SOMBA K'E/YELLOWKNIFE - The NWT Literacy Council is celebrating its 20th anniversary next week with a series of concerts, a feast, and a few rounds of celebrity golf.

The celebration kicks off Monday and Tuesday with a pair of concerts at the Northern Arts and Cultural Centre, which includes performances by Jonathan Torrens, a.k.a. J-Roc of Trailer Park Boys fame, Prairie Oyster singer Russell De Carle, songwriter Barney Bentall, and Yellowknife musicians Pat Braden and Sophie Leger. The concerts start at 7 p.m.

There will also be a community feast in Hay River on Wednesday, followed by the Peter Gzowski Invitational Golf Tournament for Literacy (PGI) the following morning. The northern golf tournament is also in its 20th year.

Lynn Fogwill, one of the council's first members, said the formation of the non-profit organization, "was humble yet not."

"There was a small group of us in Yellowknife, Fort Smith and Hay River conscious to the fact that International Literacy Year was coming up (in 1990) and we started to talk about establishing a literacy council because one hadn't existed," she said.

Dorothee Komangapik, an adult educator from Iqaluit, wrote to th