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	George Ryga Biography and Summary
		George Ryga is best known for The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, one of the most successful plays written in Canada.
		George Ryga(July 27, 1932 – November 18, 1987) was a Canadian playwright and novelist.
		Ryga was born in Deep Creek, Alberta to poor Ukanian immigrant parents.
	www.bookrags.com /George_Ryga (361 words)

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		Though Ryga expresses the realities of the depression and the miserable people who resulted from it, it is notably unusual that as writer who was interested in Marxist theory, he did not refer so much to the socioeconomic disorganization of the 1930s as much as the struggle of the individual within that cultural context.
		By using the metaphor of slavery, Ryga’s Ballad of a Stonepicker tries to reflect life within the agricultural community during the depression as one that is bound with strife and toil.
		Ryga’s most famed composition was that of the Ecstacy of Rita Joe, a drama that was not only compelling for its provocative and uncomfortable theme but for its criticism of both native and white culture.
	www.ryga.org /bibliography.html (662 words)

	chicklit: words to the wise (Site not responding. Last check: )
		George Ryga wrote about the mistreatment of Mexican migrant workers in his novel, Under the Vulture, but his best-known work, The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, describes the extreme brutality of life in the city, as experienced by a young native woman.
		Ryga wrote the play to be presented as part of the Canadian Centennial celebrations of 1967, a moment in our national history when the country was perhaps at its most self-congratulatory, as a deliberate reminder that native Canadians enjoy much less than full participation in our vaunted social, educational, and justice systems.
		The character of Rita Joe, for example, while not of Ryga's race or gender, interacts with white male social workers, teachers, and judges; she moves in a world with which Ryga is presumably familiar, and suffers abuse which he would have witnessed.
	www.chicklit.com /words/words12_page2.html (691 words)

	Amazon.ca: Ecstasy of Resistance, The: A Biography of George Ryga: Books: James Hoffman
		Ryga's earliest mentor were two female teachers who, true to the temper of Canadian Victorianism, failed to cleanse his verse of sentimentality and colonial romanticism.
		He refers at one point to Ryga's "liquid dramaturgy"-a vague, unhelpful phrase which could be interpreted to mean that Ryga's craft dissolves in the heat of his passion.
		Hoffman has little to say of Ryga as husband and father, and the only sense of private distress is when his wife develops a rare disease and when Ryga himself enters the final phase of his cancer.
	www.amazon.ca /Ecstasy-Resistance-Biography-George-Ryga/dp/1550222465 (1298 words)

	Canadian Literature \| Review of "The George Ryga Papers"
		Ryga likened his plight to a form of prostitution and railed against it throughout his career as the all too typical lot of the Canadian cultural worker.
		Hoffman's Ryga, then, is Ryga the Marxist Romantic, and many of the contradictions and failures that mark his writing, as well as his obsessive reworking of key tropes and themes, derive from repeated, unsuccessful attempts to reconcile the dichotomies inherent in his mixed political-aesthetic pedigree.
		One senses that Ryga, despite his fiery public persona, was a very private man, and that Hoffman, writing an authorized biography that he produced in close consultation with Ryga and his family, wished to respect that privacy.
	www.canlit.ca /reviews-review.php?id=9776 (2351 words)

	CM Magazine: Ecstasy of Resistance
		I believe that in Ryga we have a writer of major significance, in part due to sheer output; about two dozen of his works are still in print, including two recent anthologies, The Athabasca Ryga and Summerland, which contain many of his lesser known and previously unpublished works.
		Ryga is best known for these two works that; indeed, they are often the only works associated with his career as writer.
		The son of Ukrainian immigrants, Ryga was often ambivalent towards his heritage: drawn to life on the land, yet hating the harshness of that existence.
	www.umanitoba.ca /cm/vol2/no19/ryga.html (418 words)

	The George Ryga Papers
		George Ryga was born to immigrant parents in the farming community of Deep Creek in Northern Alberta.
		The exciting talent of George Ryga must be accorded recognition as a "formidable dramatic presence" on the Canadian cultural scene, and the acquisition of his papers an important milestone in that culture's documentation.
		Particularly valuable are Ryga's correspondence and financial files, which cover the years 1960-75, and, perhaps unique in a collection such as this, a set of the files of Ryga's literary agent, Miss Renée Paris, which rounds out Ryga's career in a remarkably full and useful manner.
	www.ucalgary.ca /UofC/departments/UP/1-895176/1-895176-66-2.html (600 words)

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		George received acclaim for his portrayal, and when one of the episodes of the show was to be transformed into a Hollywood movie called Smith, George reprised the role, starring along side Keenan Wynn and fellow Canadians Glen Ford and Jay Silverheels, Tonto in the Lone Ranger series.
		Throughout his acting career, George was always aware that in addition to being seen as a talented actor, he was also seen by many as a representative of the Indian people.
		George's determination to use his celebrity to benefit Native people was demonstrated on Canada Day, 1967, as the country celebrated its centennial.
	www.ammsa.com /buffalospirit/2003/footprints-DanGeorge.html (1230 words)

	The Ecstasy of Resistance: A Biography of George Ryg (Site not responding. Last check: )
		George Ryga was a complex, turbulent man, and Hoffman's greatest challenge was to create through narration the figure – the presence – of his subject.
		In a 1981 speech to the 'Bread and Circuses' Festival in Thunder Bay, Ryga warned his audience that 'the purveyors of technology' were a 'super-elite' speaking the 'language of the new colonizers.' He believed that technology facilitated the destruction of local languages and cultural heritage.
		I wish he had gone further and given us – not George Ryga, of course, but – his interpretation of the man, of what drove him, haunted him, sustained him, and made him who he was.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/661/661_review_hjartarson.html (1115 words)

	Canadian Literary and Art Archives - George Ryga
		Born in Deep Creek in the Athabasca region of Alberta on July 27, 1932.
		479-481; and in The ecstasy of resistance: a biography of George Ryga, by James F. Hoffman (Toronto: ECW Press, 1995).
		Related fonds are MsC 21, Renée L. Paris fonds, and MsC 157 and Acc 771/04.21, George Ryga & Associates fonds.
	www.ucalgary.ca /lib-old/SpecColl/ryga.htm (221 words)

	ABCBookWorld
		Ryga's political drama Captives of a Faceless Drummer closely paralleled the events of the October Crisis in 1970, dramatizing conflicting ideologies.
		Ryga was born in Deep Creek, Alberta in 1931.
		Sponsored by the George Ryga Society, BC BookWorld, CBC Radio (Kelowna) and New Okanagan College, this literary prize is granted to a B.C. author who has achieved an outstanding degree of social awareness in a new book published in the preceding calendar year (2003).
	www.abcbookworld.com /?state=view_author&author_id=1321 (2546 words)

	Awards night connects the arts-July 24, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		It was the sight of a writer moved to tears, the delight of three musicians at being on stage together, and the obvious passion of one man for carrying on a friend's legacy that gave Saturday's UHF/award show all the makings of a celebration of Canadian culture.
		Though the UHF reunion concert was the main event, the evening was focused on the presentation of the inaugural George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in B.C. Literature to Maggie de Vries.
		Before leaving the stage to a standing ovation, the writer speculated that her sister would have loved to see her words in print, but feared that if she was still alive, Sarah's writing might not have received the same recognition.
	www.missingpeople.net /awards_night_connects_the_arts.htm (731 words)

	George Ryga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George Ryga (July 27, 1932 – November 18, 1987) was a Canadian playwright and novelist.
		Ryga was born in Deep Creek, Alberta to poor Ukrainian immigrant parents.
		George Ryga: The Prairie Novels - 2004 (edited by James Hoffman)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Ryga (362 words)

	George Ryga Biography / Profile
		In addition to stage plays, plays for radio and television, poems, film scripts, and song lyrics, George Ryga wrote four novels and one fictionalized memoir of a journey through China.
		Ryga’s first published novel, Hungry Hills (1963), is a story of a young man who returns to the cruel, barren prairie community that had exiled him three years earlier.
		Like many of Ryga’s plays, Hungry Hills describes the suffering and isolation of the outcast whose social and spiritual alienation is further embittered by a “desperate climate which...
	www.enotes.com /salem-lit/george-ryga (115 words)

	The Collectors - The Province - Jan 17, 1969 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Critic Jay Durwood reports on the new album by The Collectors out today with exciting lyrics by George Ryga, and the music for his new play, Grass and Wild Strawberries, to be performed by the Playhouse Theatre Company with The Collectors later this season.
		The Collectors' new album should be out today, and even taking into account the talents of the local group, plus the artistry of George Ryga, author of last season's Playhouse Theatre version of The Ecstacy of Rita Joe, this record is beyond expectations.
		But the treatment given the subject by Ryga on the new album's double-flap jacket.
	www.gonegonegone.com /Collectors/Reviews/Review1.html (676 words)

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	FFWDWeekly.com - January 12, 2006
		In fact, while The Ecstasy of Rita Joe made Ryga an internationally recognized playwright, many of his subsequent works, although published in anthologies like George Ryga: The Other Plays, have yet to be produced.
		DeGroot concedes that Ryga’s work is often slowed by its message and the challenges of adapting the story from its original Greek form.
		True to his belief in humanity’s imperative to choose, Ryga’s Prometheus Bound is no socialist sermon, but asks its audience to make their own judgment instead.
	www.ffwdweekly.com /Issues/2006/0112/the1.htm (649 words)

	News and Events
		This year’s winning book for The George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in BC Writing and Publishing has been won by Talonbooks’ In Plain Sight: Reflections On Life in Downtown Eastside Vancouver, edited by Leslie Robertson and Dara Culhane.
		This particular script was adapted from the novel for radio by George Ryga, and later provided with dramaturgy by Michael Cook and directed by Ken Smedley.
		The George Ryga Award is sponsored by The George Ryga Centre, Okanagan College, BC BookWorld and CBC Radio One, Kelowna.
	www.okanagan.bc.ca /Page13010.aspx (895 words)

	Saskatchewan Recording Industry Association
		The George Ryga Centre, Summerland, BC Submissions are being accepted now for the 11th Annual Bill Henderson/Roy Forbes Songwriters Intensive/Workshop and Showcase.
		Songwriters should register immediately by submitting a tape/CD of their music (no more than 2 songs), with 2 sets of typewritten lyrics plus a $30 submission fee (payable by cheque or MO to The George Ryga Centre).
		The George Ryga Centre in Summerland, BC Ken Smedley and The George Ryga Centre are pleased to announce that Ken Hamm, legendary acoustic Delta-blues picker and slide guitar master is offering a unique 2 day workshop designed to include guitar players of all skill levels.
	www.saskrecording.ca /session/2005/1005_workshops.html (566 words)

	Grass and Wild Strawberries - Collectors - Song Listings
		The band hooked up with poet-playwright George Ryga and the result was a stage work called Grass and Wild Strawberries -- there's no telling if it was ever produced, or...
		All of the music was written by the band, and the lyrics by Ryga, and the funny thing is, it's not half bad.
		Half the tracks are still tuneless filler, but the other half pass muster, and the sound on this album is a lot crisper than their debut, with the drums and bass nice and clear and the guitar well delineated.
	www.mp3.com /albums/27313/summary.html (424 words)

	George Ryga - The Guide to World Drama
		George Ryga - The Guide to World Drama
		Captives of a Faceless Drummer, music and lyrics by George Ryga (produced Vancouver, 1971).
		Sunrise on Sarah, music by George Ryga (produced Banff, 1972).
	www.4-wall.com /authors/authors_r/ryga_george.html (122 words)

	Okanagan Short Story Contest (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In 2006, with the demise of Okanagan University College, the contest was revived as a joint project of the two new post-secondary institutions in the valley: Okanagan College and the University of British Columbia Okanagan.
		Prizes each year vary, but they have included a cash award, a reading, the publication of the story in a chapbook, excerpts of the stories broadcast on CBC radio, and a weekend retreat at the George Ryga Centre.
		The short story contest is made possible by the efforts of support staff at UBC Okanagan, our terrific judges, the wonderful people at the George Ryga Centre and the Central Okanagan Foundation.
	web.ubc.ca /okanagan/creative/events/Short_Story_Contest.html (656 words)

	chicklit: words to the wise (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The debate around George Ryga's work subsided as native playwrights like Thomson Highway began writing and producing their own plays, forming theatre companies that gave First Nations writers, actors, and directors a foothold in established Canadian theatre.
		Everything about George Ryga's character and body of work indicates that this could only be what he would have sincerely wished, and might have considered as the culmination of his own life's work.
		Rather than detracting from each other, the Ecstasy of Rita Joe and Highway's The Rez Sisters stand together to describe Native Canadian life; subsequent new voices, if they are of the same calibre as these, can only add new and deeper dimensions to our understanding.
	www.chicklit.com /words/words12_page3.html (464 words)

	Canadian Literary and Art Archives - George Ryga & Associates
		Continues to act on behalf of G. Ryga's literary estate.
		Related fonds are MsC 20, George Ryga fonds, and Msc 21, Renée L. Paris fonds.
		Related appendices are MsC 153 donated by Nick and Nettie Evasiuk and MsC 154 donated by Kathleen M. Boulter.
	www.ucalgary.ca /lib-old/SpecColl/rygaas.htm (129 words)

	About us
		In her teens, living in the home of writer George Ryga and his family in Summerland further encouraged her interest in social issues, music and art.
		After living on a co-op farm in the Salmon Valley, she moved to Vancouver where she volunteered at Co-op Radio, trained in commercial printing, sang with the band Ad Hoc and attended Langara and Emily Carr Colleges.
		He illustrated "Queen of All the Dustballs", a collection of poems by Bill Richardson, and his "Portrait of Norma and George Ryga" appeared on the cover of Talonbooks' 25th Anniversary Catalogue.
	www.claireart.ca /bios.htm (646 words)

	hist0724
		Dan George (Teswahno) 1899-1981 actor, first nations leader, born Geswanouth Slahoot in North Vancouver, BC; died Sept. 23, 1981, in Vancouver.
		Jackson Beardy 1944-1984 Cree artist, born at Island Lake, Manitoba; died after years of battling illness Dec 8, 1984.
		It is used with permission and was distributed with the enlarged background information compiled by Neshoba and is now posted at Native News Online as an educational resource.
	nativenewsonline.org /history/hist0724.html (1309 words)

	George Ryga - complete guide to the Playwright and Plays
		George Ryga - complete guide to the Playwright and Plays
		To search for all published plays by George Ryga click on one of the bookstore links below.
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	www.doollee.com /PlaywrightsR/ryga-george.html (554 words)

	Quintessential Writers Group of the Sunshine Coast
		A personal biography of Ray Williston, former MLA for Fort George, B.C. Minister of Education from 1954 to 1956, and Minister of Lands, Forests and Water Resources from 1956 to 1972.
		This is a combination of Trick Doors and Other Dramatic Sketches, Opening Trick Doors, and Taking Off in a single volume for the high school, college and amateur theatre trade, marketed in the United States, Britain, New Zealand, Australia and Canada.
		A Stain Upon the Sea is a necessary critique of fish farming practices used in BC and abroad, featuring an all-star cast of contributors.
	www.quintessentialwriters.com /buy_author.html (1230 words)

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