world Poetry Cafe Radio Show
By worldpoetry on December 12, 2008 - 12:58am
Ariadne Sawyer and Alejandro Mujica-Olea won an award for their World Poetry Café Radio show on December 8th!
Producers and hosts Sawyer and Mujica were invited to a Gala dinner and given two large certificates honouring their work on the radio show by Project Cultural South Canada and the Latin Business Network.
Alejandro said “After eight years of working on the radio show, it was great to receive an award for all our work on the show.!”
The weekly World Poetry Café Radio Show airs every Tuesday night at 9 pm PST on Coop Radio, 102 fm. To listen on the Internet: go to www.coopradio.org
and follow the links to The World Poetry Café. The radio show features poet, an e-poem section and the popular Creativity Rocks program as well as a featured Canadian musician for the month.
By worldpoetry on October 2, 2008 - 11:24pm
Featured radio show guest well known actor and producer Anthony Herrera of the Poetry Theatre Project to be interviewed!
On October 7, from 9:10-9:30 pm, PST, The World Poetry Café with your hosts Ariadne Sawyer and Alejandro Mujica-Olea proudly present the well known actor and producer Anthony Herrera of the Poetry Theatre Project at www.poetrytheatre.org .
In a special an on air interview from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Anthony will be talking about his life and his one man show. He says: “Willie Nelson gave me the idea to put my one man show -- performing poetry -- on the web). The website gives poetry to everyone to inspire, to enjoy and to learn.” *
The statement on the website says:
“Our mission is to continue the oral tradition utilizing modern technology. Poetry Theatre presents actors performing their favorite poems, a glossary of terms and a biography of the poet. Its website gives poetry to everyone to inspire, to enjoy and to learn.”
If you want to listen to Anthony live on the internet, go to www.coopradio.org and follow the links to The World Poetry Café at 9:10 PST. Shows are also archived for three months.
By worldpoetry on September 7, 2008 - 11:17pm
World Poetry Fall News!
Lots of events happening…
1. Breaking News! World Poetry Lifetime Achievement Award Winners for 2009! We proudly present An Bong Ja and Diego Bastianutti. They received the most nominations. We want to congratulate them on being WP winners for 2009.
2. September 25th at 7:30 pm World Poetry New Westminster joins the Backroom Theatre Club and the Arts Council of New Westminster for a celebration of the UN Peace Day with a Performing Arts and Peace Project with poetry, readings, documentaries and one act plays at the Heritage Grill, 477 Columbia Street in New Westminster. A call for peace poems has been sent out and selected poems will be on display at the Backroom Theatre Club September 25-28 and then at the Arts Council Gallery September 29-October 28. Also selected poems may be read on the World Poetry Café Radio Show and possibly sent to the peace tower in Iceland.
Please send your peace poems to ariadnes@uniserve.com or info@hmuellerdesign.com
3. Back to work! The World Poetry Committee will be having their first meeting after a long summer, September 27 at 1:15 pm at the Alliance for the Arts. And Culture, Suite 100, 938 Howe Street. We are honoured to have Brain Campbell from the Seriously Free Speech Committee talking about his group. He is a friend of Janice Douglas and is also a former VPL Program director.
By worldpoetry on June 29, 2008 - 6:38pm
The World Poetry Café Radio Show proudly presents a special phone interview with Dr. Stephan Gill, July 1st on CFRO 102.7 FM from 9:10 pm to 9:40 pm PST.
with your hosts Ariadne Sawyer, MA and Alejandro Mujica-Olea.
For our radio listener’s world wide:
1. Go to www.coopradio.org and follow the links to the World Poetry Café, Tuesdays at (pm PST)
2. Three days after the interview the show can be accessed by going to archives. You can also listen to Starchoice Satellite 845
3. Many of our listeners from 19 countries around the world record the show live and listen to it afterward.
Featured Poet
Background information for featured guest:
Poet Laureate of Ansted University, Stephen Gill is an expressive voice of Canada, India and Pakistan. He believes strongly in a democratically elected world government and peace through peaceful means. Global peace and social concerns are the main areas of his interest.
By worldpoetry on January 29, 2008 - 8:39pm
The World Poetry Enviro-Poetry Project.
Come write a poem or put an Enviro-suggestion in the amazing suggestion box created by Montana King!
The World Poetry Reading Series is celebrating their 7th anniversary at the Vancouver Public Library (our gracious hosts and partners) with a month long display of environmental poems in the Vancouver Public Library, 350 West Georgia St, Vancouver, BC in the literature section from February 1-29th. The poems on display are from Vancouver, across Canada and around the world. They include poems by the Poet Laureate of Vancouver, George McWhirter, Linda Rogers and World Poetry Lifetime Achievement Award Winner 2008, Bernice Lever among others. Most of the poems are in English but there are a number of bi-lingual poems, bringing a multi-cultural component to the display.
We hope to include selected poems in an Anthology!
There will be a Create an Enviro-poem table staffed by 17 World Poetry Volunteers who are all poets and writers. The poems that are written by the public will be featured at the 7th World Poetry Gala, February 29th, 7:00 pm, at the Alice McKaye Room at the Vancouver Public Library.
An Enviro-suggestion box will also be at the table so that the library patrons can put in suggestions on how to help the environment.
Selected tips will be read on The World Poetry Café Radio Show every Tuesday on CFRO, 102.7 FM.
By worldpoetry on October 2, 2007 - 8:07am
World Poetry Café Poetic Food Feast Fundraiser: a fascinating
combination of food, words, recipes and a 15 minute phone in section on October 23rd from 9-10 pm PST. To pre-register, submit a food poem or recipe to ariadnes@uniserve.com. To listen to us on the internet: www.coopradio.org and follow the links to The World Poetry Café.
Update on fundraising:
Dear World Poets and Supporters!
Please join us in raising the additional $172.00 needed to keep us on the air. Our yearly bill to keep us on the air is $700. Thanks to you, we have received all but $172 dollars.
If you are a World Poetry Café member and need to renew your membership, please remember to put in The World Poetry Café in the favorite show section. This will make sure that the membership money is credited to our World Poetry account.
If you want to become a new member, welcome!
If you want to send good thoughts and blessings, they are also very welcome. Some of them will be read on the air.
Please join us in this special fundraiser. If you want to join us live or on air, phone in a poem or a recipe, contact: Ariadne at ariadnes@uniserve.com
or 604-526-4729
Thank you for all your kindness and support!
