

red earth women presents reading series
on Thursday, February 18 brings us more open-mic opportunity
and special guest island-artist Margie Carmichael, a songwriter, storyteller, and musician, well known and respected in the various entertainment circles of PEI.
Her full length play “Raining Cats and Daughters” which toured Nova Scotia and PEI in 2002, is part of the 2010 season at King’s Playhouse in Georgetown. Since launching “And My Name Is….Stories from the Quilt” in 2006 (Acorn Press) Margie has been digging and uprooting; giving her muse some fresh air. You can expect a few new draughts of Margie’s at red earth women presents
We also have first time special guest mc Erica Stanley joining us.
Some interesting things about Erica are:
- Born and raised in Charlottetown
- 5 year hiatus in US and Mexico
- Graduate of UPEI (Psychology)
- Currently employed at UPEI as International Student Advisor, since 2008
- Lives with her two children, Marianne and Fineas, ages 5 & 7
all on: Thursday, February 18, twenty-ten
at UPEI Faculty Lounge, Main Building.
Doors @ 7. Sign-up @ 7:30. You got five minutes.
happy new year
red earth women presents reading series
connoisseurs and samplers!!
on thursday, january 14th we start the year off with guest local artist laurie brinklow
Laurie is a writer and editor, and publisher of Charlottetown’s Acorn Press, which she started in 1993. Her poetry has won the Atlantic Poetry Prize, and was published in the chapbook, Scars (Saturday Morning Chapbooks). She was a co-founder of the Island Literary Awards in 1988, was the founding president of the PEI Writers’ Guild in 1989, and received the Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Literary Arts in PEI in 2002. She currently works full-time as Publications Co-ordinator at UPEI.
AND AS ALWAYS, the night will start off with OPEN MIC. Doors @ 7. Sign-up @ 7:30.
UPEI Faculty Lounge, Main Building
Thursday, January 14, 2010
more info: motherspace@gmail.com
THURSDAY
December’s 17th’s
red earth women presents
reading series
draws upon the theme of winter solstice
with our guest Mistress of Ceremonies and a writer herself
Dr. Colleen MacQuarrie.
In the spirit of the season
we not only invite you to bring
your delicious poems or prose
to share, we invite you to bring edible
treats for sharing as well.
Doors at 7, sign-up for OPEN MIC at 7:30
Faculty Lounge, Main Building, UPEI, THURSDAY December 17.
![DSC00812[1] guest artist from away catherine owen](http://redearthwomenpresents.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/dsc008121.jpg?w=112&h=150)
Catherine Owen has been published in literary magazines across Canada, Germany, Britain and Australia and been translated into Korean, Italian and Turkish. She has six collections of poetry out from Exile Editions, Wolsak & Wynn, Mansfield and Anvil Press, and plays bass/sings in two metal bands.
The book she’s touring is called Frenzy, a sequence of muse-quests published by Anvil Press in Vancouver. Frenzy follows archetypal and personal artists as they seek sources for creation in relationships, travel, music, myth and nature. The poems range in form from the “flood-ghazal” a reinterpretation of the 9th century Persian lyric, to a series of prose poems and a long piece that details a photographer’s pilgrimage down a West Coast beach to find the source of her desire to remain an artist in this world.
Catherine looks forward to returning to PEI, the place where her ancestors first arrived in Canada over 200 years ago.
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red earth women presents reading series is an opportunity for reading outloud
{with or without musical accompaniment}
written works for both established writers
and most especially welcoming to non-professional writers
running smoothly & monthly at at the UPEI Main Faculty Lounge. {Main Building}
With doors at 7, sign up at 7:30 for about 15 readers at 5 minutes each
it is a open mic series mixed with
featured guest artists from away, and artists from the heart of the Island
October brings us Kele Redmond from PEI
and November 24 brings us Catherine Owen
whose ancestors came from this Island
first night results
2009
S E P T E M B E R 17
@ 7
is all you need
remember
AND a few WORDS and
you as witness
cuz you don’t have to read
but you might want to
so bring them

JUST IN CASE
{photo by wendy joy}
warming up to the launch of red earth women presents reading series on sept. 17 @ 7 @ upei faculty lounge
- one poem or prose piece
- a 5 minute time limit per reader
- doors at 7, sign up 7:30, reading shortly thereafter
- can pick your slot, ie first or second set and approx. order
- first come first served sort of speak
- can have musical accompaniment
- might have drummer available for improv
- [wish to have a red earth women presents

sn shields
band eventually]
- or bring your own
- no experience necessary;]
some passion about ‘outloud’ reading is in the air
thanks all
patti & co



![DSC00812[1] guest artist from away catherine owen](http://redearthwomenpresents.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/dsc008121.jpg?w=225&h=300)

