 Hi, art lovers! | | |  | (CBC) | | | How many of you are Canada Reads fans?
Well, fair warning: if you’re planning to devour this year’s book list, time is running out! The annual event returns March 4-7, and on Thursday’s episode of Commotion, host Elamin Abdelmahmoud revealed who’ll be joining the literary fight club for 2024.
Your panellists are Naheed Nenshi (former mayor of Calgary), fashion influencer Mirian Njoh, author Heather O’Neill, actor (and CBC Arts Rising Star!) Kudakwashe Rutendo and athlete Dallas Soonias.
This year’s theme is all about hope and resilience: “one book to carry us forward.” And as per tradition, each contender will champion a different title. The books?
Bad Cree by Jessica Johns
Denison Avenue by Christina Wong and Daniel Innes
Meet Me at the Lake by Carley Fortune
Shut Up You’re Pretty by Téa Mutonji
The Future by Catherine Leroux, translated by Susan Ouriou
Want to skim a few excerpts? Cram facts about the authors? Watch highlights from Canada Reads history? Everything you could possibly want to know about the competition is available at this link, and CBC Books has even launched a special book club on social. (Here’s where to join the chatter.) | | | | | And because we promised you eye candy ... | | | | |  | Paige Quinn | | On the subject of readers — newsletter readers — subscriber Paige Quinn recently shared some of her paintings with me, including this oil-on-canvas stunner, Lake on the Mountain-Top. Paige reached out from Banff, Alta., where she’s currently an artist in residence at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. | | | | |  | Jordan Baraniecki | | Another high-glucose reader submission for you: a surreal abstract landscape by Saskatoon-based artist Jordan Baraniecki. | | | | |  | Juan Ortiz-Apuy | | Opening Jan. 20 at Esker Foundation in Calgary, Tropicana is an exhibition geared at kids and teens, which features work by Montreal-based artist Juan Ortiz-Apuy. In researching the show, Juan investigated the way ads target young consumers. And as someone who’s still wrapping her brain around the existence of a status water bottle for tweens, I’m intrigued. | | | | |  | Stasia Schmidt | | The show I mentioned above? It’s part of Exposure, Alberta’s photography festival. Stasia Schmidt’s work will appear at this year’s Exposure Emerging Photographers Showcase. The Calgary-based artist is showing a series of self-portraits captured in Greenland, Mongolia and the Canadian Rockies. | | | | |  | CBC | | | | | Giacomo Gianniotti and Vanessa Morgan, the stars of CBC’s Wild Cards, share their take on why the world’s obsessed with fraudsters. | | | | |  | Counterfeit Pictures | | | | | Your first job, that is. One More Time, a new workplace comedy from D.J. Demers, is based on the comedian’s old after-school job: working at a sporting goods store in Kitchener, Ont. | | | | |  | CBC | | | | | | | Bruce Cohen’s well-acquainted with Oscar. He won an Academy Award for American Beauty, and even produced the Oscars broadcast in 2011. His latest film is Rustin, and its star, Colman Domingo, is making a historic bid for a best actor nomination. | | | Share this newsletter | | or subscribe if this was
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