Join our partner, Wild Tomorrow, for a screening of the award-winning documentary about Anne Innis Dagg, The Woman Who Loves Giraffes, in celebration of World GIraffe Day 2025!

Location: Wild Tomorrow Conservation Centre, South Africa

Date: June 21st, 2025 at 3:30pm to 5pm (SAST)

Contact Tori (+27674191888) for payment options.

Donations to Wild Tomorrow SA NPC to support the Anne Innis Dagg Foundation’s giraffe research program.

Come learn about the regeneration of Mother Earth and how we all contribute to sustainable lands that support people, animals, and the community.

Learn from the Toronto Zoo’s Guardians of Giraffes, Zoo Volunteers, and the Anne Innis Dagg Foundation as they guide you through activities, crafts, and touch tables! The connection between indigeneity and the lands that support giraffes will be explored so that you can learn how to support your local greenspaces and be a Guardian of Giraffes too! Join us between 11am - 3pm near the giraffe habitat.

Special Meet the Guardians talk at the giraffe habitat at 2:00pm!

https://www.torontozoo.com/events/giraffe#evt

Love giraffes? Enjoy drawing? You’re invited to a special FREE online drawing session with nature sketch artist Sue Macartney!

Join us on Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 11am EDT (Toronto/Canada) for a step-by-step guided workshop where you’ll learn how to draw a beautiful giraffe—no experience necessary!

About the Artist:

Sue Macartney has a professional background in graphic design and art education and is the author-illustrator of the picture book, BENJAMIN’S BLUE FEET (Pajama Press). She was born in BC and spent formative years living in Africa and the Caribbean. Exploring nature, writing and drawing are some of her favourite pastimes. Sue recently worked as a nature sketch artist/educator for The Bateman Foundation (2018-23) and lives in Victoria, BC with her husband and a backyard full of birds.

This is a fun, relaxing session for ALL AGES, perfect for the casual doodlers, budding artists and giraffe lovers alike!

Where: Online via Zoom (link will be provided)

Cost: FREE

Date: Saturday, May 10, 2025

Time: 11am–12pm EDT

Register by: Friday, May 9 by emailing mary@anneinnisdaggfoundation.org

Don’t miss this creative adventure—grab your sketchbook and come draw with us!

Kickstart your Saturday with Coral Rockks, an eclectic mix of music and interviews. Mary Dagg and Paul Zimic will be on air with Coral Andrews on Saturday, March 29th, 2025 from 9:30-11:30am EST. They’ll chat about Anne Innis Dagg, giraffe conservation and stretch out the fun with some fantastic extended track music.

https://ckwr.com/

https://www.coralandrews.ca/

Mary Dagg, CEO of the Anne Innis Dagg Foundation, will speak to the Probus Club of Oshawa on the life of her mother, Dr Anne Innis Dagg, who was the first Western person to study giraffes in the wild in the 1950s and "wrote the bible" about giraffe ecology, behaviour and conservation. Mary will touch on Anne finding her passion for giraffes at the age of three and traveling solo to Africa in her 20s three years before Jane Goodall. She will also highlight the challenges that Anne faced as a woman in science, how it derailed her career and how she fought back. There will also be a section about the unique characteristics of giraffes.

http://www.oshawaprobus.com/

Lecture by Professor Isla H Myers-Smith - Team Shrub – Tundra global change ecology and beyond. 

Location: Wilfrid Laurier University (Senate and Board Chambers) & via Zoom

Cost: FREE

Register: here

Isla Myers-Smith (she/her) is a global change ecologist and a Canada Excellence Research Chair from the University of British Columbia. She studies how ecosystems are responding as the planet warms in the Arctic and beyond. Myers-Smith works with her research group, Team Shrub, using tools from measuring tapes to drones in the Yukon Territory in northwest Canada and around the tundra biome. Myers-Smith has been working in the Arctic since 2002, spending cumulatively 3.5 years in the field. She also works to assemble and analyze datasets to understand change across the tundra biome. Myers-Smith’s research explores how rapidly an accelerating warming climate is leading to a ‘greening of the Arctic’. She has found that tundra vegetation is increasing, and where plants once grew, they are now growing taller. Tundra shrublines are advancing up slope, with shrubs grow more in warmer summers. Plants are greening up sooner in spring, but growing seasons are not becoming longer with warming. Myers-Smith has also been exploring how we communicate scientific findings and the impacts of climate change. She works with northern partners including Indigenous communities, photographers, educators, and immersive storytellers to visualize permafrost thaw, shrub encroachment, coastal erosion and flooding. She has received funding from National Geographic Society for the Greening Arctic and Arctic XR projects.

The Anne Innis Dagg Lecture series was established by Wilfrid Laurier University’s Department of Biology to honour its namesake and draw attention to the barriers faced by women working in STEM, and by Dr. Innis Dagg in particular. Anne is also known as “The Woman Who Loves Giraffes,” which is also the title of the documentary film that was made about her life. The lecture series aims to raise awareness of Anne’s story, encourage discussion about the importance of gender equity in STEM, and help inspire young women to pursue a career in science by inviting high-profile biologists from across Canada to speak about their research and their personal journey.

Mary Dagg, CEO of the Anne Innis Dagg Foundation, will meet with the Erin Extended Learning Opportunities (ELO) group, a social club for retirees for life-long learning in Erin, Ontario. The presentation will include the story of Dr. Anne Innis Dagg and information about giraffe and giraffe conservation, followed by a discussion/Q&A. For more information about joining the ELO, please go to: https://www.erinelo.ca/.

Enjoy Heath Tarlin's fabulous giraffe stilt-walkers, snap photos with friends in the free photo booth, and sip a welcome beverage. Enjoy private access to GIRAFFE | A Heightened Experience, an exhibition curated by THEMUSEUM, and browse the silent auction of framed photos taken by Dr. Dagg in Africa in 1956-1957. Grab a free bag of popcorn, learn more about Anne's Foundation and take in a screening of the award-winning documentary, The Woman Who Loves Giraffes, followed by an engaging Q&A session with Anne's daughter, Mary Dagg, and the film's director, Alison Reid.  It will be a night to remember!

Date: Thursday, January 23, 2025 @ 6pm-10pm
Tickets are $50 plus taxes and fees. 
Go to THEMUSEUM for full details. 

Join us at the Busholme Inn for a screening of The Woman Who Loves Giraffes followed by a Q&A with Mary Dagg, CEO of the Anne Innis Dagg Foundation. Snacks and beverages will be available throughout the event but full dinner service is also available at The Busholme Inn, 156 Main Street, Erin. Phone for reservations: 519-315-0315.

This special Giraffe Parade is presented by the MacGregor-Albert neighbourhood in memory of Dr. Anne Innis Dagg, who raised her family at 81 Albert Street in Waterloo. Crafted by hand using paper maché, volunteers constructed and painted giraffe heads to be worn in the parade.

Please join us in Waterloo Park on Saturday, October 5th at 4:30pm to celebrate Anne’s life and enjoy the parade. The parade route will start at the Giraffe Sculpture near the East Entrance to the park. You will see the sculpture is in the backyard of 81 Albert Street. The parade will wind it’s way to Silver Lake and stop at the Tree Sculpture near the lake. There will be a few short speeches commemorating the life of Dr. Anne Innis Dagg.

This community initiative was sponsored by the City of Waterloo. Special thanks to Hannah Gardiner for organizing this wonderful neighbourhood event.

The story of Canadian Dr. Anne Innis Dagg from Toronto to South Africa is shared by Mary Dagg.

Learn about the life of Anne Innis Dagg from growing up in Toronto, to studying giraffes in South Africa, facing sexual discrimination at the university level when she returned to Canada and then eventually getting the accolades that were due to her including the Order of Canada and a movie about her life.

About Cambridge Third Age Learning

Cambridge Third Age Learning (CTAL) is a movement that encourages learning and discovery experiences for those in the 'third age'. As part of our Connections 50+ suite of programming, CTAL provides free monthly lectures in our Queen's Square location. With lecturers and topics carefully selected by our CTAL Committee, a volunteer-led group of contemporaries, the series is designed to inspire new thinking and engage inquisitive minds.

For the full details and to register, go to: https://ideaexchange.libnet.info/event/11426267

One day is not enough! That is why we celebrate giraffe for an entire week! Continue the celebration as Mary Dagg welcomes you to experience the touch tables, crafts, a book reading, and more at the Toronto Zoo by the Giraffe Masai Habitat.

Looking for more activities? Check out: worldgiraffeweek.org

Join Toronto Zoo Guardians of Giraffes (Giraffe Zookeepers), the Toronto Zoo Turtle Island Conservation Steward and Mary Dagg, CEO of the Anne Innis Dagg Foundation, as we recognize both National Indigenous Peoples Day and World Giraffe Day.

For full details go to THE TORONTO ZOO website. 

“On February 4 at the Quad Cities Environmental Film series, The Woman Who Loves Giraffes was featured to a packed theater at the Figge Art Museum that was so full, people were sitting on the stairs. Joel Vanderbush, Niabi Zoo’s Curator of Conservation and Education, was the reflection speaker afterwards to emphasize the importance of Anne’s contribution to the zoological field. Following that presentation, Joel reached out to the Anne Innis Dagg Foundation to invite Anne to be a part of Niabi’s Conservation Speaker Series during World Giraffe Week in June. Anne and her daughter Mary Dagg, CEO of the Foundation agreed to come to the Quad Cities.

The legacy of Dr. Anne Innis Dagg tireless efforts to conserve giraffes lives on through her foundation and all those she inspired by her work. Mary Dagg will still be coming to Niabi Zoo on Tuesday, June 18th at 6:30pm for an encore presentation of The Woman Who Loves Giraffes and to discuss her mother’s important contributions, to answer questions and will bring some of Anne’s books which will be available for donations to her Foundation. Students in high school and college as well as Zoo Volunteers will receive free admission. Zoo members can attend for $8 and non-members for $10.”

For full details go to, Niabi Zoo.

Wilfrid Laurier University will host a leading expert in the field of biodiversity conservation for the 2024 Anne Innis Dagg lecture.

Wildlife biologist Justina Ray, president and senior scientist of Wildlife Conservation Society Canada since its incorporation in 2004, will present “A Personal Perspective on the Promises and Perils of the Single-Species Approach for Addressing Biodiversity Loss” on March 7 at 6:30 p.m. in the Senate and Board Chamber on Laurier’s Waterloo campus.

Ray’s lecture will explore the critical connections between biodiversity, climate, human well-being, and economic prosperity, drawing from her experiences as a conservationist, biologist, and policy advisor.

For more information, click here.

Established to honour the ground-breaking work of its namesake, zoologist Anne Innis Dagg, the lecture series celebrates Dagg’s achievements by inviting notable Canadian women studying animal biology to share their work. Presented by Laurier’s Department of Biology and the Laurier Centre for Women in Science, this year’s lecture is the third in the series.

Laurier is also hosting a travelling exhibit called the Anne Innis Dagg Exhibit: Musings of a Scientist, Feminist, Activist, which features artifacts and writings associated with Dagg’s career as a wildlife biologist and her fight for gender equity in STEM fields. On display until mid-March, the free, public exhibit is located on the 3rd floor of the Science Building on Laurier’s Waterloo campus.

The Woman Who Loves Giraffes will be featured in the QC Environmental Film Series on Sunday, February 4, 2024 @ 3pm (CST) at the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, IA.

The mission of the film series is to bring inspirational and educational environmental films to our community encouraging grassroots activism in care of our planet and environmental justice.

The film series runs from January 21, 2024 - March 3, 2024.

https://riveraction.org/filmseries

Join Anne & Mary Dagg for a screening of The Woman Who Loves Giraffes followed by a Q&A and a discussion about Anne’s journey to become the world’s first giraffologist as well as the importance of giraffe conservation.

Location:
Community Pavilion (Waterloo Memorial Recreation Complex)
101 Father David Bauer Drive,
Waterloo, Ontario

Registration:
Visit www.waterloo.ca/activewaterloo
Or call customer service at 519-579-1020
Note: Registration opens 72 hours in advance of the program date.

Calling All Creatures host, Laurie Fivecoat, interviewed Anne and Mary Dagg as part of her iHeart Radio Spreaker series about animals. The pre-recorded interview will be made available beginning Thursday, December 14th, 2023 at 8pm EST.

The Woman Who Loves Giraffes will be featured as part of the Be The Change Film Series on Wednesday, November 29th @ 7pm EST at the Simcoe Street Theatre at 65 Simcoe Street, Collingwood, ON. Anne Innis Dagg and Mary Dagg will be in attendance along with the Director of The Woman Who Loves Giraffes, Alison Reid, and will answer questions after the screening.

For tickets, go to: https://btc.watershedtrust.ca/tc-events/the-woman-who-loves-giraffes/

All proceeds from the screening will go to the Blue Mountain Watershed Trust.

This year’s Snider Lecture presents an evening with Anne Innis Dagg that includes the screening of the award-winning documentary, The Woman Who Loves Giraffes, followed by a question-and-answer session with the esteemed zoologist. 

“We are excited to bring a special presentation to our remote audience,” says Lawrence Switzky, associate professor in the department of English and drama at U of T Mississauga, and chair of the Snider Lecture Committee. “For the past 49 years, the Snider Lecture Series has brought together members of our community to learn about, question and reflect on some of the most important issues around us.” 

This Series is possible thanks to the generosity of the Snider Family and their endowment that allows the University of Toronto Mississauga to host public lectures that enrich the intellectual and cultural life of members within and outside the University community.

Register to watch online.

Mary Dagg and Anne Innis Dagg will be presenting “Giraffe Power!” at Eastdale Secondary School in Welland, ON to celebrate Science Literacy Week’s energy theme. They will talk to classes about how much energy a giraffe expends when running, how fast they can run and for how long. Also, how little sleep they require as well as the amount (and type) of food they consume to provide them with energy.

Happy Science Literacy Week!

Anne and Mary Dagg will be at the Labia Theatre in Cape Town, South Africa, for a screening of The Woman Who Loves Giraffes followed by a Q&A. Online advance booking is through www.webtickets.co.za. Tickets are R 70 each. Visit www.thelabia.co.za/ for details. Screening is at 4pm South Africa Standard Time (GMT + 2).

90-year-old Dr. Anne Innis Dagg is not slowing down anytime soon! The Order of Canada member will be in person for an exclusive screening of the documentary on her life, “The Woman Who Loves Giraffes” at Guelph’s Bookshelf Cinema on Sunday, April 16th, 2023 at 2pm.

ALL SEATS $20.00, with proceeds to be donated to the AID Foundation’s partner, the African Wildlife Foundation. Tickets will be available for purchase in the Bookshelf bookstore as of March 22, 2023.

Also in attendance will be Kathy Stinson, the author of the children’s book about Dagg called The Girl Who Loved Giraffes. She will be available to sign purchased copies of her book. Items from the Anne Innis Dagg Foundation’s online store will be available for purchase as well.

Perspectives from one woman of wild science
What top predators can tell us about ocean ecosystems

This year’s speaker will be Dr. Sara Iverson, Professor of Biology at Dalhousie University.  Dr. Iverson is a physiological ecologist who uses an inter-disciplinary approach involving both field and biochemical research to understand how vertebrates adapt to their environment and to inform conservation and management decisions. She is especially interested in lipid metabolism and lactation in mammals, and has studied a wide range of animals, including seals, polar bears, seabirds, fish and sharks. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society, winner of the NSERC EWR Steacie Memorial Scholarship, and the Scientific Director of the Ocean Tracking Network. She was also recognized in 2019 as an “influential Canadian scientist and role model” for “Barbie’s You Can Be Anything” campaign that was sponsored by Mattel and National Geographic.

To register for the event, click here.

The Anne Innis Dagg Lecture series was established by Wilfrid Laurier University’s Department of Biology to honour its namesake and draw attention to the barriers faced by women working in STEM, and by Dr. Innis Dagg in particular. Anne is also known as “The Woman Who Loves Giraffes,” which is also the title of the documentary film that was made about her life. The lecture series aims to raise awareness of Anne’s story, encourage discussion about the importance of gender equity in STEM, and help inspire young women to pursue a career in science by inviting high-profile biologists from across Canada to speak about their research and their personal journey.

For International Day of Women and Girls in Science on February 11th, CAGIS (Canadian Association of Girls in Science) is celebrating the amazing women, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming trailblazers who are #BreakingBarriersInSTEM.

In Canada, women make up only 23% of science and technology workers and 7% of trades workers. Yet science, technology, trades, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) occupations are among the highest-paid and fastest-growing occupations in the country. Research has shown that breaking stereotypes, providing diverse role models, and access to mentorship programs can all help.

On February 11th, let’s highlight the amazing people who are breaking barriers, making STEM a more inclusive space for all. 

Mary Dagg will be making the opening remarks for the event followed by a group of special guest speakers.

For full details and to register for this virtual event, go to: https://girlsinscience.ca/breakingbarriersinstem/

Anne Innis Dagg will be at the Living Desert for a book discussion and book signing on Wednesday, January 11th, followed by a screening of The Woman Who Loves Giraffes hosted by The Living Desert and the Rancho Mirage Public Library:

• Book Discussion and Q&A with Dr. Anne Innis Dagg about her book Pursuing Giraffe at 1:30pm - 2:00pm at the Giraffe Care and Conservation Center, The Living Desert. SOLD OUT

• Book Signing with Dr. Anne Innis Dagg at 2:00pm - 2:30pm at the Giraffe Care and Conservation Center, The Living Desert. Her publications Pursuing Giraffe and 5 Giraffes will be available for purchase.

• Film Screening of The Woman Who Loves Giraffes with Dr. Anne Innis Dagg at 7:00pm - 9:30pm at the Rancho Mirage Public Library.

Full details for all events on January 11th, can be found by clicking here.

Anne & Mary to talk about Anne’s life as well as giraffe conservation at a screening of The Woman Who Loves Giraffes.

Anne & Mary will also be doing a presentation and screening at the CMIS High School in Korea on Nov 3rd.

Anne and Mary will be discussing giraffe conservation as well as Anne’s life story as a scientist, feminist, animal rights activist and teacher. There will be a screening of The Woman Who Loves Giraffes, followed by a student discussion and Q&A with Anne and Mary.

For fulll details on the event, go to: Tottori University

Anne & Mary to speak about Anne’s life and giraffe conservation at a screening of The Woman Who Loves Giraffes, along with anatomist Megu Gunji and Assistant Professor (Kyoto University) Miho Saito. Film showing 5pm JST.

Anne & Mary will also be doing presentations and screenings at the following schools:

Oct 24th - Tomoko Ito
Oct 27th - CGIHS School Osaka
Oct 28th - Tottori University