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DENMAN ISLAND — TAYSTAY'ICH, or the 'Inner Island' —
and has attracted its usual diverse line-up of novelists,
is located on the traditional unceded territory of the
non-fiction writers and poets. Host of CBC Radio’s
Pentlach people including the K'omoks, Sliammon
‘White Coat, Black Art’, Dr. Brian Goldman will open
and Qualicum First Nations. For 18 years, the island
the Festival on July 14, reading from his book, The
has hosted a remarkable literary festival. Dubbed by
Power of Kindness, and will be the feature interviewee at
the Globe and Mail as “one of the best little literary
the closing Main Stage July 17 in conversation with lo-
festivals in Canada”, it has
cal author and gardening
drawn renowned writers
expert Des Kennedy.
like Esi Edugyan, Richard Wagamese, Jack Hodgins,
Audiences will hear Mi-
and Beverly McLachlin.
chael Christie read from his family/environmental
“I like to quote Stuart Mc-
saga
Lean’s
about
Kirton share her poems
his CBC Radio show The
based on her Metis/Ice-
Vinyl Cafe to describe the
landic
Denman
comment
Festival:
Greenwood;
ancestry;
Jonina
former
'We
MP Libby Davies reflect
may not be big, but we’re
on her lifelong social ac-
small'”,
Stewart
tivism; Kate Harris re-
Goodings, one of the vol-
late her epic adventure
says
unteer organizers of the event. “It’s an intimate,
Jonina Kirton
informal and laid-back
Brian Goldman
cycling the ancient Silk Road; Mark
SFU Jaccard
professor suggest
experience for both authors and audience member,
ways to cope with climate change; Cedar Bow-
just like our island.”
ers read excerpts from her debut novel Astra; Peggy Herring reach back to the late 19th century for a
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novel about a Russian ship’s crew wrecked off the W W W. C O M PA S S M A G A Z I N E . C A
