Some happenings to put in your calendar:
Jannie is the Northern Alberta Canadian Authors Association Writer in Residence for 2011-12. She will be available to consult with CAA members and writers from the general public on their work, starting from September 15. Jannie will be at Audreys Books, Edmonton over the lunch hour on Wednesdays -- writers can drop in to arrange for meetings, as well as to drop off or pick up work. The actual consultations will take place at mutually convenient locations around the city, or through e-mail correspondence. Find out more at
http://www.canauthorsalberta.ca/writers-in-residence
Falling Blues longlisted for the 2011 ReLit Award.
Jannie's book Falling Blues has been shortlisted for the 2011 Writers Guild of Alberta Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry along with Robert Kroestsch, Tim Bowling and Alice Major.
Check out the rich schedule for the 2011 Edmonton Poetry Festival at http://www.edmontonpoetryfestival.com/?s=headliners
Jannie and Mark Edwards will perform in the Poetry and Jazz for a Spring Afternoon at the Artery on Saturday, April 30 from 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. They will be joined by percussionist Dale Mays. Also featured on the bill are poet John Lent and his bassist brother Mike Lent and performance poet Paul Dutton.
Jannie's poem "I Have Five Things to Say" is featured on Edmonton Transit's 2011 Take the Poetry Route project, along with fellow Edmonton poet Tim Bowling, Griffin Award-winner Karen Solie of Toronto and world slam poetry champion Ian Keteku of Ottawa.
Jannie will be teaching a writing course, Writing Play, Discovery and Invention, as part of the University of Alberta's 2011 Women's Words Summer Writing Week, June 6-10. For more information, go to www.womenswords.ca
Jannie will be reading as part of Frontenac's Dektet readers at Revival Bar in Toronto, Wednesday, September 22 @ 7 p.m.
http://www.revivalbar.com/location.html
Black Stilt Poetry Series, 1633 Hillside Avenue, Victoria. Friday, November 19 @ 7:30 p.m. with Michael Kenyon.
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Frontenac House celebrates 10 memorable years of poetry publishing with 10 exceptional poetry books.
Dektet 2010
Door prizes, refreshments and outstanding poetry. Be part of the fun!
Edmonton
April 27, 7:00 pm
Stanley A. Milner Library Theatre
#7 Sir Winston Churchill Square
Calgary
April 29, 7:00 pm
The final event of Calgary International Spoken Word Festival.
John Dutton Theatre, The Central Library
616 Macleod Trail SE, T2G 2M2
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From the page to the stage. . .
3 performances by Edmonton`s Prosperous Tangueros Consortium of Jannie
Edwards' Blood Opera: The Raven Tango Poems as part of the 2010 Workshop West Canoe Festival at Cite Francophone Theatre 8127 91 St., Edmonton
January 20 -- 7 pm
January 21 - 10 pm
January 22 - 9:30 pm
For more information, visit the Workshop West website. Tickets at the
door or order online at http://www.workshopwest.org
Tango - the definitive dance of sexual tension. Intense, deadly
serious, multi-faceted.
Raven - does not give a fig about complexity or dance. Takes a beak to
the balloons of human ego and pretentiousness. POP! Hop. Squawk.
Narrative, imagery and Argentine tango interweave in Blood Opera to create a luscious dance of word and flesh. The words come from award winning poet Jannie Edwards' book of the same title. The piece is structured like a songbook, so it can take us from Judas and aging Sirens stuck in the hermetic cootsville of an old folks home, to pornography and prairie family dinners, to a High Noon shootout between Poe’s Raven and the Tango Raven, to epic prairie sunsets.
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Launch of Falling Blues at the Calgary International Spoken Word Festival, April 25 and 26, 2010 and in Toronto May 5 and 6, 2010.
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