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An Evening with Mi'sel Joe |
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Wednesday, 07 April 2010 13:48 |
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The Atlantic Book Awards & Festival is very pleased to announce an evening with D250 Award nominees John K. Crellin and Raoul R. Andersen, editors of Mi'sel Joe: An Aboriginal Chief's Journey, with special guest, Chief Mi'sel Joe this coming Thursday, April 15th, at 7:00 PM in the KTS Room at the University of King's College. Hosted by King's Co-op Bookstore
Mi'sel Joe: An Aboriginal Chief's Journey chronicles both the life of an individual and that of his people. Mi'sel Joe is the traditional and administrative chief of Newfoundland's Conne River Mi'kmaq Reserve. Through a series of taped interviews with Raoul Andersen and John Crellin, Mi'sel Joe tells his life story and speaks of a community fighting for the right to determine its own future.
Raoul Andersen and John Crellin are honorary research professors at Memorial University. Their backgrounds in anthropology, history, and medicine lie behind many collaborative activities. Andersen and Crellin have been involved with Mi'sel Joe since 1993 in a variety of conferences and other educational activities. Andersen's research and writing career includes work with Canadian aboriginal people in Alberta (Stoney) and Newfoundland (Mi'kmaq), Newfoundland banks fisheries, Bermuda shore fishing, Japanese and north Norwegian small-type whaling, and alternative health care in Canada. John Crellin is Honorary Research Professor Memorial University. He holds British qualifications in medicine, pharmacy and the history of science, and has taught extensively in Britain, the United States and Canada. Among his books, four have a Newfoundland focus. |
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Michael Crummey and Shandi Mitchell Reading |
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Tuesday, 06 April 2010 00:00 |
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As part of the 2010 Atlantic Books Awards & Festival, The King’s Co-op Bookstore will be hosting a reading by authors Michael Crummey and Shandi Mitchell on Friday, April 16 at 7pm in Alumni Hall, King’s College. Mr. Crummey will read from Galore, which came out last fall, while Ms. Mitchell will be reading from her first book, Under This Unbroken Sky
Mr. Crummey and Ms. Mitchell are nominated for Atlantic Book Awards. Both are nominated for the Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, with Mr. Crummey picking up an additional nomination in the Atlantic Booksellers’ Choice category and Ms. Mitchell a nomination for the Margaret and John Savage First Book award. Both are also nominated for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize.
Michael Crummey received his BA (Memorial) in 1987 and his MA (Queen’s) in 1988. His second novel, River Thieves, won the Thomas Raddall award, the Bookseller’s Choice award, and was nominated for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Giller Prize. Galore is his third novel.
Shandi Mitchell is a writer and director. She graduated from Dalhousie University with a degree in English and Theatre and then moved into film. Her award-winning shorts have been featured at festivals across North America. Under This Unbroken Sky is her first novel.
All of Michael Crummey’s backlist will be available for purchase, as well as his poetry. Shandi Mitchell’s Under This Unbroken Sky will also be available.
For more information, contact the King’s Co-op Bookstore. (422-1271 x261) Admission is free. |
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Ian Brown Reading
"The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for his Disabled Son"
Date: Monday, October 19 2009
Time: 8:00 - 10:00pm
Location: Prince Hall; A&A; University of King's College
Price: Free! 
Ian Brown is an author and a feature writer for The Globe and Mail whose work has won a total of nine Gold National Magazine and National Newspaper awards. He is the host of CBC Radio’s Talking Books, as well as the anchor of TVO’s two documentary series, Human Edge and The View from Here.
Ian's son Walker Brown was born with a genetic mutation so rare that doctors call it an orphan syndrome: perhaps 300 people around the world also live with it. Walker turns twelve in 2008, but he weighs only 54 pounds, is still in diapers, can’t speak and needs to wear special cuffs on his arms so that he can’t continually hit himself. “Sometimes watching him,” Brown writes, “is like looking at the man in the moon – but you know there is actually no man there. But if Walker is so insubstantial, why does he feel so important? What is he trying to show me?”
In a book that owes its beginnings to Brown’s original Globe and Mail series, he sets out to answer that question, a journey that takes him into deeply touching and troubling territory. “All I really want to know is what goes on inside his off-shaped head,” he writes, “But every time I ask, he somehow persuades me to look into my own.”
Come one, come all!
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Brian Crowley Lecture & Reading
"Fearful Symmetry" is required reading for anyone who is interested in
where this country began, where it’s been, and where it’s going.
Date: Thursday, October 8 2009
Time: 7:00 - 9:00pm
Location: KTS Lecture Hall; New Academic Building; University of King's College
Price: Free!
Brian Lee Crowley is the founding President of AIMS, the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies, Atlantic Canada’s public policy think tank. His articles appear in The Globe and Mail, The National Post, La Presseand numerous regional and local newspapers. He lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
Crowley's newest book is "Fearful Symmetry
The Fall and Rise of Canada's Founding Values."
In the 1960s, Canada began a seismic shift away from the core policies and values upon which the country had been built. A nation of “makers” transformed itself into a nation of “takers.” Crowley argues that the time has come for the pendulum to swing back—back to a time when Canadians were less willing to rely on the state for support; when people went where the work was rather than waiting for the work to come to them.
Thought-provoking, meticulously detailed and ultimately polarizing, "Fearful Symmetry" is required reading for anyone who is interested in where this country began, where it’s been, and where it’s going.
Crowley is the author of two previous books:
"The Self, the Individual and the Community" (1987) and "The Road to Equity: Impolitic Essays" (1994)
"Fearful Symmetry" will be available for purchase immediately after the lecture.
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Poetry Trio
"Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason"
Date: Thursday, October 1 2009
Time: 7:30 - 9:00pm
Location: Senior Common Room; A&A; University of King's College
Price: Free!
On October 1, three Maritime authors will be reading from their new books of poetry at the University of King's College.
Brent MacLaine - "Athena Becomes a Swallow" (Goose Lane Editions)
Brent MacLaine is a professor and the chair of the English department of UPEI. In 1999, Brent won 3rd prize of the League of Canadian Poets National Poetry Competition. His newest work, "Athena Becomes a Swallow" is a series of 27 monologues spoken by minor characters in Homer's Odyssey.
John Wall Barger - "Pain-Proof Men" (Palimpsest Press)
John Wall Barger is a native Haligonian whose work has appeared in many collections and journals. Last year his work was included in the inaugural volume of The Best Canadian Poetry 2008. "Pain-proof Men" is John's first book of poems. He is presently working on translating a book of Pier Paolo Pasolini's poems into English.
Christina McRae - "Next to Nothing" (Wolsak & Wynn)
In 2001, Christina McRae, from Wolfville, Nova Scotia, won the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia's Atlantic Writing Competition for poetry. "Next to Nothing" is her first full-length collection.
Books by all three poets will be on sale and they will be signing copies after the reading.
Come one, come all!
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