Category Archives: Literary Reading

Events where an author comes to read from their own works.

The Elephant Mountain Review Launch

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Press Release:
Elephant Mountain Launch
The first issue of a new literary journal: The Elephant Mountain Review will be launched
on Saturday, march 17, from 7 to 9 pm
at SelfDesign High 402 Victoria St. (upstairs in the Legion Hall) in Nelson.
Come for the readings, snacks, music and to buy your personal copy of the new journal!

It feaures new writing by Elena Banfield, Pippa Bowley, David Bracewell, Ellen Burt, Olindo Chiocca, Linda Crosfield, Alvin Ens, Denis Foley, Robert Banks Foster, Joel Guay, Tom Hardy, Kathryn Hartley, Sandra Hartline, Margaret Hornby, Paula Hudson-lunn, Glyn Humphries, Sean Arthur Joyce, Anna Kirkpatrick, Don R Law, Volker M, Phil Mader, Mark Mealing, Jordan Mounteer, Bree Switzer, Doug Wilton & Caroline Woodward.

Future launches soon in the valley and in Kaslo, Dates TBA

ANKORS 72 Hour Art Slam Showcase

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Come join us for an evening Showcase of all the art produced in the ANKORS 72 Hour Art Slam. There will be a silent auction with submitted art up for grabs!

The evening will begin with a reception with an art show setting. Artists who have submitted paintings, sculptures, drawing, photography etc. will be displaying art and discussing the piece with attendees. The next portion of the evening will see the performance art section of the evening. The audience will then vote by secret ballot for their favourite art submission!

Stay tuned for more information!

ANKORS 72 Hour Art Slam

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This summer at ANKORS, we are planning an innovative and exciting event called a 72 Hour Art Slam. An art slam is an art competition—with a twist. Purely relying on creativity, originality, endurance and caffeine, teams or individuals will have 72 hours to create and submit an original piece of artwork. Participants can submit a film, poetry, theatre, song, painting, sculpture, dance—any type of artist expression. The only rules are the theme and prop (as given at the kick-off meeting) must be present in the final product, and the deadline is absolute. There will be CASH PRIZES ($250 for 1st place, $150 for 2nd place, $50 for 3rd place)!

The competition will be held Friday August 19th to Monday August 22nd. There will then be a Showcase event with all of the art on Friday, August 26th. So even if you do not participate in the competition, be sure to come to the Showcase for an inspiring evening!

The principal objective of this event is to address the social issues and stigma surrounding HIV/AIDS in our community, while celebrating artists and art in our community. 100% of the money raised from the event goes to supporting individuals affected by HIV/AIDS, such as subsidizing health care costs. However, this event also aims to join the community together through art. By keeping the event parameters open, we hope to draw all different genres of art and artists.

This promises to be an exciting, inspiring and multidisciplinary event that will resemble a major art opening and experience. Moreover, any participant who enters a tangible art piece will be given the option (by ‘given the option,’ we really mean strongly encouraged) to donate the art work to the silent auction at the Showcase–the artist will get 50% and 50% of the auction price will go to the ANKORS AIDS Walk for Life Fund!

We are encouraging everyone to enter, and be part of Nelson’s first ever Art Slam. Tell your friends who may be interested as well!

For more information, or to register, contact Carmen or Brahm at aids-walk@ankors.bc.ca or 250.505.5506. We look forward to your entries!

Book Launch: MONOCEROS by Suzette Mayr

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CALGARY NOVELIST SUZETTE MAYR LAUNCHES HER LATEST, MONOCEROS, AT NELSON’S OXYGEN ART CENTRE, MONDAY, JULY 25, 7:30 PM

The ripple effect of the suicide of a bullied gay 17-year-old is the focus of Calgary novelist Suzette Mayr’s tragicomic new novel, Monoceros, which she will launch at Nelson’s Oxygen Art Centre, 320 Vernon St. (alley entrance), on Monday, July 25 at 7:30 p.m.

The launch is free and open to the public.

“Monoceros is one of the most imaginative, quirky and emotionally devastating novels I’ve read in a long while,” according to the Globe and Mail’s reviewer last month. “Mayr avoids the sentimental by offering up the supremely real–characters affected by [the high school student's] death, in all their selfish, immature, human ways.” The rave review praises Mayr’s use of multiple narrators to present the suicide’s effect on a range of adults and peers, most connected to the suburban Calgary Catholic high school where the bullying occurs. “Mayr manages to offer compelling detail in convincing teen-speak and in the words of burnt-out teachers just trying to get to the final bell without going mad.”

Mayr is the author of three previous novels, including Venous Hum (2004 ) and The Widows (1998), shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book in the Canada-Caribbean region. She is a former president of the Writers Guild of Alberta, and teaches English and creative writing at the University of Calgary.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Tom Wayman; 250-226-7390; appledor@netidea.com

Summer Reading Club

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Join the 2011 Summer Reading Club this summer and get ready to Savour Each Word. Sign up for free at the Nelson Public Library starting on June 20th. You’ll receive a Reading Record, bookmark and stickers to keep track of all the delicious reading you do. Check out all the free programs, contests and more at the library. The more you read and fill up your booklet, the more chances you have to win books all summer long. Contact the Nelson Library for more information at 250-352-8283 or online at www.nelsonlibrary.ca. You can also find the Summer Reading Club online at www.kidssrc.ca.

Back to back to back to back to back quality programming on CJLY

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Tune into CJLY Thursdays from 2 to 8 listen to Milo and Melo, the Witching Hour, KSAMA Radio, J-bot & Word Bird, and Gigabyte.

Marmot and Huckleberry from the Witching Hour who have weekly themes including healing and restorative justice, walking the wobble, self-love, or the filthy sweet nexus.

Ave’s KSAMA Radio together with friends is focused on Kootenay life, music, art and culture. Live well. Love creation. Find and listen to the elders. Heal yourself, heal the world. Create right relationships.

Then J-Bot & Word Bird bring you sketch comedy sounds, from classics to freshly minted you’ll laugh you’ll cry you’ll tune in next week from three till seven on CJLY, radio from the heart has never been so good.

kootenaycoopradio.com

Nelson Poetry Slam

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I know of more than one person that has never read, has poems written and all they need to do is come, stand, and recite. Consider this a warm invite, warm as the night will be. We already love you. Let your hands tremble and your voice shake, make mistakes, all we want is to hear your amazing order of words. Wait no longer. Let us long no more. This is the night YOU have been writing for. Join us.