On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Friday night.
7 PM.
Ruby King Restaurant on St. Joseph Blvd., across from Place d'Orléans Mall.

Bring your pencils, pens and erasers. Bring your portable computer gear if you prefer...but since we're going to eat while we draw, be careful with it.

Theme is apparently to be "anti-romance"...or at least taking a few potshots at the Valentine's Day rituals.

Allergy alert: peanut-derived foodstuffs on the premises.

As promised: you can expect to find me over at the Travelodge on Carling for most of this weekend, attending CAN-CON 2011, the Conference on Canadian Content in Speculative Arts and Literature.

Hoping to see as many of you as can make it there!

More as the weekend continues...

I just got home from a kick-off organizational/Q&A meeting at Arts Court in downtown Ottawa.

It was for a group that's looking to set up Ottawa-Gatineau's very own Nuit Blanche-style all-night arts/culture festival. Looks like they've thought through a great many things, have admitted to others they haven't thought through yet but are making plans for that to be done in due course. Not unlike the organizational session I sat through last week with the Can-Con organizing committee. The gathering even drew CBC's official news-gathering attention, as well as people representing independent business, arts groups, museums, City Hall, the National Arts Centre...and others whose affiliations I'm memory-blanking on right now.

Will see how things go over the next few weeks and months with the Nuit Blanche Ottawa-Gatineau crew.

More on other stuff in different postings later on...

Day one was busy enough, and definitely fun. The panel discussion on manuscript preparation was as educational for me as for almost anyone else in the room, in fact.

I'll be there this afternoon for the "Copyright and Ownership in Speculative Literature" discussion with Marie Bilodeau and Farrell McGovern. 3 PM, TraveLodge Hotel on Carling, across from the Westgate mall.

I'll be running a table today from noon to 5 at the Ottawa Small Press Book Fair's 2009 edition. It will, as usual, be held at the Jack Purcell Community Centre just off of Elgin Street in Centretown.

Further details here or here.

Advice: Go see Passchendaele if you haven't seen it yet. Take family, take friends.

Notice: New photos from WritersFest on my Flickr account! Go check the Flickr link in the sidebar!

More to follow...