series

Layne Christensen

News Reporter
layne@nsnews.cam

IF the organizers of
the Koerrer Lecture
Series had their wishes,
Atom Egoyan would
be speaking at
Capilano College this
evening.

Time constraints prevent-
ed the celebrated Canadian
film-maker from ever being
contacted, however, so rhe
college’s first annual lecture
series on art, politics and his-
tory will open instead with
Vancouver poct Michael
Turner.

Turner could hardly be
considered second-best, says
Pierre Coupey, an instructor
in the coilege’s English
department and one of the
main organizers of the tecture
serics.

Turner, says Coupey, is
“one of these very young
writers who's shown extraor-
dinary accomplishment. He’s
really developed himself as a
first-rate writer.”

Turner, 36, grew up in
North Van. In '93 he found-
ed the Reading Railroad read-
ing series at Vancouver’s
Railway Club and the

DUNCAN McNaughton...
closes the Koerner iec-
ture series March 19.

Malcolm Lowry Room at
North Burnaby Inn. That
same year he also published
Hard Core Lago, 2 novel-in-
verse about a punk rock .
band, which was later made
into a film. He is also the
author of American Whiskey
Bar.

Tarner’s appearance at 8
p.m. in Room 148 in the col-
lege’s Cedar Building is the
first of three lectures in the
series.

Also speaking will be Alm-
maker Nettie Wild, who
received a Genie carlier this
month for her documentary
on guerrilla warfare in Mexico
in A Place Called Chiapss.
Wild will be at the college
Sunday, March 7 at } p.m.

San Francisco poct
Duncan McNaughton will
close the series Friday, March
19; 8 p.m. with a discussion
of the relationship between
poetry, history and geogra-
phy.

Tickets are $5 ($3 for stu-
dents), or $12 for the scries
by calling 984-1712. Tickets
also available at the door.

Proceeds from the series
will benefit the Capilano
Review Endowment Fund,
set up to support the contin-
ued publication of the literary
magazine Capilano Review.

FILM-MAKER Nettie Wiid will show clips from A Place Called Chiapas as she dis-
cusses the making of the award-winning documentary March.7 at Capilano College.

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