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At the Java Express Cafe

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Friday & Saturday June 13th and 14th
During Sidewalk Days in front of the Cultural Centre

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Ken Mitchell - Moose Jaw Writer in Residence 2008

Moose Jaw readers and writers turned out to hear Ken Mitchell describe plans for his year-long term as Moose Jaw’s Writer in Residence under the Cultural Capitals of Canada Program. The Residency began February 8th and continues to the end of November 2008. Mitchell outlined his intention to follow-up with a very successful workshops series which ran in the Chinook Library system and which he plans to offer at every rural school in Moose Jaw and district.

The writer also described plans for a drama workshop on Mounting a Successful Community Pageant and detailed his work on the community drama titled, The Medicine Line which will be staged in Wakamow Valley August 18 and 19th, 2008. The historical pageant depicts the meeting between the legendary Lakota Sioux Chief, Sitting Bull, and Major James Walsh of the Northwest Mounted Police in the traditional camp sites of the Wakamow Valley in 1877.

Ken Mitchell also treated the audience to cowboy poetry and was joined on stage by brothers Don and Wayne who each entertained with long and humourous recitations and jibes at each other. The audience loved the stories and were invited to try their hand at cowboy poetry for future events.