Julie Parell Wednesday October 28th 2009

Julie first developed her lust for performing back in Winnipeg.
It was a grey winter in 1999. With not much to amuse herself with she found performance art.
She has since been on the Winnipeg Slam team, written and preformed a comic book called "Steve", featured here and there as well as put out a cd entitled "things i shoulda' said last week". Her recent claim to fame is "Re/Dis/Covey" which is a art show at Gallery Gachet on from Oct.9th to 30th....featuring a spectacular finale on the 30th of performance art with Shamans and all!
She now gets her kicks trying to figure out how being a Shamanic artist can pay the bills!!!
you can contact her with any of your brilliant ideas or comments
at funkiejulie@yahoo.com

RE/DIS/COVERY & SPOILAGE
Oct 9 - Nov 1
Opening Reception Friday, October 9th 7-10pm
Gallery Gachet
88 East Cordova

Multi-media and text based artists and performance poets, Julie Parrell and Shannon Rayne come together to share more than just their love of mixing words with visual mediums. Julie and Shannon through a series of text based mixed media compositions challenge assumptions surrounding the label of weakness often associated with personal addictions.

're/dis/covery' exposes the range of emotions experienced with discovering the effect that addiction has in order to rediscover our own strength and ultimately recover.

Opening reception, October 9th, Gallery Gachet, 7 -10pm
A night of performances and performance art to follow on October 30th.

Technical Craziness with this week's show!

For those of you who listen to Co-op regularly on Wednesdays, you might have heard dead air from about 10:30am caused by an extensive power outage in the DTES. Power resumed almost exactly at 2pm, leaving me and Leela Chinniah station manager, scrambling to reset machines and try to get things churning again. Of course, to make matters worse, the cd I brought didn't read properly either, so folks didn't get to hear the Wayne & Shuster Shakespearean Baseball sketch. I did manage to get a very funny version of Casey at the Bat by Garrison Keillor. That was amazing, but the the show ended up being severely truncated due to technical problems (for once not caused by us), so we likely not put the show up on the site.
We're back in action next week and hope you'll join us.

Steve

"Rob Taylor lives in Vancouver with his wife, Marta. He has been writing poetry since 2003 and his poems have appeared in more than thirty publications, including Sub-Terrain, Rocksalt and A Verse Map of Vancouver. He has released two chapbooks. The most recent,Child of Saturday, is based on his time spent living in Ghana in 2006-07. He co-founded Simon Fraser University's student poetry zine High Altitude Poetry, and One Ghana, One Voice, Ghana's first online poetry magazine. He is also the poetry editor at Red Fez. He likes to write poems about the #20 bus, swimming pools, and the BC Lions."

<  http://oneghanaonevoice.com/2007/06/author-profile-rob-taylor.html  >

 

Daniela Elza is currently a doctoral student in Philosophy of Education at SFU. She has more than 120 poems released into the world. This year her work appeared in Verse Map of Vancouver, Press 1, Vallum, 4poets (Mother Tongue Publishing, 2009) and is forthcoming in educational insights, Matrix, The Trumpeter, The New Orphic Review as well as the anthology Mutanabbi  Street Starts Here (Red Hen Press, 2009). She lives with her family in Vancouver.

<  www.flee.com  >

Wednesday Oct 14, Rob Taylor and Daniela Elza

"Rob Taylor lives in Vancouver with his wife, Marta. He has been writing poetry since 2003 and his poems have appeared in more than thirty publications, including Sub-Terrain, Rocksalt and A Verse Map of Vancouver. He has released two chapbooks. The most recent,Child of Saturday, is based on his time spent living in Ghana in 2006-07. He co-founded Simon Fraser University's student poetry zine High Altitude Poetry, and One Ghana, One Voice, Ghana's first online poetry magazine. He is also the poetry editor at Red Fez. He likes to write poems about the #20 bus, swimming pools, and the BC Lions."

<  http://oneghanaonevoice.com/2007/06/author-profile-rob-taylor.html  >

 

Daniela Elza is currently a doctoral student in Philosophy of Education at SFU. She has more than 120 poems released into the world. This year her work appeared in Verse Map of Vancouver, Press 1, Vallum, 4poets (Mother Tongue Publishing, 2009) and is forthcoming in educational insights, Matrix, The Trumpeter, The New Orphic Review as well as the anthology Mutanabbi  Street Starts Here (Red Hen Press, 2009). She lives with her family in Vancouver.

<  http://oneghanaonevoice.com/2009/02/author-profile-daniela-elza.html  >

Poem by Taylor Mali

Typography from Ronnie Bruce on Vimeo.

Special Event: Poetry for Peace

Poets Against War Canada & Pandora’s Collective
PRESENT AN EVENING OF POETRY FOR PEACE
Sean Arthur Joyce, Daniela Elza, Steven Duncan, RC Weslowski, Robin Susanto, Bonnie Nish, Sita Carboni, Rob Taylor
October 25, 6:30 pm
followed by open mic
Café Montmartre
4362 Main Street,
Vancouver, BC
www.poetsagainstwar.ca
www.pandorascollective.com

October 7th Show

Steve reads from his collection of poetry about sports, RC reads about woodchucks, and Diane reads about a kitchen party! Assorted poems from CD, T.L. Groves and Lisa B (Victoria, Salvaged Music).