[BCMA] PSA Yak Girl Book Tour and Reading - The Altitude Project presents reading at Caetani Centre

[Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv.]

Please find attached the PSA and Press release for the following:

*Author describes life in remote Nepal*

In a remote region of Nepal, at an altitude of 13,000 feet, a community
ekes out an existence against a backdrop of breathtaking beauty. It’s a
place most of us will never see, but we can catch a glimpse this month.
Author Dorje Dolma presents her book *Yak Girl: Growing Up in the Remote
Dolpo Region of Nepal* at a special presentation on Friday, February 1 at
7:00 PM at Caetani Centre in Vernon.  Dorje’s Okanagan tour includes a
second presentation at Kelowna Public Library, Downtown Location, on
Saturday, February 2, at 3:00 PM. Other stops on the tour include Rossland,
Castlegar and Nelson. On Monday, February 4, at 7:00 PM, the Civic Theatre
in Nelson will show the documentary *The Only Son*, which follows Dorje’s
brother Pema and his family, and the struggle to preserve a culture.

The tour is sponsored by Altitude Project, a non-profit registered charity
which sponsors education, health and infrastructure projects in the Upper
Dolpo, Dorje’s home region of Nepal.

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PRESS RELEASE: for immediate release: Wednesday, January 9, 2019
Contact: Susan Brandoli: ed at caetani.org or (250) 275-1525

 David Swain, Altitude Project: david at altitudeproject.ca

*Author describes life in remote Nepal*

In a remote region of Nepal, at an altitude of 13,000 feet, a community
ekes out an existence against a backdrop of breathtaking beauty. It’s a
place most of us will never see, but we can catch a glimpse this month.
Author Dorje Dolma presents her book *Yak Girl: Growing Up in the Remote
Dolpo Region of Nepal* at a special presentation on Friday, February 1 at
7:00 PM at Caetani Centre in Vernon. The multimedia presentation is
accompanied by portraits from the village by photographer David R. Gluns.

The outside world knew little of the Dolpo region when, in the 1980s,
celebrated travel writer Peter Matthiessen described life there in *The
Snow Leopard*. Then, Dolpo had no running water, electricity, motor
vehicles, phones, school, or doctors other than the lamas trained in the
use of herbs and prayer. This is where the author grew up, caring for her
many siblings and the family’s sheep, goats, and yaks—even defending them
from snow leopards.

*Yak Girl* describes the author’s life in what one review called “a vivid
testimony of growing up and learning to survive in a harsh, rugged, yet
astonishingly beautiful land.” Included in the story is the perilous,
month-long trek to Kathmandu with her parents to meet the westerners who
would take her to the U.S. for the surgery that would save her life in “a
candid, true-life story of hardship, strength, family ties, and culture
shock.”

Dorje was eventually adopted by her new American family; she graduated from
university and became an early childhood educator before undertaking this,
her first book.

Dorje’s Okanagan tour includes a second presentation at the Kelowna Public
Library, Downtown Location, at 3:00 PM on Saturday, Feb 2.

The tour also includes schools in Nelson, and presentations in Rossland,
Castlegar and Nelson. On Monday, February 4, at 7:00 PM, the Civic Theatre
in Nelson will show the documentary *The Only Son*, which follows Dorje’s
brother Pema and his family, and the struggle to preserve a culture.

The tour is sponsored by Altitude Project, a non-profit registered charity
which sponsors education, health and infrastructure projects in the Upper
Dolpo, Dorje’s home region of Nepal.

 Thank you!


Susan Brandoli
Executive Director
Caetani Cultural Centre
www.caetani.org
250-275-1525



*I respectfully acknowledge that my work place is within the ancestral,
traditional, and unceded territory of the Syilx Nation.*
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