Program Guide in pdf - Vancouver International Writers Festival

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Serendipity 2011
A graphic
novel event
all day Saturday
February 26, 2011
February 26, 2011
Gene Yang
Matt Holm
AMERICAN BORN CHINESE
BABYMOUSE
Raina Telgemeir
Smile
and others
Eat breakfast with
authors and
illustrators.
Celebrate the reading
and publishing of
good children’s
literature and media.
Vancouver
Children’s
Literature
Roundtable. www.library.ubc.ca/edlib/table/index.htm
WORD! (1)
SHAUNTAY GRANT, SASHA LANGFORD, RC WESLOWSKI
HOST: BRENDAN MCLEOD
10– 11:30 AM
GRANVILLE ISLAND STAGE
$17 / $8.50 FOR STUDENT GROUPS
Three award-winners appear together for this
event and there’s no knowing what might
happen! Halifax’s Poet Laureate Shauntay Grant
joins 2009 Vancouver Poetry Slam’s Grand Slam
Champion RC Weslowski and Sasha Langford,
Vancouver’s representative at the 2009 Women
of the World Poetry Slam in Detroit, for a
morning of creativity and fast talking. This spoken
word, poetry and storytelling on the fl y not only
pushes the boundaries of “what is poetry” but
also encompasses all manner of word-based art.
Spread the word!
(This event is repeated on Thursday afternoon.)
Suitable for grades 10 to 12
and adults
YOUR MISSION, SHOULD YOU
CHOOSE TO ACCEPT IT
RICHARD NEWSOME, KENNETH OPPEL
10 – 11:30 AM
PERFORMANCE WORKS
$17 / $8.50 FOR STUDENT GROUPS
At the heart of great stories are often great
missions to fi nd the missing diamond, to save
the family, to solve the mystery of the murder.
Australian fi rst novelist Richard Newsome and
Canadian legend and Governor General’s Award
winner Kenneth Oppel have each created
missions that test their heroes and keep readers
fascinated. Newsome’s The Billionaire’s Curse,
in the style of Indiana Jones, is set in London
where Gerald, his protagonist, is thrust into
secret passageways, a musty bookshop and an
ancient crypt. Oppel’s Half Brother forces Ben to
risk everything he knows in his mission to save
his baby “brother,” a chimpanzee named Zan.
Suitable for grades 7 to 9
This event is sponsored by Kidsbooks.
10 PARENTÉ ET AMITIÉ 11
12
SUSIE MORGENSTERN ET JACQUES PASQUET
ANIMATRICE : ANNE-MARIE MCGINN
10 À 11 H 30
REVUE STAGE
17$ / 8.50$ POUR LES GROUPES D’ÉTUDIANTS
Un garçon vit seul avec sa grand-mère et une nouvelle élève de
sa classe le prend sous son aile, la seule fi lle d’une famille de
13 enfants. Un garçon arabe et une fi lle juive se rencontrent et
lors de discussions au téléphone, ils apprennent à connaître leurs
cultures respectives et deviennent des amis. Deux amis créent
un club dont les activités aideront à sauver la planète. Imarvaluk,
qui vit dans sa collectivité inupiaq sur une petite île entre la Russie
et l’Alaska, connait bien les diffi cultés qu’apporte le changement
climatique pour sa famille et son pays. Amina, qui vit dans la peur
dans un pays en guerre, trouve l’espoir. Ces différents livres écrits
par Susie Morgenstern et Jacques Pasquet nous font découvrir
les défi s et les possibilités de l’amitié et de la communauté.
Pour les élèves de la quatrième à la septième année.
Cet événement se tiendra exclusivement en
français; il y aura beaucoup de possibilités
d’interaction entre les élèves et les auteurs.
THE BEAR FACTS
IAN MCALLISTER
10 – 11:30 AM
WATERFRONT THEATRE
$17 / $8.50 FOR STUDENT GROUPS
Founding director of Pacifi c Wild, photographer and fi lmmaker
Ian McAllister has spent 20 years working for and living in the
Great Bear Rainforest in BC. He chronicles the life of grizzlies,
black bears and spirit bears that also live in this unique region,
dependent on the abundance of salmon to survive and thrive.
Based on his book The Salmon Bears, his visual presentation
of the four seasons and how the bears fi sh, track and live in
community is gorgeous. Readers will come away with renewed
awe for the urgent need to preserve this environment and the
creatures that inhabit it.
Suitable for grades 3 to 5
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