The first of two school programs that Reel Youth hopes to run on Cortes Island during 2022 is already approved.
“We have a program launching in January. That’s for Partners in Education (PIE) students, mostly middle school youth who are doing a homeschooling course,” said Mark Vonesch, Director of Reel Youth.
Continue reading What Reel Youth is bringing to students on Cortes Island in 2022
Fantasy met archeology on this Folk U as Professor Dr. Brian Hayden joined host Manda Aufochs Gillespie for the virtual book launch of his newest book Friday, Nov 26 on CKTZ 89.5 FM.
Continue reading Folk U – Escape to the (far) past through Brian Hayden’s new book ‘Eyes of the Leopard’Frank Wayne Mottl’s new book opens up in Gibsons, on the Sunshine Coast, a little more than a century ago. Like his first book, ‘the Cumberland Tales‘, ‘Mother’s Keep’ blends the flavours of actual and imagined events. This has prompted readers to ask him about the characters.
Continue reading The inspiration for ‘Mother’s Keep’On Sunday November 7, Bryan Thompson and Susanna Oreskovic will be bringing The Mystery Mountain Project to Mansons Hall on Cortes Island.
Continue reading The Mystery Mountain Project comes to Cortes IslandNational Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Benny hears things and Annabelle hoards them.
In her latest novel, The Book of Form and Emptiness, award-winning novelist Ruth Ozeki bears witness as a teenage boy and his mother, Benny and Annabel Oh, process their grief after Kenji — a kind, jazz-loving, pot-smoking clarinetist father and husband — suffers the ignoble death of being run over by a chicken truck in a grungy back alley.
Continue reading Ruth Ozeki explores loss, love and our insatiable relationship with things
