Name: Visionary Authors Read in Sidney: Pamela Porter, Monique Gray Smith @ Red Brick Cafe, Sidney BC - Jun 05, 2015
Start: 2015-06-05T19:00:00-07:00
End: 2015-06-05T21:00:00-07:00
Location: Red Brick Cafe, Sidney BC

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Visionary Authors Read in Sidney: Pamela Porter, Monique Gray Smith

The two authors who will be reading June 5th at the Red Brick Café in Sidney co...

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Fri. June 5th 2015 + Add to Calendar

Red Brick Cafe, Sidney BC (All Ages)

7:00pm - 9:00pm

$10

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Pamela Porter

Monique Gray Smith

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Sidney and Peninsula Literary Society

Our purpose is to organize the Sidney LitFest, a biannual li...

PO Box 2451 Sidney BC

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Physical tickets at: Tanner's Books, Sidney, Munro's Books, Victoria

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The two authors who will be reading June 5th at the Red Brick Café in Sidney come from very different backgrounds but both hold a reverence for words and the power of storytelling.

North Saanich’s award-winning poet, Pamela Porter, is also a children’s author. She has received many awards for her poetry and her verse novel Crazy Man won the Canadian Governor General’s Award in 2005. Her third collection of poetry, Cathedral, was a finalist for the Pat Lowther Award for the best book of poetry by a woman in Canada.

Monique Gray Smith holds her writer’s lens to the Indigenous experience based on her own life and her lineage as Cree, Lakota and Scottish. Her first book, Tilly: A Story of Hope and Resilience, is loosely based on her own life. Monique details how she was able to overcome her parents' divorce, the loss of her grandmother, substance abuse, and fear of personal failure to discover more about her culture and herself. She is now writing a second book about Tilly with the working title of Tilly and the Elders. Monique lives with her family on Lkwungen Territory in Victoria.

The evening of readings by these two esteemed authors is a fundraiser for the 2015 Sidney and Peninsula Literary Festival to be held October 2-4, 2015. The Festival will feature 19-20 award-winning authors from Western Canada, including well-known names such as John Vaillant, Richard Wagamese, Fred Stenson, Lorna Crozier and Arleen Pare. More at www.sidneyliteraryfestival.ca under “Other Events”.

Red Brick Readings
Friday, June 5th at 7 pm
Red Brick Café, Sidney
Tickets at Tanner’s Books, Sidney and Munro’s Books, Victoria

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