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World Poetry Peace Festival is almost over! Last event April 20th!

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World Poetry Cafe Welcomes Yoshifumi Sakura!

 

The World Poetry Café with hosts Ariadne Sawyer, Vivian Davidson and Israel Moto welcomed Yoshifumi Sakura, a talented poet, musician and composer. Also welcomed back were our two festival hosts from Ghana Michael Kwaku Kesse Somuah and Kwame Yirenkyi and others . PLEASE CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE SHOW.

The World Poetry Café Radio Show needs your help! We are fundraising for the show and need to raise $1,000 per year to keep on the air. If you can become a member of the World Poetry Café, please go to www.coopradio.org and click on membership. Put in the name of the World Poetry Café and your membership will go in our account. As a member, you get three interviews on the radio and a featured poet spot on the www.worldpoetry.ca You will also receive a tax receipt.  Help us to keep the show on the air! We need $1,000 per year to keep our multilingual voices on the show.

Final event April 2oth!

World Poetry Canada International Festival  April 20, 1-4 pm  Lillooet room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. University of British Columbia, 1961 East Mall Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, www.ikebarberlearningcentre.ubc.ca/

    Hosts: Ariadne Sawyer and Yilin Wang.

    A special book launch: First Nations Wanda John-Kehewin “In the Dog House”, published by Talon Books. Navaho flute music by Angelo Moroni. Poetry readings  and open mike time permitting. 

   Music CD Launch, poetry presentation by Japanese composer Yoshifumi Sakura, 

Poetry readings by Bernice Lever, Synn Kune Loh,  Betty Scott, Carla Weaver, Sonja Grgar, Michael Kwaku Kesse Somuah Kwame A. Yirenkyi, Una Bruhns  and others.

  Afghan film: The Broken Destiny of Poetry by Rahmat Haidari and Sajia Hussain (documentary on a young Afghan woman poet and her struggles to survive and write) trailer:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0FPPddB6UY 20 minutes, English subtitles.

   Presentation of  Empowered Award to the well known correspondent Atia Abawi  to her brother and fiancée who are flying in to receive it.

  Join the World Poetry Peace Poetathon official launch as it flows around the world bringing a focus on peace with supportive peace connector partners.

Be sure and visit our amazing displays and those of our partners, get a free gift poem and look at the peace posters of Sattar.

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World Poetry Canada International Peace Festival Opening Was a Great Success!

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Our Peace Gift to the World

 We did it!

The World Poetry Canada International Peace Festival had a wonderful opening as we launched our World Poetry Peace E-Anthology, our gigantic hug for peace at the IK Barber Learning Centre located at the University of British Columbia.

Please share our World Poetry Peace Anthology with all your friends and family and help the words of peace around the world.  Click here to read the World Poetry Peace E-Anthology !

The program was full of music, Rio Samaya Band, dance by the Jasmine dancers ,  a  poetic First Nations welcome, an inspired talk on peace, a short documentary film, Silence, which was well received, and our countdown and connection to the live link on the internet with people from many countries linking up to the free peace  E-anthology around the world.

 It was so exciting to see winners from , Kwaku Kesse Somuah and Kwame Yirenkyi come through the door, read poems and speak on peace. They joined Rio Samaya Band and playing their beautiful and colourful drums as many of us danced.

There are so many people and partners to thank; it is hard to name them all.

A thank you to the E-book team who worked so hard on our beautiful and inspiring book: Carol Knepper, Editor, Heidi Mueller, Duke Ashrafuzzaman for providing the original poems and also adding borders to the gift poems. Yilin Wang who began compiling poems and Ariadne Sawyer for continuing the work as a poem herder. Bernice Lever for putting the Paths to Peace segment and Saleh Mazumder for directing the Internet launch. Yang from our great partner Cinevolution for technical support and many others. Also, a thank you to our talented and special World Poetry Canada International Face-book group for their support and poetic contributions.

 Great thanks to the staff of the IK Barber Learning Centre at UBC for providing us with a home for the month of April and a launching space to share the E-Anthology.

Thanks to the World Poetry Setup Team for helping put up the displays including the great peace posters by Sattar Saberi.  A grateful thank you to the poets Wanda John Kehewin and Helen Bar-Lev who donated their free gift poems. 300 were printed out and are available to anyone who comes to see the gallery display.

The Peace Festival continues on Thursday April 11, 7-9 pm with a Celebration of National Poetry Month. We feature Penn Kemp with her book on Jack Layton, Art in Action and other poets and musicians. 301 Lillooet room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia, 1961 East Mall Vancouver, www.ikebarberlearningcentre.ubc.ca/

As always, we thank our partners in kind:

World Poetry in kind Sponsors and Partners:  Exclusive Media Sponsor: CTV. Print Sponsor: TAN-The Afro News. Partners: Signature partner: Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society, The Vancouver Tagore Society, Jasmine Dance Group, Canada Council for the Arts, The Writer’s Union, Rice Paper Magazine, The Asian Canadian Writer’s Workshop, The Airport Quality Inn Hotel, Aboriginal Writer’s Collective West Coast. Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, University of British Columbia (UBC Library)  World Poetry gratefully acknowledges the support from the City of Richmond.

 

World Poetry Canada International Peace Festival, April 4-30th At UBC!

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Breaking News!

 Award winning Michael Kwaku Kesse Somuah and Kwame Agyare Yirenkyi  are coming to the World Poetry Canada International Festival! They just received their visas!

A message from award winner Saleh  Mazumder our esteemed director of the World Poetry  Peace E-anthology internet launch: “ I am Md Saleh Mazumder. I feel proud to be part of the World Poetry family. There will be one launch at the University of British Columbia 7-9 pm April 4th and an internet launching event, also on April 4th at 7 pm. A participation page has been created on the World Poetry Canada International Facebook page, http://www.facebook.com/#!/WorldPoetrySeries

I Invite all you to join the event and page. If you can’t attend the World Poetry Canada International festival you may share your poems on the Facebook page and we will post poems on the www.worldpoetry.ca site. The download link of the world poetry E-Anthology will be available during the internet launch and grand opening on April 4th  at the University of British Columbia  and on the Internet.  As we help to reach our goal of one step closer to peace, I am eagerly waiting for the festival to get started and wish everyone great success.  I want to thank everyone who has been is working day and night to get the festival off the ground. This festival is an wonderful dedication towards peace.

I will not be able to attend there in person, however I will be there with spirit. All the best to the World Poetry family and all the poets across the globe. Please join us at the Internet Launch. “      Saleh Mazumder.

 

Book on Display at UBC April 4-30th

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photo credits to Doc PenPen!

 

World Poetry Canada International Peace Festival! April 4-30, 2013.

301, Lillooet room at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre. University of British Columbia, 1961 East Mall Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, www.ikebarberlearningcentre.ubc.ca/

Inspire Peace!

Please register at www.worldpoetry.ca  and bring or post a poem on peace, a story about peace, a song, or a dance! Space is limited for all events, so please register early!
All free!

Hosts: Yilin Wang, Ariadne Sawyer and Directors.

Register on line, volunteer, enjoy! Come to one event or all three! For those who cannot be there in person, please send good thoughts for peace!

April 4, Thursday, Grand Opening at the Victoria Learning Theatre (Room 182),  7-9 pm First  Nation welcome by Godwin Barton.   Official World Poetry Peace E-Anthology launches at UBC and on the internet! Post your peace poem, video link, or a few words at: http://www.facebook.com/#!/WorldPoetrySeries

 

Pancho and Sal http://riosamayaband.com/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Read your poem and a poem of a poet that cannot attend. Dance to the delightful music by Rio Samaya Band (Pancho and Sal) and enjoy the beautiful Jasmine dancers.  Watch the World Poetry Exclusive Short Afghan Film: “Silence” by Afghan Youth Poet Sharif Saedi.  Light refreshments.

 

Silence Poster

 

 

 

 

 

April 11,  Thursday, 7-9 pm,301, Lillooet room at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Cross country tour:  Penn Kemp: Jack Layton, Art in Action. Poetry readings: Trevor Carolan, Ruth Hill and others plus international guests. Bring your stories about Jack Layton, poems and thoughts. We acknowledge the support of the League of Canadian Poets, the Guild of Canadian Playwrights and the Canada Council for the Arts. 

April 20, Saturday, 1-4 pm   First Nations Wanda John-Kehewin “In the Dog House”, published by Talon Books. Navaho flute music  by Angelo Moroni. Poetry readings by Bernice Lever and others.   Music/ poetry presentation by Japanese composer Yoshifumi Sakura.

Afghan film: the Broken Destiny of Poetry by Rahmat Haidari and Sajia Hussain (documentary on a young Afghan woman poet and her struggles to survive and write) trailer:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0FPPddB6UY

 

Broken Destiny of Poetry film.

 

Join the World Poetry Peace Poetathon official launch as it flows around the world bringing a focus on peace with supportive peace connector partners.

 

Filipino Poets by Jaypee
 

Displays: April 4-30th. Peace Posters by Sattar Saberi, Doc PenPen, Jaypee Belarmino and poets, M&M, Mirwais Janbaz ,World Poetry and partners.

Painting by Mirwais

 

 

 

 

 

Awards to international guests and local empowered poets.

Our wonderful partners in kind: Exclusive Media Sponsor CTV, Cinevolution, Ricepaper, Vancouver Tagore Society, Signature Partner: VAHMS,  explore ASIAN,  Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at UBC, www.ikebarberlearningcentre.ubc.ca/ The Jasmine Dance Club, Asian Canadian Writer’s Workshop, TAN, the Afro News and the City of Richmond.

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