24 - Wednesday, March 21, 1990 - North Shere News

Writing Festival tackles funding

WRITERS AND writing groups in-
terested in learning how to obtain
funding, publish their own works
and organize readings and tours
are invited to the second annual
Community Writing Exchange and
Festival to be held Saturday, April
21, at Carnegie Centre, 401 Main
St., Vancouver.

The free event is part of the Na-
tional Book Festival, and will in-
clude an evening reading of the
theme of Poetry for Peace to mark
Vancouver's annual Peace March

held the same day.

The reading will feature poet/
novelist Helen Potrebenko and the
Downtown Eastside Poets.

Resource people from the Fed-
eration of B.C. Writers, the Nor-
mal Arts Society, the Carnegie
Centre programming staff and the
Downtown Eastside Poets will
conduct a series of how-to
workshops and information ex-
changes in the afternoon on the
following topics:

How to secure funding from
foundations, government agencies

and ather sources.

How to produce books, pam-
phlets, leaflets and other media at
low cost.

How to organize a community-
based writing group, conduct
readings and tours and perform in
public.

The workshops will be held from
2 to 6 p.m. The reading begins at
7:30 p.m. All events are free and
open to the public.

For more information, please
contact Sheila Baxter at 324-5801.

Newfoundland’s stormy past recalled

From page 23

they walked home together
at night along Water Street ... and
| contrived to tag along, one hand
in my father’s and the other in
Smallwood’s ... (while) they
debated vigorously the principal
issues of the day.”

It was a valuable immersion in
‘sland politics for the young
Jamieson at a time when New-
foundland was hurtling towards
the most critical point in its
thousand-year history.

The reigning Liberal government
was battered by riots in the early
1930s as economic conditions
worsened; in 1932, the prime
minister and his wife were forced
to flee an angry mob that had laid
siege to the ijegislature. A political
upset by the Conservatives in 1932
failed to improve the plight of
Newfoundlanders as the world
depression deepened and, in
1934, Newfoundland surrendered
self-government to Britain.

Bad as the Dirty Thirties were in
adjacent Canada, the situation in
Newfoundland was far worse.
Many inhabitants were reduced to
attempting to live on a dole of just
six cents a day. Malnutrition and
disease exacted a terrible toll,
especially on the very young and
the very old. The fsland’s
economy was shattered.

The 1940s saw the battle lines
drawn between factions espousing
union with the United States on
one hand and membership in the
Canadian Confederation on the
other. The fight would be a bitter
one, splitting families and com-
munities as the benefits and pitfalls
were debated from one end of
Newfoundland to the other.

These, then, were the scenes
during the ‘20s, the ‘30s and the
‘40s, the scenes that were
witnessed and experienced by one
of Canada’s future federal cabinet
ministers and Canada’s Hi
Commissioner to Britain.

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