The pandemic meant the impossibility of having people gather in person to launch the latest book
in my Kateri O'Leary series. Therefore it was done on social media in November of 2021.
I greatly appreciate the support and interest shown by readers and Kateri fans!
February 2020
Computer Mouse cake 
Book Launch February 2020 at the UCC
Fun times in the big city of Nanaimo!!
Book signing - Chapters in Nanaimo, 2016
Sharing the 'Binoculars' book with an attentive and
​well-behaved audience - always a pleasure!!
It was an honour to be part of this important event in October of 2022, and to share storytelling with good friends Vi Mundy and Ellen Kimoto. We had previously shared storytelling as the "Three Wise Women" in May of 2019 as part of the
​Sakura Cultural Heritage Festival
​presented by the Pacific Rim Arts Society.


Events:

Author In-Store event, Volume One Books in Duncan -
Saturday, August 23, 2025

'Calm Harbour, Turbulent Seas': - Vancouver Island Book Signing Tour - August 9  - 13, 2025

'Calm Harbour, Turbulent Seas': Book Launch -
Wednesday July 16, 2025 - 7 p.m. at the Ucluelet Community Centre, Activity rooms 1 and 2

Still Standing' television episode on Ucluelet
                Feb. 8, 2023 at 8 p.m. on CBC

Remember - Recount - Reconcile
Japanese Internment Story Telling
            Oct. 29, 2022     9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
            Ucluelet Community Centre - Main Hall

'Kateri O'Leary goes to Creativity Camp': Book Launch
(pandemic style!) on FB - November 20, 2021

'Alone But Not Alone: Poetry In Isolation'
            Dec. 5, 2020    11 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Virtual Book Launch of Vancouver Island Regional Library's
latest poetry anthology, celebrating the works of poets during pandemic times.

'Kateri O'Leary and the Show Dog Scene': Book Launch
(pandemic style!) on FB - November 14, 2020

Federation of British Columbia Writers
            June 1, 2020 at 7 p.m.
The Greater BC-Yukon  Eco-Friendly
Live online Literary Road Trip
Featuring Christine Lowther, Poet Laureate of Tofino
and Vancouver author Bill Arnott
Others reading their work include Joanna Streetly, David Floody, Shirley Martin and Helen Mavoa.
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''Kateri O'Leary and the Computer Mouse': Book Launch - Saturday, Feb. 29, 2020 - 1 p.m. at the Ucluelet Community Centre, Activity room 2

Sakura Cultural Heritage Festival - Three Wise Women.
Pacific Rim Arts Society presents
Ellen Crowe-Swords, Vi Mundy, & Shirley Martin for an afternoon of storytelling, Thursday May 23, 2019 at 2 p.m. in the George Fraser Room of the Ucluelet Community Centre, with a historical slide show provided by Phil Hood.

School visit - Feb. 1, 2019 - Willway Elementary School, Langford

Standup Comedy at "The Joy of Gardening" - Nov. 4, 2018,
2-4 p.m. at the Ucluelet Community Centre

School visit - Dec. 1, 2017 - Savory Elementary School, Langford

'Through Grandma and Granddad's Binoculars': Book launch - Sunday Nov. 12, 2017 - 1 p.m. at the Ucluelet Community Centre, Activity room 2

Literacy Day: Storytelling - February 4, 2017 at 1:30 p.m. at the
​Ucluelet Community Centre

Book signing and reading – April 30, 2016 – Chapters Nanaimo, Book signing 3-4pm with reading starting at 4pm

Poetry Reading and stand-up comedy - July 4, 2014, Blackberry Cove Marketplace
WET Coast Writers to perform ‘Ukee meets Tuff at the Cove’ Friday, 7pm by – Tofino-Ucluelet Westerly News, 2 July, 2014
 
The Pacific Rim Arts Society presents an evening of stories and poetry Friday July 4 from 7 pm to 9:30 pm at Blackberry Cove Coffeehouse in Ucluelet.
It’s all part of the PRAS Summer Festival and the Clayoquot Writers Group. “Ukee meets Tuff at the Cove” will include stories and poems from WET coast writers.
Admission $7.
Participants are expected to include David Floody, Christine Lowther, Greg Blanchette, Shirley Martin and a number of other West Coast talents.
                        
Book signing with Mary Christmas, author of Fishers & Foreshores - Dec. 14, 2013, Blackberry Cove Marketplace

School visit - Dec. 9, 2013   - Savory Elementary School, Langford
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'A is for Amphitrite': Book launch - Nov. 2, 2013 at the Ucluelet Community Centre

School visits are so much fun!!

Lucky me, getting to be on the 'Still Standing' t.v. episode about Ucluelet, and to hang out with talented Canadian actor Jonny Harris! He is so smart and funny and nice...he even tolerated me calling him 'Constable Crabtree'. (Being a huge fan of
​ 'Murdoch Mysteries', I just couldn't resist!)
​Photo taken April 1, 2022, show aired Feb. 8 2023
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I am so pleased to have
three of my poems included in this VIRL anthology,
'Alone But Not Alone'!
Dec. 2020
(I am smiling behind
​ the mask!)
Literacy Day 2017 at the Ucluelet Community Centre - let's learn about Banana Slugs!!
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​Quotes on the creative experience:
On writing: “I don’t need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.”  Ray Bradbury

On photography: “In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people.” 
James Wilson

On writer’s block: “Dear muse. We are not amused!”
​Shirley Martin
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