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]. What Works for your Child is what makes the Choice right http://www.albertahandsandvoices.com/
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