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Gabriola Theatre Festival to include intriguing human library

August 5th, 2016 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized - (Comments Off on Gabriola Theatre Festival to include intriguing human library)

banner pfr‘Human Library’ is a global phenomenon promoting compassion, dialogue, and understanding. The Gabriola Theatre Festival is presenting its first-ever human library this month

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Web of culture: Building online mental health resources for northern youth in BC

June 20th, 2016 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized - (Comments Off on Web of culture: Building online mental health resources for northern youth in BC)

picture 696abanner pfrValerie Ward’s research with Indigenous youth living in northern B.C. explores whether existing online mental health resources are age and culturally appropriate

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Life-long focus on Inuit culture, and art in the everyday, drives creative purpose

June 13th, 2016 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized - (Comments Off on Life-long focus on Inuit culture, and art in the everyday, drives creative purpose)

picture 694_used with permissionbanner pfrA lifetime spent immersed in the art, culture and everyday lives of Canada’s Inuit and east coast maritime communities has helped make John Houston into a Canadian renaissance man

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Nanaimo’s inaugural people’s poet is raising the profile of literature and poetry

April 26th, 2016 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized - (Comments Off on Nanaimo’s inaugural people’s poet is raising the profile of literature and poetry)

picture 686banner pfrNaomi Wakan, a former psychotherapist turned author, artist and poet, has been laying the groundwork for a new generation of poets during her tenure as Nanaimo’s first poet laureate

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“The hardest working man in poetry” explores father’s mental illness in Ignite

April 25th, 2016 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized - (Comments Off on “The hardest working man in poetry” explores father’s mental illness in Ignite)

picture 685banner pfr“Sit-com sonnets, soundscapes of noise, videogame goombas, an Old-Testament God, teenage longing within the power chords of heavy metal, and the complicated loss of a father to schizophrenia”

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Kim Goldberg’s “poem of a lifetime” charts path through victory over Hepatitis C

February 29th, 2016 | Posted by pfmarchive in uncategorized - (Comments Off on Kim Goldberg’s “poem of a lifetime” charts path through victory over Hepatitis C)

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banner pfrAward-winning poet Kim Goldberg never thought she would live to see a cure for Hepatitis C. When the cure arrived and Goldberg reaped the victory, it gave her the poem of a lifetime

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