How to get tickets to a live recording of Astra Taylor's 2023 CBC Massey Lectures

CBC Radio | Posted: July 11, 2023 6:16 PM | Last Updated: July 28, 2023

The 2023 Massey Lectures will take place in 5 cities and be broadcast on IDEAS this fall

Image | Astra Taylor and her book The Age of Insecurity

Caption: In her 2023 CBC Massey Lectures, The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart, writer and filmmaker Astra Taylor explores how insecurity is an essential feature of our entire capitalist system. (House of Anansi/Nye Taylor)

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The CBC Massey Lectures are back this fall, and they may be coming to a city near you.

This year, Winnipeg-born filmmaker, writer and political organizer Astra Taylor explores how seemingly disparate crises — rising inequality and declining mental health, the ecological emergency, and the threat of authoritarianism — originate from a social order built on insecurity. From home ownership and education to the wellness industry and policing, many of the institutions and systems that promise to make us more secure actually undermine us.

Mixing social critique, memoir, history, political analysis, and philosophy, her lectures rethink both insecurity and security from the ground up. By facing our existential insecurity and embracing our vulnerability, Taylor argues, we can begin to develop more caring, inclusive, and sustainable forms of security to help us better weather the challenges ahead.

Taylor was active in the Occupy Movement and has been an outspoken critic of predatory practices around debt. Her books include The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age and Democracy May Not Exist, But We'll Miss it When It's Gone.

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Taylor will visit five Canadian provinces in September for live recordings of her Massey Lectures. The cities are: Winnipeg, Halifax, Whitehorse, Vancouver and Toronto. The series will be broadcast on CBC Radio's IDEAS and be made available on CBC Listen in November.

Tickets will be on sale through the theatre box offices starting July 17 — but there is a presale in most cities starting July 10 that offers a discount.

Winnipeg | Tuesday, September 5

Prairie Theatre Exchange
3rd Floor Portage Place
393 Portage Avenue
7:00 p.m.
Tickets go on sale: July 17. Presale: July 10
Pre-Sale Code: MASSEY2023
Box office: https://tickets.pte.mb.ca/TheatreManager/1/tmEvent/tmEvent1523.html
Phone: (204) 942-5483

Halifax | Friday, September 8

Neptune Theatre
1593 Argyle St
7:00 p.m
Tickets go on sale: July 17. Presale: July 10
No code needed for early bird pricing
Order tickets online: https://sales.neptunetheatre.com/Online/article/CBCMassey
Phone: Local/Halifax: 902-429-7070; Toll-Free:1-800-565-7345

Whitehorse | Wednesday, September 20

Yukon Arts Centre
300 University Drive
7:00 p.m.
Tickets go on sale: July 17 (No presale)
Order tickets online: https://www.yukontickets.com/TheatreManager/1/online?performance=3306
Phone: 867-667-8574

Vancouver | Friday, September 22

York Theatre
639 Commercial Dr.
7:00 p.m.
Tickets go on sale: July 17. Presale: July 10
Pre-Sale Code: MASSEY2023
Order tickets online: https://thecultch.com/event/cbc-massey-lectures-the-age-of-insecurity
Phone: 604-251-1363

Vancouver | Saturday, September 23 | A Future for the Land

Join the 2023 Massey Lecturer Astra Taylor and CBC IDEAS host Nahlah Ayed with special guests Candis Callison and Jennifer Grenz for a symposium about ecological insecurity and how to create new forms of security for the ecosystems, plants, and animals on which our food, health, and environmental security depends — with a special focus on solutions for British Columbia.

York Theatre
639 Commercial Dr.
7:00 p.m.
Order tickets online: https://thecultch.com/event/cbc-massey-lectures-a-future-for-the-land/
Phone: 604-251-1363

Toronto | Wednesday, September 27

Koerner Hall
TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning, 273 Bloor St W.
7.00p.m.
Tickets go on sale: July 17 Presale: July 10
Pre-Sale Code: MASSEY2023 (must create an account to access the presale. 20% off discount applied at checkout).
Order tickets online: https://www.rcmusic.com/events-and-performances/2023-cbc-massey-lectures-presents-the-age-of-insec
Box Office: 416-408-0208

The CBC Massey Lectures is a partnership between CBC, House of Anansi Press and Massey College at the University of Toronto, providing a forum where contemporary thinkers can explore important issues of our time.