Alice Klein is the co-founder and former owner of

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's longest-running free

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, ''

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''. In 1981, Klein co-founded ''NOW'' with

Michael Hollett Michael Hollett, born 1955, is the founder and president of North by Northeast (NXNE) music festival which happens every June in Toronto since 1995. Hollett is also founder of the national print and online arts magazine, ''NEXT'', available in Toro ...

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,

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, Centre for Social Innovation and is a founding Green Enterprise Toronto (GET) member.

Biography

Alice Klein attended

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, where she became involved with the university newspaper, ''Excalibur,'' during the mid-1970s. During this period, Klein was active in left-wing politics and a member of the Socialist League. During her years at York, Klein met her future husband,

. In 2007, Klein wrote, directed, and produced her first documentary feature film ''The Call of the Hummingbird'' about a group of more than 1000

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(13 moon calendar) followers, bio-regionalists, and

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experts who gather in central Brazil to prepare and train for 21 December 2012 – the end of the

. The film was screened at

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and numerous other international film festivals. In 2016, Klein became the sole proprietor of the newspaper after Hollett sold his share of

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to Klein and left the newspaper to focus on North by Northeast as the festival's president and founder. In 2019, Klein's NOW Communications sold ''NOW'' to Media Central Corporation for $2 million. Klein remained with the newspaper as "Chief Editorial Strategist."

References

External links

Now MagazineThe Call of the HummingbirdAlice Klein.org
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