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Challenges and opportunities facing the Haida Nation

The Political and Economic Challenges and Opportunities Facing the Haida Nation
Tuesday, April 30, 1:45-3:30 pm
First Peoples House, UVic

The presentation will be conducted by Peter Lantin, President of the Haida Nation. In attendance:

Trevor Russ, Vice President of the Haida Nation
Guujaaw, Former President of the Haida Nation
Robert Davis, Executive member of the Haida Nation
Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson, White Raven Law Corporation

Moderator: Dr. Brent Mainprize, Gustavson School of Business

Triple Book Launch in Victoria

Launch of Three New Books
Sunday, April 28, 4 pm
Fernwood Inn, 1302 Gladstone Avenue
Victoria, BC

Everyone welcome

Dede Crane, Every Happy Family (Coteau Books)
Jay Ruzesky, In Antarctica: An Amundsen Pilgrimage (Nightwood Editions)
Marita Dachsel, Glossolalia (Anvil Press)

Eating for a Healthy Planet

Eating for a Healthy Planet: A Conversation with Canadians
Monday, April 22nd, 5-6 pm
UVic Fine Arts Building (facing the Phoenix Theatre), Room FA103 (ground floor by entrance)
Contact: Holly Cecil, cecil@uvic.ca

This one-hour documentary was produced as part of the UVic Human Dimensions of Climate Change program. The UN Food & Agriculture Organization and numerous other international studies report livestock agriculture as responsible for almost one-fifth of human-induced greenhouse gas emissions. That’s more than the emissions from all the world’s forms of transportation, combined. A dietary reduction in animal products is one of the single largest ways you can help reduce your carbon footprint. Worldwide, initiatives such as Meatless Mondays in 24 countries are impelling a sea change in the way we think about food and its environmental impacts. Why do none of our government initiatives on climate change say a word about it? The film looks into Canada’s misleading reporting structure of greenhouse gases emissions, and also includes interviews with several Canadians who each discuss personal commitment to different levels of reduction: from ‘locavores’ and flexitarians to vegetarians to vegans.

At the Mike: Rubinsky, Dower and Shea

At the Mike Reading
Tuesday, April 23, 7 pm
Chronicles of Crime
1048 Fort Street, Victoria, BC
Everyone Welcome

South of Elfrida by Holley Rubinsky
In her new story collection, award-winning author Holley Rubinksy delves into the lives of those coming face to face with personal truths that require resilience, humour and the ability to change. With a clear eye for the complexities of the human heart, her stories take the reader to deeper understandings about the nature of love, loss and longing. Spare and rich with wit, the stories in South of Elfrida celebrate the act of self-renewal.

“The descriptions are exquisite, as are the details of the characters’ lives. Holley Rubinsky is wise in the ways of the world and in the complications of the yearning heart.”—Alistair MacLeod

Holley Rubinsky is a Canadian fiction writer living in Kaslo, a village in the mountains of British Columbia. She is the author of At First I Hope for Rescue (Knopf Canada; Picador in the US), Rapid Transits and Other Stories (Polestar), and Beyond This Point (McClelland & Stewart). Winner of the $10,000 Journey Prize and a Gold Medal for fiction at the National Magazine Awards, her second book, At First I Hope for Rescue, was nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Holley was the host of The Writers’ Show, produced by CJLY, Nelson. Her stories have appeared in a number of anthologies, including The Penguin Anthology of Stories by Canadian Women. Please visit www.holleyrubinsky.com.

Click here for more about South of Elfrida.

Stony River by Tricia Dower
Set in a decade we tend to think of as a more innocent time, Stony River shows in dramatic and unexpected ways how perilous it was to grow up in the fifties. Here are absent mothers, controlling fathers, biblical injunctions, teenaged longing and small-town pretense. The threat of violence is all around: angry fathers at home, rough boys in the neighborhood, strange men in strange cars, one dead girl and another gone missing.

“Think Mad Men but even madder.”—Toronto Star

Tricia Dower was a business executive before reinventing herself as a writer in 2002. Her debut novel, Stony River, was published by Penguin Canada in 2012. Her short-story collection, Silent Girl (Inanna, 2008), was long-listed for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature. She won first prize for fiction in The Malahat Review’s 2010 Open Season Awards. Her short fiction also has appeared in The New Quarterly, Room of One’s Own, Hemispheres, Cicada, NEO, Insolent Rudder and Big Muddy. A dual citizen of Canada and the United States, Tricia lives and writes in Brentwood Bay, BC. Website: www.triciadower.com.

Click here for more about Stony River.

The Unfinished Child by Theresa Shea
Marie MacPherson, a mother of two, finds herself unexpectedly pregnant at thirty-nine. When she enters the world of genetic testing, she is entirely unprepared for the decision that lies ahead. With skill and poise, debut novelist Theresa Shea dramatically explores society’s changing views of Down syndrome over the past sixty years.

“Raise[s] compelling questions about moral responsibility in a 21st-century world.”—Publishers Weekly

Theresa Shea has published poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, and articles in a number of Canadian magazines and journals. Born in Maryland and raised throughout the United States, she moved to Canada in 1977 and currently lives with her husband and three children in Edmonton, Alberta. Follow Theresa on Twitter at @sheatheresa.

Click here for more about The Unfinished Child.

Drop by for an evening packed with great stories and conversations. Everyone Welcome. Free admission. Cash or Debit sales only.
For more information, contact Chronicles of Crime at 250-721-2665 or Brindle & Glass at info@brindleandglass.com.

The Krells at Open Space

The Krells
Open Space, 510 Fort St
Friday, April 19 at 8 pm
General $15; members and students $10
Tickets available at the door (cash only)
Or in advance at
KrellsAtOs.brownpapertickets.com

On Friday, April 19, at 8:00 p.m., The Krells, an extinct alien civilization from Forbidden Planet lands in Victoria and vaporizes Open Space with a live electronica trio featuring Daniel Godlovitch, Kirk McNally, and John Celona. Analog, digital, and interactive signal-processing combines in a new media electroacoustic experience. The group formed two years ago and this concert represents their debut.

Come join us for this exploration of synths, electronics, and sounds that can only be described as out of this world.

Music of The Krells can be heard at http://www.thekrells.com.

Biographies

Daniel Godlovitch is a digital instrument developer, has nationally charting releases under his solo alias Okpk, and is founder of Victoria’s left-field electronica collective Cloudsounds.

Kirk McNally is a recording engineer who has worked with local, national, and international artists. He has collaborated extensively with composers and artists in experimental and new music.

John Celona is an international award-winning composer and pioneer in computer-generated music composition and real-time performance. His innovative software TimbreSpace has been supported by Canada Council Media Arts and SSHRC.

WordsThaw: 1st annual spring symposium

Saturday, March 23 2013
10 a.m. – 10 p.m.
UVic, Human and Social Development Building
Room A240

Celebrate the Spring equinox by spending the day and evening of Saturday, March 23rd with The Malahat Review and nineteen of B. C. and Alberta’s finest writers.

The symposium will consist of three daytime panels and a literary reading in the evening.

Zoom In, Zoom Out: Focus on Fiction (10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.)
With John Gould, Yasuko Thanh, and Daniel Griffin. Moderated by Amy Reiswig. Sponsored by Focus magazine.

A Sustainable Feast: The New Food Writing (1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.)
With Rhona McAdam and Kimberley Veness. Moderated by Don Genova.

In Our Names: Writers on Poverty (3:45 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.)
With Patrick Lane, Madeline Sonik, and Sylvia Olsen. Organized by the Victoria Writers Festival.

Words on Ice (8:00 p.m.)
An evening of readings with Marilyn Bowering, C. P. Boyko, Lorna Crozier, Katherin Edwards, Bill Gaston, Lee Henderson, Laura Kraemer, and Pamela Porter.

Full Pass includes three panels and evening reading.

Full pass regular: $40
Full pass student/Friend of The Malahat: $30

All full passes include a one-year subscription to The Malahat Review for yourself or a friend.

Words on Ice tickets (at door):

Regular: $10
Student/Friend of The Malahat: $5

All attendees at Words on Ice will receive a free copy of our current issue, #181 Winter 2012.

To purchase a pass, visit www.malahatreview.ca.

Fine Arts well represented in IdeaFest

Running March 4-15 in every corner of UVic campus, this free festival connects you to experts working on the kind of ideas that really can “make a difference.”

Here’s a quick breakdown of  Fine Arts events:

•Enacting the Artist / Researcher / Educator: Six UVic applied theatre graduate students engaged in a theatre-based PhD research project will discuss utilizing playbuilding as qualitative research, as well as a variety of theatre conventions as a way to generate, interpret and (re)present data.   2-4 pm Monday, March 4, in room 109 of the Fine Arts building

• Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Awards: Celebrate some of the outstanding research produced by the 2012 Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Awards scholars at this day-long presentation of their work. Here’s a list of who’s representing Fine Arts: Sara Fruchtman, Alexandra Macdonald and Christine Oldridge (History in Art), Stewart Gibbs, Sarah Johnson and Jennifer Taylor (Theatre), Bronwyn McMillin and Willie Seo (Visual Arts), Claire Garneau and Liz Snell (Writing).  11am-3 pm in the SUB’s Cinecenta, Upper Lounge and Michele Pujol room

•Mini Film Fest: Join some of the Department of Writing’s emerging filmmakers for a screening and discussion of several recent, award-winning student films—including the Leo Award-winning web series Freshman’s Wharf, and Connor Gaston’s recent TIFF and VFF-screened short, Bardo Light, among others.  7:30 pm Thursday, March 7, in room 162 of the Visual Arts building• Sonic Lab: Join UVic’s contemporary music ensemble as they present two compositions that explore the sound itself as musical material. Imagine a brick wall with a human figure painted on it, which can be taken apart & rebuilt as a fence or a house—meaning the parts of painted body would show up in an unexpected context.  8 pm Friday, March 8, in the Phillip T Young Recital Hall

•“Have you ever had an idea?”Get in on this interactive, community-involving project aimed at enabling ideas to be more accessible and more attainable. Participants become part of Victoria’s biggest idea—a giant run-on sentence created by texting, calling or e-mailing in their ideas.  7-10 pm Friday, March 8, in room A111 of the Visual Arts building

•“Games Without Frontiers: The Social Power of Video Games”: Join professors, grad students, undergraduates, high-school students, local game designers and curious citizens of Victoria at this mini-conference to explore, discuss and marvel at the power of video-game technology to bring people together and improve the world. Faculty and students will give demonstrations and offer a Q&A about the innovative use of “gamification” techniques in their research, including games that help to improve the lives of children with autism, teach about First Nations treaties, combat obesity and explore the ocean floor, among others. Noon-6 pm Saturday, March 9, in room C103 of the David Strong building

•“Is There Still Potential for Human Creativity?” A good question which promises a lively back and forth at this Fine Arts discussion panel featuring Jennifer Stillwell (Visual Arts), George Tzanetakis (Computer Science-Music), Lee Henderson (Writing), Victoria Wyatt (History in Art), Jonathan Goldman (Music). Moderated by the Times Colonist‘s Dave Obee.  7:30 pm Monday, March 11,  in B150 of the Bob Wright Centre

•Fine Arts PechaKucha: Get a sense of what’s happening in both History in Art and Visual Art with this exciting, fast-paced PechaKucha-style interdisciplinary visual presentation. Don’t know PechaKucha? It’s like a TED talk on speed!  5-7 pm Tuesday, March 12, in room 162 of the Visual Arts building.

•Intergenerational Theatre for Development in India: After being displaced by the 2006 tsunami, a new community in India is using Applied Theatre to reconnect its citizens. The creation of an intergenerational theatre company to perform the stories of seniors and rural youth of the Tamilnadu community has the potential to create lines of dialogue across generations by positively highlighting the life experiences of residents of Tamaraikulam Elders’ Village and students of the Isha Vidhya Matriculation School. Theatre PhD student Matthew Gusul recently visited India and will tell the story of this developing project.  4:45 pm Thursday, March 14, in the Phoenix Theatre’s McIntyre Studio.

More info:  IdeaFest 2013 website