Author Gerry Fostaty (As You Were: The Tragedy at Valcartier) will be speaking at Trinity Church Aurora about the fateful day on an army base when six cadets were killed during a routine safety lecture. Gerry will be speaking about his personal experiences of the time and the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder that the survivors of that day continue to suffer from. Copies of As You Were will be available for purchase, and Gerry would be happy to sign your copy.

Please join acclaimed authors Rosemary Nixon (Kalila) and Valerie Compton (Tide Road) as they begin their Fabulous Fiction western tour!

Rosemary and Valerie begin their jaunt in Fernie, BC, at the Fernie Heritage Library. Both authors will be reading from their respective works (or perhaps reading each others? Who knows!), as well as taking questions from the audience, and generally have a great time meeting new people and introducing them to the wondrous power of their books. They'll be ably assisted by your host for the evening, Angie Abdou (The Bone Cage, The Canterbury Trail).

This event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase, and both authors will be pleased to sign your copy (or perhaps each others? Who knows!).

Please join acclaimed authors Rosemary Nixon (Kalila) and Valerie Compton (Tide Road) as they continue their Fabulous Fiction western tour with a stop in Edmonton!

Rosemary and Valerie will be visiting the good people at Audrey's Books . Both authors will be reading from their respective works (or perhaps reading each others? Who knows!), as well as taking questions from the audience, and generally have a great time meeting new people and introducing them to the wondrous power of their books.

This event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase, and both authors will be pleased to sign your copy (or perhaps each others? Who knows!).

Author Gerry Fostaty (As You Were: The Tragedy at Valcartier) will be speaking at the Royal Canadian Legion about the fateful day on an army base when six cadets were killed during a routine safety lecture. Gerry will be speaking about his personal experiences of the time and the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder that the survivors of that day continue to suffer from. Copies of As You Were will be available for purchase, and Gerry would be happy to sign your copy.

This event presented by the Meaford Military Family Resource Centre (MFRC).

Please join authors Valerie Compton (Tide Road) and Rosemary Nixon (Kalila) as they continue along on their Fabulous Fiction western tour!

Rosemary and Valerie will be making a pit stop at Red Deer, AB, taking a breather at Red Deer College. Both authors will be reading from their respective works as well as taking questions from the audience, and generally have a great time meeting new people and introducing them to the wondrous power of their books. Considering that the two authors come from oppositie ends of the country, this is sure to be a truly national event.

This event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase, and both authors will be pleased to sign your copy.

Please join authors Valerie Compton (Tide Road) and Rosemary Nixon (Kalila) as they wrap up their Fabulous Fiction western tour with a stop in that most western of western Canadian cities!

Rosemary and Valerie will end their tour at Shelf Life Books in Calgary, AB. Both authors will be reading from their respective works as well as taking questions from the audience, and generally have a great time meeting new people and introducing them to the wondrous power of their books. Considering that the two authors come from oppositie ends of the country, this is sure to be a truly national event.

This event is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase, and both authors will be pleased to sign your copy.

In the last two decades of the 19th century and the first two decades of the 20th century, glass manufacturing was a unique enterprise in Canada. Beginning with the founding of the Nova Scotia Glass Company in 1881, the glass factories of Nova Scotia made clear tableware at a time when it was not made anywhere else in Canada.

In Fragile and Fanciful, featuring photographs of the highly collectable patterned tableware, Deborah Trask tells the story of Nova Scotia glass during this golden age of pressed-glass production.

Employing her skills as a curator and a detective of sorts, Deborah will visit the city of Truro, NS, to tell the story of the major glass factories — the Nova Scotia Glass Company, the Humphrey Glass Company, and the Lamont Glass Company. Deborah brings her unique background as curator emeritus of the Nova Scotia Museum to provide insight into the patterns and moulds used, allowing readers and collectors to identify what remains of  this glittering enterprise.

This talk is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase.

David Askevold (1940-2008) is recognized as an important contributor to the development and pedagogy of conceptual art, and his work has been included in many of the genre’s seminal exhibitions and texts. The exhibition David Askevold: Once Upon a Time in the East will be on display at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery, until 3 June 2012. Wed. to Sat. 11 am to 5 pm.

Theresa Kishkan brings her talent for memoir and botany to the Women's Arboriculture Conference!

The Women's Arboriculture Conference is a gathering of arborists, foresters, horticulturalists, landscape architects and designers, land planners and managers, Master gardeners, and (as it turns out), one writer!  Theresa will be leading a workshop on March 21, entitle "The Leafy Groves of Memory" and will be reading from, and discussing the themes of, her recent memoir Mnemonic: A Book of Trees.

Prices for the Women's Arboriculture Conference may be found on the conference website.

Jack Chambers at the AGO

There were many sides to artist Jack Chambers. He was a passionate defender of artists’ rights, an experimental filmmaker with an international reputation, and a painter who continually reinvented his language of expression. Chambers initially created dreamlike surrealist paintings during an eight-year stay in Spain. Back home in London, Ontario, he developed a strikingly realistic style he called Perceptual Realism. He would focus his camera on his family, his home or on favourite places around the city, and then painstakingly recreate the photographs in paint.
 
Four recurring themes in Chambers’s work — light, place, spirit and time — are reflected in the layout of this exhibition. Collectively they open our eyes to new ways of seeing both his world and ours.

If you're not able to make it to the exhibition at the AGO, you can revel in Chambers' life and work with Jack Chambers