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ORL joins Black History Month Celebrations
The Kelowna Immigrant Society and the ORL have again partnered to celebrate Kelowna’s second annual Black History Month by hosting several special events featuring award-winning writers from February 16-25.
On Tuesday, February 16, three accomplished writers with give readings and lead a discussion starting at 7 p.m. at the ORL’s Kelowna Branch at 1380 Ellis Street. The evening will feature Austin Clarke, who won the Giller Award in 2002 for his novel “The Polished Hoe”, humanitarian and UN diplomat Mairuth Sarsfield, and children’s playwright and author Gail Nyoka.
Austin Clarke will visit the ORL Westbank Branch in Westridge Mall at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, February 17 for an author reading and discussion. His latest novel, titled “More”, has garnered the Barbados-born author the 2009 Toronto Book Award.
The Kelowna Branch will host a lively evening of poetry on Wednesday, February 24 beginning at 7 p.m. featuring Governor-General winner Dr. George Elliott-Clarke and slam poet Kevan Cameron a.k.a. “Scruffmouth”. Dr. Elliott-Clarke is a 7th generation Nova Scotian whose work describes the essence of being a Black Canadian, and Scruffmouth is the Grand Champion of the 2008 Vancouver Poetry Slam.
Two children’s authors will be at the Kelowna Branch on Thursday, February 25 at 1:30 p.m. Itah Sadu is the award-winning writer of children’s bestsellers including “Christopher, Please Clean up your Room” and “Name Calling”, and Dr. Althea Prince is a novelist and youth counsellor whose current title is “The Politics of Black Women’s Hair”.
All events are free and open to the public; no registration is necessary. For further details on these events, please call the Kelowna Branch at 250-762-2800 or the Westbank Branch at 250-768-4369.
