Writing Wise
November Program Meeting - STC Canada West Coast
Meet a diverse panel of writers and engage in a lively discussion about stories and narrative in games, comic books, new media, books (fiction and non fiction), and song. Prepare yourself for a rip roaring, rip snorting, profane, world-shaking, rabble-rousing event just for you.
When: Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Time: 6:30pm to 10:30pm
Where: Radha Yoga and Eatery, 728 Main St., above the Brickhouse Bar
Cost: Members of CWC STC and event partners: $15; Non-members: $20
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A range of delicious and healthy food is available to purchase, as well as a full bar service.
About the panelists
Kaare Andrews is a writer and artist who’s worked on comic books such as the Incredible Hulk, Ultimate X-Men, Amazing Spider-Man, Gen13 and the Matrix. He won “Outstanding Comic Book Artist” at the Joe Shuster Awards in 2005. As a filmmaker, he’s directed a number of award-winning short films and as a designer of album covers, he worked on Tegan and Sara’s 2002 album, “:If it was you,” amongst others.
Mira Sundara Rajan, is a musician, author of “Copyright and Creative Freedom,” and the Canada Research Chair in Intellectual Property Law at the University of British Columbia. With a great grandfather who was exiled from British India them welcomed back and lauded as a national poet whose copyright was later nationalized, Sundara Rajan has a compelling story where copyright is concerned.
Sue Thomas, a UK expert in new media, is the author of the book “Hello World travels in virtuality” and others. A literary advisor to the British Council and the Electronic Literature Organization, she is the program leader for the Online MA in Creative Writing and New Media at De Montfort University. Her students collaborated with Penguin Books on ‘A Million Penguins’. She’ll explain how that blockbusting experimental wikinovel produced some surprising results.
Shari Ulrich recently released her latest solo album. A member of the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame, a Juno award winner, and a fixture on the Vancouver music scene, Ulrich has performed with Pied Pumkin, Ulrich Henderson Forbes, and Valdy & the Hometown Band. When she’s in town, Ulrich teaches songwriting locally.
Ian Verchere is known as the developer of over 30 game titles including two million-selling titles for Electronic Arts, SSX Tricky and NBA Street V2. Add his classic, best-selling Beavis and Butthead game on Sega Genesis for MTV and signing an exclusive worldwide deal in 1998 to bring Jackie Chan, an internationally renowned action star, into the world of video games and you might conclude that he’s a one trick pony. Well, he’s also been a business man, a founder of Radical Entertainment; an author, “V0N 1B0; General Delivery, Whistler, BC; a creative consultant for Roald Dahl’s literary estate, and a scriptwriter (with Douglas Coupland) who’s sold his work to Disney.
About the moderator
kc dyer is the author of four contemporary and historical young adult novels which have been published in Canada, the US, the UK, and Thailand. She’s also had a short story “Swim” included in, “SHORELINES: A Millennium Anthology” published by the North Shore Writers’ Association. The conference and the writing contest coordinator for the Surrey International Writers’ Conference, dyer is a skilled, capable moderator with experience in, and opinions on, all aspects of the writing scene.
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Remember, students of technical communication qualify for the member rate of $15.