The
Summer Dream Literary Arts Festival is an annual,
engaging, outdoor festival established to raise public awareness regarding the
on-going literary events, programs and resources available in the community.
In 2007 the festival was
located in beautiful Stanley Park at
Lumberman’s Arch on Saturday July 21st from 12:00 to 7:30pm
(see map below).
This literary celebration was
comprised of performances by twenty literary groups, including multi-cultural
readings in various languages, a Poetry Slam and a Story Slam competition to be
judged by attendees. Entertainment also included
dancers and musical performances. There was
also a children’s area with puppet shows, music, story
tellers, face painting and a craft table.
Throughout the day we offered
workshops, a panel discussion, a creativity table for
crafts and writing, a poetry contest, open mic readings and information
tables showcasing community groups and resources such as the Vancouver Public
Library and The Federation of BC Writers.
Vancouver
Poet Laureate, George McWhirter, did the
opening reading at the Festival. The schedule,
sponsors and participants are listed below.
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Main Stage:
Hosts: Bonnie Nish, Sita
Carboni, Kyle Hawke, Trevor Spilchen
12:00 – 12:20 Announcements & Guest Reader:
Vancouver Poet Laureate, George McWhirter
12:20 – 12:40 Poetry Readings:
High Altitude Poetry - Jessica
Bruhn, Rob Taylor, Stephanie Gan,
Burnaby Writers Society -
James Lewis, Dianne Tucker (Congratulations to the
Burnaby Writers Society!
They are celebrating their 30th year.)
12:40 – 12:50 Story Telling:
Cric Crac - Bill
McNamara
12:50 – 1:10 Poetry Readings:
Wax Poetic - Steve Duncan, RC Weslowski, MSA Poets Potpourri Society
- Shelley Haggard, Jaye Low
1:10 – 1:20 Tribute to
T. Paul
Ste. Marie and Shulamit Joffre:
RC Weslowski, Erse Yagan
1:20
– 1:40 Announcements
(Workshop 1:30 - 3:00pm: Sharing Your Travel Tales
with Ruth Kozak... details below)
1:40
– 2:10
♫♫ Tea:
Tea
Petrovic &
Michael Dewey
2:10
– 2:40 Panel Discussion: Poetry, fiction,
non-fiction…what does the form matter, all forms are all made of words,
sentences, lines, the way the human genome is made up of cells?
Panelists: Vancouver Poet Laureate George McWhirter,
subTerrain editorial collective member and author
Robert Strandquist, The Federation of BC Writers Board President Jan Drabek,
Awarding Winning Poet, Fran Bourassa and Boxcar Poetry
Review Editor Neil Aitken.
2:40 – 3:10 Poetry Readings: Word Whips Writing
Series - Bonnie Nish, Daniela Elza,
The Shoreline Writers -
Sue
McIntyre,
Poetry Plus -
Leanne Padgett
and guest
3:10 – 3:30 World Poetry Readings (In English,
Spanish, Yoruba, Kurdish, Yagalog and Croation)
Ariadne Sawyer, Alejandro-Mujica-Olea, Ola Tawose,
Zara Candu, Anita Aguirre Nieveras, Ibrahim Honjo
3:30 – 3:50 Announcements & Dancers: Story Dance
Performance by Night and Day Dance - Diane Garceau & David Yates
(dancers), Trina Ferguson (narrator),
(Workshop 3:30 - 5:00pm: Basic Chapbook Design and
marketing with SR Duncan... details below)
3:50 – 4:20 Poetry Readings:
Word Whips North Shore Edition - Fran Bourassa, Christie Hill, Jaimie
Ireland, Neil Aitken,
North Shore Writers -
Wayne
Smith, K.C. Dyer, Poetry Around the World
-
Lucia
Gorea and Kyle Christensson
4:20 – 4:40 Music and Spoken Word:
The Main Street Slam
- Trevor Spilchen,
Father Goose" Wilson,
Spillious Speak and Sing
-Trevor Spilchen,
Sue Cromier
4:40 – 5:00 Story Slam
Competition (Audience Judges): Host -
Ivan Penaluna. Competitors - Ross Bragg, Don Simpson
5:00 – 5:20 Announcements
(Workshop 5:00 - 6:30pm: Creative Dreaming with
Ariadne Sawyer... details below)
5:20 – 5:50
♫♫ Melic
Thrum: Chad York & Mike Peacock
5:50 – 6:10 Open Mic Readings:
Brenda Brink, Rudolf Penner
6:10 – 6:40 Poetry Readings:
Eastside Writers -
Brian
Nelson, 57
Varieties -
Rowan Lipkovits,
Richard Let, Justin Ray
6:40 – 7:00 Vancouver
Poetry Slam: RC Weslowski,
Olivia Berger-Hawthorne, Andrew Pendragon, TL Groves
7:00 – 7:30
Closing Announcements
Additional Activities…
Poetry Contest
&
Creativity Table:
Write your poem on the spot or
bring one from home:
We had a
Word Whips Creativity Table complete with paper, pens, writing prompts, and arts
and crafts. Attendees were able to test their
imagination and get their hands dirty with a little
poetry.
Workshops:
SHARING YOUR TRAVEL
TALES
Facilitated by Ruth Kozak, member of The BC
Association of Travel Writers.
Time: 1:30 - 3:00pm Cost: $25.00
Please pre-register - contact:
ruthaki1@shaw.ca,
http://wynnbexton.blogspot.com,
http://travelthroughhistory.blogspot.com
How to write about your travel adventures and
create interesting travel blogs and journals.
Share your travel adventures in stories or travel
journals. This workshop will show you how to write your travel stories as
creative-non fiction stories or memoirs and how to create interesting travel
blogs or journals while you're on the road.
Ruth Kozak is a travel journalist and member of the
B.C. Association of Travel Writers. She teaches travel writing for the VSB
Continuing Education.
BASIC CHAPBOOK
DESIGN & MARKETING
Facilitated by poet, performer,
and long-time graphic designer, S.R. Duncan.
Time: 3:30 -5:00pm Cost: $25.00
Please pre-register - contact: srduncan@shaw.ca
or
http://thedriveisalive.blogspot.com/.
Be your own publisher. Join the
ranks of literary giants like Hunter S. Thompson, and Ray Bradbury
and learn how to create a chapbook (your very own professional-looking published
booklet) step-by-step, from editing through basic graphic design, right through
to distribution.
We go on to look at the benefits and pitfalls of
self-publishing, offer various modern and rare examples of this ancient type of
publication, give you tips for marketing and publicizing your book on a
shoestring budget!
A basic knowledge of computers and word processing programs
like Microsoft Word is required. Reference material provided.
CREATIVE DREAMING
(Please pre-register
- Space is limited!)
Facilitated by Ariadne
Sawyer, Co-founder of The World Poetry Reading Series and Radio Show.
Time: 5:00 - 6:30pm Cost: $25.00
Please pre-register - contact:
ariadnes@uniserve.com or visit:
www.ariadnescoaching.com
This 1 ½ hour
workshop will provide: Techniques for creating a Dream Poetry/Writing
Journal. Focused creative dreaming techniques for poetry, music, art and
writings. Using focused dreaming to create. Using day dreaming as a bridge to
the unconscious. Day dreaming poetic/writing exercise.
Bring paper,
pens and your imagination! Ariadne Sawyer, MA, C.P. has spent 12 years studying
the brain and human behaviour. She specializes in creativity and has worked as a
consultant to musicians, writers, painters, poets, dancers and even
photographers. She is the host and producer of the popular short radio program
Creativity Rocks on the World Poetry Café, CFRO. 102.7 FM which is heard around
the world by internet and satellite. Currently, she is facilitating a Creative
dreaming Research Project.
Her latest book
is: The Best of Creativity Rocks! Answers to Your Creative Questions by
World Poetry Publishing.
Panel Discussion:
Panel Discussion: 2:10 – 2:40pm
on the Main Stage
Poetry, fiction, non-fiction…what does the form matter, all
forms are all made of words, sentences, lines, the way the human genome is made
up of cells?
Panelists: Vancouver Poet Laureate George McWhirter,
subTerrain editorial collective member and author
Robert Strandquist, The Federation of BC Writers Board President Jan Drabek and
Awarding Winning Poet, Fran Bourassa. Mediated by poet and Executive
Director of Pandora's Collective, Bonnie Nish.
George McWhirter is the first
Vancouver Poet Laureate. A Vancouver resident since 1968, George McWhirter was
born in Belfast where he received his B.A. from Queen's University. His
extensive teaching experience has taken him from Kilkeel, Bangor, County Down to
the University of Barcelona's Escuela de Idiomas to Port Alberni and finally UBC
where he was Head of the UBC Creative Writing Department from 1983 until 1993
and where he earned a Killam Prize for teaching. An author of six books of
poetry, two poetic works in translation, five short stories and three novels,
McWhirter has been the Advisory Editor for PRISM international magazine and has
edited several anthologies.
Robert Strandquist’s books
include the novel The Dreamlife of Bridges (Anvil Press), and two short
story collections, The Inanimate World and A Small Dog Barking
(Anvil Press). And, his work has appeared in subTerrain, The Capilano
Review, Prairie Fire, Fiddlehead, Grain, Event,
and Canadian Fiction Magazine. Mr. Strandquist is a former 3-Day Novel
contest judge, and currently sits on the editorial collective of subTerrain
Magazine and has guest edited several issues. He holds an MFA from the
University of British Columbia where he worked with George McWhirter, Robert
Harlow, and Doug Bankson. At the University of Victoria, where he received his
BA, he worked with Robin Skelton, Lawrence Russell, and Derk Wynand. Mr.
Strandquist grew up all over BC, and now resides in Vancouver.
Jan Drabek grew up in
Czechoslovakia, Germany, France and the United States, then immigrated to Canada
in 1965. Since then he has studied at the University of BC and Simon Fraser
University, served as the chair of the BC Federation of Writers and the BC
Caucus of the Writers Union of Canada, and written prolifically. His articles,
stories and translations have appeared in many publications. He is the author of
15 books of both fiction and non-fiction, in two languages, including his last
year's memoir His Doubtful Excellency, The Golden Revolution and The Statement.
He wrote and produced Father's Return to Auschwitz, a 1985 documentary
film. Mr. Drabek is currently the President of the Federation of
BC Writers.
Fran Bourassa’s
poems
have been included in various publications including the anthology Breaking
the Surface, where
five acclaimed
Canadian poets - Marilyn Bowering, Lorna Crozier, Susan Musgrave, Linda Rogers,
and Patricia Young - selected 12 protégés to showcase their own work alongside.
Her
poems
have also
gained her recognition in contests -
first
place in The
North Shore Writers Festival
poetry contest and first place (twice) and honourable mentions in Pandora's
Collective poetry contests.
She
has
attended the BC Festival of the Arts
and has been a part of Word on the Street. She works at
Windsor House Elementary Alternate Program in North
Vancouver. Fran is
co-host of
Word
Whips The
North Shore Edition.
Neil Aitken
served as the co-editor of
CRATE, the graduate literary journal at the University of California,
Riverside. An award-winning poet, his work has appeared or is forthcoming in
Crab Orchard Review, The Drunken Boat, Poetry Southeast, Southwester, and
Washington Square. His poem "Adrift" won the 2004 Prairie Poetry Friends' Award,
and his manuscript, The Lost Country of
Sight, placed as a semi-finalist for both the
2005 Brittingham-Pollak Prize Poetry Series (University of Wisconsin Press) and
the 2006 Elixir Press Poetry Awards. Neil is the founder and editor of Boxcar
Poetry Review (http://www.boxcarpoetry.com/).
Information Tables:
Three Day Novel Contest
Bolts of Fiction – Story Slam
Burnaby Writers Society
Canadian Authors Association
CWILL
Federation of BC Writers
High Altitude Poetry (SFU)
Joy Kogawa House
MSA Poets Potpourri Society
The North Shore Writers
Pandora’s Collective
Poetry Around the World
John Robert Powers
Room
Vancouver Poetry House
The Vancouver Public Library
Wax Poetics
The World Poetry Reading Series
Wax Poetics
Children’s Stage:
Hosts: Bonnie Nish, Sita
Carboni, Mary Duffy, Julian Legere,
RC Weslowski,
12:00 – 12:30 Music:
Robert Stelmach - a.k.a. Max Tell accompanied by Chris Kelly
12:30 – 1:00
Tradewind Books:
Tiffany Stone
1:00 – 1:30
Crafts & Poetry :
showcasing poetry and crafts from the craft table
1:30 – 2:00
Music: David
Campbell
2:00 – 2:30 World
Poetry – “Poetry Tree” Readings
2:30 – 3:00
Puppets on Parade:
Mary Duffy, The Vancouver Public Library
3:00 - 3:30 VPL
Book Camp Readers
3:30
– 4:00 Music: Robert Stelmach -
a.k.a. Max Tell accompanied by Chris Kelly
4:00 – 4:30
World Poetry –
“Poetry Tree” Readings
4:30 – 5:00
Author: James
McCann
5:00 –
5:30 Author:
K.C. Dyer
5:30 -- 6:00
Music: Rowan
Lipkovits
6:00 – 6:30
Harry Potter Read
In: with Mary Duffy and
Rudolf Penner
6:30 –7:00
Closing Announcements
Additional Activities…
WORLD POETRY
“POETRY TREE” WRITING TABLE
(For Young Writers)
The World Poetry Readings Series
invites you to write a poem and add it to the “Poetry Tree".
Then, if you like, you can read it during the World Poetry – “Poetry Tree”
Readings. Volunteers will be at the table for support and suggestions.
Children can write a poem, decorate it and hang it up to create a poetry forest.
Twice during the day, they will have the opportunity to read their work or have
a friend or family member read it for them.
HARRY POTTER READ IN
Bring your
favourite Harry Potter book, dress in costume, take your turn at winning prizes.
PANDORA’S
COLLECTIVE
FACE
PAINTING & ARTS & CRAFTS
(For Young Writers)
Visit the Pandora’s Collective
Arts & Crafts table and make a masterpiece. Activities will include, puppet
making, create a collage, kite design, drawing and writing, card design and
water colour painting.
Festival Sponsors:
(The
sponsors list will be updated shortly. Thanks to all our sponsors for their
support.)
Grants:
2007 Celebrations
Grant c/o The City of Vancouver
and
The Office of Cultural
Affairs - $4000
Financial Donations:
Burnaby Writers Society $75
Federation of BC Writers $100
Leila Kulpas $100
Irene Livingston $100
Matrix Production Services
$962
James McCann $100
Quills
Canadian Poetry Magazine $100
Joyce Statton $100
Gifts in Kind:
Performers
Gifts:
All India Restaurant
(gift certificate)
Army and Navy (saddle bags)
BC Poetry
(gift bags & CDs)
Book Warehouse
Capilano Review (60 issues)
Kempton Dexter (3
CDs)
The Dish (gift
certificates)
The Fountainhead Pub
(gift certificate)
Garden Health (gift
bag)
Geist (100 issues)
Great Clips (gift
certificates)
Hamburger Mary's (gift
certificate)
Little Sister's Book Store
James McCann (books)
Belinda Pang (gift
basket)
Quills
Canadian Poetry Magazine (6 issues)
Room (books)
Safeway (gift
certificate)
Starbucks (coffee)
Sub Terrain (100 issues)
Taki's Taverna (gift
certificate)
Three Day Novel
Contest (books)
Mark Tompkins (3 books)
Tradewind Books (books)
Upstart Crow Books
(gift certificate)
Vancouver Review
(100 issues)
Site
Equipment:
Industrial Pacific
Alliance (2 tents)
Tendu (tent)
Vancity (tent)
Supplies and
Misc:
Artvark Type and Design (poster design)
BC Poetry
(balloons)
Demarc Systems
(electrical services)
Industrial Pacific
Alliance (printing)
Nesters Market (complimentary water
bottles for performers)
Sue McIntyre
(complimentary water bottles for performers)
Volunteers:
Phyllis Bassett, Fran Bourassa, Jessica Bruhn, Una
Bruhns, Gwen Barkauskas, Kyle Christensen, Jane Currie, Diego Del Mar, Ali
Denno, Rebecca Denno,
Mary Duffy, Steve Duncan,
Daniela Elza, Trina Ferguson, Ryan Fletcher, Mary Gavin, Stephanie Gunn,
Kyle Hawke, Amanda Hartley, Stephan Karr,
Ruth Kozak, Julian Legere,
Rowan Lipkovits,
Franci Louann, michael sean morris, Rhonda
Milne, Alma Moffat, James McCann & Friends, Marni Norwich, Leanne
Padgett, Mike Peacock, Ivan Penaluna,
Rudolf Penner,
Loretta Revoczi, Ariadne Sawyer, Trevor Spilchen, Joyce Statton,
Lorraine Strand, Rob Taylor,
Sharon Taylor, Eva Waldorf,
RC Weslowski
Parking lots close to Lumberman’s
Arch
The following Information was
referenced from the Vancouver Aquarium’s web site.
Parking
Lots
Parking is
available adjacent to the Aquarium and throughout Stanley Park.
If the adjacent
lot
is full,
there are many options close-by:
-
Near the Info Booth (4 minute
walk).
-
Near the Children’s Zoo and
the Miniature Train (4 minute walk).
-
In the Central Parking Lot
off Pipeline Road (7 minute walk).
There are a few wheelchair
accessible parking spaces available at each of these lots above.
Pay
Parking
Pay parking is in effect in
parking lots and on roadways throughout Stanley Park.
Pay parking is operated by Central
Parking Systems:
Info line: 604-684-8922
Office: 604-684-6634 (Mon-Fri,
8am-5pm).
Address: 1440 West Pender Street
Parking Rates:
-
October-March - $1/hr or
$4/day.
-
April-September - $2/hr or
$7/day.
-
Meters accept coins, Visa and
Mastercard.
-
Rates in effect 7 am to 6 pm
daily.
Additional Parking
Services:
Busters Towing and Central Parking
are partners to offer free emergency services to park visitors who:
-
Locked their keys in their
car
-
Ran out of gas – they will
give visitors enough gas to get to a gas station.
-
Need a jumpstart.
-
Have a flat tire – help you
get the spare tire on.
Please call 604-685-8181 for
Busters Towing.
Public
Transportation:
Translink Bus and Skytrain Routes:
For your convenience the most common routes are listed below:
1.
Take the #19 Bus to Stanley Park, it runs along W. Pender.
2.
Take the #135, running along West Hastings, to Burrard Street and connect to the
#19 bus on W. Pender & Georgia.
3.
Take the Skytrain to Burrard Station and connect to the #19 bus on W. Pender &
Georgia.
A one-zone ticket is $2.25
(subject to change). Check the Translink website (www.translink.bc.ca) for other
rates, planning your route, and general service information.
Stanley Park Shuttle:
A fun and free shuttle bus service
stopping at 14 of Stanley Park's most popular locations:
Other Transportation Options:
Express Bus to
Stanley Park – It’s Free and Easy! (Operating Daily March 15th - October 31st)
This convenient service operates
between downtown Vancouver and Stanley Park. It’s free of charge to all
Horse-Drawn Tour and Vancouver Aquarium customers. View the Express Bus Schedule
(www.stanleyparktours.com/shuttlebus.html).
Public Washrooms and Concession Stands are
located next to Lumberman’s Arch and at nearby locations within the park.
