Write On! Chapbook Showcase

Featuring the work of students from Connaught Public School

In Person Youth

General Admission

Free

Wednesday

Nov , 2019

1:00pm

Eastern

Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre

355 Cooper, at O’Connor • Ottawa

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Alan Cumyn · Photo by Gwen Cumyn Cornelia Rémi Kathleen Gallagher Pearl Pirie

After intensive writing workshops our young authors are ready to share the fruits of their labours.

1:00pm–2:30pm

Write On! Chapbook Showcase and Conversations on the Rights of the Child and Future Challenges, hosted by Julie Garlen

After intensive writing workshops our young authors are ready to share the fruits of their labours.

Featuring the work of students from Connaught Public School with teacher Michelle Richardson and author Pearl Pirie

And teacher Pam Jones and author Alan Cumyn followed by a coversation between educators Kathleen Gallagher and Cornelia Remi and students.

The Authors

Alan Cumyn

Alan Cumyn is the author of wide-ranging and often wildly different literary novels for children, young adults and adults. A two-time winner of the Ottawa Book Award, he has also had work shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award, the Giller Prize, and the Trillium Award. He teaches through the Vermont College of Fine Arts and is a past Chair of the Writers’ Union of Canada. In 2016 he received the Writers’ Trust of Canada’s Vicky Metcalf Award for body of work for young people. www.alancumyn.com

Cornelia Rémi

Cornelia Rémi is a scholar of literature and loves adventures – random encounters that catapult her into new worlds and challenge her to explore words, ideas and stories. After previous appointments at LMU Munich and the University of Tübingen she currently serves as acting chair of German literature at the University of Würzburg. Her research focuses on early modern as well as 19th-century and contemporary texts, with book-length studies dedicated to religious poetry and to secrets in 19th-century fiction. In her spare time she promotes the joy of writing and reading by volunteering at LMU’s Writing Centre and for the Lübeck Book Pirates. Children’s books are a particular passion of hers. When she noticed her young nephews falling in love with wordless picturebooks teeming with characters, but couldn’t find any research on them, she jumped at the chance of studying these wimmelbooks herself. She is also responsible for compiling the most comprehensive online bibliography of Harry Potter research. www.coremi.de

Kathleen Gallagher

Kathleen Gallagher is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Toronto and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Previously, she held two Canada Research Chairs and in 2017 won the University of Toronto inaugural President’s Impact Award for research impact beyond the academy. In 2018 she won the David E. Hunt Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and has garnered over 7 million dollars in SSHRC and other research funding. She has been a Salzburg Seminar Fellow and two of her books have won awards from the American Education Research Association. Her books include, Why Theatre Matters: Urban Youth, Engagement, and a Pedagogy of the real (University of Toronto Press, 2014); The Theatre of Urban: Youth and Schooling in Dangerous Times (University of Toronto Press, 2007) Drama Education in the Lives of Girls: Imagining Possibilities (University of Toronto Press, 2000). Her edited collections include: The Methodological Dilemma Revisited: Creative, Critical and Collaborative Approaches to Qualitative Research for a New Era (Routledge 2018); In Defence of Theatre: Aesthetic Practices and Social Interventions. (with Barry Freeman, University of Toronto Press 2016); Drama and Theatre in Urban Contexts (with Jonothan Neelands, Routledge 2013); The Methodological Dilemma: Creative, Critical and Collaborative Approaches to Qualitative Research (Routledge, 2008); and How Theatre Educates: Convergences and Counterpoints with Artists, Scholars, and Advocates (with David Booth, University of Toronto Press, 2003). Dr. Gallagher has published many articles on theatre, youth, pedagogy, methodology and gender and travels widely giving international addresses and workshops for practitioners. Her research continues to focus on questions of youth civic engagement and artistic practice, and the pedagogical and methodological possibilities of theatre. See Also: Youth Find Hope for the Future Through Documentary Play Website: www.dramaresearch.ca YouTubeChannel: https://www.youtube.com/user/DramaResearchPortal FacebookGroup/Page: www.facebook.com/gallagherdramaresearch Twitter: www.twitter.com/dramaresearch

Pearl Pirie

Pearl Pirie has been teaching poetry for close to 20 years. Her online classes are held through Studio Nouveau. Her 4th poetry collection is to be released by Radiant Press in the fall of 2020. Her poems have been given the nod for Best Canadian Poetry in English three times. Her newest chapbooks are Call Down the Walls (Frog Hollow Press, Feb. 2019) and Eldon, letters (above/ground, August, 2019). You can buy her poetry at www.pearlpirie.com