Wednesday July 6, 5:30 pm. The Hamilton Friendship Association with Cuba proudly presents a Fundraiser for Pastors for Peace Cuba Caravan (http://www.ifconews.org/CubaCaravan), on their Hamilton stop. The evening features a theatrical performance by actor Brian Gordon Sinclair’s of his new work 
IN DEADLY ERNEST, part of his Hemingway on Stage series. With guest speaker Reverend Thomas Smith of Pastors for Peace.
Wednesday, July 6 / Doors: 5:30pm – Performance: 6:00pm
General Admission: $15.00/ Student and Senior Rate: $10.00/ 12 and under: $8.00. Pay what you can, no one refused entry!
Tickets at the door or by contact info@cubacanada.org
Brian Gordon Sinclair is back by popular demand! Don’t miss Hamilton’s only performance of IN DEADLY ERNEST, part of the repertoire of Hemingway on Stage. All funds raised from this exciting performance will go to the IFCO/Pastors for Peace Cuba Caravan, a program of raising donations for Cuba in protest against the unjust, illegal blockade against the island. The Hamilton Friendship Association with Cuba (HFAC) calls on the community to support this program to contribute to the important work across Canada and the world to uphold Cuba’s right to self-determination by ending the blockade. The HFAC has hosted the Pastors for Peace for many years with this spirit of Canada-U.S. cooperation and to fulfill our mandate of promoting people-to-people friendship and exchange. Join us by attending the performance or making a donation!
About IN DEADLY ERNEST:
IN DEADLY ERNEST is the final installment of the Hemingway on Stage: The Road to Freedom series of plays. It was commissioned by Museo Ernest Hemingway for presentation at the 13th International Colloquium Ernest Hemingway in Cuba. The play commences in Cuba and progresses through Italy, Africa and Spain concluding at the Mayo Clinic and in Idaho. This thoroughly entertaining play offers rare insight into the life and times of Ernest Hemingway. It is a bold tale of adventure and passion brought to life by actor, director and master story-teller Brian Gordon Sinclair. In Deadly Ernest is a superb one-actor show that will make you believe that Ernest Hemingway is standing right there in front of you!
About Brian Gordon Sinclair:
Brian Gordon Sinclair, author of Hemingway On Stage series, is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada and holds a Master of Arts degree in Theatre from the University of Denver. He has also studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, England and at the National Film Board of Canada. Mr. Sinclair has just finished writing a seven-play series, Hemingway On Stage: The Road to Freedom. The first six plays have premiered at the Hemingway Festival in Key West and the seventh play of the series now proudly debuts in Havana. A recipient of the Sir Tyrone Guthrie Award for acting at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario, Mr. Sinclair has performed in Cuba, Denmark, England, Holland, Norway, Poland, Spain and the Moscow Art Theatre in Russia. He is now Artistic Director of Ontario’s “Children of Erin” Theatre Company. Mr. Sinclair is a proud dual citizen of Canada and Ireland. For more on the author and his plays please see: www.briangordonsinclair.com
About IFCO/Pastors for Peace Cuba Caravan
IFCO/Pastors for Peace Cuba Caravan is a project of the award-winning Inter-religious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO) that was launched in response to the 1988 civilian attack by contra forces in Nicaragua. The Pastors for Peace project aims to deliver material aid to support the victims of U.S. so-called “low intensity” warfare in Latin America and to initiate education and advocacy projects to campaign for a more just and moral U.S. foreign policy in our hemisphere. Each year the Cuba Caravan travels across Canada and the US collecting goods and donations to be delivered to Cuba in defiance of the blockade. For Cuba, the Caravan is an important effort to end the U.S. blockade against the island, which causes shortages of food, medicine and other important supplies for eleven million people. It is an immoral policy that uses hunger and disease as political weapons. To make a donation to the Caravan, please contact us directly at info@cubacanda.org.
About Reverend Thomas Smith
Rev. Thomas E. Smith currently serves as the Pastor of the Monumental Baptist Church of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In addition to pastoral duties of the church, Rev. Smith serves as Executive Director of the House of David, Chairman of the Center for Family Excellence and Chairman of Monumental Mission Ministries Inc. He also serves on the boards of the Allegheny County Volunteer Board for Emergency Food and Shelter, and the Metro-Urban Institute. Rev. Smith is President of the Board of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization/Pastors for Peace, and has traveled with Pastors for Peace to Cuba on many occasions, as well as to Chiapas, Mexico. He is currently serving as one of the acting co-directors of IFCO. On this occasion, Rev. Smith will share his important perspective on why we challenge the unjust law that is the U.S. blockade against Cuba.
Join us! Please help us to make this important event a success. To get involved, or to attend contact info@cubacanada.org.
