ELLEN JAFFE ON TEACHING WRITING -rescheduled to Nov

TUES MAY 11, 7.30p.m. 27 King William Street
Can it be done? How and why?” Ellen S. Jaffe talks about her writing workshops with children and adults, and invites people to share their own experiences – of teaching they have done and workshops they have taken. What works and what doesn’t? How has taking a workshop, teaching a writing course, or mentoring/being mentored affected your own writing?
Ellen is a Hamilton writer, who came to Canada from the U.S. in 1979. She writes poetry and fiction (including y/a novels), and drama, and has also written a book on writing, Writing Your Way: creating a personal journal. (Sumach Press, 2001). Ellen has worked with “Learning/Living Through the Arts” and has received Artist in Education grants from the Ontario Arts Council, as well as doing other teaching in Hamilton, Toronto, and elsewhere in Ontario – including the Six Nations Reserve and Moose Factory. She has studied with bill bissett, Patrick Lane, and Jane Hirshfield. She also had a grade two teacher who commented on her drawing: “That is not a tree. Make yours as nice as Linda’s!” (at least, that’s how she remembers it) – and this has influenced her teaching

SMALL TOWN ONTARIO, STRATFORD 65 YEARS AGO

Tues April 13, 7.30p.m.
Bruce A. Woods is a retired minister who lived in Stratford for 16 years. His book Between Two Women addresses two audiences - his readers and the inhabitants of another invisible world made up of guardian angels and the Greek Gods of Mythology. He uses this literary technique for side-splitting humour, beguiling his reader into a mystical, almost religious experience.

LITERARY ANTHOLOGIES: the Fictional and the Real

Tues Mar 9, 7.30p.m. Bread & Roses Cafe, Sky Dragon Centre, 27 KIng William Str. David Cohen a teacher and an activist (local stuff, Middle East)who dabbles in lit will lead in a discussion of THe Anthologist by NIcholson Baker and The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse ed. Philip Larkin.

NEWFOUNDLAND WRITING

Tues Feb 9, 7.30p.m. Bread & Roses Cafe, Sky Dragon Centre, 27 King William Str.
Jeanie MacFarlane, a longtime book reviewer and freelance writer, will share on Newfoundland Writing, having spent many summers there.

YOUR VOICE AND POETRY

Tues Jan 12 2010, 7.30p.m. at Bread & Roses Cafe, Sky Dragon Centre, 27 King William Street. Voice your thoughts on poetry, why you like them or why you don't, and why you choose to write poetry if you are a writer. The topic READING POEMS AS A PATH TO WRITING POEMS with Marilyn Gear Pilling will be rescheduled to another date.

STORIES FOR A CHRISTMAS EVENING

Tues DEC 8, 7.30p.m. at Bread & Roses Cafe, Sky Dragon Centre,27 King William Str. It is our yearly tradition at LitChat to gather around for and with stories to warm up the evening. Bring a story to share with us if you have one.

"Giller Night" at the Sky Dragon

Tues NOV 10, 7.30p.m.
Bread & Rose Cafe, Sky Dragon Centre, 27 King William Str, Hamilton.
"Giller Night" at the Sky Dragon Centre. A discussion on books and your views on Canadian writng. Our previous scheduled discussion on NewFoundland Writing with Jeanie MacFarlane will be moved into 2010.