Spring 2008
Art openings, book launches, lectures, parties and performances... doesn’t get much better than our Ideas Cafe...Come down to Oxygen for a breath of fresh air.
Admission $5-10
Our Last Event of the Season -
FRED WAH - "SENTENCED TO LIGHT"
Book Launch
Thursday June 26th, 7:30pm
Join us for an evening with our local Governor General Award winning poet, Fred Wah.
Fred Wah grew up in Nelson, taught at Selkirk College and founded the writing program at David Thompson University Centre. He studied music and English literature at the UBC where he was one of the founding editors of the poetry newsletter TISH. Following graduate work in literature and linguistics at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and the State University of New York at Buffalo, he returned to the Kootenays. After a final stint of teaching at the University of Calgary he now splits his time between Kootenay Lake and Vancouver. His book of prose-poems, Waiting For Saskatchewan, received the Governor-General's Award in 1986 and So Far was awarded the Stephanson Award for Poetry in 1992. Diamond Grill, a biofiction about hybridity and growing up in a small-town Chinese-Canadian cafe won the Howard O'Hagan Award for Short Fiction in 1996 and has just been republished in a second edition. A collection of critical writing, Faking It: Poetics and Hybridity (2000) was awarded the Gabrielle Roy Prize for Writing on Canadian literature. His recent book of poetry, Sentenced to Light, collects the poetic texts from a series of collaborations with visual artists.
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