Workshop: Humour with Mark Leiren-Young – NEW – $20

[gdlr_button href="https://www.artscommons.ca/WhatsOn/ShowDetails.aspx?show_id=FFB90286-0217-4E0D-B649-F86E2FA976F7" target="_self" size="medium" background="#f2674a" color="#ffffff" border_color="#999999"]Buy Tickets[/gdlr_button] This accessible humour-writing workshop and talk incorporates not only Mark Leiren-Young's experience with writing comedy for the page, stage and screen, but also examines what is funny in the 21st century. Mark Leiren-Young is the author of the comic memoirs Free Magic Secrets Revealed and Never Shoot A Stampede Queen, which won the 2009 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour in 2009. At Wordfest 2016, he also presents his new non-fiction book, The Killer Whale Who Changed the World. [gdlr_video url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBrol3d9UFk" ] [gdlr_divider type="solid" size="100%" ] Sponsored by the Alberta Magazine Publisher's Association.   [gdlr_divider type="solid" size="100%" ] [gdlr_button href="https://www.artscommons.ca/WhatsOn/ShowDetails.aspx?show_id=FFB90286-0217-4E0D-B649-F86E2FA976F7" target="_self" size="medium" background="#f2674a" color="#ffffff" border_color="#999999"]Buy Tickets[/gdlr_button]