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Aqua Books
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Aqua Books

274 Garry St.
Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3C 1H3
Canada

204-943-7555; kellyaquabooks.ca

New/Used: Not set

Web site: http://www.aquabooks.ca/

Events: http://www.aquabooks.ca/events.p… (updated February 14)

Amenities: food/drink

Description: THE STORE

Over the last nine years, Aqua Books has become Winnipeg's most beloved used bookstore. A fierce bastion of Winnipeg culture, Aqua will soon make a new permanent home (read: no landlord) at 274 Garry Street in the benevolent capitalist shadow of Portage and Main. In March 2008, the new location will be loaded for bear, with 8400 square feet of activity. Chef Candace Hughes will be serving up plates full of joy at the new onsite EAT! bistro (you know food is love), and Aquaman Kelly Hughes will continue to dish up his brand of aggressive common sense in This Week at Aqua Books. (While selling a few books on the side.)
THE BOOKS
Aqua Books interior picture, used bookstore Winnipeg

Since our modest beginning on Notre Dame Avenue in 1999, we have strived to maintain the cleanest, most organized and most affordable used bookstore in Winnipeg. Our current location on Princess Street features a large fiction and literature selection, complemented by great non-fiction. Over 90% of our ever-changing stock of 25,000 books is priced under $10. Our new location on Garry will house 40-50,000 books in a space ten times the size of our old Notre Dame cubbyhole.

Aqua Books features one of the city's largest selections of plays, kids' books and cookbooks, plus 2500 titles in faith and theology. Just like Nabob and their beans, we reject thousands of books a year that don't measure up. All the books we do choose are cleaned (and repaired if necessary) before they are put on the shelves. We put out 400-500 books weekly, and put about 20% of them on our new books page. Our books are joined by 300 in-store produced fridge magnets, hundreds of vintage postcards and a thousand vintage photographs.
THE CULTURAL HUB

Aqua Books is getting closer to its goal of being Winnipeg's Cultural City Hall. We currently host the Stone Soup Storytellers, ideaExchange lecture series and Free Your Mind author reading series. With our coming expansion in the heart of Downtown Winnipeg, our thirty or so events a year will soon multiply. In keeping with our commitment to Winnipeg's creative spirit, we also sponsor the Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry. (Le Prix de poésie Lansdowne de Aqua Books)
Our new poetry award is part of the Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards, and carries a $1000 cash prize.
THE HYPE

Aqua Books has been one of Winnipeg's top used bookstores according to Uptown Magazine's Readers' Choice Awards for three years running. Aqua Books is also the winner of a 2005 Exchange BIZ Award of Excellence for developing ideaExchange (in conjunction with st. benedict's table) and BookWalk. The award is for promoting Winnipeg's Exchange District National Historic Site through marketing and event programming. Aqua Books has also been known to get a little press coverage from time to time too.
THE BOTTOM LINE

Come visit us.

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Great synergy of titles, events and bistro at this well-organized bookstore.
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Boreality Launch (January 29 at 7:00pm)
Katherine Bitney.
Katherine Bitney is the author of three critically acclaimed books of poetry: While You Were Out (Turnstone Press, 1981), Heart and Stone (Turnstone Press, 1989) and Singing Bone (The Muses Company, 1997), and is currently working on a fourth collection of poems. With Andris Taskans, she co-edited A/Cross ... (more)Sections (MWG, 2007). She has worked as an editor, mentor, and creative writing instructor, as well as arts juror and creative director for literary events for over 30 years in Manitoba. Boreality is a multi-year collaboration between Prairie Fire Press and the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra which involves a writer (Katherine Bitney), composer (Sid Robinovitch), photographer (Mandy Malazdrewich), sound recording artist (Ken Gregory) and project coordinator (Janine Tschuncky) going out into the boreal forest in each season to listen to the forest and the people who live there. The purpose of this project is to celebrate the boreal forest of Manitoba through a multidisciplinary approach involving writing, music, soundscape and photography which will result in a musical performance, a writer-in-residence program at Aqua Books, and a special issue of boreal forest writing to be published by Prairie Fire Press. "Boreality" is made possible in part by the Winnipeg Arts Council¹s New Creations Fund. The winter trip was completed in December 2008 and the Boreality creative team members would love to share some of their adventures with you. Come and learn more about the manuscript evaluation service from Prairie Fire¹s first writer-in-residence at Aqua Books!
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Speaking Crow (February 3 at 7:00pm)
Jim Tallosi.
Aqua Books is pleased to be the permanent home of the venerable poetry series Speaking Crow. The Crow starts at 7pm and is followed by two open-mic sets and short breaks in between. Come take up the mic and wax poetic about life, the universe and everything!
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Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry Series (February 5 at 7:00pm)
Di Brandt reads from So This Is the World & Here I Am in It.
In celebration of Manitoba's largest poetry prize, the Aqua Books Lansdowne, we present our new series of readings. Hosted in conjunction with the Writer's Collective, the series features winners, nominees, and other notable local poets. This fourth instalment in the series, offered in partnership with ... (more)the Writers' Collective, includes 2007 Lansdowne winner Laurie Block and his guests; Di Brandt and Colin Smith.
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ideaExchange - Climate Change Refugees (February 7 at 7:30pm)
Carol Thiesse.
With more and more evidence suggesting that climate change is likely to displace hundreds of thousands of people from their homes and even countries, one of the questions seldom asked is that of the international - and even personal - responsibility for the people Carol calls “climate change refugees.” ... (more)This conversation promises to be challenging, provacate, and probably more than a little unsettling, yet it may well be one of the most significant issues over the coming decades. Carol Thiessen holds an MSc in Global Ethics from the University of Birmingham, UK (2005), and her dissertation work focused on climate change refugees and the requirements of justice. She currently teaches development ethics in International Development Studies at Menno Simons College, and has written a number of climate change guides for the Manitoba NGO “Climate Change Connection”.
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The Stone Soup Storytellers (February 14 at 7:30pm)
People in all times and places have told stories. Stone Soup storytelling happens in the round, with the participants passing the talking stick around. If you want to tell a story, keep the stick. If you just want to listen, pass it along. Stone Soup has some very experienced tellers, but amateurs and ... (more)listeners are always welcome. The long-running Winnipeg storytellers' group has been around since the early '80's. Since 2005, they have been meeting September through May at Aqua Books, usually (though not always) on the second Saturday of the month. All sessions start at 7:30 pm, and are open to all (including children, although it's not really for the very young.) Admission is free.
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Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry Series (February 28 at 7:00pm)
Laurie Block, with Di Brandt and Colin Smith.
In celebration of Manitoba's largest poetry prize, the Aqua Books Lansdowne, we present our new series of readings. Hosted in conjunction with the Writers' Collective, the series features winners, nominees, and other notable local poets.
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Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry Series (March 5 at 7:00pm)
Catherine Hunter, with Méira Cook and Sarah Klassen.
In celebration of Manitoba's largest poetry prize, the Aqua Books Lansdowne, we present our new series of readings. Hosted in conjunction with the Writers' Collective, the series features winners, nominees, and other notable local poets.
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ideaExchange - The Simple Life (March 7 at 7:00pm)
Kara Mandryk.
In her recent book Flirting with Monasticism, Karen Sloan writes “Not everyone is called to the monastic life, but many of us would be blessed if we were able to live more monastically.” For those of us who won’t be taking up vows, can we reframe and adopt the three primary monastic vows of poverty, ... (more)chastity and obedience in an effort to live more monastically? This is a question of particular significance for a church community that bears the name of Benedict, one of the key founders of monastic life. Kara Mandryk holds a Doctorate in Worship Studies from The Robert E. Webber Institute for Worship Studies, and is Assistant Professor of Worship and Christian Spirituality at Providence College.
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Aqua U. presents Video Chapbook - Beyond Word (March 10 at 7:00pm)
Elvira Finnigan.
The first of the series of five short video poems that make up Video Chapbook, called Cup of Sadness, began with a personal response to a child’s drawing entitled Cup of Sadness which was based on the drawing of the same name by Canadian artist Betty Goodwin, exhibited at the Winnipeg Art Gallery. ... (more)The four videos poems that followed explored the internal world of mid-life, confusing the boundaries of the internal and the external and weaving a narrative of images and sound. The five poems were published in 2004 as a DVD collection, Video Chapbook. Elvira Finnigan is a Winnipeg based multi-media artist whose video work has been shown most recently in the WNDX festival in Winnipeg in October 2008. Her work has also been included in video programs that have been screened in the “From The ‘Peg” festival at the Harbourfront in Toronto in 2007 as well as in Halifax and Japan. Her current work involves photographing and uploading time-lapsed images of salt brine crystallization experiments in a web-based exhibition, Saltwatch: Timelapse.
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CBC Poetry Face-Off 2009 (March 11 at 7:30pm)
Di Brandt reads from Questions I Asked My Mother.
Poets Andrea von Wichert, Di Brandt, Marie Annharte Baker, Skip Stone, and T'ai Pu This event is hosted by Wabanakwut Kinew of CBC Radio One's The (204), and will feature a special non-competitive set by Chandra Mayor. The CBC Poetry Face-Off will be recorded for broadcast on CBC Radio. Andrea von Wichert ... (more)paints, writes and performs, but rarely simultaneously. For the last three years she has been a member of the Winnipeg Poetry Slam team at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word in Toronto, Halifax and Calgary. Her work has appeared in Prairie Fire and Mic Check: An Anthology of Spoken Word in Canada. She is the creator and producer of Girls!Girls!Girls! an annual women's art show and cabaret and is one of the organizers of the Winnipeg Poetry Slam. She prefers to spend her time at home playing with her cat and contemplating the state of Humanity. Di Brandt is the author of a dozen books of poetry, fiction and essays. Her poetry has been adapted for video, film, installation art, music and dance. Her poetry titles include questions i asked my mother, Agnes in the Sky, Jerusalem, beloved, and Now You Care. She has received numerous awards and recognitions for her poetry, including the Gerald Lampert Award for best first book of poetry in Canada, the Canadian Authors Association National Poetry Prize, a Silver National Magazine Award and the Foreword Magazine Gold Medal for General Fiction (with Annie Jacobsen and Jane Finlay-Young, for the collaborative novel, Watermelon Syrup). Di Brandt holds a Canada Research Chair in English and Creative Writing at Brandon University. Marie Annharte Baker (Little Saskatchewan First Nation) is Anishinaabe and a Winnipeg born/based writer, advocate/organizer for people with disabilities and member of the Aboriginal Writer's Collective. Her published books are Being on the Moon, Coyote Columbus Cafe and Exercises in Lip Pointing. A current project is a memoir as she bases creativity and inspiration from journal writing. She has also written essays, book reviews and plays besides being a storyteller in the Manitoba Public Schools. Consequently, she finds a real profession as being a grandmother. Skip Stone is a Winnipeg born writer who lives his civilian life under the alias Jonathan Surla. He is a member of Winnipeg B-boy crew Dangerous Goods under many aliases, and tried to be an actor in Toronto for what he feels may have been waaaaaay too long. He's been a member of the Winnipeg Poetry Slam Team twice and competed in Toronto and Halifax. He raps, wears hats, teaches kids how to boogie, and in his spare time he likes to write short bios for his various other aliases. T'ai Pu has worked as a verbal-percussionist with bands, DJs, poets, painters, healers, dancers, children and seniors in schools and extra curricular programs, in clubs and at festivals. Perfroming as PuConA, the intent at a gathering is to join with the audience in a celebration of that moment and the purpose of that gathering. Using chants, drums and beatboxing in combination with verbalz, spitz and spok'n werd to commune and to 'call-out' cats, performances tend to turn into circles with audiences becoming participants. Free up on the fire of word-sound power.
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Stone Soup Storytellers (March 14 at 7:30pm)
People in all times and places have told stories. Stone Soup storytelling happens in the round, with the participants passing the talking stick around. If you want to tell a story, keep the stick. If you just want to listen, pass it along. Stone Soup has some very experienced tellers, but amateurs and ... (more)listeners are always welcome. The long-running Winnipeg storytellers' group has been around since the early '80's. Since 2005, they have been meeting September through May at Aqua Books, usually (though not always) on the second Saturday of the month. All sessions start at 7:30 pm, and are open to all (including children, although it's not really for the very young.) Admission is free.
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Stone Soup Storytellers (March 14 at 7:30pm)
People in all times and places have told stories. Stone Soup storytelling happens in the round, with the participants passing the talking stick around. If you want to tell a story, keep the stick. If you just want to listen, pass it along. Stone Soup has some very experienced tellers, but amateurs and ... (more)listeners are always welcome. The long-running Winnipeg storytellers' group has been around since the early '80's. Since 2005, they have been meeting September through May at Aqua Books, usually (though not always) on the second Saturday of the month. All sessions start at 7:30 pm, and are open to all (including children, although it's not really for the very young.) Admission is free.
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The Vagina Monologues (March 20 at 7:00pm)
The Vagina Monologues Featuring Jennifer Lyon, Jan Skene, Kay Stone, Hilary Carroll, Sarah Roche, Barbra Berven, Marlo Rhoda, Lynn Rhoda, Andrea Del Campo, Sandy Bissoon, Lise McMillan, Giana Sherbo, Aisha Alfa, Michelle Alfa, Veronica Ternopolski, Noma Sibanda, Noelle Depape and Pauline Nemard The Vagina ... (more)Monologues is an award-winning episodic play written by Eve Ensler. In 1998, Ensler launched V-Day, a global non profit that has raised over $50 million for women's anti-violence groups. In 2008, over 4000 V-Day benefit events were produced by volunteer activists in the U.S. and around the world, educating millions of people about the reality of violence against women and girls. To date, the V-Day movement has raised over $60 million and educated millions about the issue of violence against women and the efforts to end it, crafted international educational, media and PSA campaigns, launched the Karama program in the Middle East, reopened shelters, and funded over 6000 community-based anti-violence programs and safe houses in Democratic Republic Of Congo, Haiti, Kenya, South Dakota, Egypt and Iraq. From this production of The Vagina Monologues, 90% of funds raised will be donated to Osborne House here in Winnipeg, with the balance going towards the V-Day global campaign Stop Raping our Greatest Resource: Power to Women in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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The Vagina Monologues (March 21 at 3:00pm)
The Vagina Monologues is an award-winning episodic play written by Eve Ensler. In 1998, Ensler launched V-Day, a global non profit that has raised over $50 million for women's anti-violence groups. In 2008, over 4000 V-Day benefit events were produced by volunteer activists in the U.S. and around the ... (more)world, educating millions of people about the reality of violence against women and girls. To date, the V-Day movement has raised over $60 million and educated millions about the issue of violence against women and the efforts to end it, crafted international educational, media and PSA campaigns, launched the Karama program in the Middle East, reopened shelters, and funded over 6000 community-based anti-violence programs and safe houses in Democratic Republic Of Congo, Haiti, Kenya, South Dakota, Egypt and Iraq. From this production of The Vagina Monologues, 90% of funds raised will be donated to Osborne House here in Winnipeg, with the balance going towards the V-Day global campaign Stop Raping our Greatest Resource: Power to Women in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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The Vagina Monologues (evening showing) (March 21 at 7:00pm)
The Vagina Monologues is an award-winning episodic play written by Eve Ensler. In 1998, Ensler launched V-Day, a global non profit that has raised over $50 million for women's anti-violence groups. In 2008, over 4000 V-Day benefit events were produced by volunteer activists in the U.S. and around the ... (more)world, educating millions of people about the reality of violence against women and girls. To date, the V-Day movement has raised over $60 million and educated millions about the issue of violence against women and the efforts to end it, crafted international educational, media and PSA campaigns, launched the Karama program in the Middle East, reopened shelters, and funded over 6000 community-based anti-violence programs and safe houses in Democratic Republic Of Congo, Haiti, Kenya, South Dakota, Egypt and Iraq. From this production of The Vagina Monologues, 90% of funds raised will be donated to Osborne House here in Winnipeg, with the balance going towards the V-Day global campaign Stop Raping our Greatest Resource: Power to Women in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Stone Soup Storytellers (April 2 at 7:00pm)
People in all times and places have told stories. Stone Soup storytelling happens in the round, with the participants passing the talking stick around. If you want to tell a story, keep the stick. If you just want to listen, pass it along. Stone Soup has some very experienced tellers, but amateurs and ... (more)listeners are always welcome. The long-running Winnipeg storytellers' group has been around since the early '80's. Since 2005, they have been meeting September through May at Aqua Books, usually (though not always) on the second Saturday of the month. All sessions start at 7:30 pm, and are open to all (including children, although it's not really for the very young.) Admission is free.
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2009 Manitoba Book Awards Nominee Reading: Best Illustrated Book of the Year / Manuela Dias Book Design of the Year (April 4 at 2:00pm)
Patricia Bovey, Louise Duguay, Jane Heinrichs and more.
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ideaExchange - Faith and Fourth: On the Other Side of the Media's Collapse (April 4 at 7:30pm)
Bramwell Ryan is a journalist and producer. He specializes in multi-platform content and creates video, audio, print, photographic and web material for media outlets and NGOs. His stories range from coverage of the largest caribou herd in the world to underage prostitutes in Bangladesh; grave robbers ... (more)in Haiti to post-tsunami rebuilding in Sri Lanka; the life of a Swiss shepherd to AIDS testing in rural Zambia. As a content producer and controller, an ex-publisher, ex-editor and ex-producer of newspapers, magazines and radio/television, Ryan is fascinated by the collapse of the media (as we know it). There are parallels between the panic and angst in today’s media and the spiritual exhaustion with the state of the church when Martin Luther grabbed a hammer and headed to the church in Wittenburg.
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Speaking Crow (April 7 at 7:00pm)
Andris Taskans.
Aqua Books is pleased to be the permanent home of the venerable poetry series Speaking Crow. The Crow starts at 7pm and is followed by two open-mic sets and short breaks in between. Come take up the mic and wax poetic about life, the universe and everything! Andris Taskans born and stayed put in Winnipeg, ... (more)has helped create, manage, and edit Prairie Fire magazine for over 30 years. Which is a manifest history --- the barbed wire fence around a prairie field, if you like. What is subterranean is that he's also been a poet. Jukebox Junkie, a chapbook of his verse, was published by Turnstone Press in 1987. What can be found of Taskans-the-poet are texts of no small acuity and slyness. Master of the short line and the one-word title. Poetic obsessions seem to include camping expeditions, fishing, beaches and lakes, a love of dragonflies, eros, winter, plus more dragonflies. There are some deeply poignant poems about a dying mother. Taskans writes a straightforward lyric that has emotional complications and subtle sonics. When he brings classical reference into it, he mutates them into bits that are puckishly funny: She is a burnt out neon queen He's an illiterate of the flesh Please listen to me, she begs Your skin weeps for your soul, he says There's a little bit of jello in each of us, the tv smirks and so we spend our pagan years (from "Shadows") Andris Taskans told me he's written not a single poem since Jukebox Junkie came out. Who knows whether he ever shall? The occasion of this reading may prove to be A Very Singular Thing.
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2009 Manitoba Book Awards Nominee Reading: Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book (April 8 at 7:00pm)
Andrew Davidson reads from The Gargoyle.
2009 Manitoba Book Awards Nominee Reading Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book Nominees Andrew Davidson, Daria Salamon, Christina Penner, Jan Guenther Braun and maybe Joan Thomas (check back)
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2009 Manitoba Book Awards Nominee Reading: Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction (April 11 at 2:00pm)
Cecil Rosner reads from Behind the Headlines: A History of Investigative Journalism in Canada.
2009 Manitoba Book Awards Nominee Reading Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction Nominees Cecil Rosner, Amy Karlinsky, Patricia Bovey and more
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Aqua U. presents The Gadgets of Hero of Alexandria (April 15 at 7:00pm)
Milo Nikolic.
Hero of Alexandria was an ancient Greek mathematician who was a resident of a Roman province (Ptolemaic Egypt); he was also an engineer who was active in his hometown of Alexandria. He is considered the greatest experimenter of antiquity and his work is representative of the Hellenistic scientific tradition. ... (more)Among his most famous inventions were the first documented steam-powered device, the aeolipile [right], and a windwheel, constituting one of the earliest instances of wind harnessing. He is said to have been a follower of the Atomists. Some of his ideas were derived from the works of Ctesibius. Milo Nikolic has been the Crake Doctoral Fellow in Classics at Mount Allison University, an engineering project manager, a sales engineer, and an R+D engineer. He attended Coventry Polytechnic (UK), Fachhochschule Osnabrück (Germany), Carl-von-Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (Germany), and the University of Calgary and the University of Victoria. Milo has participated in archaeological excavations in Jordan, Sicily, Turkey, and Calgary, and specializes in ancient water technology, Roman art and architecture, ancient technical texts, lead in antiquity, and renewable energies. Milo is currently assistant professor at the U of W.
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2009 Manitoba Book Awards Nominee Reading: The Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction (April 18 at 7:00pm)
Miriam Toews reads from The Flying Troutmans: A Novel.
2009 Manitoba Book Awards Nominee Reading The Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction Nominees David Bergen, Joan Thomas and Miriam Toews
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2009 Manitoba Book Awards Nominee Reading: The Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction (April 18 at 7:00pm)
David Bergen reads from The Retreat.
2009 Manitoba Book Awards Nominee Reading The Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction Nominees David Bergen, Joan Thomas and Miriam Toews
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Soapbox (April 21 at 7:00pm)
Every third Tuesday of the month, Aqua Books will present our new open mic series, Soapbox, one of only two series hosted by Bookstore Owner Kelly Hughes (the other being the Aqua Books Lansdowne series). Soapbox starts at 7pm and consists of two open-mic sets and a short break in between. This is Winnipeg's ... (more)only cross-genre open mic series. Bring your fiction, memoirs, fragments, poetry, songs, and anything you've written, for your 4 minutes of fame.
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2009 Manitoba Book Awards Nominee Reading: Le Prix littéraire Rue-Deschambault (April 22 at 7:00pm)
2009 Manitoba Book Awards Nominee Reading Le Prix littéraire Rue-Deschambault Candidats Tatiana Arcand, Louise Duguay et Lise Gaboury-Diallo
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Speaking Crow: June (June 2 at 7:00pm)
Meira Cook reads from Slovenly Love.
Aqua Books is pleased to be the permanent home of the venerable poetry series Speaking Crow. The Crow starts at 7pm and is followed by two open-mic sets and short breaks in between. Come take up the mic and wax poetic about life, the universe and everything! * * * Méira Cook is the author of 3 full-length ... (more)collections of poetry, several chapbooks, and the novel The Blood Girls (NeWest Press, 1998). Her most recent poetry book Slovenly Love (Brick Books, 2003) is a collection of 5 long poems that display a generous and theatricalized sentience, along with a wry and pixilated humour, even when the emotions and subject matter are despairing. Her critical book, Writing Lovers: Reading Canadian Love Poetry by Women, came out in 2005 from McGill-Queen's University Press. She is also the editor of Field Marks, a selection of poetry by Don McKay published in the Wilfred Laurier University Press Poetry Series in 2006. In spring 2008 one of Méira Cook's poems donned wheels and accompanied Winnipeg bus riders as one of the 8 winners of the Poetry in Motion contest. She has also been known to teach creative writing courses at the University of Manitoba.
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One night in June (June 4 at 7:00pm)
Ariel Gordon reads from Guidelines: Malaysia & Indonesia, 1999.; Sharon Caseburg reads from sleepwalking.
An evening of poetry with Sharon Caseburg & Ariel Gordon Please join Sharon & Ariel and their guests as they launch chapbooks from presses in Edmonton, Saskatoon, and Montreal. In addition to the readings, the event will feature visual art by Tim Schouten [whose artwork "Untitled #117 (In the Absence ... (more)of Horses)" is the cover of Guidelines] and Debbie Caseburg Tyson. There will ALSO be one of EAT! Bistro's splendid cakes and refreshments!
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Manitoba Editors' Association 2008-2009 Windup Party (June 10 at 5:00pm)
Come spend a relaxing evening with friends who share your passion for editing. EAT! Bistro will be closed to the public for the evening, and chef Candace Hughes will be offering a fabulous buffet dinner of lemon chicken, roast potatoes, grilled vegetables, salad and cupcakes. Enter to win great prizes! ... (more)And if you renew your MEA membership for the 2009-10 year, you'll have an additional chance to win. Feel free to bring guests, but remember that they will have to pay admission unless they are MEA members or they register as new members that evening. Please RSVP for your guests as well. Please RSVP by Friday, June 5 to meaworkshops@gmail.com if you plan to attend.
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Show Me What You're Made Of (June 11 at 7:00pm)
Noelle Roy.
Show Me What You're Made Of An evening featuring contest winners plus an open mic Inspiration A reading designed for students to share their writing with an audience. Three featured readers will be chosen from the Show Me What You're Made of poetry contest on www.writerscafe.org. An open-mic set will ... (more)follow. This event was put together as a part of a English final project of Glenlawn Collegiate student Noelle Roy, who is a writer and active member of www.writerscafe.org.
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Soapbox Open Mic (June 16 at 7:00pm)
Jaylene Johnson promotes Happiness.
Every third Tuesday of the month, Aqua Books presents our new open mic series, Soapbox, one of only two series hosted by Bookstore Owner Kelly Hughes (the other being the Aqua Books Lansdowne series). Soapbox starts at 7pm and consists of two open-mic sets and a short break in between. This is Winnipeg's ... (more)only cross-genre open mic series. Bring your fiction, memoirs, fragments, poetry, songs, and anything you've written, for your 4 minutes of fame. Jaylene JohnsonJaylene Johnson has a deep passion for songwriting and the power of music and lyrics. Since releasing her first record (Not Forgotten) in 2000, she has worked and traveled all over North America. She has received nominations and awards and her music has used for notable television shows like Dawson’s Creek (CBS/Sony) and Being Ericka (CBC Television). Jaylene's latest project, Happiness, will be released this year, and is her first record to feature a majority of co-written songs. Sharing knowledge and skills is important to Jaylene, and with over ten years in the performing, creative and administrative sides of the music industry, she has much to share. She currently resides in Winnipeg, teaching high school English and preparing to launch her new record. Kelly HughesBookstore Owner Kelly Hughes has worked as an actor (Pacific Theatre), a pre-teen TV star (Let's Go!), an arts administrator (Winnipeg Cultural Alliance), and an operations manager (WHERE Winnipeg). He founded Aqua Books a decade ago, and is somewhat infamous as the writer of This Week at Aqua Books. He does dozens of media interviews each year, and has done hundreds of speaking/hosting engagements, from the kindergarten class at Kumsheen Elementary, to the Burnaby Correctional Centre for Women.
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