Readings
Hosted by Writing & Publishing at The Banff Centre
Literary Events 2007 |
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Past events from this year’s series
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October 11 – 14, 2007 Alberta’s hottest literary event and the third largest Festival of its kind in Canada hosts more than 50 artists over six days in Calgary and Banff.
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Calgary Spoken Word Festival producer Sheri-D Wilson heads the inaugural Banff Spoken Word Program and the second SWAN (Spoken Word Arts Network) meeting at The Banff Centre in April 2007. |
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LOL Poetry |
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Readings from the Writing Studio |
May 3, 10, 15, 17, 24, and 31 at 7:30 p.m. Step inside The Banff Centre’s annual Writing Studio for free readings as the next generation of great Canadian writers and our distinguished faculty read from previously published work and works-in-progress.
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Edna Alford and Michael Helm |
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Michael Helm is the acclaimed author of The Projectionist, a finalist for the 1997 Giller Prize, and In the Place of Last Things. He is also an editor at Brick. |
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Edna Alford is the award-winning author of two collections of short fiction, A Sleep Full of Dreams and The Garden of Eloise Loon. She is the associate director of fiction and other narrative prose for the Writing Studio. |
Greg Hollingshead and Elizabeth Philips |
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Greg Hollingshead is the director of the Writing Studio. He has published three novels and three story collections and is the winner of the Governor General’s Award for Fiction and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. |
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The former editor of the literary magazine Grain, Elizabeth Philips is the award-winning author of three collections of poetry, including, Beyond My Keeping, and A Blue with Blood in It. |
Dionne Brand |
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Dionne Brand is a Governor-General’s Award-winning poet, novelist, and essayist. Her latest novel, What We All Long For, was published to great acclaim in 2005. |
Don McKay |
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Don McKay is the associate director of poetry for the Writing Studio and the two-time winner of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry. |
Barry Dempster and Suzette Mayr |
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Barry Dempster has published eight collections of poetry, three works of fiction, and one children’s book. He is an editor at Brick Books. |
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Suzette Mayr is the author of three novels: Venous Hum, Moon Honey, and The Widows. She teaches at the University of Calgary. |
Paul Quarrington |
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The author of eight novels, Paul Quarrington is also a musician and an award-winning screenwriter. He won the Governor General’s Award for Fiction for his 1989 novel Whale Music. |
Banff Book Discussion Weekend Reading |
Sid Marty Alberta poet and non-fiction writer Sid Marty is presented as part of the 46th annual Banff Book Discussion Weekend. |
Banff International Literary Translation Centre Reading
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Joseph Boyden Canadian writer Joseph Boyden reads from Three Day Road, which is being translated into Cree as part of the annual Banff International Literary Translation Centre residency. A remarkable tale of survival and rebirth, Three Day Road tells the story of two Cree snipers in Canada’s WWI battalion. Three Day Road received the McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year Award and was nominated for the 2005 Governor General’s Literary Award. |
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Elena Poniatowska Amor is a renowned Mexican journalist, biographer, and activist. Founder of one of Mexico’s most important newspapers, La Jornada, and Mexico’s first feminist magazine, Fem, she was the first woman to win Mexico’s National Award for Journalism. Her talk is entitled: “Literature that Comes from the Street.” |
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Marni Jackson, Rogers Communications Chair of the Literary Journalism program, is one of Canada’s most respected non-fiction writers. Her writing has appeared in every major Canadian magazine. Vintage Books recently re-issued her Canadian bestseller The Mother Zone. Her latest book is Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign. Her talk, “First, There Is A Mountain: Writing As Climbing,” is about how the process of writing non-fiction resembles the progress of a climber up a mountain — which may be why the barebones daily journals of famous climbers make such compelling narratives. Just as climbing is a matter of putting one foot in front of the other, a writer proceeds one sentence at a time — and the summit often remains hidden in the clouds, until the last few steps! She will describe the perilous, adventurous side of writing creative non-fiction. |
July 23 |
Readings by writers in the Literary Journalism program. |
July 30  |
Vancouver-based writer and broadcaster Bill Richardson is host of “Richardson’s Roundup” on CTV, and is affiliated with a number of programs on CBC Radio. His latest book, for children, The Aunts Come Marching, is published by Raincoast. His talk is entitled: “One Chaste Kiss, or One Thing Leads to Another,” about a project he’s working on called Old Father William’s Well-Ordered Universe — a miscellany of stories about finding connections in the world where seemingly no connections lie. At the end of the movie Desk Set, starring Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, Bunny Watson, the chief librarian for a media conglomerate, makes something like peace with the computer system that she feared would bring extinction to her kind. It’s cautious, but optimistic; between the old and the new, there’s a chaste kiss. |
Science Communications Public Lecture
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Can Animals Think? Presented by
Tuesday, August 21 at 7:30 p.m. Join Jay Ingram, host of “Daily Planet” on Discovery Channel, as he describes how recent experiments and crucial changes in attitudes have made it clear that animals and birds are much smarter than we used to think. Good Chemistry — A Science Talk ShowMonday, August 20 at 7:30 p.m. Jay Ingram hosts “Good Chemistry,” a science talk show with guests including a dancer, a sociologist, and a scientist, whose challenge is: how do they incorporate science into their work? Limited seating. |
