October 15: Garry Gottfriedson at Salute to the Sockeye Celebration

Garry Gottfriedson will be reading from Skin Like Mine at the Salute to the Sockeye Celebration on October 15th at 11:00 to 12:00. The festival is hosted by the Adams River Salmon Society at Roderick Haig Brown Park between October 2nd and 24th, 2010. This celebration typically draws between 85,000 and 110,000 visitors to the Shuswap region of British Columbia.

Garry Gottfriedson, from the Secwepemc first nation (Shuswap), was born, raised and lives in Kamloops, BC. He is a self-employed rancher with a Masters degree in Education from Simon Fraser University. He was awarded the Gerald Red Elk Creative Writing Scholarship by the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, where he studied under Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Marianne Faithful and others.