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Fall 1999
September 10-18: American and Canadian Writing on the Eve of the Millennium
friday, September 10
SAturday, September 11
12:00 PM
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- CHILDREN'S SERIES
Patrick Watson,
Joanna Cole
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1:00 PM
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- ON STAGE INTERVIEW
Guy Vanderhaeghe
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3:00 PM
NAC Studio
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- READING SERIES
Clive Doucet,
David Homel,
Douglas Ord,
Russell Banks
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7:00 PM
NAC Studio
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- READING SERIES
Pete McCormack,
C.D. Wright,
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni,
Erin Mouré,
Guy Vanderhaeghe
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10:00 PM
NAC Elgin Room
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- WORLD PREMIERE DOCUMENTARY
In November 1998, the team behind the Ottawa International Writers Festival set out with some of Canada's finest writers on a cross-country journey. Riding the rails, reading in cities coast to coast, the VIA Rail Great Canadian Literary Tour made history. Filmmaker and producer Andrew Bee chronicles the adventure.
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Sunday September 12
11:30 PM
NAC Balcony
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- PEN CANADA FUNDRAISING BRUNCH
Join us for a traditional American brunch to raise money for PEN Canada. Russell Banks will be interviewed by CBC radio host, Ken Rockburn. For Tickets and information, please call Edith Cody-Rice at (613) 724-5353.
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3:00 PM
NAC Studio
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- L'EVENEMENT FRANCAIS
Francois Gravel,
Andrée Lacelle,
Alain Bernard Marchand,
Claire Rochon,
Yves Beauchemin
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7:00 PM
NAC Studio
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- READING SERIES
Evan Solomon,
Michelle Desbarats,
Stuart Ross,
Carmelita McGrath,
Gordon Lish
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7:00 PM
NAC Studio |
- READING SERIES
Mairuth Sarsfield, Charlotte Gray, David McGimpsey, Lynn Crosbie, Cyril Dabydeen, Rudy Weibe
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Monday, September 13
7:00 PM
NAC STUDIO
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- FILM EVENT
Lulu on the Bridge With Producer Peter Newman.
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Tuesday, September 14
12:00 PM
NAC Elgin Room |
- LIVE THEATRE EVENT
Premiere Reading of David Young's New Play, "Clout"
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Wednesday, september 15
6:45 PM
NAC Elgin Room
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- LITERARY PUB CRAWL: BOOKS AND BEER
Join author Phil Jenkins for a tour of Ottawa's literary history with stops at five pubs! Tour begins and ends at the NAC Elgin Room.
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7:00 PM
NAC Elgin Room
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- THE GLOBALIZATION OF CULTURE: THE ART OF MAINTAINING COMMUNITY IN A GLOBAL VILLAGE
Moderator:
Roy McSkimming, Association of Canadian Publishers
Panelists:
Patrick Borbey, Director General, International Cultural Relations, Department of Foreign Affairs
Dennis Browne, Director, Centre for Trade Policy and Law
Elizabeth McDonald, President, Canadian Film and Television Production Association
Keith Kelly, Director of Research and Planning, Canada Council for the Arts
The Centre for Trade Policy and Law is proud to support this discussion.
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7:00 PM
NAC Studio
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- FILM EVENT: DEEPA MEHTA'S EARTH
The second film in Deepa Mehta's acclaimed trilogy, a story about the division of earth and the destruction of innocence.
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Thursday, September 16
NOON - 5:00 PM
NAC Elgin Room
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- BEING HEARD: LITERACY, WRITING AND SOCIAL INCLUSION
Moderator:
Craig McNaughton, Association of Canadian Publishers
Panelists:
Larry Loyie, Vancouver playwright
Constance Brissenden, author
Linda Shohet, Director of the Centre for Literacy of Quebec, Montreal
Gilles Chiasson, NDG Anti-Poverty Group, Montreal
Deborah Morgan, Coordinator, Write to Learn Project, Alberta
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7:00 PM
NAC Studio
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- READING SERIES
Stephanie Bolster,
Mark Frutkin,
Barry Kennedy,
Michael Holmes,
Benjamin Cheever
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9:00 PM
NAC Pub
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- DEAD ALIVE: READINGS FROM THE GREATS
Teacher and poet Murray Wilson reads from the Greats. Take a humourous, sometimes dangerous, often enlightening trip aboard Murray's Psychic Submarine with ports of call in many of the capitals of world literature.
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Friday, september 17
5:00 PM
NAC Elgin Room
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- ONSTAGE INTERVIEW
With Jane Urquhart
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7:00 PM
NAC Elgin Room
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- READING SERIES
Lynn Coady,
rob mclennan,
Bharati Mukherjee,
Peter Landesman,
Susan Musgrave
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SATURday, September 18
10:00 AM
Ottawa Public Library
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- CHILDREN"S SERIES
Susan Musgrave,
Dennis Lee
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10:00 AM
NAC Elgin Room
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- BEING TECHNOLOGY AND CONTENT IN THE IDEA ECONOMY
Moderator:
Bill Collins, President, Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation
Panelists:
Gord Smith, Executive VP of Hewson Bridge and Smith Ltd.
J. James Mackie, a partner at Distinct Features
Nathan Rudyk, President digIT Interactive Inc
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NOON
NAC Studio
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- CRIME WRITING EVENT
Trevor Ferguson a.k.a. John Farrow,
Kathy Reichs
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3:00 PM
NAC Studio
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- SMALL PRESS SPOTLIGHT ON PORCUPINE'S QUILL
Russell Smith,
John Newlove,
Clark Blaise,
K.D. Miller,
Andrew Pyper
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7:00
NAC Studio
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- READING SERIES
Dennis Lee,
Merilyn Simonds,
George Saunders,
Wayde Compton,
Jane Urquhart
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