{"id":22820,"date":"2011-05-01T12:14:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T16:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=22820"},"modified":"2011-05-01T12:14:57","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T16:14:57","slug":"22820","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2011\/05\/01\/22820\/","title":{"rendered":"Frye Festival, Day Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/05\/fryefestbanner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22821\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/05\/fryefestbanner-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/05\/fryefestbanner-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/05\/fryefestbanner-806x1024.jpg 806w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2011\/05\/fryefestbanner.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';font-size: small\">To fill the void left with  Michael\u2019s departure I\u2019m gathering a few thoughts about yesterday\u2019s exciting fourth\u00a0day of the festival. It\u2019s early Friday morning as I write, and  the wedding is happening. On the local CBC station Sylvia Tyson is talking about  her debut novel, <em>Joyner\u2019s Dream<\/em>. Next half hour Charles Foran will talk about  his great biography of Mordecai Richler and his more recent short biography of  Rocket Richard. Sylvia is still in town for her main events today, whereas  Charles is moving on to Montreal and that other festival. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">Last night close to 800  people filled the Capital Theatre for our annual Soir\u00e9e Frye. Hosted by  Festival Chair and ambassador extraordinaire Dawn Arnold and newly crowned Poet  Fly\u00e9 Gabriel Robichaud, the event featured readings by poet Dyane L\u00e9ger,  novelist Shandi Mitchell, novelist and Prix Goncourt winner Gilles Leroy, and  Margaret Atwood. Throughout the evening Marie-Jo Theriault and Joe Grass  provided a magical musical background, and sometimes foreground. Very strong  performances by all four readers! Margaret Atwood opened by saying that she was a  student of Frye, and that she would talk more about that time in her life when  she delivers the Antonine Maillet-Northrop Frye lecture Saturday evening. (It\u2019s  at the Capital Theatre at 8 pm, and will again no doubt be packed to the  rafters.) If Frye could see what is happening in Moncton in his name, he would  be, Atwood said, \u201cbemused, delighted, or \u2026 something.\u201d (That \u2018something\u2019 was  quintessential Atwood, I think everyone felt. I did.) She read from <em>Oryx and  Crak<\/em>e, in four perfectly modulated voices, demonstrating a dramatic flair that  surprised me and left all of us wishing for more. The reception afterwards, in  the lobby, lasted an hour, with everyone feeling they had just witnessed, or  taken part in, something special.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman'\">The word \u2018witness\u2019 crept in  above, because earlier in the day, at a noontime roundtable, the topic was \u2018The  Writer as Witness.\u2019 The three panellists were Gilles Leroy, Johanna Skibsrud  (winner of the 2010 Giller Prize), and Melvin Gallant, one of Acadie\u2019s most  important writers. I found Leroy\u2019s talk about the many ways writers can be false  witnesses, as well as true witnesses, especially interesting. We have a great  moderator for this roundtable, and others, in Jean Fug\u00e8re, who has  been coming to our festival for many years now from Montreal.. Besides hosting  two or sometimes three roundtables, he invariably engages one of the festival\u2019s  leading French authors in conversation. (This year that author is  Jean-Christophe Rufin.)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';font-size: small\">I musn\u2019t forget to mention the  thoroughly enjoyable \u2018Book Club\u2019 event with Shandi Mitchell at 2pm Thursday,  featuring her wonderful novel \u201cUnder This Unbroken Sky.\u201d And at 5 pm, at  Navigator\u2019s Pub (scene of Michael Happy\u2019s\u00a0successful \u2018Frye for Beginners\u2019  presentation), the Iranian writer-in-exile Fereshteh Molavi talked with Thomas  Hodd, a new member of the Frye Festival team, and gave us much insight into the  immigrant experience, from the point of view of a single woman trying to make  her way as a writer. Not easy! To say the least.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman';font-size: small\">Thursday was a great day, as we  reached the halfway point of the 12<sup>th<\/sup> annual Northrop Frye Festival.  Our intense program of authors in the schools is going very well, from what I  hear, with one or two exceptions \u2013 when a classroom is perhaps not prepared to  receive the author.\u00a0Today, Friday,\u00a0promises to give us much more to \u2018feed the  imagination.\u2019 Saturday, ending with Margaret Atwood\u2019s talk (entitled \u2018Mythology  and Me: The Late 1950s at Victoria College\u201d), will bring it all to a very high,  even exhilarating pitch I\u2019m sure. My only regret is that Michael is not still  here to record and observe it all. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To fill the void left with Michael\u2019s departure I\u2019m gathering a few thoughts about yesterday\u2019s exciting fourth\u00a0day of the festival. It\u2019s early Friday morning as I write, and the wedding is happening. On the local CBC station Sylvia Tyson is talking about her debut novel, Joyner\u2019s Dream. 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