Jean Baird – The SoundBox Collection

Jean Baird

Jean Baird has been a professor, magazine publisher, consultant for non-profit organizations, and creative director of Canada Book Week for the Writers’ Trust of Canada. She is a book collector and bibliographer who co-founded the Al Purdy A-frame Association, which transformed the Purdys’ famous A-frame in Ameliasburgh, Ontario into a writers’ residence.

| Recordings

There are no ‘Recordings’ available for this author at this time.

| Remediations

Oral History

Jean Baird tells “The Story of the Baseball.”

April 7, 2023

Collector and bibliographer Jean Baird tells Karis Shearer the story of the baseball that she donated to the Baird-Bowering fonds at UBC Okanagan Special Collections and Archives.
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Performance

“A Celebration of the Works of George Bowering”

September 22, 2022

Citation: “A Celebration of the Works of George Bowering.” 22 September, 2022. UBC Okanagan, Special Collections. https://soundbox.ok.ubc.ca/remediations/performances/
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| Bibliography

Bowering, George and Jean Baird. The Heart Does Break: Canadian Writers on Grief and Mourning. Vintage, 2011.

“UBC Okanagan benefits from generous literary contribution: Baird and Bowering donate to special collections and humanities lab.” UBC Okanagan. 7 December, 2022. Available online: https://news.ok.ubc.ca/2022/12/07/ubc-okanagan-benefits-from-generous-literary-contribution/

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Where

The SoundBox collection is digitized, archived, and remediated on the traditional and unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation. The collection encompasses the thoughts and work of voices recorded across so-called British Columbia and so-called Canada, including on the traditional and unceded territories of the Syilx Okanagan Nation, Secwépemc, Tiohtià:ke (Montreal), xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.

Located on the ancestral and unceded lands of the Syilx Okanagan Nation. The collection is housed at The University of British Columbia (Okanagan) and loved by The AMP Lab.

3333 University Way
Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7

| Recordings

| Remediations

Jean Baird tells “The Story of the Baseball.”

“A Celebration of the Works of George Bowering”

| Bibliography

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