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Global Voices Radio / SPLAB! E-Fishwrapper
In this E-Fishwrapper, Lit Fuse (weekend of poetry workshops) in Tieton, Lynne McTaggart TONIGHT at East West Books, a cool WIKIPEDIA video, link to Sam Hamill interview, CALL for Artists & Stage Techs, JOB OPENING for folks interested in LOCAL BUSINESSES, SPD Poets Theater CALL, Jack Straw Writer's Program seeks applications, Cascadia Convergence, Bus Poems, Gabriola Island Poetry Festival & lots of cool stuff I forgot.
1) LitFuse 2007: A Poet's Workshop (With a much lower price and home-stay opportunities to make it quite inexpensive.)
* Mighty Tieton, WA Nov. 3-4, 2007
* Featuring: Susan Rich
* http://www.mightytieton.com/tieton_arts-humanities
LitFuse 2007 combines teaching, writing exercises, and meditation to challenge your muse to do a headstand. We'll explore the role of the poet in the American empire, through teaching, panel discussion, and a guided showing by the filmmaker of the documentary, Voices in Wartime.
There will also be an opportunity for up to one dozen pre-registered participants to experience a hands-on letterpress workshop. Susan Rich, MFA, is this year's featured speaker. She is the author of The Cartographer's Tongue: Poems of the World (White Pine Press 2000), and Cures Include Travel. Kathleen Flenniken, MFA, winner of the 2005 Prairie Schooner Book Award, co-editor at Floating Bridge Press.
Doug Johnson, editor of Cave Moon Press. Paul Nelson, MA in Organic Poetry, co-founder of Northwest Spokenword Lab. Dan Peters, author of The Reservoir, co-editor of Weathered Pages. Jonathan King, journalist, writer, and producer of the feature-length documentary film, Voices in Wartime and others.
2) Washington Poets Name New Director to Lead Burning Word Festival
SEATTLE—The Washington Poets Association has named Sue Ellen White as the new director of the Burning Word festival. The festival is held the last Saturday of April at Whidbey Island’s scenic Greenbank Farm and produced annually by the poets organization. White is a communications professional with long experience in journalism and editing and served as communication manager at Hedgebrook writers retreat. A resident of Whidbey Island, she will lead the fifth annual festival on April 26, 2008, as it becomes the largest such event in the state. Eleventh Hour Productions, which produced the Seattle Poetry Festival, announced in September it was closing the organization.
“In the wake of the Seattle Poetry Festival's demise, Sue Ellen's expertise is even more critical to the Northwest literary arts community and for those interested in experiencing world class poetry in this part of the world,” said Paul Nelson, board president of the WPA. The organization is the largest association of poets in Washington. http://www.WashingtonPoets.org
3) Donate to Wikipedia. http://wikimediafoundation.org/donate/2007/psa/ for a very inspiring video featuring Wikipedia's Founder. In an time when it seems hopeless to act in a time of endless war, this video shows that things are changing and the Internet is playing an important role.
4)Lynne McTaggart Tonight at East West Books in Seattle, 7PM, 6500 Roosevelt Way N.E.
“Intention” has become the latest New Age buzzword. But what does it mean? And how exactly can one become an efficient “intender”? LYNNE MCTAGGART’S new book, The Intention Experiment, picks up where her groundbreaking bestseller The Field left off. It offers some of the very latest scientific evidence about the power of your own thoughts and mind-blowing new evidence about the nature of reality. http://www.ewbookshop.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp?s=storeevents&eventId=356275
5) Sam Hamill interviewed in Connecticut http://www.connpost.com/ci_7227174?source=most_emailed
..."You have to be open to the experience of the poetry and allow things to happen organically, so the political references in 'Measured by Stone' arise naturally They are basically the politics I've embodied my entire adult life," he added.
Although Hamill founded Poets Against War and oversees the quarterly publication of the group's Internet newsletter, he doesn't believe "messages" should stick out of good poetry. "If you approach the writing of a poem with a determined agenda you're really in deep poop," the writer said, with one of the many hearty laughs that
punctuated the interview.
6) Call for Artists and Stage Tech's!! (From Angel Latterell
many thanks! Angel
7) Job Announcement from Michael Shuman shuman@igc.org
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Please forgive this impersonal message, but I’d be grateful if you could circulate, post, or otherwise share the attached job announcement. It might be of interest to people in the fields of social enterprise, community development, economics, and public policy.
I’m now working under two grants that follow up some of the arguments I made in my recent book, “The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition.” One of the grants is from the Gates Foundation compiling global case studies of local food businesses; and the other from the Kellogg Foundation analyzing the harmful effects of state business subsidies of rural local businesses.
I’m looking for a Project Associate who will help with research, writing, web-site building, blogging, and marketing. The position pays in the $40-50k range, lasts one year (possibly longer), and will be based in my office in downtown Takoma Park , Maryland . While I don’t have a budget to fly people in from around the country, I’d welcome applications from outside the Washington area.
Many thanks for your help!
Best, Michael
Michael H. Shuman
Vice President for Enterprise Development
Training & Development Corporation
3713 Warren St., NW
Washington, DC 20016
202-669-1220
shuman@igc.org
www.smallmart.org
www.tdc-use.org
8) Small Press Traffic 2008 Poets Theater Cabaret: Call for Proposals
For several years now, Small Press Traffic has been organizing an annual Poets' Theater Festival as our yearly fundraiser, with each year's event showcasing
new innovative works, often staged for the first time here in San Francisco. The festival has each year gathered huge audiences that come out to see writers & artists on stage, in innovative performance works, pushing the boundaries of theater and poetry in staged readings, musicals, neo-benshi film screenings, performance writing pieces, and the like.
This year we are excited to have three nights of new programming, including a PoetsTheater revival night and a cabaret, as well as a night of newly commissioned plays and performance works. We would like to invite you to consider contributing work for this year's cabaret - a full night of innovative performance works currently scheduled for Sunday Feb 3 at 21 Grand in Oakland, CA. We are looking for innovative performances in the avant-garde cabaret tradition. This could range from brief skits to musical acts, improvised performance to conceptual magic tricks, impromptu tableux vivants to feats of aesthetic daring. We could imagine instructional pieces a la Yoko Ono (to be performed by yourself or members of the audience), cross-genre collaborations, puppet shows, etc. The main constraints are that each piece be less than 5 minutes long, require little-to-no technical support (beyond a microphone), and adhere to this year's theme, which is:
"PERFORM YOUR SYMPTOM(S)"...
If you are interested, we would ask for a proposal for a work of NO MORE THAN FIVE MINUTES in length by NOVEMBER 1ST, to poetstheater@gmail.com . If you are unable to attend but would like to send in a proposal for someone else to perform on your behalf, that'd be great too. You should know that the Poets Theater Festival is out major fundraising vehicle for this year's budget, and we will thus be unable to offer you any money to participate. However, we can offer this unique opportunity to perform or have your work staged in front of a packed house of enthusiastic audience members, in the context of an ongoing and evolving community of avant-garde writers and performers. Please let us know as soon as you can if you are interested, and please don't hesitate to email with questions and the like. all best, David Buuck, Stephanie Young, and Cynthia Sailers, SPT PT 08 Committee
poetstheater@gmail.com
9) Application Workshop for 2008 Jack Straw Artist Residency Programs
Application deadline: Friday, November 16, 2007
NOTE: This year there is a separate application for the Writers Program. Please make sure to download the correct form.
Questions? Call or email Van Diep, Arts Manager, at (206) 634-0919 or van@jackstraw.org.
Jack Straw Writers Program
The Jack Straw Writers Program was established in 1997, and to date, the program has included more than 140 Pacific Northwest writers who represent a diverse range of literary genres.
The purpose of the Jack Straw Writers Program is to introduce local writers to the medium of recorded audio; to encourage the creation of new literary work; and to present the writer and their work in live readings, in a published anthology, on the web, and on broadcast radio. Each year an invited curator selects the participating writers from a large pool of applicants based foremost on artistic excellence. Writers receive training in vocal presentation, performance, and microphone technique to prepare them for studio recording and live recording at public readings. Their recorded readings and interviews with the curator are then used to produce features on our web site, for radio broadcast, and for internet podcasts. If you are interested in having your literary work recorded and produced for a CD, you should apply to the Artist Support Program.
Jack Straw Productions has been a community resource since 1962. As a nonprofit, multidisciplinary audio arts center, our mission is to foster the communication of art, ideas, and information to diverse audiences through audio media. The Jack Straw Artist Residency Programs offer established and emerging artists in diverse disciplines an opportunity to explore the creative use of sound in a professional atmosphere through residencies in our recording studios and participation in our various presentation programs. Artists may apply to more than one program, but must submit a complete and separate set of applications for each. We do not offer cash grants.
10) Kevin Miller reads in Tacoma.
Kevin Miller reads November 2nd, at 7:00 pm at King’s Books, 218 St. Helens Avenue, Tacoma, WA 98402. Miller will read from his manuscript The Old Town Poems in fulfillment of a grant from the Tacoma Arts Commission. Free Admission.
11) Cascadia Convergence.
Citizens and Community Groups Collaborate Toward a Sustainable Future
Sustainable Cascadia emerges forming alliances of efforts across the bioregion.
Seattle, Washington - Involved Citizens, businesses, nonprofits, and government organizations across the Pacific Northwest will gather on October 26 and 27 at the first annual Cascadia Convergence addressing the theme ‘Climate Action and Citizen Engagement.’ The event begins a five-year process of community discussion to take stock of diverse sustainability efforts and to make plans accelerating progress toward common goals. The purpose is to foster long-term cooperation and collaboration in the sustainability movement and develop community task forces.
Cascadia Convergence provides a forum where the public will join with businesses, government, nonprofits, particularly social justice and environmental groups, to explore more sustainable ways to live now and in the future. It is supported by a growing list of over 35 participating organizations, including Sustainable Seattle, King County EcoConsumer, Interra project and has been endorsed by Seattle City Council.
Friday, October 26 kicks off the Convergence with Dr. David Suzuki, well-known scientist and environmental activist. He will address “Sustainability within a Generation” and the urgent need for climate action. The evening concludes with a panel discussion of local voices on how to accelerate a path forward. Saturday, October 27 participants will meet at the Seattle center for a day-long program where interested parties can converge to create dialog and action plans to lead the bio region towards a sustainable future. . The day concludes with a harvest of critical and immediate next steps toward achieving sustainability in one generation.
Sustainable Cascadia (www.sustainablecascadia.org) is the organization behind the Cascadia Convergence. It is a new project under the fiscal sponsorship of Sustainable Seattle, with a mission to foster ongoing collaboration toward sustainability in one generation across the Pacific Northwest bioregion of Cascadia.
Cascadia Convergence is one of many events occurring during Green October 2007 (www.greenoctober2007.com), a community campaign to highlight sustainability related events.
12) Poetry On the Bus (From Denise Calvetti Michaels)
I just wanted you to know that in March 2007 I was able to spend one week in New Orleans with eleven students from Cascadia Community College.
While there, we gutted houses and repaired around the clock. I served as adviser and assisted with transportation, coordination of work assignments, and wielded a sledge hammer and paint brush. The students worked extremely hard, and successfully gutted three houses and contributed to the re-roofing and painting of two other homes on Dauphine Street. Because I keep a journal, I found myself jotting down fragments of personal impressions that resulted in the following poem that has been accepted among forty others out of a field of 3000 for the latest King County Poetry on Buses project. You are invited to attend what looks to be a fun-filled event at the Moore Theatre on Wednesday, November 14th.
Though I've lost touch with many of you, and also understand that most of you live out of the area, I hope to include you in this experience that brings forward the importance of action combined with reflection....and honors the work of volunteers in New Orleans that must continue, and serve to inspire and connect us to our humanity.
Please find the poem below and best wishes to all of you,
Denise Calvetti Michaels
13) Poetry Gabriola Festival 2007 Program of Events: (The new web site for 2007 is not up yet.)
Saturday, November 17: at the Surf Lodge
From Glasgow, Scotland, revolutionary balladeer Alasdair Roberts and from Austin, Texas, dreamy hipster duo Charalambides. In the Surf Great Room. Great dinner hipster-concert combo…will it be haggis flamed with bourbon??? Tickets $20 at Artworks. $5 off dinner at the Surf with your ticket. Dinner reservations required: 247-9231. and lots more...
OK, Lit Fuse looks like one of the coolest gatherings of poet/teachers in the state and what they are doing in Tieton looks VERY interesting. Please consider attending this event. I'll be facilitating my Organic Poetry workshop and hope to stretch out with that class. I get to facilitate the Org Po workshop in Hawaii at the National Indian Education Association Conference on Friday, and did a workshop in Enumclaw last Saturday, so I am getting out a lot.
The Perennial Postcard project is off and running and I am trying to average a little more than one card a week. George Bowering has joined the fray and expect to see some Red Sox cards, or at least references, as they knock off the Rockies.
Please apply for the Jack Straw Writer's program. Looks like a poet will be curator this year, as they tend to alternate between prose writers and poets and Matt Briggs was curator last year.
We still need some good Board Members to help continue the evolution of WPA and increase membership. Please call or email if you'd like to get involved. It is a working Board, so come only if you have time to oversee, or assist, one of the WPA's many fine projects, such as Burning Word or the Cascade Journal. Soon we'll announce the headliners for next year's Burning Word, but Naropa-ites will be very happy that the headliner is a Fast Speaking Woman.
xoxo President Postcard.
P.S. I have moved from Slaughter to Ilalqo. Please make a note of it.
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"If there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames." --Artaud
