Dear Friends and Patrons of the ARTS: if you can get the word out either through psa’s, announcements, bulletins, or just good old fashioned word of mouth and, of course, come yourselves!….thanks, Virginia for the Centre for Performing ARTS, a non profit, registered Canadian charity, organization. Centre for Performing ARTS, 20 School Street, Montague presents…
Category: Upcoming Events
Scale opens Saturday, May 30th
Scale opens this Saturday, May 30th at 7pm. The show will feature works by the following members: Benjamin Allain Gerald Beaulieu Traci Birt John Burden Chrissy Cerminara Corrie Cerminara Marion Copelston John Dohe Donnalee Downe Mara Jinny Greaves Gail Hodder Kailee Linne Jourdie Monica Lacey Renee Lapris Luke Leunes Michelle Maccallum Curtis MacDonald Matt Murray…
Book Reading and Signing on May 16th
WHAT: Author reading and book signing – The Book of Angels, The Hidden Secrets: Dreams, Signs, Meditation WHO: Kaya and Christiane Muller WHERE: Confederation Centre Public Library WHEN: Saturday, May 16th at 2:00pm Books will be available for purchase. For more information, visit: http://www.ucm.ca/en/shop/the-book-of-angels-the-hidden-secrets.html
The Malahat Review Creative Non-Fiction Prize 2009
Submit a personal essay, a memoir, literary journalism, or something so cutting edge no one’s thought of it yet. Prize: $500 plus $40/page upon publication Entry fee: $35 CAD Deadline: August 1, 2009 For complete guidelines: http://www.malahatreview.ca
Canada Council for the Arts to announce the 2009 $100,000 Killam Prizes winners
The five 2009 Killam Prizes winners will be announced at a news conference which will be held on Monday, May 11, at 10:30 a.m., at McGill University Life Sciences Complex in Montreal.The winners will be introduced and will be available for interviews afterwards. The Killam Prizes, worth $100,000 each, are awarded annually to distinguished Canadian…
Rock-Out for The Writers’ Guild
PEI Writers’ Guild Hosts All-Ages Fundraiser for its 20th Anniversary The PEI Writer’s Guild is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, and is hosting a springtime, all-ages, rock fundraiser night at The Confederation Centre Studio Theatre on Friday, May 29. Bands set to wield their rock axes in support of the Writers’ Guild are: Smothered…
Atlantic Ink Writers Festival Free Reading
A free poetry reading will be held on May 6, at 7:30pm, at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery. The PEI Writers’ Guild, with the support and direction of the Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia, and in partnership with the UPEI Department of English, the UPEI Robertson Library, and the Confederation Centre Art Gallery, will host…
Bill Richardson to Read at Confederation Centre Art Gallery
Bill Richardson will give a public reading at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery on Thursday, July 30, 7:30 p.m., an event co-hosted by the P.E.I. Writers’ Guild, the Friends of the Confederation Centre Public Library, the UPEI Department of English, and the Indian River Festival. Bill Richardson will be a guest host at 2009 Indian…
Writers and Exile at the Tatamagouche Centre
July 19 to 24, join Shani Mootoo (Cereus Blooms at Night, He Drown She in the Sea,Valmiki’s Daughter) and others for the Writers and Exile program at the Tatamagouche Centre on Nova Scotia’s North Shore. This writing workshop will expand its focus to also give attention to cultural assumptions in a world filled with intercultural…
The Great Cape Breton Book Club
The Great Cape Breton Book Club June 5 – 7, 2009 Meet kindred book lovers at the Keltic Lodge’s colossal book club weekend. Come to laugh, share stories and meet new friends, all while enjoying a great piece of Nova Scotia literature. This visits book selection is Ava Comes Home by Lesley Crewe . Arrive…
The Writing Pool 