...sent me this photo of the THIN AIR programmes spread out on the reception desk of the Winnipeg Free Press newsroom.
(Speaking of programmes, I have to start poking through mine and figure out, precisely, what I'm going to...)
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Saturday, September 11, 2010
A little birdie...
...sent me this photo of the THIN AIR programmes spread out on the reception desk of the Winnipeg Free Press newsroom.
(Speaking of programmes, I have to start poking through mine and figure out, precisely, what I'm going to...)
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
KHL! Into THIN AIR II
Host Kelly Hughes interviews Writers Festival performers Ismaila Alfa, Ignatius Mabasa and Dominique Rey, with music by Naomi Guilbert and Hiroshi Koshiyama of Fubuki Daiko
When: Friday, September 17/10 7pm
Where: Aqua Books, 274 Garry Street
Cost: Free
Winnipeg's only live talk show, Kelly Hughes Live! brings you all the trappings you've come to expect from the television talk show: comedy, music and celebrities.
The only difference is that (with the exception of a few ringers like Kids in the Hall's Kevin McDonald and Hugo-nominated writer Nick DiChario), it's all local heroes.
Guests like Tina Keeper, Fred Penner, Al Simmons, Brian Glow, Margaret Sweatman and Robert Enright have been joined onstage by the likes of stellar Winnipeg musicians The Paperbacks, Todd Hunter, Ingrid Gatin and Rollin Penner and the Traveling Medicine Show.
(But it's not like TV in that you will have to leave your house.) It's the TV talk show without the TV.
* * *
Ismaila Alfa completed his early school years in Edmonton, then moved to Winnipeg. After starting a civil engineering degree at the University of Manitoba, he followed his musical dreams and spent eight years touring North America as a hip hop musician. Magnum KI, a band he formed in 2005 with DJ Michael Arnone, opened for the legendary band The Roots at this year’s TD Winnipeg International Jazz Festival. When he’s not on a stage tangling with words, he is an audio technician, jingle writer, and traffic reporter for CBC Radio.
Ignatius Mabasa is an acclaimed writer and storyteller from Zimbabwe. He has published stories and poems for children and adults in both English and his native language, Shona. His most recent book, The Man, Shaggy Leopard and Jackal and other stories (Lion Press), was nominated for Zimbabwe’s National Arts Merit Award as the best book in the children’s literature category. Mabasa has performed his stories and poems in many countries, and will spend the fall term in Winnipeg as storyteller-in-residence at the University of Manitoba’s Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture.
Dominique Rey is a painter, photographer, video artist and performance artist. She has shown her work across North America with solo exhibitions at Plug In ICA, Clark Gallery, Michael Gibson Gallery, Alternator Gallery, Gallery TPW, Truck Gallery, Gallery One One One and La Maison des artistes. As part of the Winnipeg Cultural Capital of Canada 2010 program, Dominique was selected as the Arts Ambassador for Visual Arts.
As founding members of Fubuki Daiko, Naomi Guilbert and Hiroshi Koshiyama have shared a stage with luminaries such as Blue Rodeo, the Nylons, the McGarrigle Sisters, Cake and a ventriloquist. They received their formal training from the founder of North American Taiko, Grandmaster Seiichi Tanaka. After leaving the San Francisco Taiko Dojo and moving to Winnipeg, they’ve been in constant contact, rehearsing, performing, touring, and writing/editing bios for close to fifteen years. Not once have they ever wanted to kill each other (well, maybe once).
When: Friday, September 17/10 7pmWhere: Aqua Books, 274 Garry Street
Cost: Free
Winnipeg's only live talk show, Kelly Hughes Live! brings you all the trappings you've come to expect from the television talk show: comedy, music and celebrities.
The only difference is that (with the exception of a few ringers like Kids in the Hall's Kevin McDonald and Hugo-nominated writer Nick DiChario), it's all local heroes.
Guests like Tina Keeper, Fred Penner, Al Simmons, Brian Glow, Margaret Sweatman and Robert Enright have been joined onstage by the likes of stellar Winnipeg musicians The Paperbacks, Todd Hunter, Ingrid Gatin and Rollin Penner and the Traveling Medicine Show.
(But it's not like TV in that you will have to leave your house.) It's the TV talk show without the TV.
* * *
Ismaila Alfa completed his early school years in Edmonton, then moved to Winnipeg. After starting a civil engineering degree at the University of Manitoba, he followed his musical dreams and spent eight years touring North America as a hip hop musician. Magnum KI, a band he formed in 2005 with DJ Michael Arnone, opened for the legendary band The Roots at this year’s TD Winnipeg International Jazz Festival. When he’s not on a stage tangling with words, he is an audio technician, jingle writer, and traffic reporter for CBC Radio.
Ignatius Mabasa is an acclaimed writer and storyteller from Zimbabwe. He has published stories and poems for children and adults in both English and his native language, Shona. His most recent book, The Man, Shaggy Leopard and Jackal and other stories (Lion Press), was nominated for Zimbabwe’s National Arts Merit Award as the best book in the children’s literature category. Mabasa has performed his stories and poems in many countries, and will spend the fall term in Winnipeg as storyteller-in-residence at the University of Manitoba’s Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture.
Dominique Rey is a painter, photographer, video artist and performance artist. She has shown her work across North America with solo exhibitions at Plug In ICA, Clark Gallery, Michael Gibson Gallery, Alternator Gallery, Gallery TPW, Truck Gallery, Gallery One One One and La Maison des artistes. As part of the Winnipeg Cultural Capital of Canada 2010 program, Dominique was selected as the Arts Ambassador for Visual Arts.
As founding members of Fubuki Daiko, Naomi Guilbert and Hiroshi Koshiyama have shared a stage with luminaries such as Blue Rodeo, the Nylons, the McGarrigle Sisters, Cake and a ventriloquist. They received their formal training from the founder of North American Taiko, Grandmaster Seiichi Tanaka. After leaving the San Francisco Taiko Dojo and moving to Winnipeg, they’ve been in constant contact, rehearsing, performing, touring, and writing/editing bios for close to fifteen years. Not once have they ever wanted to kill each other (well, maybe once).
Monday, September 6, 2010
Friday, September 3, 2010
Raffled
* * *
After five years in a writers group together and four years doing a blog about Perry's day job, I've gotten to the point where I can persecute him...
...as in this photo, where I asked him to hold up one of the festival's raffle prizes. And, in doing so, made him blush. And then I chased him around the office, trying to get a picture of him blushing.
So this is Perry Grosshans, THIN AIR GM, hiding from the camera.
Heh.
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Kelly Hughes Live! Into THIN AIR I
Host Kelly Hughes interviews writers Charlene Diehl, Ariel Gordon and Jordan Wheeler, with music by classical guitarist Skender Sefa
When: Friday, September 3/10 7pm
Where: Aqua Books, 274 Garry Street
Cost: Free
Winnipeg's only live talk show, Kelly Hughes Live! brings you all the trappings you've come to expect from the television talk show: comedy, music and celebrities.
The only difference is that (with the exception of a few ringers like Kids in the Hall's Kevin McDonald and Hugo-nominated writer Nick DiChario), it's all local heroes.
Guests like Tina Keeper, Fred Penner, Al Simmons, Brian Glow, Margaret Sweatman and Robert Enright have been joined onstage by the likes of stellar Winnipeg musicians The Paperbacks, Todd Hunter, Ingrid Gatin and Rollin Penner and the Traveling Medicine Show.
(But it's not like TV in that you will have to leave your house.) It's the TV talk show without the TV.
* * *
Charlene Diehl is possibly best known in these parts as the brightly plumaged dynamo at the hub of the THIN AIR writers festival. But she is also a hard-working poet, and the author of the new book, Out of Grief, Singing.
Ariel Gordon is a Winnipeg-based writer and editor. She has two chapbooks to her credit, The navel gaze (Palimpsest Press, 2008) and Guidelines: Malaysia & Indonesia, 1999 (Rubicon Press, 2009) and this spring, Palimpsest published her first full-length poetry collection, Hump. She is the 2010 recipient of the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Writer. When not being bookish, Ariel likes tromping through the woods and taking macro photographs of mushrooms.
From the Charles Gordon First Nation (Southern Plains Cree), Jordan Wheeler has been writing professionally since 1982 and working in film and television since 1984. An author (Brothers In Arms, Just A Walk) and columnist (Winnipeg Free Press, Weetamah), Wheeler’s focus since 1992 has been scriptwriting, story editing and show running for television drama including the award winning series North of 60, The Rez and renegadepress.com. He’s been nominated for numerous awards including three Geminis. He won one, but still smarts at losing to Paul Haggis in ’94.
Skender Sefa is a professional classical guitarist with four full length classical guitar CDs on the GFI Masterworks, Uncontrollable Records and Marquis Record Labels. He teaches classical guitar performance and music theory at the Manitoba Conservatory of Music and Arts and is a Director of the Winnipeg Music Festival and the President of the Winnipeg Classical Guitar Society. In recognition of his career in classical guitar performance, Skender has received awards from both the Canada Council for the Arts and the Manitoba Arts Council. In addition to performing, teaching and recording, Skender is an active music adjudicator/clinician.
When: Friday, September 3/10 7pmWhere: Aqua Books, 274 Garry Street
Cost: Free
Winnipeg's only live talk show, Kelly Hughes Live! brings you all the trappings you've come to expect from the television talk show: comedy, music and celebrities.
The only difference is that (with the exception of a few ringers like Kids in the Hall's Kevin McDonald and Hugo-nominated writer Nick DiChario), it's all local heroes.
Guests like Tina Keeper, Fred Penner, Al Simmons, Brian Glow, Margaret Sweatman and Robert Enright have been joined onstage by the likes of stellar Winnipeg musicians The Paperbacks, Todd Hunter, Ingrid Gatin and Rollin Penner and the Traveling Medicine Show.
(But it's not like TV in that you will have to leave your house.) It's the TV talk show without the TV.
* * *
Charlene Diehl is possibly best known in these parts as the brightly plumaged dynamo at the hub of the THIN AIR writers festival. But she is also a hard-working poet, and the author of the new book, Out of Grief, Singing.
Ariel Gordon is a Winnipeg-based writer and editor. She has two chapbooks to her credit, The navel gaze (Palimpsest Press, 2008) and Guidelines: Malaysia & Indonesia, 1999 (Rubicon Press, 2009) and this spring, Palimpsest published her first full-length poetry collection, Hump. She is the 2010 recipient of the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Writer. When not being bookish, Ariel likes tromping through the woods and taking macro photographs of mushrooms.
From the Charles Gordon First Nation (Southern Plains Cree), Jordan Wheeler has been writing professionally since 1982 and working in film and television since 1984. An author (Brothers In Arms, Just A Walk) and columnist (Winnipeg Free Press, Weetamah), Wheeler’s focus since 1992 has been scriptwriting, story editing and show running for television drama including the award winning series North of 60, The Rez and renegadepress.com. He’s been nominated for numerous awards including three Geminis. He won one, but still smarts at losing to Paul Haggis in ’94.
Skender Sefa is a professional classical guitarist with four full length classical guitar CDs on the GFI Masterworks, Uncontrollable Records and Marquis Record Labels. He teaches classical guitar performance and music theory at the Manitoba Conservatory of Music and Arts and is a Director of the Winnipeg Music Festival and the President of the Winnipeg Classical Guitar Society. In recognition of his career in classical guitar performance, Skender has received awards from both the Canada Council for the Arts and the Manitoba Arts Council. In addition to performing, teaching and recording, Skender is an active music adjudicator/clinician.
Monday, August 23, 2010
The Entire Line-up
August 23, 2010
For Immediate Release:
THE 2010 THIN AIR FESTIVAL PROUDLY ANNOUNCES ITS ENTIRE LINE UP
THIN AIR proudly announces that THE ABORIGINAL WRITERS COLLECTIVE, ISMAILA ALFA, DAVID ARNASON, DAVID BERGEN, SANDRA BIRDSELL, GILES BLUNT, BATHELEMY BOLIVAR, MARTHA BROOKS, MARGARET BUFFIE, REYNALD CANTIN, DAVID CARPENTER, RHEAL CENERINI, SIMONE CHAPUT, NATE CRAWFORD, DONNA CREIGHTON, DORA DUECK, AMY JO EHMAN, KEN FINKLEMAN, THODORE FONTAINE, ARIEL GORDON, NORA GOULD, MARCEL GOSSELIN, CAROLYN CRAY, JAN HORNER, JUDITH KEENAN, ROGER LAFRENIERE, RACHELLE LAMOUREUX, MICHAEL LISTA, IGNATIUS T. MABASA, GREG MACARTHUR, SHARON MCCARTNEY, kevin mcpherson eckhoff, JENNY MUNDAY, GEORGE MURRAY, BETRAND NAYET, UMA PARAMESWARAN, SHANE PEACOCK, LAURENT POLIQUIN, CRAIG FRANCIS POWER, SINA QUEYRAS, DOMINIQUE REY, LAWRENCE SCANLAN, CAROLYN SMART, A.J. SOMERSET, ALLAN STRATTON, COLLEEN SYDOR, JOAN THOMAS, ANNE VILLENEUVE, MICHAEL WEX, JORDAN WHEELER, EVA WISEMAN and RICHARD B. WRIGHT will ALL be attending the 2010 THIN AIR Winnipeg International Writers Festival which runs from September 19-26.
These authors come from all across the country and represent some of the best and brightest in Canada’s vibrant literary world. Dealing with an infinity of subjects the festival is bringing books and authors designed to appeal to readers of all persuasions.
About the Festival
In September each year, Winnipeg welcomes writers from Canada and around the world for a week of readings, lectures, interviews, conversations, book launches, and other events. That week of literary feasting—which reaches out into the rural areas of the province as well—is THIN AIR, the Winnipeg International Writers Festival. With programming for adults and children, in English and French, THIN AIR is an infusion of energy into the thriving literary culture of this city.
For more information please contact Michael Van Rooy, Publicist, publicist@thinairwinnipeg.ca or contact the THIN AIR office at info@thinairwinnipeg.ca or 927-7323
For Immediate Release:
THE 2010 THIN AIR FESTIVAL PROUDLY ANNOUNCES ITS ENTIRE LINE UP
THIN AIR proudly announces that THE ABORIGINAL WRITERS COLLECTIVE, ISMAILA ALFA, DAVID ARNASON, DAVID BERGEN, SANDRA BIRDSELL, GILES BLUNT, BATHELEMY BOLIVAR, MARTHA BROOKS, MARGARET BUFFIE, REYNALD CANTIN, DAVID CARPENTER, RHEAL CENERINI, SIMONE CHAPUT, NATE CRAWFORD, DONNA CREIGHTON, DORA DUECK, AMY JO EHMAN, KEN FINKLEMAN, THODORE FONTAINE, ARIEL GORDON, NORA GOULD, MARCEL GOSSELIN, CAROLYN CRAY, JAN HORNER, JUDITH KEENAN, ROGER LAFRENIERE, RACHELLE LAMOUREUX, MICHAEL LISTA, IGNATIUS T. MABASA, GREG MACARTHUR, SHARON MCCARTNEY, kevin mcpherson eckhoff, JENNY MUNDAY, GEORGE MURRAY, BETRAND NAYET, UMA PARAMESWARAN, SHANE PEACOCK, LAURENT POLIQUIN, CRAIG FRANCIS POWER, SINA QUEYRAS, DOMINIQUE REY, LAWRENCE SCANLAN, CAROLYN SMART, A.J. SOMERSET, ALLAN STRATTON, COLLEEN SYDOR, JOAN THOMAS, ANNE VILLENEUVE, MICHAEL WEX, JORDAN WHEELER, EVA WISEMAN and RICHARD B. WRIGHT will ALL be attending the 2010 THIN AIR Winnipeg International Writers Festival which runs from September 19-26.
These authors come from all across the country and represent some of the best and brightest in Canada’s vibrant literary world. Dealing with an infinity of subjects the festival is bringing books and authors designed to appeal to readers of all persuasions.
About the Festival
In September each year, Winnipeg welcomes writers from Canada and around the world for a week of readings, lectures, interviews, conversations, book launches, and other events. That week of literary feasting—which reaches out into the rural areas of the province as well—is THIN AIR, the Winnipeg International Writers Festival. With programming for adults and children, in English and French, THIN AIR is an infusion of energy into the thriving literary culture of this city.
For more information please contact Michael Van Rooy, Publicist, publicist@thinairwinnipeg.ca or contact the THIN AIR office at info@thinairwinnipeg.ca or 927-7323
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Some More Great Authors...
August 12, 2010
For Immediate Release:
SOME MORE GREAT WRITERS ATTENDING THE 2010 THIN AIR FESTIVAL
THIN AIR proudly announces that the ABORIGINAL WRITERS COLLECTIVE, ISMAILA ALFA, GILES BLUNT, BATHELEMY BOLIVAR, MARTHA BROOKS, GREG MACARTHUR, SHARON MCCARTNEY, JENNY MUNDAY, and GEORGE MURRAY will be attending the 2010 THIN AIR Winnipeg International Writers Festival which runs from September 19-26.
These authors come from all across the country and represent some of the best and brightest in Canada’s vibrant literary world.
This year some of the featured books include Crime Machine (Random House Canada), Mots de terre/Voices of the Earth (Create Space), Queen of Hearts (Groundwood Books), Isolated (Coach House Books), For and Against (GooseLane Editions), Relatively Harmless (PCP), and Glimpse (ECW).
Other authors, and their books, will be announced in the near future.
About the Festival
In September each year, Winnipeg welcomes writers from Canada and around the world for a week of readings, lectures, interviews, conversations, book launches, and other events. That week of literary feasting—which reaches out into the rural areas of the province as well—is THIN AIR, the Winnipeg International Writers Festival. With programming for adults and children, in English and French, THIN AIR is an infusion of energy into the thriving literary culture of this city.
For Immediate Release:
SOME MORE GREAT WRITERS ATTENDING THE 2010 THIN AIR FESTIVAL
THIN AIR proudly announces that the ABORIGINAL WRITERS COLLECTIVE, ISMAILA ALFA, GILES BLUNT, BATHELEMY BOLIVAR, MARTHA BROOKS, GREG MACARTHUR, SHARON MCCARTNEY, JENNY MUNDAY, and GEORGE MURRAY will be attending the 2010 THIN AIR Winnipeg International Writers Festival which runs from September 19-26.
These authors come from all across the country and represent some of the best and brightest in Canada’s vibrant literary world.
This year some of the featured books include Crime Machine (Random House Canada), Mots de terre/Voices of the Earth (Create Space), Queen of Hearts (Groundwood Books), Isolated (Coach House Books), For and Against (GooseLane Editions), Relatively Harmless (PCP), and Glimpse (ECW).
Other authors, and their books, will be announced in the near future.
About the Festival
In September each year, Winnipeg welcomes writers from Canada and around the world for a week of readings, lectures, interviews, conversations, book launches, and other events. That week of literary feasting—which reaches out into the rural areas of the province as well—is THIN AIR, the Winnipeg International Writers Festival. With programming for adults and children, in English and French, THIN AIR is an infusion of energy into the thriving literary culture of this city.
Friday, August 6, 2010
Naming the names 06
THIN AIR proudly announces two excellent writers who will be attending the festival. Quebec’s Reynald Cantin and Winnipeg’s Margaret Buffie will be attending the 2010 THIN AIR Winnipeg International Writers Festival which runs from September 19-26.Reynald will be presenting his latest book, Mes parents sont gentils, m...ais tellement peureux (by FouLire), and Margaret will be presenting Winter Shadows.
Friday, July 30, 2010
Naming the names 05
THIN AIR proudly announces that Winnipeg’s Eva Wiseman and Ontario’s Richard B. Wright will be attending the 2010 THIN AIR Winnipeg International Writers Festival which runs from September 19-26. Eva will be presenting her latest book, Puppet, and Richard will be presenting his Mr. Shakespeare’s Bastard.
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Naming the names 04
THIN AIR proudly announces that Winnipeg’s David Arnason and Toronto’s Michael Lista will be attending the 2010 THIN AIR Winnipeg International Writers Festival which runs from September 19-26. David will be presenting his latest book, Baldur’s Song, and Michael will be presenting his Bloom.
Naming the names 03
THIN AIR proudly announces that former Winnipegger Sandra Birdsell and Toronto’s Michael Wex will be attending the 2010 THIN AIR Winnipeg International Writers Festival which runs from September 19-26.Sandra will be presenting her latest book, the acerbic and poignant Waiting For Joe and Michael will be presenting his truly hilarious The Frumkiss Family Business.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Naming the names 02
THIN AIR proudly announces that Winnipeg’s JOAN THOMAS and Montreal’s SINA QUEYRAS will be attending the 2010 THIN AIR Winnipeg International Writers Festival which runs from September 19-26. Joan will be presenting her latest book, Curiosity, and Sina will be presenting her Expressway.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Naming the names 01
THIN AIR proudly announces that COLLEEN SYDOR and A.J. SOMERSET will be attending the 2010 THIN AIR Winnipeg International Writers Festival which runs from September 19-26.Colleen will be presenting her latest book, The McGillicuddy Book of Personal Records, and A.J. will be presenting his 2009-2010 Metcalf-Rooke Award winning Combat Camera.
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