[BCMA] Humourist Arthur Black at Nanaimo Museum

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Subject:	Humourist Arthur Black at Nanaimo Museum
Date sent:	Tue, 5 Oct 2010 16:04:42 -0700
From:	"Arvon" <arvon at nanaimomuseum.ca>


Tell your friends that Award Winning Canadian Humourist Arthur Black is
making an appearance at the Nanaimo Museum

Thursday, October 7, 2010 - at the Nanaimo Museum

7-9pm - Admission by donation

Come down to your museum and listen to Arthur Black read from his latest
book
A Chip off the Old Black

Arthur Black, an award winning Canadian humorist and radio personality,
will make an appearance at Nanaimo Museum on Thursday, Oct. 7 to reads
from his new book: A Chip Off the Old Black. 

According to his publisher, Harbour Publishing, Black's voice is
unmistakable on the radio and on the page. His is the voice of reason,
with a generous helping of funny; the voice that scolds us for our
universal human quirks, but who says it with the tone and words that
make us laugh out loud at ourselves and our neighbours. 

A Chip Off the Old Black, Black's latest collection of stories, will
knock a sense of humour into any reader, boasting nearly a hundred tales
featuring everything from yarnbombing to Bambi, from Black's love of the
Farmer's Almanac to his loathing of snowmobiles and his . . . problem .
. . with David Suzuki. 

With a talent for ranting, minus the malice, Black sticks up for the
chocolate-covered marshmallow confection of New Zealand-the
politically-incorrect "Eskimo" candies. Those inclined to kvetching-a
Yiddish word describing the tendency to complain persistently about
everything-may just reconsider after reading A Chip Off the Old Black.
After all, as Black demonstrates, it's far more enjoyable to take the
opportunity to laugh.

Black's growing collection of award-winning books include Pitch Black,
Black Tie and Tales (Stoddart Publishing) and Black in the Saddle Again,
all of which won him the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour. He
hosted CBC Radio One's Basic Black program from 1983 until 2002, while
also using his comedic talents to host Life Television Network's Weird
Homes and Weird Wheels. His recently released audio CD, Planet Salt
Spring, features tales from his adopted home of Salt Spring Island, BC
Canada.

For more information or to RSVP, call 250-753-1821. The Nanaimo Museum
is located at 100 Museum Way in the Vancouver Island Conference Centre. 

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-- 
Mark Corbett
Cell: 250-619-8265
Email: markcorbett65 at gmail.com




-- 
Mark Corbett
Cell: 250-619-8265
Email: markcorbett65 at gmail.com


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