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you looking for a CCLA contact person in your area?
Here is a list of CCLA Ambassadors in Cuba and Canada in alphabetical order.
If you would like a CCLA Membership application form they can direct you.
CCLA Ambassador – Lillian Allen
– Toronto, Ontario, Canada
– valuesfirst@hotmail.com
CCLA Ambassador – Katharine Beeman
– Montreal, Quebec, Canada
– beek@web.net
Katharine Beeman is a Montreal poet involved in international solidarity and with writers and artists encouraging cultural creation as indispensable to understanding and changing the world. In Our America, a dreamer passing, her role is to be a visionary, a realist dreaming the impossible. Her work appears in two books, revues and anthologies, participation in various readings and festivals.
CCLA Ambassador – James Cockcroft
– Montreal, Quebec, Canada
– jcockcro@yahoo.com
Dr. James Cockcroft is a bilingual award-winning author of 40 books and countless articles. He has been described as "an internationally known and distinguished scholar." A poet and life-long human rights activist, he is best known as a Latin Americanist, writer, teacher, and speaker. A Canadian immigrant, he is a member of the UNESCO-sponsored World Council of the José Martí World Solidarity Project. Find his full bio at – www.jamescockcroft.com.
CCLA Ambassador – James Deahl
– Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
– james@meklerdeahl.com
CCLA Ambassador – Graham and Stella Ducker
– Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
– J. Graham Ducker – jgrahamd@rogers.com
– Stella Ducker – bcshadow@rogers.com
Graham Ducker is an honours graduate of Laurentian University. He spent many years as a Principal, Kindergarten Teacher and Primary Methods Specialist, in various Ontario schools. After retiring he published his memoirs in his book Don’t Wake The Teacher! which received a 9/10 rating. Travelling to Cuba with the Canada Cuba Literary Alliance he met with the Canadian Ambassador, did poetry readings at the University of Havana, the Havana Library and the International Book Fair. Upon returning home he had a launch for his poetry book Observations Of Heart And Mind. www.grahamducker.com
CCLA Ambassador – Antonio Gonzalez
– Camagüey, Cuba
– toniogonzal@yahoo.com
Antonio González Varona was born inCuba Camaguey 2006 in Volume 20 of The
Caribbean Writer.
CCLA Ambassador – Bruno Henriquez
– Havana, Cuba
– bruno@cubaenergia.cu
Bruno Henríquez was born in Holguín Cuba (1947) lives in Havana. He is a scientist, Geophysicist (1970) with degree on space physics and geomagnetism (USSR 1973), specialized in environmental physics on buildings (Hungary 1987). He is also a poet, science fiction and popular science writer and conference reader. He has read scientific and literary lectures in Argentina, Canada, Haiti, México, United States, Japan, Germany, Hungary and Russia. Founder and editor of Energia y tu (Energy and you) a popular science magazine on renewable energy and environmental awareness. He also has in Cuban TV a show on science fiction. Is member of WSE (world society of Ekistics) UNEAC (Cuban writers Society). He has had 6 books of Science fiction and popular science published.
CCLA Ambassador – Wenceslao (Wency) Alexander Rosales
– Holguín, Cuba
– fincamayabe@enet.cu
Wency was born and lives in Holguín Cuba
CCLA Ambassador – Trish Shields
– Courtenay, British Columbia, Canada
– trishardent@shaw.ca
Here is a list of CCLA Ambassadors in Cuba and Canada in alphabetical order.
If you would like a CCLA Membership application form they can direct you.
CCLA Ambassador – Lillian Allen
– Toronto, Ontario, Canada
– valuesfirst@hotmail.com
CCLA Ambassador – Katharine Beeman
– Montreal, Quebec, Canada
– beek@web.net
Katharine Beeman is a Montreal poet involved in international solidarity and with writers and artists encouraging cultural creation as indispensable to understanding and changing the world. In Our America, a dreamer passing, her role is to be a visionary, a realist dreaming the impossible. Her work appears in two books, revues and anthologies, participation in various readings and festivals.
CCLA Ambassador – James Cockcroft
– Montreal, Quebec, Canada
– jcockcro@yahoo.com
Dr. James Cockcroft is a bilingual award-winning author of 40 books and countless articles. He has been described as "an internationally known and distinguished scholar." A poet and life-long human rights activist, he is best known as a Latin Americanist, writer, teacher, and speaker. A Canadian immigrant, he is a member of the UNESCO-sponsored World Council of the José Martí World Solidarity Project. Find his full bio at – www.jamescockcroft.com.
CCLA Ambassador – James Deahl
– Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
– james@meklerdeahl.com
CCLA Ambassador – Graham and Stella Ducker
– Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
– J. Graham Ducker – jgrahamd@rogers.com
– Stella Ducker – bcshadow@rogers.com
Graham Ducker is an honours graduate of Laurentian University. He spent many years as a Principal, Kindergarten Teacher and Primary Methods Specialist, in various Ontario schools. After retiring he published his memoirs in his book Don’t Wake The Teacher! which received a 9/10 rating. Travelling to Cuba with the Canada Cuba Literary Alliance he met with the Canadian Ambassador, did poetry readings at the University of Havana, the Havana Library and the International Book Fair. Upon returning home he had a launch for his poetry book Observations Of Heart And Mind. www.grahamducker.com
Stella Ducker is the founder of The Stellar Showcase and co-founded the Stellar Showcase Journal.
Stella operates and broadcasts on an internet radio and is working on a
'poetry reading corner'. Stella has been 'dabbling' in writing over the
years and has some of her poetry published. She is a founding board
member of FAMEd and has been
involved in film and TV production and background acting. Stella is a
member of , The Canada Cuba Literary Alliance, The Writers' Circle of
Durham Region, The Oshawa Little Theatre, The Ontario Poetry Society,
The Canadian Poetry Association and Chair for Durham Region, The
Federation of Poets and a Board Member for the Downtown Action
Committee appointed by the Oshawa
Council.
CCLA Ambassador – Antonio Gonzalez
– Camagüey, Cuba
– toniogonzal@yahoo.com
Antonio González Varona was born in
CCLA Ambassador – Bruno Henriquez
– Havana, Cuba
– bruno@cubaenergia.cu
Bruno Henríquez was born in Holguín Cuba (1947) lives in Havana. He is a scientist, Geophysicist (1970) with degree on space physics and geomagnetism (USSR 1973), specialized in environmental physics on buildings (Hungary 1987). He is also a poet, science fiction and popular science writer and conference reader. He has read scientific and literary lectures in Argentina, Canada, Haiti, México, United States, Japan, Germany, Hungary and Russia. Founder and editor of Energia y tu (Energy and you) a popular science magazine on renewable energy and environmental awareness. He also has in Cuban TV a show on science fiction. Is member of WSE (world society of Ekistics) UNEAC (Cuban writers Society). He has had 6 books of Science fiction and popular science published.
CCLA Ambassador – Wenceslao (Wency) Alexander Rosales
– Holguín, Cuba
– fincamayabe@enet.cu
Wency was born and lives in Holguín Cuba
CCLA Ambassador – Trish Shields
– Courtenay, British Columbia, Canada
– trishardent@shaw.ca
Trish Shields was
born in Saskatchewan, Canada, but grew up in Europe. She has
studied creative writing at the Algonquin College in Ottawa,
Ontario. 'Soul Speak', a book of poetry published by Troubadour
Books, was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award in 2001. Trish
has two books of poetry published and her work has appeared in numerous
anthologies. Her first fictional novel, ‘Inferno’ is published by
Baycrest Books. Trish’s poetry and short stories have been
published internationally. Her first chapbook, Coast Lines, is
co-authored by Katherine L. Gordon, released in February 2007.