Music and Beyond
| July 5, 2012 | to | July 15, 2012 |
Music and Beyond is a new classical music and multi-disciplinary arts festival that presented its first festival in July 2010. Music and Beyond presents classical music in all its forms: orchestras, choirs, bands, wind ensembles and small ensembles. The festival pursues links with other art forms and cultural disciplines and music including visual art, drama, poetry, dance, architecture, science, law, food and wine and even yoga!
Festival Information:
General information: 613.241.0777
General information email: info@musicandbeyond.ca
On the Web:
Website: www.musicandbeyond.ca
Finding their voice – through poetry
Matthew Pearson, Ottawa Citizen
For Liam and teens like him all across Ottawa, spoken word poetry is helping them find their voice and express how they feel about difficult things they face in their lives or the world around them. Depression, suicide, addiction, bullies, broken hearts and stereotypes are all fodder for poems, but so, too, are death, dictators and dearly beloved family members, in this art form that bursts with creativity, energy and emotion.
The budding poets meet over the lunch hour in Phelan’s second-floor classroom, where they fine-tune and perform pieces for each other. They also drop rhymes at school assemblies and many attend monthly poetry slams held at the central branch of the Ottawa Public Library.
Spoken word poetry has flourished in the city since the first national festival was held here in 2004. Ottawa teams have twice won the Canadian slam poetry title and the brand new youth team, which Liam is on, won the top prize at this year’s festival in Toronto.
Full story: Finding their voice – through poetry
Ottawa International Writers Festival, Fall Edition
| October 20, 2011 | to | October 25, 2011 |
Canada’s Festival of Ideas since 1997. The Writers Festival celebrates the world’s best writing from home and abroad with a diverse program that presents interactions with leaders in the worlds of science, history, poetry, politics, spoken word, economics, drama, fiction, biography, music and more. Since 2004 the Festival has consisted of two annual Editions: Spring and Fall.
As reported in the Ottawa Xpress, “Basically, if you’ve thought about it, The Writers Festival has invited someone to discuss it.”
Festival Information:
General information: 613.562.1243
General information email: leslie@writersfestival.org
Location: Mayfair Theatre, 1074 Bank (at Sunnyside) and Southminster United Church, 15 Aylmer Ave (at Bank St.) with select events at other locations.
Tickets: http://writersfestival.org/tickets.html
On the Web:
Website: http://writersfestival.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/ottawa.writersfest
Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/ottawawritersfestival
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/groups/oiwf
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheWritersFestival
Twitter: http://twitter.com/Writersfest
Discussion Forum: http://oiwf.squarespace.com
Map:
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Ottawa slam poets take on national teams in Toronto
Emma Jackson, YourOttawaRegion.com
A team of Ottawa poets is in Toronto this week speaking and slamming their unique form of poetry in an increasingly popular genre.
The five slam poets, led by South Keys resident Sergio “Hyf” Guerra, will perform eight group poems and eight individual poems at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word in Toronto between October 11 and October 15 as part of the fledgling Urban Legends team.
Slam poetry, or spoken word, has grown out of the oral traditions of beat poetry, hip hop and other performance-based art, and is as much about the words as it is the on-stage performance.
Guerra, who performed on the Urban Legends team last year at its first-ever national competition, has been practicing every day at Carleton University with his teammates Prufrock, Just J’maal, Cannon 2x and Brad Morden.
He said Urban Legends poetry is a mix of group poems and individual poems that have been “translated” into group performances. He said they are a very serious group, with “urgent and political” ideas always underlying their words.
Read more on the YourOttawaRegion.com: Ottawa slam poets take on national teams in Toronto
Slam poetry festival sparks up Ottawa
CBC News
The largest gathering to date of Canadian spoken-word poets has begun in Ottawa, with attendees gearing up for verbal fireballs in the event’s main competition.
More than 100 poets from across the country are in town until Saturday for the seventh annual Canadian Festival of Spoken Word.
The first festival, also held in Ottawa, had eight teams competing in its flagship slam poetry competition. This week’s event will see 18 teams, including Capital Slam from Ottawa, serving up lively performances of original poems
Read more: Slam poetry festival sparks up Ottawa
SPEAK UP OTTAWA! The Canadian Festival of Spoken Word returns to the capital – October 12 to 16, 2010
by Jessica Ruano
The Canadian Festival of Spoken Word (CFSW 2010 Ottawa www.cfsw.ca) returns to the capital for the first time since its inception in 2004 with the largest slam-focused spoken word event in Canadian history. From October 12 to 16, 2010, Ottawa will be treated to a wide-ranging display of Canadian slam poetry and spoken word featuring over 100 of the best spoken word poets from 15 communities across Canada.
Over the course of five nights, 18 teams participate in highly competitive poetry slams that will determine this year’s Canadian Slam Champions. Home of the defending champions, Ottawa has two teams – Capital Slam and Urban Legends – attempting to keep the title in the capital this year.
The Canadian Festival of Spoken Word takes place in numerous venues in downtown Ottawa (see the attached press release and schedule for details) from October 12 to 16, 2010. To purchase tickets and passes for the festival, please call 613 301 8648 or email info@cfsw.ca. For more information, visit www.cfsw.ca.
Tickets and Passes
Slams Tues Wed Thurs $10 | Semi-Finals Friday $12 | Finals Saturday $15
Friday & Saturday Pass $20 | Festival Pass $45
Full story appears on OttawaStart: The Canadian Festival of Spoken Word returns to the capital
Italian Week 2010 – National Literary Contest
The Italian Week 2010 Organizing Committee is pleased to announce a National Literary Contest in prose and poetry. The contest is open to Canadian citizens as well as to Italian citizens residing in Canada, with the exception of the members of the Organizing Committee, the panel of judges and their families and relatives.
Participants may submit no more than two texts in each of the following categories:
- Poetry in Italian, maximum 50 lines per poem;
- Short Story in Italian, minimum 2,000 words, maximum 6,000 words per short story;
- Short Story in English or French on an Italian theme: minimum 2,000 words, maximum 6,000 words per short story. (There will be prizes for each language.)
Two copies of each entry must be submitted, only one of which must contain: name, surname, address, telephone number or e-mail.
No fax or e-mail submissions accepted.
Unpublished submissions only.
Submissions will not be returned. A copy of each submission will be placed in the archives of the “Settimana Italiana.”
The Judging Committee intends, with the authors’ permission, to publish the best entries.
Typed submissions must be mailed and post-marked no later than May 14, 2010, to the following address:
Italian Week /
Settimana Italiana
Concorso Letterario
1026 Baseline Road
Ottawa, ON K2C 0A6
Two prizes will be awarded in each category:
1st Prize: certificate and $300.00
2nd Prize: certificate and $200.00
The prizes will be awarded during Italian Week in June 2010.
Under the Patronage of the Embassy of Italy in Ottawa
[Originally posted at Tandem Online]
Website: Italian Week Ottawa
