Join authors Gillian Wigmore and Matt Radar on January 14th at 6pm as they read from their original works. This event is free and will be held in room Art 106 at UBC Okanagan. Everyone is welcome.



Gillian Wigmore grew up in Vanderhoof, BC, and currently lives in Prince George. Her first book soft geography was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry prize and won the Relit Poetry Award in 2008. Recently, she has been shortlisted for both the Malahat long poem prize and the Great BC Novella conest.



Matt Radar is the author of two collections of poetry, Miraculous Hours (Nightwood 2005) and Living Things  (Nighwood 2008). Published in magazines, journals, and anthologies around the globe, Rader's poems and stories have been nominated for numerous awards including The National Magazine Award, the Pushcart Prize, The Gerald Lampert Award, and The Journey Prize. He teaches creative writing at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, in British Columbia's Lower Mainland.

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05 Jan 2010

Songwriters Deadline Extended to Jan. 31



Due to an unprecedented number of requests, from “Songwriters” from across Western Canada, the deadline for submissions to the 15th Annual Bill Henderson – Roy Forbes “Songwriters Workshop Weekend/Intensive” (April 17 & 18, 2010 at The George Ryga Centre, Summerland) has been extended to Jan. 31, 2010.

Songwriters should register “immediately” by sending two songs(on CD or tape) with “two sets of type-written lyrics” (plus a $30 registration fee payable by cheque or M.O. to: The George Ryga Centre).

Submissions should be mailed to: Songwriters’ Workshops C/O Ken Smedley
Box 323, Armstrong, B.C., VOE 1B0

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05 Jan 2010

Apr 14,1912 runs Jan 13-17th  at 8PM at the RCA

"The beautiful and poignant images that sweep across the stage...fire the imagination and stay with us long after the curtain has rung down", The Globe and Mail

In honour of the 98th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, April 14, 1912 will be coming to Kelowna through April 13-17th at 8:00 p.m. with a matinee performance on Thursday, April 15th at noon.



Produced by Toronto-based theatre company Rusticle Theatre, April 14, 1912 weaves together three viewpoints from one of the greatest tragedies in the 20th century: the sinking of the Titanic.

Inspired by the story of one of the shipís surviving Marconi officers, Harold Bride, the performance does more than recreate events. Bride (Patrick Conner) and his fellow officer, Jack Phillips (Matthew Romantini) are real characters, and through them audiences hear the literal and imagined hopes, dreams and fears of the passengers.  The production's third character is the story's femme fatale, the ship herself, played by Lucy Rupert.

Tickets just $30.00 available at www.select yourtickets.com or call 250-717-5304

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01 Jan 2010

Award winning writer/performer Maja Ardal's one-woman comic tour-de-force is a ìsuitcaseî show, designed to tour. It can be performed in a community hall or theatre. Physically mobile, this play is however epic in scope. Maja plays 11 brilliant, quirky characters, in an action-packed challenging, humorous and poignant tale of the growing pains of a girl trying to fit in to a new culture.   YOU FANCY YOURSELF is guaranteed to both entertain and strike a chord with audiences of all ages.
 

This hilarious and poignant tale of playground politics and childhood loyalties set against the background of 1950s Edinburgh, tells the story of six year old Elsa whose family has emigrated from the land of the Vikings and fairies to wild and woolly Scotland.  Post-war industrial Edinburgh is suspicious of foreigners and Elsa quickly and cruelly learns that navigating her way through her new world of tenement buildings, scrubbing ladies and elf children will require more than learning the words to ëScotland the Braveí.  Fitting in means taking on the schoolyard bullies; and that being fascinated with the massacre of Glencoe doesn't make you Scottish; and that dreams come with a high price.

Tickets just $30.00 available at www.select yourtickets.com or call 250-717-5304

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31 Dec 2009

Or;
How an illiterate son of a Glover became
the Greatest Playwright in the World



If you have a love for language, physical comedy and intelligent wit & even if you don't know any Shakespeare you'll still understand The Shakespeare Show. Monster Theatre's Artistic Director Ryan Gladstone wrote the play entirely in iambic pentameter and almost completely in rhyming couplets.  

Based on the greatest theatrical debate of all time, The Shakespeare Show investigates the theory that the plays of William Shakespeare were actually penned by Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford.

Just like one of his tragic heroes, Oxford sets his own tragedy in motion by using young Will Shakespeare, the boy who holds the horses outside the theatre, as a "Front" for his playwriting ventures.  The result?  Another "relentlessly clever, action-packed and intellectually satisfying" (Edmonton Journal) Monster Theatre adventure, complete with puppets, songs, satire and swordfights.  

Tickets just $30.00 available at www.select yourtickets.com or call 250-717-5304
The Shakespeare Show runs Wed Jan 13-Sat Jan 16th at 8PM at the RCA

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31 Dec 2009