Canada Reads, Manitoba Style

January 25, 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm

Prairie Ink Restaurant, McNally Robinson, Grant Park Shopping Centre

CBC Manitoba SCENE & McNally Robinson present

Canada Reads, Manitoba Style

5 Writers, 5 Readers, 5 Minutes.

Canada Reads 2012 features five non-fiction titles this year, and in our regional warm-up to the national CBC Radio book brawl, five well-known Manitobans have been matched with the five titles. 

Each reader will share his insights with the audience, each with a unique presentation lasting only five minutes. Well, maybe ten. 

No debating, no brawling, but plenty of insight, humour and stories.

You’ll find that:

- Singer-songwriter Ridley Bent knows what Dave Bidini is talking about 

in On A Cold Road.

- Former rink rat and Forks Chief Operating Officer Paul Jordan digs in the corner 

with Ken Dryden’s The Game.

- Author and professor of Persian descent Jila Ghomeshi is passionate about 

The Prisoner of Tehran.

- Daughter of a Chilean revolutionary Claudia Garcia de la Huerta attests to the 

story told in Carmen Aguirre’s Something Fierce.

- Head Assiniboine Park Zoo vet Dr. Chris Enright tracks John Vaillant’s The Tiger.

Join us this special evening and enter to win our door prize of all five titles! 

Reservations are recommended. 

Please call 975-2659 to have a table put aside.