Poetry? Poetry that rhymes??? We can’t be having any of that shizznit around here.
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A BENEFIT FOR POET MARC CREAMORE
Got this via Facebook. Sounds like a terrific event and a good cause.
As a born socialist and also a Canadian who’s had cancer, I’d like to let you know that no, BC Medical does not cover all your costs. In fact, for many long months I was on an immune system booster that cost $1700 an injection, and had to be taken twice a month; it was not covered until my life savings had been eaten up completely and I was forced onto medical welfare. Even ambulance rides are no longer covered, remember. And when you are ill and in treatment, there are many small things, like neck pillows, special meals, and support services, that can make all the difference between enduring and living.
$20 for poetry, community, a good time, a burger and a beer. Can’t beat that with a shoplifted copy of On the Road
Cottage Bistro by berglind_hafsteinsdottir
Wednesday Nov 25th
Pandora’s Collective Presents
A BENEFIT FOR FELLOW POET MARC CREAMORE
Pandora’s Collective and folks in the poetry and music community are holding a Benefit for our friend Marc Creamore, who is battling lung cancer. Marc has been an active part of Vancouver ‘s poetry community for many years. Join us in support of Marc and his family at this evening of poetry, music, spoken word and shared memories.Tickets: $20 at the door includes entertainment, a burger with fries and beer. After costs, all proceeds go directly to Marc and his family.
There will also be door prizes, and Marc’s published poetry books will be available for sale.6:00-6:30 Brief Introductions by Bonnie Nish and Ruth Kozak followed by
Poetry and ♫♫ David Campbell
6:30-7:00 Spoken Word Al Mader The Minimalist Jug Band
7:00 – 7:30 ♫♫ Jess Hill
7:30 -7:45 Spoken Word CJ Leon
7:45- 8:15 Spoken Word and Poetry Steve Duncan and Diane Laloge
8:15-9:00 ♫♫ Sandy Bone
9:00- 9:30 Open Mic
9:30-9:45 Spoken Word & ♫♫ CR Avery
9:45-10:15 Poetry Daniela Elza and Robin Susanto
10:15-10:45 ♫♫ Hi-Rise Dex (Kempton Dexter)
10:45-11:15 Spoken Word Bill McNamara and RC Weslowski
11:15-12:00 Open Mic Closing Words.There will be an open mike for poets and friends to share their words with Marc.
Time: 6 – 12pm
Location: The Cottage Bistro
4468 Main Street @ 29th Avenue
Hosts: Bonnie Nish and Ruth K ozak
RSVP if possible
Contact: blinsh_pandoras AT yahoo DOT ca
www.pandorascollective.com
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The Summer Dream Literary Arts Festival
From the Facebook announcement:
Summer Dreams Literary Arts Festival
Summer Dream Festival Opens Wednesday
With Special Visual Art/Poetry Collaboration
(August 19th)Vancouver, BC – The 6th annual festival kicks off on August 19th with a special reading at the Jewish Community Centre where featured poets Natasha Boskic, Christy Hill, Daniela Elza, Maureen Eagan, Mary Duffy, Steve Duncan and Bonnie Nish will read poetry inspired by artist Linda Frimer’s powerful visual work. The audience will be given time and encouraged to write to the exhibit as well and to share their words during the open mic portion of the evening. Lyrical songstress Jess Hill also joins the night’s event.
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Sidney and Gertrude Zack Gallery
950 W.41st Ave. Vancouver, BCLinda Dayan Frimer is an acclaimed Vancouver artist and well known community facilitator who has been intimately involved in world, Jewish, and Canadian national, cultural artistic pursuits. She creates commemorative, educational, cultural, and esthetically moving artistic works. Born in the wilderness interior of British Columbia, the forest first inspired Linda’s deep belief in the sanctity of all forms of life, while stories of her ancestors’ journey strengthened her faith in the human spirit and her deep commitment to helping others. She has been deeply involved in the ongoing intergenerational Gesher Holocaust Project as it’s artist facilitator and co-founder. An exhibit of participant’s powerful works of art resulted in a traveling exhibit across Canada under the auspices of the Montreal Holocaust Centre. Linda’s artistic vision is continuously evoked by the vital inseparable forces of nature and culture. She is currently at work on a book and paintings which express the idea of return and seek the meaning of home. Many of the paintings in this current exhibit, entitled “Returning Home” cronicles her journeys back home through artwork to her early years in the British Columbia wilderness and compares life to that of her ancestor’s home in Lithuania.
And don’t forget to join us for the main event on Saturday August 22nd – a free, all-day, large scale event at Lumberman’s Arch in Stanley Park, showcasing the talents of numerous musicians, spoken word artists and storytellers, children’s entertainers, dancers, as well as resource tables and panel discussions by writing and publishing experts.
The festival will also be holding 2 days of workshops (Aug. 23rd and 29th) designed to help writers grow professionally and creatively. Some topics and facilitators include S.R. Duncan talking about chapbook design and marketing; and Jen Currin unraveling the mysteries of the prose poem. For more information about the workshops, or to register, contact Bonnie Nish at blnish_pandoras@yahoo.ca.
Pre-registration and payment is necessary. Spaces are limited so sign-up now or be disappointed.NEWSFLASH: Bonnie and Rhonda interviewed on Commercial Drive Live!
Check out the latest video installment of “Live On The Drive!” for an exclusive interview with the organizers of the event: http://thedriveisalive.blogspot.com/2009/08/live-on-drive-interview-with-summer.html#linksFor media information and full festival details visit http://www.pandorascollective.com/sdrfestival.html
or call Steve Duncan at 604-788-8340. srduncan@shaw.ca.
Pandora’s Collective would like to thank the following sponsors for making this event possible: Giest, Vancouver Review, Subterrain, Event, Room With A View, 3 Day Novel Contest, Prism, Dutch Girl Chocolates, Theatre in the Raw, Capilano Review, One Cool Word, Vancouver Story Tellers, Vancouver Public Library, Quills, Nestor’s Market, Graphic design by CWCLCOGY with Wera, Vancouver Parks Board, 2008 Celebrations Grant c/o The City of Vancouver and The Office of Cultural Affairs, CBS Outdoor, Starbucks, VanCity, Christianne’s Lyceum, Coast Capital Savings, The Federation of BC Writers, Burnaby Writers Society, Industrial Alliance Pacific Life Insurance Company, BC Poetry, Jaffer Speech and Language Services, Irene Livingston, Don Simpson, Joyce Statton, Randy Jacobs, Bernice Lever, Andrea Winterbottom and Robin Susanto.
Come be a part of Vancouver’s best-kept summer secret!
Bowen Island Poetry Salon Tuesday
Cross-posted from raincoastermedia.com because it fits in both places.
Stole this from Facebook. If you haven’t Friended me there, please do; Faceplant killed my “raincoaster” account and now most of my friends don’t recognize me when I Friend Request them, dammit!
POETRY READING/SALON with visiting poets Allan Briesmaster and Clara Blackwood
Please join us for a lovely evening of stellar verse with father and daughter poets Allan Briesmaster and Clara Blackwood from Ontario.
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09 June 2009
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19:30 – 23:00
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Josef & Heather’s place
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Bowen Island, BC
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7788614050
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hshaley at emspace.com
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Allan Briesmaster is a freelance editor and publisher, and the author of ten books of poetry, including Interstellar (Quattro Books, 2007). He was centrally involved in the weekly Art Bar Poetry Reading Series in Toronto from 1991 until 2002. As an editor Allan has been instrumental in producing more than 70 books of poetry and non-fiction since 1998. Last year he co-edited the 256-page anthology Crossing Lines: Poets Who Came to Canada in the Vietnam War Era for Seraphim Editions. Allan lives in Thornhill, Ontario
with his wife Holly, a visual artist with whom he has collaborated several times.
Born and raised in Toronto, Clara Blackwood has been writing poetry for 15 years. Her first poetry collection, Subway Medusa (2007), is the inaugural book in Guernica Editions’ First Poets Series, which showcases first books by poets thirty-five and under. From 1998 to 2004, Clara ran the monthly Syntactic Sunday Reading Series at the Free Times Café in Toronto. Her poetry has appeared in such magazines as the Hart House Review, Misunderstandings Magazine, Surface & Symbol and Carousel.
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