Events Page - 2012 SBA Gala Event - April 28, 2012
The nineteenth annual Saskatchewan Book Awards Gala will take place on April 28, 2012 at 6:00 pm at the Conexus Arts Centre in Regina. During the Gala, thirteen writing and publishing awards will be presented, recognizing excellence in the Saskatchewan literary community. Tickets are $90 each or $700 for a table of 8 and can be purchased on-line through PayPal or by contacting our office at (306) 569-1585 or via email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
To pay for Gala tickets online please scroll down to the bottom of the page.
2012 Guest Speaker
The guest speaker will be Mark Abley, a writer and editor living in Montreal. Mark is a poet, a newspaper columnist and an award-winning author. His newest books are Camp Fossil Eyes: Digging for the Origins of Words and The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches From the Future of English.
Mark Abley was born in England in 1955. As a small child his family moved to Canada, and he grew up in northern Ontario, southern Alberta and central Saskatchewan. He studied literature at the University of Saskatchewan and, after winning a Rhodes Scholarship, at St. John’s College, Oxford.
His first book, Beyond Forget: Rediscovering the Prairies, appeared in 1986. A year later he embarked on the adventure of parenthood and also joined the staff of the Montreal Gazette. He spent sixteen years there, working as a feature writer, book-review editor and literary columnist.
His book Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages appeared in 2003. It has been translated into French, Spanish and Japanese, and earned praise from reviewers in many countries. But the responses that most delighted Mark came from readers who said that the book inspired them to keep fighting for their own language and culture.
His latest book, Camp Fossil Eyes: Digging for the Origins of Words, appeared in the summer of 2009 from Annick Press. It aims to make etymology — the history of words — accessible and intriguing to children between about 9 and 13. (Much to Mark’s surprise, it was recently translated into Korean.) After this book appeared, he accepted an offer from McGill-Queen’s University Press to work there part-time as an acquisition editor. In 2010-11 he served as the first-ever Writer in Residence at the Pointe Claire Public Library.
He is the literary executor of the Saskatoon poet Anne Szumigalski, and has edited three posthumous books by Anne.
For more information about Mark Abley, please visit his web site at www.markabley.com/
Tickets
Tickets are $90 each, or $700 for a table of 8.
Before your purchase please read our ticket policy below:
1. Tickets to the Gala must be paid for before they are distributed.
2. There will be no refund after a ticket is purchased.
3. Seating will not be assigned until the full purchase price of the ticket has been received by the SBA.
A charitable tax receipt for $45 will be issued for every ticket purchased. Please note that if you are purchasing tickets on anyone's behalf, we will need to be informed of their name and address to issue a charitable tax receipt in their name.
Please call 569 -1585 and advise of any food allergies, or charitable tax receipts in other names.
Saskatchewan Book Awards
100 - 2400 College Ave.
Regina, SK, S4P 1C8
Tel: (306) 569-1585
Fax: (306) 205-8385
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