Diego Bastianutti
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 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
By worldpoetry on January 23, 2009 - 11:43am
World Poet Lifetime Achievement Award winner and 96 years young this month;
Jan Furst is a retired naval architect and
marine engineer living on Bowen Island,
British Columbia.
He will be calling from Bowen Island for a on air interview.
Show starts at 9 PM PST on CFRO 102.7 FM or on the internet at www.coopradio.org, follow the links to The World Poetry Cafe. Hosts are Ariadne Sawyer and guest host Diego Bastianutti.
Born in Oslo and educated
In Danzig (Now Gdansk) Jan worked as a
shipyard manager for many years, later as
consultant to marine industries and offshore
oil in Canada, Indonesia, The U.S.A and
the Bahamas. He was a commissioner on
the Royal Commission on the Ocean Ranger
Disaster and now volunteers for several youth
organizations in Greater Vancouver.
He has an honorary doctorate from
Memorial University of Newfoundland.
He published “Kajakksport og Kajakkbygging”
(Oslo 1931), a treatise on the construction and
use of kayaks. He has a lifelong interest in old
Norse sagas and pre-Columbian North
American history and culture.
In yr. 2000, he published the book:” Thorfinn Thorhallson’s
Saga”,a semi historical novel that suggests a solution to the
Mystery of the pre Columbian colony on Greenland, that
Disappeared in the 14th.century without a trace.
By worldpoetry on January 19, 2009 - 2:04am
Tune in and hear Ibrahim Honjo at 9 Pm PST on 102.7 FM or web: www.coopradio.org and follow the links to the World Poetry Cafe.
Ibrahim Honjo was born in Yugoslavia. He is a sculptor, painter, poet-writer and photographer. In Yugoslavia, Honjo was an economist, journalist, editor-in- chief, publisher. He arrived in Canada, and in Vancouver 1995. He is author of nine poetry books. Last two collection of poems "Do Not Write This Down"(2006) and Roots In The Stone" (2 00 8) are published in English and Serbo-Croatian language.He was featured in many magazines, newspapers and radio stations in Yugoslavia and Canada, and in several blogs on the Internet. He has received several prizes for his poetry. Honjo's poetry is translated in Korean, Slovenian and German language. He is member of several poetry groups include World Poetry reading series. He is founder and host of Poetry Planet group.
His web-site: www.freewebs.com/honjo
Also featured a special e-poem on Love by Mohit Gvalani from Mumbai, India. This poem will be on display at The Many Faces of Love Display, Feb.20-27 at the Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
By worldpoetry on December 2, 2008 - 5:55pm
World Poet Diego Bastianutti is asking for help!
His book has sold out at all the local stores in Vancouver and many people are trying to buy it.
They are phoning and e-mailing since his recent interview on North by Northwest on CBC Radio One.
He says: "Help! Anyone wishing to buy my book (Per un pugno di terra/For a Fistful of Soil) can contact me directly at my e-mail (diegob@shaw.ca), or by calling me at (604) 454-9911. The book
is $25.00 plus $3.00 mailing. Thank you."
By worldpoetry on April 7, 2008 - 11:03pm
Da: Ariadne Sawyer [mailto:ariadnes@uniserve.com]
Inviato: lunedì 7 aprile 2008 6.01
A: ariadnes@uniserve.com
Oggetto: World Poet Diego Bastianutti to receive prestigious 2008 International Literary Prize May 25th in Trieste, Italy!
Priorità: Alta
World Poetry guest co-host and radio co-host Diego Bastianutti will receive the prestigious 2008 International Literary Prize May 25th in Trieste, Italy!
World Poet Diego Bastianutti just received a telegram from Italy, informing him that his book For a Fistful of Soil/ Per un pugno di terra (submitted without his immediate knowledge), has been selected by an international jury of writers as the winner of the 2008 International Literary Prize Umberto Saba, Trieste. There were other prizes awarded in separate sections for published "Novels" and for "Short Stories", and other sections for unpublished works of the same category.
Quite apart from the prize money itself, the Committee has offered to pay for his round-trip flight to Trieste, Italy, plus accommodations. The ceremony will take place on May 25.
He is clearly honoured by this prestigious international recognition, and wishes to share to share his joy with you all.
Diego will also be receiving the World Poetry Ambassador’s medallion for Italy.
By worldpoetry on October 14, 2007 - 10:12am
A Life Celebration of Dorothy Livesay,
well known Canadian Poet.
October 27 at 7:00 pm at the Alliance for Arts
and Culture, 938 Howe St. with host Ariadne Sawyer
and guest host Diego Bastianutti.
Featured presenter: Bernice Lever
Spirit Bearers: Bonnie Nish and Sita Carboni.
Readers: Anita Aguirre Nieveras, Bonnie Nish
Sita Carboni, Warren Stevenson, Victoria Pascha,
Kyle Christensson, Peter Lojewski and Rosario Arias Naranjo.
15 minute open mike for poems about or by Dorothy Livesay.
Music by Mike Peacock.
Our Thanks to the Canadian Authors Association for making this event possible.
Please come out and support this wonderful Canadian Poet.
Info: 604-526-4729
ariadnes@uniserve.com
By worldpoetry on September 14, 2007 - 9:43am
Hello,
We are at Word on the Street, thanks to Steve Duncan!
Please post and pass on.
Thank you very much.
Ariadne
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World Poetry at WOTS!
Sept. 30, 1-2 pm at the Poet’s Corner,
Vancouver Public Library,
350 West Georgia.
Hosts: Ariadne Sawyer and guest host Diego Bastianutti. Alejandro Mujica-Olea will be in Brazil and Chile.
Featured poets:
Bernice Lever
Ola Tawose
Aly Sunderji
Guest: Addena Sumter-Freitag.
Free
Info: 604-526-4729 (Ariadne Sawyer)
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