The Mainstage
September 21, 2009 - September 27, 2009
Join us each evening—and Saturday and Sunday afternoons—at the CanWest Global Performing Arts Center at The Forks for a showcase of great new writing. McNally Robinson Booksellers has an on-stage bookstore featuring THIN AIR writers, and we offer bar service too.
This series is part of THIN AIR 2009
September 21, 2009
08:00 PM - 10:00 PMThe Mainstage: Transitions. Featuring writers: Bonnie Burnard, Jon Paul Fiorentino, Lauren Kirshner & Gregory Scofield
At various points in a life, all that is familiar gets upended and everyone has to come to terms with a new normal…
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September 22, 2009
08:00 PM - 10:00 PMThe Mainstage: In Between Places. Featuring writers: Elizabeth Bachinsky, Cyril Dabydeen, Endre Farkas, Carolyn Marie Souaid & Priscila Uppal
So many of us straddle cultural divides. What does it mean to feel at home?
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September 23, 2009
08:00 PM - 10:00 PMThe Mainstage: Poetry Bash! Featuring Christian Bök, Linda Frank, Jacqueline Larson, David O'Meara & Serge Patrice Thibodeau
Poets invent new paths through our language, and new languages for our paths…
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September 24, 2009
08:00 PM - 10:00 PMThe Mainstage: It's About Love, Actually. Featuring Jeanette Lynes, Struan Sinclair, Margaret Sweatman, Rhea Tregebov & Tim Wynne-Jones
Magnetic, perplexing, euphoric, profound—there are many faces to that dynamic power we call love.
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September 25, 2009
08:00 PM - 10:00 PMThe Mainstage: Into the Future. Featured writers: Nick DiChario, Robert J.Sawyer & Robert Charles Wilson
Science fiction as an escapist distraction? Not in the hands of true speculators…
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September 26, 2009
01:30 PM - 03:00 PMThe Mainstage Matinče: Farley! Featured writers: Beth (Johnston) Cruikshank & Lynn Johnston
That beloved sheepdog from For Better or For Worse is on the loose—in a kids’ book!
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September 26, 2009
08:00 PM - 10:00 PMThe Mainstage: My Winnipeg. Featured writers: Guy Maddin & George Toles
Iconoclasm and outrageous talent create a city we know and a city we can only imagine.
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September 27, 2009
01:30 PM - 03:00 PMThe Mainstage Matinče: Sunday Afternoon at the Movies. Featuring: Judith Keenan, Executive Director and Founder of BookShorts
BookShorts take the written word onto the big screen, and the results are fanciful, hilarious, disturbing, poignant. We’ll have the popcorn ready! (Rating: PG13)
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