Open mic set for Feb. 21
Author/broadcaster Nils Ling will be featured reader
The P.E.I. Writers’ Guild Open Mic will be held on Thursday, Feb. 21, to allow writers to celebrate Valentine’s Day in their own way.
That night the featured reader will be Nils Ling.
Ling is an author, playwright, actor, filmmaker and a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist who lives in Breadalbane.
In the early 1990s Ling moved to Prince Edward Island to take the position of host of CBC’s “Mainstreet”.
In 1999, he began touring with a one-man show, “The Truth About Daughters”, and in the years since, it has become one of Canada’s most successful one-man shows with over 1,500 performances worldwide.
Two other shows, “The Truth About Love and/or Marriage” and “The Truth About Christmas”, followed with similar success.
Ling continues to live and create on P.E.I., working in the written and spoken word, in music and in film.
His most recent film, a music video for singer/songwriter Ashley Condon, earned him a nomination for a Music P.E.I. award.
He is currently researching and writing a self-help book about grief and the loss of an infant, entitled “The Stolen Child”.
The open mic will start at 7 p.m. at Receiver Coffee Co., 128 Richmond St., Charlottetown.
All are welcome to this free event. The first 10 writers to sign up may read from their work– poetry or prose — for up to five minutes. Following a short break, Ling will begin.
The P.E.I. Writers’ Guild Open Mic Series will continue to run on the second Thursday of each month.