Date: Friday, March 8, 2013

Time: 7:00 p.m.

Event: “Inhabiting Women’s Spaces: Perspectives from Poetry, Memoir, Biography and History.”

Location: Vancouver, BC
Alice MacKay Room, Lower Level, Central Library,
350 West Georgia Street.

“Inhabiting Women’s Spaces: Perspectives from Poetry, Memoir, Biography and History.” A reading and discussion with Sandra Djwa (Journey with No Maps: A Life of PK Page), Marilyn Bowering (Soul Mouth),Kathy Mezei (The Domestic Space Reader) and Kate Braid (Journeywoman: Swinging a Hammer in a Man’s World), moderated by Betsy Warland (Breathing the Page: Reading the Act of Writing).

www.vpl.ca (Programs/Events)

Date: Saturday, November 17, 2012

Time: 1 p.m.

Event: Launch of Journeywoman: Swinging a Hammer in a Man’s World.

Location: Nanaimo Museum, Port of Nanaimo Centre, 100 Museum Way.

Kate will be launching her memoir of fifteen years as a carpenter, Journeywoman: Swinging a Hammer in a Man’s World. For further information contact Becka MacDonald at 250.753.1821.

See the launch poster for more details

Date: Saturday, November 10, 2012

Time: 1 p.m.

Event: Launch of Journeywoman: Swinging a Hammer in a Man’s World.

Location: Pender Island: Talisman Books at the Driftwood Centre, 4605 Bedwell Harbour Road.

Kate will be launching her memoir of fifteen years as a carpenter, Journeywoman: Swinging a Hammer in a Man’s World. For further information contact Melanie at 250.629.6944.

See the launch poster for more details.

Date: Friday, November 9, 2012

Time: 7 p.m.

Event: Launch of Journeywoman: Swinging a Hammer in a Man’s World.

Location: Canadian Memorial Centre for Peace, 1825 W. 16th Avenue, Vancouver (at Burrard)

Kate will be launching her memoir of fifteen years as a carpenter, Journeywoman: Swinging a Hammer in a Man’s World. For further information contact Rebecca toll-free at 1.877.964.4953.

See the launch poster for more details.

Date: Monday, November 5, 2012

Time: 7:30 p.m.

Event: Pender Island Poetry Speakeasy

Location: Pender Island, BC, at the North Pender Legion

Sandy Shreve and Kate will be featured guests at the Pender Island Poetry Speakeasy at the North Pender Legion. Event opens at 7:30 p.m. with an Open Mic. For further information contact Leslie McBain at 250.629.6490. To sign up for Open Mic, be there at 7 p.m.

Date: Thursday, October 11, 2012

Time: 8:00 pm

Event: Launch of 111 West Coast Literary Portraits

Location:
Heritage Hall
3102 Main Street
Vancouver

Join Kate and various other writers to celebrate the launch of 111 West Coast Literary Portraits, which is being published by M’Other Tongue Press.

Date: August 12, 2012

Time: 1 – 4 pm

Event: Poetry readings with Tom Wayman and others

Location: Hazelwood Herb Farm, 13576 Adshed Road, Ladysmith, BC

Cost:$10 (Receipts to go to local writers)

In addition to Tom Wayman and Kate Braid as featured readers, there will be several local writers, including Wind Weaver, Paul Bezooyen and Terry Mack, Kim Clark, Janice Lore, Kim Goldberg, Naomi Beth Wakan, and M.C. Warrior, among others.

For further information contact Mark Warrior, mcwar52@telus.net or 250.245.7885.

This event is sponsored by the Hazelwood Herb Farm and the WordStorm Society of the Arts, and supported by The Canada Council for the Arts, The Canadian League of Poets and The Writers’ Union of Canada.

Date: May 18 – June 2, 2012

Event: Kate Braid (author of Inward to the Bones: Georgia O’Keeffe Meets Emily Carr) will be Writer-in-Residence at Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, New Mexico. 

Location: Mabe Dodge Luhan House, Taos, New Mexico

Date: May 17, 2012 (Thursday)

Time: 6 pm

Event: Poetry reading with Cyrus Cassells

Location: Collected Works Bookstore
202 Galisteo Street
Santa Fe, New Mexico

For further information contact: Shannon Azzato Stephens, shannon@cwbookstore.com

Date: Friday, April 13, 2012

Time: 7 – 9 pm

Event: Join us to celebrate the Launch of Villanelles (a whole book of this lovely poetry form).

With: B.C. poets Sandy Shreve and Kate Braid, and US poets Sharmagne Leland-St. John and Ellaraine Lockie

Location: People’s Co-Op Bookstore, 1391 Commercial Drive, Vancouver