By worldpoetry on January 28, 2010 - 3:42pm
World Poetry Celebrates Black History Month February 6,
2-pm. 811 Carnarvon Street, Centre of Integration for African Immigrants Celebration,
New Westminster.
An extravaganza of poetry, music and dance.
Hosts Ariadne Sawyer and Alejandro Mujica-Olea.
A welcome by Qayqayt First Nations Chief Rhonda Larrabee.
Readings by multicultural, multilingual poets
African Dance with Bemi Douglas
Free. All are invited.
Create a poem and read it!
Info 604-526-4729
By worldpoetry on September 8, 2009 - 10:25pm
Special Radio Celebration Program! A Tribute to John Keats!
World Poetry Café Celebrates the famous English Poet John Keats.
Sept. 15,
9:00 PST.
Co-op Radio CFRO, 102.7 FM
To listen on the internet, go to: www.coopradio.org or by satellite: STARCHOICE 845
You can also download the show by going to archives after the show.
The show will feature a biography of John Keats and some of his poems in English and Spanish.
Also featured: the Tribute to John Keats Poetry Contest winners selected by judges Carol Knepper, Dr. Lucia Gorea and Alejandro Mujica-Olea.
Additional selected poems by contestants will also be read.
This program is in partnership with TVA films for their film BRIGHT STAR which will be opening in major theatres across Canada on September 18th.
BRIGHT STAR, which is a historic love story about the life and times of the famous poet John Keats, will be premiering as a favorite at the Toronto International Film Festival in September. It stars Abbie Cornish and Ben Whishaw and is directed by Academy Award Winner Jane Campion. It is a very special film to the studio and the surrounding literature, poetry and spoken word community in many cities across Canada and throughout the US and England because of the impact Keats had on the literary world.
Bright Star
View the trailer now at: http://www.tribute.ca/movies/Bright+Star/19106
By worldpoetry on May 11, 2009 - 10:22pm
Subject: World Poetry Reads 11 am-12 pm May 16th at Dr. Sun Yat Sun Gardens. Come and enjoy this special day! Bring friends and family.
Importance: High
World Poetry reads on May 16, 2009: explorASIAN Friends & Family Day explorASIAN celebrates Asian Heritage Month with a day of family friendly activities and international arts & craft making demonstrations. This community event includes live music concerts, dance performances, and interactive sessions on Asian arts and crafts. Meet some of the local Asian Canadian arts, culture, and community groups. Admission to the Garden is by donation. All proceeds go to Dr. Sun Yat Sen Classical Chinese Garden. Join us for a day of fun, laughter, and amazement!
World Poetry Featured Poets read 11 am-12 pm.
· Addena Sumter Freitag
· Alan Hill
· Kagan Goh
· Robin Susanto
· Bong Ja Ahn
· World Poetry Hosts: Ariadne Sawyer and Alejandro Mujica-Olea.
Bring your family and friends!
Time: 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Venue: Dr. Sun Yat Sen Classical Chinese Garden
Getting to the Garden
By worldpoetry on May 4, 2009 - 9:31pm
World Poetry Celebration Series!
Hosted by Ariadne Sawyer and Alejandro Mujica-Olea.
World Poetry, ExplorASIAN 6th Extravaganza! May 25, Monday. 7-9 pm
Exhibition Hall, The Roundhouse, 181 Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver.
Book launch, music, dance and poetry! Free.
World Poetry Celebrates First Nations in Vancouver! June 11, 10:30-12:00 pm Thursday, Native Education Centre, 285 East 5th Ave, Vancouver Poetry by students, longhouse setting, music, art and dance. Free.
World Poetry Celebrates First Nations in Richmond BC! June 25, 7-9 pm.
Richmond City Hall, Council Chambers , 6911 No. 3 Road.
MC Joanne Arnott . Poetry by local First Nations groups, music and dance. Light refreshments.
World Poetry Celebration! July 18, 1:30 pm -5:pm.Alliance for Arts and Culture, 938 Howe Street, poetry reading, music, and discussions. Light refreshments. Donations.
World Poetry Celebrates 150 Years of New Westminster Extravaganza! August 12th, 2:00 pm-7:30 pm, Wednesday, Centennial Lodge, Queen’s Park, New Westminster. Book launch, poetry, music, community groups, and theatre.
Free.
World Poetry Celebrates the 802nd Birthday of Rumi! September 28, 7-9 pm
Vancouver Public Library, 350 West Georgia St, Vancouver, Alice MacKaye Room. Music, dance, poetry, life history. Free.
September WOTS.
By worldpoetry on May 2, 2009 - 8:06pm
World Poetry Café Radio Show Presents the Featured musician of the month of May: Brian Gross!
Listen to Brian on CFRO 102.7 FM or on the internet at www.coopradio.org on Tuesday night from 9-1- pm PST.
In addition to being a solo musician and singer, Brian Gross is a teacher, published poet, textbook author, exhibited visual artist, playwright and multimedia designer. His band, Apocrypho, is signed to ADSR Musicwerks in Seattle. His three textbooks on media studies are published by Focal Press. His arts leadership, creative programs for homeless and at-risk youth, plays and performance pieces, including music he has composed for various choreographers, have all been critically-acclaimed and covered by the Globe & Mail, Vancouver Sun, Los Angeles Times, L.A. Weekly and other publications. More information can be found on his website: www.briangross.ca
IF you want to be a featured musician on the radio show, contact Ariadne at ariadnes@uniserve.com
By worldpoetry on April 30, 2009 - 11:40pm
Help needed!
The World Poetry Cafe Radio show is a live weekly show, Tuesday nights from 9-10 pm PST on Co-op Radio 102.7 FM or internet www.coopradio.org ( a commercial free radio station) located in Vancouver BC. Canada. Hosts Ariadne Sawyer and Alejandro Mujica-Olea and the technician Medhi are all volunteers. We have to pay $700 per year to Co-op Radio to keep our show on the air. The show includes a 20 minute featured guest spot in person or by phone interview, a e-poem section where we read your e-poems in two languages and Creativity Rocks where you questions are answered by Ariadne Sawyer, a Creative Consultant and Poetic News. We also have a featured musician each month where four songs are played.
Twice a year, the radio has a fundraiser and call for membership. Please help keep our show on the air and give a voice to multicultural, multilingual, poets, writers and musicians.
Become a member or make a donation to our radio show. Reciepts for amounts over $30 can be mailed out to you.
If you put in the name of the World Poetry Cafe, the money will be earmarked to our account and you will help keep our show on the air.
For more info, or if you want an e-poem read on the air or an inteview, or a featured musicians spot, contact Ariadne at ariadnes@uniserve.com and please support our show-become a member!
By worldpoetry on April 29, 2009 - 7:50pm
1st World Poetry Call for “The Essence of Light” theme.
World Poetry would like submissions for our interactive display at the Roundhouse Community Centre ( www.roundhouse.ca) Go to virtual tours on their site and check out Exhibition Hall) The display for the Essence of Light will be on from May 11-25th. We will have World Poetry volunteers at the Create a Poem Table to help the public write a poem on the theme.
Our partners: We are honoured to be celebrating our 6th annual World Poetry- ExplorASIAN anniversary with our new partners and the curators and artists of the special exhibit NUR: LIGHT-The Essence: and our generous hosts the Round House.
Theme: the exhibit: NŪR: LIGHT – The Essence
Poems to be submitted: One page poem in English or one poem in English and another language.
Font: New Romans, size 12.
Please put your name, city and country plus © sign at the bottom.
Poets from around the world are welcome.
This is a one time copyright only.
Deadline: May 11th, 2009.
You will be notified if your poem is accepted. Selected poems will be read on the World Poetry Café Radio Show with your and published in the World Poetry Electronic Newsletter with your written permission.
Please send your poems to: Ariadne Sawyer, World Poetry co-founder and co-host at: ariadnes@uniserve.com
By worldpoetry on February 6, 2009 - 2:29pm
Listen to the World Poetry Cafe Radio Show!
Hosts: Ariadne Sawyer and guest host Dr. Diego Bastianutti.
Tuesday, Feb. 10, 9-10 pm PST.on CFRO 102.7 FM or on the net: www.coopradio.org and follow the links to the World POetry Cafe.
Hilary Peach is an audio poet, recording artist, festival director, arts activist, and producer. She has performed at events that include the Vancouver International Folk Music Festival, Montreal’s Voix d’Ameriques, and the Poetry International Festival in Rotterdam. Her debut recording was an exquisite audiophile CD, Poems Only Dogs Can Hear (2003), in which surreal vignettes were suspended inside a matrix of music. In 2006 she toured across Canada with her fusion trio performing a folk opera called Suitcase Local, which has just been released as a CD of the same name (2009). This spoken-word and music fusion is a spooky retelling of some of Peach’s experiences as a Canadian working as a high-pressure welder in the construction and maintenance of power plants south of the border. Publications include 10 Flowered Cactus (1996), Love is a Small Town (2001), and inclusions in various anthologies and magazines. Hilary Peach is the founder and Artistic Director of the Poetry Gabriola Festival on Gabriola Island, BC.
By worldpoetry on February 5, 2009 - 11:38pm
El poeta chileno canadiense Alejandro Mujica Olea, tendrá un recital para los chilenos residentes de Sao Paulo, Brasil. Animara el acto el poeta Benito Alvarez Fonseca y abrirá el evento la poetisa chilena brasileira Mary Garrido.
Domingo 8 de Febrero 2009 a las 6:00 PM
Localizado en el Conjunto Residencial Interlagos, Barrió Jardín Umuarama
San Paulo, Brasil.
El 24 de Enero dio una lectura el poeta Mujica, en Villarrica, Chile, donde fue muy aplaudido y felicitado.
El tercer concierto poeto a realizarse en Brasilia, Brasil fue suspendido.
The Chilean Canadian poet World Poetry Founder and host Alejandro Mujica Olea, has an upcoming recital for the Chilean residents of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Animating the act is the poet Benito Alvarez Fonseca and opening the event is the Chilean Brazilian poet, Mary Garrido.
Sunday, February 8th at 6 :00 pm, Joined Residences, Barrio Jardin Umuarama, San Paulo, Brazil.
On January 24, the poet Mujica read in Villarrica, Chile where he was greatly applauded and praised.
The third reading in Brazilia, Brazil has been suspended due to travel problems.
By worldpoetry on February 2, 2009 - 12:43am
A special invitation for you!
The World Poetry Reading Series
And the Vancouver Public Library
Eighth Anniversary Gala Celebration!
February 27, 7:00 PM, 2009
At the Vancouver Public Library,
(our gracious hosts and supporters)
Alma Van Dusen and Peter Kaye rooms
350 West Georgia Street.
250 W. Georgia,
Vancouver, BC
Featuring:
Greetings from the library
Greetings from the City of Vancouver
World Poetry Co-founders and hosts:
Ariadne Sawyer & Alejandro Mujica-Olea
Blessings: Vera Manuel, First Nations
Douglas Beacon, United Church
World Poetry Life Time Achievement Awards:
Ms. Bong Ja Ahn
Professor Diego Bastianutti
Presenters:
Mr. Tong Mo Suh,
Consulate General of South Korea
Dr. Alberta Lai, Director of the Italian Cultural Institute;
cultural office of the Consulate General in Vancouver
African Canadian Heritage Month Special Tribute.
Addena Sumter Freitag
Tanya Evanson
World Poetry Awards:
Volunteer of the year: Jacqueline Maire
World Poetry Radio Show: Guest host Lucia Gorea
Musicians of Excellence: Pancho and Sal
Artist of Excellence: Peter Lojewski
The World Poetry Committee woven word tapestry poem:
The Many Faces of Love
A living wall of poetry from Canada and around the world.
Music by Pancho and Sal
