Wholly Smokes Atwood and Doctorow in Ottawa!
Saint Brigid’s a church come Centre for the Arts and Humanities is such a great venue for the writers festival. I saw Eduardo Galleano there year this summer and it was delightful.
tuesDAY, September 22
- GLOBAL ENCOUNTERS:
The Year of the Flood with Margaret Atwood
Tickets: $20 /$15 Student or Senior
Free for Festival Members and Carleton Students
In an effort to break away from the traditional book tour, Atwood has penned a semi-dramatic theatrical performance based on her new novel The Year of the Flood. Complete with three actors, and a choir which will perform the original score by Los Angeles composer, Orville Stoeber, this one-hour innovative performance promises to be highly entertaining and unlike anything done before. Commissioned by Atwood to create a score for the original hymns that appear in her novel, Stoeber has produced rich, melodic and stirring interpretation, and the resulting CD is destined to become popular in its own right.
In order to reduce the carbon footprint of a traveling cast, the tour will utilize local actors and choirs. In Ottawa, director Janet Irwin will lead Atwood and the cast, and Laurence Ewashko and the Calixa Lavallee Ensenble, conducted by Mark Wilkinson, will perform the music. Atwood will act as narrator in each city. This will be a fundraiser for Nature Canada.
MonDAY, September 28
- LITTLE BROTHER: ONE ON ONE WITH CORY DOCTOROW
Hosted by Kate Heartfield
Tickets: $15 /$10 Student or Senior
Free for Festival Members and Carleton Students
Marcus (AKA w1n5t0n) is taking back the world, one hacked game console at a time … Have you ever felt like the technology you love could be used against you? Or that the government is watching you .. a little too closely? Have you ever felt like you just had to skip school? Do you hate bullies? Have you ever felt the call to fight back- and that the fight was waaaay bigger than just you?
Join Cory Doctorow, author of Little Brother, for a look at what could happen when security and individual freedom clash, and how one tech-savvy teenager fights back.
