Ariadne’s notes: We would like to thank the Richmond Public Library, the poets, participants and the great audience for this .
World Poetry appreciates this special award and will put in on display at World Poetry Canada International Peace Festival, April 4-30th!
World Poetry Richmond Proudly Presents Chinese Voices from the Past, Present and Future.
March 9, 2013, 2-4 pm, Richmond Public Library, 100, 7000 Minoru Gate, Kwok-Chu Lee Living Room on the main floor. Richmond, BC, Canada.
Hosts: Ariadne Sawyer, MA, (co-founder of World Poetry) and Yilin Wang. (World Poetry Youth Team Leader)
First Nations welcome. World Poetry Welcome, On Hearing Monk Jun from Shu Playing His Qin Li Bai (701 – 762) Yilin Wang, Chinese, Elaine Woo, English and Bong Ja , Korean.
Learning from the past: Tommy Tao: Ancient poetry in China . Bio and poems of Li Bai. The art of translation.
Listening to the present: Chinese contemporary poems, song and writing.
Shirley Sue-A-Quan.
Catherine Huiqing Shi.
Jenny Tse.
Grant Hsu :
World Poetry Woven Word Tapestry Let Us Drink by Li Bai : Woven segments in Cantonese, Mandarin , Middle English, English, Tagalog, Nepali, Polish and others. Hopes for the future: WP Youth Team Leader : Yilin Wang.
A multilingual, intercultural event. Free all welcome.