SCHEDULE


Friday December 5

Location: Main Theatre

 6:30 Welcome
Julia Creet, Department of English, York University

6:45 Performance
Barbara Godard's Music Ensemble
Kyrie by Dietrich Buxtehude
Renaissance Dances by Michael Praetorius

7:00 Keynote Address
Nicole Brossard and Daphne Marlatt
Introductory Comments
Smaro Kamboureli, TransCanada Institute, University of Guelph 

8:30 Performance
Penn Kemp

Location: Lobby

9:00 Reception
Visual Art coordinated by Cheryl Sourkes and Elena Basile

Saturday December 6


Location: Main Theatre

8:30 Light breakfast

9:00 Screening:
Mademoiselle Barbara (NFB, 1965). Introduced by Zoe Druik,
Simon Fraser University

9:45-10:30 Poetry Reading
Mary di Michele, Trish Salah, Di Brandt

10:45 - 12:30 Tessera between Languages and Generations: A Roundtable with members of the Tessera editorial collectives
Chair: Elena Basile
Participants: Katherine Binhammer, Louise Cotnoir, Lauren Gillingham, Jennifer Henderson, Susan Knutson, Daphne Marlatt, Kathy Mezei, Lianne Moyes, Julie Murray, Gail Scott, Patricia Seaman, Cheryl Sourkes.

12:30 -2:00
LUNCH ON YOUR OWN

2:15 - 3:00 Poetry Reading
 Louise Cotnoir, Nathalie Stephens, Lola Tostevin

3:00 - 5:00 
Academic Generations: A roundtable with past and present students of Barbara Godard
Chair: Kate Eichhorn (New School).
Participants: Marielle Aylen (UWO), Julia Emberley (UWO), Eva Karpinski (York), Brenda Longfellow (York), Sophie McCall (SFU), Astrida Nemanis (York), Jeremy Stolow (Concordia)

5:15 - 5:45 Poetry Reading
 NourbeSe Philip, Margaret Christakos, Gail Scott

 6:00 Closing Remarks
Ray Ellenwood, York University

6:15 - 7:30
DINNER ON YOUR OWN

7:30 Book Launch and Reception 
Canadian Literature at the Crossroads of Language and Culture: Selected Essays by Barbara Godard. Ed. Smaro Kamboureli, NeWest Press, 2008.

Barbar Godard's Music Ensemble:
Marilyn Becker, Judi Coburn, Jill Eisen, Ester Reiter, and Phyllis Rozendal,
under the direction of Scott Paterson (Royal Conservatory of Music).  This is
the group with whom Barbara has been playing recorder for over a decade.

Visual Artists:
Janice Andreae
Barbara Balfour
Jane Buyers
James L. Gillespie
John Greyson
Vid Ingelevics
Sue Lloyd
Anne O'Callaghan
Cheryl Sourkes
Barbara Stemberg

Holographic Poetics Project Installation:
 Three Words
 Majero Bouman & Dunja Baus

Organizing Committee:
Elena Basile, Dunja Baus, Majero Bouman, Eva Karpinski, Jacqueline Petropolous,
Leslie Sanders, Badea Warwar

This symposium is a free event, and it is open to all who wish to attend.

We regret to inform that the location is not wheelchair accessible.