Find out all about Spirit of the Hills festival of the arts, November 3rd and 4th at St Peter’s Anglican Church, in Cobourg

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This week we introduce the new anthology by writers from Northumberland County, Hill Spirits 111. Publisher Shane Joseph of Blue Denim Press in Cobourg talks about the growth of the artistic community in our region and the role of small publishers in giving a voice to local authors. A number of contributors including Donna Wootton, Port Hope, Rene Schmidt, Trenton, Alan Bland,Campbellford, Marie Prins, Colborne as well as Word on the Hills host, Gwynn Scheltema read passages from their contributions to this volume.

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The members of Spirit of the Hills are visual artists, sculptors, potters, fibre artists, photographers, artisans, performers, singer-songwriters and writers. The Festival has drawn together members of every kind in festival events. Judy Hopkins, chair of the Visual Arts Committee talks about the art show which will be part of the festival. Sherry Turner and her colleague Rosanne Dolin speak about the workshop they are giving on Saturday November 4th, called The Art Experience.

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Grace Young has been blogging weekly at IntoFullBloom.net for over a year.  She has self published one book The Crow and the Dove and is planning to release a second in the near future. Grace is 18 years old and working hard to become a full-time author, thus making her dreams come true and spreading her message of hope and positivity.

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Diane Taylor has had several careers as a medical lab tech, a teacher, a sailor and a writer. She   is the author of The Gift of Memoir and is well known as a workshop presenter and teacher of memoir writing. She started writing while sailing in the Caribbean because life on the ocean and in the islands was so fresh and immediate, she felt an urgent need to record it, to re-experience it in words. A book resulted: The Perfect Galley Book. Diane will give a workshop on writing a memoir of your own at the Spirit of the Hills Festival of the Arts on Saturday November 4th at St Peter’s Church in Cobourg. Tickets and information available at spiritofthehills.org

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