Pat has helped a number of clients to develop and enhance their web presence.  He prides himself on being able to not only turn clients’ visions into reality, but to assist them in manag­ing and maintain­ing their own web sites once they are up and running. Good websites do not need to cost much money these days. Most can be up and running in less than a week or two.

Pat Buckna has been writing and perform­ing music for over forty years.  In July 2010 he was invited to perform in Yellowknife at the 30th Folk on the Rocks music festi­val.  The Heart Swells compi­la­tion, a project that resulted from a one-week songwrit­ing camp hosted by David Francey and Craig Werth in 2009 at Wells, BC included one of Pat’s tunes. In January 2009, Pat released Flint & Steel, a collec­tion of wordsongs featur­ing north­ern story­teller Jim Green accom­pa­nied by Pat’s music.

Pat has had a life-long inter­est in photog­ra­phy.  For a brief time in the 1980’s he worked as a photog­ra­pher for a north­ern newspa­per where he learned to develop and process his own black and white images.  He became an early adopter of digital photog­ra­phy, enjoy­ing the freedom (and cost savings) of being able to take multi­ple shots to capture the right image.

Pat worked as a journal­ist in the early 1980’s in Fort Smith, NWT and attended the SFU Writer’s Studio in 2003 where he worked with Geist publisher Stephen Osborne.  He attend Writing with Style and the Wired Writer’s Studio at the Banff Centre in 2004 where he worked with poet Eliza­beth Philips.  In 2005 he attended UBC Booming Ground sessions with Cather­ine Bush and Gail Anderson-Dargatz. In 2007 he under­took a manuscript inten­sive with Betsy Warland, then in 2008 returned to The Writer’s Studio as an adjunct writer with mentor Wayde Compton.