Around the City 2007
September 24, 2007 - September 29, 2007
Catch words in the air all over the city during Festival week. Check out La Bibliothèque de Saint-Boniface, the King’s Head Pub, McNally Robinson (Grant Park), the Millennium Library and Red River College. Recherchez les mots murmurés partout en ville pendant la semaine du Festival. Visitez la Bibliothèque de Saint-Boniface, le King’s Head Pub, le magasin McNally Robinson (Grant Park) et la Bibliothèque du millénaire et Red River College.
This series is part of THIN AIR 2007
September 29, 2007
05:00 PM - 06:30 PMA PINT OF BITTER MURDER: Karen Dudley, Alison Gordon, Alison Preston
Take your mysteries neat with a glass of beer and a plate of fish and chips. These three mystery mavens will set you up with great stories seasoned with plenty of wit.
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September 24, 2007
08:00 PM - 09:00 PMREADING: Rona Maynard
Former Chatelaine editor Rona Maynard offers a spunky and affectionate memoir in My Mother’s Daughter. (A McNally Robinson event.)
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September 25, 2007
07:00 PM - 08:00 PMREADING: Roy MacSkimming
Roy MacSkimming’s new book, Macdonald, is a novelistic recreation of the last days of Canada’s indomitable first Prime Minister. (A McNally Robinson event.)
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September 25, 2007
08:00 PM - 09:00 PMDISCUSSION: Philip Slayton
Slayton’s book, Lawyers Gone Bad: Money, Sex and Madness in Canada’s Legal Profession, explores transgressions in the context of the current legal system. (A McNally Robinson event.)
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September 26, 2007
08:00 PM - 09:00 PMLAUNCH: Don Anderson
Tuning the Forks: A Celebration of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra is Don Anderson’s elegant contribution to the WSO’s 60th anniversary. (A McNally Robinson event.)
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September 27, 2007
08:00 PM - 09:00 PMREADING: 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 29, 2007
10:00 AM - 11:00 AMSTORY 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 27, 2007
02:00 PM - 03:00 PMTALK: 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 29, 2007
02:30 PM - 03:30 PMFAMILY STORY TIME: Roch Carrier
The writer of one of Canada’s all-time classics, The Hockey Sweater, will delight children and parents—and grandparents!—with this abiding story of a boy experiencing the collision of French and English cultures.
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September 29, 2007
02:30 PM - 03:30 PML’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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