TELLING STORIES: Tales, Text and Testimonies

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Saturday, January 26th, 2019
11:00 AM to 2:30 PM

Arts, Learning, Living SPIRIT BAY

A.L.L. Spirit Bay invitation to a program of stories and discoveries by leading Canadian Authors, Artists and Activists

TELLING STORIES: Tales, Text and Testimonies

ANTANAS SILEIKA, PAUL BUDRA, SHEEBA SAWYER, KRIS OBRIGEWITSCH

Open: 10:30 am, door open for coffee and introductions

Starting: 11:00 am, program starts

Antanas Sileika, Buying On Time

Reading from selections of his award-nominated books, including Buying on Time with its descriptions of attempts to build a home, long-stalled in basement phase, as well as excerpts from his moving and humorous recent book, The Barefoot Bingo Player.

11:00 –11:30 am Antanas Sileika is the author of four works of fiction and a 2017 memoir, The Barefoot Bingo Caller. His book, Buying on Time, was shortlisted for the Leacock Medal for Humour and the Toronto Book Award as well as serialized on CBC Radio’s Between the Covers. Woman in Bronze and Underground were both listed among the 100 books of the year by The Globe and Mail, and the latter is in development for a film. Winner of a National Magazine Award, he has been anthologized in various books and included in a collection of best Canadian essays. His new novel, Provisionally Yours, will appear in March of 2019. Antanas was the director of the Humber School for Writers for fifteen years before retiring to devote more time to his own writing. antanassileika.ca Paul Budra How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare Insights from selected readings of William Shakespeare’s Plays by the Simon Fraser University Shakespearean scholar.

11:30 – 12:00 noon Paul Budra teaches Shakespeare and early modern literature and has published articles on Renaissance literature and contemporary popular culture. He is the author of A Mirror for Magistrates and the De Casibus Tradition and Shakespeare Early and Late: a Textbook. He is the co-editor of the essay collections Part Two: Reflections on the Sequel; Soldier Talk: Oral Narratives of the Vietnam War; From Text to Txting: New Media in the Classroom; and Shakespeare and Consciousness. He is a past president of the Pacific Northwest Renaissance Society, former Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and winner of the SFU Excellence in Teaching Award for 2004. Sheeba Sawyer History, Place and Plans Stories, information and anecdotes from a First Nation woman making a place for her herself, her family and community.

12:00 – 12:30 pm Sheeba Sawyer is a member of the Sc’ianew First Nation active in learning her culture. She is a participant in the Sc’ianew First Nation Drumming group, a young mother of 3 children, and an Ambassador for Spirit Bay. Talk followed by Q/A Break 1:00 – 1:30 pm Kris Obrigewitsch Spirit Bay All About, Walk About Spirit Bay in development, where we came from and where we are going.

1:30 – 2:30 pm Kris Obrigewitsch, Executive Director of The Trust for Sustainable Development. Working with the Sc’ianew First Nation Chief, Council and membership, Kris brought together a myriad of cultural, legal and governmental interests and requirements to take the idea of Spirit Bay forward to its commencement.

About Spirit Bay: sustainable, walkable, vibrant and beautiful, Spirit Bay is fast becoming a new model for First Nation vitality. Spirit Bay is a contemporary village, surrounded by forest, on the ocean, teeming with wildlife, 40 minutes from Victoria, 50 minutes to an international airport, 60 minutes to ferries that service Vancouver and Seattle. This culturally and environmentally rich community is settled on 100-year lease land in partnership with Sc’ianew First Nations. We have lightening-fast fiber internet, ocean thermal heating, and a dark-sky compliant community with direct ocean access.

Arts, Learning, Living, Spirit Bay (A.L.L. Spirit Bay) is a Civic Studies Project with The Trust for Sustainable Development, Sc’ianew First Nations and Spirit Bay

More information A.L.L. Spirit Bay: Dyan Marie, [email protected], Civicstudies.ca/ALL-Spirit-Bay, (250) 475-8131 Spirit Bay: [email protected], Spiritbay.ca, 1-855-744-6888 Directions: Spirit Bay is located at 4901 East Sooke Road, between Metchosin and Sooke Spirit Bay Visitor Centre, Spirit Bay, 1103 Marina Drive, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, V9Z 1N6

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