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Pat Buckna

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Pat Buckna lives on the upper Sunshine Coast of British Columbia and shares his time between his home in Powell River and at his studio on Texada Island. He writes, composes, records and performs music in the region and organizes music concerts. Pat has lived in Alberta (Calgary and High River), the Northwest Territories (Fort Smith and Yellowknife) and the southwest coast of BC (Aldergrove, Abbotsford, Port Moody, Port Coquitlam).

In 2002, Pat graduated from The Writer's Studio at Simon Fraser University, where he worked with Stephen Osborne, Betsy Warland, and Wayde Compton and attended writing seminars at the Banff Centre with mentors Elizabeth Philips, Edna Alford and Curtis Gillespie. He has worked with a senior's memoir writing group s Pat Buckna lives on the upper Sunshine Coast of British Columbia and shares his time between his home in Powell River and at his studio on Texada Island. He writes, composes, records and performs music in the region and organizes music concerts. Pat has lived in Alberta (Calgary and High River), the Northwest Territories (Fort Smith and Yellowknife) and the southwest coast of BC (Aldergrove, Abbotsford, Port Moody, Port Coquitlam).

In 2002, Pat graduated from The Writer's Studio at Simon Fraser University, where he worked with Stephen Osborne, Betsy Warland, and Wayde Compton and attended writing seminars at the Banff Centre with mentors Elizabeth Philips, Edna Alford and Curtis Gillespie. He has worked with a senior's memoir writing group since moving to Powell River.

Pat spent all of 1979 on the road as a country-western singer using the stage name of Chris Miller. Early in 1980, he left the road and settled in Fort Smith, NWT where he became a child-care worker and journalist/photographer. He formed the first music label in the NWT and released four albums of original music, including Flint & Steel, a collaboration with poet Jim Green. He moved to Yellowknife in the early '80's, became artistic director the Folk on the Rock Music Festival and president of the newly-opened Northern Arts and Cultural Centre (NACC).

In 1986, Pat relocated to Vancouver to manage the cultural and special events programs of the NWT Pavilion at Expo '86. He was commissioned to write an environmental soundscape (Echoes of the Northland) that was heard by the close to 2 million visitors to the pavilion. Pat also brought over 750 musicians, artists and craftspeople from the, as then, undivided northwest territories and presented them to a world-wide audience.

After Expo, he returned to school and earned an Associate Diploma in Computer Systems Management and for the next 25 years worked an an instructor and management consultant specializing in Project Management.

In 2002, a short remembrance was published in the book Remembering Peter Gzowski: A Book of Tributes (Douglas Gibson Books), an earlier draft of one of Pat's childhood memories was included in Betsy Warlard's 2010 non-fiction book, Breathing the Page: Reading the Act of Writing, and others were included in Slices: a memoir anthology and the e-book Taboo.

In 2019 he released Only Children - a family memoir, a book that took seventeen years to complete ...more

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