| Book season takes off on the 12th
Hey, reader: today is your day! Assuming, that is, that you’re reading this issue the very day it hits the racks, like the feverish seeker after book events that you are. Today is the day your fever breaks.
Where to begin? Well, say you were to start your September 12 literary evening at Pages on Kensington. That would bring you face to face with Banff poet and storyteller Charles Noble, launching his recently published volume Hearth Wild: post cardiac banff. Noble reads at 7:30 p.m.
And/ or later the same night, just follow the river east from Kensington to the marvelous Stanton Studios (2010 - 11 St. S.E., a.k.a. "The White Brick Building"). Inside it’s the Single Onion series' Back to School reading, with Toronto poet Andrea Thompson, along with Calgary poets Eat Lard Fudge, Nikki Reimer and Patricia Robertson. This event starts at 8 p.m., so you may have to exercise your decision-making skills here. There will be a cash bar, and you pay at the door. Still can’t plan your evening? Need more info on the Onion event? Call Patricia Robertson at 244-8544 for more details.
That’s just September 12. A mere 24 hours later, the Alexandra Writers Centre Society takes on the topic of the writer's social responsibility. Is there such a thing? Should the unfettered imagination reign supreme, or are some subjects or voices simply untouchable, unspeakable, ungood? For everyone, or only for some writers? Hmm. The issue is the focus of a panel discussion with this fall’s instructors: Bob Stallworthy, Vivian Hansen and Faye Holt. Bring your own related questions to the venue (922 - 9 Ave. S.E., enter via the notorious Door #3). That’s on Friday, September 13 at 7:30 p.m.
On Saturday, September 14 at 6 p.m., it’s Boardwalk Writers’ night at Weed's Café (1903 - 20 Ave. N.W.). You know the drill. If not, see www.boardwalkwriters.org or call Scott at 276-6151 and he’ll explain everything.
It’s back to Pages for the evening of the Wednesday, September 18, when at 7:30 p.m. Curtis Gillespie presents his new book, Playing Through: A Year of Life and Links Along the Scottish Coast. Gillespie spent time living with his family in Gullane, Scotland – these stories are what he brought back. The next evening it’s Commonwealth Writers Best First Book winner Tim Wynveen (he won in ’98 for Angel Falls) with his new novel, Sweeter Life. At 7:30 p.m., of course. |
