Electric Mermaid: Featuring Margaret MacPherson and Elizabeth J. Haynes @Char's, Port Alberni

Name: Electric Mermaid: Featuring Margaret MacPherson and Elizabeth J. Haynes @Char's, Port Alberni
Start: 2025-09-24T18:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-09-24T20:00:00-07:00
Location: Char's Landing Hall & Hostel

Schedule

Wed Sep 24 2025 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Char's Landing Hall & Hostel | Port Alberni, BC

Electric Mermaid: Live Reads from Char's Landing, Port Alberni, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada
Emcee: Derek Hanebury Moderator: Karl Korven ZOOM Producer: Charlene Patterson

Spoken Word Open Mic at Char's Landing, last Wednesday of each month
ZOOM Hybrid event. Char's physical doors open 5:30pm Pacific Time

SEPTEMBER 24TH 2025 FEATURING MARGARET MACPHERSON and ELIZABETH J. HAYNES

Margaret Macpherson is a writer originally from Canada’s Northwest Territories. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC and has worked as an essayist and journalist in Atlantic Canada, Bermuda, Vancouver, and Edmonton. She has published eight books including Tracking the Caribous Queen (winner of the IPPY \Gold Medal for Western Canada Regional Non-fiction and shortlisted for the Alberta Book Publishing Awards for Non-fiction Book of the Year), Body Trade (Winner of the De Beers NorthWords Prize), Released (shortlisted for the Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher), and Perilous Departures (shortlisted for the Mary Scorer Award for Best Book by a Manitoba Publisher). Margaret lives in Deep River, Ontario.

FMI => https://margaretmacpherson.ca/
Signature Editions => https://www.signature-editions.com/

Elizabeth J. Haynes was born in Edmonton, Alberta and grew up in Williams Lake and Kamloops, B.C. She studied English, and Creative Writing at Cariboo College (now Thompson Rivers University), the University of Victoria, University of Calgary, the Banff Centre Wired Writing Studio and Booming Ground (UBC). Elizabeth has a Bachelor’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology and English from Western Washington University and a Master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology from Washington State University. Elizabeth resides in Calgary where she also works as a Speech-Language Pathologist. She has edited the work of her late father, retired physician Sterling Haynes, also a published writer. Inspired by a trip to Asia in her twenties, Elizabeth has traveled extensively in Europe, Asia, Cuba, where she studied Cuban culture and Spanish, and South and Central America. She has worked as a volunteer Speech-Language Pathologist with CESO in Cebu City, Philippines and Yerevan, Armenia. Elizabeth is influenced by her paternal grandmother, the actress, teacher and co-founder of the Banff School of Fine Arts (Banff Centre), Elizabeth Sterling Haynes.

FMI => http://www.elizabethjhaynes.com
Thistledown Press => https://thistledownpress.com/
Electric Mermaid: Live Reads from Char's Landing and via ZOOM !
Spoken Word Open Mic, last Wednesday of each month, Char's physical doors open 5:30pm Pacific Time

We also welcome you to join us via ZOOM and click this automatic ZOOM link below:
https://zoom.us/j/93236999892?pwd=N2FLZkxGMUhyTk5ySGVOenhuZFcxdz09

see https://charslanding.com/ OR https://alberni.ca/events/17693 for more ZOOM options.
We encourage our guests to ZOOM in early and keep video on to enjoy the virtual social gathering.
Please engage the CHAT window for comments to the artists or to ask Karl to be added to the open mic list.

PayWhatYouCan cover in lieu of rental to help Char's Landing support the live arts gratefully accepted with our thanks.
Online bank transfers to http://[email protected] please include the event date and your email address
PayPal to https://www.paypal.me/CharsLanding please include the event date and your email address
OR text/call 250-730-1636 to charge by phone.
OR stop by Char’s Landing to pay by cash/cheque/interac

PRE-REGISTER and sign up for a 5-minute spot at the open mic at [email protected]
FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/777940299452077
FACEBOOK PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/electricmermaidlivereads
SUBSCRIBE to Char's YouTube video list to see past events https://www.youtube.com/user/CharsLanding/videos
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Char’s Landing 19+ (accompanied kids welcome until 10pm)
4815 Argyle @5th Port Alberni, Vancouver Island, CANADA V9Y 1V9
Tel: 778-421-2427 www.charslanding.com
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