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.
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The Mystery Mountain Project comes to Cortes Island
On Sunday November 7, Bryan Thompson and Susanna Oreskovic will be bringing The Mystery Mountain Project to Mansons Hall on Cortes Island.
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Ruth Ozeki explores loss, love and our insatiable relationship with things
National 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.
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Two films from northwest B.C. shed light on MMIWG issues
Terrace Standard, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Two northwest B.C. films shedding light of the issue of the region’s Murdered & Missing Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) are set to be premiered this month.
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The origins of Reel Youth
A youth filmmaking initiative with international reach has its’ office in Mansons Hall, on Cortes Island.
In the second of a series of programs about Reel Youth, Mark Vonesch and Erica Køhn tell the story of how this initiative came into being.
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