The Hot Sheet #5 - Friday, October 24

The Hot Sheet

Fantastic Festival events with tickets still available!

Cancellation: Justin Trudeau in conversation with Stephen Quinn

Due to Wednesdays’s tragic events in Ottawa, Justin Trudeau’s appearance in Vancouver as part of the Vancouver Writers Fest has been cancelled.

We were informed this morning by his publisher, HarperCollinsCanada, that Trudeau will no longer be able to travel to Vancouver this week and that all efforts would be made to reschedule the event in future.

Trudeau was to talk with the CBC host Stephen Quinn at St. Andrew’s-Wesley United Church this evening about his new memoir, which was released Monday.

We have taken the event off sale and are notifying patrons about refunding their ticket purchases.

#Discovery Contest

Tweet or instagram your Festival discovery with hashtags #vwf2014 and #discovery for a chance to win tickets to our events with Bruce Cockburn (November 10) and Alan Doyle (November 13)! Click here for complete contest details, http://writersfest.bc.ca/prefaces/tavia/discovery-contest.

Friday, October 24

Event 58: Familiar Haunts | Waterfront Theatre | 6:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/58-familiar-haunts
Jacqueline Baker | Eric McCormack | Russell Wangersky

Ready for some hair-raising tales from three frightfully good Canadian writers? Jacqueline Baker, whose compelling, creepy novel features the frightening H.P. Lovecraft. Eric McCormack’s masterpiece of literary Gothicism stars a man haunted by his past. And Russell Wangersky’s dark psychological thriller spotlights a grocery store cleaner who collects the shopping lists people leave behind.

Saturday, October 25

Event 64: Probables and Impossibles | Performance Works | 10:30 am
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/64-probables-and-impossibles
Sebastien de Castell | A.M. Dellamonica | William Gibson

A morning of swashbuckling, fantastical lands and imaginary futures! The father of the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction William Gibson talks about his latest, a “sci-fi turducken,” and fantasy writers A.M. Dellamonica and Sebastien de Castell will take you into their “sumptuously detailed” worlds.

Event 73: Rules of Engagement | Performance Works | 5:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/73-rules-engagement
Dionne Brand | Thomas King | Lee Maracle | Christos Tsiolkas

At what point does engagement with contemporary concerns enter your work and how does it affect the art that you’re producing? Dionne Brand, Thomas King, Lee Maracle and Christos Tsiolkas discuss their decision to address social and political issues in their work.

Event 76: The Poetry Bash | Performance Works | 8:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/76-poetry-bash
Ken Babstock | George Elliott Clarke | Billeh Nickerson | Sina Queyras | Katherena Vermette | Patricia Young

This year’s Bash features poets from coast to coast, some launching careers and some who’ve been earning accolades for decades. Tonight is your cross-country checkup, proof that all is thriving in the world of Canadian poetics.

Event 77: Who I Really Am | Waterfront Theatre | 8:00 pm
http://writersfest.bc.ca/2014/events/77-who-i-really-am
Dinaw Mengestu | Shani Mooto | Tom Rachman | Kim Thúy

The search for identity is a complicated and quintessentially human experience. Dinaw Mengestu uses love and war to powerfully explore a third, equally dramatic theme: identity. Shani Mooto has written a brilliant metaphor for how we reexamine and reshape stories about ourselves. Tom Rachman’s novel explores how we must choose to make our own place in the world. And Kim Thúy’s novel features a young Vietnamese woman thrown into a new world.

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