This workshop sold out with eight participants from the Huron Poetry Cooperative.  After a day of successful workshopping, the participants joined me at Coffee Culture to showcase and practice their newly learned performance skills.

 

To see their responses, CLICK HERE

 

 

Poetry Performance Workshop

with

Daniel Kolos

 

10:30 a.m. till 2:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 25, 2009

at the

Wingham Public Library

281 Edward Street, Wingham, ON

 

$60.00 at the door/ $50.00 for pre-registered participants

 

To pre-register, contact Joan at 519-357-1246 or joanv@scsinternet.com

 

Poetry Performance Showcase

Saturday, April 25, 7:00 p.m.

at Coffee Culture

355 Josephine Street, Wingham, ON

Where the Workshop Participants will have a chance to put into practice what they learned!!!

 

Reading and writing poetry are private pleasures.  Reading poetry in front of an audience is a performance.  No matter how good a poet you are, if you come across weakly or with anxiety, enjoyment of your poems will be compromised.

 

With a few simple exercises you can transform your presentation into a delightful performance that will benefit both you and your audience.

 

Daniel Kolos has been trained by CBC Radio producers, Toastmasters, and poets such as Penn Kemp, Sheri-D Wilson and Amanda Hiebert in the various techniques of public presentation.  He has been a performance poet since 1997 and has had over 150 poetry readings throughout Southern Ontario, Michigan and Indiana.

 

In 2003 Pendas Productions of London published his first poetry collection, Slipped Out.

In 2006 a CD version of this book came out, Daniel Kolos Reads his Poetry.  His second book, From One Child to Another, (Battered Silicone Dispatch Box, Shelburne, ON, 2007) was launched in May, 2007.  He recently finished a series of ninety-nine inspirational poems based on the 13th century Sufi mystic poet, Rumi. 

Daniel is a member of the Highway 4 Writers (since 1985), Words Aloud Poetry Cooperative (Since 1999), The Ontario Poetry Society (Since 2003) and the League of Canadian Poets (Since 2007).  In October, 2008, Daniel founded SOUNDS: words and music series with seven other poets in Owen Sound.