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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Book Reading: Jennifer Jones
DESCRIPTION:Due to unforeseen circumstances\, Jennifer Jones is not able to attend the event scheduled for December 9th. The rescheduled date will be announced in early 2026.  \n\n\n\nPresented by The Stockey Centre and Parry Sound Books. No stone is left unturned in this candid memoir by one of Canada’s greatest curlers. \n\n\n\nFrom the first slides as a toddler at her hometown Winnipeg curling club to the top step of the Olympic podium\, Jennifer Jones has risen to become one of curling’s greatest players. Along the way\, she has altered how the game is played and has kicked open doors to allow women to have equality in what was\, traditionally\, a male-dominated field. \n\n\n\nHer record of achievement is unmatched\, but it never came easily. In Rock Star\, Jones opens up about the tensions between teammates and opponents\, how she combined law school and a legal career with curling at the highest level\, the inside story on what many consider the greatest shot in curling history\, how her Olympic dream almost ended on a ski hill in Switzerland\, and the challenges of balancing world-class curling with motherhood. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJones also reveals the personal battles she endured during her career. While she was front and centre in arenas and television coverage\, she had to push herself past her severe introversion to find some level of comfort with being in the spotlight. There were also clashes with the media\, which sometimes portrayed her so harshly that it left her in tears. \n\n\n\nThe journey Jones shares in this memoir is one that may surprise even her biggest fans. Jones helped to grow the sport\, and in exchange\, she grew as a curler\, a wife\, a mother\, and a public figure. Equal parts inspiring and shocking\, Rock Star will leave readers in awe of her accomplishments and the journey that led her to become the person she is today.  \n\n\n\nJENNIFER JONES is a curling icon\, widely regarded as the greatest female curler of all time. A two-time Olympian and 2014 Olympic Gold medallist\, she dominated the sport with six national titles\, two world championships\, and an astounding sixteen Grand Slam victories.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn 2023\, she added a Canadian Mixed Doubles Curling Championship to her legendary career. Off the ice\, Jennifer is a lawyer\, corporate leader\, and sought-after motivational speaker. As a devoted mother and wife\, she continues to inspire with her passion\, perseverance\, and unwavering commitment to excellence. \n\n\n\nTickets are $15 + HST each. This is a general seating event\, seats are first come\, first served upon arrival to the event. We strongly encourage that tickets are purchased in advance of the event date\, however if you are purchasing on the night of the event\, we encourage that guests arrive by no later than one half hour prior to the event start time. \n\n\n\nBUY TICKETS ONLINE HERE \n\n\n\nAlternatively\, tickets can also be purchased during our business hours by calling our Box Office staff at 705-746-4466 extension 405 or visiting us at 2 Bay Street\, Parry Sound. Visit our Box Office FAQs & Hours page for more information on our tickets\, fees\, and visits to our facility.
URL:https://stockeycentre.com/event/book-reading-jennifer-jones/
LOCATION:The Stockey Centre\, 2 Bay Street\, Parry Sound\, Ontario\, P2A 1S3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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SUMMARY:Book Reading: Adam Shoalts
DESCRIPTION:National bestselling author and professional adventurer Adam Shoalts will join us to discuss his well-known expeditions in Canada’s wilderness\, including his most recent book\, Vanished Beyond the Map. It is the story of a legendary lost explorer who disappeared more than a century ago and Shoalts’s quest to retrace his route.   \n\n\n\nAdam Shoalts is a professional adventurer and Westaway Explorer-in-Residence at the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. His expeditions range from mapping rivers to archaeological projects\, but Shoalts is best known for his long solo wilderness journeys\, including crossing alone nearly 4\,000 km of Canada’s Arctic. Named one of the “greatest living explorers” by CBC and declared “Canada’s Indiana Jones” by the Toronto Star\, Shoalts’s latest quest was retracing the route of a lost explorer\, the subject of his new bestselling book Vanished Beyond the Map. His other books include Where the Falcon Flies\, The Whisper on the Night Wind\, A History of Canada in 10 Maps\, and Beyond the Trees: A Journey Alone Across Canada’s Arctic\, all of them national bestsellers. He has a PhD from McMaster University in history\, and in his free time\, enjoys long walks in the woods. \n\n\n\nTickets are $15 + HST each. This is a general seating event\, seats are first come\, first served upon arrival to the event. We strongly encourage that tickets are purchased in advance of the event date\, however if you are purchasing on the night of the event\, we encourage that guests arrive by no later than one half hour prior to the event start time. \n\n\n\nTickets go on sale to Stockey Members on Thursday September 4th and on sale to the public on Thursday September 11th at 11am. To become a Stockey Member\, you can visit us on our Membership page for more information and to purchase online\, give us a call at 705-746-4466 extension 405\, or visit us at 2 Bay Street\, Parry Sound. \n\n\n\nBUY TICKETS ONLINE HERE \n\n\n\nAlternatively\, tickets can also be purchased during our business hours by calling our Box Office staff at 705-746-4466 extension 405 or visiting us at 2 Bay Street\, Parry Sound. Visit our Box Office FAQs & Hours page for more information on our tickets\, fees\, and visits to our facility.
URL:https://stockeycentre.com/event/book-reading-adam-shoalts/
LOCATION:The Stockey Centre\, 2 Bay Street\, Parry Sound\, Ontario\, P2A 1S3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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SUMMARY:Book Reading: Rod Carley in Conversation With Waubgeshig Rice
DESCRIPTION:“Rod Carley has written a captivating and bewitching novel set in England 400 years ago\, yet it runs rife with contemporary relevance and resonance. Sophisticated\, funny\, insightful\, timeless yet timely… beautifully written…RUFF is a story to be savoured.” \n\n\n\n\n \nTerry Fallis\, two-time winner of the Leacock Medal for Humour\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRod Carley’s back with another theatrical odyssey packed with an unforgettable cast of Elizabethan eccentrics. It’s a madcap world more modern than tomorrow where gender is what a person makes of it (no matter the story beneath their petticoats or tights). \n\n\n\nWill Shakespeare is having a very bad year. Suffering from a mid-life crisis\, a plague outbreak\, and the death of the ancient Queen\, Will’s mettle is put to the test when the new King puts his witch-burning hobby aside to announce a national play competition that will determine which theatre company will secure his favour and remain in business. As he struggles to write a Scottish supernatural thriller\, Will faces one ruff and puffy obstacle after another including a young rival punk poet and his activist-wife fighting for equality and a woman’s right to tread the boards. \n\n\n\nWill and his band of misfits must ensure not only their own survival\, but that of England as well. The stage is set for an outrageous and compelling tale of ghosts\, ghostwriting\, writer’s block\, and the chopping block. \n\n\n\nRuffly based on a true story. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRod Carley is an author\, humourist\, actor\, director\, playwright\, and cat wrangler. He is the award-winning author of four works of literary fiction: RUFF (September 2024)\, GRIN REAPING (long listed for the 2023 Leacock Medal for Humour\, 2022 Bronze Winner for Humour from Foreword Review INDIES\, a Finalist for the 2023 Next Generation Indie Book Award for Humor/Comedy\, and long listed for the ReLit Group Awards for Best Short Fiction of 2023); KINMOUNT (long listed for the 2021 Leacock Medal for Humour and Winner of the 2021 Silver Medal for Best Regional Fiction from the Independent Publishers Book Awards); A Matter of Will (Finalist for the 2018 Northern Lit Award for Fiction). \n\n\n\nHis short stories and creative non-fiction have appeared in a variety of Canadian literary magazines including Broadview (winner of the 2022 Award of Excellence for Best Seasonal Article from the Associated Church Press)\, Cloud Lake Literary\, Blank Spaces\, Exile\, HighGrader\, and the anthology 150 Years Up North and More. He was a finalist for the 2021 Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Prize. Rod is a popular author and moderator with literary festivals and book clubs and has facilitated a variety of writing-related workshops and webinars. He was the 2009 winner of TVO’s Big Ideas/Best Lecturer Competition for his lecture entitled “Adapting Shakespeare within a Modern Canadian Context.” He is a proud alumnus of the Humber School for Writers. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWAUBGESHIG RICE grew up in Wasauksing First Nation on the shores of Georgian Bay\, in the southeast of Robinson-Huron Treaty territory. He’s a writer\, listener\, speaker\, language learner\, and a martial artist\, holding a brown belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. He is the author of the best-selling novels Moon of the Turning Leaves (2023) and Moon of the Crusted Snow (2018)\, Legacy (2014)\, and the short story collection Midnight Sweatlodge (2011). He appreciates loud music and the four seasons. He lives in N’Swakamok—also known as Sudbury\, Ontario—with his wife and three sons. \n\n\n\nTickets are $12 + HST each. This event is general seating. \n\n\n\nBUY TICKETS ONLINE HERE \n\n\n\nTickets can also be purchased during our business hours by calling our Box Office at 705-746-4466 extension 405 or visiting us at 2 Bay Street\, Parry Sound.
URL:https://stockeycentre.com/event/book-reading-rod-carley-in-conversation-with-waubgeshig-rice/
LOCATION:The Stockey Centre\, 2 Bay Street\, Parry Sound\, Ontario\, P2A 1S3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Waubgeshig Rice
DESCRIPTION:The Stockey Centre with Parry Sound Books and Trestle Brewing Company present An Evening with Waubgeshig Rice with special guests The Friendship Centre of Parry Sound. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWaubgeshig Rice is an author and journalist from Wasauksing First Nation. \n\n\n\nHe’s written four books\, most notably the bestselling novel Moon of the Crusted Snow\, published in 2018. \n\n\n\nHe graduated from the journalism program at Toronto Metropolitan University in 2002\, and spent most of his journalism career with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a video journalist and radio host. \n\n\n\nHe left CBC in 2020 to focus on his literary career. \n\n\n\nHis forthcoming novel\, Moon of the Turning Leaves\, will be published in October 2023. \n\n\n\nIn addition to his writing endeavours\, Waubgeshig is an eclectic public speaker\, delivering keynote addresses and workshops\, engaging in interviews\, and contributing to various panels at literary festivals and conferences. \n\n\n\nHe speaks on creative writing and oral storytelling\, contemporary Anishinaabe culture and matters\, Indigenous representation in arts and media\, and more. \n\n\n\nHe lives in Sudbury\, Ontario with his wife and three sons. \n\n\n\nTickets are $15 + HST each. This event is general seating. \n\n\n\nBUY TICKETS ONLINE HERE \n\n\n\nTickets can also be purchased during our business hours by calling our Box Office at 705-746-4466 extension 405 or visiting us at 2 Bay Street\, Parry Sound.
URL:https://stockeycentre.com/event/an-evening-with-waubgeshig-rice/
LOCATION:The Stockey Centre\, 2 Bay Street\, Parry Sound\, Ontario\, P2A 1S3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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SUMMARY:Book Reading: An Evening with Jill Frayne\, Helen Humphreys\, and Merilyn Simonds
DESCRIPTION:In Why I’m Here\, Fifteen-year-old Gale is desperate to get out of Whitehorse\, a fact that is immediately clear to counsellor Helen Cotillard when Gale reluctantly walks into her office with her stepmother. It’s 1995\, and one counselling agency for kids and families serves all of the Yukon. Gale has been having anxiety attacks\, the last one so severe it landed her in the hospital. Helen soon begins to realize that Gale’s distress at being separated from her little sister Buddie too closely parallels a calamity from her own past. This tragic similarity leaves Helen uneasy about her profession and her ability to help her clients. When Gale does escape back to her home in Cobalt\, Ontario\, to protect Buddie from their brutal mother\, she risks her own future. Through arresting\, compelling images\, Jill Frayne shows both the fierce beauty of the Yukon\, and the damaged\, enduring landscapes of two human hearts. \n\n\n\nAnd a Dog Called Fig is a memoir of the writing life told through the dogs Humphreys has lived with and loved over a lifetime\, culminating with the recent arrival and settling in of Fig\, a Vizsla puppy. Interspersed are stories of other writers and their irreplaceable companions: Virginia Woolf and Grizzle\, Gertrude Stein and Basket\, Thomas Hardy and Wessex—the dog who walked the dining table at dinner parties\, taking whatever he liked—and many more. It’s a book about companionship and loss and creativity that is filled with the beauty of a steadfast canine friend and the restorative powers of nature. It is also a book about craft\, divided into sections that echo the working parts of a novel—Beginnings\, Character\, Pacing\, Setting\, Structure\, Process\, Endings. Just as every work of art is different\, every dog is different—with distinctive needs and lessons to offer. And if we let them guide us\, they\, like art\, will show us many worlds we would otherwise miss. \n\n\n\nFrom award-winning author Merilyn Simonds\, Woman\, Watching is a remarkable biography of an extraordinary woman — a Swedish aristocrat who survived the Russian Revolution to become an internationally renowned naturalist\, one of the first to track the mid-century decline of songbirds.  Referred to as a Canadian Rachel Carson\, Louise de Kiriline Lawrence lived and worked in an isolated log cabin near North Bay. After her husband was murdered by Bolsheviks\, she refused her Swedish privilege and joined the Canadian Red Cross\, visiting her northern Ontario patients by dogsled. When Elzire Dionne gave birth to five babies\, Louise became nurse to the Dionne Quintuplets. Repulsed by the media circus\, she retreated to her wilderness cabin\, where she devoted herself to studying the birds that nested in her forest. Author of six books and scores of magazine stories\, de Kiriline Lawrence and her “loghouse nest” became a Mecca for international ornithologists. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJill Frayne\, Helen Humphreys\, and Merilyn Simonds\n\n\n\nJILL FRAYNE worked for many years as a family counsellor in Toronto and central Ontario. Following a solo journey to Canada’s West Coast and Yukon Territory\, her travel memoir\, Starting Out in the Afternoon\, was published by Random House. Since then\, her outdoor adventure articles have appeared in several Canadian publications: The Walrus\, Explore Magazine\, Up Here\, Canadian Geographic\, to name a few. She divides her time between a maple woods in Central Ontario and the mountains around Atlin\, BC. Why I’m Here is her first novel. \n\n\n\nHELEN HUMPHREYS is an acclaimed and award-winning author of fiction\, non-fiction and poetry. She has won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize\, a Lambda Literary Award for Fiction and the Toronto Book Award. And she has been a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction\, the Trillium Book Prize and CBC Radio’s Canada Reads. Her most recent novel is Rabbit Foot Bill. The recipient of the Harbourfront Festival Prize for literary excellence\, Helen Humphreys lives in Kingston\, Ontario. \n\n\n\nMERILYN SIMONDS is the author of 18 books\, including the non-fiction classic The Convict Lover\, Gutenberg’s Fingerprint\, and most recently\, the novel Refuge. The founder and first artistic director of the Kingston Writers Fest\, Simonds is an influential champion of writers and writing. She lives with writer and translator Wayne Grady and divides her time between Kingston\, Ontario\, and San Miguel de Allende\, Mexico. \n\n\n\nTickets are $15 + HST each. \n\n\n\nBUY TICKETS ONLINE HERE \n\n\n\nTickets can also be purchased during our business hours by calling our Box Office at 705-746-4466 extension 205 or visiting us at 2 Bay Street\, Parry Sound.
URL:https://stockeycentre.com/event/book-reading-august-2022/
LOCATION:The Stockey Centre\, 2 Bay Street\, Parry Sound\, Ontario\, P2A 1S3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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SUMMARY:Book Reading: Lawrence Hill
DESCRIPTION:The Stockey Centre and Parry Sound Books present a Book Reading with Lawrence Hill and his new book Beatrice and Croc Harry!\n\n\n\nAdult tickets are $35 + HST each and each adult ticket includes 1 copy of the new book and provides 1 complimentary ticket to a child.  \n\n\n\nAdditional child tickets can be purchased at $15 + HST each. \n\n\n\nPlease note child tickets do not include a copy of the new book (child tickets are for attendees 18 and under). \n\n\n\nTo reserve your complimentary child ticket\, please contact our Box Office at 705-746-4466 extension 205 or visit us at 2 Bay Street as the complimentary children’s ticket offer with a purchase of an adult ticket is not available online at this time. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLAWRENCE HILLis the award-winning and internationally bestselling author of ten books of fiction and nonfiction\, including The Book of Negroes\, which was made into a six-part TV mini-series\, and The Illegal\,  both of which won CBC Canada Reads. His previous novels\, Some Great Thing and Any Known Blood\, became national bestsellers. Hill’s nonfiction work includes Blood: The Stuff of Life\, the subject of his 2013 Massey Lectures\, and the memoir Black Berry\, Sweet Juice: On Being Black and White in Canada. In January 2022\, HarperCollins Canada will publish Hill’s eleventh book — the novel Beatrice and Croc Harry. \n\n\n\nHill’s volunteer work has included Crossroads International\, the Black Loyalist Heritage Society\, Book Clubs for Inmates\, and The Ontario Black History Society\, and Walls to Bridges – a non-profit group offering university courses to incarcerated Canadians. He is a professor of creative writing at the University of Guelph who has spent more than a decade volunteering in book clubs in federal penitentiaries. In 2019\, through Walls to Bridges\, he taught a third-year undergraduate memoir writing course to women incarcerated in the Grand Valley Institution for Women in Kitchener ON. \n\n\n\nCurrently\, Hill is writing screenplays for a TV miniseries in development\, as well as a new novel about the thousands of African-American soldiers who travelled from military bases in the Deep South to help build the Alaska Highway in northern British Columbia and Yukon during World War Two. A member of the Order of Canada\, he lives in Hamilton ON. \n\n\n\nFor full details of the COVID-19 health protocols that will be in place at The Stockey Centre for this event\, please visit our Safety Guidelines page. Please note this page is regularly updated to reflect current Ontario Public Health Measures. \n\n\n\nBUY TICKETS ONLINE HERE
URL:https://stockeycentre.com/event/book-reading-lawrence-hill/
LOCATION:The Stockey Centre\, 2 Bay Street\, Parry Sound\, Ontario\, P2A 1S3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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SUMMARY:Parry Sound Festival of Authors
DESCRIPTION:Literary fiction from four versatile and accomplished Canadian authors. \nShandi Mitchell is a Nova Scotia-based award-winning author and filmmaker.  She attended Dalhousie University and holds a degree in English and Theatre.  Mitchell’s stories have been “noted for their unflinching visceral experience\, poetic imagery\, and memorable characters.”\nHer most recent novel\, The Waiting Hours\, follows three ordinary people whose extraordinary first responder careers put them to the test when a hurricane hits during a heat wave. \nLilian Nattel is a bestselling and award-winning Toronto-based author who writes “novels about extraordinary women.” Her first novel\, The River Midnight\, won the Martin and Beatrice Fischer Jewish Book Award.  The success of her second novel proved that “her debit was no fluke.” Her most recent novel\, Girl at the Edge of the Sky\, is a thrilling story based on the life and death of Lily Litvyak\, the courageous Soviet girl who became a fighter pilot and unexpected war hero. \nRosanna Micelotta Battigelli is a bestselling and award-winning Italian-Canadian author from Sudbury.  She is an alumna of the Humber School for Writers and a professional member of three Canadian writing associations.  Her most recent novel\, La Brigantessa\, is set in the aftermath of Italy’s 1861 Unification.  The story follows a peasant who is forced to flee her hamlet.  She experiences the harsh existence of a female brigand with the hope of survival and self-vindication. \nCraig Davidson was born and grew up in St. Catherines\, Ontario.  He has published work under both his own name and the pen names Patrick Lestewka and Nick Cutter.  His 2013 novel\, Cataract City\, was a longlisted nominee for the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize.  Davidson will be reading from his most recent novel\, The Saturday Night Ghost Club.  The story follows a group of misfit kids who spend an unforgettable summer investigating local ghost stories and urban legends.
URL:https://stockeycentre.com/event/parry-sound-festival-of-authors-2/
LOCATION:The Stockey Centre\, 2 Bay Street\, Parry Sound\, Ontario\, P2A 1S3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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SUMMARY:Parry Sound Festival of Authors
DESCRIPTION:Literary fiction and non-fiction from four versatile and accomplished authors: Katherine Ashenburg\, James FitzGerald\, Wayne Grady\, and Merilyn Simonds.
URL:https://stockeycentre.com/event/parry-sound-festival-of-authors/
LOCATION:The Stockey Centre\, 2 Bay Street\, Parry Sound\, Ontario\, P2A 1S3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Reading
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