Words Radio - CFBU

CFBU has recently added a poetry show to their line up.

The gig is called Words Radio.

You can check out there tumblr here.

The manifesto:

We are Words-Radio, Brock's literature-based Radio Show! As our title would suggest, we broadcast everything related to literature, including poetry, plays, local and visiting authors, everything under the sun!We broadcast every friday 2-2:30 on 103.7 FM and online at cfbu.ca, and if you have any questions e-mail us at wordswordswords@hotmail.ca, or follow us on twitter at www.twitter.com/WordsRadio or facebook at http://www.facebook.com/#!/home.php?sk=group_153610564682584&ap=1

Some good work here. Check out the broadcast and mp3s.

Poetry Event

A group of executive-like students

from

Brock University will be holding

a

Poetry Reading

at

Fine Grind Cafe

on

September 17, 2010

at

7 pm

featuring...

Phil Miletic

Jade Wallace

Helen Tran

Ed Edmonds

Robert Dimmers

Here is the facebook event page, here.

Stick around for the open mic that will follow the event

Grey Borders Reading Series #23...

Grey Borders Reading Series #23...

is proud to present

Christian Bök

CCMC – featuring Paul Dutton, Michael Snow, and John Oswald

screenings of Paul-Émile Borduas (1962) and Artist in Montreal (1954)

and (as if that weren’t enough to blow the roof off) the launch of a new, double issue of

PRECIPICe, Niagara’s literary magazine.

Thursday 1 April 2009 7:00 pm

No Cover, Licensed

The Niagara Artists’ Centre

354 St. Paul Street, St. Catharines

905.641.0331

Thanks to the Humanities Research Institute of Brock University for their generous support.

Please join us for this very special event. How to describe this event? Three ways: 1) it is going to be a great evening of performances featuring two acts that definite the cutting edge in Canadian linguistic and sonic acrobatics. 2) This evening we will be celebrating the launch of the new double issue of PRECIPICe, which is without doubt our best issue to date. Ever. And 3) This event is part of a series of events hitting St. Catharines in tribute to Françoise Sullivan of the Montréal Automatists. Our event features artists working in a field first ploughed in this country by the Automatists. See the attached posters for all the events. Do you really need more reasons to join in the fun?

These bios are not meant to be authoritative, but are intended to whet your interest that you might find out the truth behind these mere words. Go out and buy some books! Buy some CDs! Search the internet and let Google mislead you in all directions! Start here:

CCMC comprises Michael Snow (piano, synthesizer), John Oswald (alto sax), and Paul Dutton (mouth and mouth harp). The band has been cited as Canada's premier non-idiomatic improvisational ensemble, with tours to various parts of the country, to the U.S., and several European countries. See http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0000640 for more.

Christian Bök is the author of Crystallography (Coach House Press, 1994), a ’pataphysical encyclopaedia nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award for Best Poetic Debut, and ’Pataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science (Northwestern University Press, 2001). His book Eunoia won the 2002 Griffin Poetry Prize and is the best-selling Canadian poetry book of all time. Bök has created artificial languages for Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict and Peter Benchley’s Amazon. His conceptual artwork has appeared at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York City as part of the exhibit Poetry Plastique. He currently teaches at the University of Calgary.

The Great Canadian Beaver Ball!

March 12, 2010 is launch of the 3rd annual Great Canadian Beaver Ball.

The Beaver Ball is a series of miniature art projects made by Brock students from Visual Art and Liberal Art disciplines.

My Beaver Ball, Multiple Personality, will be one of the many featured projects.

Location:

Rodman Hall, 109 St Paul Crescent

Doors:

8pm

Students are admitted for free.

I hope to see you there.

Cipher Reading #2 - November 25, 2009

The Brock University Creative Writers' Club Presents...

Cipher Reading #2

Featuring... Oksana Berda, Tom Vaine, Robb Ellison, Rohama Basit, Rob Dimmers, Helen Tran and Phil Militec

Date: November 25, 2009

Place: Fine Grind - 37 James Street, St. Catharines

Time: 7 pm

Photos from the first Cipher Reading...

Eric Schmaltz

Craig Dodman

Neta Gordon and Gregory Betts

Duncan Griffiths; an animal

Emi Morimoto

Katherine Whitehurst

Some of the crowd...

Kris Mills

Emi Morimoto

Kris Mills and some of the crowd

Amanda Grant; last year's poetry prize winner

Cassie Leigh; last year's fiction prize winner

Photo cred to Darryl Block

'looking for trees' release party

here are the photos from last night's launch of brock university's second annual student anthology of poetry and prose. it is called 'looking for trees'. 

blurry Cassie Leigh. 

The crowd. 

Rob Dimmers.

Katherine Whitehurst.

Three quarters of Tom Vaine.

Robb Ellison.

Emily Bednarz, Ed Edmonds and Craig Dodman.

Kris Mills.

Katherine and Rohama selling the anthology.

Thanks to Cask 22, all of the contributors, volunteers, faculty, and the readers who helped make it a successful event. 

Photos Copyright to Eric Schmaltz 2009