Alberta Hands & Voices
presents
Coffee Talk with Bruce Hunter
Date: Tuesday June 2nd
Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Owl’s Nest Book Store Calgary
Address: 815A 49 Avenue SW, Calgary, AB
Complimentary refreshments will be available
ASL interpreting will be provided
Author Bruce Hunter joins Alberta Hands & Voices for a coffee talk
and short presentation at Owl’s Nest Books Tuesday June 2nd at
7:00 PM. All are welcome, and the event is free.
Bruce Hunter’s story is an inspiring one of challenge and triumph. Born
in Calgary, Bruce was deafened at 18 months and came of age in the
early 1960s when little support was available for deaf/hearing impaired
children. With the support of his extended family, early assistive
technology and speech professionals he was encouraged to persist in
a regular classroom.
Bruce began his career working at blue collar jobs as a construction
labourer, gardener and equipment operator. After attending university
as a mature student, he became a professor of English and liberal
studies for 30 years; for 11 years concurrently, he also served as
coordinator academic support for Seneca College's Learning Centres
where he developed success programs for students at risk.
In his mid-forties, Bruce was diagnosed with a serious eye disease. He
is a member of CHHA -York Region (Canadian Hard of Hearing
Association) - and the CNIB.
His fiction and poetry have been widely broadcast on national radio,
anthologized internationally and translated into Italian, Mandarin and
Romanian. In 2011, Bruce’s Two O’clock Creek – Poems New and
Selected won the People’s Poetry Award for Canada. In 2009, his
novel, In the Bear’s House, about a mother raising a deaf boy won the
Canadian Rockies Prize at the Banff Mountain Book Festival. His
Calgary stories in Country Music Country (1996) were dramatized on
CBC’s Between the Covers in 1999, 2000. Visit his author website at
www.brucehunter.ca
Bruce will be joined by a special guest for a short reading from In the
Bear’s House and he will outline the very positive and direct
relationship between disability and creativity - something he calls
“creatability” - with examples from his own experience and from many
other successful people with disabilities. A coffee talk will follow with
members of the Hands & Voices group.
Please bring your frank questions, hard questions and awkward
questions about disabilities, hearing or vision loss that you've been
afraid to ask, until now. If you wish to send your questions or get more
information beforehand, please forward them to Bruce at
[email protected] or Tanis Harty of Alberta Hands & Voices
at [email protected].
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