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BOOK LOVERS CAN RELAX THEIR BODY WHILE
STIMULATING THEIR MIND AT THE
FIRST ANNUAL GALIANO LITERARY FESTIVAL
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, January 25th 2010 (Galiano Island, B.C.) – Book lovers looking to soothe spirit and soul while escaping Vancouver’s Olympic check points and traffic snarls have another option in the peaceful and beautiful Southern Gulf Islands.
The first annual Galiano Literary Festival will be held February 19 to 21st 2010, offering more than 25 vibrant Western Canadian voices and a gorgeous weekend away at Vancouver’s closest Gulf Island.
The Festival will get underway with an intimate welcoming reception on the evening of Friday, February 19th 2010. Throughout the weekend, festival-goers will have the opportunity to meet a variety of writers from the Gulf Islands and across British Columbia in an intimate and casual setting. While the Festival schedule will be stimulating, visitors can anticipate having a few quiet hours to walk along Galiano Island’s beautiful beaches and serene forests.
Throughout the weekend, the Festival schedule includes readings and talks by over 25 writers of fiction, nonfiction and poetry including John Barton, George Bowering, Norma Charles, Sean Cranbury, Dede Crane, Anthony Dalton, William Deverell, Ann Eriksson, Jenn Farrell, Pam Freir, Bill Gaston, Gary Geddes, Kim Goldberg, Margaret Griffiths, Geoff Inverarity, Michael Kenyon, Francis Mansbridge, Teresa McWhirter, Catherine Owen, Jamie Reid, Linda L. Richards, Timothy Taylor, Audrey Thomas, Harry Thurston, Rhea Tregebov, Alan Twigg, Gudrun Will, Rhonda Ganz, Mike Christie and George Sipos.
A full slate of workshops and panels will discuss a wide variety of book and writing-related topics including how to develop a writing style, how to get published, and the future of the printed page in the e-book age. All of this will occur in a relaxed and cozy atmosphere where visitors will be able to talk one-to-one with writers and fellow book lovers, or just sit back and enjoy the conversation.
The Festival will take place at the Galiano Inn, a world-class resort that will provide a relaxed and cozy atmosphere. Festival organizers anticipate an intimate and vibrant event.
The Galiano Inn is just a very short walk from the ferry dock and Galiano Island Books, so visitors coming to the Island for the Festival can leave cars at home or at the ferry terminal in Tsawwassen.
Registration for the weekend is $150.00 per person, which includes the opening reception, admission to all sessions, and lunch on Saturday and Sunday.
Festival-goers may choose to attend for a single day. The cost for one day’s Festival events, including lunch, is $85.00 or $40 for the morning session, without lunch.
Attendees are also welcome to join the authors on Saturday evening for dinner and conversation. The dinner is $25.00 per person (excluding beverages).
Event tickets can be purchased at Galiano Island Books or by calling 1-877-795-BOOK (2665). The full festival program will be available soon at www.galianoislandbooks.com.
Lodging is available at the Galiano Inn through their Web site at www.galianoinn.com or on their toll free reservation line at 1-877-530-3939.
Accommodations for the weekend, including cabins, bed and breakfasts and lodges, can be found through The Galiano Island Chamber of Commerce on their web site at www.galianoisland.com.
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Event Tickets & further information on the Galiano Literary Festival:
Galiano Island Books
76 Madrona Drive
Galiano Island BC
V0N 1P0
250-539-3340
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lee@galianoislandbooks.com
A THOUSAND DREAMS
Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
and the Fight for Its Future
Publication date: October 31, 2009
Trade paper · $24.95 CDN
ISBN: 978-1-55365-298-4
5.5 x 8.5 in · 352 pages
25 b&w photographs
(Published on this website with permission from Greystone Books.)
A complex look at a community at risk, by three people who have seen it on the ground.
In this mix of history, journalism, political analysis, and first-person accounts, former chief coroner and Vancouver mayor Larry Campbell, renowned criminologist Neil Boyd, and investigative journalist Lori Culbert, offer a portrait of one of North America’s poorest, most drug-challenged neighbourhoods: Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
A Thousand Dreams raises provocative questions about the challenges confronting not only Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside but also all of North America’s major cities and offers concrete, urgently needed solutions, including:
LARRY CAMPBELL was mayor of Vancouver from 2002 to 2005 and oversaw the establishment of North America’s first legal injection site. His career as chief coroner for B.C. inspired the Gemini Award–winning TV series Da Vinci’s Inquest. He was appointed a Canadian senator in 2005.
NEIL BOYD is a professor and associate director of the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University. He is a frequent media commentator on drug law, drug policy, and criminal violence, and has completed community impact studies on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
LORI CULBERT is an award-winning journalist with the Vancouver Sun. She has spent years writing about the Downtown Eastside, including the trial of accused serial killer Robert Pickton.
The Knife Sharpener’s Bell
September 2009
$21
362 Pages
Trade Paper
ISBN: 978–1–55050–408-8
(Published on this website with permission from Coteau Books.)
Release Date: SEPTEMBER 2009
A poetic and wise story that chronicles a young girl’s voyage from her home in 1930’s Winnipeg to her parents’ homeland in Russia, through vast ideological differences and the turmoil of war.
The Knife Sharpener’s Bell is infused with a poet's sensitivities to rhythm, image, and linguistic energy, yet also beautifully restrained. Each image and observation is there for a reason, and the entire story hums with the tension that arises from the taut, athletic language.
The breadth of the story is also remarkable—bridging the two worlds of Canada and the Soviet Union, following nearly a century of history, and tracing the lives of many characters who find themselves caught in the jaws of ideology, despite their attempts to live ordinary lives. It has a scope that one might expect of a nineteenth-century Russian novel, but here the story is presented in a distilled form. One of the great achievements of the novel is that the author is able to guide us through a vast history while always keeping us rooted in the immediate experience of the moment and emotionally engaged with the characters. Though this is very much a novel of ideas—and especially of ideologies—what is most memorable is the empathy we feel for these characters, who must make their way through some of the twentieth century's most tumultuous events.
In the tradition of Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost and Anne Michaels’ Fugitive Pieces, Rhea Tregebov’s The Knife Sharpener’s Bell explores that territory where the personal and the political intersect. It is a vivid evocation of landscape and character, a unique excavation of memory and time. A wholly unforgettable novel that draws us into the lives of its characters with compassion and recognition.
Rhea Tregebov was born in Saskatoon and raised in Winnipeg. She studied English at the University of Manitoba, Cornell and Boston University. She is the author of six collections of poetry; she has also written five children’s picture books and edited numerous anthologies of fiction, poetry and essays. Her poetry has been awarded the Malahat Review Long Poem Award, the Prairie Schooner Readers’ Choice Award and the Pat Lowther Award. Rhea Tregebov is currently Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.
This is her first novel.
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