BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Vancouver X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Vancouver BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1-1495@events.ufv.ca DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20150305T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20150306T170000 DTSTAMP:20150224T234030Z URL:https://events.ufv.ca/events/literatures-of-the-fraser-valley-conferen ce-2/ SUMMARY:Literatures of the Fraser Valley conference DESCRIPTION:\n\nBritish Columbia has long been a beacon for storytellers' i maginations\, and while the lion's share of critical attention to the lite rary culture of British Columbia seems to often rest on Vancouver\, the Fr aser Valley's own literary community is as vibrant as ever.\n\n \;\nRe gister here\n \;\n\n \;\n\nThe conference will explore current and emerging trends in BC literature and the multiple ways in which the Frase r Valley is imagined and represented in fiction\, poetry\, drama\, and ora l narratives:\n\n Scholarly papers on literature of the Fraser Valley\n Re adings by local writers\n Oral history\n Writer-in-residence\n Guest speak ers\n\nSee conference schedule below.  For more information\, contact mic helle.laflamme@ufv.ca\n\n$10 Students\, $20 Regular admission. Includes lu nch.\nAbbotsford campus\, University House\, room F125 \n\n \;\n\nSCH EDULE \n\nThurs\, March 5\, 2015\n\n9:00-9:05  Welcome Special Events C ommittee\n\n9:05-9:15   Traditional Welcome (elder-in-residence)\n\n9:15- 9:20  Welcome to UFV- Dean of Arts\n\n9:30-11:00   Session One: Consi dering Creativity: Artistic Production in the Valley\n\n Billeh Nickerson\ n Paul Falardeau\, "Light Though the Cedars: Discovering Subversive Commu nities in the Fraser Valley"\n Katie Stobbart\, “The Question of Public Poetry in the Fraser Valley”\n\n11:00-11:15  Coffee Break\n\n11:15-12: 45  Session Two:  The History of Place and the Building of Community\n \n Rishma Johal\, “Building Connections: Popular Literature and Sikh His tory  in the Fraser Valley”\n Jane Watt\, “The Epistolary Farm: Const ructing Settler Culture in Langley from Afar”\n Paula Johnson\, “Woolg athering: Fibre Artists Contradict Journalists in Published Works About Co wichan Woolworking”\n\n12:45-1:30  Lunch (Catered by Sodexo)\n\n1:30-3 :00  Session Three: Orature of the Fraser Valley\n\n Eddie Garner\, St ó:lō  Protocols and oral history\n Wenona Victor\,  sxwoxwiyam and “ storywork” in the Fraser Valley\n Teresa Warbus\, Hip-Hop as contemporar y storytelling\n Lens of Empowerment\, video as visual narratives explorin g women’s identity and citizenship in Stó:lō  territory\n\n3:00-3:15   Coffee Break\n\n3:15-4:45  Session Four:  Reading the Valley\n\n  Dessa Bayrock\, “Sustenance of the Soul: A View of Food in Literature of the Fraser Valley and West Coast”\n Emily Seitz\, “Creating an Ench anted Reality: A Magical Setting Inspired by the Fraser Valley”\n Shelle y Boyd\, “Tablecloth and River: Tomson Highway’s ‘Mega Banquet’ in  Ernestine Shuswap Gets Her Trout”\n Ron Dart\, “Charles Hill-Tout: V isionary of the Fraser Valley”\n\n7:00-9:00  After party with new and emerging writers\n\nFollowing the conference\, join us at Aftermath Pub fo r an evening of readings with established and emerging writers working in and around the valley.\n\n Billeh Nickerson\n Connie Braun\n Emily Pohl-We ary\n Michelle Superle\n John Carroll\n Helene Littman\n Valerie Franklin\ n Amy Stafford\n\n A creative writing event supported by Louden Singletre e literary magazine. Admission is free.\n\n2015 Mission Writers Festival brochure CATEGORIES:*_UFV Events,40th anniversary,English and Creative Writing LOCATION:Abbotsford Campus\, \, X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=\, ;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TI TLE=Abbotsford Campus:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Vancouver X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Vancouver BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20141102T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR