Former writers and staff from Shift magazine, the award-winning Toronto-based tech & culture mag, reunite and celebrate the publication of alumnus Chris Turner's new collection of non-fiction, "How to Breathe Underwater." Shit from Hell, Canada's favourite geriatric punk band, will perform. Free event!

More about Chris Turner's "How to Breathe Underwater":

The essays and reportage in "How to Breathe Underwater" offer a panoramic overview of this age of radical changefrom the online gambling boom in the Caribbean to Cyberjaya, the Malaysian governments attempt to build its own Silicon Valley; from video game design to digital-age tabloid journalism to the artistry of The Simpsons; and from the fate of the Great Barrier Reef to Cubas economic limbo after the fall of the Soviet empire. In field reports that survey the rise of the internet in the 1990s, analyze the changing nature of mass culture in the digital age, and provide a multifaceted look at how human industry is shaping the planets foundations, this collection presents a fractal portrait of a society in rapid flux.

Chris, whom Mark Kingwell titled "the master of longform journalism in Canada," is one of this nation's leading writers and speakers on sustainability and the global cleantech industry. He is the author of "The War on Science: Muzzled Scientists" and "Willful Blindness in Stephen Harpers Canada" Greystone 2013; "The Leap: How to Survive and Thrive in the Sustainable Economy" Random House Canada 2011; and the 2007 bestseller "The Geography of Hope: A Tour of the World We Need" Random House, a Globe & Mail Best Book of the Year and a finalist for the Governor Generals Award for Nonfiction, the Alberta Literary Award for Nonfiction and the National Business Book Award.