a series of elegiac sequences exploring the nature of individual loss

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Denman Readers and Writers Festival

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Length: 0:59:17
Uploaded: 19 Dec, 2016

Recording Date: 11 Jul, 2015
Recording Location: Denman Island BC
Logsheet: none
Language: English
Topical for: Timeless
Status: Raw, unedited
Copyright: Permission specifically granted for noncommercial broadcast on community radio.

Program Title: Renee Saklikar reading from children of air india un/authorized exhibits and interjections
Description: Moving reading by the author, at the Denman Island (BC) Readers and Writers Festival, in July 2015. Introduction by Bill Engleson. She imagines herself into the lives of the victims of the Air India Flight 182 bombing on June 23, 1985. There were 329 deaths. 82 Children. Canada's worst mass murder. The accused acquitted.

Host(s):
Featured Speakers/Guests: Renée Sarojini Saklikar is an Indian-born Canadian lawyer, poet and author. Saklikar was awarded the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry in 2014. She graduated from the Writers Studio of the Continuing Studies Department at Simon Fraser University and co-founded the Lunch Poems reading series of SFU.

Credits: Recorded by Frieda Werden with permission from the festival and the author.

Comments: Good anytime, but you may want to air it on or around June 23, the anniversary of the Air India bombing.