The flywheel EXPERIMENT! - poetry & prose re-mixed

filling Station magazine presents:

The June flywheel EXPERIMENT!

readings by:

Michael Boyce
Samuel Garrigo Meza
Mark Hopkins
William Neil Scott

… hosted by ryan fitzpatrick in an evening of literary musical chair madness!

Thursday, June 8 – 7:00 pm
McNally Robinson – 120 8th Ave SW

The insanity returns: join four local writers for the 5th bi-annual flywheel Experiment, in which they read not their own work – but each other’s! Past experiments have seen Jill Hartman’s poetry dissected into jazz improvisation and Christian Bök’s poems read to an orchestra of toy instruments. Who knows what will happen with this next mix of poets and prose writers?

It’s unpredictable. It’s wild. It’s the flywheel Experiment. Don’t miss out.

CONTACT: Mark Hopkins
710.0093 – mark.c.hopkins@gmail.com

filling Station magazine’s flywheel reading series takes place on the 2nd Thursday of every month at McNally Robinson Booksellers.

Call for Submissions for W Magazine

Call for Submissions for the Kootenay School of Writing's W Magazine
W12: The All Music Issue

We are looking for submissions for the All Music issue of W. The focus of the issue is writing that engages with music/musical elements as a mode of composition or (by extension from printed text) performance. Submissions should address writing that has close ties to music (for example: John Cage, Harryette Mullen, Nathaniel Mackey, Catriona Strang/Francois Houle), or otherwise engage with music within their compositional structures. All types of writing will be considered, including poetics essays and critical writing. We will also accept recordings of performances, scores, etc.

Please direct your submissions to the editors of W12. Send your submissions via email; if you would like to submit them via CD please contact the editors before submitting. (Approximate) Deadline: October 01, 2006.

W12 Editors:
Jonathon Wilcke (jcwilcke@yahoo.ca)
Nikki Reimer (nikki_intheleaves@hotmail.com)

About W magazine:

W magazine, formerly Writing magazine, went online with Issue 6 (Spring 2003). W is published twice yearly in .pdf format on the Kootenay School of Writing website, , and is downloadable free of charge. In the past, W magazine has published authors such as Steve McCaffery, Lisa Robertson, Kim Duff, Leslie Scalapino, Kevin Davies, and P. Inman.

About the Kootenay School of Writing:

A registered, non-profit association and writer-run center, The Kootenay School of Writing (KSW) has been located in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver since its inception in 1984. KSW is not a school in the usual sense of the word. The KSW defines itself as a writer-run centre, analogous to the artist-run canters that have been integral to the development and dissemination of contemporary art practices for the past several decades. Like an artist-run centre, KSW provides a public venue for innovative creative work and as such helps to generate and sustain grassroots, alternative literary communities and to provide significant audience development for writers within those communities. KSW activities include: readings, talks, book and magazine launches, seminars and panels, writer-in-residence programs, reading groups, workshops and multimedia performances.

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a call for women artists

Hey all, spread the word to the places that matter...


Description

The Stellar Femme Fest 2006 is now accepting submissions. The Stellar Femme
Fest is an almost-annual, multi-disciplinary festival celebrating women in
the arts. This year the festival will take place over the course of two
days, at Motel (EPCOR center) and at a community hall (TBA).
Submissions from artists of all disciplines are welcome. Interest in the
objectives of the festival is essential. Projects that show a consideration
for community (such as collaborative or interactive art pieces) will be
given preference.
The festival proceeds will go to support the establishment of a Campus
Women`s Resource Center at the University of Calgary. All artists will be
given the option of donating their pay, in part or in full, to the center.

Objectives

The Stellar Femme Fest seeks to make involvement in the arts more positive for women by:

- strengthening and broadening the female artistic community

- Celebrating female involvement in the arts

- Increasing exposure to and knowledge of female artists in the community

- Increasing honest respect for female artists, their artwork, and femininity in the arts

Please visit www.stellarfemmefest.ca or email the contact listed for more information.

How to Apply

please include all of the following (A through D):

part A:

A comprehensive description of your project, including all of the following:

-content
-category\categories (visual art, music, film, performance, spoken word, experimental)

-Aims, themes, or intentions of your project
-a list of performers/artists involved and a brief explanation of their involvement
-running time (if applicable)
-a list of equipment you will be bringing
-a list of additional equipment you will require
-venue or sound requirements
-any additional requirements

part B:
A written explanation of your interest in the Stellar Femme Fest, 100-200 words in length.


part C:
Support material for your proposed project.

Please choose the category which will best represent you, and submit into that category only. Do not send originals. If you would like your support material to be returned, you must include a self addressed stamped envelope with your application.

visual:
- 5-7 clearly labeled pieces of your work as: digital copies (PC format), slides, or photocopies. (do not send originals)
-a brief written explanation of the pieces you are including.

spoken word or poetry:
- 3-5 pieces of your written work as digital copies (PC format) or photocopies OR
- video or audio recording (as DVD, CD, cassette tape, VHS, or PC compatible digital copy) of you reading/performing your work, no more than 10 minutes in length.

film or video art:
- a sample of your work in VHS, DVD, or digital (PC compatible) format, no more than 10 minutes in length.

-a synopsis of the story (if a full length film or short) OR an explanation of the contents (if video art)

music or sound art:
- a sample of your work on CD, DVD, VHS, cassette tape, or digital copy (PC compatible), no more than 10 minutes in length.
-a brief explanation of your support material

performance art or theater:
- a sample of a project (or projects) that you have been creatively involved in, either as:
a) a video clip in VHS, DVD, or digital (PC compatible) format, not more than 10 minutes in length, OR
b) 5-7 photographs of your project as digital copies (PC compatible), or clearly discernible photocopies
-an explanation of your involvement with that project

part D:
An indication of what you would consider fair payment, as well as what
percentage you would be willing to donate to the Campus women`s Resource
Center.

Please send submissions to:

Laura Leif
6047 Dalford hill NW
Calgary AB
T3A 1L5

or by emailing: baCKSeatSatellite@gMail.COM

Entry Deadline is June 25TH.

Oana Avasilichioaei’s Abandon – Book Launch

Tuesday, May 23 – 7:30 pm
Pages Books on Kensington
1135 Kensington Rd NW

Hosted by Richard Harrison and accompanied by poets Weyman Chan and Art Joyce, Oana Avasilichioaei reads from her debut poetry collection, Abandon, this Tuesday.

Abandon is filled with the richness of a country’s history; it melds the legends of Romania with its modern reality in Avasilichioaei’s vivid and insightful poetry. Dragons rub shoulders with bad-toothed mountaineers. Women wash carpets in the river, and builders wall women into monasteries. This rich collection heralds a promising new voice in Canadian poetry.

CONTACT: Mark Hopkins
710.0093 – mark.c.hopkins@gmail.com



The Poets

Oana Avasilichioaei was born in Romania and has lived in Canada since 1987. She is the author of three chapbooks: Occupational Sickness (2000 – translations of Romanian poet Nichita Stanescu), The Dictator’s Garden (2003) and Close Your Eyes (2005). She lives in Montreal, where she is a freelance editor and translator, and a teacher of English and Creative Writing at Dawson College. Abandon is her first book.

Weyman Chan is the author of Before a Blue Sky Moon (Frontenac House, 2002), which received the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry in 2003. Chan lives and works in Calgary with his wife and two daughters. His poems and stories have been published in several Alberta journals and anthologies over the past 15 years. His poetry also appears in Many-Mouthed Birds: Contemporary Writing by Chinese-Canadians.

Art Joyce has been an organizer of poetry tours and cafes, and a frequent performer on the Kootenay scene, since the 1980s. His poems and essays have been published in various Canadian literary magazines and in 2000 he produced and directed a poetry video, The Muse: chameleon fire, with funding from Bravo!TV. Under his imprint, Chameleon Fire Editions, Joyce has published numerous collections of poetry, including such poets as Chad Norman, Catherine Owen and Margaret Hornby. He has worked as an editor with Horsefly Magazine, published through the Nelson Fine Arts Centre.

Calgary Poetry Slam! - May 25

The Calgary International Spoken Word Festival presents:

Calgary Poetry Slam!

Thursday, May 25, 2006 – 7:00 pm
McNally Robinson, 120 8th Ave SW
Host: Mark Hopkins
pay-what-you-can

The Calgary Poetry Slam, on the last Thursday of every month, puts up-and-coming local poets in the spotlight. With wild energy, dynamic hosts and sold-out audiences month after month, this poetry phenomenon is not to be missed!

10 Competitors Only!

If you want to Slam, arrive by 6:00 pm, bring a $5 registration fee and 3 poems (three-minute MAX, each) and sign up with Mark Hopkins.

The Winner receives a $50 cash prize!
For Slam procedures and rules, please visit www.calgaryspokenwordfestival.com

Selected winners from the monthly Slam will create a Calgary Slam Team to compete at October’s Canadian Festival of Spoken Word in Toronto, then go on to represent the city in Slams across the continent!

NEXT SLAM: Thursday, June 29, 2006 – 8:00 pm
Beat Niq Jazz & Social Club – 811 1st St SW

Contact:
Sheri-D Wilson – 403.686.4292 – sheridwilson@shaw.ca

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On the Importance of Community, Part B

Because this part slots into Ryan's Part A but also hinges off to turn a corner to Part C which slots into Part D which wings of to Part E, Part F, Part G-- well, I won't link the entire thing because it just isn't even possible. Our delicate, beautiful tinkertoy dream machine suffered some blows this week from the kindergarten bullies, and left a lot of us having panic attacks and ranting on the phone, on MSN, and in person.

I am ready to get back in the sandbox and have fun and play again. Sort of a "Take Back the Sandbox" day, that's what it is for me. And I trust my community to get behind me if someone starts kicking sand in my eyes, and I trust my community to notice and tell us when someone's getting cornered down the street, and I trust myself to talk people out of meeting at the bike racks at 3:00 for some ass-kicking and instead play catch—if I can.

All the many accomplishments and exciting projects we all are part of deserve praise and respect, as do, of course, each of us personally. Thank you to each person who made a point of standing up to bullying, and let's have some compassion if it wasn't done quick enough or thoroughly enough or whatever enough—no one likes to find poop in the sandbox, it’s always a bit of a shock.

I've got five new books to read!

at dANDelion Launch Correction

Hi All,

I am corrected it on the original post too, but I just wanted to bring to your attention:

dANDelion Launch on May12th begins at **6pm**

thanks,

Natalie

dANDelion Issue 32.1 Launch!

Hi Folks!

dANDelion's super-stupendous launch party is coming up soon, so mark those calendars.

When: May 12th, 2006. The doors will open at 6pm

Where: the Art Gallery of Calgary on the Stephen Avenue Walk.

Who: The evening features a performace by the band The Jagatha Christies (which
is made up of ryan fitzpatrick and Sandy Lam), a reading by William
Neil Scott (who's new book, Wonderful, is being published in 2007 by
NeWest Press), and a reading my poet Donato Mancini (author of
Ligatures, New Star Books 2005). At 10pm, the event will be turned
over to a dj, Ben Sargeant, and the Art Gallery will become our own private club. Bring your dancing shoes.

Admission : $5 gets you entry to the event as well as a
limited-edition chapbook created especially for our launch, featuring
work form the editorial collective and volunteers.
For $10, you will recieve admission, a chapbook, and the newest issue
of dANDelion magazine. And, as a special promotion, for $15 you'll
recieve admission, a chapbook, and a subscription to dANDelion that
includes the newest issue. This is a spectacular deal, as the usual
subscription costs $18.

We'll have a cash bar and some munchies for everyone. The newest
issue of dANDelion is going to be gorgeous, and we'd be thrilled if
you could come out and help make this launch the sexiest or sexy
parties.

Rock rock on!