We have a huge list of not-to-be-missed events this week, including BC Book Day on Monday, April 23. Share your BC reads and celebrate BC Book Day on April 23, 2018 by using the hashtag #BCBookDay on social media.
Verses Festival of Words began this week and continues until April 29. There are a variety of events with local, national, and international talent. Definitely worth checking out a show or two.
http://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/verses-festival-of-words-2018/
The Planet Earth Poetry series features Cornelia Hoogland in two events on Friday, April 20. An afternoon reading in James Bay, and the main event in the evening in Victoria with Terry Ann Carter.
http://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/planet-earth-poetry-cornelia-hoogland-terry-ann-carter/
The annual North Shore Writers Festival begins Friday, April 20 and continues on Saturday. Featured authors include Pat Carney, Grant Lawrence, and JJ Lee.
http://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/north-shore-writers-festival-2018/
On Saturday, April 21 in Nanaimo, join three Caitlin Press authors for an afternoon of poetry. City of Nanaimo Poet Laureate Tina Biello hosts Kate Braid and Betsy Warland.
http://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/poet-laureate-reading-series-kate-braid-betsy-warland-nanaimo/
Earth Day is Sunday, April 22. Join Victoria Poet Laureate Yvonne Blomer for a special reading with a gaggle of poets at Poems for the Planet in Victoria’s Centennial Square. Featured poets include Kate Braid, Stephen Collis, Heidi Greco, Cornelia Hoogland, Tim Lilburn, and Marilyn Bowering.
http://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/poems-for-the-planet-victoria/
Mohawk/Tuscarora poet Janet Rogers is currently the Historic Joy Kogawa House’s Writer in Residence. During her residency, she is dedicating her time to publishing a new collection of legends inspired by the original Legends of Vancouver. Legends of Vancouver was penned by Mohawk poet E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake in 1911 as told to her by Chief Joe Capilano, Sa7plek. This storytelling event on Sunday, April 22 is the first gathering for the new Legends of Vancouver book.
http://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/new-legends-of-vancouver/
Monday, April 23, 2018 is BC Book Day. Read Local BC will be joining many BC publishers, authors, and literary organizations to exhibit at the BC Legislature in Victoria on Monday, April 23. There will be a short program with speeches and a poem from Yvonne Blomer, Victoria Poet Laureate.
Share your BC reads and celebrate BC Book Day on April 23, 2018 by using the hashtag #BCBookDay on social media.
http://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/bc-book-day-2018-at-the-bc-legislature-victoria/
Vancouverites can also celebrate BC Book Day at an evening event on Monday, April 23 exploring the magic of storytelling with Sonny Assu, Mary Theresa Kelly, Joanna Streetly, and Gian Singh Sandhu.
http://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/bc-book-day-2018-vancouver/
If you can’t get enough storytelling, Maureen Medved (Black Star) will be part of fine. (an evening of storytelling and otherwise) with five other writers on Monday, April 23 in Vancouver.
http://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/a-fine-show-featuring-maureen-medved/
After a standing-room-only launch in Vancouver, poet Laisha Rosnau will be launching Our Familiar Hunger in Vernon on Tuesday, April 24 with the bonus of Ukrainian dance and food.
http://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/our-familiar-hunger-by-laisha-rosnau-vernon/
Iona Whishaw launches the fourth title in the Lane Winslow Mystery series, It Begins in Betrayal, on Tuesday, April 24 in Vancouver.
http://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/launch-it-begins-in-betrayal-by-iona-whishaw-vancouver/
Janice Strong is launching the newly revised and updated fourth edition of Mountain Footsteps: Hikes in the East Kootenay of Southwestern British Columbia. Join her for a talk and photo presentation on Tuesday, April 24 in Kimberley.
http://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/have-camera-will-travel-exploring-the-beautiful-east-kootenay-with-janice-strong-kimberley/
Three local authors—Yvonne Blomer, Christine Smart, and Joanna Streetly—gather to discuss writing the coast on Wednesday, April 25 on Salt Spring Island.
http://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/writing-the-coast/