THIN AIR 2010 Fundraiser with Lawrence Hill and the Steve Kirby Quartet
June 4, 2010 { 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm}

The multi-disciplinary entertainment fundraiser will take place at 8 pm at the CanWest Global Performing Arts Centre (MTYP) at the Forks in Winnipeg. Tickets are $35 ($30 for THIN AIR Club Card Holders) and will be available starting on May 3 at McNally Robinson or through the Festival: www.thinairwinnipeg.ca or 927-7323. Hill will read from his award-winning, international best-seller, The Book of Negroes (HarperCollins 2007). The novel is a culmination of years of research, and many of the research documents (photos, maps, historical records) are included in an illustrated edition of the novel, released in 2009. The narrative will be accompanied by documentary images, and intercut with songs depicting the African-American experience performed by the Steve Kirby Quartet—Steve Kirby on bass, Erin Propp on vocals, Jimmy Greene on saxophone, and Curtis Nowosad on drums. The performance will be followed by an on-stage interview of Hill, conducted by THIN AIR Director, Charlene Diehl. Hill has a history in Winnipeg: in the early 80s, his first posting as a fledgling journalist was as parliamentary correspondent at the Winnipeg Free Press. His first novel, Some Great Thing (Turnstone Press, 1992), features a young Winnipeg reporter tangling with the French-English politics in Winnipeg during that time. In the intervening years, Hill has written several novels and a memoir, Black Berry, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada (HarperCollins, 2001) He’s also published non-fiction and written for film. THIN AIR 2010, the fourteenth installment of Winnipeg’s annual writers festival, takes place September 19-26. THIN AIR has become one of the most respected literary festivals in the country, and offers programming for all ages in English and in French.

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