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The Mainstage
September 19, 2011 - September 24, 2011

THE MAINSTAGE is the Shaw Performing Arts Centre at The Forks, and we’ll be there each evening. As always, we feature not only writers on our stage but also a McNally Robinson mini-bookstore and a bar! Admission to individual Mainstage events is $12 or $10 for students and seniors, available only at the door.A $35THINAIRFestivalPass provides access to all performances.

This series is part of THIN AIR 2011

Series Events

September 19, 2011

08:00 PM - 10:00 PM

MAINSTAGE: Trouble

Trouble. We may flirt with it or we may run from it, but it's never far away...
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September 20, 2011

08:00 PM - 10:00 PM

MAINSTAGE: Who We Are

To consider where we come from and where we are going illuminates the predicament of who we are.
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September 21, 2011

08:00 PM - 10:00 PM

MAINSTAGE: Poetry Bash!

Poets invent new paths through our language - and new languages for our paths...
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September 22, 2011

08:00 PM - 10:00 PM

MAINSTAGE: Listening Across Languages

English, French, Spanish, Low German, and Shetlandic - let the swirl of languages enrich your experience of the work of three extraordinary writers.
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September 23, 2011

08:00 PM - 10:00 PM

MAINSTAGE: Looking Out, Looking In

When circumstances make us aware of the frames that define our lives, we're in that unsettling position of looking out, or looking in.
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September 24, 2011

08:00 PM - 10:00 PM

MAINSTAGE: Manitoba Reads

Based on the wildly popular Canada Reads, four lively panelists champion their chosen title to a grueling finish, when we all will know the Manitoba title for our winter bookshelf! Panelists: Alison Gillmor, Vincent Ho, Paul Jordan, Niigonwedom James Sinclair
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