Please join SpokenWeb UAlberta for a series of special listening events to take place this Winter Term.

Home to Canada’s longest running Writer-In-Residence Program, the Department of English and Film Studies has for decades been a centre for literary performance Many of those events are captured on analogue audio tapes, unique historical recordings now available to listeners for the first t me Come join the SpokenWeb team for our monthly series Of hour-long listening sessions as we dim the lights and turn up the sound to relive these exciting moments in our collective story.

The Bards of March, 1986, On this special evening 38 years ago, some of the brightest lights of prairie literature gathered at a gala to mark the ten year aniversary of NeWest Press. Join us to listen in on performance highlights from celebrated authors Rudy Wiebe, Aritha van Herk, Douglas Barbour, Smaro Kamboureli, Henry Kreisel, and others.

The series dates will be Friday March 8, Thursday April 4, Thursday May 2. Please mark these on your calendars and encourage others to join in.

These events are supported by the Department of English and Film Studies and by SpokenWeb.