| Da Costa launches novel, Downie brings poems
This week, poet, translator and now novelist Paulo da Costa launches his first work of fiction, The Scent of a Lie, published by Ekstasis Editions. da Costa, who came to Calgary from Portugal and stayed, sets his book of 14 interwoven stories in two Portugese towns. The reading takes place at at the Triangle Gallery (104 - 800 Macleod Tr. S.E., inside the Calgary Municipal Building) on Tuesday, September 24 at 7:30 p.m. If you heard about this event earlier, please note the change of date and venue. dANDelion and filling Station magazines present the free evening, which features musician Ben Rose playing until 8 p.m., along with a cash bar and Portuguese snacks, mmm.
That Coke Machine Glow: you know exactly what it is and what kind of scenes it illuminates, but you’ve never really looked at it or thought about it. In his book of the same title, and in his song lyrics for the Tragically Hip, Gordon Downie does look at those familiar vernacular things. Downie reads September 22 at 7:30 p.m in a special pre-festival WordFest event at the Martha Cohen Theatre. Get tickets by calling WordFest at 294-7462, or TicketMaster at 299-8888. (Local writers will also join Downie onstage – for details check with WordFest at the number above.)
Plenty of drama will unfold on Wednesday, September 25, upstairs at Pages. Playwrights Clem Martini, Doug Curtis and Vern Thiessen present all-new plays with the mononymic titles Mouse, Mesa and Apple, respectively. The curtain rises at 7:30 p.m.
Calgary novelist Suzette Mayr launches her stint as the 2002-03 Markin Flanagan writer-in-residence, on September 26 at 7:30 p.m. The free public event is in the Engineered Air Theatre, which in turn is at the Centre for the Performing Arts. There’s a free reception afterward, too. Earlier the same day, and also free, Leona Gom reads from her novel Hating Gladys at 2 p.m. in the University of Calgary’s Social Sciences building, Room 1145 (the English Department Lounge). |
