World Poetry Fall News!
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.
4. September 27, from 3-40 pm. World Poetry Workshop Series with Professor Diego Bastianutti and Bernice Lever begin the first of three workshops on at the Alliance for Arts and Culture, Workshop One: Poetic Imagery. Please register and send you check in. We need to pay our workshop leaders.
5. Word on the Street. Date: September 28, Time: 1-2 pm World Poetry is featured once again. This is a great honour for us. Hosts: Ariadne Sawyer and Alejandro Mujica-Olea Featured poets: Adeline da Poet, Lucia Gorea, Seann Traviller and Peter Lojewski. Place: The Poets Corner, VPL, Central Branch.
6. September 29, at 7:30 pm The World Poetry Reading Series at the Vancouver Public Library proudly presents: Ashok Bhargava, Bernice Lever, Diego Bastianutti and Douglas Bacon with well known musician David Campbell. Please come out and support these amazing poets!
7. October 27.The World Poetry Reading Series at the Vancouver Public Library proudly presents Poet/musician on tour: Taylor Leedahl and Megan Lane, Roger Blenman, Dilia Alvarado and musician Alfonso Valle.
8. November 24, The Life Celebration of Tagore. Guest hosts: An Bong Ja and Ashok Bhargava. Poetry, music and dance to celebrate this great Nobel Prize winning poet. The Consul of India and The Korean Consul will be participating. November 3-24, there will be a display of Tagore and his work at the Vancouver Public Library in the Literature section.
9. The Starbucks or Eco Bean Project. This project is still on and Eco Beans is interested as well. Eco Beans is local, and sell only organic free trade coffee with no carbon footprints. The first mug series would have the theme of Welcome the world for the 2010 games. Brief poems of welcome in English and another language are needed as samples to show them.
Three to four short lines are suggested. If you want to participate, please let me know.
10. The World Poetry Electronic Newsletter is coming back in September.
11. Neruda on the Coast (The Pablo Neruda Festival) July 11, 2009. This possible festival is already being talked about so I thought I would mention it as well. It would be held in Gibsons, BC and World Poetry has submitted an agenda. There is a lot of excitement about this festival and fans of Neruda will be relieved that the great poet Neruda is being celebrated once again.
will let you know more about it in the future. Organizer Anna Hawthorne has been very helpful and we will be working closely with her and the various writers and other groups up there.
11. Personal News: I want to tell all our World Poets and supporters in BC, Canada and the World how much I have enjoyed working with you all. I have done my best to advance World Poetry, give us a good reputation and help the poets and creative people in the community. You are such wonderful people.
I have spent many volunteer hours each week often late at night doing e-mails, planning, doing outreach, working on the certificates, doing pr. reading poems, working on and for the radio show-the list goes on. Those of you that are hosts know that the work never stops.
I need to tell you that my therapeutic practice is growing and my workshop load and performance work is also increasing. I am doing E-consulting and phone consulting also. In addition, I need to finish my novel and have a life.
You may wonder where all this is going…I am not quitting World Poetry but I do need to cut down on some of the work that I do. I will be taking off the last Tuesday of the month on the radio. Thanks to Alejandro for taking over the last Tuesday.
I need help in the following areas:
• Proof reading the newsletter.
• Outreach for newsletter.
• Expanding our pr.
• Serving on the World Poetry Committee.
• Event management.
• Phone call reminders for events.
If you have the time to help in some of these areas, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Ariadne Sawyer, MA World Poetry Creative director.