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Words Aloud 5
Spoken Word and Storytelling Festival
Thursday, Nov. 6 – Sunday, Nov. 9
2008
Our Fifth Year
The 2008 Festival was a resounding success, with stellar artists, amazing workshops, and one of a kind satellite events, including two poetry slams and a full performance of Prokoviev's Peter and the Wolf at Walkerton's lovely Jubilee Hall. We're resting now, but you can still view the schedule and read our artist bios for the 2008 festival. We'll start putting up information about next year's festival as soon as plans are in full swing in January 2009.
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Meanwhile young writers take note . . . To link with the Festival performance of Peter and the Wolf, The South Grey Bruce Youth Literacy Council invited young people to enter a poem or a one page story about wolves. Over one hundred entries were received from across our region.
TO SEE WINNING ENTRIES CLICK HERE.
There were three cash prizes of $100 awarded and one Grand Prize of $150 awarded for poems and short story categories for youth up to 12 years, and 13 to 18 years. Contest judges were impressed by the quality of the entries. "I was blown away by the maturity of the pieces, from poets nine years old and up. I was really excited by the contest results," says Liz Zetlin, Poet Laureate of Owen Sound who was one of the judges.
Winning writers presented their work at the performance of Peter and the Wolf, Nov. 8/08, 1 PM, at the Victoria Jubilee Hall in Walkerton to an enthusiastic audience.
The contest was presented by the the South Grey Bruce Youth Literacy Council in collaboration with the Words Aloud Festival, and sponsored by the QUILL Learning Network, as well as the Public Libraries of Bruce County, Hanover, Owen Sound & North Grey Union, and West Grey.
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Image by Rachel Coyne, Grey Highlands Secondary School. |
Words Aloud is Presented by the Words Aloud Poetry Collective in association with the Durham Art Gallery.
Featured Artist
Don McKay is the winner of the 2007 Griffin Poetry Prize for Strike/Slip, has published 10 previous works of poetry, and is the winner of two Governor General’s Awards. He will be reading at the Tom Thomson and Durham Art Galleries.
To die with style:
as the tree retreats inside itself,
shutting off the valves at its
extremities
to starve in Technicolor, then
having served two hours in a children’s leaf pile, slowly
stir its vitamins into the earth.
To be the artist of mortality.
from "Some Functions of a Leaf" by Don McKay
Camber: Selected Poems . McClelland & Stewart, 2004.
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