Saturday, October 20 - English School Events
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 Titans
Gordon Korman |
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Two titans of young adult writing come together this morning to talk about their characters, their storylines and the fun they have putting words on paper. Tim Wynne-Jones’s Rex Zero series, with its cast of sarcastic characters, closely reflects his own Canadian boyhood. Gordon Korman’s huge output of more than 60 novels shows very clearly that this award-winning novelist loves what he does, and does it very well. A rare chance for young readers and aspiring writers to see two of the masters together on stage. This event is sold out. |
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Suitable for grades 4 to 8 *Study Guide |
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Karen Connelly in conversation with Merilyn Simonds
Karen Connelly |
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Karen Connelly won a Governor General’s Literary Award for her journal Touch the Dragon, written when she was still a teenager traveling and living in Thailand. She has since lived in Spain, France, Greece, Canada and Asia. Now nine books of non-fiction, fiction and poetry, and numerous awards later, Connelly turns her gift of words and images to the struggle for political change in Burma. Based on her experiences living in that country, her memoir Burmese Lessons is a love story—for a wounded a beautiful country and for one gifted man who is devoted to making a stand against dictators and a fierce military regime.
Advance ticket sales have now ended for this event. Tickets will be available for purchase at the door one hour before the event starts. |
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Suitable for grades 8 to 12 and adults *Study Guide |
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Some Words on Film
Don Calame |
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Cariboo-born novelist Robyn Harding has completed a television pilot, has five novels under her belt, and continues to work both as author and screenwriter. Don Calame has just completed his first novel, after a successful career as a screenwriter whose film projects include Employee of the Month and Hounded and who has worked with Marvel Studios, the Disney Channel, Lionsgate, Universal Studios and Paramount. How do novelists approach writing for the screen, or screenwriters work to create a story without pictures? This is your chance to ask two successful storytellers who work with both forms. Advance ticket sales have now ended for this event. Tickets will be available for purchase at the door one hour before the event starts. |
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Suitable for grades 9 to 12 and adults *Study Guide |
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Home Town Hero
Paul Yee |
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Multi-award winning author Paul Yee has written for all ages—picture books, young adult books, adult non-fiction—and most of his stories are set and grounded in the Vancouver he knows and loves so well. Commercial Drive, neighbourhood parks, the Chinese deli and Ethiopian coffee shops. Young readers will feel right at home in the multi-cultural worlds that he describes so faithfully, populated by delightful characters like Shu-Li, Diego and Tamara whose friendships far outweigh their cultural differences. This event is sold out. |
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Suitable for grades 2 to 4 *Study Guide |
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Word! (2)
C.R. Avery |
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Three BC writers—sometimes musicians, sometimes poets, sometimes welders, sometimes McJobbers, always entertaining—get together this afternoon to take the art of writing to new places. Spoken word iconoclast and musician C.R. Avery joins Vancouver favourite Billeh Nickerson onstage with audio poet and arts activist Hilary Peach. This is spoken word, poetry and storytelling on the fly. Spread the word! (This event is repeated on Wednesday morning.) This event is sold out. |
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Suitable for grades 10 to 12 and adults *Study Guide |
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Hide and Seek
Gordon Korman |
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Adventures around the world and through time join together these two skilled authors. A phoenix-like bird in a nest guarded by crows, a daring hot-air balloon ride, a skillful heist of animals from a floating zoo, a speedboat chase through the canals of Venice, modern Europe and 18th century Antarctica and 16th century England—all find their way into the books of Gordon Korman and Matthew Skelton. Novels can take you to places you’ve never been and times that you’ll never see. Come and play hide and seek with two of the best children's authors writing today. |
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Suitable for grades 4 to 7 *Study Guide |
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Science Fact and Science Fiction
Jude Isabella |
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A science journalist and a science educator come together this afternoon to present both the relevance of science to us all, and the jokes of science through the ages. Rochelle Strauss' One Well: The Story of Water on Earth demands that we treat water, which has the power to change everything, with the respect it deserves. Jude Isabella’s Hoaxed! tells 17 brilliantly bogus stories from the history of science: crop circles, “lost” tribes and other fakes and mistakes that scientists have taken seriously—at first. That science makes a difference in our lives is very clear. That science can play jokes will keep science interesting for young readers. This event is sold out. |
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Suitable for grades 4 to 7 *Study Guide This event is supported by the Rix Family Foundation. |
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Wanting Mor
Rukhsana Khan |
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“When countries to go war, it is always civilians, especially children, who suffer the most,” says Rukhsana Khan, who has written a fictionalized account of a child in post-Taliban Afghanistan. Based on a true incident of a young girl, abandoned by her father after her mother’s death, and who grew up in one of the largest orphanages in Kabul, Wanting Mor is part of Khan’s continuing effort to create bridges of understanding between people of different cultures. Born in Pakistan, Khan lives in Toronto and writes stories of India, Persia and the Middle East. |
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Suitable for grades 5 to 8 *Study Guide |
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