On Monday, September 11, the Whistler Writing Society (WWS) invites members of the public to it's Annual General Meeting (AGM) via Zoom link or at the Whistler Museum, with in-person proceedings to start at 5:30 p.m. and Zoom at 6 p.m.
After the meeting, attendees are welcome to remain for a free oral storytelling workshop at 6:30 p.m. with Yvonne Wallace (Ucwalmicw). A member of the Lil'wat Nation and an alum of Humber College's theatre acting program, Wallace also holds a bachelor's degree in liberal arts from Capilano University. She has three plays to her name: Smothered Sweetly, The Last Dance and ustzan.
Moreover, Wallace teaches the ucwalmicwts language to other adult learners at the Ts'zil Learning Centre. Her most recent work, currently in progress, is titled 7 Misconceptions of a Half-Breed Mother: a tragic comedy about the public-school system.
"A few years ago I attended [Wallace's] one-woman play ustzan at Maury Young Arts Centre, a truly extraordinary show and one of the most memorable I have ever seen," said WWS artistic and executive director Rebecca Wood Barrett in a press release. ustzan is a work dealing with language reclamation and Wallace's own progress in language fluency.
