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 The 3rd Annual CCLA Art and Lit Fest 2009 Sunday, August 2nd Held in Canada and Cuba 11am to 4pm and 5:30 to 9pm The theme of this year's event is "A Reunion of the Poetry Family" See below for info about |
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Reading "Spilling to the Sky" is an open to the sky poetry reading in Memorial Park. 12noon to 1pm and 2:30 to 3:30pm — Festival
Reading "And Left a Place to Stand On" is a book launch at China King Restaurant. Meet and Greet / Dinner with the authors - 5:30 - 6:30pm Readings - 6:30 - 7:30pm 1/2 hour break Readings - 8pm to 9pm — FREE 30 minute Adult
Writing Workshop - 1:30 - 2pmMaking the Light Bulb Turn On Where Do Ideas Come From for Poery and Prose presented by Kimberley Sherman Grove Participants published in festival anthology.  — Live Music Sunday by gandhar 2 - 2:30pm– www.gandhar.net. If you would like to book him for your gig you can reach him at gandhar. enterprises@gmail.com. See his website at www.farfromshore.com. Gandhar will be playing for us in Brighton, Memorial Park in the afternoon and at China King in the evening. — Location— Date— Time— Bring— Contact info— Booth Space |
Sitting in the sade - 2008
Donna Langevin Reading - 2008
Holly and Allan watching readings - 2008
Booth people - 2008
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Bring the Family!!! The theme of this year’s event is
“A Reunion of the Poetry Family” Artist booths, literary and book booths, free writing workshop, refreshments, live in the park readings and music with a special readings in the evening. General Overview of Information: Stay tuned for more information. We have booth/table space available for artists and authors. We will have readings during the day in Memorial Park from 12 to 1pm and 2 to 3:30. Visitors should bring a lawn chair or blanket for the in the park "Spilling to the Sky" readings. Come for the writing workshop 1:30 to 2pm We will have an evening reading at the China King Restaurant - Launching the new Al Purdy anthology "And Left a Place to Stand On". Authors from the book will be reading. Dinner / Meet and greet - 5:30 to 6:30pm This one day CCLA Art and Lit Fest is linked to the Purdy Country Literary Festival. We will be publishing a CCLA Art and Lit Fest anthology with work considered by workshop contributors, booth participants and readers. |
Listening to readings in the park - 2007
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The theme of this year’s event is
“A Reunion of the Poetry Family” Canada Location: Brighton, Ontario ( 1/2 way between Kingston and Toronto on Lake Ontario. 401 hwy exit 509 ) Memorial Park - Downtown Brighton - you can't miss it. Date: Sunday, August 2nd, 2009 Times: During the day in Memorial Park: 11am to 4:00pm In the evening at China King: Meet and Greet / Dinner with the authors - 5:30 - 6:30pm Readings - 6:30 - 7:30pm 1/2 hour break Readings - 8pm - 9pm |
All are Welcome!!! Tell a
friend!!! Bring your family!!!
 The Ducker Family - 2008  BBQing - 2008 |
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 Shane Joseph - 2008 "Spilling to the Sky" A literary reading in Memorial Park 12 noon to 1pm and 2 to 3:30  Janet Richards - 2008 "And Left a Place To Stand On" http://www.canadacubaliteraryalliance.org/A-FrameBook.html is a book launch at China King Restaurant Meet and Greet / Dinner with the authors - 5:30 - 6:30pm Readings - 6:30 - 7:30pm 1/2 hour break Readings - 8pm to 9pm
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of readers for afternoon and evening: Katherine Beeman, bill bissett, Kent Bowman, Susan Brannigan-Rampp, Allan
Briesmaster, Terry Ann Carter, Diane Dawber, James Deahl, Martin
Durkin, Chris Faiers, Kate Marshall Flaherty, Peggy Fletcher, Caroline
Morgan Di Giovanni, Katherine L. Gordon, Catherine Graham, Kimberley
Sherman Grove, Richard M. Grove, Stephen Heighton, Debbie Okun Hill,
Jim Larwill, John B. Lee, Shane Neilson, Honey Novick, John Pigeau, R.
D. Roy, Jeff Seffinga,Goran Simic, Vivien M. Taylor, Stan White and more.
Making the Light Bulb Turn On Where Do Ideas Come From for Poery and Prose An adult writing workshop led by Kimberley Sherman Grove Workshop from 1:30 to 2pm
in the park.
Making
the Light Bulb Turn On People
often ask writers - where do you get your ideas for a story or poem? To me
there is no ONE place; the well is never dry. Your creativity can be
sparked by reading the newspaper, from a comment you hear someone say
while talking on their cell phone, the neighbour's five year old, a book you're
reading; the list is endless. What counts is what you do with
those ideas. This 30-minute workshop, geared towards writing 350-word “postcard prose”
will look at how to make your writing pop into being. We'll start with some
crazy exercises to get
the creative light bulb energized. What
you gain from the workshop will be carried into your poetry or longer works.
After the workshop is finished I suggest you take your exercise home and
edit. When you are happy with your
results I encourage you to submit your finished pieces for publication in our next literary festival anthology. |
Richard M. Grove (Tai)
613-475-2368
writers@HiddenBrookPress.com
109 Bayshore Rd.
RR#4
Brighton, Ontario
Canada, K0K 1H0
 Contact Sandi McConnell for all of your travel needs at gotravel@bellnet.ca or 613-475-9842
China
King
8 Alice Street Brighton, Ontario 613-475-8833 Make a reservation and go for dinner or lunch.  Click on logo Aslo see below for HBP retreat info. |
A social and literary reading in the evening
hosted by:
China King Restaurant
(Two blocks east of Memorial Park)
8 Alice Street
Brighton, Ontario
613-475-8833
No need to make a reservation
There is plenty of parking at the China King.
We will have a private back room for the meet and greet / dinner and the readings.
There is close access to the buffet counter for self serve, all you can eat. (Pay for your own dinner- about $7 - $8 each.)
Social gathering / meet and greet /dinner. 5:30 to 6:30pm
Readings - 6:30 to 7:30
Readings - 8:00 to 9:00pm
Don't forget that the theme of this year's gathering is
We hope you will pass the word
PURDY COUNTRY LITERARY FESTIVAL #3
and
3rd annual CCLA Art & Lit Fest
Email for a pdf of the updated info - writers@sympatico.ca
- Thursday, July 30 to Monday, Aug. 3
Malone, Marmora, Brighton, Ameliasburgh - Ontario
The third annual PURDY COUNTRY LITERARY FESTIVAL (PurdyFest #3) and the CCLA Art & Lit Fest
will again be held over the August holiday weekend. This year’s events have been expanded to five days
and four locations: Malone pioneer hamlet, Marmora, Brighton, and Ameliasburgh. Co-organizer James
Deahl has called PurdyFests "Woodstock for poets".
Activities begin on Thursday, July 30, with a HAIKU DAY garden party at ZenRiver Gardens
retreat in Malone. NOON: Gather by the shaman shack on the north bank of ZRG for
introductions. 12:30 to 1:30 pm: Chris will host a meandering tour of ZenRiver Gardens.
1:30 to 4 pm: Wander about ZRG, sit by the river & reflect, or wander & enjoy Jim Larwill's
WATER REFLECTING RAVENS POETRY WALK installations. Please create haiku to share with
other haijin (haiku poets) later in the afternoon.
For those who are regulars at ZRG, or who are interested in an excursion, a vist to THE ZEN
FOREST will leave at 1:30 pm. It's a 20 minute drive each way, and at the Zen Forest we'll
tour the grounds of the retreat. Stand on the bridge over the koi pond, reflect by the huge
white marble Buddha from Vietnam, walk the quiet forest trails, and sit in one of the
meditation huts built by the head monk of the Zen Forest, the Venerable Thich Thong Tri
('Thay'). Thay built these huts by the large beaver pond where he sat in deep meditation for
five years. If Thay is available, we can tour the temple and Zendo.
4 pm: Gather by the picnic tables near the shaman shack to continue writing and sharing
the haiku created during the day. Claudia Coutu Radmore will lead poets in the creation of a
linked haiku composition (renku).
- Poetry activites continue on Friday, July 31, MEET & GREET and POTLUCK SUPPER at ZenRiver
Gardens. From 4 pm onwards poets, neighbours and friends will share a potluck supper by the river.
Popular guitarist/singer Morley Ellis will perform after dinner, and everyone can share stories and poems
around the campfire. The elements willing, a campfire round robin poetry reading will complete the day.
On Saturday, August 1, 1 to 2:30 pm: a SYMPOSIUM ON AL PURDY will be held in The
William Shannon Room of The Marmora Public Library Building. Participants include poets David
Day and James Deahl, and philosopher/author Terry Barker and internationally acclaimed poet
David Day.
5 to 5:30+ pm: Musicians Morley Ellis and Kent Bowman will perform on the island at the
Marmora Dam. Poets will read from 5:30 in a round robin 'open set' for ANOTHER DAM
POETRY READING.
- On Sunday, Aug. 2, events move to Brighton for the 3rd Annual CCLA Art & Lit Fest, where they
will be organized by Canada-Cuba Literary Alliance President Richard (Tai) Grove. Art and book displays
and sale in Memorial Park and launch of “And Left a Place to Stand On” from 11 to 4pm. Evening launch,
dinner and party continues at China King Restaurant from 5:30 to 9pm. Meet and Greet dinner followed by
The launch of “And Left a Place to Stand On” is a fund raising anthology from Hidden Brook Press for the
restoration of Al Purdy's historic A-frame house and the formation of a writers-in-residence program. For
information about the book see – www.canadacubaliteraryalliance.org/A-FrameBook.html For information about the AFrame
Trust see - www.alpurdy.ca
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Sunday Festival Readings: "Spilling to the Sky" is a grass and sky poetry reading in Brighton, Memorial
Park. Noon - 1pm and 2 - 4pm featuring CCLA members and authors from "And Left a Place To Stand
On" This book launch will continue at China King Restaurant in the evening. Meet & Greet / Dinner (all are
welocome) - 5:30 - 6:30pm. Book launch readings - 6:30 - 7:30pm. Music and poetry performance by
gandhar – see below – followed by more anthology launch readings - 8pm to 9pm
Live Music and Poetry Sunday by gandhar – www.gandhar.net. Gandhar, all the way from Montreal, will
be playing and reading for us in Brighton, Memorial Park in the afternoon 1 - 1:30pm and at China King in
the evening 7:45 – 8pm. If you would like to book him for your gig you can reach him at gandhar.enterprises@gmail.com.
See his website for his book Kolkata Dreams - http://www.8thhousepublishing.com/kolkata-dreams.html.
A FREE 30 minute Adult Writing Workshop – Making the Light Bulb Turn On: Where Do Ideas Come
From for Poery and Prose presented by Kimberley Sherman Grove. Participants published in
festival anthology. 1:30 – 2pm.
- On Monday, Aug. 3, there will be another PICNIC WITH AL in the little cemetery where Al Purdy is
buried in Ameliasburgh.
All Purdy Country Literary Festival (Purdy Fest) and the CCLA Art & Lit Fest events are free, and in the
democratic spirit of People's Poets Milton Acorn and Al Purdy, most events will offer everyone attending a
chance to read at least one of their poems.
Purdy Fest and the CCLA Art & Lit Fest have become increasingly important literary and cultural events.
The highly published and the yet-to-be-published meet and mingle on common ground in the ruggedly
beautiful countryside Purdy immortalized in his poem "The Country North of Belleville". Dr. John Burke,
who attended PurdyFest #2, described the events as "transformative”.
The theme of this year’s CCLA Art & Lit Fest
will be
“A Reunion of the Poetry Family”
Bring
your friends,
family and fellow poets
and reunite at the launch of
“And Left a Place to Stand On”.
http://www.canadacubaliteraryalliance.org/A-FrameBook.html
For further information on PurdyFest #3,
please contact Chris Faiers at:
zenriver@sympatico.ca
613-472-6186
For further information on the CCLA Art & Lit Fest,
please contact Richard (Tai) Grove at:
613-475-2368
Coming Soon
http://www.canadacubaliteraryalliance.org/CCLAlitFest09.html
Booth space is available
for the CCLA Art & Lit Fest activities in Brighton
Pass the word!!!!!!!!!!
Contact Tai