Volunteer!
The Pacfic Festival of the Book needs volunteers. if you would like to participate
in a community celebration of writers and the book please e-mail Shayndelynne
Zeldin at pacificbookfestival
@gmail.com
Or come to our office in the Maynard Building at 733 Johnson Street, Suite
220, Victoria, BC.
There is more information on the volunteers
page.
ORGANIZING
TEAM MEMBERS
Richard
Olafson
Richard Olafson is an editor, poet, book designer and publisher. A long-time
Victoria resident, he is active in many community organizations. Richard Olafson
has published a number of books and chapbooks, among them Blood of the Moon,
The Name of Being, In Arbutus Light, Apotheosis, Roses. Pearls. Ocean. Stars:
Triads, The Ocean and My Body are One, My Body is the Ocean, and most recently,
Cloud on My Tongue, and There are Some So Unlucky they Do Not Even Have Bodies.
He attended Naropa Dharma Institute in Boulder, Colorado after high school,
taking classes with William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Larry
Fagin as part of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in its second
year of operation and was much influenced the following year when studying with
Warren Tallman at UBC's English Department. Later, he met Robin Skelton in Victoria,
who had a profound influence on his direction in publishing. As a book designer,
he has published over 290 chapbooks and books. He is currently editor and publisher
of The Pacific Rim Review of Books, a book review journal. Richard has lived
in Victoria for many years and enjoys parenting two teenage boys with singer-songwriter-dancer
Carol Ann Sokoloff. Website: www.ekstasiseditions.com
Linda
Rogers
Victoria's own Poet Laureate, Linda Rogers, is this year honouring us all as
the Festival's champion! An important advocate in the community, Linda is helping
the PFB organizers to develop innovative programmes. Her belief that storytelling
can help engineer social change led Linda to her writing vocation; sponsoring
literacy and the rights of children. Her interest in the human story is Linda's
driving force. In addition to her life as a novelist, poet and journalist, she
has served in many volunteer capacities. International awards are hers and her
work has been translated into Welsh, Hindi, Persian, French, German ,Spanish,
Hebrew and Chinese. This spring Rogers will be launching the second book in
her Empress trilogy, The Third Day Book, a collection of poems called
Muscle Memory, Ruin and Beauty, an album of songs co-written with Chris
Trygg and performed by Light, Sweet, Crude, and will be presenting a
show of collage and poetry with artist Carol Rae and Victoria children at the
Community Arts Council of Greater
Victoria Gallery during the
10th anniversary of BC Arts Week April 19-25, 2009.
Carol
Ann Sokoloff
Carol Ann Sokoloff is a writer, editor and songwriter and performer who is the
author of four published books and a partner in the publishing company Ekstasis
Editions. She is the author of Eternal Lake O'Hara, poetry and history of the
Canadian Rockies; New Sufi Songs and Dances, an exploration of Sufism through
original songs and meditative circle dances; Colours Everywhere You Go, a picture
book (Tineke Visser, illustration) for the kindergarten set and a forthcoming
picture book, Anything You Want to Be, for children 6-9 years of age. She has
edited fiction, non-fiction, poetry, metaphysical and children's titles in her
work with Ekstasis Editions, a Victoria, BC based publisher now entering its
25th year. As a freelance documentary producer for CBC radio, Carol received
a Peabody Award for Educational radio from the University of Georgia for a five-part
'Schools radio' series, The Wonderful World of Science, broadcast over the CBC
network. Carol conceived, researched and wrote the award-winning series, and
also created and performed its original theme song. As a composer she has created
theme songs for CBC radio, choral pieces, music for theatrical productions and
the words and music to dozens of songs in the pop, children's and jazz genre.
She currently performs as a vocalist with the jazz trio, Trio Espresso. She
is also a performer and instructor of middle eastern belly dance and founder
of the Oasis Dance studio and ensemble. Website: www.ekstasiseditions.com
Claire
Paulette Turcotte
Claire Paulette Turcotte is a writer, artist and dreamworker and has been published
in various periodicals and magazines. Her paintings are in collections in Germany,
Britain, Canada and USA where a patron of the arts purchased more than 200 oils
and sketches. Claire has been involved in the arts for more than 36 years. She
founded the Corinne Centre in Peterborough where she organized children’s
programs, apprenticeships and taught courses in dreamwork and creativity. More
recently she has opened The Centre for Dream Research and Imaginal Studies to
the community. Claire launched her book The Woman Who Could See In All Directions
At The Same Time with an exhibition of her art at VAC. She is presently looking
for a publisher for the companion reader/workbook, The Story Crouching Beneath.
Claire is assisting the festival team through networking, outreach and contributing
to programming. Website: www.cdris.org
Shayndelynne
Zeldin, Volunteer Coordinator
Shayndelynne's comes to PFB with a long career in education which includes working
with students from early elementary to college level. Her subject areas and
postings have been equally varied ranging from assisting those with special
needs to teaching Advanced Placement courses and college instructors. She has
been a classroom teacher, curriculum leader, chair of many school board committees
as well as held administrator positions. Shayndelynne's favourite days were
as Head Librarian in an inner city high school where not only was she surrounded
by thousands of books, she interacted with over 700 students and staff daily.
She found assisting people with a wide range of abilities, interests and needs
and connecting with the written word extremely rewarding. As a major hub of
activity, the library required a multitude of volunteers; hence the beginning
of a "career" in co-ordinating teams of volunteers. Last year's challenge of
finding and co-ordinating over 40 volunteers for our first Pacific Festival
of the Book was another rewarding task. New friendships have been formed as
well as cementing present ones. Shayndelynne looks forward to supporting the
Pacific Festival of the Book for a very long time.
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