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SponsorsThe Lethbridge Public Library, host of The Word On The Street Festival, would like to thank all our amazing Sponsors and Community Partners who make this festival possible.

COMMUNITY PARTNERS

NATIONAL SPONSORS

REGIONAL SPONSORS

University of Lethbridge Bookstore SAAGUniversity of Lethbridge Art Gallery Galt Museum & ArchivesHelen Schuler Nature Centre Family CentreLethbridge Children’s Literature Roundtable ReMaxSutton

We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund (CBF) for this project.

Lethbridge Lodge and Conference Centre The Friends of the Lethbridge Public LibrarySave-on-Foods Alpine DrywallFine Prints Screen Printing & Embroidery DA Building SystemsCervus Equipment Dorren ElectricPark Place Shopping Centre Fiona BarnettLondon Drugs Flaman Sales and Rentals

Welcome & Schedule

It’s fall and the spirit of learning, reading and books surrounds us. Enjoy this special Festival that is woven around author readings, music performances, a tent marketplace and fun activities for everyone. The Word On The Street Festival offers you a chance to meet the initiators: the writer or publisher behind the book, the musician that’s part of the band and talent behind the face painter. Our reading experiences are enriched by hearing the story behind the story, where did the idea come from, how was the poem, article, performance polished to perfection.

“This is the 4th year that the Library is hosting the Festival; it definitely provides an opportunity for us to connect with the community in a fun way. It gives us a chance to work together with national and local sponsors and volunteers and to showcase authors and talent to highlight the Festival’s theme: advocating literacy and celebrating reading.” says Library CEO, Tony Vanden Heuvel.

B-93/Country 95.5 Stage

Canadian Heritage Stage

Poetry Stage Teen Zone Astro Insurance and Registry Kid’s Corner

Workshops

11:00 Steven Keenan &Greg Gomola

Julie Van Rosendaal Open Mic Open Mic

11:15

11:30 Trivia & Crafts Open Mic Cartooning for KidsEric Dyck11:45

12:00 Welcome Speeches Michael Hingston Herb Hicks Karen Bass Dawn Sprung

12:15

12:30

12:45

1:00 Who’s Yer Daddy Kim McCullough Christian Bök Carrie Mac Michelle Mulder Cartooning for TeensEric Dyck1:15

1:30

1:45

2:00 Kavanagh & Hepher Diana Davidson Derek Beaulieu Morgan Rhodes Ruth Ohi

2:15

2:30 Getting Your Writing PublishedKelsey Attard

2:45

3:00 Tangible Radiance Lyndon Penner Sharron Proulx-Turner Erin Bow Martin Springett

3:15

3:30

3:45

4:00 Three Jacks and a Jill Stephen Legault Taylor Lambert Jacqueline Guest Storytelling by the Lethbridge Public Library

4:15

4:30

4:45

5:00

ARTS DAYSDiscover. experience. celebrate

2014SEPTEMBER 21 - 28www.lethbridgeartsdays.org

Lethbridge

B-93/Country 95.5 Stage

Canadian Heritage Stage

Poetry Stage Teen Zone Astro Insurance and Registry Kid’s Corner

Workshops

11:00 Steven Keenan &Greg Gomola

Julie Van Rosendaal Open Mic Open Mic

11:15

11:30 Trivia & Crafts Open Mic Cartooning for KidsEric Dyck11:45

12:00 Welcome Speeches Michael Hingston Herb Hicks Karen Bass Dawn Sprung

12:15

12:30

12:45

1:00 Who’s Yer Daddy Kim McCullough Christian Bök Carrie Mac Michelle Mulder Cartooning for TeensEric Dyck1:15

1:30

1:45

2:00 Kavanagh & Hepher Diana Davidson Derek Beaulieu Morgan Rhodes Ruth Ohi

2:15

2:30 Getting Your Writing PublishedKelsey Attard

2:45

3:00 Tangible Radiance Lyndon Penner Sharron Proulx-Turner Erin Bow Martin Springett

3:15

3:30

3:45

4:00 Three Jacks and a Jill Stephen Legault Taylor Lambert Jacqueline Guest Storytelling by the Lethbridge Public Library

4:15

4:30

4:45

5:00

ARTS DAYSDiscover. experience. celebrate

2014SEPTEMBER 21 - 28www.lethbridgeartsdays.org

Lethbridge

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Exhibitors

ACFA régionale de LethbridgeAlberta Magazine Publishers

AssociationAllied Arts Council of LethbridgeAntojitos - Latin CravingsAramarkBook Publishers Association of

AlbertaCanadian Blood ServicesCanadian Cancer SocietyChinook Arch Regional Library

SystemCounty of Lethbridge LiteracyDream Write Publishing Ltd.Family CentreFrench Learning CentreFriends of the Lethbridge Public

LibraryGalt Museum & ArchivesHelen Schuler Nature Centre

Islamic Da’wah CentreJackie McNamaraLa Médiathèque de LethbridgeLethbridge Lifelong Learning

AssociationLethbridge LivingM&M Meat ShopsM. D. Millar PublishingMediatheque Francophone Emma

MorrierRead OnRed Engine Coffee RoastersSouthern Alberta Art GallerySouthern Alberta Technology CouncilThe River Bottom WritersUniversity of Lethbridge Art GalleryUniversity of Lethbridge BookstoreUzoma UponiVolunteer LethbridgeWest Winds Kettle Corn

Author Biographies

Karen BassKaren Bass thinks libraries are dangerous places! They are full of ideas – and the one she got after going to work at her local library, was that she wanted to write. Since that idea took root, she has published four novels for teens. Her latest, Graffiti Knight, has won both the Alberta Literary Award for children’s literature and the Canadian Library Association’s 2014 YA Book of the Year Award. A fourth generation Albertan, Karen resides in the Peace Country. With her three children grown, she now travels as much as she can, and finds that it inspires her. When she isn’t on the road, she is in her office, trying to write on her laptop while a cat insists on occupying most of her lap. On the Internet, her home base is www.karenbass.ca.

Derek BeaulieuAuthor of eight books of poetry (most recently a volume of his selected poetry entitled Please, No More Poetry), four volumes of conceptual fiction (most recently the short fiction collection Local Colour: ghosts, variations) and over 175 chapbooks, Derek Beaulieu’s work is consistently praised as some of the most radical and challenging in contemporary Canadian writing. In addition to his creative work, his first volume of criticism, Seen of the Crime, was published Fall 2011 by Snare Books and is now available on UBUWeb. Beaulieu is an award-winning instructor of Creative Writing, Theory and Contemporary Canadian Literature at the Alberta College of Art + Design. Derek Beaulieu is the 2014-2016 Poet Laureate of Calgary.

Christian BökChristian Bök is the author not only of Crystallography (1994), a pataphysical encyclopedia nominated for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, but also of Eunoia (2001), a bestselling work of experimental literature, which has gone on to win the Griffin Prize for Poetic Excellence. Bök is working on a project, entitled The Xenotext, which involves him engineering a bacterium so that it might store a poem in its genome. Bök teaches English at the University of Calgary.

Erin BowErin Bow is a rising star in the world of YA fantasy. Her debut novel, Plain Kate, won the TD Canadian Children’s Literary Award in 2011. Her second, Sorrow’s Knot was named one of best books of 2013 by Quill & Quire and Kirkus, and is currently shortlisted for several top awards. Canada’s only physicist turned writer, Erin has the world’s coolest dayjob, as the science writer

for the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. She lives in Kitchener, Ontario, with her husband James (also a YA novelist) and their two small daughters.

Diana DavidsonDiana Davidson lives in Edmonton, Alberta. Davidson’s debut novel Pilgrimage was published by Brindle & Glass in September 2013 and has been heralded as a work of “frontier feminism” by The Edmonton Journal. The novel is a story of love and loss that takes place on the Lac St. Anne Métis settlement in the 1890s. Pilgrimage was shortlisted for the 2014 Alberta Readers’ Choice Awards and regularly appears on The Edmonton Journal bestseller list. Davidson’s shorter work can be found in 40 Below, Alberta Views, Avenue Edmonton Magazine, Little Fiction, The Winnipeg Review, and Women’s Words. Her essays have been long-listed for the Canada Writes CBC creative nonfiction prize (2012) and awarded the Writers’ Guild of Alberta “Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Prize” (2010). Davidson has a Ph.D. in literature and was one of Edmonton’s “Top 40 Under 40” in Avenue Magazine (2011). Davidson loves her ‘day job’ as the Director of the Public Library Services Branch with the Government of Alberta.

Jacqueline GuestInternational award winning author of eighteen novels, Jacqueline Guest has stood on an iceberg, flown a kite in a hurricane and worn bedroom slippers in Parliament while on the job as a writer. Topics for her fast paced books range from deadly video games to comic book superheroes and mysterious meteorites! She has toured across North America speaking on the importance of reading. In 2014, Jacqueline took this message to children in far off Tanzania and is thrilled to say there are now readers in Africa enjoying her books!

Herb HicksHerb Hicks is a musician, artist, teacher, fossil hunter and author whose interests have taken him across Canada, United States and Europe. Herb was born and raised in Williston, North Dakota in 1934. He spent a number of years in California as a musician, artist and teacher. Herb has a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, Minneapolis School of Art and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He attended Westlake College of Music, Hollywood, U.S. Air Force Microwave Tech School, Illinois and Skowhegan Art School, Maine. He is Professor Emeritus, Art Department University of Lethbridge.

Author Biographies

Michael HingstonMichael Hingston is the books columnist for the Edmonton Journal. Called “one of the sharpest young literary critics in this country” by 49th Shelf, his journalism has also appeared in the Globe and Mail, Salon, Eighteen Bridges magazine, and McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. His first novel, The Dilettantes (Freehand), was a #1 regional bestseller and received a starred review in Quill & Quire; the Winnipeg Free Press said it “may well be the Great Canadian Comic Novel.” Hingston’s fiction also appears in the anthology 40 Below (Wufniks). Born and raised in North Vancouver, Hingston now lives in Edmonton with his partner and two children.

Taylor LambertHailed as “one of those genuine Canadian literary figures who remains at-large and on the horizon” by Beatroute Magazine and “a damn good writer” by Global TV book reviewer Devin Pacholik, Taylor Lambert has emerged as a unique independent voice in Canadian journalism. Having written for many newspapers and magazines in his career, Lambert has published two books to acclaim; Leaving Moose Jaw, a rollicking travel memoir of India; and Rising: Stories of the 2013 Alberta Flood, the only literary journalism to come out of the disaster.

Stephen LegaultStephen Legault is the author of ten books, including most recently The Glacier Gallows, Running Toward Stillness and the forthcoming Black Sun Descending. A resident of Canmore, Alberta, Stephen works full time in the conservation movement, helping communities, First Nations, tribes, businesses and governments address the impacts of climate change on landscapes. He is a father of two, a devoted husband, and a climber, runner and mountain biker who will publish his first book of photography in 2015 on the Rocky Mountain Front of Montana and the foothills of southern Alberta. Visit him online at www.stephenlegault.com.

Carrie MacCarrie Mac is the award-winning author of ten novels for teens, and is the resident storyteller at www.thestoryforest.com. She lives in East Van with her partner and two children.

Kim McCulloughKim McCullough is a writer and teacher from Calgary, Alberta. Her first novel, Clearwater, is nominated for a High Plains award. Kim is the 2014 winner of the Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Award for her essay Night/light. Kim has work forthcoming in Grain and Room Magazine.

Michelle MulderMichelle Mulder is the author of Every Last Drop: Bringing Clean Water Home, Pedal It!, Brilliant, Not a Chance, Out of the Box, After Peaches and several other books for young people. Her non-fiction combines facts with personal stories in a conversational style, and water—the subject of her latest book—is a topic she’s been passionate about for years, ever since a water-borne illness knocked her flat in Peru. Friends and family in Victoria, British Columbia, are used to her traveling everywhere by bicycle and showing up for events with a banged-up metal water bottle in hand. For more information, please visit www.michellemulder.com

Ruth OhiRuth is the illustrator of over 50 children’s books, 16 of which she also wrote. Ruth’s books have been nominated for awards such as the Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, Shining Willow, Rainforest of Reading and Blue Spruce. Her “Kenta and the Big Wave” (Annick Press) is a Kirkus Reviews Best Book and The Centre for the Study of Multicultural Children’s Literature Best Book Selection. Author/illustrated books include the “Chicken, Pig, Cow” series (Annick Press), “Fox & Squirrel” (Scholastic Canada), and Spring 2014’s “Shhh! My Brother’s Napping (Scholastic Canada). Her latest book is Fall 2014’s “Fox and Squirrel Make a Friend” (Scholastic Canada). www.RuthOhi.com.

Author Biographies

Lyndon PennerLyndon Penner grew up in rural Saskatchewan and was fascinated with both books and gardening from a very young age. He began writing for the magazine ‘The Gardener for the Prairies’ at the age of 16 and continued writing for various organizations, but it wasn’t until last year that he signed his first book deal. ‘The Short Season Yard’ is his first (but probably not last) book.

Sharron Proulx-TurnerThough from the Ottawa river valley Métis since the mid-1500s, Sharron Proulx-Turner lives in Calgary and is a member of the Métis Nation of Alberta. She’s a two-spirit nokomis, mom, writer and community worker. Where the Rivers Join (1995), a memoir (Beckylane), was a finalist for the Edna Staebler Award for creative non-fiction. what the auntys say (2002), was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Prize for first book of poetry, and she is reading her blanket with her hands (2008) was shortlisted for the Governor General Award. Sharron has two additional books, she walks for days/ inside a thousand eyes/ a two-spirit story (2008), and the trees are still bending south (2012). She is published in several anthologies and journals.

Morgan RhodesMorgan Rhodes is the New York Times bestselling author of Falling Kingdoms, a YA high fantasy series that’s been called “Game of Thrones for teens,” and has been a YALSA finalist for both the Best Fiction for Teens and the Teens’ Top Ten awards. Under the pen name Michelle Rowen, she’s an award-winning author of over two dozen paranormal novels. Morgan lives in Southern Ontario.

Martin SpringettMartin Springett, was born in England and emigrated to Vancouver Island, Canada, at the age of eighteen. Martin played and toured in rock bands for many years in England, Europe and Canada. Moving to Toronto, Martin worked in every area where illustration was required. In 1984 he created the cover for The Summer Tree, the first volume in The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gavriel Kay, now considered a classic in the fantasy genre. This led to his first illustrated kids book, Mei Ming and The Dragon’s Daughter. Many more followed, Who,The Follower, The Night Walker, Jousting With Jesters, Breakfast On A Dragon’s Tail and Kate and Pippin. The sequel to Kate and Pippin, Kate and Pippin’s Family, will be released in the Fall of 2014.

Dawn SprungDawn Sprung (former Welykochy) has written two children’s books, both ideally suited for the Elementary classroom teaching about Alberta’s wonderful history. Dawn graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Calgary, majoring in English. Dawn worked with her family company for 20 years and now is at home with four children. She lives on a ranch, where the river runs through and surrounded by Alberta’s forests and its life within, she is very much inspired to write. Dawn enjoys presenting her book and related activities and crafts to the Grade 3 through 6 classrooms.

Julie Van RosendaalJulie Van Rosendaal is the best-selling author of 6 cookbooks; she is the food and nutrition columnist on the Calgary Eyeopener on CBC Radio One, a regular on TV and at live cooking events, she writes for many regional, national and international publications and is perhaps best known for her award-winning food blog, DinnerWithJulie.com. She lives in Calgary with her husband and 9 year old son.