funding
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 samanthaorwell on March 24, 2008 - 2:11am
http://thevancouvermanifesto.blogspot.com/2008/03/are-kids-getting-dumbe...
After David Berner became a fan of my "distinct point of view" (http://thebernermonologues.blogspot.com/2008/03/attentione-amici.html) I have received some online attacks (along with online support) on my comments.
Always a good sign that I'm doing a good job on this blog.
But alas,...
By samanthaorwell on March 22, 2008 - 3:29pm
READ IN FULL HERE:
http://thevancouvermanifesto.blogspot.com/2008/03/front-page-news-points...
http://thevancouvermanifesto.blogspot.com/2008/03/front-page-news-points...
http://thevancouvermanifesto.blogspot.com/2008/03/front-page-news-points...
The front page of The Vancouver Sun posted a story entitled, “The cost of homelessness”. (Note that the online equivalent reads, “The high cost of homelessness”- which was published earlier on Friday, March 21, 2008- the word "high" a bit much for the front page?).
The Vancouver Sun, Saturday, March 22, 2008.
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=11fdf74c-9130-41b3...
"Every homeless person costs system $55,000, an amount that could buy supported
housing for each of them…annual total of $644.3 million in health,
corrections and social services spending for all the homeless in B.C."
By samanthaorwell on February 9, 2008 - 7:11pm
Read whole post here--->>> http://thevancouvermanifesto.blogspot.com/2008/02/pulling-fire-alarm-stu...
I received this on Feb. 5/2008.
Broadcast E-mail to All UBC Vancouver Students, Faculty and Staff from President Stephen J. Toope:
For the second time in a week, our Vancouver campus community has received a threatening message.In this second case, an unspecific threat has been made for Wednesday. The threat does not specify a time, a location within the UBC Point Grey campus or the method of doing harm.We must take such threats seriously, and we are working closely with senior RCMP personnel to address this new threat.What can we all do when faced with such a threat? We are taking the advice of the RCMP to treat the non-specific nature of the threat with a higher level of community vigilance but to otherwise continue our normal activities.However, because of the specific mention of the Biosciences building in the threatening message received last week, and the traumatic experience of the occupants who endured a full lockdown of the building at that time, classes will be cancelled tomorrow (Wednesday) in the Biosciences Building.
For details, see the RCMP news release at: www.rcmp-bcmedia.caAnd please continue to look at www.ubc.ca for the latest information.
