Memories and Memoirs

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Tuesday, January 31st, 2017
1:00 PM to 3:00 PM

Spend an enjoyable and interesting afternoon with Carolyn Redl and Marva Blackmore as they discuss memoir and memoir writing. Both will read from their books, which will be available for you to review and purchase.

A Canadian Childhood is Carolyn Redl’s memoir of growing up on a northern Saskatchewan farm in the 1940s and ‘50s. Capturing a way of life that is a vital part of Canada’s social history, it is a coming-of-age story of a girl with a restless spirit in an era when women’s roles were starting to resist restrictions. At her childhood home, Carolyn is painfully aware that her father longs for a boy to help with farm work while at school, she endures bullying. Throughout it all, looms the question of her future as she confronts the lure of the horizon.

In Telling Your Story: A Guide to Writing Your Memoir Stories, Marva K. Blackmore shares techniques she has learned from her many years as a professional storyteller to show readers how to craft stories for successful memoirs. She aims to help readers leave written legacies of stories from their lives -- moments of laughter, periods of sadness, as well as times of joy and astonishment. Marva K. Blackmore lives in Qualicum Beach and is a professional performing storyteller. She has told stories internationally and at venues across Canada. She is the founder and Artistic Director of Tales for the Telling, Storytelling for Adults, at the McMillan Arts Centre. A Past President of the Storytellers of Canada, she leads workshops in Memoir Writing Using Storytelling Techniques at the McMillan Arts Centre including one which is starting on February 13, 2017.

Carolyn D. Redl lives in San Pareil and now works full-time as a writer. She received her doctorate in English from the University of Alberta and, for over thirty years, taught literature and memoir, travel, and nature writing in universities in Alberta and British Columbia. She has published stories, poetry, book reviews and travel articles in numerous journals and newspapers.

Tuesday, January 31 1:00 p.m.

Free Admission

McMillan Arts Centre 133 McMillan Street, Parksville, B.C.

For more information: [email protected]