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WordStorm
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Diners Rendezvous
489 Wallace Street, Nanaimo, BC
Phone: 250.740-1133
Diners Rendezvous
MONDAY, May 28th, 2012
Doors Open at 6:15 for reservations. Come early for dinner, if you like.
Program starts at 7:00 with the AGM and the open mic
Scroll down for details
about future featured readers.
WordStorm Society of the Arts
Your Current Executive for 2012 - 2013
President: David Fraser
Vice President: Judy Mayhew
Treasurer: Harvey Jenkins
Secretary: Fran Thiessen
Members at Large: Ursula Vaira, Mary Ann Moore, Andrew Brown, Patricia Smekal, Madeleine Nattrass, and Ann Graham Walker
Erin, Kim Clarke, and Valentina Cardinalli
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WordStorm MONDAY, May 28th, 2012
Featured Performers
May 28, 2012
Martha Royea
Martha Royea lives in Gibsons, BC. Poetry is a major passion – reading, writing, hearing, speaking it and
translating poems from the Spanish. Her poems appear intermittently in chapbooks and anthologies,
including several Leaf Press publications edited by Patrick Lane. Her own chapbook, If I Could Pray,
was published by "26 Leaves" in 2007 and reissued by request in 2011. Love Songs for Dead Mothers is still developing.
Liz McNally
Liz McNally is an émigré; part of a large, now distant, Irish family. True to her heritage, she is prone to melancholy and humour in equal measure and feels there’s nothing a great poem or a good song won’t fix.
Liz is an observer. She takes her notebook everywhere to capture the extraordinary poetry of people’s lives in ordinary moments. She has enjoyed the company of other poets in a handful of Chapbooks and dreams of a time when she can say the words “my recently published book of poems”.
Savannah Featherstone
When Savannah Featherstone is not running the contracting business that she and her husband own, you can find her upholstering old chairs or in her art studio combining paper, glue, and paint on different types of canvas. Although she has written poetry off and on since an early age, it has only been in the last few years that poetry has taken a significant and defined place in her creative practice. Savannah lives in North Saanich with her husband, a loyal and neurotic Border Collie and two extremely spoiled felines.
Dan Lundine - Double Lightning Reader Book Launch for Signpost - A Prairie Town
Dan Lundine was born and raised on Vancouver Island. When high schools had tired of him, he joined the RCMP in January of 1962 and was immediately sent to Regina, Saskatchewan to train. After seven years of service, Dan left the force and obtained a teaching degree at the University of Regina. He then taught school for thirty years in Regina, West Germany, and Langley, BC. Upon leaving the classroom, Dan and his wife, Carol, moved to French Creek on Vancouver Island and operated a bed and breakfast for a number of years. They are now retired and living in Qualicum Beach, BC.
Future
Featured Readers/Performers
September 24, 2012
Pearl Luke
Yvonne Blomer
Naomi Beth Wakan
Naomi Beth Wakan has published over forty books including Sex After 70 and other poems and the ALA selection, Haiku – one breath poetry. Her books of essays from Wolsak and Wynn, are Late Bloomer-on writing later in life, Compositions – notes on the written word, Bookends – a year between the covers, and A Roller-coaster ride – thoughts on aging. Her poetry and essays have appeared in many magazines including Geist, Resurgence, Senior Living, Still Point Quarterly and Room. She is a member of The League of Canadian Poets, Haiku Canada and Tanka Canada. She lives on Gabriola Island with her husband, the sculptor, Elias Wakan.
Web Site.
October 29, 2012
Diana Hayes - Book Launch This is the Moon's Work
Author: Diana Hayes studied at the University British Columbia and Victoria, receiving
a B.A. and M.F.A. in Creative Writing. Her published books include Moving Inland,
The Classical Torso In 1980, The Choreography of Desire, and Coming Home
(anthology). Her play, Islomania: Saga of the Settlers, was produced by Salt
of the Earth Productions. She is currently Production Manager for Salt Spring’s
Theatre Alive, a member of Photosynthesis and started the Salt Spring Seal Swim Team
in 2002. Over the past decade, Diana Hayes has expanded her poetic vision
into the realm of photographic dreamscapes and narratives. She divides
her time between writing, photography, producing literary events and working as a professional fundraiser.
This is the Moon’s Work showcases Diana Hayes new work and a selection of poetry from early
out-of print books. Diana’s themes are rooted in both the inner and outer worlds of nature
and the psyche. Many of her new poems have been inspired by her practice of year-round,
ocean swimming. The poems explore the world of Bardo where healing into a new life becomes possible.
John Gould
Patricia Smekal
November 26, 2012
Joe Rosenblatt
Catherine Owen
Kim Clark
January 28, 2013
Gary Geddes
Febraury 25, 2013
Heidi Greco
Emily McGiffin
Nora Gould
March 25, 2013
Jocelyn Shipley
Betsy Struthers
Ann Graham Walker
Wendy Donawa
April 29, 2013
Lois Peterson
Janet Marie Rogers
May 27, 2013
Chris Hancock Donaldson
John Beaton
September 30, 2013
Caroline Adderson
Dawn Kresan
WordStorm will now be held on MONDAY's at 6:30 PM. (Readings start as usual
at 7:00 PM.)
If you have any questions about this WordStorm
or others, please don't hesitate to contact David Fraser at the address below.
To reserve a seat for the evening, email David Fraser at ascentaspirations@shaw.ca.
Cindy Shantz & David Fraser and the WordStorm
Committee
Scroll Down to see who is coming to Nanaimo's WordStorm Stage in future months
Open Mic Winners May 2009): Ben Laurie (First), Kimberley
Thiessen (Second), Winona Baker (Third)
Featured Performer, Susan Stenson (May 2009)
Reservations can be made via email to WordStorm! So far the
trend has been for each WordStorm to almost reach capacity by
reservations alone. If you can't reserve, come early and take
your chances at the door. Reserved seating will take place before
6:30. Walk-in seats will be available after 6:30. Music starts
at 6:30 and the program begins at 7:00.
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WordStorm is an on-going reading series that focuses on all
types of the spoken word: poetry, short fiction, storytelling,
improv, music, song. There are two components of WordStorm -
a prearranged reading series, and an excitingly competitive
spoken word competition. (Reserve a ticket and ask to be an
open mike reader or sign up at the door.) The readings will
always be a mix of genres, and the sign-up for WordStorm can
be either poetry and prose. The key elements will be
quality writing and entertainment. Material read must be the
reader's own work, and be read without props or instruments.
Three judges will be chosen from the audience for each WordStorm,
and audience participation is encouraged. The sign-up for WordStorm
Open Mike can be in advance, by email, and also between 6:30
and 7:00 at the door. Admission is $5.00 at the door.
The money collected will go entirely to prize winners and towards
mimimal operating costs. Acme Food Co. has a capacity of
about 50 people, so don't be disappointed, reserve ahead
by email, or take your chances at the door. All reservations
must be picked up before 6:30 or they will become void, and
spaces will be given out on a first come, first served basis.
No refunds. You can reserve with payment for future events at
the reservation table on any night of WordStorm. Come out to
just listen and be entertained, or sign up to be part of the
entertainment. Everyone is welcome!
From its beginning WordStorm has played to packed houses with
a full slate of readers-some coming from as far away as Seattle,
Vancouver, Victoria, Courtenay, Comox, Bowen Island, Saltspring
Island, Qualicum Beach, Duncan, Ladysmith, Prince Rupert (via
Shawnigan Lake), Protection Island, Gabriola Island, Port
Alberni, Ucluelet, Lasqueti Island, Saskatoon, Errington, Yellow Point, Sooke, P.E.I., Penticton, The Yukon,
and Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia.
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Joe Rosenblatt January 2011
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Kendal Patrick and Alex January 2011
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John Lent at the Nanaimo Centre Stage, October 2009
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Richard
Arnold at the Mermaid's Mug
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Come on out to WordStorm
and set the writing/performing world of Vancouver Island on
FIRE!
Everyone is welcome
to get involved and participate.
Sheri-d Performance Photos
Open
Mike Sign-up
(Guidelines: You have three minutes to read one piece. It is all in good fun,
so bring out your new or old stuff and try it out on our audience. You must sign-up before
the program begins or you will not be on the sheet.)
Prizes
for first, second and third-place winners will be awarded based
on:
quality of content
inspiration and/or entertainment
value
delivery.
Our esteemed panel of judges will be chosen at
random from the audience.
We are always looking for local talent
to read/perform as lightning readers for 5 minutes maximum, unless are featuring a recent publication of a book.
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