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| BOOKENDS A writer of many disciplines - television, movies, theatre, short stories, commentaries, essays and whatever else he can get paid for - award-winning playwright Drew Hayden Taylor will give a dramatic reading and theatrical discussion on Thursday, June 4 at 7 p.m. at the Alberta Theatre Projects Rehearsal Hall (3rd floor, 220 - 9th Avenue SE). An Ojibway from the Curve Lake First Nations, Drew's works include Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth, The Baby Blues, Funny, You Don't Look Like One: Observations From a Blue-Eyed Ojibway, and Dreamer's Rock, among others. The event, presented by Alberta Playwrights' Network & Playwrights Union of Canada, will be hosted by Sharon Pollock. Call 269-8564 for more info. Drew will also be speaking that morning, from 10 to 11 a.m., at an Aboriginal Children's Literature class in room SA 119 at the U of C. It's Coteau Month at Chapters book stores in Calgary and the Saskatchewan publishing company is presenting an author reading series featuring several of its writers - check the Bookends column weekly to see the featured authors coming up. As mentioned in last week's column, the series starts with poet and playwright Kim Morrisey reading from her latest work, Batoche, on Thursday, June 4 at 7:30 p.m. at Chapters on MacLeod, and again the next day, same time, at the Dalhousie Chapters. Another Coteau author, Susan Andrews Grace, will read from her newest book, Ferry Woman's History of the World, Friday, June 5 at 7:30 p.m. at Pages on Kensington, where she will also help launch a new collection featuring Western writers. Pamela Banting is the author of that collection, Fresh Tracks: Writing the Western Landscape. She will be joined by Grace and other contributors, -Thomas Wharton, Fred Stenson, Robert Hilles and Elizabeth Haynes - who will read a small portion of their work at the Friday, June 5 launch at Pages on Kensington, starting at 7: 30 p.m. The University of Calgary's Markin-Flanagan programme presents a double feature this week. First Nations writer Louise Halfe, a special visitor under the Markin-Flanagan Distinguished Writers Programme, will appear with current Writer-in-Residence Larissa Lai for a public reading Thursday, June 11 at 8 p.m. at the Eckhardt-Gramatté Hall in the new Rozsa Centre on campus. Halfe, winner of the Milton Acorn Award in 1996 for her first book of poetry, has just released a new book, Blue Marrow, which is a mixture of prose, poetry and journal writing mingling voices of the past with the present. Don't leave it to the last minute - the Calgary Freedom to Read Week committee is now accepting nominations for the 1999 Calgary Freedom of Expression Award, co-sponsored by Owl's Nest Bookstore and Socrates' Corner Books & Chocolates. The award is presented to the Calgary and area resident who best exemplifies empathy, courage and compassion in furthering the cause of Freedom of Expression. Nominations must be in writing (max four pages including resume of nominee) and the deadline is November 15, 1998. Nominations can be mailed to or dropped off at either book store. (If you have information for Bookends, please fax Fast Forward at 244-1431) |
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