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Margaret Atwood is embarking on a performance-based tour spanning cities from coast to coast across Canada and six countries around the globe to launch her new novel, The Year of the Flood (McClelland & Stewart).

The Year of the Flood is set in the post-apocalyptic future first glimpsed in Atwood's prior novel Oryx and Crake. The new novel includes the story of the God's Gardeners - a religion devoted to the melding of science, religion and nature.

Atwood has penned a semi-dramatic theatrical performance based on The Year of the Flood. She will act as the narrator in each city and, using local actors and choirs to reduce the carbon footprint of the tour, present a one-hour performance that breaks away from a traditional book tour.

The performances in Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver and Sudbury will be fundraisers for Nature Canada. Donations made to Nature Canada at Margaret Atwood's The Year of the Flood performances will directly support conservation work at Important Bird Areas throughout Canada.

We are the Canadian co-partner, with Bird Studies Canada, of BirdLife International, a global alliance of conservation organizations working together for the world's birds and people. As BirdLife in Canada, we deliver the Important Bird Areas Program, which aims to identify, conserve and monitor a network of sites that provides essential habitat for bird populations. Margaret Atwood is the Joint Honorary President of BirdLife's Rare Bird Club with her husband, Graeme Gibson.

Tour Dates

See www.yearoftheflood.com for further details of performance venues, times and links to ticket sales.