<div dir="ltr">Please find attached the PSA and Press release for the following:<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(24,24,24)">Author describes life
in remote Nepal</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(24,24,24)">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 </span><i><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Yak Girl: Growing Up in the Remote Dolpo Region of
Nepal</span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(24,24,24)">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 <i>The Only Son</i>,
which follows Dorje’s brother Pema and his family, and the struggle to preserve
a culture.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(24,24,24)">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. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(24,24,24)">-30-</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(24,24,24)">PRESS RELEASE:
for immediate release: Wednesday, January 9, 2019<br>
Contact: Susan Brandoli: </span><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"><a href="mailto:ed@caetani.org" style="color:blue">ed@caetani.org</a></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(24,24,24)"> or (250) 275-1525</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(24,24,24)"> David Swain, Altitude
Project: </span><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink" style="color:blue;text-decoration-line:underline"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%"><a href="mailto:david@altitudeproject.ca" style="color:blue">david@altitudeproject.ca</a></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(24,24,24)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(24,24,24)">Author describes life
in remote Nepal</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(24,24,24)">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 </span><i><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Yak Girl: Growing Up in the Remote Dolpo Region of
Nepal</span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(24,24,24)">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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(24,24,24)">The outside world knew little of the Dolpo region when, in the
1980s, celebrated travel writer Peter Matthiessen described life there in <i>The Snow Leopard</i>. Then, </span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">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.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Yak Girl</span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(51,51,51);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> describes the author’s life in what
one review called “</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(51,51,51)">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.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(51,51,51)">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.</span><span style="font-size:10pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(24,24,24)"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(24,24,24)">Dorje’s Okanagan tour includes a second presentation at the
Kelowna Public Library, Downtown Location, at 3:00 PM on Saturday, Feb 2. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(24,24,24)">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 <i>The
Only Son</i>, which follows Dorje’s brother Pema and his family, and the
struggle to preserve a culture.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(24,24,24)">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. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(24,24,24)">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(24,24,24)"> Thank you!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;color:rgb(24,24,24)"><br></span></p><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Susan Brandoli<div>Executive Director</div><div>Caetani Cultural Centre</div><div><a href="http://www.caetani.org" target="_blank">www.caetani.org</a></div><div>250-275-1525</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">I respectfully acknowledge that my work place is within the ancestral, traditional, and unceded territory of the Syilx Nation.</span></i></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>