The Cortes Island Museum & Archives is a place to reflect on the rich social and natural history of Cortes Island, imagine what it was like “back then” and celebrate with us this extraordinary place we call home.
The museum is located in “downtown” Manson’s Landing, one block up Beasley Road next to the No. 1 Firehall.
Box 422 – 957 Beasley Road
Mansons Landing BC V0P 1K0
250-935-6340
cimas@twincomm.ca
Thank you all participants and readers. Thank you, Carina, for organizing these interesting events. See you again in the fall.
Last of this season – Sunday, March 17, 2 – 3:30 pm, at the Museum.
We are so blessed with many writers on Cortes – especially when they share their readings with us. This season, 2018/2019, there were four, instead of three, literary afternoons!
Most of the authors are so gracious to come back every year, but there are also still new ones showing up. This is the case on the last one of this season (Sunday, February 17). Come and listen to Elinore Harwood, Yvonne Kipp, Nassau, Irene Blueth, Doug Hamel, and Emilie Wapnick. Donations are welcome as they support the Seniors Society and the Museum.
At the Literary Afternoons, five or six Cortes writers read for ten minutes from their own work. For an hour, they take you into another world with their poems, prose, memoirs and more! Afterwards, we have tea, coffee, chocolate and baked goods for everyone who wants to stay and chat with their friends and the authors. Donations of baked goods or funds are gratefully accepted.
These events are organized by Seniors Helping Seniors/Cortes Island Seniors Society (SHS/CISS) and the Cortes Island Museum & Archives Society.
Open to everyone willing to share their writings.
If you are a new writer and you would like to read on one of these afternoons, please contact Carina, coordinator of SHS, at 250-935-6793.
Literary Afternoons – 2018/2019:
Sunday, March 17, 2019: Elinore Harwood, Yvonne Kipp, Nassau, Irene Blueth, Doug Hamel, Emilie Wapnick.
Sunday, January 20, 2019: Monica Nawrocki, Dayna Davis, Joan Bevington, Erika Grundmann, Annie Rosenberg, Shaena Lambert.
Sunday, November 25, 2018: Iris Steigemann-Herbst, Edward Colley, Brian Hayden, Elke Finley.
Sunday, November 4, 2018: Carrie Saxifrage, Andy Vine, Oriane Lee Johnston, Richard Jacobs, Dancing Wolf
Literary Afternoons – 2017/2018:
Sunday, March 11, 2018: Dana Davis, Edward Colley, Stephen Moyse, Heather Ogilvie, Elke Finley, Richard
Sunday, February 18, 2018: Yvonne Kipp, Dayna Davis, Andy Vine, David Rousseau, Brian Hayden, Jane Newman
Saturday, January 27, 2018: Stephen Moyse, Cali Waddell, Richard Jacobs, Iris Herbst, Victor Van Buskirk
Sunday, November 12, 2017: Monica Nawrocki, Norm Gibbons, Oriane Lee Johnston, Joan Bevington, Gail Millbank.
Literary Afternoons – 2016/2017:
Sunday, March 12, 2017, from 2 –3.30 p.m.
Sunday, February 19, 2017, 2 – 3:30 p.m.
Sunday, January 22, 2017, at 2 p.m.
Sunday, November 20, 2016, at 2 p.m.
Literary Afternoons – 2015/2016:
Sunday, November 15
Thursday, December 17 (Christmas Tea)
Sunday, January 17
Thursday, February 18 (Archival Reading)
Sunday, March 6
