VICTORIA LITERARY FESTIVAL 2018
SURRENDER TO THE MYSTERY
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
- Aug 10th: Opening Reception: 7pm @ Island Chocolates
- Aug11th: ‘What’s Your Story’: Life writing workshop with Trevor Corkum: 2 -4 @ The Old School
- Aug 11th: Evening Review (words, music and dance): 7 pm – 9pm @ Island Chocolates
- Aug 12th: Yoga with Joshua Lewis: 1pm -2pm @ The Old School
- Aug 12th: ‘Poetry of Breath’ with Trevor and Josh: Exploring the connection between self-expression, language and body awareness: 2 -4 @ The Old School
Trevor Corkum
Trevor Corkum’s novel The Electric Boy is set to debut with Doubleday Canada. An award-winning writer, educator, scholar, and editor, he has facilitated workshops and lectured across Canada and around the world. His fiction, essays, journalism and reviews appear regularly in periodicals such as the Toronto Star and The Globe and Mail and his work has been recognized with nominations for the Journey Prize, a National Magazine Award for Fiction, a Western Magazine Award for Personal Journalism, the CBC Short Story Prize, and the CBC Creative Nonfiction Prize. Trevor was the 2017 Writer-in-Residence at Lester B. Pearson United World College and a 2017 Writer-in-Residence on the Canada C3 expedition. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC and an MA in Adult Education and Community Development from the University of Toronto. A current PhD student in Adult
Education at the University of Toronto, his research uses narrative and storytelling to explore notions of home, belonging, and identity in a globalized world. He divides his time between Toronto and the south shore of Prince Edward Island.https://www.trevorcorkum.com/
Joshua Lewis
Joshua is a yoga practitioner and teacher known for offering classes that encourage safe and compassionate inquiry into the pulsating experience of life – on and off the mat. His calm and supportive guidance is sought after by students of all levels, age and life circumstance, knowing that he teaches humbly and with deep respect for each individual’s personal practice. He believes passionately that when we practice yoga, we are practicing for life and as such, each class is an opportunity to connect deeply with ourselves.