WORDS ALOUD Poetry Cooperative – 2004 Calendar
January 1, 2004, 7:00 PM
At the home of Astrid Wayman in the village of Eugenia, Ontario
Daniel
Kolos and Paul Scott were featured readers at a private home spoken word and
music event in the village of Eugenia on the evening of January 1st,
2004
Over
30 people attended the event, including 7 children. Alternating with poetry readings were a piano concerto and guitar
music.
Astrid Wayman, the hostess, is an artist and poet
herself. Her first book of poetry will
be published this Spring.
March
5, 2004 - London, Ontario
King's College Library and the Centre for Creativity
of the University of Western Ontario
Launches the exhibit
Description de l'Egypte,
Napoleonic
era prints of Egypt
As part of the evening talks and celebrations, poets Daniel Kolos, Penn Kemp
and Gloria Mulcahy will read their own poetry inspired by Ancient Egypt,
followed by Middle Eastern Dancing and a Mediterranean repast.
Keynote Lecture by Gayle Gibson, Royal Ontario Museum Educator and the
President of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities
Personal Anecdotes by Dr.William Peck, Curator Emeritus of Ancient Near Eastern
Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts,
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March 20,
2004 – Ginger Press, Owen Sound, Ontario
The Third Annual World Poetry Day celebration
Saturday night at 7:30 PM at
The
Ginger Press Bookstore and Coffee Shop
This annual reading is sponsored by Dialogue Poetry and UNESCO and takes place
annually with poetry readings around the world.
Organized by the Words Aloud Poetry Cooperative of Grey-Bruce, this event is
open to all poets who have written poetry concerning world peace. Since
this is also the time to honor the Nobel Laureate poet, Pablo Neruda, poems
inspired by him will also be welcome!
Host: Daniel Kolos
Featured
Poets:
Dawna
Proudman
Paul
Scott
Daniel
Kolos
Financial responsibility for this event usually depends upon the generous
donations of the audience. The poets will have books for sale and
autograph.
Received
on March25th by e-mail:
Hi Daniel,
Linda and I met you at the poetry reading at Ginger Press last Friday. We loved it - it was the first time we had ever attended such an event.
Would you please put us on your mailing list for poetry events? We'd love to go again and see you there.
Take care,
Your fans from Goring Heights,
Eimie and Linda Tekutis
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March 21,
2004 - Elora, Ontario
The Café at the End of the Universe presents
World Poetry Celebrations
Sunday, March 21, 2004, 8:00 PM
at the Metcalf Inn, Elora, Ontario
Host: Gordon Gilhouly
Featured poets: Penn Kemp and Daniel Kolos
Words Aloud Poets and other translators will read Penn Kemp's Poem For Peace in
Two Voices in their various native languages.
This event is free of charge. Car-pooling available from Durham.
Please contact Daniel Kolos for a ride: damilos@bmts.com
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April 2, 2004, Friday – Hepworth, Ontario
Hepworth Central School hosts Anne Duke Judd as part of their week-long celebration of literacy.
Ann Duke Judd is a poet from Port Elgin, active with Words Aloud Poetry Cooperative, and is a publisher, Brucedale Press, www.bmts.com/~brucedale/
She will also be a featured poet
at the April 30the poetry reading at Nature’s Millworks, in Paisley, Ontario,
see below.
Celebrate National Poetry
Month
April 25, 2004 - Owen Sound,
Ontario
Kozhy Korner Restaurant presents the Words Aloud Poetry Cooperative in
Celebrating Owen Sound's Heritage:
Where land meets water
Featured Readers:
Liz Zetlin
(Markdale)
Stephen Leacock Award for Poetry, second prize, 1998;
Canadian Poetry Association
Shaunt Basmajian Chapbook Award, 1999 for The Gourd Poems
Virginia Centre for the Book Literary Award 2002, nominated
for Taking Root
Daniel Kolos
(Priceville)
Recently published
his first poetry collection, Slipped Out
Andres Musta
(Scone)
Making
his poetry debut
and special guest Gloria
Alvarnez Mulcahy,
First Nations activist, film maker, and poet. Dr. Mulcahy is Professor of Psychology at King’s College, University of Western Ontario and Curator of the Centre for Creativity in London
There will be Open
Mic after the featured poets.
Kozhi Korner Restaurant is at 1023 Second Avenue East
Owen Sound, Ontario (just east of 10th Street) with ample parking at the nearby
mall.
Dinner ($18.00 plus drinks plus taxes) at 6:00 PM
Poetry Reading at 7:30 PM (without dinner, a $5.00 donation)
Poets will have their books for sale and autograph.
Book your dinner with Kozhi Korner Restaurant:
519-371-8801
Celebrate National
Poetry Month
in Bruce County!
April 30, 2004 -
Paisley, Ontario
Nature's Millworks of Paisley hosts Words Aloud Poetry Cooperative for an
evening of poetry readings on the subject of nature and children
Reading time: 7:00 PM
Words Aloud Poets featured:
Anne Duke Judd
Dawna Proudman
Daniel Kolos
This event is free of charge. Poets will have their books for sale.
For directions and other questions, contact Nature's Millworks: 519-353-4017
Poetry Celebrated in Paisley
Report on the event by Anne Duke Judd on May 1, 2004:
Paisley, home of "Canada's First Poet", Isabella Valancy Crawford,
was the
setting April 30 for readings by poets from Words Aloud in celebration of
National Poetry Month 2004.
In the former Paisley City Mill, now Nature's Millworks, Paul and Helen
Crysler hosted an enthusiastic audience to hear local writers Jennifer
Frankum [Saugeen Shores], Anne Duke Judd [Saugeen Shores], Dawna Proudman
[Durham] and Paul Douglas Scott [Williamsford].
"It's been a great evening, and we'd love to do this again next
year," said
Paul Crysler. Poetry fans present supported this suggestion with applause.
In addition to reading from their work, Dawna Proudman annouced details of
the coming Spoken Word Festival June 24-26 hosted by Words Aloud; Jennifer
Frankum mentioned her soon-to-be-released second collection of poetry,
"Dance More Often"; Anne Duke Judd invited everyone to support adult
literacy by attending the Brunch & Readings event May 16 at The Old Church
Meeting House in Port Elgin.
May 16, 2004 – Adult Literacy
Event
at The Old Church Meeting
House in Port Elgin.
Brunch & Readings
For further information please contact Daniel Kolos,
Coordinator, Words Aloud Poetry Cooperative
519-924-3303 or e-mail damilos@bmts.com
and visit the Words Aloud website at
www.bmts.com/~damilos/poetry.html
Words
Aloud Spoken Word Festival
June 25-27, 2004
at the
Durham Art
Gallery
in beautiful downtown Durham, Ontario
· featuring
performances by Canada's top spoken word artists
including CBC National Poetry Face-Off Winners
· Friday night concert
· workshops for teens and adults
· Sunday celebration showcasing new talent and live music
Tickets for the June 25-27,
2004
Words Aloud Spoken Word Festival available
at: local bookstores, the Durham Art Gallery, by mail or by phone
Pontypridd Books in Durham (519) 369-2974
FOR MORE INFORMATION: dproudman@sympatico.ca
or visit www.bmts.com/~damilos/festival.htm
WORDS ALOUD SPOKEN WORD FESTIVAL,
JUNE 25-27,
2004, Durham, Ontario
WHAT?
Spoken Word Poetry is poetry that's written to be performed. Picture
poignant prattle, pensive explosions, whispered everythings, personal and
political, percussion, hip hop and many unidentifiable ways with words.
The Words Aloud Festival will spotlight wacky, faster than you could
believe humanly possible while still making almost too much sense to bear
poets; a CBC National Poetry Face-Off winning grandmother; hip urban poets;
random acts of poetry; and a Nigerian storytelling, musician-veterinarian-poet.
WHEN?
Performances are on Friday and Saturday evenings at 7:30 p.m. with a special
pay what you can celebration on Sunday at 2 p.m. Workshops for
teens and adults take place from 9 to 4 on Saturday.
WHERE? The Durham Art Gallery in Durham, Ontario, a
town of 2,500 in the heart of Grey county. We are two hours north west of
Toronto, one hour north of Guelph, 30 minutes south of Owen Sound. Enjoy two
waterfalls, two beaches and a conservation area, all within a short walk of the
Durham Art Gallery.
WHY? Think of poems as life lines thrown out from one bobbing
being to another as we float, race, spin down the same river. Now, hold
out your hand!
Friday Night Concert, 7:30 p.m.
Segun Akinlolu spins together original poems, folklore, and song
in a unique configuration honouring the oral traditions of his Yoruba
people. Based in Ottawa, he has performed in Africa, Canada, the U.S. and
Britain with his acoustic guitar and African percussion instruments. He has
published three volumes of poetry, a novel, and two live poetry albums. Visit
him at www.beautifulnubia.com .
Kateri Akiwenzi-Damm (to be confirmed) is from the
Chippewas of Nawash First Nation. In addition to numerous written
publications and public performances, she recently released a spoken word CD entitled
Standing Ground. She is now working on a performance piece with Mohawk
choreographer Santee Smith and Maori hip hop artist Te Kupu. Kateri's other
interests include tracking with the Ndakinna Wilderness Project, learning the
Anishnaabe language, studying dreams, and traditional gathering and
harvesting. Visit her at www.honouringwords.com.
word given breath like waves in the sea
like fossils in stone ancestors in me
by Kateri Akiwenzi-Damm
And what about Native woman like me
you think i'll be an exotic pocahontas sweetie
by Kateri Akiwenzi-Damm
Sheri-D Wilson is an award winning "action poet",
playwright and performer and "Poet in Residence" for CBC's Sounds
Like Canada. With five collections of published poetry and a poetry CD entitled
sweet taste of lightning, Sheri-D Wilson has been featured on CBC Canada
sand has written articles for the Globe & Mail. The San Francisco
Examiner describes her as "Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen
. . .[with] a chromosome of Patti Smith and a double-helix strand from Jim
Carroll".
Wendy Morton has been WestJet's "poet of the skies"
since 2002 when they sponsored a "Celebration of Literacy Tour"
across Canada. She lives in a 70 year old house west of Victoria on the
Strait of Juan de Fuca, where she grows an organic garden, watches the ravens
and thinks of her next poem. She has been an insurance investigator for 18
years, a poet for many more. Once she got stopped for speeding, pulled out a poem,
read it to the cop and didn't get a ticket.
Saturday Night Concert Featuring CBC Poetry Face Off Winners
2002-2004, 7:30 p.m.
Motion (Wendy Brathwaite) is an award-winning poet, radio show
host and author of her debut collection, Motion In Poetry. This Toronto-born
talent brings her movement from the stage to the page, vinly to the
airwaves. Motion's recordings include appearances on Urbnet Hip Hop Vol.
II, Breakin' Hingez, Wordlife:Tales of the Underground Griots, Rap Essentials
and the Blu Magazine Collection. "The Trilogy," her latest video
collaborating with Tara Chase and Apani B. Fly, has been rotated on Much Music
and Vibe, and is featured in this year's Angela Davis Women's Film
Festival. View www.motionlive.com.
I'm hounding
enemies who say I'm sick
Delinquent rebel-lion derelict
Some quick to convict
The Mother Mo – seriously mystical
Your material will pass
but not the residues of my blast
Blaaow! How'd you like it?
From Dangerous by
Motion
Mary T. McDonald won the CBC National Poetry Face-Off in 2003 and
writes poems to be posted in the transit buses of Edmonton. A retired school
teacher, she belongs to the Stroll of Poets in Edmonton. She has three
daughters and seven grand-children.
If my mother were a sound,
she'd be the scraping
of the porridge pot, leaving not
a pittance for the starving fly.
She's the rustle of the butter paper rubbed
clean and transparent.
By Mary T. McDonald
2004 Winner t.b.a.
Sunday Celebration, 2 p.m.
Philly Markowitz, host of CBC Radio's Roots & Wings, will
emcee this pay what you can celebration featuring performances by workshop
participants and live music by
Workshops: Saturday, June 26
SPOKEN WORD FOR TEENS:
This is not the place for monotones/dig up some words/get
in the zone/Motion and Mary T. can help you speak/so all the world will hear
your (heart) beat.
9 a.m. to noon with Mary T. McDonald
1 p.m. to 4 p.m. with Motion
SPOKEN WORD FOR ADULTS:
Workshop presenters Sheri-D and Wendy Morton spin words like that guy used to
spin plates on Ed Sullivan. Bring a poem you'd like to prepare for
presentation. They'll help you discover the most effective way for you to
perform your work using voice, words and body.
9 a.m. to noon with Wendy Morton
1 p.m. to 4 p.m. with Sheri-D Wilson
This event is organized by the Words Aloud Poetry
Collective, a group of eight Grey/Bruce poets, who have been organizing poetry
readings and events since 1999. Words Aloud acknowledges the support of the
Canada Council for the Arts, The League of Canadian Poets and Mosaic.
WORDS ALOUD
POETRY COOPERATIVE
is a group of eight poets dedicated to building a local audience for regional and nationally known writers.
Performers
for the Spoken Words Festival are chosen for their artistry, both on the page
and on the stage. The programming
balances accessibility with the excitement of new adventures. It always stops short (so far) of anything
that would get us tar and feathered.
The Words Aloud Spoken Word Festival
is being coordinated by Dawna Proudman and Liz Zetlin.
Words Aloud Members:
Anne Duke Judd (port Elgin). A poet and short story writer, Anne
is the owner of Brucedale Press, which specializes in the work of area writers.
Daniel Kolos (Priceville). A poet and short story writer and
Egyptologist, Daniel is a former CBC Radio writer and is the author of two
non-fiction books on Egypt as well as a poetry collection.
Judy Lowry (Williamsford). A poet and visual artists who works in
clay, painting and drawing, Judy has taught art and poetry to publish school
and college students.
Barbara MacKay (Artemesia). A poet and short story writer, Barbara
is a former on-air contributor to CBC Radio, and a non-fiction magazine writer.
She is president of Make Hay Communications & design, a marketing
communications firm.
Dawna Proudman (Durham). A poet, short story writer and editor,
Dawna is the facilitator of Just Write Workshops for adults and children.
Before moving to Grey County, she was Events Coordinator for Nathan Phillips
Square at Toronto City Hall (1990 to 1993).
Jon Radojkovic (Chesley). A poet and short story writer, Jon is a
journalist with three regional newspapers and an organizer of the Sing Out and
Song Bird Cafes.
David Sugarman (Durham). A poet and organizer of the Song Bird
Café, David is a businessman as well as a board member of Project Canoe, a
non-profit organization guiding youth through creative and natural outdoor
experiences.
Liz Zetlin (Markdale). A Stephen Leacock award-winning poet,
visual artist, editor, teacher and member of the League of Canadian Poets, Liz
is also on the Advisory Board of Wild Ginger, a local poetry imprint publishing
work by, for and about Grey/Bruce poets.
June
25-27, 2004
Words Aloud Spoken Word Festival
Details and changes will be posted directly at the Words Aloud
Spoken Word Festival web page.
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