#SUSAN ANDREWS SKIN# #SUSAN ANDREWS SERIES# #SUSAN ANDREWS SERIES# Support for OxygenвЂ™s celebratory reading series has come from the Canada Council for the Arts through the WritersвЂ™ Union of Canada, as well as from the Columbia Kootenay Cultural Alliance. Former Canadian poet laureate Fred Wah said that this book вЂњposits anew the old meditation on вЂthe one and the manyвЂ™ through GraceвЂ™s masterful poetic skill at sustaining the music in language while allowing some reflective distance from the disillusionments of the present.вЂќДЄndrews Grace also maintains a visual art practice, in which her work, in her words, вЂњechoes and honors textile traditions.вЂќ Solo exhibits of her work most recently were held at the Langham Art Gallery in Kaslo in the fall of 2015, and at Touchstones Nelson in the fall of 2013. #SUSAN ANDREWS SKIN# Andrews Grace, who has lived in Nelson since 2001, most recently published Philosopher at the Skin Edge of Being from Signature Editions in 2013. One of Andrews GraceвЂ™s five poetry titles, FerrywomanвЂ™s History of the World (from Coteau Books) was named Saskatchewan Book of the Year in 1998. His honors include two Saskatchewan Book Awards, being a prize-winner in the 2011 CBC Literary Awards, and serving as his home provinceвЂ™s poet laureate in 2016. He has published six poetry collections, including Hillsdale Book from NeWest Press in 2015, about the Regina suburb in which he was partially raised. After further education in Edmonton, he taught English and writing at the University of Regina until 2015. Hill, a native of Saskatchewan, received a diploma in creative writing from NelsonвЂ™s former David Thompson University Centre following a teaching stint in Papua New Guinea.  The reading is the third in a series of author readings during 2016-2017 that mark 10 years of arts programming at Oxygen. Admission is free ($5 donation appreciated) and the event is open to the public. writing student Gerry Hill, who was SaskatchewanвЂ™s 2016 poet laureate, will read from his work together with Nelson author and fibre artist Susan Andrew Grace, a long-time resident of Saskatchewan, at NelsonвЂ™s Oxygen Art Centre on Friday, March 17.  The West Kootenay will take on a prairie flavor on St. SASKATCHEWANвЂ™S 2016 POET LAUREATE GERRY HILL AND NELSON, B.C.вЂ™S SUSAN ANDREWS GRACE READ MARCH 17 AT NELSONвЂ™S OXYGEN ART CENTRE

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are bad, we rarely hear about racial confrontation going well - especially the kind Kranz facilitated, where people are encouraged to say, to each other's faces, the unacceptable things they think in secret.  These days, when almost six-in-10 Americans say race relations in the U.S. It came up that white people thought black people smell, but guess what? Black people think whites smell like wet dog.' That's why they had mammies to look after them. 'The one that really surprised me was when they said they didn't think white people loved their children. White men want to rape black women,' she remembers.  All whites are racist and you can't trust them. Nearly 50 years later, Benson can still recall some of those statements. So they did, one by one, as Kranz, who is white, wrote their statements up on the board. One of the first things he did was direct the students to go around the room and say what they really thought about people of the other race. There were 10 students in the class - five black, five white - and the professor, Peter Kranz. 'Like the other whites in the class, I thought that day that I had it all together and would show any racists in the group a thing or two, as well as demonstrate to the black sisters and brothers how hip I was.' As she wrote in a journal she was made to keep for the class: It was a city divided, with violent race riots in its recent history.Д«ut when Benson arrived for the first day of class, she thought she was beyond all that. In the early 1970's Jacksonville, was still raw around civil rights - new to school busing, still struggling with desegregation in its jails. The class was radical for its time and place. It was 1973 and she was taking a class at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville called 'Human Conflict: Black and White.' The first time Judi Benson heard the unfiltered truth about race from a black person, she was 25 years old. In the 1970s, professor Peter Kranz asked what would happen if students went around the room and said what they really thought about people of the other race.

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