Alice Klein

Alice Klein is the co-founder, editor and CEO of Toronto's longest-running free alternative newsweekly NOW Magazine. In 1981, Klein co-founded NOW with Michael Hollett and several others. It is now one of the largest independent media organizations in Canada.

Klein is also on the Board of the Toronto Arts Council, Canadian Journalists for Free Expression, Centre for Social Innovation and is a founding member of Green Enterprise Toronto (GET).

In 2007, Klein wrote, directed and produced her first documentary feature film The Call of the Hummingbird about a group of more than 1000 Mayan calendar (13 moon calendar) followers, bio-regionalists, and permaculture experts who gather in central Brazil to prepare and train for December 21, 2012 – the end of the Mayan calendar.[1] The film was screened at SXSW and Hot Docs and at numerous other international film festivals.

References

  1. ↑ Klein, Alice. "The Call of the Hummingbird - A 2010 Manifesto". Wild Faith Productions. Archived from the original on 10 February 2012. Retrieved 30 December 2011.



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