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APRIL
15 | DOORS OPEN @ 8PM | SHOW STARTS @ 9PM | TELUS CONFERENCE
CENTRE | RAINBOW THEATRE | ENTRANCE THROUGH GRAND FOYER
Tickets can be purchased at the Whistler Activity
Centre effective April 13. The Whistler Activity Centre is located
at the entrance to the TELUS Whistler Conference Centre.
If there are any tickets still available, they will also be sold from the Whistler
Activity Centre commencing Friday March 30.
Glen Plake joins the Words and
Stories spinners for 2007, alongside tale-tellers Eric Berger
and Jack Turner, Lisa Richardson, Feet Banks and Mitchell Scott.
Pull up a chair and follow along … this is 21 st storytelling
at its finest. A handpicked gathering of literati celebrate
the art of storytelling by spinning short tales, scorching with
hip hop style rhythms or riding the rapids of stream of consciousness
prose. The deeper side of the TELUS World Ski & Snowboard
Festival, Words & Stories promises to delight, captivate
and raise a little eyebrow… The fourth annual Words & Stories
is hosted by award-winning author and professional provocateur
Michel Beaudry. |
2007 Performers:
GLENN
PLAKE
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The most famous Mohawk
in the business. Glen Plake the most recognizable skier
in the world and was voted as Powder mag's most influential
skier in 35 years. On planks since the age of 2, the
star of the “Blizzard of Aahs”, “Higher Ground” and
the recent “Himalayan Experience”, as well as a host
of other epic ski movies from the past 2 decades, is
currently the host of Reel Thrills television show,
and moonlights as a stuntman for TV's Cold Case, Smallville,
and Fast Lane. |
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JACK TURNER |
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The Berger/Turner tagteam
spawned the iconic Pro Photographer Showdown in 1997.
Having organized the first snowboard expedition to
the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1996. Jack Turner then
put together a basement presentation of his Transworld
Snowboarding Magazine article about the trip, read
along slides of Eric Berger's photographs. A packed
house proved the appetite for film, storytelling and
photo events existed alongside skiing and snowboarding
competitions, and the cultural revolution of the TELUS
World Ski and Snowboard Festival was underway.
Durango, Colorado-based Turner, the
Commissioner of Photography for the Festival, is a
former member of the US Ski Team, producer of the Sports
Illustrated Kids Next Snow Search on NBC Sports, and
author of “Early Images of the Southwest.
Montreal-born Berger moved to Whistler
in 1986 and began to document snowboarding shortly afterwards,
landing a position as Senior Photographer for Transworld
Snowboarding Magazine within milliseconds. He was awarded
“Best in Show” at the first Pro Photographer Showdown
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 LISA
RICHARDSON
Technically, she lies every time she
encounters an Immigration officer - filling in "lawyer" under
the Occupation box because it will attract less attention
than ski instructor, occasional short-film maker, sporadic
radio correspondent, freelance writer, event producer,
or contract PR chick. Lisa Richardson is an Aussie
transplant to Whistler/Pemberton, and a regular contributor
to the Pique, as well as Skier, Ski Press, Kootenay
Mountain Culture and the Vancouver Sun. "Slow-food-fast-tongue
feature writer" was a recent tag that worked well,
but she doubts that will get her very far with Citizenship
and Immigration Canada.
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 FEET
BANKS
Born in 1976, Feet Banks
was raised in Northern BC without electricity and his
first friend was a rooster named Houdini. At age 12
his parents moved him to Whistler to live the dream.
After high school he attended the University of Victoria
to write and watch at least ten movies a week. After
that he returned home as co-owner of Heavy Hitting
Films and has been fooling around with the camera and
the written word ever since. Co-founder of Whistler’s
B-Grade Horror Film Festival and local dispenser of
wisdom. You can read Feet’s weekly movie column, “Notes
from the Back Row” each week in Whistler’s
Pique Newsmagazine. Otherwise all you really need to
know about him is he loves horror movies, naps, and
is greatly afraid of spiders, but only the really big
ones.
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 MITCHELL
SCOTT
36 year old Nelson-based Scott specializes in adventure story-telling, a good
excuse to indulge his passions.
As well as a long list of credits including Outside magazine, the Globe and
Mail, en Route and Hobo.
Scott is the
Editor-at-large with Bike magazine, Senior Correspondent
at Powder and SBC Skier Magazine. He is also the editor of the bible for
the mountain faithful, Kootenay Mountain Culture magazine, and has twice been
nominated for a Canadian National Magazine Writing Award.
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the evening... |
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 MICHEL
BEAUDRY
For the last 25 years, Vancouver-based Michel
Beaudry has made his living as a professional writer and
storyteller. His words have appeared in such varied publications
as the Globe & Mail, the New York Times, London's
Daily Mail, Sports Illustrated, GQ, Reader's Digest
-- and just about every ad venture sport magazine on
the planet. An award-winning author and professional
provocateur, Beaudry hosts the fourth recurrence of
the underground Festival favourite. |
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