Cascadia Poetry Festival III, Nanaimo BC, April 30 to May 3, 2015
Festival Schedule (mini version here)
(All events are general admission. Seating is first come, first served. Arrive early to ensure your seat.)
THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 2015
3:00 – 5:00pm, Location: Nanaimo Museum, 100 Museum Way Host: Mary Ann Moore
The Living Room: A free and open democratic reading where people read their own work and listen to others in a circle format. Everyone welcome to come and share poetry or listen!
FRIDAY MAY 1, 2015
10:15 – 11:45am, Location: VIU Bldg. 355, Room 203 Host: Paul Nelson
Cascadia Geography, Debut of the New Map: David McCloskey presents a new map-poster showing the natural integrity of Cascadia as a whole bioregion for the first time. This award-winning hi-resolution map has been two years in the making, culminating a life-time of exploration and research.
1:00 – 2:00pm, Location: VIU Bldg. 355, Room 203 Host: Nadine Maestas
Panel 1 – The Making of the Cascadia Anthology: Make It True
What defines Cascadia’s innovative poetry? What has been innovative historically? In what directions is Cascadia’s poetry going in the future. Where poetic tradition and history merges with the future.
Panelists: Paul Nelson, Barry McKinnon & George Stanley
2:15 – 5:15pm, Location: VIU Bldg. 355, Room 103 (Workshop $60) Host Philip Gordon
Workshop #2: Missie Peters SOLD OUT!
Spoken Word/Poetry Workshop [details here]
3:00 – 5:00pm Location: Nanaimo Museum, 100 Museum Way Host: Leanne McIntosh
The Living Room: A free and open democratic reading where people read their own work and listen to others in a circle format. Everyone welcome to come and share poetry or listen!
7:30 – 9:00pm, Location: Bldg. 355, Room 203 Host: Yvonne Blomer
Make it True Anthology Launch & Tribute to Peter Culley (1958-2015)
Naomi Beth Wakan: Welcome to Nanaimo
Headliners: Barry McKinnon, George Stanley, Sharon Thesen, Christine Lowther, Christine Leclerc & Renée Sarojini Saklikar. (Click on any name for the link to their Youtube video from this reading.)
10:00pm – Midnight, Location: The Globe Bar and Grill, 25 Front Street Host: Paul Nelson
The Marmot Cascadia Spoken-Word Bout: Cascadia poets compete for the right to be crowned the Cascadia Marmot Champ: Amber Dawn, Missie Peters, Sebastien Wen, Sara Brickman, Robert Lashley, Dan Raphael, Nadine Maestas, Samar Abulhassan.
SATURDAY MAY 2, 2015
(All events are general admission. Seating is first come, first served. Arrive early to ensure your seat.)
9:30 – 11:00am, Location: VIU Bldg. 355, Room 203 Host: Kim Goldberg
Panel 2: Where Geography, Culture, and Language Intersect
Panelists: David McCloskey, Robert Bringhurst, Harold Rhenisch
11:10 – 12: 40pm, Location: VIU Bldg. 355, Room 203 Host: Yvonne Blomer
Panel 3: The Ground is Always Shifting
Aspects of Living Together in a Geographically, Culturally, Socially Diverse Bio-Region
Panelists: Amber Dawn, Nadine Maestas, Garry Gottfriedson
1:00-1:55pm, Location: VIU Bldg. 355, Room 203
Viewing of the Documentary: “The Line Has Shattered”
(Showing again on Sunday May 3 at 1:15-2:10)
2:15 – 5:15pm, Location VIU Bldg. 355, Room 103 (Workshop cost $60) Host: Ursula Vaira
Workshop #4: Brenda Hillman, Barry McKinnon, George Stanley [details here] SOLD OUT!
3:00 – 5:00pm, Location: Nanaimo Museum, 100 Museum Way Host: Naomi Beth Wakan, _ Nanaimo’s Poet Laureate
The Living Room: A free and open democratic reading where people read their own work and listen to others in a circle format. Everyone welcome to come and share poetry or listen!
7:30 – 9:30pm, Location: Bldg. 355, Room 203 Host: Richard Osler
Keynote Speaker: Sam Hamill
Cascadia Poets from Different Regions
Susan Musgrave (Haida Gwaii), Yvonne Blomer (Victoria), Brenda Hillman (Northern California), Amber Dawn (Vancouver), Garry Gottfriedson (Kamloops), Harold Rhenisch (Okanagan)
10:30pm – Midnight, Location: The Globe Bar and Grill, 25 Front Street Host: Paul Nelson
The After Party: 30 + poets from around Cascadia read one poem each with lot of time for socializing between the three sets.
SUNDAY, MAY 3, 2015
(All events are general admission. Seating is first come, first served. Arrive early to ensure your seat.)
9:30 – 11:00am, Location: VIU Bldg. 355, Room 203 Host: Kim Goldberg
Panel 4: Rewilding Poetry (Eco-Poetry in Cascadia)
Panelists: Rita Wong, Stephen Collis, Christine Leclerc , Sharon Thesen
11:30: – 1:00pm, Location: VIU Bldg. 355, Room 203 Host Mary Ann Moore
Panel 5: On The Margins: who or what is ‘marginal’? Who or what is considered visible, and worthy of being historical?
Panelists: Nadine Maestas, Janet Marie Rogers, Susan Musgrave, Renée Sarojini Saklikar
1:45 – 2:35pm, Location: VIU Bldg. 355, Room 203
Viewing of the Documentary: The Line Has Shattered
3:00 – 5:00pm, Location: VIU Bldg. 355, Room 203 Host: Yvonne Blomer
Closing Readings
Poets: Rita Wong, Paul Nelson, Sam Hamill, Robert Bringhurst, Jay Ruzesky.
Brief Afterwords by Paul Nelson & David Fraser
Post-Festival Gathering at The Globe Bar and Grille
Deets to follow (depending on survival rate)
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