Drop in to the Gibsons & District Public Library and take a literary and artistic mini-workshop on how to take a page from a discarded book and turn it into a new phrase or poem with tracing paper, markers and doodles. OR, bring your own work-in-progress and work on it in a quiet environment.
Materials will be supplied, but bring your own old book and markers if you wish.
Call for submissions for “Snippets from a Small Town: Understanding Life on the Sunshine Coast,” sponsored by the Small Neighbourhood Grant program. Send your poetry, fiction, nonfiction, photography, and art to cathalynn@gmail.com by Monday, November 17th. Small honorariums available. Launch at Gibsons & District Public Library Wednesday, December 17th, 11 am. Cover art by Sheri Peters.
Engaging and honest, Ryan McMahon’s music is written from the heart and sung from the soul, following the lead of his peers Jason Isbell, Nathaniel Rateliff and Warren Zevon. With six releases under his name and two with his side project, the acclaimed trio Lion Bear Fox, McMahon has established himself as one of western Canada’s most prolific singer-songwriters, leading to multiple Vancouver Island Music Awards and supporting slots for Burton Cummings, Tom Cochrane, Mother Mother, Lee Harvey Osmond and others. On his latest album, Live Now, Ryan’s storytelling remains deeply personal, drawing on real-life stories. While firmly rooted in folk and roots, the album also explores hints of rock and Americana, creating a dynamic range to his music that makes each song an individual journey.
Aug 14 – 17th. Join Canada’s longest running summer gathering of Canadian writers and readers. Featuring over twenty-five visiting authors including Nita Prose, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of “The Maid”; acclaimed canlit star Guy Vanderhaeghe, who will be speaking about his non-fiction work, “Because Somebody Asked Me To”; David A. Robertson, a two-time winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award and author of “All the Little Monsters”; and Vancouver’s Gurjinder Basran, hailed by the CBC as one of the “ten Canadian women writers you need to read.” Plus opportunities for writers and readers to mingle amidst Rockwood’s heritage gardens.
Complete schedule here.
