Just Added

The Forest Festival is delighted to add three exciting events to our Saturday, August 21 program.

The recently completed documentary, Paul Quarrington: Life in Music. Paul Quarrington had a very close relationship with the Forest Festival. Two of his last performances took place at the 2009 Festival. Footage from these performances is included in the documentary. The Producer, Judith Keenan, will be in attendance. Copies of Paul Quarrington's last solo album, The Songs, will be available at the showing.

The one hour film will be screened at 5:00 pm on Saturday August 21, 2010 in the Seminar Building at Base Camp. There is no charge for this showing.

Paul Quarrington: Life in Music is a documentary film featuring Paul Quarrington, the well respected and much loved author, filmmaker, musician and teacher, as he comes to terms with a sudden diagnosis of terminal cancer through the power of music. Featuring Roddy Doyle, Dave Bidini, Porkbelly Futures and others from his intimate circle, it is a story of friendship and the redemptive power of community.  Producer Judith Keenan, who will be in attendance, says "key performances and interview scenes with Paul were shot during the Forest Festival 2009, so it is a special privilege for the filmmakers to be able to bring this screening back to the Festival this year."  The film is directed by Bert Kish, with music / performances by Quarrington, Martin Worthy, Dan Hill, and Sharon Riley's Faith Chorale.

Cookhouse BBQ
The Cookhouse at Haliburton Forest will be offering a barbeque before and after the Hilario Durán Trio afternoon concert and before the Soul Stew evening concert. Featured are outstanding locally-produced sausages from the famous Norm's Smoked Meats and delicious in-house salads.

Jim Smith - Poetry Reading
Saturday August 21 prior to the Soul Stew concert

Jim Smith started writing seriously in Grade 8 in 1963. His first published story earned him $5 from West Coast Review in 1972. He is the author of fourteen books and chapbooks, including One Hundred Most Frightening Things (blewointmentpress, 1985), Convincing Americans (Proper Tales Press, 1986), The Schwarzenegger Poems (Surrealist Poets Gardening Association, 1988), Translating Sleep (Wolsak & Wynn, 1989) and Leonel/Roque (Coteau Books, 1998). His newest book, Back Off, Assassin! New and Selected Poems, was just published by Toronto's Mansfield Press in November, 2009. Back Off, Assassin made it to #7 on the first-ever Chapters/Indigo Top Ten list of poetry for National Poetry Month in April, 2010. At the age of 43, Jim went to law school and for the last dozen years has practiced civil litigation, primarily trials and tribunal hearings of various sorts. He is the only Canadian lawyer ever to have new and selected poems published.