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Just wanted to let you know that the Hamazkayin Armenian Educational and Cultural Society is sponsoring an event for Nobody’s Child on Sunday April 30th at 2pm.
It will be at the Armenian Community Centre
49 Hallcrown Place,
North York ON
Refreshments will be served before the presentation.
I will be there signing books and giving a short talk. Students from the ARS Day School will be reading selected passages.
It’s open to the public.
I got a lovely letter in the mail the other day. It was from the World Federation of Ukrainian Women’s Organizations. This organization has been around for 122 years. This year, they have decided to honour six Canadian Ukrainian women who:
“have maintained their culture, language and heritage and who have attained or made a significant impact in their careers.”
I am honoured to be one of the six chosen. Here are the other five:
Lida Baday, Designer
Luba Goy, Entertainer
Laryssa Patten, Scientist
Mimi Kuzyk, Actor
Bohdana Zvonok — Mountain Climber
Any ideas on where I might find a Victorian costume?
The Victoria BC Children’s Literature Roundtable is celebrating its 25th anniversary on June 4th with a Victorian tea and I have been invited. The catch is that participants are supposed to come in Victorian costume.
Help.
The anthology — Kobzar’s Children: A Century of Untold Ukrainian Stories — is coming out in June. Because the photos are black and white and the book is all text rather than an illustrated story like Aram’s Choice, it can be reproduced in Canada, rather than in Hong Kong like Aram’s Choice.
The editing and formatting and proofing is complete. The photos have all been placed and the captions have been added. I did the acknowledgements page yesterday.
Now I am just waiting for the final final final page proofs. That should arrive tomorrow I think. Then I look it over with a fine-toothed comb and hope against hope that I don’t miss any tiny errors.
I am so excited about this anthology. It is the first time I have been an editor. The stories are all fabulous and I am pleased and proud. And I can hardly wait to sign off on the final page proofs. Sort of like sending a child to kindergarten!
Happy Easter!
Just wanted to let you all know that I have started up a new endeavour with my good friend and fellow author, Valerie Sherrard. Check out this blog to find out all about it:
http://authorsbooking.livejournal.com/
On Monday, I did a book signing from 3-ish til 5pm, then was picked up by The Ladies of the Trinity in A LIMOSINE!! Can you imagine? I saw the limo pull up, and some people waiting in the lobby with me said, “Oh, it must be Mayor Bob dropping by.” Lloyd Sereda, from the Lethbridge Ukrainian community had emailed me to let me know that I would be picked up by a limo, but I thought he was joking. What an amazing welcome!
The limo service was Lethbridge Limo (lethbridgelimo.ca) and the driver was Dave Duckworth. He was a real gentleman! You could tell that he enjoyed his job. They even rolled out the red carpet for me. If you are ever in Lethbridge and want to be treated like royalty, call Dave!
It was a wonderful visit with the Ukrainian community. Dinner was delicious and company was interesting. I sat beside a woman who was 101 years old with vivid recollections of the past century. After my presentation, they gave me two dozen roses and then Dave drove me around the town. An unforgettable experience!!
