Big Barrie Reading
Location:
Grey and Simcoe Foresters Regimental Museum
Festival:
Carnegie Days Festival 2012
Fees:
Free Drop-In Event Grey and Simcoe Foresters Regimental Museum, 36 Mulcaster Street,
11:00 am to 4:00 pm.
Talented, emerging Barrie authors read from their latest and greatest in a programme hosted by Barrie Poet Laureate Bruce Meyer. Just drop-in!
Bruce Meyer is author of 31 books of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, pedagogy and literary journalism including the national bestseller, The Golden Thread. With Barry Callaghan, he co-edited We Wasn’t Pals: Canadian Poetry and Prose of the First World War. His broadcasts, The Great Books, A Novel Idea, and Great Poetry for CBC Radio One are the network’s bestselling spoken word cd series. He is the inaugural Poet Laureate of the City of Barrie and professor of English at Georgian College. He was named one of the ten best lecturers in TV Ontario’s Big Ideas series in 2010. He lives with his family in Barrie, Ontario.
Talented, emerging Barrie authors read from their latest and greatest in a programme hosted by Barrie Poet Laureate Bruce Meyer. Just drop-in!
Bruce Meyer is author of 31 books of poetry, fiction, non-fiction, pedagogy and literary journalism including the national bestseller, The Golden Thread. With Barry Callaghan, he co-edited We Wasn’t Pals: Canadian Poetry and Prose of the First World War. His broadcasts, The Great Books, A Novel Idea, and Great Poetry for CBC Radio One are the network’s bestselling spoken word cd series. He is the inaugural Poet Laureate of the City of Barrie and professor of English at Georgian College. He was named one of the ten best lecturers in TV Ontario’s Big Ideas series in 2010. He lives with his family in Barrie, Ontario.
Carnegie Days Festival 2012 Schedule
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
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MacLaren Art Centre7:00 pm
Thursday, September 29, 2011
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Online9:00 am -
SDVA Campus Gallery10:30 am -
Various downtown Barrie locations6:00 pm
Friday, September 30, 2011
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Rotary Education Centre at the MacLaren3:00 pm -
Flying Monkeys Craft Brewery4:30 pm -
Rotary Education Centre at the MacLaren7:00 pm
Saturday, October 1, 2011
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Rotary Education Centre10:00 am -
MacLaren Art Centre10:00 am -
Grey and Simcoe Foresters Regimental Museum11:00 am -
Barrie Public Library2:00 pm -
Bohemia, 125 Dunlop Street East, downtown Barrie5:30 pm -
Downtown Barrie Restaurants6:00 pm -
Imperial Theatre7:00 pm -
Casa Cappuccino7:00 pm
Sunday, October 2, 2011
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Octopus Studio Press, Lefroy10:00 am -
MacLaren Art Centre10:30 am -
Simply Tea and Chocolate, 151 Dunlop Street East11:00 am -
The Carnegie Room1:00 pm -
Rotary Education Centre at the MacLaren1:30 pm
