BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.0.1//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:20260513T180821Z 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]\nVIP AND V VIP NOW SOLD OUT\n\n\n\nVIP Experience: $21 5 VIP tickets\, which include a post-event cocktail reception with Chris H adfield after the event\, are available for purchase. There is a limited n umber of VIP tickets available.\n\n Up close &\; personal with Chris H adfield with seating within the first six centre rows.\n Exclusive invita tion to a post-event reception attended by Chris Hadfield. Includes a cash bar and light snacks.\n Tax receipt for the maximum allowable amount ($1 10).\n\nVVIP Experience: $500 VVIP tickets\, which include a pre-event Ho rs-d'œuvre reception with Chris Hadfield\, are available for purchase. T here is a limited number of VIP tickets available.\n\n Pre-event receptio n with Chris Hadfield prior to the event. Includes Hors-d'œuvre and a dr ink.\n Up close &\; personal with Chris Hadfield with seating within t he first six centre rows.\n Exclusive invitation to a post-event receptio n attended by Chris Hadfield. Includes light snacks and a cash bar.\n A c opy of Chris Hadfield's book Final Orbit\n Tax receipt for the maximum a llowable amount ($280).\n\nFeeling generous? Please consider sending 12 st udents to see Colonel Hadfield for $500. The students will be arranged by THEMUSEUM. Contact Bridget.Hinnegan@THEMUSEUM.ca to secure this ticket b lock.\n\n[learn_more caption="About Chris Hadfield"] Chris Hadfield is an astronaut\, business leader\, hi-tech entrepreneur\, five-time bestselling author\, and global speaker on leadership\, change\, and managing life. H aving commanded the International Space Station and directed companies\, h e has deep experience with best practices and tactics on guiding teams thr ough extreme circumstances of complexity and change. His keynotes celebrat e the marvels and wonders of science and spaceflight while exploring the p arallels between space exploration\, leadership\, and the strategic integr ation of emerging technologies. Formerly NASA’s Director of Operations i n Russia\, Hadfield spent more than three decades serving the military\, N ASA\, and the Canadian Space Agency. Throughout his distinguished career\, he has been a fighter/test pilot\, flown three space missions\, built two space stations\, performed two spacewalks\, crewed the Shuttle and Soyuz\ , and commanded the International Space Station. His many awards include t he NASA Exceptional Service Medal\, the Meritorious Service Cross (twice)\ , and the Order of Canada. Today\, Hadfield serves as a director and advis or to multiple tech companies\, including SpaceX and Virgin Galactic. He i s also an adjunct professor at the University of Waterloo\, chair of the O pen Lunar Foundation\, and is assisting King Charles III with space busine ss practices for the Sustainable Markets Initiative. Hadfield also co-foun ded the Space Stream at the Creative Destruction Lab tech incubator\, whic h has created $1.6B of new business equity value in the past five years. H adfield’s keynote presentations have been called “an astonishing displ ay of visual storytelling” by Harvard Business Review\, and his TED talk \, “What I Learned from Going Blind in Space”\, has been viewed over 2 0 million times. He is frequently featured on national and global media ou tlets\, has taught a MasterClass\, and is the co-creator and host of the i nternationally acclaimed BBC series\, Astronauts: Do You Have What It Take s? as well as co-host of National Geographic’s One Strange Rock document ary series. Hadfield is the author of six internationally bestselling book s: two non-fiction\, An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth and You Are H ere\; a children’s book\, The Darkest Dark\, which has been adapted as a n award-winning stage play for young audiences\; and three fiction books\, Final Orbit\, The Defector and The Apollo Murders\, now under contract to become a television series. A musician\, Hadfield has also released an al bum 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 seen 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