the last shindig of the 2010-2011 season

on Thursday, April 21 @ 7:00

so come on down, share with us

your words of wisdom

– in whatever form they be-
during OPEN MIC and  enjoy our

last island-special-guest-artist Orysia Dawydiak.

Orysia Dawydiak began her first novel at the age of eight – it lasted all of twenty pages; hand written on loose leaf paper.  She won the Lucy Maud Montgomery Award for children’s literature twice, and the first story was published in Bountiful Harvest.   A novel excerpt, Thief of Hearts, was published in Water Studies: New Voices in Maritime Fiction.   The complete novel, House of Bears, was published in 2009.  Orysia has also completed  two novels for children and young adults.

All on Thursday, April 21, 2011
Faculty Lounge, Main Building, UPEI
Doors @ 7 Open Mic @ 7:30
MC: Yvette Doucette

Double Trouble OPEN MIC Night

with a theme to take or leave:
How Green Are Your Words?
on Thursday March 17, 2011 @ 7 p.m.

Click to view slideshow.

A L L  are W E L C O M E and ALL
at the Main Faculty Lounge, Main Building, UPEI
Thursday, March 17
Show up/check it out/sign up for open mic: Doors @ 7, OPEN MIC @ 7:30

p.s. most green photos taken at macphail woods, pei

to bring another February event with OPEN MIC

and special-guest-island-artist Dianne Hicks Morrow

Since the publication of her poetry collection Long Reach Home in 2002, Dianne has given readings and writing workshops across Canada. She has read her award-winning poetry and humorous essays on CBC radio, at conferences, and the Labrador Arts Festival. At one unforgettable literacy fundraiser she was the warm-up act for Red Green.

A former executive director of the L.M. Montgomery Institute at UPEI, and a past president of the PEI Writer’s Guild, Dianne now writes and teaches full-time. It delights her that each of her Seniors’ College Life Writing groups still run their own writing groups, the first now in its seventh year. Dianne also offers various writing courses each summer at the PEI School of the Arts in North Rustico.

In 2008 she received the Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Literary Arts on Prince Edward Island. Her non-fiction book Kindred Spirits: Relationships that Spark the Soul contains interviews with 27 Atlantic Canadians about the kindred spirit “elationships” in their lives. Her new book of poetry will be published by Acorn Press in 2011.

A L L are W E L C O M E and ALL
at the Main Faculty Lounge, Main Building, UPEI
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Show up/check it out/sign up for open mic: Doors @ 7, OPEN MIC @ 7:30,
Dianne Hicks Morrow ~9
Beth Janzen: MC

Red Earth Women Presents 2011 continues on Thursday, January 20

with OPEN MIC  and Special-Guest-Island-Artist Kathleen Hamilton.

Kathleen Hamilton is an actress, award-winning playwright, poet, and screenwriter, and author of the hilarious memoir, Sex After Baby: Why There is None.

A L L   W E L C O M E and ALL at the Main Faculty Lounge, Main Building, UPEI

Show up/check it out/sign up for open mic: Doors @ 7, OPEN MIC @ 7:30, Kathleen Hamilton ~9

Liza Jane Oliver will be our Mistress of Ceremonies. YaY!

REWP II: Close to the Heart with OPEN MIC: word, music, and song   next on Thursday, November 18 with OPEN MIC and Special-Guest-Island-Artist  Beth E. Janzen.

Beth E. Janzen is passionate about writing, teaching, and living a vibrant, creative life. The Enchanted House (Acorn: 2006), her first full-length book of poetry, was nominated for the PEI book award in 2008, and her chapbook Night Vanishes was published by Saturday Morning Chapbooks in 2004. She is currently revising a new poetry manuscript entitled Research on My Twin and reviving a short story manuscript called How it Is.
ALL
at the Main Faculty Lounge, Main Building UPEI
Just show up/check it out/sign up for open mic
Doors @ 7. OPEN MIC @ 7:30
Special -Guest-Island-Artist Beth E. Janzen ~9

Our second  season
of word, music, and song
begins on Thursday, October 21
with OPEN MIC
and
Special-Guest-Island-Artist Liza Oliver.

Transplanted from Newfoundland, Liza now lives and works on PEI where she writes fiction, monologues and poetry. She is happy to be a part of PEI’s rich creative community in which she continues to grow as a writer.

Liza has not always called herself a writer but as a child she circled random words in her Child Craft book, read them out loud to herself and called that a poem.

She started calling herself a writer after a series of experiences which started with some innocent journal writing. Liza found herself spicing up her journals, adding parts, and writing about experiences which didn’t actually happen. As a result she had no choice but to call it fiction and thus Liza- the fiction writer was born.

In 2003 she participated in the Community of Writer’s program at Tatamagouche where she learned she is not a poet but loves to dabble and and could potentially have fun with poetry.  She also learned to write what is close to her heart and has not stopped doing just that. Liza writes from a raw and honest space creating real and recognizable characters. Often her Newfoundland heritage seeps into her character’s lives and displays itself in the form of a rich sense of humour.

She participated in a program called Soloworks and discovered that she loves the art of writing and performing monologues.

Liza has read at many local literary events and embraces all experiences to share her work.  She has co-written and performed a comedy skit for for a cabaret during Charlottetown’s Pride festival and has performed in the Vagina Monologues.

Liza was the recipient of an Island Literary Award in 2009 in the short story category. She is currently working on a novel and has a rooted desire to write and perform a one woman show. She is a member of an invaluable group of writing women called the Wild Women Writers. When she is not writing, she can be found sprawled about a rock, or wrapped  around a tree trying to merge with nature.

Liza  lives happily in Stratford with her partner and their dog, a very active Boston terrier named Louis.

SO COME OUT:

Thursday October 21

at the Main Faculty Lounge, Main Buidling, UPEI
Just show up/check it out/sign up for open mic
Doors @ 7. OPEN MIC @ 7:30
Liza Oliver ~9

• bring your wares to sell: ie books, chapbooks, broadsheets, cd’s etc for the red earth women market
• bring snacks to share
• bring bios if you are reading
• bring red/wear red/read red
• or simply just

bring yourself

thursday, june 17
upei faculty lounge, main building
doors 7, sign up for open mic 7:30
tonight’s open mic

co-hosted by Colleen MacQuarrie & patti sinclair

p.s. if you wish to send pictures of your wares, they can be posted on our site

REWP THANKS YOU FOR THE LOVING SUPPORT IN ITS INAUGURAL YEAR

G R A T I T U D E  RAINS ON YOU…..

red earth women presents

special-guest-artist-from Montreal:

myspace.com/moeclarkspokenword

& Moe Clark accompanied by Jeep ~9

Métis sound artist Moe Clark fuses her unique understanding of performance narrative with traditions of circle singing and spoken word. With a background in voice, spoken word, and visual arts, she employs a looping pedal to add multi-layered vocal structures to her performance. Her poetic songs resonate with the power to heal, to celebrate spirit and to connect with authentic purpose.

After her debut album release “Circle of She: Story & Song” (April ’08) Moe toured extensively across Canada and recently made her debut performances in Europe and South America. Feature highlights include performances for the 2009 Maelström ReEvolution Poétique FiEstival in Brussels, Belgium, ’07-’08 Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, the 2008-2009 Diverse as This Land Performances at the Banff Centre, and the 2007 CBC Calgary Poetry Face-Off. Moe has collaborated with artists such as Ian Ferrier and Pharmakon MTL, Kathy Kennedy (Montreal), Sheri-D Wilson (Calgary), and Tanya Tagaq (Nunavut), among others.

Aside from her performance work, she facilitates voice, performance and looping pedal workshops and collaborates in areas of artistic production, composition and festival creation. She co-directed Circle Haiku, a poetry-music video with Emmanuel Hessler and the NFB, released in October 2009, she co-curated and designed Tusarniq, the second annual Indigenous Words, Music & Images festival in Montreal, and most recently she premiered her video poem Intersecting Circles, an award-winning poem from the 2007 CBC Calgary Poetry Face-Off. Moe believes in the power of transformation and the continuum of the oral tradition through active involvement in communities, both locally and internationally.

myspace.com/moeclarkspokenword

POSTER FOR THE red earth women presents moe show: redEARTHwomenMOEshow(3)

Accompanying Moe is Jeep.
Jeep is a singer/songwriter from Moncton, NB. He’s mostly known as the lead singer for two seminal Moncton bands: punk legends “Syntax Error” and indie-poppers “the Great Balancing Act.” Jeep writes his songs from the perspective of an alien who has landed on Earth to observe, yet his “human emotion implant chip” has blurred the line between the observer and the observed.

Beth E. Janzen is passionate about writing, teaching, and living a vibrant, creative life. She is currently leading a poetry manuscript course called Chrysalis and often gives weekend workshops on aspects of poetry and creativity. The Enchanted House (Acorn: 2006), her first full-length book of poetry, was nominated for the PEI book award in 2008, and her chapbook Night Vanishes was published by Saturday Morning Chapbooks in 2004.

Among her many diverse activities, Beth has danced with an improv group at a gallery opening in Holland, shown her artwork in a print-making show in Charlottetown, written the script for an instructional physics video on wave motion, taught Suzuki piano to children in Ontario, fed and cared for horseshoe crabs in a university laboratory, gone dogsledding on a frigid day in Tignish, played in an all-women floor hockey league in Vancouver, and has lovingly taken hundreds of pictures of peeling paint.

She loves living in PEI. Her plans for 2010 involve revising a new poetry manuscript as well as reviving old fiction projects. In the near future, she will be expanding her teaching to include writing mentorship and ESL work. She is looking forward to moving into an office at The Guild in downtown Charlottetown. Beth’s website is http://www.bethweb.ca.

you the reader, get the WHOLE night to read

and because april is poetry month

and you can choose double reading time

you may want to bring some verse of yours

or your fav poet[s]

so bright as those tulips,

thursday, april 15

upei faculty lounge, main building

doors@7 sign up@7:30

red earth women presents reading series is looking forward to
Yvette Doucette as our special guest-island-artist
on thursday, march 18 at upei faculty lounge
doors at 7, and as always, open mic sign-up @ 7:30