The World Poetry Life Celebration (Tagore Utsav) of the first Asian Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore!
Vancouver Public Library, 350 West Georgia, Vancouver, BC
Alice MacKaye Room, (downstairs). November 24, at 7pm.
World Poetry Guest hosts : Ashok Bhargava and Bong Ja Ahn
Consul General of India : Mr. A. Das
Consul General of Republic of Korea : Mr. Tong-Mo Suh
Participants : Ariadne Sawyer and Alejandro Mujica-Olea, Addena Sumter-Freitag, Bernice Lever, Shirley Sue –A- Qwan and Archana Harit, Diego Bastianutti and Anthony Dalton.
Korean Kayagum player : Grace Jong Eun Lee
Indian Musician : Kalpana Prasad
Indian Dancer : Koyali Burman
Korean Mask Dancers : Chang Hyun Han, Han Bin Im, Sung Rai Kim
Compaigni V’ni Dansi invites you to escape the relentless electioneering for one night and celebrate the life of a Canadian folk hero: Louis Riel.
The third annual Louis Riel Day Celebration will be held November 15, 2008 at the Roundhouse Community Centre in Vancouver. In addition to honouring Louis Riel – who inspired the rebirth of the Métis nation – the Festival is a chance to celebrate the breadth and vitality of contemporary Métis culture in Canada.
Building on the success of last year, this promises to be the biggest and best Celebration so far, featuring Juno-nominated and Aboriginal Music Award winner Wayne Lavallee; traditional story-telling from Winston Wuttunee, one of Canada’s premiere aboriginal performers; readings from the acclaimed Métis poet and writer Gregory Scofield; traditional powwow and Métis dance from rising star Madeleine McCallum and a special performance by Yvonne Chartrand of Marguerite, a solo piece inspired by the life of Louis Riel’s wife.
The evening also features the Louis Riel Métis Dancers, with special guest from Regina Jeanne Pelletier, and will conclude with the Red River Jig with everyone invited to join in.
Vancouver celebrates International Dance Day with a series of vibrant performances, events and displays presented by The Dance Centre at venues around town. The events – many of them free – will showcase the diversity of BC’s dance scene. Highlights include Jennifer Clarke’s new work and a group dance and music improvisation at Scotiabank Dance Centre; Pop Up Dances at various locations around Granville Island; site specific work by Raven Spirit Dance Company in and around Coal Harbour Community Centre; classical East Indian dance performances with Mandala Arts and Culture at the Vancouver Public Library; and One Enchanted Evening, a South Pacific-themed fundraising event at Scotiabank Dance Centre.
Full details with the event schedule, locations and times can be viewed at www.thedancecentre.ca.
Help me celebrate my *10 YEARS OF BLOGGING* (holy crap, has it really been that long?!?) and enter to WIN A Nintendo Wii, TOO! It's a really easy contest...
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Post a comment *on my blog post* (you need to enter at my site), with a 250 word short story (no, I'm not counting words -- Somewhere around that, okay? I just want to eliminate the people who aren't interested in really participating, and having some fun with this), and this short story must include the following words in order to be a valid entry: NetChick, deluxe, blog(ging), Vancouver, Wii
A week before my bloggoversary, I'll be picking a total of 20 entries to go to the FINALS! My 10 year bloggoversary is September 30th, 2007... So, you've got time!
Poems or stories to or about Canadian Poet Dorothy Livesay for Life Celebration October 29th at the VPL!
World Poetry is requesting poems and stories about the well known Canadian Poet Dorothy Livesay to be on display at The World Poetry Life Celebration of Dorothy Livesay, October 29 at the Vancouver Public Library (Central Branch) in the Alice McKaye room.
Please not the following rules:
1) One poem only please. Note: If the poem is in two languages, one page per language is permitted.
2) Size 12 -14 fonts.
3) Name, city and country with a copyright symbol at the bottom.
4) All poems are copyrighted to the writer and used for display purposes only on October 29th. After the event, they will be destroyed unless we have the author’s permission to use them at a later date.
5) Below are two links to more information on Dorothy Livesay. There are many more on the internet.
