Featuring authors Deborah Schnitzer and Jan Andrews with musician Ben Wytinck
Date: Friday, September 11, 7 pm
Location: Aqua Books (274 Garry Street, between Graham and Portage)
Cost: FREE
THIN AIR festival venue Aqua Books is proud to present a brand new concept in ripping off other people's concepts: Kelly Hughes Live!
Winnipeg's only live talk show, KHL! will bring you all the trappings you've come to expect from the television talk show: comedy, music and celebrities. The only difference is that you haven't heard of any of my guests, and you'll have to leave your house. So it's not that much like TV after all.
This edition of KHL! is meant to lead Winnipeg readers into THIN AIR, the Winnipeg International Writers' Festival, Sept. 20-27.
About Deborah Schnitzer
Deborah Schnitzer’s work appears in several anthologies, including Children of the Shoah: Holocaust Literature and Education and Dropped Threads. She co-edited Uncommon Wealth: An Anthology of Poetry in English and, with Debbie Keahey, The Madwoman in the Academy: Writing on the Tower, a gathering of women’s writing about graduate school, teaching and tenure. She has published two books of poetry, Black Beyond Blue and Loving Gertrude Stein, and a novel, Gertrude Unmanageable. Her new book, An Unexpected Break in the Weather, is a novel of unconventional friendships in a Winnipeg neighbourhood. Schnitzer is a 3M Teaching Fellow in the English Department at the University of Winnipeg.
About Jan Andrews
British-born Jan Andrews is an internationally-respected writer and storyteller. Her many published titles include Winter of Peril: The Newfoundland Diary of Sophie Loveridge, Pa’s Harvest, and Stories at the Door (Tundra 2005). Over the last twenty years, she has told stories to children and adults across Canada, as well as in the US, Australia and England. She has coordinated storytelling series, and is the director of StorySave, a recording project with Canadian storytelling elders. Andrews lives outside Ottawa, but is spending the fall in Winnipeg as the Writer/Storyteller-in-Residence at the U of M’s Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture.
About Ben Wytinck
Southpaw axeman Ben Wytinck got his start at age nine, playing drums in his father's band at a rural Manitoba bar. He moved to Winnipeg in 2001, to play what he calls Bluegrazz (Bluegrass and Jazz). His eponymous debut CD contains ten of his finest self-penned songs.
About Kelly Hughes
Bookstore owner Kelly Hughes has worked as an actor (Pacific Theatre), a pre-teen TV star (Let's Go!), an arts administrator (Winnipeg Cultural Alliance), and an operations manager (WHERE Winnipeg). He founded Aqua Books a decade ago, and is somewhat infamous as the writer of This Week at Aqua Books. He does dozens of media interviews each year, and has done hundreds of speaking/hosting engagements, from the kindergarten class at Kumsheen Elementary to the Burnaby Correctional Centre for Women.
