Garry Gottfriedson (Skin Like Mine) will be giving a talk/reading at Red Jam Slam on August 21st. The event begins at 11:00am with a Truth and Reconciliation Panel (Samaya Jardey & Chief Robert Joseph). There will also be an art exhibit, as well as music from 5:00pm. Red Hot Jam is organized by Gunargie O’Sullivan in collaboration with Vancouver Co-op Radio, W2: Community Media Arts, and CJSF Radio. Tickets are $10 and food & beverage will be available for purchase.

Location:
W2 Storyeum,
151 West Cordova St
Vancouver, BC
V6B 1E1

Times: 11:00am – 2:00am

Join critically acclaimed BC poets Garry Gottfriedson, Rita Wong, and Joanne Arnott for a poetry reading to celebrate the release of Garry Gottfriedson‘s Skin Like Mine, a bold collection in which Gottfriedson tackles issues facing first nations today. Through their poetry, these three authors have explored the rhythms of the land, the rhythms of the body and the destruction that can be caused to both. Rita Wong is the author of Forage (2007) and Joanne Arnott is the author of Mother Time (2007).

A program open to all ages Thursday July 22
7:00 pm-8:30 pm
Free
Meeting Room, Level 3
Central Library
350 West Georgia Street

For more information please contact VPL – Popular Reading Library at 604-331-3691

View the Vancouver Public Library’s calendar here: http://www.vpl.ca/cgi-bin/api/calendar.cgi

Norma Charles (The Girl in the Backseat, Chasing a Star) will be presenting on a panel and doing ‘blue pencil’ sessions at Write on Bowen Festival of Readers and Writers, Bowen Island, BC, on July 3.

This year Jack Hodgins (The Invention of the World) will be appearing at the Saskatchewan Festival of Words in Moose Jaw, SK. It’s a 3-day festival of greatness and fun. For more information, see the festival website.