| Last chance for over-40s
Thursday, March 8 marks the one-year anniversary of the Single Onion reading, poetry and performance series. That means BeatNiq will resound with the sound of words by Blake Brooker, readings by the Onions, and music by the Plaid-Tongued Devils. Tickets are available at Sloth or Megatunes, and you can call Fred at 815-3733 for more info.
It's really not too late for writers over 40. After March 15 it will be, though, at least if you're hoping to apply for this year's $5,000 Brenda Strathern Late Bloomers Prize. If you're a Calgarian writer in your prime (i.e. 40-plus) and working on the completion or publication of your first book of fiction, then send a one-page bio, list of publications and writing courses, if any, plus contact info to: The Calgary Foundation, Brenda Strathern Late Bloomers Memorial Fund, 1920, 540 - 5th Ave. S.W. Calgary, AB, T2P 0M2. Call The Calgary Foundation at 264-1662 for info. The deadline was extended just for you.
Just two days before the election, the straight-talking Ian Doig, who put together that useful book The Quotations of Chairman Ralph, will discuss what his publicist Lee Shedden dubs 'the Eternal Present of the Klein administration," on Saturday, March 10 at Sunridge Chapters at 1 p.m. Then after the election, he's at Dalhousie Chapters on March 17 at 1 p.m. Why not attend both events and compare?
On March 10, you may just be able to get from Doig’s event to The Triangle Gallery (104, 800 Macleod Trail S.E.) for a reading by Ashok Mathur and Rajinderpal S. Pal. That's Saturday, March 10 at 2 p.m., and there's more info at 262-1737.
Paolo da Costa won the inaugural postcard fiction contest sponsored by the Calgary Literary Events newsletter. You can enter this month's round by sending your 100 word story on "an angelic theme" to khanson@ucalgary.ca by March 15. Red Deer Press staff do the judging, and the winner not only gets published in the next newsletter, but also receives a copy of Wrestling with the Angel, edited by Caterina Edwards and Kay Stewart.
If you like books, need books, love books, then you need librarians, too. Who else is watching over the precious archive of books that you didn't buy when they were in print, or that got published in languages you hadn't yet learned, or that would have vanished without reliable archiving by reliable library people? But there's more to librarians than books and dependability. That's why two Calgary librarians, Jennifer Bobrovitz and Rosemary Griebel, are exploring what citizens think about the image of librarians in today's (place your favourite buzz-word here) world. If you go to http://calgarypubliclibrary.com/rgsurvey.htm, you can complete a survey on your ideas about The Image of the Librarian in Contemporary Culture. In late April, the results wll be presented at the 2001 Alberta Library Conference. |
