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Empty Chairs

Storytelling Festival at Fort Edmonton

19th Annual TALES Fort Edmonton Storytelling Fesival

September 2 & 3, 2007
Fort Edmonton Park, Edmonton AB

Read more on the T.A.L.E.S. Events Web site.

Listening: Checkpoint by The Unseen Guest


Checkpoint
by The Unseen Guest

Includes:

  • Miracle Mile
  • Don’t Let It Show
  • Snowstorm
  • Everybody Knows

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Viewing: Plan 9 From Outer Space


Plan 9 From Outer Space

Sometimes a movie achieves such legendary status that it can’t quite live up to its reputation. Plan 9 from Outer Space is not one of these movies. It is just as magnificently terrible as you’ve heard. Plan 9 is the story of space aliens who try to conquer the Earth through resurrection of the dead.

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Quote from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

“On a gathering storm comes
 a tall handsome man
 In a dusty black coat with
 a red right hand”
Red Right Hand

Reading: Between Trains by Barry Callaghan


Between Trains
by Barry Callaghan

The individual worlds recounted in Between Trains are refreshingly out-of-date: old-time Toronto gangsters; sympathetic priests; murderous children; concentration camp survivors; would-be Catholics; spiritually unfulfilled farmers; Hogtown upper crust; blues singers; conflicted soldiers.

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