ABT Events Calendar Call Deadline Today

This is the call for events to be listed in our next issue of ABT, events should be scheduled for dates after November 16. Please supply date, time, location and a brief one line description of the event. They will be put into the following format:

September 24
Book launch for Chinese Islanders: Making a Home in the New World by Hung-Min Chiang. 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Eptek Art and Culture Centre, Summerside PE. Info: (902) 566-0377

Events can be book signings, launches, awards, reading groups etc. etc. Please try and get your events in by September 28. If you know the date but the time and location are not yet set we can list it but you must supply a contact phone number or website where people can go to find out more information. Please send all events to pwalt@atlanticpublishers.ca

Side by Side Festival

Side by Side Festival*
of Literary Translation
Festival Côte à Côte,*
festival de traduction littéraire

5th edition 2007 5e édition
Langues en danger /
Indigenous and Endangered Languages
Fredericton & Moncton NB
29/09 – 03/10 2007

29 Sept 2007
13h30 – 15h30 / 1:30 – 3:30 pm
Lado a Lado
Side by Side Spanish Day
Nela Rio
Fredericton Public Library

30 Sept 2007
Journée mondiale de la traduction
Fête de Saint Jérôme, patron des traducteurs
International Translation Day
11h00–15h00 /11:00 am –3:00 pm
Brunch & Salon Chez Rose
Hommage à Robert Dickson
Atelier Côte à Côte / Workshop
Rose Després, Jean Babineau, Dyane Léger,
JR Léveillé, Jo-Anne Elder
62, rue Curry Street, Moncton
Ouvert au public / Open to all

01 Oct 2007
14h30 – 15h20
Atelier : traduction littéraire
Jo-Anne Elder
FREN3326, EC G14,
Edmund Casey Hall
St. Thomas University, Fredericton
Ouvert au public

02 Oct 2007
7:30–8:00 am
Aboriginal Sunrise Ceremony
Gwen Bear and Carlos Gomes
Grounds of Old Government House

08h00–10h00 / 8:00 – 10:00 am
Lecture Côte à Côte / Side by Side Reading
Gwen Bear
Jean Babineau
Joe Blades
Dyane Léger
JR Léveillé
Ancienne Résidence du Gouverneur /
Old Government House
51, chemin Woodstock Road, Fredericton
Please RSVP for this event: ellipsemag@gmail.com

11h00–16h00 / 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
Refreshments available from 11 to 4 in ECH 2nd floor
/ Collation disponible, Salon, ECH
11h30 –12h50 / 11:30am – 12:50 pm
Atelier : Traduction en direct
Workshop: Translation Live!
During this speed-art translation sweatshop, open to the public,
participants transform a short text into another medium or another language.
Joe Blades,
JR Léveillé,
Elisabet Rafòls
Ted Daigle Auditorium
Edmund Casey Hall, St. Thomas Univ.
Free and open, and even fun!

13h00–14h20 / 1:00 – 2:20 pm
Atelier de création littéraire (en français) :
Jean Babineau, JR Léveillé
ECH 223, STU
Ouvert au public francophone ou francophile

16h00–17h20 / 4:00 – 5:20pm
Table ronde :
Création, traduction et survie des langues
Round table : Creation, Translation and Survival
Moderator : Dr. Roger Moore
Mark Abley, Gwen Bear, Rose Després, Carlos Gomes, Elisabet Rafòls, Nela Rio
2nd floor / Salon, ECH, STU
Free, and Open to the Public.

19h00–20h00 / 7:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Tune in to CSHR for a Radio Interview.
Joe Blades will be talking to poet, creative non-fiction writer
and journalist, Mark Abley, about his writing and
his ideas on the survival of endangered languages.

03 Oct 2007
9:30 – 11:30am
Atelier / Workshop : Poésie / Poetry
Fredericton tbd

14h30–15h20 / 2:30 – 3:20 pm
Between Languages
Workshop / Discussion: Joe Blades
Free and open to the public / Ouvert au public
Salle EC G14, Edmund Casey Hall
St. Thomas University, Fredericton

19h00–21h00 / 7:00 – 9:00pm
Multilingual Reading and Poster Presentation
Mark Abley, Joe Blades, Roger Moore, Nela Rio, Jo-Anne Elder
et d’autres...
Open Mic. Reading
Auditorium,
Charlotte St. Arts Centre,
732 Charlotte Street, Fredericton
Send in your poem! See Open Call

Side by Side Festival Côte à Côte 2007*
*Pour avoir des explications sur le nom de notre festival,
veuillez consultez le chapitre « historique » sur notre Weblogue.
*To find out more about our history and our name, check out
our Blog.
http://ellipsemaritimes.blogspot.com

For more information / Pour de plus amples renseignements
ellipsemag[at]gmail.com
or/ou Jo-Anne 455-0413

Nous remercions / Our thanks to:
The Canada Council for the Arts
The Province of New Brunswick,
Wellness, Culture and Sports (Arts Development)
The Hon. Herménégilde Chiasson, Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick,
président d’honneur du festival
St. Thomas University
LTAC / ATTLC
http://www.attlc-ltac.org
commanditaire de la table ronde sur la traduction et la survie des langues
sponsors of the round table on creation, translation and survival
COCUY
The New Brunswick Latino Association
The Fredericton Public Library
et nos bénévoles / and our volunteers!

RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers

RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers
Sponsored by RBC Foundation
Short Fiction category)

A prize of $5,000 will be awarded to the best work of short fiction. Two honourable mentions will each receive $1,000 prizes. Entries should be no more than 2,500 words (10 pages, double-spaced).

To be eligible candidates must be a Canadian citizen or landed immigrant, under the age of 35, unpublished in book form and without a book contract, but whose literary work must have appeared in at least one independently edited magazine or anthology.

The candidate’s name, address, telephone number and details confirming their eligibility should only appear on the cover sheet accompanying the manuscript. All pages must be consecutively numbered. Entries will not be returned.

The deadline for submissions is October 15, 2007.

Submissions should be sent to RBC Bronwen Wallace Award, c/o The Writers’ Trust of Canada, 90 Richmond Street East, Suite 200, Toronto, Ontario, M5C 1P1.

For further information please visit www.writerstrust.com or contact Program Manager (Prizes and Awards) James Davies (416.504.8222 x.245 or jdavies@writerstrust.com).

Book Launching

You are cordially invited to attend the launching of

WHEN THE EARTH WAS FLAT
Remembering Leonard Cohen, Alden Nowlan, the Flat Earth
Society, the King James monarchy hoax, the Montreal Story Tellers and other curious matters
By RAYMOND FRASER

THURSDAY, SEPT 20, 7-9 PM, at Westminster Bookstore in Fredericton.
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ABOUT THE BOOK

In this collection of nineteen memoirs, essays and sketches, Raymond Fraser writes of a variety of fascinating subjects, including Leonard Cohen, Alden Nowlan, Leo Ferrari, Hugh Hood, Queen Elizabeth II, John Metcalf, Lord Mountbatten, Irving Layton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Santa Claus, the Flat Earth Society, the notorious Stewart Monarchy in Exile, Halloween on the Miramichi, tabloid journalism, New Brunswickers in Hollywood, evangelistic miracle workers and assorted eccentrics met along life's way.

Thought-provoking and laced with liberal dashes of humour, When the Earth Was Flat will appeal to anyone who likes a lively and intelligent read.

"A highly original voice that is occasionally sad, sometimes very comic. A real pleasure to read." Vancouver Sun

"One of the most gifted writers I know, and among his gifts are two that all too rare: a zest for life and a sense of humour." Alden Nowlan

Published by Black Moss Press, Windsor, ON. 162 pp. $17

To see some interesting photos relating to the book click on:

http://raymondfraser.blogspot.com

odd sundays

Robert Hawkes featured reader at odd sundays at molly’s—the series returns for its 2007-2008 season. Welcome all.

sunday, september 16, 2007
2pm Molly’s Coffee House
554 Queen Street, Fredericton

Featured reader, Robert Hawkes, father, editor, professor emeritus, and poet, was born in Coal Creek, New Brunswick. He has edited, written, and reared children, variously, in Toronto, Ottawa, Halifax, Eskasoni (NS), Sydney, and Durham (NC). The Fiddlehead, The Cormorant, and The Canadian Modern Language Journal / La Revue Canadienne des langues vivantes are richer for his literary eye and heart. As well as being widely anthologized, Hawkes’ publications include prose pieces on educational topics, a history of 19th century Queens County teachers, Paradigms (Fiddlehead/ Goose Lane), This Grievous Injury (Broken Jaw), Cranmer and Pole-Archbishops (Broken Jaw, 2000) and Poems for the Christmas Season (Broken Jaw, 2004). Of Cranmer, George Elliott Clarke has written: “an imaginative, first-person exploration ... arrestingly vivid ... hard-won and honed and impressive ... this collection may be recommended for its almost stern, classics-minded authority.”

Open Set: Bring lyrics, drama, fiction, a recipe for mustard pickles—or just plain poetry—to present in the open set. If it is created from words, we want it.

Join us at 2 pm on September 16, at Molly’s Coffee House, for an afternoon of poetry. For information: acalvern@nbnet.nb.ca or 459-1436.

Call for Proposals

Cape Jourimain Nature Centre's Annual EcoArts Festival is slated for September 29 and 30th. Due to a combination of circumstances we still have opportunities for a few more artists to join in the event. Artist participation can take a number of forms: re-mounting / showing of previously developed works, development of new works on site, demonstration of techniques, leading of informal "drop-in" workshops. All projects should have at their core an examination of the natural world, environmental conservation, or reflection on our place in nature.

Compensation is in the form of an artists fees of $200/day (maximum 5 days), plus mileage and food while on site. Artists are not required to be on site for the entire weekend however, a walk through with the artists is planned for Sunday afternoon and it is expected that artists receiving payment for work will be present.

Interested artists can send a very brief project proposal (a paragraph is
sufficient) and their cv to Ramsey Hart at ramsey.hart@capejourimain.org.

As an inter-disciplinary event we welcome proposals from artists working in a variety of media and especially those working in sound and media arts.

Projects may be challenging but should be relatively accessible to a broad audience.

The festival is funded by the Canada Council for the Arts and the NB Partnership Program for Community Cultural Activities.

For more about the centre and a list of other artists involved please visit our website at: www.capejourimain.org