I actually had never heard of the Festival but they had an article about it in the Montreal Gazette and there were alot of films which caught my eye. I got tickets for Dylan Thomas - Grave to Cradle and The Mysterious Mr. Hopper about American artist, Edward Hopper. The festival goes until Sunday so I'm glad I'll be able to see a few movies before it ends.
I'm also really excited about the Concordia Creative Alumni who are coming this Friday to speak at Concordia University. It'll be nice to see professional writers who have graduated from the program I'm in and see what they had to do to get where they are now.
The following information comes from the English department's website.
CONCORDIA CREATIVE WRITING ALUMNI:
CATHERINE KIDD, NINO RICCI,
MANSEL ROBINSON, AND CARMINE STARNINO
Friday, 18 March 2004
Location to be announced, 7:30 pm
Catherine Kidd is the author and performer of Sea Peach, a book/CD collection of inter-linked stories with original soundscapes by dj Jack Beets (Conundrum Press, 2002). Sea Peach won the Montreal English Critics Circle Award [MECCA] for Best New Text of 2003, and sections of the critically-acclaimed show were toured last summer to festivals in Scotland, England, and Norway. Catherine's stories have been featured on CBC radio, and aired nationally on ZedTV. She has performed in venues across the country, and locally in such festivals as Voix D'Amerique and Metropolis Bleu. Her novel Bestial Rooms is expected to be released later in 2004 by Thomas Allen.
Nino Ricci’s first novel, Lives of the Saints, garnered international acclaim and won the Governor General's Award, the Books in Canada First Novel Award, and, in England, the Betty Trask Award and the Winifred Holtby Prize. He has also published In A Glass House, Where She Has Gone (shortlisted for the Giller Prize) and, most recently, Testament (Doubleday, 2003), which was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize for Canada and the Caribbean, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and the Pearson Canada Readers’ Choice Award, and won the Trillium Award. Born in Leamington, Ontario, Ricci lives in Toronto, where he writes full time.
Mansel Robinson’s plays include Collateral Damage (Blizzard); Colonial Tongues, The Heart As It Lived and Downsizing Democracy (Playwrights Canada); and Rock ‘n Rail: Two Plays (Thistledown, 2001). Slag, a book of short fiction and poetry (Thistledown), and Street Wheat (Coteau, 2002), were shortlisted for Book Of the Year at the Saskatchewan Books Awards. His new play, Picking Up Chekhov, will be given a staged reading this May at the Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre’s Spring Festival of New Plays. Robinson is a two-time winner of Saskatchewan’s Jack V. Hicks Award and The City of Regina Award. He is currently writer-in-residence at the University of Windsor.
Carmine Starnino is a Montreal poet, critic, and editor. Forthcoming in 2004 are his book of criticism on Canadian poetry, A Lover's Quarrel (Porcupine's Quill Press) and his third book of poems, With English Subtitles (Gaspereau Press). His first book, The New World (Véhicule Press, 1997), was nominated for the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and was selected by Quill & Quire as one of the best Canadian books of 1997. His second book, Credo (McGill-University Press, 2000), won the 2001 Canadian Authors Association Prize for Poetry. He is the poetry editor for Vehicule Press's Signal Editions.
(Supported by The Canada Council for the Arts and the Interdepartmental Partnership with Official Language Communities of the Department of Canadian Heritage)
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