GERRY SHIKATANI: Garden Collecting: A post vanguardist for today
TIA House, SOCIAL SCIENCES TOWER 1059 527 Campus Pl NW, Calgary, AB, CanadaYou are invited to join The Insurgent Architects’ House for Creative Writing and the Creative Writing Research Group for a talk and reading by the renowned poet, artist and food writer Gerry Shikatani. Shikatani will read from recent work and talk about Lorca’s Granada, a retreat he directs in Spain. About Gerry Shikatani: A second…
Fred Wah reading
TIA House, SOCIAL SCIENCES TOWER 1059 527 Campus Pl NW, Calgary, AB, CanadaA TIA House Reading: Fred Wah Reading will take place in SS1153 (Social Sciences Tower). Fred Wah was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan in 1939 and grew up in the West Kootenay region of British Columbia. He presently lives in Vancouver. His book of prose-poems, Waiting For Saskatchewan, received the Governor-General’s Award in 1986 and…
From Page To Screen: Lawrence Hill on Adapting The Book of Negroes for Television
TIA House, SOCIAL SCIENCES TOWER 1059 527 Campus Pl NW, Calgary, AB, CanadaFROM PAGE TO SCREEN:LAWRENCE HILL ON ADAPTING THE BOOK OF NEGROES FOR TELEVISION A Special Clinic for Graduate Students Lawrence Hill is the author of ten books. His 2007 novel The Book of Negroes (also published as Someone Knows My Name and Aminata) won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for…
Erin Soros Talk
TIA House, SOCIAL SCIENCES TOWER 1059 527 Campus Pl NW, Calgary, AB, Canada“Eyes, Birds, Walnuts, Pennies”: Trauma and Testimony "The phone rings, and no one speaks. All you hear is someone breathing. It happens again, and again—then there are the e-mails, the innuendoes just skirting the explicit. Or the phone rings and this time he says what he will do. There are gifts too, left on the…