Luminaries Reading Series: Swampy Jo Launch and Open Mic

Friday, September 24, 2010 - 6:00pm

Fromagerie Elgin
5 Cedar Street
Sudbury , ON
P3E 1A1

Culture Days is a collaborative pan-Canadian volunteer movement to raise the awareness, accessibility, participation and engagement of all Canadians in the arts and cultural life of their communities. This province wide celebration runs from September 24-26th.

As part of Culture Days, you are welcome to celebrate the launch of Jennifer Rouse Barbeau's first novel, Swampy Jo. The evening will feature readings by the author, after which there will be an open mic of poetry and short fiction.

THE AUTHOR:

Jennifer Rouse Barbeau is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, and is now a professor of Advertising-Creative Media at Canadore College in North Bay. She lives in Sturgeon Falls. Barbeau has published a number of short stories, including "Grumble" in the 2006 YSP anthology "Bluffs: Northeastern Ontario Stories from the Edge". She illustrated "La Laineuse" by Rachel Desaulniers (Le Centre FORA, 2006). "Swampy Jo" is her first novel.

For more information, please see http://www.culturedays.ca/en/celebration-schedule/view/4bcc6dc7-eba4-442...