have donated space for the foundation to hold a silent auction during MagNet and the Magawards, June 2 to 5 in Toronto. Bids may be made on a Canadian Rockies package courtesy of Fairmont Hotels & Resorts valued at $1,500. The package includes two nights at each of the stunning Fairmont Mountain Resorts—Banff Springs Hotel, Chateau Lake Louise and Jasper Lake Lodge.]
Present at the news conference will be: Chris Bowerman, Foundation President; Kathe Lemon, Foundation
Vice-President; Susan Webb, Amber’s mother and other foundation board members, friends, family and Amber's colleagues.
Related posts:
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