Voices out of the Night – Chapters, 788 Robson @ Howe, 3rd floor, Sunday, February 25, 2007 at 7 PM.

Voices out of the Night –
Chapters, 788 Robson @ Howe, 3rd floor, Sunday, February 25, 2007 at 7 PM.

Come out and enjoy Storytellers, Poets, and Dramatists. The Black Writers Network Present "Voices out of the Night," readings from local writers in honour of Black History Month in British Columbia. This year's event will take place at Chapters, 788 Robson @ Howe, 3rd floor, Sunday, February 25, 2007 at 7 PM. More Info: Blackwriters@shaw.ca

Siobhan Barker: A pinch of time, a dash of flavour and large quantities of attitude-- not your Mama's regular recipe. Fiction or Not, 'No Strings Attached' La Luna prez does 'Spring Rites' small to Global Fest large. Flowing in French or English, Siobhan brings it out of the pot and into the fire.

Roger Blenman, once Bajan now Canadian, blends and mixes words. He is a published poet, a playwright, and an educator.

Fred Booker's "Adventures in Debt Collection" contains deftly written tales that take the reader from the offices of over-extended capitalists to the driveways of the payment-missing masses, and all points in-between. Fred's short story collection has just been released by Commodore Books.

Junie Désil:
"i write. when i can.
In between sleep and waking. while i mark time
with my flamenco shoes i aspire
to dance so much easier sometimes
than pulling out the words
from inside piecing
mother's Creole together is
telling stories murmured
--Junie"

Lesley Ewen is a Jamaican/Scottish actor, writer, director, producer, and video maker living in Vancouver. Some of her work chronicles a journey of self-discovery and an eventual synthesis of hybrid ethnic identity.

Tess Kingston's words come from a place of soul, faith, and survival. A poet and also an accomplished visual artist, Tess, along with Roger, organizes Vancouver's Black Writers' Network.

Dr. Michelle La Flamme is an AFRO-NDN performer and educator. She has written plays "White, Dark and Bittersweet" with Mercedes Baines (1994), "Mixed Messages (2001) and HAYWIRE (2007). This monologue, SOMA TEXT is an excerpt from her recent play, HAYWIRE which documents two mixed blood families who leave Alberta for the fame and fortune of the West Coast only to find that leaving their extended families makes them vulnerable to racism and they discover that living without kin causes things to truly go haywire.