WINTER

WordPlay 2013 

When:    January 25-27 2012
Where:   The Bennett Centre
               9703-94 Street
               Edmonton, AB


Two great authors
  + one great day
  + supervisors many of you know and love
  + evening entertainment
  + the BEEG LEETLE Show
  + fun and hijinx
  = the wordplayfully delightful camp you’ve
     come to know as YouthWrite!!!
 

But there's even more fun at Winter WordPlay...

• Perform at the Poet’s Café!
• Strut your stuff at The Inklings!
• Guffaw at the BEEG LEETLE show!
• Be wowed by our evening entertainers!
• WordPlay because YOU’ve got the write stuff!!!!

 YouthWrite Winter WordPlay is FULL!  Registration is closed - thank you to all applicants.  See you this weekend.

is thrilled to introduce our guest instructors

Mieko Ouchi is a playwright, actor, director and filmmaker whose plays The Red Priest (Eight Ways To Say Goodbye), The Blue Light, The Dada Play and Nisei Blue have been produced across Canada and the U.S. and have been finalists for a Governor General’s Award, the Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award and the City of Edmonton Book Prize, and won the Carol Bolt Award and two Betty’s. Mieko’s plays have been translated into French, Japanese, Czech and Russian and are published by Playwrights Canada Press. Based in Edmonton, Alberta , she works in theatre, film, and television, and her plays are published by Playwrights Canada Press.  

As a filmmaker, Mieko Ouchi has produced award-winning works which have played in 30 international festivals, and aired on the  CBC and Bravo.  She has written, co-written, and directed many plays for  Concrete Theatre, where she is Co-Artistic Director.  Mieko was Playwright-in-Residence at Workshop West in 2002-03, and past-president of FAVA, the Alberta Film and Video Arts Society. In January 2009 she was the inaugural Faith Broome Playwright-in-Residence for four months at the University of Oklahoma. In 2012, she was named Senior Playwright in Residence at theBanff Centre for the Arts.  In 2003, she received the Queen's Golden Jubilee Medal for her contribution to the arts community in Edmonton.

Minister Faust aka Malcolm Azania is a long-time community activist, writer, journalist, broadcaster, public speaker and martial artist in several disciplines.  A lifelong fan of science fiction, his earliest memories of the genre were watching Star Trek: The Original Series in black & white and having his mother read to him from Robert Heinlein's Red Planet.  Malcolm has also forged a speaking career that has taken him across Canada and before of crowds in the tens of thousands.  A radio broadcaster since 1989, he hosted Africentric Radio (formerly The Terrordome), for which he's interviewed many luminaries.  A novelist described as one of the finest voices of his generation, Minister Faust is the author of the critically acclaimed The Coyote Kings, Book One: Space-Age Bachelor Pad, and the Kindred Award-winning Shrinking the Heroes. His latest are The Alchemists of Kush and War and Mir.  Minister Faust refers to his sub-genre of writing as Imhotep-Hop-an Africentric literature that draws from myriad ancient African civilizations, explores present realities, and imagines a future in which people struggle not only for justice but for the stars.

Saturday Evening's Very Special Guest

Dwayne Hrynkiw

Drummer and Percussionist 

Dwayne's musical career has evolved within many disciplines over the past thirty years. Blues and jazz music were his first inspirations to study form and improvisation on the drumset.  Crossover styles of Latin Jazz, African and AfroCuban music have been influential in digging deeper into the origins and the art of hand drumming with masters from around the world.  Dwayne has acquired an understanding of many genres of music along with the motivation to pursue percussive challenges of artistic expression.  His performances deliver the exotic sounds of drums and percussion with cultural flair.  Join Dwayne for an interactive evening of drumming, percussion and the possibility of mingling these with your own words!