Michael Ondaatje
A Return to Hugh Garner’s Cabbagetown
Michael Ondaatje, Paul Thompson, Lena MacDonald
“Cabbagetown”, a seminal work by Canadian literary hero, Hugh Garner. A dusk ’til dawn reading by a collection of artists, personalities and original characters out of old Cabbagetown. A dramatic story time, ethereal yet grounded in authentic voices and Garner’s hard-bitten prose.
“The dawn is in the crease of his trousers and in the new-appeared eyelets of his shoes. The dawn is in the new shapes around him and in the lighted fields. The dawn is a widened earth, a populated earth. The dawn is not only the beginning of the day, but the ending of the night.”
Julianna Yau’s blog » Nuit Blanche 2008: Cabbagetown said,
October 6, 2008 at 1:00 am
[...] wandered through a bit more of Cabbagetown, stopping to listen to a reading of Cabbagetown by Hugh Garner. We also caught the end of a very cute short film featuring dancing notes juxtaposed with the [...]