06 July 2010

Ashes, Paper & Beans: 6 July 2010

CHSR logoAshes, Paper & Beans: Fredericton’s Writing & Arts Show
Producer–Host: Joe Blades
Sunday rebroadcast, 1–2 PM
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Fredericton, NB, Canada

from the 49th SARAJEVO POETRY DAYS, International Poetry Evening, 11 mai 2010 ... Peter Waugh (England), Gao Xing (China), Mehmet Yaşin, (Cyprus,Turkie). Moderator: Adisa Bašić.

Joe Blades: "One Hot Week in July" (1998)

Robyn Rowland: "Coming of Age", "Boned", "Lost Lover of Mine"
from "Dead Mother Poems": "Adhesion", Contradictions", "still small voice", "Out of the labyrinth"

Fredericton Arts News

Fabrice Koffy: Le nom de ce jeu

05 July 2010

MWW week

Chance of thundershowers, sun, heat, clouds ... seems like Maritime Writers' Workshop is happening again ... I will be there with a small role on Friday during biffmitchell.com's How to Get Published session.

MWW 1988 was my on-the-ground introduction to Fredericton and Waritine Writers' workshop. This past week I was revising a conference paper for publication and pulled out the August 1988 issue of Poetry Halifax Dartmouth with it's short, simple article by me to reference in the paper. Might be a good flashback ...

29 June 2010

Ashes, Paper & Beans: 29 June 2010

CHSR logoAshes, Paper & Beans: Fredericton’s Writing & Arts Show
Producer–Host: Joe Blades
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Fredericton, NB, Canada

Guy Vanderhaeghe's 16 Feb 2010 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation lecture on historical fiction that he presented at the University of New Brunswick.

25 June 2010

Dusie 10: the Canadian issue

Dusie 10: the Canadian issue
June 20 (solstice), 2010

Guest-edited by rob mclennan

The Swiss online pdf journal Dusie has produced an issue of Canadian poetry; an introduction for some, and a further conversation for others. With new writing by: derek beaulieu, Joe Blades, George Bowering, Rob Budde, Emily Carr, Jen Currin, Amanda Earl, Lainna Lane El Jabi, Jesse Patrick Ferguson, Judith Fitzgerald, Asher Ghaffar, Phil Hall, Sharon Harris, Peter Jaeger, Monica Kidd, Anne Le Dressay, Gil McElroy, Barry McKinnon, rob mclennan, Kim Minkus, Pearl Pirie, Monty Reid, Shane Rhodes, Sandra Ridley, Stan Rogal, Natalie Simpson, Christine Stewart, Aaron Tucker and Chris Turnbull. Thanks to Monique Desnoyers for fabulous
design.

22 June 2010

Ashes, Paper & Beans: 22 June 2010

CHSR logoAshes, Paper & Beans: Fredericton’s Writing & Arts Show
Producer–Host: Joe Blades
Sunday rebroadcast, 1–2 PM
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Fredericton, NB, Canada

From the 2010 International Literature Manifestation—Sarajevo Poetry Days
UTORAK, 11. MAJ/SVIBANJ 2010.
Međunarodno pjesničko veče (pt2) ...
Karen Mulhallen + Munira Dučić, translator. Photo by Joe Blades © 2010Karen Mulhallen (Kanada),
Gihan M. Omar (Egipat),
Nikola Petković (Hrvatska),
Robyn Rowland (Australija),
André Schinkel (Njemačka),
Marjan Strojan (Slovenija),
Fraser Sutherland (Kanada),
Peter Waugh (Velika Britanija),
---Moderatorica pjesničke večeri: Adisa Bašić
@ Bošnjački institut, Ulica Mula Mustafe Bašeskije 21, Sarajevo

Patrick Woodcock: "Ferheng"

Toronto poet Phoebe Tsang reading @ Gallery ConneXion
20 mars 2010

Joe Blades: "the writer writhing ..."

16 June 2010

Ashes, Paper & Beans: 15 June 2010

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Live interview with Fredericton poets Triny Finlay, Histories Haunt Us (NIghtwood Editions) and Sharon McCartney, for and against (Goose Lane Editions) including readings from their new books:


Robin Rowland, Australian poet:
"Things of stone and word"
"Hunger"
"Venice"
"Things you gave me"

09 June 2010

Ashes, Paper & Beans: 8 juin 2010

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Canadian novelist Steven Galloway introducing, discussing, and reading from his internationally acclaimed2008 book, The Cellist of Sarajevo (Vintage Canada), from my recording of his 21 January 2010 reading at UNB-Fredericton.




Fabrice Koffy, from Montreal, from his 2009 CD { poésic }:
Intro
Poésic
Fruit de la colonisation
Vulgaire gâteau
Non continent doit de l'argent

Fredericton arts news.

Lone Cloud performing Rita Joe's poem "I Lost My Talk"

06 June 2010

ce 24: Mostar

ce 22: Acknowledgement of Support

In the six-weeks of accumulated mail awaiting my return to Fredericton was an envelope from artsnb that I had missed on my first sorting. Inside was a letter awarding me a grant, a first installment cheque, and blank Final Report form that "must be completed within 30 days of completion of the event."

The grant was from the Career Development Program "designed to recognize and encourage arts professionals who have demonstrated exceptional artistic talent and potential, and who are pursuing a career in the arts. The program is divided in three components ... [from which I received] assistance to present work by invitation in established arts events" ... namely, the 4th Unconventional Conference of Young Canadianists and other April–May 2010 poetry readings & presentations in Central Europe.
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I also acknowledge some support received or forthcoming from the UNB Faculty of Education and the School of Graduate Studies.

26 May 2010

Ashes, Paper & Beans: 25 mai 2010

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From the 2010 International Literature Manifestation—Sarajevo Poetry Days, Sarajevo, BiH
11 May, 20:30 h. International Poetry Evening:
Moderator: Adisa Bašic.
Participants: Hanane Aad (Lebanon),
Chingiz Alioglu (Azerbaijan),
Sead Begovic (Croatia),
Joe Blades (Canada),
Colin Carberry (Canada),
Petar Gudelj (Croatia),
Vera Horvat (Serbia),
Nora Iuga (Romania),
Risto Jacev (Macedonia),
Boris Kastel (Montenegro),
Vjaceslav Kuprijanov (Russia),
Arian Leka (Albania),
Milovan Marcetic (Serbia),
Mohammad Ali Migdady (Jordan)

Fredericton Readings News: Trafesty Café; Triny Finlay book launch

ce 21: Sarajevo Poetry Days


A few photos from and around the 11-16 May 2010 49th International Literature Manifestation—Sarajevo Poetry Days festival . . .

Newpaper coverage of the Festival's opening.

Moderna kanadska poezija. Sudjeluju: Ken Babstock, Joe Blades, Colin Carberry, Karen Mulhallen, Fraser Sutherland. O pjesnicima govore: Goran Simić i Višnja Brčić [+ an actor/reader at far left]. Stihove kanadskih pjesnika govori: Snežana Marković. Bošnjački institut - 19,00 sati. Ulica Mula Mustafe Bašeskije 21, Sarajevo.

At one of the lunches in the Writers' Club, Sarajevo. L-R: Karen Mulhallen, Nataša Nuhanović, Goran Simić, Colin Carberry and Risto Jačev.

ce 20: found photo du jour

Found at 16:52 h, 12 May 2010, on the sidewalk outside Unitic Business Center on Fra Audela Zuizdovica street, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Likely from a school grades record book.

15 May 2010

ce 19: Motrista journal


Mostrista journal in Mostar that I and all or most all the Sarajevo Poetry Days participating poets have a poem in (in Bosnian original or translation).

We arrived in Mostar midafternoon, in time of a roast calf lunch. It's been day of torrential thunder and lightning storm/showers since before dawn in Sarajevo.

Does "bus of poets" = "ship of fools"?

12 May 2010

ce 18: Banja Luka to Sarajevo

One of those days: Space Invaders Against Racism.

Locals in their garden patch just outside of town.

Steel works in the valley about 40 north of Sarajevo.

Next will likely be photos from Sarajevo Poetry Days. Article on yesterday´s opening was in today´s Oslobadenja newspaper (not online)
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Petar Gudelj, pjesnik article

10 May 2010

ce 17: Restoran Kazamat

Entrance to the restaurant in the casemates in the Fortress Kastel's stone walls.

Inside the Kazamat.

View of part of Fortress Kastel and the river from the outside dining terrace.

09 May 2010

ce 16: Victory Day

Mr Black cafe quiet, mid morning I heard noises and looked out to discover prep for something in the square beside Hotel Bosna.

Sign on the podium. I'm guessing it might have something in common with the 65th anniversary of the Soviet Russian defeat of Nazi Germany in WWII on 9 May 1945 ... the one big speech I heard repeatedly named Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Ukraine, and other countries ...

and, yes, Republika Srpska celebrates Victory Day or Victory over Fascism Day on 9 Maja. In other parts of Europe, 8 May is the VE-Day celebration.

Old flag and soldiers.

Monument with the hammer and sickle carved into the star.

Choir singing songs including what's likely Republika Srpska's national anthem.

The ceremoney ended with trad musicians and dancers in the square.

One last view, from my balcony, of the dancers in the square forming a V for victory.

08 May 2010

2010 05 28 Arts Researchers and Teachers Preconference

Arts Researchers and Teachers Preconference
Friday May 28, 2010
Room H627, Concordia University, Montreal

(No fee or registration required. ARTS members & friends welcome. Please RSVP to diane.conrad@ualberta.ca.)

Agenda
9:00 am – 12:00 noon
Workshop: Inquiry, Meaning-making & Representation in/through Arts
Facilitated by Lynn Fels and Kathryn Rickets.
A place for all of us to inquire, make-meaning and talk about what inquiry, meaning-making, and representation are, in the arts.

12:00 – 1:00 pm. Lunch on your own.

1:00 – 4:00 pm.
Discussion: Key issues in Arts-based Research
Chaired by Diane Conrad.
A time for ARTS members and friends to engage in open conversation about key issues for arts-based research – key issues as identified by members.

4:00 – 5:00 pm. ARTS Graduate Award Winner Presentations

2010 ARTS Graduate Award winner: Kedrick James, University of British Columbia, Writing Post-Person: and Sustainability in the Age of Disposable Information.

Honourable Mention: Ann Wessels, The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Interplay and Overlay: Devising and Intercultural Pedagogy.

5:00 – 6:00 pm. ARTS Annual General Meeting

6:00 pm. ARTS Dinner at a local restaurant to be confirmed: Magdala Resto Lounge (Ethiopian fare) 1222 Rue Bishop.

27 mai 2010 Hispanic-Canadian Women Writers conference

There will be a one-day Spanish literary conference on Hispanic-Canadian Women Writers at Concordia University with the support of the Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics Department, and the Canadian Literary Association of Women Latin American Writers, CCLEH.

If you know of others people interested in participating in the conference, please let me know as soon as possible.

Objectives:
1. To hold the second annual meeting of Hispanic-Canadian Women Writers, critics and editors and to present books and publications relevant to the theme.
2. To invite the Latin American Consulates and members of the Spanish communities in Montreal, and increase awareness of the literary work of women writers through reading poetry, short stories and fiction in Spanish.
3. To create a National Association of Women Writers.

Date: Thursday, May 27, 2010
Place: Henry F. Hall Building, Room 1013
1455 Boulevard de Maisonneuve West (Metro Guy-Concordia)
Montreal, QC
Hours: 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
Registration $30.00

WRITERS:
Yolanda Duque Vidal, Gabriela Etcheverry, Jorge Etcheverry, Anita Junge-Hammersely, Nela Rio, Lady Rojas Benavente, Cora Siré, & Luis Alberto Ambroggio

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE IN MONTREAL:
Lady Rojas Benavente, Cora Siré & Yolanda Duque Vidal

07 May 2010

ce 15: article in Glas srpske


Џо Блејдс: Пјесников ум никад није зао /
Džo Blejds: Pjesnikov um nikad nije zao
in Glas Srpske daily newspaper, Banja Luka.

ce 14: more Banja Luka

University of Banja Luka plaque.

Joe Blades, wearing a RCMP T-shirt, reading poetry at UBL on 4 May 2010.

View of the neaby hills.

Part of the riverside cafe Castra where I met with Tatjana Bijelic to discuss a book translation in the works.

Entrance to the riverside Fortress KASTEL, containing the Restoran Kazamat.

Some of the other troubadours travelling in the Balkans and Central Europe this spring: Megadeath, Massive Attack, Deep Purple, Elton John, Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood, Leonard Cohen, Bob ... and not in this picture---Blood, Sweat & Tears, Fatboy Slim, Lady Gaga, Kiss, Metallica, Paul Anka ...