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September 29, 2007
2:30 pm

L’HEURE DES HISTOIRES : Roch Carrier

L’auteur d’une des histoires canadiennes classiques de tous les temps, Le Chandail de hockey, plaira aux enfants, à leurs parents et à leurs grands-parents avec cette histoire d’un garçon qui vit une collision entre les cultures française et anglaise.

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September 29, 2007
1:30 pm

MAINSTAGE MATINÉE : TRANSIT OF VENUS

How does an award-winning play become an arresting new opera? Join Rory Runnells as he explores the process with playwright/librettist Maureen Hunter, composer Victor Davies, and director Larry Desrochers. Expect to see some bits enacted right in front of your eyes. Get the scoop on the Manitoba Opera’s world premier of The Transit of Venus this fall.

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September 29, 2007
1:00 pm

LANCEMENT: France Adams

France Adams lira pour les jeunes son nouveau livre pour enfants, Les Étrangers, publié aux Éditions des Plaines. Toutes les personnes qui ont de l’imagination sont les bienvenues!

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September 29, 2007
10:00 am

STORY TIME: Marie-Louise Gay

Calling all readers between 3 and 9 (and others who have been there once)! The wonderful, whimsical worlds of Sam and Stella and On My Island and Caramba are yours to visit up close with their creator, Marie-Louise Gay. While you’re upstairs at McNally’s, check out the other books featured in our THIN AIR School Program.

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September 29, 2007
10:00 am

ACCESS 2 PUBLISHERS: Publisher Pitch Sessions

Here’s your chance! Representatives from Fernwood Publishing, Heartland Associates, Les Éditions des Plaines, Pemmican Publications, Turnstone Press and University of Manitoba Press will be on hand to hear your pitch. Register: www.mbwriter.mb.ca or (204)-942-6134.

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September 29, 2007
10:00 am

SPOTLIGHT: SO YOU WANT TO GET PUBLISHED?

Sometimes getting published seems an arcane art form, but it needn’t be such a mystery. Join acclaimed author Lawrence Hill (The Book of Negroes, 2007), editor Pat Sanders (University of Manitoba Press) and Gordon Shillingford (J.G. Shillingford Publishing) as they talk about the querying process, the differences between literary and scholarly publishers, and what to expect once a publisher finally says yes. Registrants will receive a complimentary resource package. Tickets: (204)-942-6134, www.mbwriter.mb.ca, or at the door.

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September 28, 2007
10:30 pm

WINNIPEG'S POETRY SLAM TEAM

The poetry slams have winnowed away the playing field, and this year’s Poetry Slam Team is in place—and they’re good. Leif Norman, Skip Stone, Andrea von Wichert will give you a taste of what they’re taking to the National Spoken Word Festival in Halifax next month!

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September 28, 2007
8:00 pm

MAINSTAGE: ENCOUNTERS

Crossing into new territory, whether it be cultural or linguistic or imaginative, challenges characters and readers to reconsider what they know to be true. Lawrence Hill and Linda Leith move characters through changing landscapes. Brenda Hasiuk, David Chariandy, and Marie-Clair Blais gather intersecting characters in one space. William Gibson hooks those two ends of the spectrum and complicates it with virtual dimensions.

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September 28, 2007
8:00 pm

GALA DE LA PAROLE: Une soirée avec « Les Boys »

Une occasion unique de voir une grande partie de l’histoire littéraire franco-manitobaine en parade. Accompagnement musical.

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September 28, 2007
4:00 pm

READINGS: A Sip of Juice

The U of W’s talented writing students share new work to kick off the school year.

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September 28, 2007
2:30 pm

WILLIAM GIBSON and JOHN HAVELDA

Technology, text, and the way those forces impact on ideas of a self underpin the work of cyber-tech novelist William Gibson and multi-lingual poet John Havelda.

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September 28, 2007
2:30 pm

PANEL: Writing through Race

David Chariandy’s debut novel, Soucouyant, tracks a troubled Trinidadian family in white suburban Toronto. Lawrence Hill’s epic The Book of Negroes follows a girl from her capture by slave-traders to free old age in London. In What Happened Last Summer, Paul Yee shows Asian teenagers balancing between two cultures. Join these three writers as they talk about using fiction to explore and expose the meanings of racial identities.

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September 28, 2007
12:15 pm

LINDA LEITH

The Desert Lake, a new novel from Montrealer Linda Leith, tracks a young woman finding herself in faraway China.

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September 28, 2007
11:00 am

TALK: Lawrence Hill

Acclaimed novelist, journalist, and non-fiction writer Lawrence Hill will talk about the impulse to report and how that is shaped by genre.

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September 27, 2007
10:30 pm

BRENDAN MCLEOD

Brendan McLeod is a spoken word powerhouse, with international recognition on his calling card. He’s also a member of the hugely popular group, The Fugitives, which packed houses at this year’s Fringe. He plays, he sings, he speaks…

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September 27, 2007
8:00 pm

MAINSTAGE: WRITING ON THE ROCK

Newfoundland has hijacked the Canadian literary landscape with some of the sharpest and freshest—and often funniest—writing around. We’re thrilled to welcome back Joel Thomas Hynes and Michael Winter, writers who’ve lit up our stages in the last couple of years. They’re joined by Agnes Walsh, the Poet Laureate of St John’s, and relative newcomer Kathleen Winter—it’ll be an evening with some salt in the air.

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September 27, 2007
8:00 pm

ÉCRIVAINS D’AILLEURS : Roch Carrier

Soirée intime : lecture et conversation avec l’irréductible Roch Carrier.

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September 27, 2007
8:00 pm

READING: Merril Pauls, with Linda Clarke and Emma Burns

In Our Hands: On Becoming a Doctor is an anthology of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry by Canadian medical students and residents. (A McNally Robinson event.)

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September 27, 2007
2:30 pm

MICHAEL WINTER and KATHLEEN WINTER

Newfoundland is as much about its stories as its landscape. Join Michael and Kathleen Winter, dynamic writers who also happen to be siblings, as they talk about writing and place.

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September 27, 2007
2:00 pm

TALK: William Gibson

The man who brought us Neuromancer and Pattern Recognition and the term “cyberspace” talks about text and technology and his work as a writer.

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September 27, 2007
2:00 pm

TALK with Brenda Hasiuk

Join Winnipeg writer Brenda Hasiuk speaking to creative writing students about the writer’s craft and her new novel, Where the Rocks Say Your Name.

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September 27, 2007
1:00 pm

RENCONTRE avec Paul Savoie

Originaire du Manitoba et gagnant du prix Trillium de 2007 avec son recueil de poésie Crac, Paul Savoie parlera des débuts de la littérature franco-manitobaine, auxquels il a participé.

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September 27, 2007
1:00 pm

READING: Rosanna Deerchild and Agnes Walsh

Two poets, two cultures. Rosanna Deerchild opens a door on her Cree experience, and Agnes Walsh takes us to Cape Shore Newfoundland.

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September 27, 2007
1:00 pm

ROCH CARRIER (7e à 9e année)

Joignez-vous à l’auteur renommé Roch Carrier pour une lecture de ses ouvrages et une discussion de ses sources d’inspiration.

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September 27, 2007
12:15 pm

JOEL THOMAS HYNES

Earthy, tender, bewildering, resilient: Joel Thomas Hynes captures the flavour of Newfoundland with his new novel, Right Away Monday.

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