BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//6.6.4.4//EN TZID:America/Toronto X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VEVENT UID:8126@themuseum.ca DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260530T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260530T210000 DTSTAMP:20260401T200315Z URL:https://themuseum.ca/events/an-evening-with-chris-hadfield/ SUMMARY:An Evening With Chris Hadfield DESCRIPTION:\n\nJoin THEMUSEUM for a keynote presentation and candid audien ce Q&\;A with Chris Hadfield. This special presentation is in support o f THEMUSEUM\, with a portion of the ticket sales supporting operations of THEMUSEUM.\n\nAn Evening with Chris Hadfield will be held at Lazaridis Hal l in the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier Uni versity* on Saturday\, May 30\, 2026 at 7 pm.\n\nGeneral Admission: $70+hs t/Admin fees\nStudent**/Youth Admission: $40+hst/Admin fees\n\nGeneral adm ission and student/youth admission do not have reserved seating. Accessibl e seating is available on a first-come\, first-served basis.\n\n[button li nk="https://ecom.roller.app/themuseum/aneveningwithchrishadfield/en/produc t/1858278" color="silver" newwindow="yes"] Buy General Admission and Stude nt Tickets[/button]\n\n\n\n\nVIP Experience: $215 VIP tickets\, which incl ude a post-event cocktail reception with Chris Hadfield after the event\, are available for purchase. There is a limited number of VIP tickets avail ablet.\n\n Up close &\; personal with Chris Hadfield with seating with in the first six centre rows.\n Exclusive invitation to a post-event rece ption attended by Chris Hadfield. Includes a cash bar and light snacks.\n Tax receipt for the maximum allowable amount ($110).\n\nContact Bridget. Hinnegan@THEMUSEUM.ca to secure your VIP tickets.\n\nVVIP Experience: $50 0 VVIP tickets\, which include a pre-event Hors-d'œuvre reception with Chris Hadfield\, are available for purchase. There is a limited number of VIP tickets available.\n\n Pre-event reception with Chris Hadfield prior to the event. Includes Hors-d'œuvre and a drink.\n Up close &\; pers onal with Chris Hadfield with seating within the first six centre rows.\n Exclusive invitation to a post-event reception attended by Chris Hadfield . Includes light snacks and a cash bar.\n A copy of Chris Hadfield's book  Final Orbit\n Tax receipt for the maximum allowable amount ($280).\n\nC ontact Bridget.Hinnegan@THEMUSEUM.ca to secure your VIP tickets.\n\nFeel ing generous? Please consider sending 12 students to see Colonel Hadfield  for $500. The students will be arranged by THEMUSEUM. Contact Kylee.Ros e@THEMUSEUM.ca to secure this ticket block.\n\n[learn_more caption="Abou t Chris Hadfield"] Chris Hadfield is an astronaut\, business leader\, hi-t ech entrepreneur\, five-time bestselling author\, and global speaker on le adership\, change\, and managing life. Having commanded the International Space Station and directed companies\, he has deep experience with best pr actices and tactics on guiding teams through extreme circumstances of comp lexity and change. His keynotes celebrate the marvels and wonders of scien ce and spaceflight while exploring the parallels between space exploration \, leadership\, and the strategic integration of emerging technologies. Fo rmerly NASA’s Director of Operations in Russia\, Hadfield spent more tha n three decades serving the military\, NASA\, and the Canadian Space Agenc y. Throughout his distinguished career\, he has been a fighter/test pilot\ , flown three space missions\, built two space stations\, performed two sp acewalks\, crewed the Shuttle and Soyuz\, and commanded the International Space Station. His many awards include the NASA Exceptional Service Medal\ , the Meritorious Service Cross (twice)\, and the Order of Canada. Today\, Hadfield serves as a director and advisor to multiple tech companies\, in cluding SpaceX and Virgin Galactic. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Waterloo\, chair of the Open Lunar Foundation\, and is assi sting King Charles III with space business practices for the Sustainable M arkets Initiative. Hadfield also co-founded the Space Stream at the Creati ve Destruction Lab tech incubator\, which has created $1.6B of new busines s equity value in the past five years. Hadfield’s keynote presentations have been called “an astonishing display of visual storytelling” by Ha rvard Business Review\, and his TED talk\, “What I Learned from Going Bl ind in Space”\, has been viewed over 20 million times. He is frequently featured on national and global media outlets\, has taught a MasterClass\, and is the co-creator and host of the internationally acclaimed BBC serie s\, Astronauts: Do You Have What It Takes? as well as co-host of National Geographic’s One Strange Rock documentary series. Hadfield is the author of six internationally bestselling books: two non-fiction\, An Astronaut ’s Guide to Life on Earth and You Are Here\; a children’s book\, The D arkest Dark\, which has been adapted as an award-winning stage play for yo ung audiences\; and three fiction books\, Final Orbit\, The Defector and T he Apollo Murders\, now under contract to become a television series. A mu sician\, Hadfield has also released an album called Space Sessions: Songs from a Tin Can. It is the first album to be recorded in space and includes the video version of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” that has been see n over 50 million times.[/learn_more]\n\n\n \; CATEGORIES:Special Events LOCATION:Lazaridis Hall: Wilfrid Laurier University\, 64 University Ave W\, Waterloo\, Ontario\, N2L 3C7\, Canada X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=64 University Ave W\, Water loo\, Ontario\, N2L 3C7\, Canada;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Lazaridis Hall : Wilfrid Laurier University:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDARBEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//6.6.4.4//EN TZID:America/Toronto X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Toronto BEGIN:VEVENT UID:8126@themuseum.ca DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260530T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260530T210000 DTSTAMP:20260401T200315Z URL:https://themuseum.ca/events/an-evening-with-chris-hadfield/ SUMMARY:An Evening With Chris Hadfield DESCRIPTION:\n\nJoin THEMUSEUM for a keynote presentation and candid audien ce Q&\;A with Chris Hadfield. This special presentation is in support o f THEMUSEUM\, with a portion of the ticket sales supporting operations of THEMUSEUM.\n\nAn Evening with Chris Hadfield will be held at Lazaridis Hal l in the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier Uni versity* on Saturday\, May 30\, 2026 at 7 pm.\n\nGeneral Admission: $70+hs t/Admin fees\nStudent**/Youth Admission: $40+hst/Admin fees\n\nGeneral adm ission and student/youth admission do not have reserved seating. Accessibl e seating is available on a first-come\, first-served basis.\n\n[button li nk="https://ecom.roller.app/themuseum/aneveningwithchrishadfield/en/produc t/1858278" color="silver" newwindow="yes"] Buy General Admission and Stude nt Tickets[/button]\n\n\n\n\nVIP Experience: $215 VIP tickets\, which incl ude a post-event cocktail reception with Chris Hadfield after the event\, are available for purchase. There is a limited number of VIP tickets avail ablet.\n\n Up close &\; personal with Chris Hadfield with seating with in the first six centre rows.\n Exclusive invitation to a post-event rece ption attended by Chris Hadfield. Includes a cash bar and light snacks.\n Tax receipt for the maximum allowable amount ($110).\n\nContact Bridget. Hinnegan@THEMUSEUM.ca to secure your VIP tickets.\n\nVVIP Experience: $50 0 VVIP tickets\, which include a pre-event Hors-d'œuvre reception with Chris Hadfield\, are available for purchase. There is a limited number of VIP tickets available.\n\n Pre-event reception with Chris Hadfield prior to the event. Includes Hors-d'œuvre and a drink.\n Up close &\; pers onal with Chris Hadfield with seating within the first six centre rows.\n Exclusive invitation to a post-event reception attended by Chris Hadfield . Includes light snacks and a cash bar.\n A copy of Chris Hadfield's book  Final Orbit\n Tax receipt for the maximum allowable amount ($280).\n\nC ontact Bridget.Hinnegan@THEMUSEUM.ca to secure your VIP tickets.\n\nFeel ing generous? Please consider sending 12 students to see Colonel Hadfield  for $500. The students will be arranged by THEMUSEUM. Contact Kylee.Ros e@THEMUSEUM.ca to secure this ticket block.\n\n[learn_more caption="Abou t Chris Hadfield"] Chris Hadfield is an astronaut\, business leader\, hi-t ech entrepreneur\, five-time bestselling author\, and global speaker on le adership\, change\, and managing life. Having commanded the International Space Station and directed companies\, he has deep experience with best pr actices and tactics on guiding teams through extreme circumstances of comp lexity and change. His keynotes celebrate the marvels and wonders of scien ce and spaceflight while exploring the parallels between space exploration \, leadership\, and the strategic integration of emerging technologies. Fo rmerly NASA’s Director of Operations in Russia\, Hadfield spent more tha n three decades serving the military\, NASA\, and the Canadian Space Agenc y. Throughout his distinguished career\, he has been a fighter/test pilot\ , flown three space missions\, built two space stations\, performed two sp acewalks\, crewed the Shuttle and Soyuz\, and commanded the International Space Station. His many awards include the NASA Exceptional Service Medal\ , the Meritorious Service Cross (twice)\, and the Order of Canada. Today\, Hadfield serves as a director and advisor to multiple tech companies\, in cluding SpaceX and Virgin Galactic. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of Waterloo\, chair of the Open Lunar Foundation\, and is assi sting King Charles III with space business practices for the Sustainable M arkets Initiative. Hadfield also co-founded the Space Stream at the Creati ve Destruction Lab tech incubator\, which has created $1.6B of new busines s equity value in the past five years. Hadfield’s keynote presentations have been called “an astonishing display of visual storytelling” by Ha rvard Business Review\, and his TED talk\, “What I Learned from Going Bl ind in Space”\, has been viewed over 20 million times. He is frequently featured on national and global media outlets\, has taught a MasterClass\, and is the co-creator and host of the internationally acclaimed BBC serie s\, Astronauts: Do You Have What It Takes? as well as co-host of National Geographic’s One Strange Rock documentary series. Hadfield is the author of six internationally bestselling books: two non-fiction\, An Astronaut ’s Guide to Life on Earth and You Are Here\; a children’s book\, The D arkest Dark\, which has been adapted as an award-winning stage play for yo ung audiences\; and three fiction books\, Final Orbit\, The Defector and T he Apollo Murders\, now under contract to become a television series. A mu sician\, Hadfield has also released an album called Space Sessions: Songs from a Tin Can. It is the first album to be recorded in space and includes the video version of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” that has been see n over 50 million times.[/learn_more]\n\n\n \; CATEGORIES:Special Events LOCATION:Lazaridis Hall: Wilfrid Laurier University\, 64 University Ave W\, Waterloo\, Ontario\, N2L 3C7\, Canada X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=64 University Ave W\, Water loo\, Ontario\, N2L 3C7\, Canada;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Lazaridis Hall : Wilfrid Laurier University:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR