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Authors Event to Benefit Centre For Child Honouring

Authors Event to Benefit Centre For Child Honouring

September 25th -  Nine Salt Spring authors in a Literary Reading about childhood – A benefit for the Centre for Child Honouring
Be enraptured, amused and touched by poets, novelists, nonfiction writers, literary prize-winners some with international reputations.
Each reader is limited to only 6 minutes. It should be a beautiful evening of examining and expressing both [...]

"Every Goodbye Ain't Gone" Book Launch

“Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone” Book Launch

Salt Spring Books and Dancing Crow Press are pleased to announce the launch of
Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone: A Photo Narrative of Black Heritage on Salt Spring Island. Text by Evelyn C. White photos by Joanne Bealy
Come celebrate this landmark community event on Sunday 27 September 2-4pm at Lions Hall.
About the book…
Disaffected with increasingly repressive laws [...]

Summer Reading Club 2009

Summer Reading Club 2009

Organizers of the summer reading club invite children to “Follow that Reader  – for information, inspiration, adventures, games, mystery and prizes. Meet guest authors and illustrators.”  This summer’s guests include Briony Penn, author of The Kids Book of Canadian Geography; Michela Sorrentino, illustrator of a new book “Alfalfabet: A-Z; and Garth Hendren, [...]

Tantric Picnic at the ArtSpring Gallery

Tantric Picnic at the ArtSpring Gallery

You are invited to share a tantric picnic  – at a reading in the ArtSpring Gallery. Monday April 27th 7PM Admission is  Free.
Hans Plomp, visiting Dutch author, will be reading from Tantric  Picnic, Tales of India, in the ArtSpring Gallery on Monday night.  This is the first reading of this fascinating work in English [...]

Writers' Workshop

Writers’ Workshop

The Way of a Story: crafting  fiction and creative non-fiction – a four day workshop with Kathy Page and Derek Lundy
Salt Spring Island May 9-13th , 2009
Writers of memoir, fiction and creative non-fiction are all storytellers, and  each genre has much to offer the other. This workshop is a unique opportunity for both beginners and experienced [...]