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Sponsors
The Lethbridge Public Library, host of The Word On The Street Festival, would like to thank all our amazing Sponsors and Community Partners who make this festival possible.
NATIONAL SPONSORS
REGIONAL SPONSORS
Lethbridge Lodge and Conference Centre Save-on-Foods Fine Prints Screen Printing & Embroidery Cervus Equipment Park Place Shopping Centre London Drugs
The Friends of the Lethbridge Public Library Alpine Drywall DA Building Systems Dorren Electric Fiona Barnett Flaman Sales and Rentals
COMMUNITY PARTNERS University of Lethbridge Bookstore University of Lethbridge Art Gallery Helen Schuler Nature Centre Lethbridge Children’s Literature Roundtable Sutton
SAAG Galt Museum & Archives Family Centre ReMax
We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund (CBF) for this project.
Welcome & Schedule
It’s fall and the spirit of learning, reading and books surrounds us. Enjoy this special Festival that is woven around author readings, music performances, a tent marketplace and fun activities for everyone. The Word On The Street Festival offers you a chance to meet the initiators: the writer or publisher behind the book, the musician that’s part of the band and talent behind the face painter. Our reading experiences are enriched by hearing the story behind the story, where did the idea come from, how was the poem, article, performance polished to perfection. “This is the 4th year that the Library is hosting the Festival; it definitely provides an opportunity for us to connect with the community in a fun way. It gives us a chance to work together with national and local sponsors and volunteers and to showcase authors and talent to highlight the Festival’s theme: advocating literacy and celebrating reading.” says Library CEO, Tony Vanden Heuvel.
B-93/Country 95.5 Stage 11:00 Steven Keenan & 11:15 Greg Gomola
Canadian Heritage Stage Julie Van Rosendaal
11:30 11:45 12:00 Welcome Speeches
Michael Hingston
12:15 12:30 12:45 1:00 Who’s Yer Daddy
Kim McCullough
1:15 1:30 1:45 2:00 Kavanagh & Hepher
Diana Davidson
2:15 2:30 2:45 3:00 Tangible Radiance
Lyndon Penner
3:15 3:30 3:45 4:00 Three Jacks and a Jill
Stephen Legault
4:15 4:30 4:45 5:00
Lethbridge
ARTS DAYS 20 Discover. experience. celebrate
Poetry Stage Open Mic
Teen Zone
Astro Insurance and Registry Kid’s Corner
Open Mic Trivia & Crafts
Open Mic
Herb Hicks
Karen Bass
Dawn Sprung
Christian Bök
Carrie Mac
Michelle Mulder
Derek Beaulieu
Morgan Rhodes
Ruth Ohi
Sharron Proulx-Turner
Erin Bow
Martin Springett
Taylor Lambert
Jacqueline Guest
Storytelling by the Lethbridge Public Library
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Workshops
Cartooning for Kids Eric Dyck
Cartooning for Teens Eric Dyck
Getting Your Writing Published Kelsey Attard
SEPTEMBER 21 - 28 www.lethbridgeartsdays.org
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Exhibitors
ACFA régionale de Lethbridge Alberta Magazine Publishers Association Allied Arts Council of Lethbridge Antojitos - Latin Cravings Aramark Book Publishers Association of Alberta Canadian Blood Services Canadian Cancer Society Chinook Arch Regional Library System County of Lethbridge Literacy Dream Write Publishing Ltd. Family Centre French Learning Centre Friends of the Lethbridge Public Library Galt Museum & Archives Helen Schuler Nature Centre
Islamic Da’wah Centre Jackie McNamara La Médiathèque de Lethbridge Lethbridge Lifelong Learning Association Lethbridge Living M&M Meat Shops M. D. Millar Publishing Mediatheque Francophone Emma Morrier Read On Red Engine Coffee Roasters Southern Alberta Art Gallery Southern Alberta Technology Council The River Bottom Writers University of Lethbridge Art Gallery University of Lethbridge Bookstore Uzoma Uponi Volunteer Lethbridge West Winds Kettle Corn
Author Biographies
Karen Bass
Karen Bass thinks libraries are dangerous places! They are full of ideas – and the one she got after going to work at her local library, was that she wanted to write. Since that idea took root, she has published four novels for teens. Her latest, Graffiti Knight, has won both the Alberta Literary Award for children’s literature and the Canadian Library Association’s 2014 YA Book of the Year Award. A fourth generation Albertan, Karen resides in the Peace Country. With her three children grown, she now travels as much as she can, and finds that it inspires her. When she isn’t on the road, she is in her office, trying to write on her laptop while a cat insists on occupying most of her lap. On the Internet, her home base is www.karenbass.ca.
Derek Beaulieu
Author of eight books of poetry (most recently a volume of his selected poetry entitled Please, No More Poetry), four volumes of conceptual fiction (most recently the short fiction collection Local Colour: ghosts, variations) and over 175 chapbooks, Derek Beaulieu’s work is consistently praised as some of the most radical and challenging in contemporary Canadian writing. In addition to his creative work, his first volume of criticism, Seen of the Crime, was published Fall 2011 by Snare Books and is now available on UBUWeb. Beaulieu is an award-winning instructor of Creative Writing, Theory and Contemporary Canadian Literature at the Alberta College of Art + Design. Derek Beaulieu is the 2014-2016 Poet Laureate of Calgary.
Christian Bök
Christian Bök is the author not only of Crystallography (1994), a pataphysical encyclopedia nominated for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, but also of Eunoia (2001), a bestselling work of experimental literature, which has gone on to win the Griffin Prize for Poetic Excellence. Bök is working on a project, entitled The Xenotext, which involves him engineering a bacterium so that it might store a poem in its genome. Bök teaches English at the University of Calgary.
Erin Bow
Erin Bow is a rising star in the world of YA fantasy. Her debut novel, Plain Kate, won the TD Canadian Children’s Literary Award in 2011. Her second, Sorrow’s Knot was named one of best books of 2013 by Quill & Quire and Kirkus, and is currently shortlisted for several top awards. Canada’s only physicist turned writer, Erin has the world’s coolest dayjob, as the science writer
for the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. She lives in Kitchener, Ontario, with her husband James (also a YA novelist) and their two small daughters.
Diana Davidson
Diana Davidson lives in Edmonton, Alberta. Davidson’s debut novel Pilgrimage was published by Brindle & Glass in September 2013 and has been heralded as a work of “frontier feminism” by The Edmonton Journal. The novel is a story of love and loss that takes place on the Lac St. Anne Métis settlement in the 1890s. Pilgrimage was shortlisted for the 2014 Alberta Readers’ Choice Awards and regularly appears on The Edmonton Journal bestseller list. Davidson’s shorter work can be found in 40 Below, Alberta Views, Avenue Edmonton Magazine, Little Fiction, The Winnipeg Review, and Women’s Words. Her essays have been long-listed for the Canada Writes CBC creative nonfiction prize (2012) and awarded the Writers’ Guild of Alberta “Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Prize” (2010). Davidson has a Ph.D. in literature and was one of Edmonton’s “Top 40 Under 40” in Avenue Magazine (2011). Davidson loves her ‘day job’ as the Director of the Public Library Services Branch with the Government of Alberta.
Jacqueline Guest
International award winning author of eighteen novels, Jacqueline Guest has stood on an iceberg, flown a kite in a hurricane and worn bedroom slippers in Parliament while on the job as a writer. Topics for her fast paced books range from deadly video games to comic book superheroes and mysterious meteorites! She has toured across North America speaking on the importance of reading. In 2014, Jacqueline took this message to children in far off Tanzania and is thrilled to say there are now readers in Africa enjoying her books!
Herb Hicks
Herb Hicks is a musician, artist, teacher, fossil hunter and author whose interests have taken him across Canada, United States and Europe. Herb was born and raised in Williston, North Dakota in 1934. He spent a number of years in California as a musician, artist and teacher. Herb has a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, Minneapolis School of Art and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He attended Westlake College of Music, Hollywood, U.S. Air Force Microwave Tech School, Illinois and Skowhegan Art School, Maine. He is Professor Emeritus, Art Department University of Lethbridge.
Author Biographies
Michael Hingston
Michael Hingston is the books columnist for the Edmonton Journal. Called “one of the sharpest young literary critics in this country” by 49th Shelf, his journalism has also appeared in the Globe and Mail, Salon, Eighteen Bridges magazine, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. His first novel, The Dilettantes (Freehand), was a #1 regional bestseller and received a starred review in Quill & Quire; the Winnipeg Free Press said it “may well be the Great Canadian Comic Novel.” Hingston’s fiction also appears in the anthology 40 Below (Wufniks). Born and raised in North Vancouver, Hingston now lives in Edmonton with his partner and two children.
Taylor Lambert
Hailed as “one of those genuine Canadian literary figures who remains at-large and on the horizon” by Beatroute Magazine and “a damn good writer” by Global TV book reviewer Devin Pacholik, Taylor Lambert has emerged as a unique independent voice in Canadian journalism. Having written for many newspapers and magazines in his career, Lambert has published two books to acclaim; Leaving Moose Jaw, a rollicking travel memoir of India; and Rising: Stories of the 2013 Alberta Flood, the only literary journalism to come out of the disaster.
Stephen Legault
Stephen Legault is the author of ten books, including most recently The Glacier Gallows, Running Toward Stillness and the forthcoming Black Sun Descending. A resident of Canmore, Alberta, Stephen works full time in the conservation movement, helping communities, First Nations, tribes, businesses and governments address the impacts of climate change on landscapes. He is a father of two, a devoted husband, and a climber, runner and mountain biker who will publish his first book of photography in 2015 on the Rocky Mountain Front of Montana and the foothills of southern Alberta. Visit him online at www. stephenlegault.com.
Carrie Mac
Carrie Mac is the award-winning author of ten novels for teens, and is the resident storyteller at www.thestoryforest.com. She lives in East Van with her partner and two children.
Kim McCullough
Kim McCullough is a writer and teacher from Calgary, Alberta. Her first novel, Clearwater, is nominated for a High Plains award. Kim is the 2014 winner of the Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Award for her essay Night/light. Kim has work forthcoming in Grain and Room Magazine.
Michelle Mulder
Michelle Mulder is the author of Every Last Drop: Bringing Clean Water Home, Pedal It!, Brilliant, Not a Chance, Out of the Box, After Peaches and several other books for young people. Her nonfiction combines facts with personal stories in a conversational style, and water—the subject of her latest book—is a topic she’s been passionate about for years, ever since a water-borne illness knocked her flat in Peru. Friends and family in Victoria, British Columbia, are used to her traveling everywhere by bicycle and showing up for events with a banged-up metal water bottle in hand. For more information, please visit www.michellemulder.com
Ruth Ohi
Ruth is the illustrator of over 50 children’s books, 16 of which she also wrote. Ruth’s books have been nominated for awards such as the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, Shining Willow, Rainforest of Reading and Blue Spruce. Her “Kenta and the Big Wave” (Annick Press) is a Kirkus Reviews Best Book and The Centre for the Study of Multicultural Children’s Literature Best Book Selection. Author/illustrated books include the “Chicken, Pig, Cow” series (Annick Press), “Fox & Squirrel” (Scholastic Canada), and Spring 2014’s “Shhh! My Brother’s Napping (Scholastic Canada). Her latest book is Fall 2014’s “Fox and Squirrel Make a Friend” (Scholastic Canada). www.RuthOhi.com.
Author Biographies
Lyndon Penner
Lyndon Penner grew up in rural Saskatchewan and was fascinated with both books and gardening from a very young age. He began writing for the magazine ‘The Gardener for the Prairies’ at the age of 16 and continued writing for various organizations, but it wasn’t until last year that he signed his first book deal. ‘The Short Season Yard’ is his first (but probably not last) book.
Sharron Proulx-Turner
Though from the Ottawa river valley Métis since the mid-1500s, Sharron Proulx-Turner lives in Calgary and is a member of the Métis Nation of Alberta. She’s a two-spirit nokomis, mom, writer and community worker. Where the Rivers Join (1995), a memoir (Beckylane), was a finalist for the Edna Staebler Award for creative non-fiction. what the auntys say (2002), was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Prize for first book of poetry, and she is reading her blanket with her hands (2008) was shortlisted for the Governor General Award. Sharron has two additional books, she walks for days/ inside a thousand eyes/ a two-spirit story (2008), and the trees are still bending south (2012). She is published in several anthologies and journals.
Morgan Rhodes
Morgan Rhodes is the New York Times bestselling author of Falling Kingdoms, a YA high fantasy series that’s been called “Game of Thrones for teens,” and has been a YALSA finalist for both the Best Fiction for Teens and the Teens’ Top Ten awards. Under the pen name Michelle Rowen, she’s an award-winning author of over two dozen paranormal novels. Morgan lives in Southern Ontario.
Martin Springett
Martin Springett, was born in England and emigrated to Vancouver Island, Canada, at the age of eighteen. Martin played and toured in rock bands for many years in England, Europe and Canada. Moving to Toronto, Martin worked in every area where illustration was required. In 1984 he created the cover for The Summer Tree, the first volume in The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay, now considered a classic in the fantasy genre. This led to his first illustrated kids book, Mei Ming and The Dragon’s Daughter. Many more followed, Who,The Follower, The Night Walker, Jousting With Jesters, Breakfast On A Dragon’s Tail and Kate and Pippin. The sequel to Kate and Pippin, Kate and Pippin’s Family, will be released in the Fall of 2014.
Dawn Sprung
Dawn Sprung (former Welykochy) has written two children’s books, both ideally suited for the Elementary classroom teaching about Alberta’s wonderful history. Dawn graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Calgary, majoring in English. Dawn worked with her family company for 20 years and now is at home with four children. She lives on a ranch, where the river runs through and surrounded by Alberta’s forests and its life within, she is very much inspired to write. Dawn enjoys presenting her book and related activities and crafts to the Grade 3 through 6 classrooms.
Julie Van Rosendaal
Julie Van Rosendaal is the best-selling author of 6 cookbooks; she is the food and nutrition columnist on the Calgary Eyeopener on CBC Radio One, a regular on TV and at live cooking events, she writes for many regional, national and international publications and is perhaps best known for her award-winning food blog, DinnerWithJulie.com. She lives in Calgary with her husband and 9 year old son.