red earth women presents hot in winter

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.

old poem, new prose, sing us your song!!

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

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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.

 

red earth women presents reading series is an opportunity for reading outloud-with or without musical accompaniment-written works for established writers and most especially welcomes non-professional writers, emerging writers, aspiring writers,  and ecstatic writers-monthly at the UPEI Main Faculty Lounge. 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 guest artists, with  Tuesday  November 24 bringing us Catherine Owen a poet originally from Vancouver, but now living in Edmonton.

 

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.

red earth women presents: CATHERINE OWEN on Tues. Nov. 24 & as always open mic

catherine owen: november 24

guest-island-artist kele redmond oct 22

Kele Redmond is a young one in the world of literary exhibitions. Although   a published author,Beyond Silence, The Voices of Childhood Sexual Abuse

and a publicist by trade, dipping her words into phrases for others to enjoy is new. Her countless stacks of journals adorning her living room, the first a Holly Hobby lock and key, gold edged, sweetheart given to her by her mom for her 10th birthday, are testimony to her willingness. And so with red earth women presents, she begins anew.

She is a born, not bred, but woven Islander with a significant measure of rural Ontario and foreign lands, tastes, textures and threads sinew-ed through her warp. She began writing to make sense of her world, and yes, still today, though more now to give grace to meaning as she understands it.

She grew up with gazillions of brothers and male cousins and likes that influence on her as well as the resulting ache for that which is shared between girls and women. Over the years, she has made right sure to even out the balance. Her language of choice is  movement and gesture and when a chord is struck in conversation between rhythm, rollick, rhyme, she feels most alive except only in equals to when she gives herself over to prayer.

Her first and most recent works of poetry and meanderings, Lady Girl Woman, is her current focus and from that which she will be sharing.

another sandy-red-night coming up oct 22 with artist kele redmond

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

thanks to all who came out and supported the full complement of the evening.  we had 13 of 16 spots full!

get ready for Thursday,  October 22 with another open-mic

and guest  island-artist kele redmond

10 days until we hoist the red earth women flag on SEPTEMBER 17!

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}

unfolding details about sept 17 et al

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