Word Vancouver - 2016 Program Guide
Word Vancouver is Western Canada's largest celebration of literacy and reading. The festival takes place during the last week of September: September 21–25, 2016.
Word Vancouver is Western Canada's largest celebration of literacy and reading. The festival takes place during the last week of September: September 21–25, 2016.
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Row 1: Mary Woodbury, Claudia Casper, Michael Donoghue, Stephen Collis, Katie Welch, Anneliese Schultz,<br />
Mark Leiren-Young; Row 2: Darcy Matheson, Joy Kogawa, Ujjal Dosanjh, Betsy Warland, Shaughnessy<br />
Bishop-Stall, Naomi Wakan, Brandy Lien-Worrall; Row 3: Anna Ling Kaye, Peter Babiak, Deborah Campbell,<br />
Carmen Aguirre<br />
LIFE STORIES<br />
HOST: SCOTT STEEDMAN<br />
1:30 PM Joy Kogawa (Toronto) Adopted by: Historic Joy Kogawa House<br />
Gently to Nagasaki (Caitlin Press $24.95)<br />
<strong>2016</strong><br />
Gently to Nagasaki is a spiritual pilgrimage, an exploration<br />
both communal and intensely personal. Kogawa knows<br />
what it means to be classified as the enemy, and she seeks urgently to<br />
get beyond the “us” and “them” division. Interweaving her own life with<br />
catastrophes like the bombing of Nagasaki and the massacre by the<br />
Imperial Japanese Army at Nanking, she wrestles with essential questions<br />
like good and evil, love and hate, rage and forgiveness, determined above<br />
all to arrive at her own truths. Joy Kogawa is best known for her seminal<br />
novel on Japanese–Canadian internment, Obasan. She is the awardwinning<br />
author of three novels, seven collections of poetry, and two books for children.<br />
1:50 PM Ujjal Dosanjh (<strong>Vancouver</strong>) Adopted by: Eponymous<br />
Journey After Midnight: India, Canada and the Road Beyond<br />
(Figure 1 Publishing $34.95)<br />
Journey After Midnight is a deeply personal and thoughtful memoir of<br />
Ujjal Dosanjh’s journey from his beloved India to the upper echelons of<br />
Canadian politics, a wise and compelling story about a man passionate<br />
about social justice and the democratic process. After many years as an<br />
MLA, he became Attorney General, then Premier of BC, the first person<br />
of Indian descent to hold these offices in Canada. Ujjal Dosanjh is the<br />
former Premier of BC and former Minister of Health for Canada. He became<br />
attorney general of BC in 1995 and then Premier of BC (February 2000 to<br />
June 2001) before entering federal politics.<br />
2:10 PM Betsy Warland (<strong>Vancouver</strong>) Adopted by: ZG Communications<br />
Oscar of Between: A Memoir of Identity and Ideas (Caitlin Press $21.95)<br />
Taking the name Oscar, Betsy Warland embarks on an intimate, nine-year<br />
quest by telling her story as “a person of between.” As Oscar, she is able<br />
to make sense of herself and the culture that shaped her. She traces this<br />
experience of in-betweenness from her childhood in the rural Midwest,<br />
through to her first queer kiss in 1978, divorce, coming out, writing life.<br />
A contemporary Orlando, Oscar of Between pushes the boundaries of<br />
form, inventing new ways to see ourselves. Betsy Warland has published<br />
12 books of poetry, creative non-fiction, and lyric prose, including her<br />
bestselling 2010 book, Breathing the Page: Reading the Act of Writing.<br />
Community Garden<br />
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