Podcasts about verses festival

In Vancouver to perform at the Canadian Individual Poetry Slam and Mashed Poetics during the Verses Festival of Words, our guest, Kecia Cook shares some poems with us..

Interviews with Jillian Christmas, Artistic Director of Verses Festival of Words; filmmaker Natalia Andrea of UBC's Persistence of Vision Festival. Reviews of Che Malambo, and shout outs to Pacific Theatre's Love/Sick, Lori Anderson, Expressions Festival, Cherry Blossom Festival, and Vancouver TheatreSports' Murder on the Improv Express. Hosted by Ashley Park, Jake Clark, and Lua Presidio.

Canadian Individual Poetry Slam three-time finalist, Erin Dingle, joins us to share poems about the periodic table, nerdiness, baths, mindfulness, changing lightbulbs,and women in CIPS, following the Verses Festival of Words 2017.

On tour in BC, Rabbit Richards drops by in between stints performing at Hullabaloo and the Verses Festival of Words.

Pam picks a bunch of audio tracks to preview some of the artists performing at the 2017 Verses Festival of Words: Sheri-D Wilson, Mighty Mike McGee, Saul Williams, Khari Wendell McClelland, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.

Still hanging around following the Verses Festival of Words our guest today is Erin Dingle from Calgary.

In town for the Verses Festival of Words our guest is Hanif Willis-Abdurraquib.

We make a big announcement on todays show about the Arts Report and that is: The Arts Report will be taking a summer hiatus! Listen to the podcast for full details. Also, on todays show, we talk about the upcoming Verses Festival of Words and speak to the Artistic Director, Jillian Christmas. Ashley Park talks about the past Persistence of Vision Film Festival. We also talk about two theatrical productions: The Valley and 5@50.

It's always a special occasion when Jillian Christmas is around. Dina and Daniel invite the talented writer, musician and Artistic Director of Verses Festival of Words to talk about writing, but also how miserable fall is, love songs and protest songs, Charmed Can Lit, children's soy lattes, large print erotica on public transit and of course, Shannen Doherty. We also bring back the ever-popular CanLit Feuds and play a new game for this crummy season: Fall or Fall?

Visiting Vancouver for the Verses Festival of Words, Danielle Altrogge joins us to talk about her experience and share some trucker poems.

Tanya Evanson is our guest and talks about her Verses Festival of Words workshop and shares some poems with us.

Happy 14th day of spring -- day 8 or so of my cold, if you're counting. :-) With spring comes new CD releases and lots of tours, so you'll hear everything from Harlan Pepper to Soweto Gospel Choir tonight. For another edition of "Val's Vinyl Vault" I pulled out the Peter Case self-titled lp from 1986. He'll be playing a tiny club in Bellingham this weekend.The phone interview near top of show was with Nelson, BC singer-songwriter James Lamb. He's in town for the Verses Festival of Words that continues this week.Thanks as always for listening! Your feedback is much appreciated, so don't hesitate to get in touch. Even just to say hi.cheers, valfolkoasis@gmail.com

Welcome to the 14th day of spring, and the 2nd day of my annual Spring Cold. Sorry for the extraneous sniffles and coughs tonight. Had a lovely phone interview with "The Bard of East Van", Geoff Berner. He'll be reading from his new novel "Festival Man" on Sunday at the Verses Festival of Words (http://versesfestival.ca). Find out how he came to be big in Norway!After some parking shenanigans (welcome to UBC!) Joyce Island joined me live in the studio for some songs and chat. Thanks for listening, and do please stay in touch! folkoasis@gmail.comcheers, val