Carnegie Days 2010 - Read Out Loud Shuttle Bus and Authors' Readings

Sunday, September 19, 2010 - 10:00am

MacLaren Art Centre (and other locations)
37 Mulcaster Street
Barrie, ON
L4M 3M2

The Barrie artist collective Ear to the Ground has transformed a shuttle bus with language and visual art, which will tour visitors to select Doors Open Barrie sites, the Tourism Barrie Office at the Southshore Community Centre and festival hotel partners. On board the bus, visitors will discover a “library on wheels” or “book mobile”. Throughout the day, Barrie authors Dr. Bruce Meyer, Damian Lopes and Trudee Romanek will board the bus to share readings from selected works. This is a free event and it runs from 10am-5pm.

Ear to the Ground is a cultural group who use the language of arts and culture as a catalyst for environmental awareness and social action. The collective consists of local artists Jenn Guerin, Jacqui Swanek and Whitney O’Brien, recent graduates of the School of Design and Visual Arts, Georgian College.

READERS:

Bruce Meyer professor of English at Georgian College. He is a finalist in the 2010 TV Ontario Best Lecturer competition and author of thirty books, including the national bestseller The Golden Thread and the poetry collections Dog Days and Mesopotamia. He is a member of the Barrie Arts Council.

Damian Lopes is the author of three print books and two electronic books of poetry. His poetry, fiction and visual work has appeared in literary journals and magazines across Canada, in the USA and Europe and numerous small and micro press chapbooks and broadsides. Lopes is the chair of the Barrie Arts Council, a writer member of PEN Canada, and a member of the Writers’ Union of Canada.

Trudee Romanek is the author of nine books of non-fiction for young readers, which have been translated into Chinese, Dutch, Indonesian, Korean, and Arabic. Her works have been recognized by the Canadian Science Writers’ Association, the Society of School Librarians International, and the International Reading Association among others. Aha! The Most Interesting Book You’ll Ever Read About Intelligence won the 2006-07 Red Cedar Non-fiction Prize. In 2009, she was awarded a Barrie Arts Awards for Excellence in the Arts.
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The Carnegie Days festival runs from September 16-19.
For full details, please see http://maclarenart.com/events/special-events/read-out-loud-shuttle-bus-a...