Grant Lawrence and Friends: An Evening of Stories and Songs
The acclaimed author and CBC broadcaster shares stories with special guests: Jill Barber Dustin Bentall The Smugglers Acoustic Set w / Adam Woodall & Nick Thomas Saturday, January 20, at 8pm. Brackendale Art Gallery Theatre Admission: $20 Tickets available at Brackendale Theatre or call 604-898-3333 (Sat, Sun) or 604-815-3443 (Mon-Fri)
Arctic Folly: Alisa Smith on Risk
The first camping trip I ever did alone, at the age of 22, was probably outside the norm: I chose the high Arctic. Polar bears, pooh! I only learned later in life that camping scientists take rifles with them on the tundra. Okay, I admit to a slight fear of polar bears. This is […]
Yvonne Blomer on Risk
I can’t think of a more superb topic for writers to mull than risk. For myself, there are so many moments of risk in my memoir Sugar Ride: Cycling from Hanoi to Kuala Lumpur some people have asked me why I did the trip in the first place. My first answer is always that I […]
Shelley O’Callaghan Book Signing & Presentation
Join author Shelley O’Callaghan for a short presentation on her personal journey to uncover the history of her family’s “summer cabin” at Chilliwack Lake. Together with her grandchildren, she gained a new perspective on her sense of belonging to a land that was home to many others, long before her time. Author Signing: Tuesday, Sep. […]
The Risk of being Japanese Canadian by Terry Watada
With the redress settlement and the rise of Japanese Canadian writing, I noticed a new stereotype has emerged in the Canadian public. Japanese Canadians are law-abiding, cooperative, timid, quiet, friendly, persevering and non-complaining (despite the redress campaign). No one thinks of them as angry, combative, corrupt, sexual and loud. That would be politically incorrect, that would be […]
Shari Ulrich on Risk
I can’t pretend I don’t have a complicated relationship with writing despite knowing that the essence of the process couldn’t be more simple: “Show up and it will come”. (A mantra plagiarized from Elizabeth Gilbert.) My sense is, it is all a risk – to show up and make oneself vulnerable to the muse; to tell one’s […]
Roo Borson on Risk
At a time when commentators on the nightly news talk almost calmly about the renewed threat of nuclear war, one of the necessary responses is to think again about what we hold dear, and about those things we would preserve. These include not only life itself, but those endeavours, including the sciences and the […]
Monia Mazigh on Risk
When I was a little girl I loved the carousel at the fair but my favourite ride was a rocket space ship because it made me feel like I am traveling in the sky among planets and stars. I closed my eyes and let my imagination run wild as the heavy rocket filled with screaming […]
Mark Leiren-Young on Risk
As any reader knows it’s always risky to chase a whale – and I’ve pursued Moby Doll three times longer than crazy Captain Ahab searched for Moby Dick. Almost twenty years ago I pitched the story of the first ever killer whale displayed in captivity as a book, a film, an article and a radio […]
John MacLachlan Gray on Risk
“Risk” is something I’ve never quantified or even thought about, because my expectations have always been so low. Growing up in Nova Scotia, to suggest that you wanted to write books or plays was like saying you wanted to join the circus as a fire eater. So when I began writing, I assumed I’d live […]