Join your hosts Ariadne Sawyer and Alejandro Mujica-Olea for a speacial show with Poet SANDRA WASERMAN Literary Agent for film and television projects and poet.FOR BOSS MANAGEMENT, March 9th at 9 PM, PST on The World Poetry Cafe Radio Show, CFRO 102.7 FM
Sandra was born in Montreal, grew up in Ottawa and lived in Toronto, Calgary and now resides in Vancouver.
She is hard working Capricorn Fire Dog who works diligently and is passionate about helping those on her roster reach their full potential.
Her background in the industry spans decades. In the early years she wrote radio programs and had three shows from entertainment to a call in talk show, and Editorials for CBC.
She produced a magazine format show called “It’s a New Age and a New You” which she wrote and co-hosted. She was involved in documentary films. She also gave the floor boards a workout in Theatre. Working behind the scenes she took jobs as a Production Assistant, she set up a company doing Set Design for Photography and Film, as well as Location Scouting and Security.
For three years running she was called in to Judge the ACTRA Awards. Her good eye and sharp intuition help her recognize talent quickly and she is always interested in providing advice from her many years of experience in the industry.
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
• September 28 Rumi! World Poetry and the Vancouver Public Library proudly present the 802nd Birthday and Life Celebration of Rumi, September 28, 6:30-8:30 pm) Vancouver Public Library, Alice MacKaye Room. We are honoured to welcome noted Rumi scholar Dr. Mesh Meshgini to do the biography of Rumi and a commentary on selected works of Rumi. Poems of Rumi will be read by World Poets in different languages. Music, dance and a short talk on turning by Tanya Evanson will be included. Come celebrate Rumi!, Admission free. A Rumi poster available by e-mail at ariadnes@uniserve.com
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.
World Poetry Reading Series
World Poetry Café Radio Show.
Volunteer positions open.
Contact ariadnes@uniserve.com
1-604-526-4729
Position 1:
Pod caster for World Poetry Café Radio Show.
World Poetry Cafe Radio Show needs someone to create a podcast and maintain it. Help is available to get it started.
If you are interested, please send a message to ariadnes@uniserve.com and we will contact you. Local and international volunteers could apply.
Position 2:
PR Assistant for World Poetry Media.
You would work as an assistant to Ariadne Sawyer, sending out information to TV, print and other media. I am really overloaded and need HELP!
Local and international volunteers could apply.
Position 3:
World Poetry Archivist.
You would gather photos, and use existing boxes of World Poetry records to create photo albums and other means of preserving World Poetry’s History.
Vancouver or lower mainland person needed for this position.
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.
Ariadne Sawyer and Alejandro Mujica-Olea won an award for their World Poetry Café Radio show on December 8th!
Producers and hosts Sawyer and Mujica were invited to a Gala dinner and given two large certificates honouring their work on the radio show by Project Cultural South Canada and the Latin Business Network.
Alejandro said “After eight years of working on the radio show, it was great to receive an award for all our work on the show.!”
The weekly World Poetry Café Radio Show airs every Tuesday night at 9 pm PST on Coop Radio, 102 fm. To listen on the Internet: go to www.coopradio.org
and follow the links to The World Poetry Café. The radio show features poet, an e-poem section and the popular Creativity Rocks program as well as a featured Canadian musician for the month.
Featured radio show guest well known actor and producer Anthony Herrera of the Poetry Theatre Project to be interviewed!
On October 7, from 9:10-9:30 pm, PST, The World Poetry Café with your hosts Ariadne Sawyer and Alejandro Mujica-Olea proudly present the well known actor and producer Anthony Herrera of the Poetry Theatre Project at www.poetrytheatre.org .
In a special an on air interview from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Anthony will be talking about his life and his one man show. He says: “Willie Nelson gave me the idea to put my one man show -- performing poetry -- on the web). The website gives poetry to everyone to inspire, to enjoy and to learn.” *
The statement on the website says:
“Our mission is to continue the oral tradition utilizing modern technology. Poetry Theatre presents actors performing their favorite poems, a glossary of terms and a biography of the poet. Its website gives poetry to everyone to inspire, to enjoy and to learn.”
If you want to listen to Anthony live on the internet, go to www.coopradio.org and follow the links to The World Poetry Café at 9:10 PST. Shows are also archived for three months.
Lots of events happening…
1. Breaking News! World Poetry Lifetime Achievement Award Winners for 2009! We proudly present An Bong Ja and Diego Bastianutti. They received the most nominations. We want to congratulate them on being WP winners for 2009.
2. September 25th at 7:30 pm World Poetry New Westminster joins the Backroom Theatre Club and the Arts Council of New Westminster for a celebration of the UN Peace Day with a Performing Arts and Peace Project with poetry, readings, documentaries and one act plays at the Heritage Grill, 477 Columbia Street in New Westminster. A call for peace poems has been sent out and selected poems will be on display at the Backroom Theatre Club September 25-28 and then at the Arts Council Gallery September 29-October 28. Also selected poems may be read on the World Poetry Café Radio Show and possibly sent to the peace tower in Iceland.
Please send your peace poems to ariadnes@uniserve.com or info@hmuellerdesign.com
3. Back to work! The World Poetry Committee will be having their first meeting after a long summer, September 27 at 1:15 pm at the Alliance for the Arts. And Culture, Suite 100, 938 Howe Street. We are honoured to have Brain Campbell from the Seriously Free Speech Committee talking about his group. He is a friend of Janice Douglas and is also a former VPL Program director.
The World Poetry Café Radio Show proudly presents a special phone interview with Dr. Stephan Gill, July 1st on CFRO 102.7 FM from 9:10 pm to 9:40 pm PST.
with your hosts Ariadne Sawyer, MA and Alejandro Mujica-Olea.
For our radio listener’s world wide:
1. Go to www.coopradio.org and follow the links to the World Poetry Café, Tuesdays at (pm PST)
2. Three days after the interview the show can be accessed by going to archives. You can also listen to Starchoice Satellite 845
3. Many of our listeners from 19 countries around the world record the show live and listen to it afterward.
Featured Poet
Background information for featured guest:
Poet Laureate of Ansted University, Stephen Gill is an expressive voice of Canada, India and Pakistan. He believes strongly in a democratically elected world government and peace through peaceful means. Global peace and social concerns are the main areas of his interest.
