Paper Dolls: workshopping and performing the body

Women, Creativity and Political Voice present:
Saturday, September 30
at Stellar Femme Fest


Paper Dolls:
workshopping and performing the body

A visual art, writing, movement and sound workshop/performance to engage participants in a personal/political dialogue with the contemporary female body--starting with their own.

We will use a combination of writing, art and theatre exercises to engage ourselves in a conversation with our bodies and with each other, starting with the making of giant paper dolls. Out of our individual and collective efforts on Saturday afternoon we will put together a 20 minute performative work that interested workshop participants will orchestrate and perform on Saturday night.

Workshop will be held at:
EM/Media
203 – 351 11th Ave. SW
from 11am to 4pm

Performance will be at:
Saturday evening Stellar Femme Fest closing event starting at 7pm
Mission Bungalow
2201 Cliff St. S.W. (1 block west of 5th St and 22nd Ave S.W.)

Participation in the performance is not mandatory.

Wear comfortable clothing.
Bring:
a bag lunch
a favourite quote on the body

For further information or to register, please contact
Sarah Murphy at
promur@creativeway.com
or
(403) 281-7594

rob mc runs into Frances Kruk in England!

Check out rob's blog, this part in particular:

http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2006/09/ongoing-notes-london-calling-rob-then.html

Also he found some publications including other Calgary writers over there, and some 0ther Canadian poets floating about.

Single Onion Wed Sept 20, Cafe Koi, 9 p.m.: K.L. McKay, Shone Abet, Laurie Fuhr, Trevor Tchir (music)

Please forward - thanks!

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE REVIEW


WHO: The Single Onion Poetry Night #47

WHAT: A night of poetry, prose, music and mayhem. With poetry by K.L. McKay, Shone Abet, Laurie Fuhr and hosted by Kirk Miles. With music by Trevor Tchir

WHEN: Wednesday, September 20th, at 9 PM

WHERE: Café Koi, #100 – 1011 1st Street SW

COST: Free due to our sponsors Brew Brothers, Fitter First, Dean Stanton, The League of Canadian Poets, The Triangle Gallery, Canada Council for the Arts and Slivers.net

THE READERS:

K.L. McKay arrives to Edmonton via Ottawa. Her first collection of poems is “Barefoot Through the Pickybushes”. She also has a chapbook published through the Olive Reading Series. K.L. is the founding editor of Spire Poetry Poster, a monthly broadside series since 2003. Once a week for three years, K.L. co-hosted the Café Nostalgica
Poetry and Music Open Stage along with folk musician Trevor Tchir.

Shone Abet comes from a long line of artists, poets and generally creative folk. She currently resides in the city of Calgary, where by day she lives the life of an eclectic office professional and by night the life of a poet, spoken word performer, author, and queer activist. She is performing at the Stellar Femme Fest www.stellarfemmefest.ca and in the upcoming Calgary MultiArts Variety Show, September 23rd at The Soda Lounge.

Laurie Fuhr has lived in Germany, Ottawa, Winnipeg, and Cold Lake, AB.
Her poems have been published in anthologies such as evergreen: 6 new poets (Black Moss Press 2002) and in publications across Canada. Laurie hosts the first ever Calgary MultiArts Variety Show ask her about it she is sure to plug it.

MUSICIAN: Trevor Tchir has been writing and playing songs about the people and places of Canada for the past ten years. He completed a 25 date solo tour from Alberta to Newfoundland, his first cross-Canada venture. His third and most recent album is "Wooden Castles Fall”.

Single Onion happens (usually) the third Thursday of the month, ten times a year. Our event schedule can always be found at: http://www.singleonion.com/calendar.html Look for Christian Bok in October and David Bateman in November!

Calgary MultiArts Variety Show PRESS RELEASE

Please forward.. thank you! Hope to see you there!

PRESS RELEASE

The Calgary MultiArts Variety Show is an exciting new event featuring short sets by local musicians, poets, filmmakers and actors, followed by 3 local bands!

Bands: Ghostkeeper and Light City Fiction with The Jagatha Christies;

Musicians: Aaron Booth, Danielle French, Spencer Davis (The Incandescence), Phaedrus Gatherman, and the pantymelters (duo feat. Gareth Williams);

Poets: Shone Abet, Carmen Derkson (filling Station), Fred Holliss (Single Onion), Kirk Ramdath (Calgary SLAM Team),, Jocelyn Grosse & James Dangerous (music & poetry), and Colin Martin (NoD Magazine);

Play by Charles Netto’s Swallow a Bicycle Productions;

Short Films by Garth Whelan and Barb Maier.


MC’s: Mark Hopkins and Laurie Fuhr.


Don’t miss this Celebration of Calgary’s Imagination!

Saturday, September 23, The Soda Lounge, 211 – 12 Ave SW. Doors at 6:30 p.m., event at 7:00 p.m. Tickets: $10 at the door, $8 in advance at Megatunes and Pages Books on Kensington. More info: 999-2566 or visit www.myspace.com/calgarymultiarts

For more information or to arrange an interview, please contact Laurie Fuhr at 999-2566 or lauriefuhr@yahoo.ca

call for editors

Hi everyone!
Sorry if I just emailed you about submitting but I have yet another
request for all you ridiculously good-looking and insanely talented
writers (yes I am sucking up a bit)

I was hoping to assemble a bit of an editorial team for NoD, as I don't
want to pick all the submissions by myself and be boring and potentially
biased. Here's where you come in! If you can fit it into your schedule,
you can help choose and edit Nod submissions. The time commitment is quite
minimal as we only publish three times a year. If anyone is interested,
submissions for the upcoming issue are due Wednesday September 20th and I
will be holding a meeting on Thursday September 21st. I will have all the
submissions printed out and we can choose which pieces we would like to
see published. Don't worry if you have submitted something or are planning
to submit something, I will remove the names from the pieces and it will
be an anonymous selection.

If anyone is interested, I would also love love love to start a website
for NoD! I think that would help fuel a lot more exposure than we
currently have. Unfortunently , I have minimal skills in this area and can
not even keep our MySpace site updated. (Someone help!)

You could also help in planning launch parties, be a MySpace blogger,
think of exciting new themes for upcoming issues and help me harass people
for grants. I could give you a title! I will write your name on the inside
cover of upcoming issues! Make NoD a part of your life today!

Thanks guys, hopefully I'll be hearing from some of you soon, and let me
know what time on Thursday works best for everyone! Please forward this on
to anyone else you think might be interested.

Felicia Pacentrilli
NoD Editor

thanks calgary!

for bringing me in to read and for being so sweet and also hot. even tho i had to pass out after one drink, i had a lovely time.

hugs and kisses,

nikki reimer

Eleventh Transmission #6 online!

Hello,

This is a short note to let you know that issue #6 of Eleventh Transmission is now online.

www.eleventhtransmission.org.

In this issue Vivian Hansen shares some fabulous poems inspired by the landscapes of Calgary. There is more great poetry and fiction as well. There are also articles on Calgary businesses, longboarding, poetry readings, Caribana, Ground Zero, and Canada's war in Afghanistan.

We are also now hiring for the positions of Visual Arts Editor and Events Listers. More details can be found on the website.

www.eleventhtransmission.org/nowhiring.html

Your comments are always welcome and appreciated.

-Kirk