Words Alive Kamloops 2018
Words Alive Kamloops 2018
Kamloops, BC
The 2018 edition of Words Alive Kamloops (formerly known as the Kamloops Writers Festival) features Sam Wiebe, Kerry Gilbert, Corinna Chong, Dennis Staginnus and Tariq Hussain. Join our guests and writers new and veteran for panel presentations, music and readings, and workshops!
Fri, Oct 19 2018
6:00 PM
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Sun, Oct 21 2018
4:00 PM
A Conversation with Lindsay Wong
A Conversation with Lindsay Wong
Kamloops, BC
Shelley Joyce from CBC Kamloops sits down for a conversation with Canada Reads contender Lindsay Wong, author of The Woo-Woo: How I Survived Ice Hockey, Drug Raids, Demons, and My Crazy Chinese Family. To be recorded and broadcast on CBC Radio. "The Woo-Woo will break your heart, then bind it back …
Thursday, March 14 2019
7:00 PM
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8:30 PM
Brian Goldman: The Power of Kindness
Brian Goldman: The Power of Kindness
Kamloops, BC
Dr. Brian Goldman - of CBC Radio's "White Coat, Black Art" - discusses his book The Power of Kindness. Talk + Q&A + book signing. As a veteran emergency room physician, Dr. Brian Goldman has a successful career setting broken bones, curing pneumonia, and otherwise pulling people back from the brin…
Thursday, February 28 2019
7:30 AM
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8:30 AM
An Evening with John Conrad
An Evening with John Conrad
Kamloops, BC
Join us for a personal account of one veteran's experience of PTSD, a story centred on the lives of three soldiers, two sho survived PTSD and one who did not. Conrad tackles stigma and provides a message of both struggle and hope.
Thursday, October 24 2019
7:00 PM
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9:00 PM
Words Alive Kamloops 2019
Words Alive Kamloops 2019
Kamloops, BC
A festival for readers and writers, featuring a guest author panel, readings, writing workshops and a variety night. Six guest authors bring their talents to Kamloops to celebrate the written arts.
Fri, Sep 20 2019
12:00 PM
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Sun, Sep 22 2019
5:00 PM
Jack Knox - Growing Up in the Golden Age of Kamloops Journalism
Jack Knox - Growing Up in the Golden Age of Kamloops Journalism
Kamloops, BC
Come here Jack Knox - funny formerly Kamloopsian and current columnist with the Victoria Times-Colonist - rattle on with anecdotes about the newspaper war of the 1970s and '80s and the state of journalism today!
Friday, June 1 2018
7:00 PM
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8:30 PM
An Evening with Kate Harris
An Evening with Kate Harris
Kamloops, BC
Writer and adventurer Kate Harris talks about her life and travels, and reads from her acclaimed book Land of Lost Borders. Her essays, journalism, and poetry have featured in The Walrus, Canadian Geographic, Arc Poetry Magazine, and The Georgia Review, among others, with citations in Best Americ…
Friday, January 25 2019
7:00 PM
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8:30 PM