Revue Theatre

Part of the Vancouver International Writers and Readers Festival 2008.

When baseball mitts can catch any ball, no matter how fast or how high, and families can fly, and teachers can be turned into frogs for science projects, you know you are in the realm of magic. Delight in the imaginary events that ... (more)come to life when two well-known and award-winning Canadian authors conjure ordinary words into masterful stories.
$14 + $1.50 facility surcharge / $7 for student groups

Part of the Vancouver International Writers and Readers Festival 2008.

C’est loin encore? On est bientôt arrivé? Tous
les enfants qui voyagent avec leur famille ont
déjà posé ces questions plus de cent fois.
Charlie a aussi d’autres commentaires à formuler
à la suite de ses nombreuses ... (more)aventures – et
de quelques désastres – en compagnie de son
jeune frère Max et de ses parents, en voyage à
travers l’Amérique du Nord ou en France.
Pour les élèves de la troisième
à la sixième année
Cette activité sera présentée
exclusivement en français;
il y aura beaucoup de possibilités
d’interaction entre les élèves
et les écrivains.
14 $ + 1.50 $ frais d’établissement / 7 $ pour les groupes d’étudiants

Part of the Vancouver International Writers and Readers Festival 2008.

Settle in for good ol’ storytelling from three very
fine Canadian authors who have won admiration
from their young readers for decades. Jean
Little’s farmyard families will delight young
readers, as will Hazel Hutchins’ ... (more)miniature roads
and houses created from backyard dirt and
sticks and Marie-Louise Gay’s tale of siblings
Stella and Sam at the seashore. The world is a
glorious place to explore with these authors.
Suitable for grades K to 3
$14 + $1.50 facility surcharge / $7 for student
groups

Part of the Vancouver International Writers and Readers Festival 2008.

Courage is a choice that we make—if we can.
Deborah Ellis has written stories about young
people in difficult circumstances all over the
world, those who are being called on to be
courageous every day, and in places where
often ... (more)the only resource they have to fall back
on is themselves. The need for courage, and
the possibility of hope, is the springboard
for a conversation that will take us into the
lives of children caught in the Palestinian/
Israeli divide, in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan
or in AIDS-stricken Africa.
Suitable for grades 6 to 9
$14 + $1.50 facility surcharge / $7 for student groups

Part of the Vancouver International Writers and Readers Festival 2008.

Paulette et les élèves de sa classe se rendent à
Toronto… et vivent des situations inattendues.
Tom part rendre visite à son père, qui vit dans le
Nord depuis de nombreuses années, et à son
arrivée à l’aéroport, ... (more)il constate que personne n’est
venu l’accueillir. Avec humour et délicatesse, Sylvie
Desrosiers décrit de quelle façon chacun de ces
personnages réagira face à l’imprévu et apprendra
ainsi à mieux se connaître et à mieux cerner les
personnes qui sont importantes à ses yeux.
Pour les élèves de la huitième
à la douzième année
Cette activité sera présentée
exclusivement en français; il y aura
beaucoup de possibilités d’interaction
entre les élèves et l’écrivaine.
$14 + $1.50 frais d’établissement / $7 pour les groupes d’étudiants

Part of the Vancouver International Writers and Readers Festival 2008.

Beyond realism lies a realm of fiction where
ghosts and the supernatural, the fantastic and the
mysterious, create mesmerizing images that linger
long after you close the book. Three authors whose
work will linger in your mind’s ... (more)eye take the stage
this morning to talk about writing the fantastic.
Elizabeth Knox imagines dreamhunters who
collect people’s dreams and turn them into dramatic
performances for theatrical presentation. In Andrew
Davidson’s The Gargoyle, a mysterious woman
caring for an injured man insists they were once
lovers in medieval Germany. And in Tristan Hughes’
Revenant, a ghost, real or metaphorical, is at the
heart of this compelling novel. A mustsee
for fans of hauntings and the gothic.
This event is sponsored by
Douglas & McIntyre Publishing Group.
$14 + $1.50 facility surcharge / $7 student groups

Part of the Vancouver International Writers and Readers Festival 2008.

Jerry Wasserman has delighted Festival audiences in past years with his interviews.
This year, he engages three intensely imaginative writers in discussion about the
world of words and the worlds they have created. Although you ... (more)may not have heard
of Winnipegger Andrew Davidson yet, you will this fall as his extraordinary debut
novel, The Gargoyle, is published—in Canada, the USA and the UK, with translations
set for 18 other jurisdictions next year. Well-known Indian author
Amitav Ghosh joins Wasserman to talk about Sea of Poppies, a
sweeping historical saga that spans the lush poppy fields of the
Ganges, the high seas and the backstreets of China. And Orange
Prize winner Linda Grant introduces her new novel, The Clothes on
Their Backs, which will have you thinking about the clothes we choose
To wear and the personalities we dress ourselves in.
$14 + $1.50 facility surcharge / $7 for student groups

Part of the Vancouver International Writers and Readers Festival 2008.

There are disputes about who wrote the first
crime novel, but there can be no doubt that, in
recent years, imaginative writers have given
the genre a new spin. The Spellmans in Lisa
Lutz’s side splittingly funny novels are ... (more)a highly
functioning yet dysfunctional family of gumshoes
that includes Izzy who even investigates men
she intends to date. The detectives in Leonie
Swann’s witty, philosophical mystery are sheep
investigating the murder of their shepherd. And in
her Depression era pot-boiler, Linda L. Richards
exposes the secret behind every male, noir
shamus: a quiet, faithful, good-looking secretary
who can keep her nylons’ seams straight, and
solve crimes.
$15+ $1.50 facility surcharge

Part of the Vancouver International Writers and Readers Festival 2008.

Who would argue with the assertion that the
unexamined life isn’t worth living? The lives of
contemporary girls and women give any writer
much to examine. But these are not just any
writers. Filmmaker and novelist Xiaolu ... (more)Guo
was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for her
first novel in English. Austin Clarke, who often
writes from the perspective of strong women,
won the Scotiabank Giller Prize in 2002. Multiaward-
winning writer Sheree Fitch is widely
recognized for her contribution to Canadian
literature and issues affecting women and
children. And Meg Wolitzer is renowned for her
portraits of women at critical turning points in
their lives.
$15 + $1.50 facility surcharge