A Sound Experience. Three-concert packages starting at just $92!
TELUS
STUDIO
GILBERTO GIL
Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock Sun Mar 15 2015 I Zakir Hussain’s Celtic Connections Sat Mar 21 2015 I Gilberto Gil Sun Apr 12 2015 I Lila Downs Sun Apr 26 2015 I Wu Man and the Shanghai Quartet Sat May 9 2015
Sponsored by:
Tickets and info:
chancentre.com
DESIGN: COPILOT DESIGN
THEATRE CHAN CENTRE AT UBC
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STEVEN GALLOWAY
Steven Galloway with magician David Gifford Steven Galloway author David Gifford magician Thomas Shields keyboards Tonight’s performance will be 70 minutes with no intermission, followed by a short talkback with the artists. The talkback will be moderated by award-winning Canadian author Miriam Toews. Please remember to turn off your cell phones, and note that photography and recording are not permitted. Thank you!
The Beyond Words series is presented by the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, and explores the power of words in performance both as an agent of change and as a means of igniting conversation. Visit chancentre.com and sign up for our e-newsletter to be the first to find out about the 2015/16 Beyond Words series and other events at the Chan Centre. The Chan Centre gratefully acknowledges the generous support of The Chan Endowment Fund, the UBC Faculty of Arts, The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, The Georgia Straight, Fairmont Hotels and Resorts and Ethical Bean Coffee.
Steven Galloway author Steven Galloway is the author of four novels, most recently The Confabulist. His previous novel, The Cellist of Sarajevo, an international bestseller, was called “The work of an expert” by The Guardian. He has won the Borders Original Voice Award, the Ontario Library Association Evergreen Award, and the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature, and been nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Richard & Judy Book of the Year Award, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, the Canadian Booksellers Association Fiction Award, and the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award. His work has been published in over thirty countries and optioned for film. He is currently an associate professor and acting chair of The UBC Creative Writing Program, and lives with his wife and two young daughters in Vancouver, BC.
The Confabulist David Gifford magician David Gifford is an art educator with the University of Victoria, an award recipient of Canada Council for the Arts, and the co-founder of the Ministry of Casual Living in Victoria, a non-profit artist-accessible venue and member of the Pacific Association of Artist-Run Centres. David’s handcrafted, musically-accompanied magic shows have garnered great acclaim from critics. Every performance is guaranteed to contain only the essential ingredients of true magic, and is fit for consumption by all. The curious, the wary, and the merely skeptical are dared to be amazed. When David is not thrilling audiences with feats of illusion, he can be found in his yard, making statues and paintings, which have been displayed in Vancouver, Oslo, and Moosenee.
This beautiful, suspense-filled novel weaves together the life, loves and murder of the world’s greatest magician, Harry Houdini, with the story of the man who killed him (twice): Martin Strauss, an everyday man whose fate was tied to the magician’s in unforeseen ways. A cast of memorable characters spins around Houdini’s celebritydriven life, as they did in his time: from the Romanov family soon to be assassinated, to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the powerful heads of Scotland Yard, and the Spiritualists who would use whoever they could to establish their religions. A brilliant novel about fame and ambition, reality and illusion, and the ways that love, grief and imagination can alter what we perceive and believe. “What begins as a playful, mind-teasing mystery about Harry Houdini, the greatest magician who ever lived, turns subtly, brilliantly into a beautiful elegy on love and loss, identity and self-deception. Galloway, who is fast emerging as one of our finest young writers, has produced another novel to linger over, read and re-read, in order to glean all that it has to offer.” - Kevin Baker, author of The Big Crowd Steven Galloway’s novel The Confabulist will be for sale in the lobby following the performance.
Steven Galloway with magician David Gifford Steven Galloway author David Gifford magician Thomas Shields keyboards Tonight’s performance will be 70 minutes with no intermission, followed by a short talkback with the artists. The talkback will be moderated by award-winning Canadian author Miriam Toews. Please remember to turn off your cell phones, and note that photography and recording are not permitted. Thank you!
The Beyond Words series is presented by the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, and explores the power of words in performance both as an agent of change and as a means of igniting conversation. Visit chancentre.com and sign up for our e-newsletter to be the first to find out about the 2015/16 Beyond Words series and other events at the Chan Centre. The Chan Centre gratefully acknowledges the generous support of The Chan Endowment Fund, the UBC Faculty of Arts, The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, The Georgia Straight, Fairmont Hotels and Resorts and Ethical Bean Coffee.
Steven Galloway author Steven Galloway is the author of four novels, most recently The Confabulist. His previous novel, The Cellist of Sarajevo, an international bestseller, was called “The work of an expert” by The Guardian. He has won the Borders Original Voice Award, the Ontario Library Association Evergreen Award, and the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature, and been nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Richard & Judy Book of the Year Award, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, the Canadian Booksellers Association Fiction Award, and the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award. His work has been published in over thirty countries and optioned for film. He is currently an associate professor and acting chair of The UBC Creative Writing Program, and lives with his wife and two young daughters in Vancouver, BC.
The Confabulist David Gifford magician David Gifford is an art educator with the University of Victoria, an award recipient of Canada Council for the Arts, and the co-founder of the Ministry of Casual Living in Victoria, a non-profit artist-accessible venue and member of the Pacific Association of Artist-Run Centres. David’s handcrafted, musically-accompanied magic shows have garnered great acclaim from critics. Every performance is guaranteed to contain only the essential ingredients of true magic, and is fit for consumption by all. The curious, the wary, and the merely skeptical are dared to be amazed. When David is not thrilling audiences with feats of illusion, he can be found in his yard, making statues and paintings, which have been displayed in Vancouver, Oslo, and Moosenee.
This beautiful, suspense-filled novel weaves together the life, loves and murder of the world’s greatest magician, Harry Houdini, with the story of the man who killed him (twice): Martin Strauss, an everyday man whose fate was tied to the magician’s in unforeseen ways. A cast of memorable characters spins around Houdini’s celebritydriven life, as they did in his time: from the Romanov family soon to be assassinated, to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the powerful heads of Scotland Yard, and the Spiritualists who would use whoever they could to establish their religions. A brilliant novel about fame and ambition, reality and illusion, and the ways that love, grief and imagination can alter what we perceive and believe. “What begins as a playful, mind-teasing mystery about Harry Houdini, the greatest magician who ever lived, turns subtly, brilliantly into a beautiful elegy on love and loss, identity and self-deception. Galloway, who is fast emerging as one of our finest young writers, has produced another novel to linger over, read and re-read, in order to glean all that it has to offer.” - Kevin Baker, author of The Big Crowd Steven Galloway’s novel The Confabulist will be for sale in the lobby following the performance.
A Sound Experience. Three-concert packages starting at just $92!
TELUS
STUDIO
GILBERTO GIL
Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock Sun Mar 15 2015 I Zakir Hussain’s Celtic Connections Sat Mar 21 2015 I Gilberto Gil Sun Apr 12 2015 I Lila Downs Sun Apr 26 2015 I Wu Man and the Shanghai Quartet Sat May 9 2015
Sponsored by:
Tickets and info:
chancentre.com
DESIGN: COPILOT DESIGN
THEATRE CHAN CENTRE AT UBC
at
STEVEN GALLOWAY