Arts
Without Borders Festival is excited to announce the 2014 Lloydminster Reads
guest author is Cassie Stocks.
Stocks,
winner of the 2013 Leacock Medal for Humour, will be reading exerts and
discussing her debut novel “Dance, Gladys, Dance” on Monday, June 16 at
Lakeland College’s Black Box Theatre.
“Dance,
Gladys, Dance” is Stock’s first book and is only the sixth woman to win the
Leacock Medal in its 67 year history.
27-year-old Frieda Zweig is at an impasse. Behind her is a
string of failed relationships and half-forgotten ambitions of being a painter;
in front of her lies the dreary task of find a real job and figuring out what
“normal” people do with their lives. Then, a classified ad in the local paper
introduces Frieda to Gladys, an elderly woman who long ago gave up her dreams
of being a dancer.
The
catch? Gladys is a ghost
In
Dance,
Gladys, Dance, Cassie Stocks tells the uplifting story of a woman whose
uncanny connection with a kindred spirit causes her to see her life in a new
way – as anything but ordinary.
Tickets
are $23.00 and are available through the Vic Juba Community Theatre
(780.872.7400). Lloydminster Reads will begin at 7:30 pm. Refreshments
will be provided and book signings will be available at the end of the evening.
