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Vertigo Series

Join us for Vertigo Series online and enjoy readings from three authors and a special performance from a musician.

This program is conducted through Zoom. Register to receive a reminder, the evaluation, and any other resources.

Click the link to join: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89820169835 

This event is offered in partnership with Vertigo Series. Authors include Gavin Bradley, S. Portico Bowman, and Rita Bouvier with musician Dara Schindelka. 

Gavin Bradley is an award-winning writer, and palaeontologist, from Belfast, Northern Ireland, currently living in Edmonton, on Treaty 6 territory. His work has appeared in The Irish Times, The North, Best New British and Irish Poets, and Glass Buffalo. His debut poetry collection, Separation Anxiety, is available from your local indie bookseller or Worldwide. Instagram: @gavinbradleywrites

For twenty years S. Portico Bowman’s home was in a collage of places. She worked in Kansas as an art professor, art writer, and gallery director. Her love life was in California. Her father, family, writing community, and many friends are in Canada. In 2021 Portico completed her work at the university, and moved to California for two years. Did you know their population is almost equal to that of Canada? All those people had quite an impact. She convinced Tom and Florence to move back to Kansas City where she is teaching kindergarten and first grade. California can really change a person. However, it turns out the early lessons are the same. Play fair. Be kind. Write books with your friends. 

Rita Bouvier is a Métis writer and ‘retired’ educator from Saskatchewan. Rita will be reading selections from her fourth collection, a beautiful rebellion, Thistledown Press, Spring 2023. Rita’s poetry has appeared in literary anthologies and journals—print and online—musicals, and television productions, and has been translated into Spanish, German and Cree-Michif of her home community of sakitawak—Île-à-la-Crosse, Saskatchewan, Canada situated on the historic trading and meeting grounds of Cree and Dene people.  

Dara Schindelka (she/her) is a femfolk musician with a touch of the north & the pull of the prairies. Her original music shares stories through song while her keen interest in traditional folksongs that tell the stories of women add texture and context. Dara tours as a soloist and a trio when not working with other music projects in western Canada. 

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