Date:
Wednesday, October 25, 2023 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Venue:
Contact:
Electric Mermaid: Live Reads from Char's Landing, Port Alberni, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada
Emcee: Derek Hanebury Moderator: Karl Korven Host & ZOOM Producer: Charlene Patterson
Spoken Word Open Mic at Char's Landing, last Wednesday of each month
Char's physical doors open 5:30pm Pacific Time
OCTOBER 25th FEATURING Bruce Hornidge
Bruce Edward Hornidge was born in 1948 in Belleville, Ontario, an Air Force brat growing up. where his father was stationed in Gimli, Manitoba, and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Bruce finished school in 1967, joining his brother Brian at MacMillan Bloedel’s Kennedy Lake logging division at Ucluelet on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. He was married on a very unusual snowy. day in March 1973 and, with his wife, Minnie, raised two boys and a girl. He felled trees for twenty-six years. After losing his job in 1997, he became a security guard in Campbell River ,Vancouver, and Vanderhoof, British Columbia. Bruce and his wife, now the Rev. Minnie Hornidge, live in Glen Williams, Ontario. There, Bruce gardens and knits. And writes . About the Publisher Endless Sky Books was founded by award-winning author and editor Edward Willett in 2023. For more information, www.endless-sky-books.com
OCTOBER 25th CURATED READER LIST
READER 01 00:15:20 Jenn Wenn 5min VIa zoom (London Ont)
READER 02 RAINCHECK Raven Dahl 5min In person ) Port Alberni B.C.)
READER 03 00:23:50 Lesli Omohundro Bronczkowsi 5min Via zoom ) Germany )
FEATURE 00:29:15 Bruce Hornidge 20 min+Q&A In person ) Glen Williams, Ontario)
READER 04 01:01:30 Victoria Roscoe-Roumanis 5min in Person )Port Alberni )
READER 08 01:06:50 Dean Lamont 5 min in Person ) Port Alberni )
READER 05 01:11:50 Julie Mahfood 10 min spotlight Via zoom (Montreal Que)
READER 06 01:24:15 Joe Lunchbucket aka Bob Frankow 5min In person ) Port Alberni B,C,)
READER 07 01:27:25 Kathlleen Vance 5min Via zoom ) Gibson B.C. )
READER 09 01:34:00 Atma Frans 5min Via zoom ) Gibson B.C, )
READER 10 01:38:30 Shawna M 5min in person ) Port Alberni B.C,)
READER 11 01:42:55 Herb Bryce 5 min Via zoom ) Maple Ridge B.C. )
READER 12 01:49:10 Karen Poirier 5 min in Person ) Port Alberni B.C)
READER 13 01:56:35 David Kippling 5 min via zoom ) Gibson B.C.)
READER 14 02:00:55 Judith Hutchison 5 min in Person
READER 15 02:08:20 JL Carmichael 5min Via zoom ) St Albert A.B)
READER 00 02:15:00 Derek Hanebury
OCTOBER 25th FEATURING
Bruce Hornidge 20 min+Q&A Glen Williams, Ontario.
Julie Mahfood 10 min spotlight (Montreal Que)
Event details https://alberni.ca/events/37358 YouTube https://youtu.be/ogN2o2gpyKI
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Char’s Landing 19+ (accompanied kids welcome until 10pm)
4815 Argyle @5th Port Alberni, Vancouver Island, CANADA V9Y 1V9
Tel: 778-421-2427 www.charslanding.com
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