This is a re-run of a programme Patrick made with Word on the Hills last year. Patrick Muldoon is the Branch Supervisor of the Warkworth Public Library, which is a part of the Trent Hills Library system. He has always loved libraries and reading. Patrick has degrees in English Literature and Education and before coming to the library, he had a 27 year career as an elementary school teacher. The highlights of his teaching career included introducing children to Shakespeare and touring the county with student performances of many Shakespeare plays. Since retiring from education, he has been working at developing the collection and programs at the Warkworth Library. His plans for making the Warkworth Library a dynamic community hub are well under way and he is here today to share what has been happening at the library, and his upcoming plans.
Month: May 2024
Dave Carley
On Sunday at 1.00 pm join us to hear Dave Carley discussing his plays and telling us about his career as a playwright, director and curator. Dave’s stage and radio plays have had over 450 productions across Canada, the United States, and around the world. They include Writing with our Feet, Conservatives in Love and Midnight Madness. He has also written dramatizations of novels, including Margaret Atwood’s The Edible Woman; Al Purdy’s A Splinter in the Heart; and, in progress, Farley Mowat’s And No Birds Sang.
Dave’s plays often deal with human rights concerns and include Taking Liberties; The Last Liberal; and Twelve Hours. His play Canadian Rajah – first read at Wesleyville Village church – has its Asian premiere this fall in Malaysia. He has just completed a new drama, Hope is a Bird, about the elusive Ivory-Billed
Woodpecker. Dave’s radio plays have been broadcast by the BBC (UK), CBC (Canada), ABC
(Australia) and NPR (USA). He is also curating ten-minute play events for the Port Hope Festival in August and the Northumberland Festival of the Arts in September, festivalofthearts.ca
Linda Hutsell Manning
This week we welcome Linda Hutsell Manning. Linda’s publications include four picture books, three juvenile plays, two mid-grade novels and Polka Dot Door scripts as well as a literary novel, That Summer in Franklin, a two-act comedy, A Certain Singing Teacher, VOS Theatre, a memoir, Fearless and Determined, Blue Denim Press, about her 1960’s teaching experiences a one room elementary school west of Cobourg and Finding Moufette, Pandamonium Publishers, a picture book about a cat lost in a Christmas Eve snowstorm, released in 2023. A novella, Heads I Win, Tails You Lose, AOS Publishers has just been released and is available in bookstores and on Amazon. Linda has also written many pieces of short fiction and poetry published in literary magazines. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, she now lives near Cobourg Ontario where she writes in a century old farmhouse. www.lindahutsellmanning.ca.
Michael Pepa
WORD ON THE HILLS welcomes Michael Pepa as our guest this week. Michael has composed/written some 80 works for solo instruments, chamber groups, and orchestras. These have been commissioned and broadcast in Canada, the U.S., many European countries and Japan. He studied composition at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto graduating with an ARCT diploma. Having passed the necessary examinations in the Theory and Practice of Composition, he was admitted as a FELLOW (FTCL) of Trinity College of Music, London, England. He holds a Teacher’s diploma in the Art of Violin Playing (LTCL) from the same college. Michael also earned a Master of Arts in Music Education. As well as being the founder and artistic director of Les AMIS Concerts, he is the composer-in-residence of the Canadian Sinfonietta, a member of the Canadian League of Composers, SOCAN, and an Associate Composer of the Canadian Music Centre. http://www.musiccentre.ca/composers. Michael Pepa was born in Timisoara, Romania. He came to Canada in 1953, settling in Toronto with his family. He has lived in Cobourg, since 2014.
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