Calgary playwright Eugene Stickland grew up in Saskatchewan, the same as painter Agnes Martin, but he didn’t know about her until 2004, the year she died, about 20 years after he’d left Regina to live and write plays in Toronto and then Calgary, where he was the Alberta Theatre Project’s playwright-in-residence 10 times.
Poet, playwright, novelist and publisher Eugene Stickland is hosting a book launch for his play The Innocence of Trees Wednesday at Shelf Life Books.
In 2018, Stickland was in Taos with cellist Morag Northey working on a play when he remembered Martin and visited her “shrine” at the Harwood Museum there, when he decided he wanted to write a play about her.has been written, produced and published. After doing an Edmonton launch last week, Strickland is doing a book launch Wednesday night at Shelf Life Books in Calgary.
“Her time in Saskatchewan was not exactly a happy time, so I don't believe she had much a sentimental attraction to the place," he adds."And she was after all an abstract expressionists and appreciation of such work does not always filter down to the common man or woman. It can lend itself to a lot of head scratching!
At the end of a side street in Slave Lake, Alta., Lynn Bowes looks at a grey job-site trailer with boarded-up windows and doors that once operated as her town's only homeless shelter.With just days to go before his first and likely only debate against U.S. Vice-President Kamala Harris, former U.S. president Donald Trump posted a warning on his social media site threatening to jail those “involved in unscrupulous behavior” this election, which he said would be under intense scrutiny.
It’s been just over a week since the federal government banned nicotine pouches from being sold anywhere other than a pharmacy.Dog mauled to death in B.C. yard after 3 pit bulls jump fence: policeA woman is in hospital in serious condition after she was stabbed in Surrey’s Whalley area early Sunday, Mounties have confirmed.Mounties in Northern B.C. have set up a dedicated tip line as part of their ongoing investigation into the disappearance of an Indigenous woman two months ago.B.C.
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