UVic 50th Anniversary Event

Faculty Chamber Music Series:
Music For and In the Moment

Saturday, January 12, 8:00 p.m.
Phillip T. Young Recital Hall
(MacLaurin Building, B-Wing)
Tickets: $17.50 & $13.50

Nearly twenty UVic School of Music faculty will converge on the Phillip T. Young Recital Hall stage on Saturday, January 12 for an extraordinary Faculty Chamber Music concert, Music For and In the Moment, to commemorate UVic’s 50th Anniversary.
On the program: music composed by UVic’s renowned faculty composers. Recognized nationally and internationally for their work, John Celona, Dániel Péter Biró, Rudolf Komorous (faculty alumnus), and Christopher Butterfield will present compositions that were either written for the occasion, or dedicated to this celebration.

“UVic has much to celebrate in its support and educational influence in the arts and music,” says Pamela Highbaugh Aloni. “For 50 years the School of Music has contributed significantly to music in Canada and beyond. This is one way to highlight this distinction and share it with our greater university community.” Highbaugh Aloni, resident cellist and member of the Lafayette String Quartet, is
spearheading the event.

The pieces will range from solo performances such as Biró’s Palimpsests, for solo piano and Salvim (Quails), for solo viola, to Celona’s Networks, featuring the majority of the School’s performance faculty. The concert will also feature the world premiere of Christopher Butterfield’s Omar Khayyam in Belfast – Six Postcards for chamber ensemble.

The concert on January 12 starts at 8:00 p.m. in the Phillip T. Young Recital Hall (UVic MacLaurin Building, B-Wing). Tickets are $17.50 & $13.50 and available from the UVic Ticket Centre (250-721-8480 or http://tickets.uvic.ca/) and at the door. Mingle with the faculty performers and composers in a reception following the concert.

The Malahat Review presents:

Finding a Map: Writing a Biography of P. K. Page

Thursday, January 10th
7:30 p.m. (doors at 7)
UVic, Social Sciences and Mathematics Building, Room A110
FREE admission

To mark the third anniversary of P. K. Page’s passing, biographer Sandra Djwa will talk about the late and great poet. Organized by The Malahat Review, Djwa’s lecture, “Finding a Map: Writing a Biography of P. K. Page,” is part of the Faculty of Humanities’ Lansdowne Lecture series.

Sandra Djwa, a professor emerita at Simon Fraser University, published Journey with No Maps: A Life of P. K. Page with McGill-Queen’s University Press in October, 2012 to widespread acclaim, including pride of place on the long list for the 2013 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction.

Elucidating the process of story-making that biography is, Djwa will shed light on the transformative life voyage that took Page from Calgary to Rio de Janeiro and Mexico City, from pen on paper to oil on canvas, and from Alice in Wonderland to Rumi and Sufism.

As part of the evening, Victoria filmmaker Arthur Makosinski will screen a ten-minute preview from his as-yet unfinished documentary, P. K. Page: Looking for Something.

More info on our website <http://www.malahatreview.ca/events/djwa_lansdowne.html>.

WHEN: 9:30 – 11 am, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012

WHERE: Harry Hickman 110

PANELISTS:

* Barbara Bordalejo, Department of English, University of Saskatchewan

* Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, Department of Anthropology

* Jeffrey Foss, Department of Philosophy

* David Leach, Department of Writing

* Jentery Sayers, Department of English

* Victoria Wyatt, History in Art

At The Mike in conversation with John Vigna, Lee Henderson, and John Gould.

Tuesday, November 27
7:00 PM
Cadboro Bay Books
3840B Cadboro Bay Road
Victoria, BC

John Vigna’s debut story collection, Bull Head, has been described as “the arrival of an important new voice in Canadian fiction: tough, supple, tender, and resonant.” John is a graduate of the MFA program at the University of British Columbia and an alumnus of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in numerous newspapers, magazines, and anthologies, including Cabin Fever: The Best New Canadian Non-Fiction, The Dalhousie Review, Grain, Event, sub-Terrain, and The Antigonish Review. Please visit www.johnvignaink.ca.

Lee Henderson is the author of two award-winning books — the story collection The Broken Record Technique and the novel The Man Game, which won the BC Book Prize and the Vancouver Book Prize in 2009. Lee’s fiction and art writing are regularly published in The Walrus and Border Crossings magazine, and other short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and journals. Lee is an associate professor in the Department of Writing at the University of Victoria. Please visit www.leehenderson.com.

John Gould is the author of two books of short stories — including Kilter, a finalist for the Giller prize—and the novel Seven Good Reasons Not to Be Good, described by the Vancouver Sun as “a marvel of delicacy, depth, and insight . . . a damn-near perfect book.” His fiction has appeared in literary periodicals across the country and has been adapted for short films. John teaches writing workshops at the University of Victoria and elsewhere, and serves on the editorial board of the Malahat Review. Please visit www.johngould.ca.

Drop by for an evening packed with great stories and conversation. Everyone welcome. Free admission.
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For more information, contact Cadboro Bay Books at 250-477-1421 or Brindle & Glass at info@brindleandglass.com.

The UVic Bookstore, Doubleday & the Office of Indigenous Affairs present:

Thomas King
The Inconvenient Indian: A curious account of Native Peoples in North America

Book Launch & Signing
Friday Nov 16 ,2012 (7pm)
Ceremonial Hall, First Peoples House

Writing the Arts
with John Threlfall
Thursday, November 29th
7:00 p.m.
University of Victoria Fine Arts Building
Room 103
FREE Admission

Writing about the arts is just like any other beat: you need to cultivate sources, know the players, keep up with the changes in the scene, and be knowledgeable in a variety of areas. But, unlike most other journalistic fields, arts writing also gives you the freedom to work in a variety of styles and formats, often affording you the opportunity to be as creative in your writing as the work you’re covering. From visual art and theatre to music, opera, film, and more, this entertaining and fast-moving talk by a 30-year arts veteran will offer tips on giving good interview, finding untold stories, developing a niche, working with different writing styles, getting creative with your coverage, and writing about art forms outside of your expertise. Guaranteed to be the most fun you’ll ever have at a writing class!

Continuing the Alan Turing Celebration Lecture Series, part of the 50th Anniversary of UVic and the 100th Anniversary of Turing, we have two exciting experts in music and computers coming to speak this week!

David Jaffe is rare in that he is well known and respected composer as well as a very competent and successful programmer. Jaron Lanier did pioneering research in virtual reality, is an accomplished musician, a well known speaker, and author of
“You Are Not a Gadget, A Manifesto <http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780307389978>,” a New York Times best book of the year for 2010.

David A. Jaffe, Universal Audio

The Library of Babel – Composing, Computing, and Creativity

Monday, Nov. 5th 6:30PM, Social Sciences and Math, A120

Tuesday, Nov. 6th, 2:30PM, MacLaurin Building, Room A168

Jaron Lanier, Microsoft Research

Turing’s Spiritual Legacy

Wednesday, Nov. 7th, 8:15pm, PT Young Recital Hall, School of Music

Check (http://www.facebook.com/UvicComputerScience) for more music & computers events on this week.

Thursday, November 15 – 7pm

Lions Hall
103 Bonnet Avenue
Salt Spring Island, BC
Everyone Welcome

Book sales by Salt Spring Books.

The Judge and the Lady by Marlyn Horsdal

Eleanor Wentworth arrives in Victoria, a town that falls far below her expectations of society. When she meets the fascinating judge Matthew Baillie Begbie, the first chief justice of BC, life in the colony suddenly becomes much more attractive.

Marlyn Horsdal is an editor and writer. In 1984, she co-founded Horsdal & Schubart Publishers with her husband, Michael Schubart, and ran the company until it was sold in 2002. She was educated at Queen’s University and the London School of Economics.
Her first novel Sweetness from Ashes was named one of the Best Fiction Titles of 2010 by January Magazine. The Judge and the Lady is her second novel.

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The Apple House by Gillian Campbell

Set in a small French village on the West Island of Montreal during the 1970s, this is a novel about language, family, and life in a divided community.

Gillian Campbell’s short fiction has been published in Grain Magazine, Creekstones: Words & Images, The New Quarterly, and The Antigonish Review. She has a BA from the Université de Montréal and a master’s of library science from the University of
British Columbia, and for many years she worked as a children’s librarian. Gillian grew up on the West Island of Montreal and now makes her home on the West Coast on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia. The Apple House is her first novel.

Victoria — Open Word: Readings and Ideas literary series continues with a reading and interview with Vancouver’s Kevin Chong. He will be reading from his new book Beauty Plus Pity at Open Space on Tuesday, November 6, 2012, at 7:30 p.m. followed by an interview by Lee Henderson. A second public reading is scheduled at the University of Victoria, Fine Arts Building Room 209 on Wednesday, November 7 at 3:30 p.m. Open Word: Readings and Ideas is co-sponsored with the Univeristy of Victoria’s Department of Writing.

Written with a winsome yet plaintive eye, Beauty Plus Pity is about a young man who’s forced to reckon with the past as he works through his lifelong ambivalence toward his hyphenated cultural identity, and between two parents holding intolerable secrets. In this tragicomic modern immigrant’s tale, Malcolm Kwan is a slacker twenty something Asian-Canadian living in Vancouver who is about to embark on a modeling career when his life is suddenly derailed by two nearsimultaneous events: the death of his filmmaker father, and the betrayal of his fiancée who has left him. Soon he meets Hadley, the half-sister he never knew existed ― the result of his father’s extramarital affair ― and as their tentative relationship grows, Malcolm is forced to confront his past relationships with women, including his own mother, an art teacher working through her grief as well as her resentment at her son befriending her husband’s daughter.