Concert Invitation – Gail sings about love with Judith Richardson and Robin Phillips
Day Seven of Gail’s Virtual Tour
Read Ian’s Top Tens List here!
Day Six of Gail’s Virtual Tour – StephTheBookworm
Read the interview here!
Day Five of Gail’s Virtual Tour – ChicaReader!
ChicaReader
Read “Jess’ This or That” here!
Day Four of My Virtual Tour – Me, My Shelf, and I
Read the interview here!
Day Three of My Virtual Tour – Just Another Book Addict
Read “This or That With Gail Sidonie Sobat” here!
Day One and Two of My Virtual Tour – Paperback Treasures and Ece Red
Read “This or That with Ian” here.
Read the interview here.
Winter WordPlay was Wonderful!
This past weekend I spent time with an amazing array of talented young writers
from all over Alberta! Their words moved me, tickled my fancy, delighted and instructed me. I was overjoyed by the experience of hanging out with so many creative minds in one beautiful place: The Bennett Centre in Edmonton.
Two fantastic writers instructed and mentored our young aspiring hopefuls. Richard Van Camp, current Writer-in-Residence at the University of Alberta, and GG nominee Christine Wiesenthal, shared their expertise in two separate workshops. Suffice to say, there was a rich exchange of ideas, stimulating discussion, and a host of new writing ideas in both classes. Thank you, Christine and Richard, for the gifts you brought to YouthWrite Winter WordPlay.
Rapid Fire Theatre’s Joe Vanderhelm and Amy Shostak performed on Saturday evening, delighting our YouthWriters, and showing by example how writing is indeed a form of improvisation! Bronwyn Storm (Natasha Deen) and Spyder Yardley-Jones came by for Writers’/Illustrators’ Corner to share their time with our budding authors and artists. SWYC, the Spoken Word Youth Choir, dazzled us with poetry and spoken word performance extraordinaire. Caleb Nelson and Kristel Harder joined us for sweet bedtime songs on Friday evening, and Geoff McMaster regaled us with tunes and our famous signature “Hallelujah” on Saturday night. Thank you, thank you, special guests!!
The Inklings, named after our famous mascot drawn by Spyder Yardley-Jones, were decidedly impressive. We heard fiddle tunes, beautiful voices, piano, dulcimer, mandolin, as well as spoken word pieces, works-in-progress, poems and rants. At one point, we were transported to Turkey by a belly dancer!
Our YouthWrite super supers, Nick Carter, Marla Albiston and Noel Taylor, as always were the heartbeat of the camp. Their energy and enthusiasm, good humour and multi-talented offerings made the camp tick along like a well-oiled machine. N&N led the Inklings off with their famous accordion/spoken word duo. It was so fun to bring the naughty Clueless gang back to life again in the Leetle Show. Thank you Nick, Marla and Noel for the joy you bring to me and to YouthWrite! I could not do this great work without you!
A shout out to the Bennett Centre for hosting our camp, to Vera, Rick and Stephanie for being so hospitable and for making us feel so welcome. And finally, thanks to you wonderful YouthWriters! Without you, there would be no YouthWrite, and I love you for your energy and spirit! Thank you for the wordplayfulness you bring to my life!
On a final note, I’d just like to share with you that I am now official on a virtual online tour through The {Teen} Book Scene. Please come along and find out more about Chance to Dance for You. The first stop on the tour is at Paperback Treasures!
Gail is so honoured to be amongst such illustrious writers!
Gail is thrilled that Chance to Dance for You has made the long list for the Alberta Readers’ Choice Awards!
http://www.epl.ca/alberta-readers-choice
Tick Tock…YouthWrite Winter WordPlay Draws Nigh!
Winter WordPlay – January 27th-29th
full weekend or daycamp options – for ages 12 and older
starring
Richard Van Camp
Christine Wiesenthal
those amazing supers Noel Taylor and Marla Albiston (+ me!)
with guest stars Joe Vanderhelm and Rapid Fire Theatre
at the Bennett Centre, Edmonton
brought to you by
YouthWrite, a camp for kids who love to write…just about anything!©
Applications still being accepted!
For more information, visit www.youthwrite.com/winter-camp-2012
