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--Gave public reading at Harbourfront, Toronto 1980, (eliciting, according to Coordinator Greg Gatenby and John Robert Colombo, the first standing ovation given there), and again in July 1984, Oct 1985, Aug 1998 and Oct 2000. Principal Consultant for 1985 International Festival of SF Authors at Harbourfront

--Appeared on numerous national & local TV shows, e.g. 90 Minutes Live, Bob McLean Show, Canada AM, Authors, Summer Magazine, Switchback, The Journal, Lifetime, Prisoners of Gravity, Pamela Wallin, half-hour profile (w. Jeanne Robinson) on Gzowski & Company, @ Discovery.CA, @ the Edge w. Mason Lee, Mike Bullard Show, CBC Newsworld's @ The End, etc.

--Appeared on numerous national and local radio shows, e.g. Morningside, Arts National, Jack Farr Show, Variety Tonight, State of the Arts, Bill Williams Show, etc.

--Profiled in print, e.g. MacLean's, Toronto Globe & Mail, Star and Sun, Chicago Sun-Times, Montreal Gazette, Books In Canada, Atlantic Advocate, Quill & Quire, Halifax Herald, Vancouver Sun, Vancouver Province, Financial Post, Georgia Straight, Western Living, Saturday Night, Vancouver Courier, etc.

--read numerous stories aloud for national broadcast, CBC Radio Halifax, 1975-87; Vancouver 87-8 (e.g. "The Gifts of the Magistrate," "Local Champ") and essays (e.g. "Challenger," "My Mentors")

--published numerous essays in Omni (e.g. "The Pious Plurality"), Toronto Globe & Mail ("The Wings of an Angel"), Halifax Cities ("Leaving Home"), Ottawa Citizen ("Summer of Luck"), etc., 1973-87

--Guest of Honour at 60+ regional science fiction conventions in North America and Australia since 1976; Toastmaster, 1984 World Fantasy Convention, Ottawa, and 1992 World SF Convention, Orlando, Florida

--Celebrity Endorsement for the Apple 512K Macintosh, 1985

--"Antinomy" (adapted by Kent Stetson) broadcast on CBC Radio's Vanishing Point, 1986; "Satan's Children" (ad. Sherman Snakul) 1989; "Stardance" (ad. Ken Methold) voted Best Australian Radio Drama of 1981

--Sang folk/blues and read aloud w. Jeanne Robinson at Expo 86, Vancouver

--Read aloud at the 1988 Olympics Literary Festival, Calgary; featured participant, Vancouver Writers Festival, 1988, 1989, 1991 and 1995; Sechelt Festival of Written Arts, August 1990; The Word on the Street, Toronto, 1990

--Wrote liner notes for Amos Garrett's R&B albums I MAKE MY HOME IN MY SHOES and OFF THE FLOOR (Stony Plain Records); intro for Stephen Gaskin's book HAIGHT ASHBURY FLASHBACKS (Ronin Press 91; republished in 1999 as AMAZING DOPE TALES)

--Produced and performed in a folk concert @ Norwood Hotel, Winnipeg, August 31 1994 (52nd World SF Convention)

--Recorded 4 original songs (accompanied by Mr. Amos Garrett and others) for the soundtrack of the Legend Entertainment computer game CALLAHAN'S CROSSTIME SALOON.

--Guest Performer (w. Jeanne Robinson), 1998 Smithers Folk Festival.

--Performed live music with Jeanne Robinson and Amos Garrett and Ron Casat at the Calgary Festival of the Written Word, August 1998.