Poet Gary Geddes Gives Talk at Quest Sep. 13
Poet Gary Geddes is giving a talk about his book Medicine Unbundled at Quest University Canada tomorrow, Wednesday September 13th at 7:00 p.m. in the Multipurpose Room.
Shelley O’Callaghan on Risk
I am a 69 year-old retired lawyer and I am embarking on writing a memoir. I am a private person. I don’t share my innermost thoughts easily. But when writing my memoir, How Deep is the Lake: A Century at Chilliwack Lake, I find that when I open my heart, my writing comes alive. I […]
Shaw TV Features the Fest
Shaw TV Sea to Sky and Stella Harvey, Festival Director, give us a look inside the treasure box of the festival’s offerings – guest author readings, craft workshops, and publisher pitch sessions!
Claudia Casper on Risk
Researching my second novel I decided I needed to experience spelunking, and specifically, being in a squeeze. Vancouver Island has the largest concentration of caves in North America. I found a woman in Campbell River willing to take me spelunking in a spectacular limestone and marble cave system near Gold River. When I pulled up […]
Sheena Kamal on Risk
The very act of writing requires a leap of faith, a somewhat crazed belief that, with your words, you can create a story that another person—a living, breathing human being— will want to read. It’s the riskiest thing imaginable to sit and face a blank page armed with nothing but this belief and the germ […]
Putting it on the Line: Lenore Rowntree on Risk
So far as I know, no one has unfriended me on Facebook because of something I wrote. But I have landed in some unfriendly situations because of writing, including with myself. There were times I would have unfriended myself if I could have. I took a risk turning 50 and continuing to take myself seriously […]
2017 Comedy Quickies
Submit your funniest sketch, stand-up routine, original song or monologue, and we’ll pick our favourites to showcase at the beautiful Maury Young Arts Centre on Oct. 12, 2017, with a chance to win hundreds of dollars in cash and prizes. Submissions are due Aug. 15.
Science Camp for Grown-Ups (with Discovery Channel, BBC, Nat Geo)
Science Camp for Grown-Ups (with Discovery Channel, BBC, Nat Geo) Opens for Spring Registration After ten years at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, the well-known Banff Science Communication program is now being offered through Beakerhead! Past faculty include Daily Planet’s Jay Ingram, Lindsay Mullen from Second City, and others from publications such as […]
Kevin Donavan & Alexandra Shimo Reading Thursday March 16th at 7pm
Whistler Welcomes Kevin Donavan & Alexandra Shimo for a Reading Event Thursday March 16th at 7pm at the Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre Tickets here via Eventbrite. Kevin Donavan is a senior investigative journalist at Canada’s largest circulation newspaper, The Toronto Star. He has won three National Newspaper Awards, two Michener Awards and three Canadian Association of Journalists Awards. He broke […]
Thanks Again for Another Incredible Festival
Another Year, Another Festival, A Grateful Heart “A grateful heart is a magnet for miracles.” Anonymous It wasn’t too long ago that I wasn’t sure I would have been able to write the words, another year, another festival. They come naturally now as if there is no question we will be back, bigger and stronger next year. […]