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    Note: During the Festival tickets for all events are sold at the pass and ticket table in the main floor foyer of the Art Museum.
    Unless otherwise listed, tickets for sessions are $8.00 and will only be sold the day of the session. When you purchase a session ticket, you are not guaranteed a seat in a specific presentation, only for one of the presentations in a particular time slot.
    Those wanting seats for a specific presentation are advised to purchase their tickets as early as possible and to arrive at the site as soon as the doors open. Pass holders are advised to arrive 10 minutes before the start of preferred presentation. Sufficient seats will be available in each time slot, but there is no guarantee of seating at any one presentation.

Thursday July 21 – Day
Workshops

Rotary Club of Moose Jaw Wakamow presents KIDS INK
A writing workshop for 10 -13 year olds
Author Dave Glaze will lead participants through a few exercises intended to develop skills in young writers. Emphasis will be on creating characters and settings that suit your stories. You will be invited to work independently and share what you write. There will be lots of time for questions.
9:00 am – noon, South Room, Public Library  $10.
Pre-registration required. (Not included with Festival pass.)

Saskatchewan Writers Guild presents “Poetry for a Start”
For adults
An examination of some of the essentials of writing poetry through directed activities, discussion and demonstration with celebrated poet Richard Harrison. This session is open to those 18 and over who are seeking to acquire some insights and useful approaches to writing poetry. Bring your enthusiasm and questions about writing poetry.
9:00 am – noon, Taylor Room, Public Library  $25.
Pre-registration required. (Not included with Festival pass.)

“The Great Big Book Club”
For adults
During the first portion author Lois Simmie will be in attendance to discuss her novel What I’m Trying To Say is Goodbye and answer questions regarding the book. The second half will involve a discussion on joining and organizing book clubs, issues, challenges and potential solutions, and other book club “secrets.”
Moderated by Martha Tracey.
1:30 pm – 4:30 pm, South Room, Public Library  $25.
Pre-registration required. (Not included with Festival pass.)

“Creating Creative Non-Fiction ”
A master class offering from the Saskatchewan Writers Guild
Acclaimed creative non-fiction writer Rosemary Sullivan will discuss her own evolution as a creative non-fiction writer and the definition of creative non-fiction. This session is open to those who have published one book through a literary or trade publisher, those who have had the equivalent amount of writing published in periodicals, or those who have had one play professionally produced.
 2:30 pm – 5:00 pm, Taylor Room, Public Library  $60.
Pre-register by contacting the Saskatchewan Writers Guild at 306-791-7743 .

Thursday, July 21 – Evening
Adult and Youth

Casino Moose Jaw presents Seven Times Lucky
with thanks to CineView Saskatchewan

This noir thriller is the feature directorial debut from Winnipeg’s Gary Yates. It screened to  stellar reviews and sold-out crowds at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival and was also a double winner at the Method Fest Film Festival in Los Angeles, taking home top awards for Best Picture and Best Screenplay. Seven Times Lucky stars Kevin Pollak (The Usual Suspects) in a stunning dramatic role as Harlan, an aging, small-time grifter who meets Fiona (Liane Balaban, New Waterford Girls) an attractive and ambitious student. Both are on the hunt to make it big when they learn of a scheme to steal some black market watches. Harlan struggles to manouevre within the world of crime, often dooming himself to failure and feeling unworthy in the shadow of his father’s legendary name. This, coupled with his increasingly complicated relationship with Fiona, works to send him plunging into a sea of deception and seemingly unresolvable problems.
Showtime: 6:30 pm
Galaxy Cinema, Town ‘N’ Country Mall  $8.

Wrapture Day Spa & Salon and The Heritage Inn
present Misadventures in Dating

Meet Amy Cameron, author of Playing with Matches: Misadventures in Dating, a collection of bad dating tales that captures the sometimes hilarious and unpredictable world of dating. In addition to recounting tales from her book, Cameron encourages the audience to share memories of their own bad dates, laugh at other bad date stories and be thankful that they didn’t happen to them. Cash bar and penny parade included.
7:00 pm. The Silo, north side of The Heritage Inn  $5.


Casino Moose Jaw presents "Readception"
Catch a sneak preview of Festival offerings with impromptu mini-readings from Nicole Brossard, Camilla Gibb, Richard Harrison, Victor Malarek, Peter Robinson, Rosemary Sullivan, Drew Hayden Taylor and Dan Yashinsky, and a performance from Daniel Williston. Reception included.
Doors open 8:30 pm, program begins at 9:00 pm,  Seasons Restaurant, The Heritage Inn
Free admission

Friday, July 22 – Day
Adult and Youth
Dan Yashinsky
“Suddenly They Heard Footsteps.” Storyteller Dan Yashinsky, author of Suddenly They Heard Footsteps - Storytelling for the Twenty-First Century presents storytelling, traditional and avant-garde, drawing from his book which delves into storytelling in everyday life, in family history and as an art.
9:00 – 9:50 am, Art Museum Theatre.

Warren Cariou and Amy Cameron
Acclaimed author Warren Cariou reads from Lake of the Prairies, a story of belonging set in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan. The book was the winner of the 2002 Writers Trust Drainie-Taylor Prize. Award-winning journalist Amy Cameron, author of Playing with Matches: Misadventures in Dating discusses the trials and tribulations of dating. writing about dating, gathering the real stories from women and hiding their identities while still keeping all the delicious details
9:00 – 9:50 am, Reading Room, Public Library.

T. F. Rigelhof and Charles Montgomery
“Saskatchewan Now and Then.” T. F. (Terry) Rigelhof reflects on the past 50 years of writing about Saskatchewan and reads from his memoir Nothing Sacred A Journey Beyond Belief. Writer/photojournalist Charles Montgomery reads from The Last Heathen tracing his journey through Melanesia and his own descent into the world of faith, myth and magic.
9:00 – 9:50 am, South Room, Public Library.

Byrna Barclay and Larry Gasper
Novelist/playwright Byrna Barclay reads from Girl at the Window, her eighth book, a work of short fiction. Larry Gasper reads from Princes in Waiting, a short story collection, and talks about the process of writing his book.
9:00 – 9:50 am, Taylor Room, Public Library.

Joy Fielding
“Puppet - Pulling the strings in contemporary fiction” Joy Fielding reads from her New York Times best-selling mystery novel Puppet and discusses her philosophy, techniques and pressures of writing in general and of the novel Puppet in particular.
10:10 – 11:00 am, Art Museum Theatre.

Ruby Slipperjack and David Richards
Children’s author Ruby Slipperjack reads from Honour the Sun, Silent Words and Little Voice. David Richards reads from his latest work The Plough’s Share a story of pioneers in Saskatchewan in 1905 and a look back at our origins in this our Centennial year.
10:10 – 11:00 am, Reading Room, Public Library.

Shani Mootoo and Camilla Gibb
Visual artist, video-maker and writer Shani Mootoo reads from He Drowns She in the Sea, her eagerly-awaited new novel set in present-day Vancouver and the Caribbean in the 1940’s. Novelist/anthropologist Camilla Gibb reads from Sweetness in the Belly, a novel about love, revolution, dislocation - a sympathetic portrayal of the experiences of Muslim refugees set in Ethiopia and Thatcher’s Britain.
10:10 – 11:00 am, South Room, Public Library.

Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid
These travellers, cooks, photographers, and writers read from their works Mangoes & Curry Leaves: Culinary Journeys in the Great Subcontinent, Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey through Southeast Asia, and HomeBaking: The Artful Mix of Flour and Tradition Around the World.
10:10 – 11:00 am, Taylor Room, Public Library.

Victor Malarek
The Natashas - Inside the Global Sex Trade, the most recent book from award-winning journalist Victor Malarek, focuses on the epidemic global sex trade sparked by the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991. With “ruthless efficiency” Russian and other organized crime syndicates lure 800,000 – 900,000 (U.S. State Department statistic) impoverished young women, many of them orphans from Eastern and Central Europe, with promises of jobs as waitresses, nannies or maids in Western Europe or North America. Instead they find themselves imprisoned in apartments, massage parlors or brothels in countries ranging from South Korea, Bosnia and Japan to Israel and Germany, and forced into a life of prostitution. Malarek reads from his work and discusses this topic.
11:20 am –  12:10 pm, Art Museum Theatre

Sheri Benning and Gerald Hill
Poet Sheri Benning reads selections from her poetry collections Earth After Rain and thin moon psalm which emphasizes her attachment to the Saskatchewan landscape. Regina-based poet Gerald Hill reads selections from his publications Getting To Know You and The Man From Saskatchewan, and from a new work in progress.
11:20 am –  12:10 pm, Reading Room, Public Library.

Nicole Brossard
Acclaimed author Nicole Brossard reads from Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon (a new novel),  Intimate Journal and selected poems. Her work focuses on time - preservation, conservation, ruins; the link between generations of women; dialogue in novels and in theatre; and travelling through generations and cultures.
11:20 am –  12:10 pm, South Room, Public Library.


Rosemary Sullivan and David Waltner-Toews
Creative non-fiction author Rosemary Sullivan provides selections from Cuba: Grace Under Pressure, portraits of Havana, the people and landscape including interviews with both famous and obscure Cubans; Labyrinth of Desire: Women, Passion and Romantic Obsession; and The Bone Ladder: Selected Poems. Poet and fiction author David Waltner-Toews reads from One Foot in Heaven and other works featuring Mennonite life, prairie, humour, pathos, sex and death.
11:20 am –  12:10 pm, Taylor Room, Public Library.

Friday Luncheon
Enjoy good food, great conversation and select readings from Saskatchewan’s new Poet Laureate Louise Halfe (sponsored by the Saskatchewan Writers Guild Poet Laureate’s Program)
12:15 pm, St. Andrew’s Church Social Hall   $10

Joy Fielding and Camilla Gibb
“Puppet - Pulling the strings in contemporary fiction” Joy Fielding reads from her New York Times best-selling mystery novel Puppet and discusses her philosophy, techniques and pressures of writing in general and of the novel Puppet in particular. Novelist/anthropologist Camilla Gibb reads from Sweetness in the Belly, a novel about love, revolution, dislocation - a sympathetic portrayal of the experiences of Muslim refugees set in Ethiopia and Thatcher’s Britain.
1:30 pm – 2:20 pm, Art Museum Theatre.

Richard Harrison and Louise Halfe
“Faith, Violence, Words and Hockey” - Poet Richard Harrison reads from three of his books: Big Breath of a Wish (poems on Language), Hero of the Play (poems on Hockey) and Worthy of His Fall (meditations on Faith and Violence.) Much of his work seems to find poetry where people don’t expect it. Selected readings by Saskatchewan Poet Laureate Louise Halfe (Skydancer).
1:30 pm – 2:20 pm, Reading Room, Public Library.

Rosemary Sullivan and Amy Cameron
Creative non-fiction author Rosemary Sullivan provides selections from Cuba: Grace Under Pressure, portraits of Havana, the people and landscape including interviews with both famous and obscure Cubans; Labyrinth of Desire: Women, Passion and Romantic Obsession; and The Bone Ladder: Selected Poems. Award-winning journalist Amy Cameron, author of Playing with Matches: Misadventures in Dating discusses the trials and tribulations of dating. writing about dating, gathering the real stories from women and hiding their identities while still keeping all the delicious details
1:30 pm – 2:20 pm, South Room, Public Library.

Shani Mootoo and David Waltner-Toews
Visual artist, video-maker and writer Shani Mootoo reads from He Drowns She in the Sea, her eagerly-awaited new novel set in present-day Vancouver and the Caribbean in the 1940’s. Poet and fiction author David Waltner-Toews reads from One Foot in Heaven and other works featuring Mennonite life, prairie, humour, pathos, sex and death.
1:30 pm – 2:20 pm, Taylor  Room, Public Library.


Polly Horvath and Ruby Slipperjack (sponsored by The Moose Jaw Businessmen’s Club)
“Imaginary adventures for young eyes” - Selected readings from two highly-acclaimed children’s authors Polly Horvath (The Vacation, The Pepins and Their Problems, Everything on a Waffle, The Canning Season, The Trolls) and Ruby Slipperjack (Weesquachak and the Lost Ones, Honour the Sun, Silent Words, Little Voice.) For the young and young at heart.
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm, Crescent Park Amphitheatre. Free admission.

Peter Robinson
One of the world’s top writers of crime fiction and author of the Inspector Banks novels, Peter Robinson reads from, and talks about, his latest work Strange Affair.
2:40 pm – 3:30 pm, Art Museum Theatre.

Lois Simmie and Warren Cariou
Popular Saskatchewan author Lois Simmie reads from her novel What I’m Trying to Say Is Goodbye, which deals with addiction in many forms, and a non-fiction work The Secret Lives of Sgt. John Wilson, a Saskatchewan historical true crime. Acclaimed author Warren Cariou reads from Lake of the Prairies, a story of belonging set in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan. The book was the winner of the 2002 Writers Trust Drainie-Taylor Prize.
2:40 pm – 3:30 pm, Taylor Room, Public Library.

Teen Writing Experience Read-Out
Young writers from around Saskatchewan present original works completed over the course of a five day workshop with instructor Donna Caruso.
2:40 pm – 3:30 pm, St Andrew’s Church Social Hall. Admission free.

Maggie Siggins and John Steffler
Author, journalist and film maker Maggie Siggins reads from her just released work of non-fiction Bitter Embrace: White Society’s Assault on the Woodland Cree. Siggins lived near the Pelican Narrows Reserve in Northern Saskatchewan during the bitter winter months. Award-winning novelist John Steffler reads from German Mills, a novel in progress and a colourful story of a late 18th Century European portrait painter turned pioneer and promoter of settlement schemes in Canada.
2:40 pm – 3:30 pm, South Room, Public Library.

Dan Yashinsky: storytelling circle
Toronto’s Dan Yashinsky, a working storyteller for almost thirty years, leads the audience on a storytelling journey, encouraging those in the circle to share tell their own tales.
2:40 pm – 3:30 pm, Taylor Room, Public Library.

Drew Hayden Taylor
Playwright, screenwriter and author Drew Hayden Taylor (400 Kilometres, Funny, You don’t Look Like One) highlights native humour, theatre and identity and shares selections of his work with the audience.
3:50 pm – 4:40 pm, Art Museum Theatre.


Byrna Barclay and Larry Gasper
Novelist/playwright Byrna Barclay reads from Girl at the Window, her eighth book, a work of short fiction. Larry Gasper reads from Princes in Waiting, a short story collection, and talks about the process of writing his book.
3:50 pm – 4:40 pm, Reading Room, Public Library.

Mike’s Open
Poet Gerry Hill hosts our traditional open microphone session, a chance for all writers, performers (closet or otherwise) to demonstrate their original works in an informal setting.
3:50 pm – 5:30 pm, St Andrew’s Church Social Hall. Admission: $5 at the door

Ruby Slipperjack and David Richards
Children’s author Ruby Slipperjack reads from Honour the Sun, Silent Words and Little Voice. David Richards reads from his latest work The Plough’s Share a story of pioneers in Saskatchewan in 1905 and a look back at our origins in this our Centennial year.
3:50 pm – 4:40 pm, South Room, Public Library.

T. F. Rigelhof and Laurel Boone
T. F. (Terry) Rigelhof joins Laurel Boone, his editor at Goose Lane Editions, for an insightful behind-the-scenes glimpse into the unique Author-Editor relationship. Both are Regina natives with attachments to the Saskatchewan writing scene.
3:50 pm – 4:40 pm, Taylor Room, Public Library.

Saskatchewan Writers Guild Reception
A special get-together for members of the Saskatchewan Writers Guild.
5:00 pm, Moose Jaw Cultural Centre

Friday, July 22 – Evening
Adult and Youth

All My Relations: Wahkotowin
The official Saskatchewan Centennial 2005 theatre tour
presented by Dancing Sky Theatre

An exploration and celebration of this place that we call home. Story, myth, imagery, music and dance compose a portrait of the ground we share as Saskatchewan people. All My Relations: Wahkotowin was developed by Saskatchewan authors Maria Campbell and Trevor Herriot, and is presented by a collective of this province’s artists. Sitting between the land and sky the audience will experience a spectacle of dance, drama, giant puppets, poetry and song invoking our shared heritage and environment.
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm, Crescent Park Amphitheatre. Free admission.



Temple Gardens Mineral Spa presents
“Prairie Coastal”
A night of visual and lingual fascination.

Candace Savage shows and expounds on the stunningly beautiful slides taken from the photographs in her award-winning book Prairie: A Natural History. After a short intermission
Core Sample takes the stage. These five young performance artists are currently lighting up the Vancouver club scene as well as venues around the country, the United States and abroad. They perk up your ears and bring a stage to life with their lively spoken word presentations. Hosted by Dan Tysdal award-winning young poet and Moose Jaw native.
Candace Savage, 8:30 pm, Core Sample 9:30 pm, Mae Wilson Theatre,
Moose Jaw Cultural Centre  $15

Saturday, July 23 – Day
Adult and Youth

Charles Montgomery - SLIDE SHOW
“Myth and Magic in the South Pacific” Charles Montgomery’s images have appeared in magazines in Canada, the USA, Hong Kong. In this stunning visual presentation he shares colourful visuals of forgotten isles, pagan chiefs, sorcerers and prophets of the South Pacific.
9:00 – 9:50 am, Art Museum Theatre.

Sheri Benning and Gerald Hill
Poet Sheri Benning reads selections from her poetry collections Earth After Rain and thin moon psalm which emphasizes her attachment to the Saskatchewan landscape. Regina-based poet Gerald Hill reads selections from his publications Getting To Know You and The Man From Saskatchewan, and from a new work in progress.
9:00 – 9:50 am, Reading Room, Public Library.

Polly Horvath
“For the young at Heart” Polly Horvath, author of eight books for young readers including The Vacation, The Pepins and Their Problems, Everything on a Waffle, The Canning Season, and The Trolls, reads for the grown-ups.
9:00 – 9:50 am, South Room, Public Library.

Dan Yashinsky and David Waltner-Toews
“Suddenly They Heard Footsteps.” Storyteller Dan Yashinsky, author of Suddenly They Heard Footsteps - Storytelling for the Twenty-First Century presents storytelling, traditional and avant-garde, drawing from his book which delves into storytelling in everyday life, in family history and as an art. “Tante Tina” (aka David Waltner-Toews) makes an appearance to discuss The Complete Tante Tina: Mennonite Blues and Recipes.
9:00 – 9:50 am, Taylor Room, Public Library.


Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid - SLIDE SHOW
“Other Places, Other Lives.” Embark on a culinary journey with travellers, cooks, photographers, and writers Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid in this fabulous visual extravaganza from the authors of Mangoes & Curry Leaves: Culinary Journeys in the Great Subcontinent, Hot Sour Salty Sweet: A Culinary Journey through Southeast Asia, and HomeBaking: The Artful Mix of Flour and Tradition Around the World.
10:10 – 11:00 am, Art Museum Theatre.

Ruby Slipperjack and David Richards
Children’s author Ruby Slipperjack reads from Honour the Sun, Silent Words and Little Voice. David Richards reads from his latest work The Plough’s Share a story of pioneers in Saskatchewan in 1905 and a look back at our origins in this our Centennial year.
10:10 – 11:00 am, Reading Room, Public Library.

Maggie Siggins
Author, journalist and film maker Maggie Siggins reads from her just released work of non-fiction Bitter Embrace: White Society’s Assault on the Woodland Cree. Siggins lived near the Pelican Narrows Reserve in Northern Saskatchewan during the cold winter months.
10:10 – 11:00 am, South Room, Public Library.

Lorna Crozier
This Governor-General award-winning poet reads selected poems from Whetstone, her just-released poetry collection.
10:10 – 11:00 am, Taylor Room, Public Library.

Room With Five Walls - DRAMA
With help of experienced actors, author/playwright Byrna Barclay performs scenes from this poetic drama produced by Curtin Razors and the University of Regina, about the first mass murder in Canada. Playwright Mansel Robinson calls it “a soul sitting in judgement of itself.”
11:20 am –  12:10 pm, Art Museum Theatre.

T. F. Rigelhof
“The Shape of Fiction to Come” T.F. (Terry) Rigelhof shares this current critical work -in-progress that looks at Canada’s novelists born since 1960 and what they have to say that’s distinctive and new.
11:20 am –  12:10 pm, Reading Room, Public Library.

John Steffler and Richard Harrison
Award-winning novelist John Steffler reads from German Mills, a novel in progress and a colourful story of a late 18th Century European portrait painter turned pioneer and promoter of settlement schemes in Canada. “Faith, Violence, Words and Hockey” Poet Richard Harrison reads from three of his books: Big Breath of a Wish (poems on Language), Hero of the Play (poems on Hockey) and Worthy of His Fall (meditations on Faith and Violence.) Much of his work seems to find poetry where people don’t expect it.
11:20 am –  12:10 pm, South Room, Public Library.


Morley Thorpe and Phyllis Rathwell - COWBOY POETRY
“Philosophies of Farley” Morley Thorpe presents a poetic look at the humorous side of life through the eyes of “Cousin Farley” an unsophisticated prairie boy who has his own way of looking at the world around us. “Range & Rhymes” Phyllis Rathwell delivers real, rhyming poetry about real life on a ranch from a woman’s point of view; a humorous “tell it like it is,been-there, done-that” experienced ranch woman.
11:20 am –  12:10 pm, Taylor Room, Public Library.

Courtney Milne - SLIDE SHOW
“Saskatchewan, the Luminous Landscape” Internationally-renowned photographer Courtney Milne provides an in-depth look at our province, its natural beauty and how we as inhabitants of this landscape are molded by our environment. This is a love story, and is accompanied by haunting music with a compelling theme of the beauty and diversity of Saskatchewan.
1:30 pm – 2:20 pm, Art Museum Theatre.

Morley Thorpe and Phyllis Rathwell - COWBOY POETRY
“Philosophies of Farley” Morley Thorpe presents a poetic look at the humorous side of life through the eyes of “Cousin Farley” an unsophisticated prairie boy who has his own way of looking at the world around us. “Range & Rhymes” Phyllis Rathwell delivers real, rhyming poetry about real life on a ranch from a woman’s point of view; a humorous “tell it like it is,been-there, done-that” experienced ranch woman.
1:30 pm – 2:20 pm, Reading Room, Public Library.

Rosemary Sullivan and Amy Cameron
Creative non-fiction author Rosemary Sullivan provides selections from Cuba: Grace Under Pressure, portraits of Havana, the people and landscape including interviews with both famous and obscure Cubans; Labyrinth of Desire: Women, Passion and Romantic Obsession; and The Bone Ladder: Selected Poems. Award-winning journalist Amy Cameron, author of Playing with Matches: Misadventures in Dating discusses the trials and tribulations of dating. writing about dating, gathering the real stories from women and hiding their identities while still keeping all the delicious details.
1:30 pm – 2:20 pm, South Room, Public Library.

Joy Fielding
“Puppet - Pulling the strings in contemporary fiction” Joy Fielding reads from her New York Times best-selling mystery novel Puppet and discusses her philosophy, techniques and pressures of writing in general and of the novel Puppet in particular.
1:30 pm – 2:20 pm, Taylor Room, Public Library.

Tom Grummett (sponsored by the Moose Jaw Arts Guild)
Superman Comics illustrator and Saskatoon resident Tom Grummett presents a workshop on the art of illustration.
1:30 pm – 3:30 pm, South Studio, Moose Jaw Cultural Centre. $8 at the door.

“What’s the Point?” - PANEL
Do you seek books that might challenge your assumptions and beliefs? Has reading a book ever changed your mind on an important matter? Do books that advocate on public issues make a difference? The panel will consider the impact of books that deal with social issues and whether the authors of such books can reasonably expect to effect social change. Moderator: Maggie Siggins. Panelists: Nicole Brossard, Victor Malarek, Rosemary Sullivan, Drew Hayden Taylor.
2:40 pm – 3:30 pm, Art Museum Theatre.

Lois Simmie and Warren Cariou
Popular Saskatchewan author Lois Simmie reads from her novel What I’m Trying to Say Is Goodbye, which deals with addiction in many forms, and a non-fiction work The Secret Lives of Sgt. John Wilson, a Saskatchewan historical true crime. Acclaimed author Warren Cariou reads from Lake of the Prairies, a story of belonging set in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan. The book was the winner of the 2002 Writers Trust Drainie-Taylor Prize.
2:40 pm – 3:30 pm, Reading Room, Public Library.

Peter Robinson
One of the world’s top writers of crime fiction and author of the Inspector Banks novels, Peter Robinson reads from, and talks about, his latest work Strange Affair.
2:40 pm – 3:30 pm, South Room, Public Library.

Donna Caruso - “Grace Before Meals”
Donna Caruso reads and cooks “on stage.” The audience listens and eats. It’s sacred, it’s funny, it’s food for the body and soul.
2:40 pm – 3:30 pm, Taylor Room, Public Library.

Will Ferguson
“Travels in Canada” Will Ferguson, 2005 recipient of the Pierre Berton History award from the History Society of Canada, reads, provides anecdotes and travel tales, and tells the audience how he became the subject of an urban legend. Hilarity at its best.
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm, Mae Wilson Theatre, Moose Jaw Cultural Centre. $10

JackPine Press Book Launch
A launch of new works from Saskatoon publishing house JackPine Press including: Umbrella Suites, design and poetry by Winnipeg writer, editor and sometime visual artist Mariianne Mays, a grouping of poems with the umbrella as its core device; To Kerouac and Back, design and writings by Corey Wolfe and Darren Bernhardt, a chronicle of two Saskatoon writers who embarked on an 8,000-kilometre journey to Lowell, Mass., in pursuit of Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac's ghost; Pliny’s Knickers poems by sound/performance poet Steven Ross Smith and Hilary Clark enacts language as arrival and manifestation, composed as it was in the “go-between”, the back and forth, of an e-mail exchange between the poets.
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm, South Studio, Moose Jaw Cultural Centre. Free admission.



Saturday, July 23 – Evening
Adult and Youth

SaskPower Tribute Banquet
Honouring The Saskatchewan Arts Board

For well over half a century The Saskatchewan Arts Board has been an integral part of that spirit which makes the province’s artists unique and daring. We take this opportunity to pay our respects. Cocktails, dinner, dedication and presentation of a plaque to the Arts Board will be followed by lighthearted musings from Lorna Crozier and Will Ferguson.
Cocktails: 6:30 pm; Dinner: 7:00 pm, Tribute and entertainment to follow
Jubilee Rooms B & C, Heritage Inn  $25 in advance

Sunday, July 24 – Day
Adult and Youth

Drew Hayden Taylor
Playwright, screenwriter and author Drew Hayden Taylor (400 Kilometres, Funny, You don’t Look Like One) highlights native humour, theatre and identity and shares selections of his work with the audience.
10:10 am – 11;00 am, Art Museum Theatre.

Victor Malarek
The Natashas - Inside the Global Sex Trade, the most recent book from award-winning journalist Victor Malarek, focuses on the epidemic global sex trade sparked by the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991. With “ruthless efficiency” Russian and other organized crime syndicates lure 800,000 – 900,000 (U.S. State Department statistic) impoverished young women, many of them orphans from Eastern and Central Europe, with promises of jobs as waitresses, nannies or maids in Western Europe or North America. Instead they find themselves imprisoned in apartments, massage parlors or brothels in countries ranging from South Korea, Bosnia and Japan to Israel and Germany, and forced into a life of prostitution. Malarek reads from his work and discusses this topic.
10:10 am – 11:00 am, South Room, Public Library.

John Steffler and Gerald Hill
Award-winning novelist John Steffler reads from German Mills, a novel in progress and a colourful story of a late 18th Century European portrait painter turned pioneer and promoter of settlement schemes in Canada. Regina-based poet Gerald Hill reads selections from his publications Getting To Know You and The Man From Saskatchewan, and from a new work in progress.
10:10 am – 11:00 am, Taylor Room, Public Library.

Nicole Brossard
Acclaimed author Nicole Brossard reads from Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon (a new novel), Intimate Journal and selected poems. Her work focuses on time - preservation, conservation, ruins; the link between generations of women; dialogue in novels and in theatre; and travelling through generations and cultures.
11:20 am –  12:10 pm, Art Museum Theatre.

Shani Mootoo and Camilla Gibb
Visual artist, video-maker and writer Shani Mootoo reads from He Drowns She in the Sea, her eagerly-awaited new novel set in present-day Vancouver and the Caribbean in the 1940’s. Novelist/anthropologist Camilla Gibb reads from Sweetness in the Belly, a novel about love, revolution, dislocation - a sympathetic portrayal of the experiences of Muslim refugees set in Ethiopia and Thatcher’s Britain.
11:20 am –  12:10 pm, South Room, Public Library.

Lorna Crozier and Sheri Benning
This Governor-General award-winning poet reads selected poems from Whetstone, her just-released poetry collection. Poet Sheri Benning reads selections from her poetry collections Earth After Rain and thin moon psalm which emphasize her attachment to the Saskatchewan landscape.
11:20 am –  12:10 pm, Taylor Room, Public Library.

Moose Jaw Asphalt’s Wind-Up Lunch
Celebrate the end of another successful festival with a farewell brunch, acknowledgements, and prizes, followed by a final tale from storyteller Dan Yashinsky and a lively, entertaining, hootin’ and hollerin’ send-off from country duo The Frontier Gals.
12:15 pm, Cosmo Centre, $15