Edmonton Poetry Festival 2012

Listen up all you E-Town poets, wordsmiths, slammers, Ravers, Strollers, Olive-ers, sundry ne’er-do-wellers, and anyone with a hankering to get your words off the page. Event signups for the Edmonton Poetry Festival 2012 Edition are officially open.

During The Edmonton Poetry Festival (April 22 to April 29), some events are open to all who wish to participate. 

Signup Deadline is April 8, 2012.  You can sign up for events here.

Which events can you sign up for? Well, check the signup page above for complete details, but here’s the skinny:

• Blinks in the Heart · Blink Poetry began in Edmonton and has spread around the world. Word has it that European blink poetry is just like ours, only a little dirtier. Want to see the real McCoy? Sign up to read!
• Breathe – Zen Poetry · Ratchet your busy life down a notch with this Zen-inspired reading. Bring gentle words, strong tea, a clear mind and, maybe, a small amount of truth.
• The Cafe Readings · Poetry and coffee go together like heartbreak and airports. Why not indulge your penchant for drama and sign up to read a poem or two on a Sunday afternoon. 
• Stroll Workshop · Ah, the mystery event. Those sneaky Strollers. If history is any indication, this should be a great little workshop. Last year John Leppard delivered a great one on improving your poetic performance. This year? Let’s find out.

Poets, be fearless. Care immensely about what you put into the world. We need you to be mighty. Don’t wait. The universe won’t.

Precarious Theorizing: Dr. Sharon Rosenberg

July 13-15, University of Alberta

Embracing Sharon’s life, work and relationships, we invite all who have found inspiration in her writing, teaching or living to a three-day conversation in her memory.

Please write and tell us briefly how you would situate your own writing, thinking, teaching or living in relation to the notion of precarious theorizing. 

How do her early provocations resonate with your own work? 

How might you work with her initial thinking further through your own writing, thinking, teaching or living?

Informal proposals or queries should be sent to Precarious Theorizing by February 15. 

Sharon’s call to develop a mode of precarious theorizing has implications well beyond the specific academic study of traumatic ignorance.

The relations between people, ideas, affects were what held her interest. It is this critical and passionate conversation which we invite you to attend to with careful, thoughtful, generous relationally.

Participate in three themed conversations:

Precarious theorizing in relation to 

• 1. writing and thinking

• 2. teaching and pedagogy

• 3. living (on)

Pat Grayston at Evergreen Artisan Market

E.A. Rawlinson Centre for the Arts, Prince Albert

November 12 at 11:00 am to November 13 at 5:00 pm

Come to see the finest home-crafted art works, eat decadent food from new ground cafe, Persian Bistro and Yellow Fender Catering Company, take part in children's art education, listen to local musicians, including Constant Reminder, and buy all your Christmas Gifts!

Pat Grayston from Shellbrook is one of the artists who will be at the Evergreen Artisan Market!

Cathleen Lesperance will be performing on November 12 at 3:00 pm. 

She'll also be there all day with Gypsy As I Go CD's, original photographs and handmade jewellery. Just look for the table with the large tree branch.

Stop by to say hello, gaze at her photos (they make great gifts for that fridge magnet collector) or sit for a minute and knit an 8x8 inch square. 

All squares will be dropped off at Micheal's craft store.

In the month of November, blankets will be going to homeless within the community.

Memorial Park Library: Literary Vaudeville

2nd Annual Literary Vaudeville 

Thursday, November 3 · 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

The Memorial Park Library, 1221 2nd Street SW Calgary

LITERARY VAUDEVILLE - LOUD IN THE LIBRARY

Unique local voices Rona Altrows, Rita Bozi, Ken Cameron, Tyler Perry and Rea Tarvydas present readings of poetry, plays, short stories and flash fiction.

Hosted by: Ken Cameron

Co-Produced by: Rita Bozi and The Calgary Public Library

This is a free event so please RSVP to Rita Bozi as space is limited.

We packed the house last year!

The Talent:

After the release of Key In Lock, Rona Altrows's most recent collection of short stories, one reviewer said, "Rona Altrows is the first author since Chabon who repays a second read. Damn, she's good." Her previous book, A Run On Hose, won the City of Calgary 

W.O. Mitchell Book Prize.

Rita Bozi is co-author of the Fringe hit play 52 Pick Up performed in 5 countries by over 

15 theatre companies. Her travel essays have been published in FFWD Weekly. She is currently working on a collection of short stories called Hungry, High and Hammered. 

She is also writing Uprising, a novel chronicling her father’s escape from Hungary during the 1956 Revolution.

Ken Cameron's hit play Harvest was recently published in Harvest and Other Plays. 

Bob Clark of the Calgary Herald called Harvest, “comic gold". His newest project commissioned by the Blyth Festival is a musical about farming, cars and sleeping around.

Tyler Perry is a junior high teacher whose first book of poetry, Lessons in Falling, was called “masterful” by FFWD Weekly. “Perry doesn’t preach or pontificate, but rather reminds readers of a place they’ve been before, perhaps forgotten, but that nonetheless affects them in profound and often unconscious ways.”

Rea Tarvydas is a writer who has just completed her first collection of interconnected short stories called The Globe, two of which have been published in The New Quarterly and The Fiddlehead. 

Halloween Bash in Prince Albert

Saturday, October 29 at 9:00 pm to 2:00 am

Prince Albert Brewing Co.

Costume party at the Prince Albert brewing Co.!! 

Prizes for best costume for male and female and couple! 

Customers will also vote for the best dressed employee! 

DJ starts at 10 ends at 2!! 

Come out for the best party in PA! 

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October 30 we will be hosting FEAR FACTOR!! 

Come test your skills at the bar! 

Hosted by dustan van dale!! 

9:00 -11:00 pm!!  DJ to follow until 2 am!! 

Come out for Prince Albert's 1st annual fear factor competition!!