Winnipeg launch of pearls and forbidden fruit, poetry. Former Winnipegger Angela Hryrniuk returns home with a poetry collection fifteen years in the making.

Passion. Lust. Unrequited love. The consumption of forbidden fruit. Desire, and its outlaws. pearls & forbidden fruit is the stuff of real life: the hubris and the underbelly, the delight and the bliss – the things that we transform into the gold of wisdom and meaning. Hryniuk reaches into the depths of humanness to reveal the naked body that resides beneath the naked body. Nora Patrich’s playfully serious erotic drawings which tastefully accompany Hryniuk’s poetry elevate this volume to an Object of Art, rather than a simple book.

Hryniuk will also be presenting her recent CD, Sitting in the Lights: Guided Meditations for Relaxation and Self-balancing.

Hryniuk is a poet and a practitioner and teacher of Tibetan Buddhism.

A unique double event. Launch of a new novel by Veronica Steele, You Will Write, Won’t You? and a preview of the Fringe Play, adapted from the book by Ron Blicq.

Melissa Grandpré has it all – a great boyfriend, paid tuition to agricultural college, even a guaranteed job when she graduates. The future looks bright, and secure. The problem is, it’s Mel’s future but everyone else seems to be planning it! When she wins a summer scholarship to a prestigious Writers’ Institute in Banff—which should be the highlight of her life—if she accepts she will disappoint everyone she loves. Since he retired, seven of Winnipegger Ron Blicq’s plays have been produced in both Canada and the UK. You Will Write, Won’t You? will be presented as part of this year’s Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival.

**Please note the new performance time**

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