We've got a sponsor for the event...thankfully, a lowkey sponsor who seems to get the spirit of the venture...and here's the sponsor:
Writing.wise's rip roaring, rip snorting description doesn't do it for everybody so from time to time I get asked to explain what the event is about. As far as I'm concerned, it's shop talk for writers and an opportunity to talk to a bunch of people who're interested in some of the same things I am. A good beer, good food, a rousing discussion about copyright, the impact that technology has on writing practice, integrating new and old forms of writing to keep the work juicy, collaborating with people who view writing as the easy part of job, and so on....
I'm very excited to be announcing this: our ticketing is in place but first, here's the roster of the panelists:
Kaare Andrews is a writer and artist who’s worked on comic books such as the Incredible Hulk, Ultimate X-Men, Amazing Spider-Man, Gen13 and the Matrix. He won “Outstanding Comic Book Artist” at the Joe Shuster Awards in 2005. As a filmmaker, he’s directed a number of award-winning short films and as a designer of album covers, he worked on Tegan and Sara’s 2002 album, “:If it was you,” amongst others.
Mira Sundara Rajan, is a musician, author of “Copyright and Creative Freedom,” and the Canada Research Chair in Intellectual Property Law at the University of British Columbia. With a great grandfather who was exiled from British India them welcomed back and lauded as a national poet whose copyright was later nationalized, Sundara Rajan has a compelling story where copyright is concerned.
Sue Thomas, a UK expert in new media, is the author of the book "Hello World travels in virtuality" and others. A literary advisor to the British Council and the Electronic Literature Organization, she is the program leader for the Online MA in Creative Writing and New Media (at De Montfort University). Her students collaborated with Penguin Books on 'A Million Penguins'. She'll explain how that blockbusting experimental wikinovel produced some surprising results.
Shari Ulrich recently released her latest solo album. A member of the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame, a Juno award winner, and a fixture on the Vancouver music scene, Ulrich has performed with Pied Pumkin, Ulrich Henderson Forbes, and Valdy & the Hometown Band. When she’s in town, Ulrich teaches songwriting locally.
Ian Verchere is known as the developer of over 30 game titles including two million-selling titles for Electronic Arts, SSX Tricky and NBA Street V2. He’s also been a business man, a founder of Radical Entertainment; an author, “V0N 1B0; General Delivery, Whistler, BC; a creative consultant for Roald Dahl’s literary estate, and a scriptwriter (with Douglas Coupland) who’s sold his work to Disney
Ta da: the moderator:
kc dyer is the author of four contemporary and
historical young adult novels which have been published in Canada, the US, the
UK, and Thailand. She’s also had a short story “Swim” included in, “SHORELINES:
A Millennium Anthology” published by the North Shore Writers’ Association. The
conference and the writing contest coordinator for the Surrey International
Writers’ Conference, dyer is a skilled, capable moderator with experience in
and opinions on all aspects of the writing scene.
Details:
The date is Tuesday, November 13, 2007, Doors
open at 6:30 pm at Radha Yoga & Eatery (728 Main St.) The event
starts at 7 pm. They have a liquor licence so you can order a beer or
wine with your food.
Ticket prices are $15 for members of the Society for Technical Communication, Vancouver Comicon community, Masters of Digital Media community, SFU Writing & Publishing community, FrogHeart Communications community, and The Shebeen Club community. $20 for everyone else.
Tickets available here:
I just sent the event partners a copy of the first promotional material for Writing.wise...phew! The partners will have the info. for the first few weeks and then I (and anyone else who cares to) will be sending out information to other interested parties. The Canada West Coast Chapter of the Society for Technical Communication (STC) will handle the ticketing. Tickets will be $15 for members of the various communities (STC, SFU W&P, MDM, Vancouver Comicon, The Shebeen Club, and FrogHeart) and $20 for non members. Details about the panelists, moderator, and venue are also included (and easily visible in this blog).
