9th International Multicultural-Multilingual Poetry Reading

In conjunction with The United Nation’s Dialogue Among Civilizations Through Poetry, World Poetry Day (21 March), Mother Language Day (21 February), and World Water Day (22 March). Organized to foster tolerance, respect and cooperation among peoples.

21 March 2009, Saturday, 5 to 8 pm
including “Nuestro Espacio”

Rm 212, Charlotte Street Arts Centre
732 Charlotte St, Fredericton, NB, Canada

Organized by Nela Rio, Founder of the International Multicultural-Multilingual Poetry Reading, with the support of Gallery ConneXion, revue ellipse mag, Broken Jaw Press, Latin American Cultural Centre, Literary Translators’ Association of Canada / Association des traducteurs et traductrices littéraires du Canada, Registro de Autores Creativos de la Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas, Latino Association of New Brunswick, and Grupo Fredericton de la Academia Iberoamericana de Poesía.

We invite you to join us in the 9th celebration! Previous celebrations, since 2000, have featured poets and members of the community reading in many languages: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Cantonese, Chinese, Japanese, Dutch, Danish, Urdu, Turkish, Amharic, among others. This event is open to the general public and admission is free.

Theme: River poems / Poèmes des rivières / Poemas de los ríos

REGISTRATION FORM FOR POETS
Please include your name, postal address, email address, the text of the poem (use Times New Roman, 12 point). The poem should have 30-lines maximum including stanza breaks (this is for the purpose of printing it on a poster for exhibition at the event). Send this information to nelario@rogers.com BEFORE MARCH 15, 2009. Note: this community event will not be paying artists or performance fee.

REGISTRATION FOR READERS
(Read a poem by your favorite poet at this event). Please include your name, postal address, email address, the name and country of the author poet, the text of the poem (use Times New Roman, 12 point). The poem should have 30-lines maximum including stanza breaks (this is for the purpose of printing it on a poster for exhibition at the event). Send this to nelario@rogers.com BEFORE MARCH 15, 2009.