| Bet you don’t have a flywheel.
OK, maybe you do, but do you have the actual filling Station flywheel reading-series flywheel – a flywheel signed by writers such as Thomas King, Sarah Murphy and Richard Harrison?
I thought not. Still, there’s no need to pout, here’s how you get it: you go to flywheel jazz, a fundraising event for Literacy Alberta. It happens on Friday, March 26 at McNally Robinson Booksellers. You eat dinner at 6 p.m. while listening to live jazz music. Then, at 7 p.m., you hear readings by the likes of Fred Wah, Louis Cabri, Barb Scott, James Dangerous and Natalie Simpson. And then, when they auction off the flywheel, you make the highest bid and it’s all yours. So simple, really, but if you’d like more details, go to www.fillingstation.ca.
The Writer’s Guild of Alberta has just released the short lists for this year’s Alberta Book Awards. This includes the nominees for the W.O. Mitchell Prize for the best book by a Calgary author. W. Mark Giles is nominated for Knucklehead & Other Stories, Robert Hilles for Wrapped Within Again: New and Selected Poems, and Susan Ouriou for Damselfish. Pages will hold a short-list reading at the Kensington Riverside Inn on Wednesday, March 31 at 7:30 p.m.
At the same event, the new Catherine Anne McKay Publishing Scholarship at Simon Fraser University will be announced along with details of the fundraising campaign for the award. So call or visit Pages and reserve a ticket, because spaces are limited. (More on this year’s Alberta Book Award nominees to come.)
Also at Pages, on Friday, March 26, Michael Keren reads from The Citizen's Voice, his book about the political philosophies portrayed in 20th-century fiction. The book was described as "surprisingly inspirational" in AlbertaViews magazine this month. Then, on Tuesday, March 30, Maggie Helwig reads from Between Mountains and Esi Edugyan reads from The Second Life of Samuel Tyne. Both events are at 7:30 p.m.
Just what are people writing in those poetry courses at the University of Calgary? Find out when a whole classful of poetry students share their work on Wednesday, March 31 at 7 p.m. at McNally Robinson.
March – there’s just something forced about the name of that final winter month. But you can celebrate the coming of that much more spring-like (yet, in Calgary, still unpredictable) month, April, on the very first day. On Thursday, April 1 at 7:30 p.m., poets Tom Wayman, Jocelyn Grossé and Sarah Murphy will read as Single Onion finishes its fourth season. The 40 Fingers Saxophone Quartet will play. And it’s all for free at the Triangle Gallery, #104, 800 Macleod Trail S.E. Need more information? See www.singleonion.com. |
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