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FALL edition: October 21-27, 2009
Image: United, from the Festival Gallery: The Art of Healing by Tom Hogan
Wednesday, October 21
6:30 PM
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- THE BIG IDEA: THE END OF LITERACY AND THE
TRIUMPH OF SPECTACLE
With Chris Hedges
Hosted by Stephen Brockwell
Tickets: $15 / $10 Student or Senior
Free for Festival Members and Carleton Students
We open with Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges, who sees the dramatic and disturbing rise of a post-literate society that craves fantasy, ecstasy and illusion.
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8:30 PM
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- BYWORDS' JOHN NEWLOVE AWARDS
Featuring Rob Friday with music by Call Me Katie
Hosted by Amanda Earl (A free event)
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8:35 PM
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- NEW SCIENCE SERIES: HOW DO WE KNOW
WHAT WE KNOW?
With David Cayley and Colin Ellard
Tickets: $15 / $10 Student or Senior
Free for Festival Members and Carleton Students
David Cayley from CBC's Ideas examines how science has directed human thought and shaped human society. Experimental psychologist Colin Ellard reveals how deeply our unique relationship with space defines what it means to be human.
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10:30 PM
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- LATE NIGHT AT THE FESTIVAL
Featuring music by Call Me Katie
(A free event)
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thursday, October 22
NOON
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- THE BIG IDEA: THE IMPORTANCE OF READING IN A CULTURE OF DISTRACTION
With Daniel Coleman
Hosted by Neil Wilson
Tickets: $15 / $10 Student or Senior
Free for Festival Members and Carleton Students
Reading is a deeply personal activity: paradoxically, it is also social and outward-looking. Daniel Coleman reminds us to reconnect with something deeper.
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2:00 PM
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- MASTERCLASS: THE POETRY OF COLLISION
With Sina Queyras
Hosted by Rob Winger
Tickets: $10 / $5 Student or Senior
Free for Festival Members and Carleton Students
Join Sina Queyras for a Masterclass session on tradition and innovation in poetry.
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6:30 PM
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- POETRY CABARET #1:
Sina Queyras, Colin Morton, Christian Bök
and Paul Durcan
Hosted by Rob Winger
Tickets: $15 / $10 Student or Senior
Free for Festival Members and Carleton Students
Sina Queyras "goes into free orbit," Colin Morton's "attack changes with every new piece," Christian Bök "commands the ear to listen and follow closely," and Dublin's Paul Durcan offers "a profound passion and zest for the everyday business of living."
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8:30 PM
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- WRITING LIFE #1: FORGIVING WITHOUT FORGETTING
John Bemrose, Glenn Patterson and Linden MacIntyre
Tickets: $15 / $10 Student or Senior
Free for Festival Members and Carleton Students
The Globe and Mail says John Bemrose "offers us nothing less than a template for embracing the core of life's meaning." Anne Enright calls Belfast's Glenn Patterson "utterly contemporary, clear-eyed and compassionate." The Ottawa Citizen hails Linden MacIntyre's new novel as a "powerful novel about priestly sexual abuse."
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10:30 PM
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- LATE NIGHT AT THE FESTIVAL
Featuring sound poetry by Christian Bök
and music by John Lavery
(A free event)
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friday, October 23
NOON
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- THE BIG IDEA: THE DEATH OF GLOBALIZATION
With Gordon Laird
Tickets: $15 / $10 Student or Senior
Free for Festival Members and Carleton Students
Gordon Laird investigates the true cost of our bargain economy - and the end of consumerism as we know it.
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2:00 PM
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- MASTERCLASS: VISUAL NARRATIVE:
WRITING FOR GRAPHIC NOVELS
With Mariko Tamaki
and David Small
Tickets: $10 / $5 Student or Senior
Free for Festival Members and Carleton Students
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6:30 PM
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- THE BIG IDEA: CYCLING AND THE LIVABLE CITY
Featuring David Byrne
with Jeb Brugmann
Tickets: $15 / $10 Student or Senior
Free for Festival Members and Carleton Students
David Byrne, the renowned musician, visual artist and author, leads a discussion on urban living and alternative transportation, featuring Marie Lemay from the National Capital Commission, author and urban theorist Jeb Brugmann, and Roger Plamondon from Montreal's innovative bike sharing system BIXI.
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8:30 PM
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- CAPITAL XTRA'S TRANSGRESS
With Mariko Tamaki, Derek McCormack
and Michael V. Smith
Hosted by Kalyani
Tickets: $15 / $10 Student or Senior
Free for Festival Members and Carleton Students
Take a walk on the wild side and leave your inhibitions at home! An R-rated evening of explicit writing with Mariko Tamaki, Derek McCormack and Michael V. Smith.
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8:35 PM
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- NEW SCIENCE SERIES: HOW CHILDREN EXPERIENCE
THE WORLD
With Alison Gopnik
Hosted by Christina Dickson
Tickets: $15 / $10 Student or Senior
Free for Festival Members and Carleton Students
How do babies think? How much do our experiences as children shape our adult lives? Psychologist and bestselling author Alison Gopnik shares the latest research.
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10:30 PM
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- LATE NIGHT AT THE FESTIVAL
Featuring music by Glenn Nuotio
(A free event)
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Saturday, October 24
NOON
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- THE BIG IDEA: THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM IN BURMA
With Karen Connelly and Zoya Phan
Hosted by Kate Heartfield
Tickets: $15 / $10 Student or Senior
Free for Festival Members and Carleton Students
Intimate and personal perspectives on Burma - one of the most beautiful and most repressed nations on earth.
Featuring Canadian Karen Connelly and Karen freedom-fighter Zoya Phan.
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2:00 PM
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- THE BIG IDEA: RAISING CHILDREN WHO CARE
AND CONTRIBUTE
With Craig Kielburger
Hosted by Adrian Harewood
Tickets: $15 / $10 Student or Senior
Free for Festival Members and Carleton Students
Drawing on the success on the global Me to We movement, Craig Kielburger, founder of Free the Children, offers tips on encouraging children to become global citizens and ultimately change the world.
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4:00 PM
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- THE WRITING LIFE #2: SPOTLIGHT ON NEW ISLAMIC FICTION
With Qaisra Shahraz, Laleh Khadivi and Boualem Sansal
Tickets: $15 / $10 Student or Senior
Free for Festival Members and Carleton Students
Join us for an afternoon of exciting new fiction from the Islamic diaspora featuring acclaimed voices from around the world. With Qaisra Shahraz (Pakistan/UK) Laleh Khadivi (Iran/USA) and Boualem Sansal (Algeria.)
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4:05 PM
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- GIRLS AND BOYS, MEN AND WOMEN:
UNDERSTANDING GENDER
With Lise Eliot and Susan Pinker
Tickets: $15 / $10 Student or Senior
Free for Festival Members and Carleton Students
A comprehensive overview of the latest research and thinking on gender differences from prenatal development to the workplace with neuroscientist Lise Eliot and psychologist Susan Pinker.
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6:30 PM
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- THE ART OF TRUE STORIES: A ROUNDTABLE
ON MEMOIR
With David Small, Jane Christmas and Catherine Gildiner
Hosted by Sarah Dearing
Tickets: $15 / $10 Student or Senior
Free for Festival Members and Carleton Students
Explore the art of true stories with three gifted authors whose memoirs have garnered international acclaim. Featuring David Small, Jane Christmas, and Catherine Gildiner.
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6:35 PM
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- NEW SCIENCE SERIES: THE MATHEMATICS OF CREATIVITY
With Christian Bok and Apostolos Doxiadis
Hosted by Stephen Brockwell
Please note: this event has been cancelled.
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8:30 PM
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- THE WRITING LIFE #3: THE PAST IS PRESENT
With Don Gillmor, Elina Hirvonen, and Michael Blouin
Tickets: $15 / $10 Student or Senior
Free for Festival Members and Carleton Students
Don Gillmor's Kanata takes readers on a multi-generational journey across a continent while When I Forgot by Finland's Elina Hirvonen and Michael Blouin's Chase and Haven both explore the relationship between siblings and the memories that shape their lives.
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10:30 PM
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- LATE NIGHT AT THE FESTIVAL
Plan 99 10th Anniversary Party with Ray Robertson, Struan Sinclair and Kate Hall (A free event)
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Sunday, October 25
NOON
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- BREAKING THE SILENCE: VETERANS' UNTOLD STORIES
FROM THE GREAT WAR TO AFGHANISTAN
With Ted Barris
Tickets: $15 / $10 Student or Senior
Free for Festival Members and Carleton Students
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2:00 PM
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2:05 PM
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- THE BEDSIDE BOOK OF BEASTS
With Graeme Gibson
Hosted by Charlotte Gray
Tickets: $15 / $10 Student or Senior
Free for Festival Members and Carleton Students
Graeme Gibson gathers from all eras and cultures works of art and literature that capture the power, grace, and inventiveness of both predators and natural prey.
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4:00 PM
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- THE EXILE BOOK OF CANADIAN DOG STORIES
With Janice Kulyk Keefer, Barry Callaghan,
Kenneth J. Harvey and Katherine Govier
Tickets: $15 / $10 Student or Senior
Free for Festival Members and Carleton Students
An afternoon with Canada's finest writers and their stories about man's best friend. Featuring Kenneth J. Harvey, Janice Kulyk Keefer, Barry Callaghan and Katherine Govier.
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4:05 PM
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- SOUTHERN EXPOSURE
With Foster Dickson
Hosted by Adrian Harewood
Tickets: $15 / $10 Student or Senior
Free for Festival Members and Carleton Students
Join Alabama's Foster Dickson, poet, biographer and award-winning teacher for a conversation of his work and life in the South.
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6:30 PM
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- DEAD ALIVE: 13th EDITION
With Murray Wilson
Tickets: $15 / $10 Student or Senior
Free for Festival Members and Carleton Students
Forty-three years before his Governor General’s award for poetry, Ralph Gustafson would spend three years at Oxford. A study of his journals written from this period, 1930 – 1933, provides essential insights into this poet’s development, and with his own work and three anthologies that he edited of Canadian literary artists (1942, 1944, 1958), his contribution to Canadian letters is unequivocal.
Join Murray Wilson in celebration of Ralph Gustafson's Centennial.
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6:35 PM
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- GLOBAL ENCOUNTERS:
One on One With
IAN RANKIN
Hosted by Lucy van Oldenbarneveld
Tickets: $20 / $15 Student or Senior
Free for Festival Members and Carleton Students
We welcome back the UK's number 1 bestselling crime author, Ian Rankin. Scotland's four-time Dagger Award winner is the author of three recent books: The Complaints, Doors Open and the graphic novel, Dark Entries.
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8:30 PM
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8:35 PM
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- DRACULA: THE UN-DEAD
With Dacre Stoker
Hosted by Sean Moreland
Tickets: $15 / $10 Student or Senior
Free for Festival Members and Carleton Students
From Twilight to True Blood, vampires are on the move. Return to the source with Dracula: The Un-Dead by Dacre Stoker, Bram Stoker's great-grandnephew, which picks up the story 25 years after the close of the original classic.
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10:30 PM
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- RELIT AWARDS CELEBRATION
Hosted by Kenneth J. Harvey
Celebrate the country’s literary talent with Maurice Mierau, Poetry winner for Fear Not, Lisa Foad, Short Fiction winner for The Night is a Mouth and Michael Blouin, Novel winner for Chase and Haven. Official ceremony includes free books and other fun! (A free event)
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monday, October 26
NOON
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- THE BIG IDEA: DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS
With Elizabeth May and John Ibbitson
Hosted by Alison Buchanan
Tickets: $15 / $10 Student or Senior
Free for Festival Members and Carleton Students
How democratic is our democracy? In Losing Confidence, Canada's Green Party leader, Elizabeth May, shares her perspective on the problems and the solutions. In Open and Shut, Washington correspondent John Ibbitson compares our system with that of the United States, asking why they have Obama and we have Harper.
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2:00 PM
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- MASTERCLASS: THE VOICE OF HISTORY
With Annabel Lyon and Grant Buday
Hosted by Janne Cleveland
Tickets: $10 / $5 Student or Senior
Free for Festival Members and Carleton Students
Annabel Lyon and Grant Buday on writing historical fiction.
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6:30 PM
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- POETRY CABARET #2
John Barton, Barbara Myers, Maurice Mierau and Karen Solie
Tickets: $15 / $10 Student or Senior
Free for Festival Members and Carleton Students
John Barton "shows us how to look lovingly at both the squalor and the garden paths beneath our feet." Barbara Myers explores the mysteries of change, evanescence and renewal. Maurice Mierau offers "rare and necessary poetry for our time." Karen Solie "delves deeper into the social and geological bedrock of our civilization."
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6:35 PM
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- CRIMINAL MINDS
With William Deverell, Robert Rotenberg
and Michael Connelly
Hosted by David Dollin
Tickets: $15 / $10 Student or Senior
Free for Festival Members and Carleton Students
Spend an evening with three of North America's most acclaimed and popular crime writers. Get a taste of William Deverell's Snow Job, Robert Rotenberg's Old City Hall and Michael Connelly's 9 Dragons.
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8:30 PM
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- THE WRITING LIFE #4: CONTEXT AND CHARACTER
Michael Turner, Annabel Lyon and Michael Crummey
Hosted by Phil Jenkins
Tickets: $15 / $10 Student or Senior
Free for Festival Members and Carleton Students
The Georgia Straight says Michael Turner, author of 8X10, "is simply one of the best writers in this country." Marina Endicott calls Annabel Lyon's The Golden Mean "an oracular vision of the past made present." The Globe declares that Galore by Michael Crummey is "flawless ... so complete that it takes on a life of its own."
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10:30 PM
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- LATE NIGHT AT THE FESTIVAL
In/Words Open Mic
In/Words brings its spontaneous, impetuous & irrational open mic to Ottawa's International Writers festival. We offer a completely open set, a cash bar and a roster of Ottawa's hottest, youngest poets to hear & read with. Various chapbooks and the newest issue (In/Words 9.1) will be available for distribution (for free). Complete sets of In/Words chapbook series 8 available at the books store for sale. (A free event)
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tuesday, October 27
10:00 AM
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- STEP INTO STORIES PRESENTS:
WHAT MY GRANDMA MEANS TO SAY (THE BLUE SHAWL)
by JC Sulzenko
A one-act play and discussion for children in whose families someone is living with Alzheimer's Disease.
A free event.
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NOON
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2:00 PM
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6:30 PM
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- GLOBAL ENCOUNTERS:
One on One with SARAH WATERS
Hosted by Sandra Abma
Tickets: $20 / $15 Student or Senior
Free for Festival Members and Carleton Students
Join Sarah Waters for a conversation on her latest Booker-nominated novel, The Little Stranger, a nuanced evocation of 1940s England and a chill-inducing novel of psychological suspense.
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8:30 PM
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- EXTRAORDINARY CANADIANS
Daniel Poliquin, Jane Urquhart and Mark Kingwell
Hosted by John Ralston Saul
Tickets: $15 / $10 Student or Senior
Free for Festival Members and Carleton Students
John Ralston Saul leads the discussion with Daniel Poliquin on Réné Lévesque, Jane Urquhart on Lucy Maud Montgomery and Mark Kingwell on Glenn Gould.
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10:30 PM
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- LATE NIGHT AT THE FESTIVAL
Featuring music by Sadie Hell (A free event)
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