Podcasts about vancouver writers festival

The celebrated Congolese-French writer joined Eleanor Wachtel onstage at the Vancouver Writers Festival in 2016. Mabanckou's recent books are charming explorations of childhood, family and country. His memoir The Lights of Pointe-Noire relates his experience of returning to his hometown after 23 years, while his novel Tomorrow I'll Be Twenty captures his childhood spirit in the character of his 10-year-old alter ego.

Optimism can feel in short supply in the face of climate change and worsening fires, floods and extreme weather across Canada. Matt Galloway talks about where to find that hope — and how to turn it into action — with authors Rebecca Solnit, John Vaillant and Chris Turner in a panel discussion recorded at the Vancouver Writers Festival.

Amy Amantea describes this year's Vancouver Writers Festival! She also chats about improv workshops offered by Tightrope Theatre. And she shares details about blind curling available at Vancouver Curling Club. From the September 28, 2022 episode.

Today on NOW with Dave Brown, Caitlin Kuzler describes ‘Taco,' an adaptive kitchen knife developed by students at McMaster University. Shaini Saravanamuthu shares her experience with the process of wedding planning and preparation. Shaini Saravanamuthu shares her experience with the process of wedding planning and preparation. Amy Amantea describes this year's Vancouver Writers Festival! Arno Kopecky explores the influence of the Conservative Party's new leader on climate change policy. And, Jennie Bovard and Meagan Gillmore join Dave for a roundtable discussion on some of our positive and negative experiences with accessibility when travelling. This is the September 28, 2022 episode.

The Paris-based author returned to his native Malaysia to tell a haunting tale of migration and murder in his most recent novel, We, The Survivors. Tash Aw spoke to Eleanor onstage at the Vancouver Writers Festival in 2019.

Fellow bibliophile Lorraine Weir joins the podcast to talk about Vancouver Writers Festival  event The Spectacular Complexity of Womanhood with authors Mona Awad, Zoe Whittall and Rachel Yoder. All three authors have written fresh, new novels borne out of their own life struggles. The books are also all anchored by strong female protagonists who also happen to be artists. Lorraine and Amy talk knitting, travel and book recommendations.Books and resources discussed: Into the Abyss by Carol ShabenRu by Kim ThuyThe Spectacular by Zoe WhittallThe Best Kind of People by Zoe WhittallSchitt's Creek, NetflixBunny by Mona Awad13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona AwadAll's Well by Mona AwadThe Midnight Library by Matt HaigNightbitch by Rachel Yoderdraft: the journal of processThe Girl with the Louding Voice by Abi DaréThe Four Winds by Kristin HannahThe Nightingale by Kristin HannahHave you Seen Luis Velez? by Catherine Ryan HydeFollow Red Fern Book Review:Instagram: @redfernbookreviewFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/redfernbookreview/Newsletter: https://redfernwriting.com/newsletter

Writer and poet Jen Sookfong Lee joins the podcast to discuss her debut poetry collection The Shadow List. Messy, raw and passionate Jen looks closely at women and desire. She reveals how poetry enables her to incorporate more of her true self into her writing and discusses her love of pop culture. She is a regular on CBC Radio One, a moderator for the Vancouver Writers Festival and has her own literary podcast Can't Lit.Books and Resources discussed:A Bright Ray of Darkness by Ethan HawkeThe Shadow List by Jen Sookfong LeeThe Conjoined by Jen Sookfong LeeSuperfan by Jen Sookfong Lee (to be released in fall of 2022)By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth SmartA Dream of a Woman by Casey PlettThe Most Precious Substance on Earth by Sashi BhatGutter Child by Jael RichardsonProbably Ruby by Lisa Bird-WilsonBrat: An 80's Story by Andrew McCarthyThe White Lotus, HBOAmy reviewed A Bright Ray of Darkness in Season 1, Episode 11. To listen to the review click here: A Bright Ray of DarknessFollow Red Fern Book Review:Instagram: @redfernbookreviewFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/redfernbookreview/Newsletter: https://redfernwriting.com/newsletterFollow Jen Sookfong Lee:Website: sookfong.comPodcast: Can't Lit

Summary:   This week we are talking about Set It Off, one of the best heist films of all time starring Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Vivica A. Fox, and Kimberley Elise. Also discussed: Fast & Furious, #JusticeForHan and the idea of a good hair utopia.     Show notes:   Why Set It Off is an era-defining film that shouldn't be remade (EW) How Set It Off raked it up (TIFF) Vivica A. Fox Answers Every Question We Have About Set It Off (Vulture)  Lisa's event at the Vancouver Writers Festival with author David Mitchell    Recommendations: Lisa: Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell (book) Andrea W.:  Big Flower Fight (Netflix) Andrea G.: Overseas (documentary film) Music credits: "Good Times" by Podington Bear From Free Music Archive CC BY 3.0   Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From Incompetch CC BY 3.0 Intro bed:"OLPC" by Marco Raaphorst Courtesy of Free Music Archive CC BY-SA 3.0 NL Pop This! Links: Pop This! on TumblrPop This! on iTunes (please consider reviewing and rating us!) Pop This! on Stitcher (please consider reviewing and rating us!) Pop This! on Google PlayPop This! on TuneIn radioPop This! on TwitterPop This! on Instagram Logo design by Samantha Smith Pop This! is two women talking about pop culture. Lisa Christiansen is a broadcaster, journalist and longtime metal head. Andrea Warner is a music critic, author and former horoscopes columnist. Press play and come hang out with your two new best friends. Pop This! podcast is produced by Andrea Gin and recorded at the Vancouver Public Library's wonderful Inspiration Lab.  

In a very special 4/20 episode of Spirits of the Law, Sarah and Matthew are joined by Andrew Forshner, Development Director of the Vancouver Writers Festival to talk about toking during special events in British Columbia, why our liquor laws are still stuck in the Dust Bowl era while most of society just wants to move on to the punch bowl. They also review two BC Spirits from Tofino Distilling, their Natural Botanicals selection. The last liquor reform report SOL permits not in the plan Special Cannabis Events in Ontario VPD on Cannabis Events California Regime BC Liquor laws are garbage How we got this pile of garbage Eby on Booze BC Liquor Law Reform Advocacy Fixing the monkeys paw Because we wished for a fix to liquor reform on a monkeys paw, and all our wishes were granted, in a way that somehow made the situation worse.

Award winning poet Shazia Hafiz Ramji joins co-hosts RC Weslowski and Kevin Spenst to read from her new book Port of Being (Invisible Publishing 2018), and talk about addiction, writing trauma at a slant, the influence of Vito Acconci's Following Piece on the book, and interviewing writers writing through an intersectional lens.

In this show, we connect with local Vancouver events through Studio 58's Angels In America Part One: Millennium Falcon, The Vancouver Writers Festival, UBC Theatre's Edward II, The Virtual Stage's The Zombie Syndrome: Dead In The Water, UBC's The Mueseum of Anthropology, and Pacific Theatre's A Good Way Out. Interviews with Dr. Anthony Shelton, Director of the Museum of Anthropology; Cara Norrish, playwright; and Anthony F. Ingram, director of A Good Way Out. Hosted by Ashley Park.

Forget pumpkin spice lattes - the real sign of fall in Vancouver is the buzz about the Vancouver Writers Festival. We sit down with artistic director Hal Wake to learn what the Writers Fest has in store for us this year and to hear his thoughts on the current state ofCanLit.