TUES SEPT 13
7.30p.m.-9.00p.m.
Homegrown Hamilton, Sky Dragon Centre, 27 King William Str., Hamilton
NOELLE ALLEN is the publisher of Wolsak & Wynn a small press based in Hamilton and is also the chair of the board for gritLIT: Hamilton's Literary Festival. Join us and Noelle for an evening of discussion and interaction.
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Friday, May 13, 2011
PLAY PRODUCTION: LET'S TALK ABOUT IT
TUES JUNE 14. 7.30-9.00p.m. at Bread & Roses Cafe, Sky Dragon Centre, 27 King William Str., Hamilton
MATTHEW BANDURA has had a love of theatre for all his life. He was initially only interested in acting having done 3 years of Theatre Aquarius Summer program (Sweeney Todd, Evita and Grease) and other high school and community plays. At McMaster University he worked as an assistant stage manager for the Honour Performance Series’ Casket Case. The next year he got his first major role in Merit, also part of the HPS. He was then in Black Box Fire’s Man Beast Tango and the Hamilton Fringe Festival’s Purple. Most recently Matthew was one of the directors of Stressed: A Musical Review as part of the Major Production Workshop. He also co-adapted and co-directed The Yellow Wallpaper, which won four awards including Best HPS Production. He is now a graduating with an honour’s degree in English and Theatre & Film.
MATTHEW BANDURA has had a love of theatre for all his life. He was initially only interested in acting having done 3 years of Theatre Aquarius Summer program (Sweeney Todd, Evita and Grease) and other high school and community plays. At McMaster University he worked as an assistant stage manager for the Honour Performance Series’ Casket Case. The next year he got his first major role in Merit, also part of the HPS. He was then in Black Box Fire’s Man Beast Tango and the Hamilton Fringe Festival’s Purple. Most recently Matthew was one of the directors of Stressed: A Musical Review as part of the Major Production Workshop. He also co-adapted and co-directed The Yellow Wallpaper, which won four awards including Best HPS Production. He is now a graduating with an honour’s degree in English and Theatre & Film.
Sunday, April 17, 2011
WORK AND WRITING
TUES MAY10 7.30p.m - 9p.m. Bread & Roses Cafe, Sky Dragon Centre, 27 King william Street, Hamilton.
CHRIS PANNELL gives us an insight into a life on work, writing and more.
Chris Pannell is part of the organizing committee for the Hamilton reading series Lit Live and also serves on the board of Hamilton’s annual gritLiT literary festival. He is a former Treasurer of the Kairos Literary Society, a former Chair of the HARAC Literary Committee, and a former board member of Hamilton Artists Inc.
He has published three poetry books Drive (2009), Under Old Stars (2002) and Sorry I Spent Your Poem (1999). In 2010 Drive won both the Acorn-Plantos People’s Poetry Prize and the Arts Hamilton Poetry Book of the Year. Pannell is also the author of a set of three poetry broadsheets entitled Fractures, Subluxations and Dislocations which won the Hamilton & Region Arts Council poetry book award in 1997.
In 2009 he appeared at Wordfest, the Banff-Calgary International Literary Festival, In 2010, he read at the Authors at Harbourfront Series in Toronto and also at the University of Prince Edward Island. For over fifteen years he has been an active promoter of poetry and creative writing through workshops and public readings, at which he has appeared across Canada and in England.
From 1993 until 2005 he ran the new writing workshop at Hamilton Artists Inc. and edited two book-length anthologies from the group, Your Baggage is in Buffalo and Between a Dock and a High Place. In the fall of 2009 he restarted the new writing workshop and continues to run it to the present day. His poems and articles have been published in many Canadian literary magazines and in England too.
CHRIS PANNELL gives us an insight into a life on work, writing and more.
Chris Pannell is part of the organizing committee for the Hamilton reading series Lit Live and also serves on the board of Hamilton’s annual gritLiT literary festival. He is a former Treasurer of the Kairos Literary Society, a former Chair of the HARAC Literary Committee, and a former board member of Hamilton Artists Inc.
He has published three poetry books Drive (2009), Under Old Stars (2002) and Sorry I Spent Your Poem (1999). In 2010 Drive won both the Acorn-Plantos People’s Poetry Prize and the Arts Hamilton Poetry Book of the Year. Pannell is also the author of a set of three poetry broadsheets entitled Fractures, Subluxations and Dislocations which won the Hamilton & Region Arts Council poetry book award in 1997.
In 2009 he appeared at Wordfest, the Banff-Calgary International Literary Festival, In 2010, he read at the Authors at Harbourfront Series in Toronto and also at the University of Prince Edward Island. For over fifteen years he has been an active promoter of poetry and creative writing through workshops and public readings, at which he has appeared across Canada and in England.
From 1993 until 2005 he ran the new writing workshop at Hamilton Artists Inc. and edited two book-length anthologies from the group, Your Baggage is in Buffalo and Between a Dock and a High Place. In the fall of 2009 he restarted the new writing workshop and continues to run it to the present day. His poems and articles have been published in many Canadian literary magazines and in England too.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
EDMUND WILSON
TUES APRIL 12, 7.30p.m.-9p.m. Bread & Roses Cafe, Sky Dragon Centre, 27 King William Street.
DAVID COHEN will lead a discussion on EDMUND WILSON, the late great American critic, novelist, playwright, journalist, historian.
David Cohen is a writer. He won the Short Article - Non Fiction award at the Arts Hamilton Literary Awards 2010. When not writing, he helps organize activities and events for the Hamilton chapter of Independent Jewish Voices Canada. In the past, he worked as a journalist and publicist. David was born in Montreal, migrated to Toronto in the late sixties and has resided in Hamilton since 1980, where he lives with his wife, the artist Marcia Labelle. Their daughter, Jenny, a mezzo soprano, will give a recital with pianist Michael Rose on May 15 at the First Unitarian Church on Dundurn South. David also gardens, badly, and feeds birds. He loves to cycle long distances and is a fan of bike racing. He has worked as a bike-racing journalist.
DAVID COHEN will lead a discussion on EDMUND WILSON, the late great American critic, novelist, playwright, journalist, historian.
David Cohen is a writer. He won the Short Article - Non Fiction award at the Arts Hamilton Literary Awards 2010. When not writing, he helps organize activities and events for the Hamilton chapter of Independent Jewish Voices Canada. In the past, he worked as a journalist and publicist. David was born in Montreal, migrated to Toronto in the late sixties and has resided in Hamilton since 1980, where he lives with his wife, the artist Marcia Labelle. Their daughter, Jenny, a mezzo soprano, will give a recital with pianist Michael Rose on May 15 at the First Unitarian Church on Dundurn South. David also gardens, badly, and feeds birds. He loves to cycle long distances and is a fan of bike racing. He has worked as a bike-racing journalist.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Saturday, January 15, 2011
THE FUTURE OF POPULAR POETRY IN CANADA
FEB 8, 7.30p.m.-9.00p.m., Bread & Roses Cafe, 27 King William Str., Hamilton.
JAMES DEAHL will lead in a discussion on the future of popular poetry in Canada: a consideration of the prospects for People's Poetry and Confessional Poetry in the 21st century
JAMES DEAHL will lead in a discussion on the future of popular poetry in Canada: a consideration of the prospects for People's Poetry and Confessional Poetry in the 21st century
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
TWO WINGS MAKE A BIRD;TWO SLICES MAKE A SANDWICH
JAN 11, 7.30p.m.-9.00p.m. at the Bread & Roses Cafe, Sky Dragon Centre, 27 King William Str. GARY BARWIN leads in a discussion/workshop on collaborative writing.
Participants get to try different techniques with each other, drawing on a range of different collaborative works.
Participants get to try different techniques with each other, drawing on a range of different collaborative works.
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