Spring Awakening, a dramatic comedy by controversial 19th-century German playwright, Frank Wedekind, is a performance by mostly youthful actors rippling with energy, freshness and naïveté...

The Leanor and Alvin Segal Theatre & Soulpepper Theatre Company present

The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde

Directed by Ben Barnes

"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train"

From left: Nancy Palk and Ben Carlson. The photographer is Lydia Pawalek.

Tune into CKUT Radio 90.3 fm on November 7 at lunch to hear TAMRA STEEN discuss how she has expanded her LAUGH with ME! seminars into Stress-Less Solutions® with Corporations keeping her foot in the Community door!

(Listen between 11:30am until 1:00 pm with Mahalia Verna)

http://www.montrealserai.com

Now for something special...

SIX SHOWS IN SEARCH OF A SEASON
Seeds
Spring Awakening
The Three Apollos
Johnny Canuck and the Last Burlesque
Prodigy
Bye Bye Baby

Call 849-FEST

More details on all six shows at: http://www.threeapollos.ca/mast

The group of Artistic Directors is from left: Freya Ravensbergen, White Raven Gabrielle Soskin, Persephone Productions, Annabel Soutar, Porte Parole, Jeremy Hechtman, MainLine Theatre, Clare Schapiro, Imago, Joel Fishbane, Pumpkin Theatre. Photographer, Cindy Lopez.

PETER WINTONICK
Film-maker, Governor General Award Winner, 2006
MARILYNN VANDERSTAAY
Journalist
TERRY MOSHER, 'AISLIN,"
Mtl. Gazette Cartoonist
JEAN-FRANCOIS FORTIER
Musician
JOSH COWAN
Discussion Moderator

Tune in to Radio CKUT, 90.3FM, 'Dialects'
with host Mahalia Verna
Mon. Sept 12, 11am - noon
for a roundup of the day's events

See photogallery of the day's events by Ken Kalman, Bozena Happach and David Cox:http://www.invisiblecitiesnetwork.org/tiki-browse_gallery.php?galleryId=4

Fellow Publishers and Creative Artists...Please join us for the day as exhibitors and/or participants. McGill Radio CKUT (90.3 FM) will be recording the ICN conference event for broadcast.

Date: Saturday, September 10. 2005

http://www.invisiblecitiesnetwork.org/tiki-browse_gallery.php?galleryId=4

Time: 8.30am to 5pm.
Venue: FACE Auditorium, 3449 University Street, Montreal
(a short walk from Metro McGill)

THIS YEAR'S TOPIC: "The art of Marketing and Networking"


A forum for writers, authors, poets, publishers, film-makers, musicians, artists and students to learn, share and mingle in a collaborative setting.

Meet Media Personalities, Speakers on Marketing and Networking, Fellow artists and writers. All welcome...A Radio CKUT co-presentation

Creative Writing: Fiction Workshop

Be creative and work on something that is publishable
A ten week writing course for women

Led by Ilona Martonfi Poet/Writer/Editor, Producer/host of The Yellow Door Readings


ilona.martonfi at sympatico.ca

Creative Writing: Poetry Workshop

be creative and work on something that is publishable
A ten week poetry course for women

Led by Ilona Martonfi, Poet/Writer/Editor, Producer/host of The Yellow Door Readings

Tel/fax (514) 939-4173

ilona.martonfi at sympatico.ca

Esther, a Jewish Odyssey, By award winning, filmmaker-writer Pierre Lasry. Midbar Editions, "A stunning novel, a must for all to read." Canadian Jewish News, Oct.24, 2004

The characterization is vibrant and absorbing, the rich descriptive language captivating and...filmic, enhanced by the Gallic immediacy of the present tense! One of the best books I have ever read... Christina Manolescu, ICN

To order this book, email pierrelasry at hotmail.com

To hear Shola perform is a privilege. One that will haunt your being. Her music will echo within your soul long after the final notes have faded. Like life the music remains, a reminder that life is what we make it, not what others would have us live, Wayne Reid.

Shola will be performing at the ICN 2005 Book & Creative Arts Conference. A selection of her CDs will be available on the day. Please visit: www.SHOLADOUMMAR.COM.

About the Author

The author has been a computer programmer for most of his adult life, and for the last twenty-five years was a teacher of Computer Science in a college in Montreal. He is now retired. Apart from that, nothing much has happened--outwardly.

For some years his youth, he ran around Europe, trying to learn foreign languages while supporting himself by writing computer programs and teaching English to foreigners. But nothing notable happened until he saw the Goddess.

Now everything has changed forever. Read on...

Nancy A.T. Grant's second conspiracy thriller is set in Montreal. Terrorism, brewing in the quiet backyards of Westmount, comes to a climax.
http://www.racewithoutrules.com

INHOUSEPRESS presents BEST OF THE MONTH ESSAY. This month's is

Individuation as a Chaotic Process
by Krystyna Laycraft,

Presented on 15th International Conference of Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and Life Sciences, Denver, August 2005

A new Essay will be published every month. Comments from readers are appreciated at our new email address inhousepress at sympatico.ca.

To read, please visit: http://www.inhousepress.ca

Sandra Phillips' new book, “Drive I-95: Exit by Exit Info, Maps, History and Trivia” written with her husband, Stan Posner, is the perfect combination of his love of maps and computer expertise together with Sandra’s delightful insightful blurbs. It too became a bestseller and garnered two US national book awards. Web Site: http://www.drivei95.com

Unconditional Love: The Human-Canine Relationship is a charming book full of facts and great dog stories, with coloured photos to match. The author conducted her own survey of dog owners and offers some insights into why we adopt a dog, feelings about our canine companions and our perceptions about their personalities. The human-canine bond is explored with sensitivity and humour.

Catherine Kierans will be signing copies of her book at the ICN 2005 Book & Creative Arts Conference, on Sept 10

Celestine and the Magical Geranium

“Celestine and the Magical Geranium” is a picture story book for children age 5 years and up. It is an enchanting story of a seed that grows into a gorgeous geranium flower and of a gentle love that flourishes between Celestine and her new flower friend. Within a short text and twenty-one illuminated naïve paintings, Barbara Sala takes the child through a magical journey of wonder and discovery.

Barbara Sala will be signing copies of her book at the ICN 2005 Book & Creative Arts Conference, Sept 10.

To find out more please visit: http://www.salanaiveart.com

SUN THROUGH THE BLINDS, Haiku Today

Editors:
Maxianne Berger,
Angela Leuck

Poetry, 190 pp., 2003

Haiku Montreal collected the poems for this haiku anthology from Japanese, French and English poets of Montreal, and assisted with the English translation. It includes the first Satsuki Kukai haiku to be published in English. A first for Montreal and a landmark anthology, bringing together haiku of the three cultures.

ISBN 1-896754-32-5, $19.95

Visit Shoreline's web site: http://www3.sympatico.ca/shoreline

Dylan Spevack-Willcock
Storyteller, Pterodactales Productions
Co-publisher of

"You Don’t Know Jack” Book and CD

Email: pterodactales at vif.com

Pat Camozzi is a children's singer, song writer and author. Please visit: http://www.lpkids.ca

Two couples, tenuously linked to each other by classroom acquaintance, are fraught with anxiety and uncertainty about their futures—and lovers—as they enter their last semester of university. Describing the lives of four Montrealers over a tumultuous period of mere weeks, Juggernaut gives us leave to watch them interact, live, love and grow, as they prepare to graduate from university and tear into the “real” world."

Published by Sweet Baby Jenkins Press.

Review

Fresh, rich, and strikingly creative in style, Juggernaut is a rare feast of a novel from an emerging author of uncommon talent. Through a painstakingly developed aesthetic, Michel Semienchuk has created a novel placed firmly and unmistakably in the urban culture and ambiance of Montreal. His gift for dialogue, ability to impart complex emotions and feeling, and charming knack for showing us the beautiful nooks and crannies of Canada’s European city all help to make Juggernaut an incredible read."

http://www.sweetbabyjenkinspress.com.

BOOKS BY KEN KALMAN

JESUS LOVES ME a novel
Xlibris Press 2003 $12
available from Amazon.ca, Barnes&Noble.com

BEWITCHING a play
COPCAT Press 2004 $10

CRISIS of HEART a poetry chapbook SOULMATE Press 2004 $5

SAVING JESUS a children’s picture book
SOULMATE Press 2004 $7

These books are available from
SOULMATE Press soulmatepress at yahoo.ca

Meet Thomas Holmes of Classic Quest at the ICN Conference on September 10, 2005!

Elaina Zucker will be exhibiting some of her books at the 2005 ICN Conference, on September 10.

Visit: http://www.ezinfluence.com