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Vashon Island Events: Vashon Poetry Festival ~ Vashon Island Real Estate

May 22, 2009 at 6:27 am Leave a comment

Starting on Thursday, May 21, and continuing through Memorial Day Weekend, Vashon Island’s first Poetry Festival will take places at venues across town at different venues.  The Festival features poets from local, regional and international homes and is studded with events to appeal to everyone, including readings, workshops, music, an open mic for youth, a dinner, a reverie, and opportunities for Vashon residents to participate in public readings.

The event features Washington’s State Laureate Samuel Green, award-winning Irish poet Tony Curtis, and author and story-teller Michael Meade.

Performances include:

Young Poets Talk Back: 7 PM Thursday, May 21 at Cafe Luna. Free!

Knocking at the Gate: Ecstatic Poetry and Persian Music: featuring Michael Meaade, the Qadim Ensemble and Guests: 7 PM Friday, May 22 at “O”, 188870 103d Avenue SW.  Tickets are $20 and available at the Vashon Bookshop, www.mosaicvoices.org. and at the door.  Food and wine will be available.

Meade will present “Ancient Wisdom Tales.”  The Qadim Ensemble will perform devotional music of the Middle East, including Arabic, Jewish, Turkish, Sufi, Greek and Morrocan music.  Qadim had a tremendous performance last year at Cafe Luna and their return is welcomed and anticipated.

A Community Reading: 3:30 PM, Saturday May 23 at the Land Trust Building.  Free admission.  The event spotlights local and visiting poets.

Raising the Word in Song and Drink~ Irish Poetry and Song: 7 PM on Saturday May 23 at the Red Bicycle.  Free admission.  The event features Irish poet Tony Curtis, Washington ‘s poet laureate Samuel Green, renowned fiddle and guitar player Randal Bays and story-teller and mythologist Michael Meade.

Poet’s Feast ~ Readings and Conversations with the Poets: 6:30 PM Sunday May 24 at the Hardware Store Restaurant.  Tickets are $10 at Books by the Way, Vashon Bookshop and Stranger than Fiction Books.  Samuel Green and Tony Curtis preside.

Reverie for the Living and the Dead: 12:30 PM on Monday, May 25 at Ober Park. Free admission.  The Poetry Fest will herald Memorial Day, led by Michael Meade.  The reverie will begin at Ober Park and proceed to the Poetry Post at the Village Green. 

WORKSHOPS

Emily’s Favorite Measure: 10 AM to Noon on Saturday, May 23 at the Heritage Museum.  This workshop, led by Sanuek Green, explores Emily Dickinsons’s favorite prosaic formula, the “hymnal.”

We Have the Words, Now Let’s Make a Poem: 1 PM to 3 PM Saturday and Sunday, May 23 and 24, at the Land Trust Building.  Participants should bring pens, paper and courage.

Poetry is Not a Gated Community:  1 PM Saturday, May 23 at Vashon Library.  This event is for teens, parents, grandparents and teachers.  This is a free workshop and explores “permission to put stories and images on the page.”

The Art of the Daily: 10 AM to Noon, Sunday, May 24 at the Heritage Museum.  Samuel Green focuses on the skill needed to concentrate on the intimate art of observation in the “every day.”

 For Closet Poets and Poetry Readers:  1 – 3 PM on Sunday, May 24, at Vashon Library (still located at Ober Park!).  Ann Spiers leads participants through examples and exercizes exploring how to read a poem, how poets write for readers and how a poem works.

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