| If you’ve been doing some writing and want some direct, measurable feedback, here’s your chance. First, in the comfortable setting of Annie’s Book Company, you can listen to readers from eight different Calgary writers’ groups at the fundraising event "Lovers, Lipstick and Lies." Then it’s your turn: throw your name into a hatful of writers’ names and, if you get selected, you have three or four minutes to read from your work. Then it’s the turn of the applause-o-meter to tell its tale. If yours is the reading that revs the meter the most, you get the grand prize: $50. There’s a second prize of $25. It may not be the Giller Prize, but it’s all for a measurably good cause. All the funds raised by the sale of snacks and 50/50 tickets will go to the Alberta Adolescent Recovery Centre, whose addiction treatment program has an 85 per cent success rate. All of this happens on Tuesday, December 7 at Annie’s (912 - 16th Ave. N.W.), from 7 to 9:30 p.m. Entry is free and the event comes to you courtesy of the Society of Poets, Bards & Storytellers. Need more info? Call Fenna at 286-4096 or Gord at 948-3633. Or type your way to www.calgarypoets.com.
The same night, Calgary’s Tall Tales Press launches Tall Tales and Short Stories Vol II. What’s that? It’s an anthology of winners from the press’s 2004 Annual Hidden Talents Short Story Contest. At McNally Robinson at 7 p.m., Calgary winners Leigh Clements, Richard R. Morrison and Crystal Grimsen will read from their stories.
Meanwhile, the filling Station Flywheel reading series rolls on. It just turned one year old, and now it begins its second year on Thursday, December 9 at McNally Robinson. Start time is 7 p.m. and there’s more information at www.fillingstation.ca.
Until December 27 you can go to Alberta Theatre Projects and see the Old Trout Puppet Workshop’s production of Pinocchio. But only on Wednesday, December 8 can you see "Out & About with the Trouts – The Making of Pinocchio." Peter Balkwill and Doug McKeag, two of the show’s performer-creators, will read passages from Pinocchio and present some of the show’s hand-crafted puppets. This could be even more fun than another hour of PlayStation, especially if you’re planning to see the ATP show as well. It’s at McNally Robinson at 8 p.m. The Pinocchio show is recommended for kids seven years of age and over – notice there’s no upper limit on that.
Best-sellers
Best-selling books for November 21 to 27 at Pages on Kensington
Fiction and Poetry
1. A Complicated Kindness
5. The Return of the Bunny Suicides
by David Suzuki and Wayne Grady
2. Miracle on Centre Street
3. A Short History of Progress
4. The Curious Cook at Home
5. Alberta Politics Uncovered
9. Great Canadian Speeches
edited by Dennis Gruending
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