500 Foot Chicken Heart Attacks June 1!

Date: June 1,  2010

Café Deux Soleils - 2096 Commercial Drive, Vancouver, BC

Time: 8:30pm - 11:00pm

Cost: Suggested donation of $5-10.

Radio Show Recreates Unnatural Disaster of Epic Proportions

Vancouver, BC - Return with us to the thrilling days of 1937, when the Hindenburg and Amelia Earhart had folks rethinking air travel for the first time.  In the movies Clark Gable didn’t give a damn and the golden age of radio drama was in full swing.

Wax Poetic Radio proudly takes you there with a one-of-a-kind live event on Vancouver’s Commercial Drive in support of CFRO Vancouver’s Independent Cooperative Radio Station.  

Experience the spine tingling glory of “The Chicken Heart” - a frenetic tale about a lab experiment gone terribly wrong, written by legendary radio writer/producer Arch Oboler .

The original “Lights Out” version left such an impression on funny man Bill Cosby, that he recounted his experience of hearing it for the first time on his “Wonderfulness” album in 1966 (You can hear Cosby’s version here).

You can hear the original NBC broadcast of “The Chicken Heart”  here on YouTube.

Then keep tuning in to Wax Poetic and hear it broadcast on a future program. Like all our shows, we’ll also be storing the episode online to hear and share at your convenience.

We have an ever growing lineup of cast members including Martin Vansteingburg, SR Duncan, Diane Laloge, Alla Shiskov, Aedan Saint, Norah Holtby, Chris Gilpin, Duncan Shields and RC Weslowski--with music by CJ Leon and sound effects by YOU THE "STUDIO AUDIENCE."Plus, we’ll have performances by:

Come be a part of radio history and support your favorite spoken word program, Wax Poetic!

Vancouver Youth Poetry Slam team member and Wax Poetic Volunteer Paul Fischer, Duncan Shields, and your hosts Diane Laloge and S.R. Duncan

And a special onstage interview by The Vancouver Storyteller Society’s Naomi Steinberg

 Plus, door prizes, 50/50 draw, and SR’s world famous meat draw (guess what he’ll be giving away!)

For more information check out our website:  www.poetryradio.blogspot.com or our Facebook page : http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000861893901#!/waxpoeticradio?ref=ts

Or contact Steven R. Duncan at 604-788-8340 or srduncan@shaw.ca.

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

Special Event: Wax Poetic/Co-op Radio Fundraiser

YOU'RE INVITED TO A POETRY PARTY/FUNDRAISER

TUESDAY APRIL 7TH

@

CAFÉ DEUX SOLEILS

STARTING AT 7:30PM

FOR WAX POETIC AND CO OP RADIO 102.7 FM

http://www.poetryradio.blogspot.com/

http://www.coopradio.org/

WE WILL BE RAISING MONEY FOR THE SHOW AND THE STATION

(BECOME A MEMBER)

WITH FEATURED PERFORMANCES BY

TANYA EVANSON

http://www.mothertonguemedia.com/

ROWAN LIPKOVITS

SUSAN CORMIER

DUNCAN SHIELDS

DANIEL MARK PATTERSON

AND

AN INTERVIEW AND READING BY VANCOUVER'S OUTGOING POET LAUREATE

GEORGE McWHIRTER

WE WILL ALSO HAVE A POETRY OPEN MIC FROM 7:30-8PM

THERE WILL ALSO BE A MEAT DRAW!

A 50/50 DRAW FOR SOME COOL POETRY PRIZES

WAX POETIC IS YOUR WEEKLY APPOINTMENT WITH THE MUSE

WEDNESDAY FROM 2-2:30PM

WITH YOUR HOSTS

DIANE LALOGE, SR DUNCAN AND RC WESLOWSKI

ON CO OP RADIO 102. 7 FM