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World Poetry Celebrates Ramon Flores!

 Ariadne’s Notes:  Join Ariadne Sawyer and Neall Ryon  hosts of World Poetry Café, are pleased to celebrate the Heart of the City Festival with poetry, interviews, creative tips and music. Tonight Ariadne welcomes the multi-talented and fascinating Ramon Flores….. He will be playing a special gig at the newly renovated Russian Hall on Saturday , 7 pm , October 29th, 600 Campbell. FREE!  Go to www.heartofthecityfestival.com for a complete program guide.

Listen to Ramon sing: CLICK HERE!

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Born in Nicaragua – Ramon is a musician, troubadour, songwriter, journalist, director and producer of a morning radio show on Vancouver Co-op Radio called “El Bus de las 7” or “The 7 o’clock Bus”.  Ramon obtained his musical education at the National School of Music in Managua, Nicaragua.  He also studied under the direction of many Cuban including several music award winners. 

He is the founder of a Vancouver-based movement of troubadours called “La Trova Nuestra”.  At present, Ramon is a de master.  As a musician, R

Ramon has travelled through Europe, the Americas and Caribbean – representing the culture of his country.  In Canada, he has performed for more than 25 years with various artists, dedicated singer/song writer – and continues to guide a new generation of artists fighting for social justice through arts and culture.

 

World Poetry Celebrates Michael Mirolla !

 

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Ariadne’s Notes: The World Poetry Café Radio Show with producer and host, Ariadne Sawyer and co-host Neall Ryon with super engineer Victor Schwartzman and volunteer Sharon Rowe welcomed  the Italian-Canadian poet, fiction writer and publisher, Michael Mirolla winner  of the 2016 Bressani Literary Prize on October 27th.

We would like to congratulate him for this award. Also on the show with separate features were Ramon Flores and The Girshevich Trio with pianist Vlad Girshevich  who was speaking about his talented 12 year old son, Aleks who is a drummer on the CD.

To listen to this special radio show:

CLICK HERE!

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The author of a clutch of novels, plays, and short story and poetry collections, MICHAEL MIROLLA describes his writing as a mix of magic realism, surrealism, speculative fiction and meta-fiction. Publications include the novel Berlin (a 2010 Bressani Prize winner); The Facility, which features among other things a string of cloned Mussolinis; and The Giulio Metaphysics III, a novel/linked short story collection wherein a character named “Giulio” battles for freedom from his own creator. Other publications include the short story collection The Formal Logic of Emotion; a punk novella, The Ballad of Martin B.; and two collections of poetry: Light and Time, and The House on 14th Avenue (2014 Bressani Prize). His short story collection, Lessons in Relationship Dyads, which came out last year from Red Hen Press, won the 2016 Bressani Prize. The novel Torp: The Landlord, The Husband, The Wife and The Lover, set in 1970 Vancouver, was published in the Spring of 2016 with Linda Leith Publishing out of Montreal. The short story, “A Theory of Discontinuous Existence,” was selected for The Journey Prize Anthology, featuring the best short stories in Canadian journals for that year; and “The Sand Flea” was a Pushcart Prize nominee. Born in Italy and raised in Montreal, Michael now makes his home in the Greater Toronto Area.

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