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Monday, November 30, 2009

EnChanting: Transformation through Poetry, Sound & Song
Category: Writing and Poetry

Penn’s Muse News

Celebrating December 2009

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EnChanting: Transformation through Poetry, Sound & Song

Workshop, Saturday, December 5, 10:00-5:00 pm.

With Devotional Chant Artist Brenda McMorrow & Penn Kemp

A workshop for those who think they can't sing or write but always wanted to; for those who can sing/write and wanted more; for those wanting to sound out, sing out, write out loud. Sounding and chanting are freely joyous ways to release creativity and open the heart's song. Drop the blocks! Write and raise your voice with us! Invoking Sarasvati, the goddess of creativity, music and poetry, we will create and share chants, poems and songs to, from and for our Mother World. 525 Canterbury Road, London N6G2N5.

Bring a lunch to share potluck. Herbal tea on the house. $60 ($50 if you bring a friend).
To confirm your spot, contact: ameyamusic@gmail.com and/or penn@pennkemp.ca. See
www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=3992303404#/event.php?eid=159742124825&index=1.

Thursday, January 21, 7:30 pm, 2010, “Luminous Entrance”. Brescia Auditorium, Brescia University College, London ON. We invite you to join us in a participatory performance of our Sound Opera, Luminous Entrance. Penn’s Ecco Poetry has been set to the folk-inspired melodies of musician/composer Brenda McMorrow; with dancer Ruth Douthwright and percussionist Jocelyn Drainie. In paeans of praise or rant, dance, drumming & sound, together we celebrate our dear MotherWorld’s enChantments! Sponsored by The Circle. Contact: kimyoung@uwo.ca

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Upcoming Events

Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 6:30-7:00 am, 2009. Show #7 (R). Interview with London ON novelist Joan Barfoot. Radio Western, CHRW 94.9 FM. To be archived on www.chrwradio.com/talk/gatheringvoices.

Saturday, December 5, 10:00-5:00 pm. With Devotional Chant Artist Brenda McMorrow & Penn Kemp. EnChanting: Transformation through Poetry, Sound and Song: A workshop for those who think they can't sing or write! See www.brendamcmorrow.com and
www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=3992303404#/event.php?eid=159742124825&index=1.

Saturday December 5,3-5 pm, Urban Space Gallery, 401 Richmond St West, Suite 111, Toronto. Poems From a Love Triangle and Memory Vision : these multi-media pieces feature Bill Gilliam’s music and sounds with poems by Penn Kemp. Visuals and images by Arnold Wytenburg, Gera Dillon and Luke Gilliam. Contact: <bgilliam@sympatico.ca>

Wednesday, December 9, 6-6:30 pm. Gathering Voices, Show #8. Interview with Stratford poet Charles Mountford, Radio Western, CHRW 94.9 FM. To be archived on www.chrwradio.com/talk/gatheringvoices. Wednesday, December 16, 2009, 6:30-7:00 am (R). Photos on http://picasaweb.google.com/gavinstairs/Interview20091021#.

Wednesday, December 23, 6-6:30 pm. Gathering Voices, Show #9. Interview with London ON novelist Kane X. Faucher. Radio Western, CHRW 94.9 FM. To be archived on www.chrwradio.com/talk/gatheringvoices. Wednesday, December 30, 6:30-7:00 am (R).

Wednesday, January 6, 6-6:30 pm. Gathering Voices, Show #10. Interview with activist author Judy Rebick, Radio Western, CHRW 94.9 FM. Photos on http://picasaweb.google.com/gavinstairs/Interviews20091019#. To be archived on www.chrwradio.com/talk/gatheringvoices. Wednesday, January 7, 6:30-7:00 am (R).

Wednesday, January 13, 6-6:30 pm. Gathering Voices, Show #11. Interview with activist filmmaker Velcrow Ripper, Radio Western, CHRW 94.9 FM. Photos on http://picasaweb.google.com/gavinstairs/Interviews20091019#. To be archived on www.chrwradio.com/talk/gatheringvoices. Wednesday, January 20, 6:30-7:00 am (R).

March, 2010. London Reads Celebrity Reader for Gil Adamson’sThe Outlander with Bob Smith, Rogers Channel 13, http://www.londonreads.uwo.ca/index.html#panelists

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Recent Publications

“Celebrating Trees in Souwesto”, www.reforestlondon.ca/celebrating-tree-souwesto. “what a lovely celebration for trees! I can be with this as a meditation. We really do need to slow down.. You have a really nice voice, Penn... you are an event!” Paulette Turcotte

 “Crowning”,  “Recurring Dream Doctrine”, November, 2009, Sugar Mule: Canadian Issue, Editor: Susan McMaster.  http://www.sugarmule.com/33frame.htm

“Couplet du commedia, Re:Verse”, Danse Macabre XXIX Commedia. November, 2009. Paired with John CleeseJ http://dansemacabre.art.officelive.com/padronidicommedia.aspx

Couplet du commedia

Re:Verse

Purr verse
In verse
Dis course
Tra verse la la
Die verse

Diversión

Is a lute dissolute?
Only when it doesn't play.

"Man Date", on the site and in the podcast, http://qarrtsiluni.com/2009/11/12/man-date/ “Penn, I listened to your recitation several times. Besides being a great poet with a distinctive voice; You are a great narrator with a touch of mystic story teller!” Rabi Akbik“Nifty wordplay - I like how, from the very start to the end, the poem forces me to really consider each word not only by itself but in tandem with its neighbors. And "returning to a house to run" has personal resonance as well...” Peg Duthie

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Forthcoming Publications

"Humping the Big One", Dinosaur Porn, December, 2009. Contact: <pornsaurus@gmail.com>.

“Magdalene Rising” by Katerina Fretwell and Penn Kemp in Joan Norton’s blog,

"December 21, 2012", Volume One, Number Three: special issue of “Winter Solstice” Emerald Tales magazine, December 21, 2009.

Lori A. May, “Q & A”, Scarlet, Department of Creative Writing, University of Western Ontario. Contact: lori@loriamay.com

“In Celebration of Suzanne”, Age/ series Zocaloo Press Chapbooks, http:// zocalopress.com, 2009. Editor, Darran Biles writing@zocalopress.com

"Dream Sequins (i)" and "Dream Sequins (ii)", Volume Three, Reconfigurations. Editor, W. Scott Howard, http://mysite.du.edu/~showard/

"Jamming in the Bardo", http://lanternmagazine.blogspot.com/

Viva la Vida de Frida, Twelfth Key 15, ABECAN. Brazil/London ON. www.mytown.ca/vivalavida

Viva la Vida. Poetry DVD. Videographer: Daniela Sneppova. Poets / performers: Gloria Alvernaz Mulcahy and Penn Kemp. Pendas Poets Series #19.

Mrtvolka (little corpse – working title), a short (anticipating 12 min.) audio-visual project shot on film and video (finished on video unless other resources become available.) Daniela Sneppova and Penn Kemp. The Poetry Projection jury for the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto (LIFT) selected this as one of 10 projects to be part of Poetry Projections III: On Correspondence, to be screened in Fall of 2010. http://www.lift.on.ca/mt/community.html

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Writer-in-Residence

Penn is the James A. and Marjorie Spenceley / Canada Council Writer-in-Residence at Western for 2009-10. If you're in the London ON area, come visit with your writing.

Contact Vivian Foglton (519-661-3403 or vlavers@uwo.ca) for an appointment to discuss your works of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction and/or drama with Penn. It's free!

Send submissions (up to ten pages, double-spaced, submitted one week prior to scheduled appointment) to Vivian Foglton, Secretary, Department of English, University College, Room 173, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 3K7.

Office hours: Wednesdays, 12:30 pm –3:30 pm. Thursdays, 12:30 pm- 3:30 pm., UC 171.

Wednesday, January 13 through Thursday, March 25. Openings are filling fast.

See http://www.uwo.ca/english/WhatsNew/Kemp2009-10Intro.pdf.

As part of the residency, Penn is hosting Gathering Voices, an eclectic literary show of readings and interviews on Radio Western, CHRW 94.9 FM. Gathering Voices airs every second Wednesday starting September 2 from 6-6:30 pm and on alternate Wednesdays, from 6:30-7 am. The show is streamed live on www.chrwradio.com/listen, and archived for each week on http://chrwradio.com/archive/#wednesday. Archives of past interviews, writing exercises and Penn’s sound operas are up on chrwradio.com/talk/gatheringvoices.

Interviews, sound operas, writing exercises, poems in translation... Sound Opera is a new form Penn developed in performance and recording with collaborators in a desire to lift poetry off the page to the stage. Sound Opera is based on text but it expands poetic possibilities to include voice, music and computer manipulation to express narrative when emotions burst the seams of print. Poetry as performance on radio works because it is primarily aural, true to its origins around a Neolithic fire.

Penn’s own project for the residency is Ecco poetry, a genre-bending compilation of poems devoted to our MotherWorld that will culminate in a book, a CD and a DVD.

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Please join our Facebook groups:

Gathering Voices www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=3992303404

Supoort and Promote Canadian Arts and Culture
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=27449691026

Profile pages: http://www.facebook.com/pennkemp

(filled: facebook allows no more that 5,000 friends)

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Penn-Kemp/126450531030?created

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Recent Events

October 29, 8:00 pm, Daphne Marlatt, Robert Minden and Carla Hallet: poetry, performance, and collaboration. UC 224a. Conron Hall, Like Light Off Water (cd, LostSound.com) (introduced by Penn).

“Not Your Mother’s Poetry”, October 31, 2009, featured between 10 am and 11 am MDT on www.ckxu.com

November 4, 2009, 6:30 am, 2009. Show #5 (R). See www.chrwradio.com/talk/gatheringvoices.

November 5, 2009, 1:30-3:30 pm. WRIT 2299, the Professional Writing Portfolio, Writing, Rhetoric and Professional Communication Program in Arts. Contact: Kathryn Alexander kalexa7@uwo.ca

November 11, 2:30-3:30 pm. Penn, “Writing from the inside out, and exploring form and structure”. Rm 2042, the Faculty of Education, Althouse College 1137 Western Rd. Contact: Kathy Hibbert (519) 661-2111, x. 88557, khibbert@uwo.ca

November 11, 2009, 6-6:30 pm, 2009. Show #6. When The Heart Parts: a Sound Opera by Penn Kemp, performed with Anne Anglin, John Blackwood, John Magyar. CD, Pendas Productions.

November 12, 12 pm, The London Reads Literary Lunch, Lorraine Ivey Shuttleworth Community Gallery, Museum London. 2009/10 London Reads introduces the six celebrity readers including Penn, Gitta Kulczycki (VP, Resources and Operations), Jonathan Vance (History) and the three shortlisted books. Contact: Carolyn Young, Communications Manager, (519) 661-3520 ext. 88251, ccyoung@uwo.ca. http://www.londonreads.uwo.ca/kemp.html http://communications.uwo.ca/com/western_news/stories/london_reads_releases_2010_candidates_20091113445215/

November 18, 2009, 6:30-7:00 am, 2009. Show #6 (R). When The Heart Parts: a Sound Opera. CD, Pendas Productions.

November 18, 2009, 4:00-5:30 pm, 2009. UC 274. Penn in discussion, Canadianist Reading Group at Western. Contact: Nadine Fladd nfladd@uwo.ca, Kostantina Northrup <knorthru@uwo.ca>

November 19, 2009, 8 pm PST. Two Videopoems, Altar Ego and From an Upstairs Window, done by Bill Gilliam are in SEE THE VOICE: Visible Verse, Pacific Cinematheque, 1131 Howe St., Vancouver BC. Contact: Heather Haley, hshaley@emspace.com. http://www.cinematheque.bc.ca/see-voice-visible-verse-2009.

November 25, 2009, 10:30 am -12:30 pm. Penn: On performance poetry and performing poetry, Writing Program, Middlesex College Room 105, U. of Western Ontario, London ON. Contact: Kathryn Mockler kmockle3@uwo.ca.

November 25, 2009, 6:30 am -7:00 pm. Gathering Voices. Penn's interview with novelist Joan Barfoot, Radio Western, CHRW 94.9 FM. Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 6:30-7:00 am (R). Archived on www.chrwradio.com/talk/gatheringvoices.

November 25, 7:30 pm, 2009. Poetry London, Landon Library, 167 Wortley Road, London. Jacob Scheier and John B. Lee (introduced by Penn).

November 27, 1-2:30 pm. Penn on "Feminist Theory and Practice in the Arts and Humanities", Women’s Studies class. Contact: Kimberly J Verwaayen kjverwaa@uwo.ca

....................November 30, 2009. Writers' Craft , Catholic Central School, 450 Dundas St., London. Contact: Mary McNeil m.mcneil@ldcsb.on.ca.

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Comments

“Thank you so much for the wonderful Sound Evening you choreographed at the McIntosh Gallery on October. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed the experience and I have used its description to intrigue visitors further in Robert Kelly’s installation… Once again, thank you for a stimulating evening.” Catherine Elliot Shaw, Curator

“...we deeply appreciated your presence in our classroom. I heard from my students that they were moved by your passion, your deep sense of calmness and commitment to your art and life work... again thank you for the creative, honest and authentic gifts you brought for us. Can we book you for next semester as well?” Kathryn Alexander, Assistant Professor, Department of Creative Writing, Rhetoric and Professional Communication, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Western Ontario

“The students found your workshop inspiring.” Kathryn Mockler, Department of Creative Writing, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Western Ontario

“Checked out Part 3... what fun......you are a MASTER! I've seen you perform your sound poems before but it is still a hoot to see you in action.” Aliyana Ruekberg

"I had such a wonderful time at our first meeting! Your schedule suggestion is working really well." “Once again it was wonderful working with you. I now have plenty of directions to pursue in my writing about Africa. It’s been very helpful to discuss efficient ways to organize my writing, and the ‘tricks’ you employ. Thank you so much for sharing them.” Mary McDonald

“With an electrifying and undeniably eclectic persona Kemp manages to captivate and entice her audience with every word she utters” Denardo Hepburn

“I really appreciate that you are so free and creative in bringing your language, and music, and voice to us. Truly a beautiful expression of your essence... Great reading and turnout last night.” Michelle Doege

"Penn read my novel and made many sensitive, penetrating and creative comments which were very helpful to me. She was in tune with what I was trying to do and very much on my wavelength. Her editorial contribution was much appreciated. She is a professional, astute, committed and careful editor." Edeet Ravel

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NEW! from Pendas Poets Series, 2009

The Thing on the Comb by Charles Mountford. Book. He writes:

"1.. I am a narrative poet rather than a lyric poet.
2.. I quite often write prose poems.
3.. Some of my seminal influences are Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, Stephen Leacock, W.O. Mitchell and Woody Allen. Not that I am in any way comparing myself to them.
4.. I agree totally with the Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh who said, "Tragedy is underdeveloped comedy."
5.. I will, by this year, have three books of poetry out, all published by Pendas Productions of London, Ontario. Pendas has been very kind and supportive to me and has done a wonderful job with my books. The books are called: The Harvestman, The Night the Ducks Got Loose and The Thing On The Comb.
6.. Look for me reading this year in Quebec City (400th Anniversary Year), Thunder Bay, Victoria B.C. and Ingersoll, ON. Google me under Charles Mountford, Canadian Poet.”

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Poetry News from Pendas Poets and Pals

Our little publishing company in London ON has found its niche in hand-bound poetry book/cd combos for Pendas Poets Series:

Folhas Mortas by Miguel Neneve $20 book (Brazilian Portuguese)

Slipped Out by Daniel Kolos $20 book, $15 CD, $34 both

Grass of Green Moment by Emily Hearn $22 book, $15 CD, $36 both

Shaking Hands with the Night by Katerina Fretwell $25 book, $15 CD, $39 both

The Harvestman by Charles Mountford $17.60 book

Bouquet of St. Mary by Di Brandt $9 book, $15 CD, $23 both

The Astrologer's Daughter by Patience Wheatley $25 book

Until the Light Blends by GEODE Music and Poetry $18.95 book, $15 CD,
$33 both (book of poems by Susan McMaster, published by Black Moss
ISBN 0-887533-97-3)

Gathering Voices by Penn Kemp & Gloria Alvernaz Mulcahy $20 book, $15
CD, $34 both

Vocal Braiding by Penn Kemp & Patricia Keeney $15 book, $15 CD, $39

Sarasvati Scapes by Penn Kemp and Angela Hryniuk $20 book, $15 CD,
$34 both

Persiflage by Gregor Loud $25 book

Such Green by Terry Anne Carter $20 book (schools and libraries),
$25 book (collectors)

The Night The Ducks Got Loose by Charles Mountford $17.60 book

Cantos North by Henry Beissel $20 CD

Focus by Douglas Valleau $20 book

Samsara by Katerina Fretwell $25 book

Viva la Vida. Videographer: Daniela Sneppova. Poets / performers: Gloria Alvernaz Mulcahy and Penn Kemp. Poetry DVD. Pendas Poets Series #19.

For more information and to order these books and/or cds, please contact Pendas tel.: (519) 434-8555 e-mail: pendas@pennkemp.ca

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Sound poet Penn Kemp performs in arts festivals world-wide. Among her publications are 25 books of poetry and drama, ten CDs and six videopoems as well as Canada's first CD-ROM: sample www.myspace.com/pennkemp, http://www.mytown.ca/pennkemp/ and www.ditchpoetry.com/pennkemp.htm. In happy collaboration, Penn presents her Sound Operas live and archived on chrwradio.com/talk/gatheringvoices. Her latest CDs are "Helwa!", from Suite Ancient Egypt and Darkness Visible. Forthcoming is a DVD, Viva la Vida (de Frida Kahlo). Penn's fascination with Egypt led her to visit twice, once with other metaphysical teachers, and again as tour leader. An intrigue with ancient mythology has taken her on many such journeys, in search especially of Black Madonnas. The Association of Canadian Studies sponsored Penn's reading tours throughout India and Brazil. http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodH

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See http://www.uwo.ca/english/WhatsNew/Kemp2009-10Intro.pdf.

Monday, October 26, 2009

EnCHANTments: a workshop with Brenda McMorrow & me

Mother Worldly

Muse News

for a Fulsome Fall 2009

Tune in... Sound On...

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EnChanting: Transformation through Poetry, Sound & Song

Workshop, Saturday, December 5, 10:00-5:00 pm, see p. 4 below for details.

With Devotional Chant Artist Brenda McMorrow & Penn Kemp

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October 24, 2009 was The UN Day for Climate Change ACTION! Poems were written for http://350Poems.blogspot.com, also featured on www.350.org.

“I participated by reading my poem “Celebrating Tree in Souwesto” on Saturday, October 24, 2009, at the Graham Arboretum in Springbank Park, London ON in an unveiling and dedication ceremony for the new memorial wall within the arboretum. As I was reading about Sycamore as a 'memory tree' reminiscent of 'that other London's Plane tree', I looked up and saw a young tree I thought was a Sycamore... it turned out to BE a Plane tree.

Circles within circles reach out to embrace the Earth. Here is my 3.5 line poem for http://350Poems.blogspot.com, #207:

Embrace the whole green planet.
It is possible to be that large. The time
is come. It is not just possible.
It is necessary.”

gatheringvoices. (Well, on any Gathering Voices show...)”

Photos by Gavin Stairs: http://picasaweb.google.com/gavinstairs/350Springbank20091024?feat=email#

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An Absolutely Awesome October for Articles, Etc...

Kane X. Faucher, “Prodical Penn”, Artscape Magazine. October 2009. http://www.artscapemagazine.ca/New%20Site/web-data/Components/Issues/200910.pdf

Nichole Laidler, “Sound Advice: Poet, Playwright and Performer Penn Kemp goes back to school”, City Life Magazine, P. 6, and up on http://www.myvirtualpaper.com/doc/London-City-Life/lcl_oct_nov_09/2009101301/.

Heather Travis. “Penning a role in the community”, Western News, October 22, 2009

http://communications.uwo.ca/com/western_news/stories/penning_a_role_in_the_community__20091022445027/. Cover page, http://uwo.ca/.

“Sound poetry: Penn Kemp and the metamorphosed ear”, by Conrad DiDiodato, http://didiodatoc.blogspot.com/, Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Kaleigh Boyd, “Western writers discuss ‘living the dream’: Pigheadedness and luck keys to success for aspiring authors”, October 13, 2009. The Gazette, http://www.uwogazette.ca/2009/10/13/western-writers-discuss-%E2%80%98living-the-dream%E2%80%99/

Erica Ruth Olmstead, “Grads inspire others to pursue writing”, Western News, October 15, http://communications.uwo.ca/com/western_news/stories/grads_inspire_others_to_pursue_writing__20091015444996/

Paula Meng, “Minutia exhibit focuses on the little things”, The Gazette. October 20, 2009. http://www.uwogazette.ca/2009/10/20/minutia-exhibit-focuses-on-the-little-things/

Penn’s talk, "Courage, My Love", on a career in the arts, with a sound poem as inspiration: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=BD70C42528F0921E&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL

I think I love you but I have chosen darkness, Daniela Sneppova’s Video /Film installation, January 2010, McIntosh Gallery, London ON. Photo of Penn in Vanity Vamp Attire At Ire, http://www.fuzzycore.org/mrtvolka/vamps/vamps.htm

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Upcoming Events

Monday, October 26, 2009, 7:30 pm. Poetry launches by Andreas Gripp (Anathema), Penn Kemp, John B. Lee (Island on the Wind-Breathed Edge of the Sea) and Lori A. May (Stains). London launch of Penn’s book/cd, Trance (Dance) Form. P.K. Page wrote of this book, "Read it with three eyes. Though two will do." Now you can hear it with three ears— though two will do! Mykonos, 572 Adelaide St. N., London ON. Contact: andreasgripp@hotmail.com. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Penn-Kemp/126450531030?created#/event.php?eid=148035377622&index=1

Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 6-6:30 pm, 2009. Show #5. Sounding Minutia: Discussion circle with Penn Kemp and participatory sounding of Robert Kelly’s Minutia at the McIntosh Gallery, The University of Western Ontario. Radio Western, CHRW 94.9 FM. Live, chrwradio.com/listen.

Thursday, October 29, 4:00 to 5:00 pm, Canadianist Research Group seminar. Daphne Marlatt, poetry, performance, and collaboration. UC 274 or UC 224a. Contact: Erica Kelly, ekelly28@uwo.ca

Thursday, October 29, 8 pm, Conron Hall, University College, U. of Western Ontario, London. “Like Light Off Water”. Daphne Marlatt reads from her classic poetry cycle Steveston with music by Canadian composers Robert Minden and Carla Hallett. Introduced by Penn. Free and open to the public. Interview with Daphne Marlatt now archived on www.chrwradio.com/talk/gatheringvoices. Contact: mjones@uwo.ca.

Wednesday, November 4, 6:30-7:00 am, 2009. Show #5 (R). Sounding Minutia: Discussion circle with Penn Kemp and participatory sounding of Robert Kelly’s Minutia at the McIntosh Gallery, The University of Western Ontario. Radio Western, CHRW 94.9 FM. To be archived on www.chrwradio.com/talk/gatheringvoices.

Thursday, November 5, 1:30-3:30 pm, 2009. WRIT 2299, the Professional Writing Portfolio, in the Writing, Rhetoric and Professional Communication Program in Arts.

Contact: Kathryn Alexander <kalexa7@uwo.ca>

Wednesday, November 11, 2:30-3:30 pm. “Writing from the inside out, and exploring form and structure”. Rm 2042, the Faculty of Education, Althouse College, 1137 Western Rd., London. Contact: Kathy Hibbert (519) 661-2111, x. 88557, khibbert@uwo.ca

Wednesday, November 11, 6-6:30 pm, 2009. Gathering Voices, Radio Western, CHRW 94.9 FM. Show #6. When The Heart Parts: a Sound Opera by Penn Kemp, performed with Anne Anglin, John Blackwood, John Magyar. CD, Pendas Productions.

Thursday, November 12, 12 pm, The London Reads Literary Lunch, Lorraine Ivey Shuttleworth Community Gallery, Museum London. We will launch the 2009/10 London Reads, introduce the six celebrity readers including Penn, Gitta Kulczycki (VP, Resources and Operations), Jonathan Vance (History) and the three shortlisted books. Contact: Carolyn Young, Communications Manager, (519) 661-3520 ext. 88251, ccyoung@uwo.ca.

Wednesday, November 18, 6:30-7:00 am, 2009. Show #6 (R). When The Heart Parts: a Sound Opera. CD, Pendas Productions. Radio Western, CHRW 94.9 FM. To be archived on www.chrwradio.com/talk/gatheringvoices.

Wednesday, November 18, 4:00-5:30 pm, 2009. Penn in discussion with Canadianist Reading Group at Western, UC 274. Contact: Nadine Fladd nfladd@uwo.ca, Kostantina Northrup, knorthru@uwo.ca

Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009, 8 pm PST. Videopoems, Altar Ego and ecopoem From an Upstairs Window, shown for “SEE THE VOICE: Visible Verse”, Pacific Cinematheque, Vancouver BC. http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=620873242#/group.php?gid=2423323723&ref=ts. Contact: Heather Haley, hshaley@emspace.com.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 10:30 am-12:30 pm. “On performance poetry and performing poetry”, Writing Program, Middlesex College Room 105, U. of Western Ontario, London ON. Contact: Kathryn Mockler kmockle3@uwo.ca, 416-850-4602.

Wednesday, November 25, 6-6:30 pm, 2009. Show #7. Interview with London ON novelist Joan Barfoot. Radio Western, CHRW 94.9 FM. Live, www.chrwradio.com/listen.

Friday, November 27, 2009, 1-2:30 pm. Penn, Women’s Studies, "Feminist Theory and Practice in the Arts and Humanities". Contact: Kimberly J Verwaayen kjverwaa@uwo.ca

Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 6:30-7:00 am, 2009. Show #7 (R). Interview with London ON novelist Joan Barfoot. Radio Western, CHRW 94.9 FM. To be archived on www.chrwradio.com/talk/gatheringvoices.

Sunday, December 6, 2009, 10:00-5:00 pm, 2009. EnChanting: Transformation through Poetry, Sound and Song: A workshop for those who think they can't sing or write but always wanted to; for those who can sing/write and wanted more; for those wanting to sound out, sing out, write out loud. Sounding and chanting are freely joyous ways to release creativity and open the heart's song. Drop the blocks! Write and raise your voice with us! Invoking Sarasvati, the goddess of creativity, music and poetry, we will create and share chants, poems and songs to, from and for our Mother World.
With Devotional Chant Artist Brenda McMorrow (www.brendamcmorrow.com) and Penn
$60 ($50 if you bring a friend). Bring a lunch to share potluck. Herbal tea on the house.
To confirm your spot, contact: ameyamusic@gmail.com and/or penn@pennkemp.ca. See
www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=3992303404#/event.php?eid=159742124825&index=1

Judge

October, 2009. Math Performance Festival adjudicators Susan Aglukark, Tracy Bone, J.C. Campbell, Douglas Copeland, Bob Hallett, Jay Ingram and Penn Kemp: see http://www.edu.uwo.ca/mpc/overview.html. (Math as an art form, O the beauty!)

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Writer-in-Residence

Penn is the James A. and Marjorie Spenceley / Canada Council Writer-in-Residence at Western for 2009-10. If you're in the London ON area, come visit with your writing.

Contact Vivian Foglton (519-661-3403 or vlavers@uwo.ca) for an appointment to discuss your works of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction and/or drama with Penn. It's free!

Office hours: Wednesdays, 12:30 pm –3:30 pm. Thursdays, 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm., UC 171.
Wednesday, September 16 through Thursday, November 26. Filled.

Wednesday, January 13 through Thursday, March 25. Open.

Office hours: Wednesdays, 12:30 pm –3:30 pm. Thursdays, 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm., UC 171.
Wednesday, September 16 through Thursday, November 26.

Wednesday, January 13 through Thursday, March 25.

Penn’s own project for the residency is Ecco poetry, a genre-bending compilation of poems devoted to our MotherWorld that will culminate in a book, a CD and a DVD.

"I had such a wonderful time at our first meeting! Your schedule suggestion is working really well..." Mary McDonald

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Please join our Facebook groups:

Gathering Voices www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=3992303404

Save Prom-Art: Promote Canadian Arts and Culture
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=27449691026

Profile pages: http://www.facebook.com/pennkemp

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Penn-Kemp/126450531030?created

http://www.mtls.ca/issue4/writings-poetry-kemp.php.

Pendas Books/CDs are available from pendas@pennkemp.ca.

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Fall Publications

“Embrace the whole green planet, #207, http://350Poems.blogspot.com

“Climbing Jacob's Ladder”, “Blanched”, “Crossing Point”, Danse Macabre XXVIII,eallra hālgena ǣfen all saints’ evening. October 2009, Danse Macabre. éditeur, Adam Henry Carrière, http://dansemacabre.art.officelive.com/climbingjacobsladder.aspx.

"Regarding What is Given", "Night Mare, Night Air", "The Long and Short of All" and "O Lyric, O Lyre, O Liar". The Maple Tree Literary Supplement, mtls.ca. September 15, 2009

“The Dream Performance”, Leonard Cohen: You’re Our Man, anthology for Leonard Cohen‘s 75^th birthday. Jack Locke, editor, Foundation for Public Poetry/Fondation Poésie Publique, P.O. BOX 23044, 5038 Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC. H4A 1S7. publicpoetry@gmail.com. www.publicpoetry.wordpress.com. September 21, 2009.

"September Light" and "An Ounce Of Essential", The Ambassador Poetry Project.

Launch, September 25, 2009. Grosse Pointe MI. Editor, Lori A. May, www.ambassadorpoetry.com.

"Disarming le Revenant", Totentanze # XXVII, September 2009. Danse Macabre.

éditeur, Adam Henry Carrière, dansemacabreonline@gmail.com. http://dansemacabre.art.officelive.com/lerevenant.aspx.

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Saturday, October 03, 2009

Muse News for JMotherWorldly Muse News for an Awesome October of Poetry/Panel Events!
Category: Writing and Poetry

MotherWorldly

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for an Awesome October 2009

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Upcoming Events

Sunday, October 4, 2009, 10:00 am—5:30 pm. The Great Returning: Inhabiting Our MotherWorld. Sunday with Leona Graham and Penn Kemp. An experiential workshop dedicated to empowering the individual to attune to our Great Mother Earth and life-sustaining, enhancing values. Participants will emerge grounded in realistic ways and means to face these critical times where the choices we make can make all the difference.

How are the arts relevant to sustainability? How can we articulate our convictions in ways that move the reader to action? We will help empower you to write with a short reading to encourage you in your own work, through the kind of coaching that is only possible in a small group and the safe setting we provide. A series of exercises on creativity will give participants direct experience and practical suggestions for spurring the imagination and honing writing skills. Inspiration will be provided!

PRESENTERS: Penn and Leona share deep common ground through decades of friendship and shared experience in various realms-- the literary arts; community and peace activism; conservation and deep ecology. Former academics, we have each supported ourselves outside the mainstream commercial complex since the early 70's. Despite the Atlantic ocean often between us, we have long navigated and maintained a synergy of shared dimensions. As co-creators, we are involved in connecting environmental politics with goddess spirituality both in our own writing and through workshops around the world (including Glastonbury and Findhorn). As listener-conveners, Leona and Penn create an expansive and practical field of possibilities for and with the group. For more information see http://brideswell.com/content/?p=302 and http://www.myspace.com/pennkemp, http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.ListAll&bID=499890262.

Location: 525 Canterbury Road, London ON. Contact: 519 434-8555, penn@pennkemp.ca leona@brideswell.com. Students, artists, seniors, friends: $60.

As spaces in the workshop are very limited, your place will be reserved as soon as we receive your payment. Please send your cheque to Pendas Productions, 525 Canterbury Road, London ON N6G2N5. No refunds, sorry. Please bring a lunch to share and we shall have potluck! Herbal tea will be provided throughout the day.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 6:30-7:00 am, 2009. Show #3 (R). Gathering Voice (book/ cd, Pendas Productions) by Gloria Alvernaz Mulcahy and Penn, with Anne Anglin. 94. FM, www.chrwradio.com/listen, archived on www.chrwradio.com/talk/gatheringvoices.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009, noon—2pm, Living the Dream: Writing Careers Panel Discussion with Bonnie Burnard, Cathy Marie Buchanan, R. Scott Bakker, Douglas Keddy, Penn and Christine Walde. The Book Store at Western University Community Centre, Lower Level. The event is part of Career Week. Contact: Carolyn Young, Communications Manager, (519) 661-3520 ext. 88251, ccyoung@uwo.ca.

Thursday, October 8, 2009, 2—3 pm. “Courage, My Love!”, Fanshawe College Speakers’ Series. Room D 1060, Fanshawe College, 1001 Fanshawe College Blv, London ON N5Y 5R6. “The life you create is in your own hands. What possibilities are open to you? How do you create luck for yourself? How do you recognize opportunities as they arise? How can you generate the livelihood that’s just right for you, the most fulfilling work you could choose? The spirit of success is focused play: the practice of a child intent on learning to walk, who stumbles and happily tries, again and again. The courage to find and follow your creative livelihood is in taking those first steps towards the yet to be explored.” Free and open to the public. Contact: KDindoff@fanshawec.ca , 519-619-6556 or Amanda Zavitz-Gocan, Social Sciences Coordinator, 519-452-4430, azavitz@fanshawec.ca.

Thursday, October 8, 2009, 5:30 - 6:15 pm. Discussion circle with Penn Kemp and participatory sounding of Robert Kelly’s Minutia at the McIntosh Gallery, The University of Western Ontario. Tied in with Visual Arts Art Now speakers series, this sounding with Penn will provide an alternative view of the work and an entrance into it. Minutia by Calgary artist Robert Kelly is a sculptural installation of books displayed on lecterns in a circular format. Each book focuses on one word in the sentence fragment "the first time I heard the sound of a page turning", as a Chinese immigrant to Canada wrote. Each book becomes the vehicle for exploring the power of language as well as our link to the world through words. Penn will be conducting an impromptu sound orchestra based on the 11 words, "the first time I heard the sound of a page turning". Come join us with your voice and/or your ears! Choose a word! Contact: Catherine Elliot Shaw, Curator, 519-661-3181, 519-661-3059, www.mcintoshgallery.ca

Tuesday, October 13, 7:15-9 pm. Penn reading, English 1020E, UC 286, UWO, London. Contact: Mark McDayter mmcdayte@uwo.ca

Tuesday, October 13, 9-10 pm and throughout the week. Rogers TV, London ON. Philip McLeod’s interview with Penn on McLeod, an hour of interviews with interesting Londoners who are making a difference in our city. Following Cory Morningstar and a discussion of activist ecopoetry for the International Day of Climate Action, Penn will read from her “Celebrating Tree in Souwesto”, Rogers TV, London. Contact: "Philip McLeod" <phil@philipmcleod.ca>

Wednesday, October 14, 10:30-11:30 am. Penn reading for “Contemporary Canadian Literature”, University College Room 30, UWO. Contact: Joe Zezulka jzezulka@uwo.ca.

Wednesday, October 14, 6-6:30 pm, 2009. Show #4. Like Light Off Water (cd, LostSound.com). Interview with Daphne Marlatt. She reads passages from Steveston. Music composed and performed by Robert Minden and Carla Hallett. Radio Western, CHRW 94.9 FM. To be archived on www.chrwradio.com/talk/gatheringvoices.

Tuesday, October 20, 2:30 pm, 2009. Penn, Creative Writing class in the Writing, Rhetoric and Professional Communication program, 3102 Thames Hall. Contact: Claudia Manley cmanley2@uwo.ca.

Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 6:30-7:00 am, 2009. Show #4 (R). Like Light Off Water.

Radio Western, CHRW 94.9 FM. Interview with Daphne Marlatt. To be archived on www.chrwradio.com/talk/gatheringvoices.

Thursday, October 22, 2009, 4-5 pm, reading, visiting authors' series, King's University College, London. Student Lounge, Wemple Building, King’s University College, London. 6-7 pm, workshop, Creative Writing Group. Contact: Dorothy Nielsen dnielse@uwo.ca

Saturday, October 24, 2009, 12:30-3:30. “Celebrating Tree in Souwesto” reading, Memorial Garden. Contact: Julie Michaud, Parks Project coordinator jmichaud@london.ca

Monday, October 26, 2009, 7:30 pm. Poetry launches by Andreas Gripp, Penn Kemp, John B. Lee and Lori A. May. London launch of Penn’s book/cd, Trance (Dance) Form. P.K. Page wrote of this book, "Read it with three eyes. Though two will do." Now you can hear it with three ears— though two will do! Mykonos, 572 Adelaide St. N., London ON. Contact: andreasgripp@hotmail.com.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 6-6:30 pm, 2009. Show #5. What Springs to Mind (book, Pendas Productions). Penn’s writing practice: “The Three Doors of Creative Writing: a floor plan”. Radio Western, CHRW 94.9 FM. Live, chrwradio.com/listen.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 6:30-7:00 am, 2009. Show #5 (R). What Springs to Mind (book, Pendas Productions). Penn’s writing practices: “The Three Doors of Creative Writing: a floor plan”. Radio Western, CHRW 94.9 FM. To be archived on www.chrwradio.com/talk/gatheringvoices.

Wednesday, November 11, 2:30-3:30 pm. “Writing from the inside out, and exploring form and structure”. Rm 2042, the Faculty of Education, Althouse College 1137 Western Rd., London. Contact: Kathy Hibbert (519) 661-2111, x. 88557, khibbert@uwo.ca

Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 6-6:30 pm, 2009. Show #6. When The Heart Parts: a Sound Opera by Penn Kemp, performed with Anne Anglin, John Blackwood, John Magyar. CD, Pendas Productions. Radio Western, CHRW 94.9 FM.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 6:30-7:00 am, 2009. Show #6 (R). When The Heart Parts: a Sound Opera. CD, Pendas Productions. Radio Western, CHRW 94.9 FM. To be archived on www.chrwradio.com/talk/gatheringvoices.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 10:30 am -12:30 pm. “On performance poetry and performing poetry”, Writing Program, Middlesex College Room 105, U. of Western Ontario, London ON. Contact: Kathryn Mockler kmockle3@uwo.ca, 416-850-4602.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 6-6:30 pm, 2009. Show #7. Interview with London ON novelist Joan Barfoot. Radio Western, CHRW 94.9 FM. Live, www.chrwradio.com/listen.

Friday, November 27, 1-2:30 pm. Women’s Studies class on "Feminist Theory and Practice in the Arts and Humanities". Contact: Kimberly J Verwaayen kjverwaa@uwo.ca

Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 6:30-7:00 am, 2009. Show #7 (R). Interview with London ON novelist Joan Barfoot. Radio Western, CHRW 94.9 FM. To be archived on www.chrwradio.com/talk/gatheringvoices.

Math Performance Festival adjudicators Susan Aglukark, Tracy Bone, J.C. Campbell, Douglas Copeland, Bob Hallett, Jay Ingram and Penn Kemp: see http://www.edu.uwo.ca/mpc/overview.html. (Math as an art form, O the beauty!)

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Penn is the James A. and Marjorie Spenceley / Canada Council Writer-in-Residence at Western for 2009-10. If you're in the London ON area, come visit with your writing.

Contact Vivian Foglton (519-661-3403 or vlavers@uwo.ca) for an appointment to discuss your works of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction and/or drama with Penn. It's free!

Office hours: Wednesdays, 12:30 pm –3:30 pm. Thursdays, 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm., UC 171.
Wednesday, September 16 through Thursday, November 26.

Wednesday, January 13 through Thursday, March 25.

Office hours: Wednesdays, 12:30 pm –3:30 pm. Thursdays, 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm., UC 171.
Wednesday, September 16 through Thursday, November 26.

Wednesday, January 13 through Thursday, March 25.

Penn’s own project for the residency is Ecco poetry, a genre-bending compilation of poems devoted to our MotherWorld that will culminate in a book, a CD and a DVD.

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Please join our Facebook groups:

Gathering Voices www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=3992303404

Save Prom-Art: Promote Canadian Arts and Culture
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=27449691026

Profile pages: http://www.facebook.com/pennkemp

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Penn-Kemp/126450531030?created

http://www.mtls.ca/issue4/writings-poetry-kemp.php.

Pendas Books/CDs are available from pendas@pennkemp.ca.

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Fall Publications

"Regarding What is Given", "Night Mare, Night Air", "The Long and Short of All" and "O Lyric, O Lyre, O Liar". The Maple Tree Literary Supplement, mtls.ca. September 15, 2009

"September Light" and "An Ounce Of Essential", The Ambassador Poetry Project.

Launch, September 25, 2009. Grosse Pointe MI. Editor, Lori A. May, www.ambassadorpoetry.com.

"Disarming le Revenant", Totentanze # XXVII, September 2009. Danse Macabre.

éditeur, Adam Henry Carrière, dansemacabreonline@yahoo.com. http://dansemacabre.art.officelive.com/lerevenant.aspx.

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Friday, August 28, 2009

Penn’s Muse News for a Shimmering September 2009 Tune in... Sound On..
Category: Writing and Poetry

Penn’s Muse News

for a Shimmering September

2009

Tune in... Sound On...

Now

embrace the whole
green planet.

It is possible
to be that large.

The time is come.

It is not just
possible.

It is necessary.

Penn’s poem is from Re:Vision, a Seasonal Song Cycle of Ecco Poetry.

Song written and performed by Brenda McMorrow.

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Writer-in-Residence

Penn is the James A. and Marjorie Spenceley / Canada Council Writer-in-Residence at Western for 2009-10. If you're in the London ON area, come visit with your writing.

Contact Vivian Foglton (519-661-3403 or vlavers@uwo.ca) for an appointment to discuss your works of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction and/or drama with Penn. It's free! Send submissions (up to ten pages, double-spaced, submitted one week prior to scheduled appointment) to Vivian Foglton, Secretary, Department of English, University College, Room 173, The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 3K7. Office hours: Wednesdays, 12:30 pm –3:30 pm. Thursdays, 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm., UC 171.
Wednesday, September 16 through Thursday, November 26.

Wednesday, January 13 through Thursday, March 25

See also http://www.uwo.ca/english/

As part of the residency, Penn is hosting Gathering Voices, an eclectic literary show of readings and interviews on Radio Western, CHRW 94.9 FM. Gathering Voices airs every second Wednesday starting September 2 from 6-6:30 pm and on www.chrwradio.com. On alternate Wednesdays, catch the show from 6:30-7 am. Archives of past interviews and Penn’s sound operas are now up on chrwradio.com/talk/gatheringvoices.

Interviews, sound operas, writing exercises, poems in translation... Sound Opera is a new form Penn developed in performance and recording with collaborators in a desire to lift poetry off the page to the stage. Sound Opera is based on text but it expands poetic possibilities to include voice, music and computer manipulation to express narrative when emotions burst the seams of print. Poetry as performance on radio works because it is primarily aural, true to its origins around a Neolithic fire.

Penn’s own project for the residency is Ecco poetry, a genre-bending compilation of poems devoted to our MotherWorld that will culminate in a book, a CD and a DVD.

Jeff Renaud, Media Relations Officer, has done an interview and a video on Penn for Western Media Relations, http://communications.uwo.ca/com.

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Upcoming Events

Penn is hosting Gathering Voices, an eclectic literary show of readings and interviews on Radio Western, CHRW. Gathering Voices airs every second Wednesday live on 94.9 FM and on www.chrwradio.com/listen. Archives of past interviews and Penn’s sound operas are now up on chrwradio.com/talk/gatheringvoices. ....

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Wednesday, September 2, 6-6:30 pm, 2009. Show #1: Introducing Gathering Voices: Ben Benedict’s interview with Penn: “A Daughter returns: Life and Art in London, Ontario”.....

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Tuesday, September 8, 2009, 7:30 pm, 2009. The Writers’ Union of Canada gathering with Erna Paris, TWUC chair, and Larry Scanlan, Ontario’s rep on National Council. 525 Canterbury Road, London. Writers welcome. Contact: Penn, 519 434 8555, penn@pennkemp.ca.....

Wednesday, September 9, 6-6:30 am, 2009. Show #1: Introducing Gathering Voices: Ben Benedict’s interview with Penn (R). ....

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Wednesday, September 16, 12:30-3:30 pm, 2009. Office hours, Writer-in-residence, UC 171. Contact: Vivian Foglton (519-661-3403 or vlavers@uwo.ca) for an appointment. ....

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Wednesday, September 16, 6-6:30 pm, 2009. Show #2: Penn’s interview with Leona Graham, http://brideswell.com/content/?p=302.....

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Thursday, September 17, 2009, 12:30-3:30 pm, 2009. Office hours, Writer-in-residence. Contact: Vivian Foglton (519-661-3403 or vlavers@uwo.ca) for an appointment. ....

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Sunday, September 20, 2009, 3-4 pm. Re:Vision, a Seasonal Song Cycle for Luminous Entrance with Penn and Brenda McMorrow. The 3rd Annual Words Alive Literary Festival, Sharon Temple National Historic Site, Sharon, Ontario. www.wordsalive.ca, www.wordsalive.ca/speakers/. Contact: cheryl@candrewsgroup.com, Edward Fenner 416.736.2100 x 40635. $5. Sponsor: the League of Canadian Poets.....

Read a rave review of this production of Ecco Poetry on http://didiodatoc.blogspot.com/, August 16.....

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Monday, September 21, 2009, (Leonard's 75th birthday). Launch of Leonard Cohen: You're Our Man--75 poets reflect on the poetry of Leonard Cohen. For details, contact editor Jack J. Locke, Foundation for Public Poetry/Fondation Poésie Publique, publicpoetry@gmail.com, www.publicpoetry.wordpress.com ....

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Wednesday, September 23, 12:30-3:30 pm, 2009. Office hours, Writer-in-residence, UC 171. Contact: Vivian Foglton (519-661-3403 or vlavers@uwo.ca) for an appointment. ....

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Wednesday, September 23, 6-6:30 am, 2009. Show #2: (R). See below, October 4, The Great Returning: Inhabiting Our MotherWorld. ....

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Thursday, September 24, 2009, 12:30-3:30 pm, 2009. Office hours, Writer-in-residence. Contact: Vivian Foglton (519-661-3403 or vlavers@uwo.ca) for an appointment. ....

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Friday, Sept 25, 2009, 12:00 noon. Amazing Tree Quest Awards Luncheon, Museum London, 421 Ridout St. N., London ON. Tickets are $25. Contact 519 661 5095 or jbaechler@london.ca for more information. Penn opens the event with her ode to trees. Ivan Listar, our urban forester, gives his “state of the forest” address.

Wednesday, September 30, 12:30-3:30 pm, 2009. Office hours, Writer-in-residence, UC 171. Contact: Vivian Foglton (519-661-3403 or vlavers@uwo.ca) for an appointment. ....

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Wednesday, September 30, 6-6:30 pm, 2009. Show #3. Gathering Voice (book/cd, Pendas Productions) by Gloria Alvernaz Mulcahy and Penn, performed with Anne Anglin.....

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Thursday, October 1, 2009, 12:30-3:30 pm, 2009. Office hours, Writer-in-residence. ....

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Location: 525 Canterbury Road, London ON. Contact: 519 434-8555, penn@pennkemp.ca or leona@brideswell.com. Investment in You: $100. Students, artists, seniors: $60. ....

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Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 6-6:30 am, 2009. Show #3 (R). Gathering Voice (book/ cd, Pendas Productions) by Gloria Alvernaz Mulcahy and Penn, performed with Anne Anglin.....

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Wednesday, October 7, 2009, noon—2pm, Living the Dream: Writing Careers Panel Discussion with Bonnie Burnard, Cathy Marie Buchanan, R. Scott Bakker, Douglas Keddy, Penn Kemp and Christine Walde. The Book Store, University of Western Ontario. The event is part of Career Week. Contact: Carolyn Young, Communications Manager, (519) 661-3520 ext. 88251, ccyoung@uwo.ca.....

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Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 2:30-3:30 pm, 2009. Office hours, Writer-in-residence, UC 171. Contact: Vivian Foglton (519-661-3403 or vlavers@uwo.ca) for an appointment. ....

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Thursday, October 8, 2009, 2—3 pm. “Courage, My Love!”, Fanshawe College Speakers’ Series. Room D 1060, Fanshawe College, 1001 Fanshawe College Blvd., London ON N5Y 5R6. “The life you create is in your own hands. What possibilities are open to you? How do you create luck for yourself? How do you recognize opportunities as they arise? How can you generate the livelihood that’s just right for you, the most fulfilling work you could choose? The spirit of success is focused play: the practice of a child intent on learning to walk, who stumbles and happily tries, again and again. The courage to find and follow your creative livelihood is in taking those first steps towards the yet to be explored.” Free and open to the public. Contact: KDindoff@fanshawec.ca , 519-619-6556 or Amanda Zavitz-Gocan, Social Sciences Coordinator, 519-452-4430, azavitz@fanshawec.ca.....

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Thursday, October 8, 2009, 5:30—6:15 pm. Talk with Penn on Minutia. McIntosh Gallery, The University of Western Ontario. Minutia by Calgary artist Robert Kelly is a sculptural installation of books displayed on lecterns in a circular format. Each book focuses on one word in the sentence fragment "the first time I heard the sound of a page turning", as a Chinese immigrant to Canada wrote. Each book becomes the vehicle for exploring the power of language as well as our link to the world through words. Tied in with Visual Arts Art Now speakers’ series, this discussion with Penn will provide an alternative view of the work and an entrance into it. Contact: Catherine Elliot Shaw, Curator, 519-661-3181, 519-661-3059, www.mcintoshgallery.ca....

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Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 6—6:30 pm, 2009. Show #4. Like Light Off Water (cd, LostSound.com). Daphne Marlatt reads passages from Steveston. Music composed and performed by Robert Minden and Carla Hallett.
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 10:30-11:30 am. Penn reading for “Contemporary Canadian Literature”, University College Room 30, U. of Western Ontario, London. ....

Contact: Joe Zezulka jzezulka@uwo.ca. ....

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Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 6—6:30 am, 2009. Show #4 (R). Like Light Off Water (cd, LostSound.com). Daphne Marlatt reads passages from Steveston. Music composed and performed by Robert Minden and Carla Hallett.....

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Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 1:00-3:30 pm, 2009. Office hours, Writer-in-residence, UC 171. Contact: Vivian Foglton (519-661-3403 or vlavers@uwo.ca) for an appointment. ....

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Thursday, October 15, 2009, 12:30-3:30 pm, 2009. Office hours, Writer-in-residence. ....

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Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 2:30-3:30 pm, 2009. Office hours, Writer-in-residence, UC 171. Contact: Vivian Foglton (519-661-3403 or vlavers@uwo.ca) for an appointment. ....

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Thursday, October 22, 2009, 12:30-3:30 pm, 2009. Office hours, Writer-in-residence. ....

Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 2:30-3:30 pm, 2009. Office hours, Writer-in-residence, UC 171. Contact: Vivian Foglton (519-661-3403 or vlavers@uwo.ca) for an appointment. ....

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Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 6—6:30 pm, 2009. Show #5. What Springs to Mind (book, Pendas Productions, http://mytown.ca/what springstomind). Penn’s writing practices: “The Three Doors of Creative Writing: a floor plan”.....

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Thursday, October 29, 2009, 12:30-3:30 pm, 2009. Office hours, Writer-in-residence. ....

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Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 6—6:30 am, 2009. Show #5 (R). What Springs to Mind (book, Pendas Productions, http://mytown.ca/what springstomind). Penn’s writing practices: “The Three Doors of Creative Writing: a floor plan”.....

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Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 2:30-3:30 pm, 2009. Office hours, Writer-in-residence, UC 171. Contact: Vivian Foglton (519-661-3403 or vlavers@uwo.ca) for an appointment. ....

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Thursday, November 5, 2009, 12:30-3:30 pm, 2009. Office hours, Writer-in-residence. ....

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Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 2:30-3:30 pm, 2009. Office hours, Writer-in-residence, UC 171. Contact: Vivian Foglton (519-661-3403 or vlavers@uwo.ca) for an appointment. ....

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Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 6—6:30 pm, 2009. Show #6 When The Heart Parts: A Sound Opera (cd, Pendas Productions) by Penn, performed along with Anne Anglin, John Blackwood and John Magyar.....

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Thursday, November 12, 12 noon, 2009. London Reads Literary Lunch, the Lorraine Ivey Shuttleworth Community Gallery, Museum London. Launch of 2009/10 London Reads, introducing the six celebrity readers, including Penn, and the three shortlisted books. Contact: Carolyn Young, (519) 661-3520 ext. 88251, ccyoung@uwo.ca.

Thursday, November 12, 2009, 2:30-3:30 pm, 2009. Office hours, Writer-in-residence. ....

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Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 6—6:30 am, 2009. Show #6 (R). When The Heart Parts: A Sound Opera (cd, Pendas Productions) by Penn, performed along with Anne Anglin, John Blackwood and John Magyar.....

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Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 2:30-3:30 pm, 2009. Office hours, Writer-in-residence, UC 171. Contact: Vivian Foglton (519-661-3403 or vlavers@uwo.ca) for an appointment. ....

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Thursday, November 19, 2009, 8 pm. Hot Sauced Words. Penn and Catherine Owen. Black Swan Tavern, All GRRLLZ night! 154 Danforth Ave. (2nd floor) east of Broadview), Toronto. Contact: James@hotsaucedwords.ca, http://www.hotsaucedwords.ca.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 10:30 am -12:30 pm. “On performance poetry and performing poetry”, Writing Program, Middlesex College Room 105, U. of Western Ontario, London ON. Contact: Kathryn Mockler kmockle3@uwo.ca, 416-850-4602.....

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Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 2:00-3:30 pm, 2009. Office hours, Writer-in-residence, UC 171. Contact: Vivian Foglton (519-661-3403 or vlavers@uwo.ca) for an appointment. ....

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Thursday, November 26, 2009, 12:30-3:30 pm, 2009. Office hours, Writer-in-residence. ....

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Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 1:30 - 2:20 p.m. Penn reading for Honours Canadian literature class. University College Room 286. Contact: Pauline Wakeham ...

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Thursday, February 25, 2010, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Penn reading, “Poetry and Poetics”, Brescia University College. Erica: "I was very happy to hear Western's recent announcement that you will be our Writer-in-Residence for 2009-2010. I had the good fortune to hear you read this past February, at Landon Library, and I loved every minute of it. Your performance has really stayed with me." Contact: Erica Kelly ekelly28@uwo.ca.

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Please join our Facebook groups:

Gathering Voices www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=3992303404

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Save Prom-Art: Promote Canadian Arts and Culture
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=27449691026.

Profile pages: http://www.facebook.com/pennkemp ....

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Friday, August 28, 2009

Gathering Voices, www.chrwradio.com/talk/gatheringvoices
Category: Podcast

Gathering Voices is returning to Radio Western, www.chrwradio.com/talk/gatheringvoices. Stay tuned!

Penn is hosting Gathering Voices, an eclectic literary show of readings and interviews on Radio Western, live on 94.9 FM and streamed on www.chrwradio.com. The shows will then be podcast on chrwradio.com/talk/gatheringvoices.

Gathering Voices airs every second Wednesday starting September 2 from 6-6:30 pm. On alternate Wednesdays, catch the show from 6:30-7 am.

Archives of past interviews and Penn’s sound operas are up now on chrwradio.com/talk/gatheringvoices.

Broadcast Schedule

Wednesday, September 2, 6-6:30 pm, 2009. Show #1: Introducing Gathering Voices: Ben Benedict’s interview with Penn.

Wednesday, September 9, 6-6:30 am, 2009. Show #1: Introducing Gathering Voices: Ben Benedict’s interview with Penn (R).

Wednesday, September 16, 6-6:30 pm, 2009. Show #2: Penn’s interview with Leona Graham, The Great Returning: Inhabiting Our MotherWorld. See http://brideswell.com/content/?p=302.

Wednesday, September 23, 6-6:30 am, 2009. Show #2: (R). The Great Returning: Inhabiting Our MotherWorld.

Wednesday, September 30, 6-6:30 pm, 2009. Show #3. Gathering Voice (book/cd, Pendas Productions) by Gloria Alvernaz Mulcahy and Penn, performed with Anne Anglin.

Wednesday, October 7, 2009, 6-6:30 am, 2009. Show #3 (R). Gathering Voice (book/ cd, Pendas Productions) by Gloria Alvernaz Mulcahy and Penn, performed with Anne Anglin.

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Penn interviews Edeet Ravel, produced by Robyn Israel and archived.

"Now

embrace the whole

green planet.

It is possible

to be that large.

The time is come.

It is not just

possible.

It is necessary."

"Embrace the whole" comes from Penn's Re:Vision, a Seasonal Song Cycle of Ecco Poetry. Lyrics by Penn. Song written and performed by Brenda McMorrow. Recorded by John Magyar for Pendas Productions.

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Friday, August 28, 2009

Check out this video: Video of ReVisions rehearsal

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Friday, August 28, 2009

Re:Vision, a seasonal song cycle of ecco poetry at Aeolian Hall, London ON.

“Saturday's performance was a riveting multi-discipline statement. I thoroughly enjoyed it and most appreciated the seamless boundary-breaking conversation between voices, instruments and movement. The audience was caught in a lush soundscape infectiously encouraging us to participate. Thank you for such a lovely evening - and congrat

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Saturday, August 22, 2009

Reviews of Revisions
Category: Writing and Poetry

August 16, 2009. http://didiodatoc.blogspot.com/ (and a tribute to the Aeolian Hall: arts in activism!)
Word-Dreamer: poetics: Poetry of Penn Kemp: participating in "a seasonal song cycle of ecco poetry"

When a poetry reading is accompanied by choric chant, dancing and audience participation, it creates, as owner and director of "Aeolian Hall" Clark Bryan says, a "sacred place". And it did. And when the poet is Penn Kemp, activist, publisher and artist who's known for taking the "textual & aural boundaries" of language into a uniquely Canadian avant-garde, the poetry reading can sing to its own sacred energies. And it did.
This "Summer Soirée Festival Event" at London's "Aeolian Performing Arts Centre"played to a full audience, privileged (as Maria and I were) to view "a seasonal song cycle of ecco poetry", the lyrics of Penn Kemp wonderfully transformed into music and dance accompaniment. The tempo (as how could it not) alternated with great skill and precision between the dithyrambic, lyrical and elegiac: every stage in the cycle drew on the powers of language, movement and sound to tell the tale ('epic' in scope) of seasonal growth, the world's present disaster-course and the hope of regeneration. Both social activism and healing that lie at the basis of Penn's sound opera and her poetics, both at one incredible reading.

Ruth Douthwright's interpretive dance evoked the very primal motions of living and dying, hands, arms and feet shaped into seasonal winds, rains, while artists Anne Anglin, Brenda McMorrow, and Rob Menegoni created through vocals, music and percussion the "paeans of praise or rant" necessary to give essential voice to what Penn describes as a "MotherWorld's enChantments". From the striking of the Keiso through the rhythmic refrains and to the exotic Djembe and cymbals, Penn's reading was designed to elicit response, at one moment holding an audience in reverential silence and the next releasing it to the poem's wildest impulses.

I celebrate the 'ecco' in her ecco poetry, enjoying the playful senses of language, sound-effect and ecology activism that inform Penn's vision, as also the whole Art-and-social change impetus of "The Aeolian Performing Arts Centre": for I believe the two are of a piece. The website announces "Aeolian" not just as a Heritage site but a place where culture lives in partnership with the local community. Since it's run for profit, undistracted by the politics of funding, it meets a real need for the type of Art that matters: one that's self-generated, innovative and sensitive to social change. Marion Drysdale's Black Madonnas and AIDS art hang on the walls as a visual representation of the Art and social activism nexus which"Aeolian" was created by Clark Bryan to promote. I celebrate Clark as true cultural entrepreneur.

And, of course, I celebrate Penn Kemp, artistic spirit of MotherWorld poetics whose work in Sound Opera and videopoetry will form the subjects of a later blog post. Meeting her for the first time only confirmed my impression of her as visionary, activist and one of Canada's greatest literary innovators. As I saw Penn after the performance move gracefully among a crowd of friends and supporters, receiving thanks, embracing everyone she met, I couldn't help thinking that the words of the third Chorus served appropriately as homage to someone who's been for many years an active, engaged and always inspiring presence in Canadian poetry: "There you are in moments, between friends, among many.(There you are, again)."

Saturday's performance was a riveting multi-discipline statement. I thoroughly enjoyed it and most appreciated the seamless boundary-breaking conversation between voices, instruments and movement. The audience was caught in a lush soundscape infectiously encouraging us to participate. Thank you for such a lovely evening - and congratulations on the process that brought you to the performance.” Louise Fagan

“Thank you for the fine RE-VISION performance Saturday evening. It was good to be a part of something new and different. Congratulations to you and the other members of your group.” Linda Gregson, Ergo Productions....

“Thank you Penn and friends for a wonderful evening and unique artistic experience!” Donovan Grace Banerjee, Women Spirit Song....

“I loved the performance last night. I think you should send the DVD when it is done to Robert Kennedy Jr. at River Keepers. Maybe there could be some mutual blessing there... your performance was soul sustaining.” Susannah Joyce....

“Glad to see the positive feedback. Well deserved! The harmonies sure sounded pretty sweet. Maybe Brenda has a new group of backup singers.” Chris Meloche ....

“What a splendid performance you had last night! Congratulations!” Eleanor Miller....

“I like the way your poems are so gritty/earthy but in a lyrical way that makes them also transcendent. Cool.” Jacqui Denomme, London Public Library

“WOW indeed Way to go my musical poetic friends.” Donna Creighton....

“I just wanted to let you know that we all very much enjoyed the show last evening. Your poetry, read and set to music and dance, was very enjoyable... Thanks very much for calling attention (once again) to the Black Madonnas in the programme. I do appreciate people's interest. Hope the rest of the evening went well for you - you did have a good crowd. Congratulations to all–” Marion Drysdale, artist who painted the Black Madonnas in the Hall.....

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“I have been meaning to email you since your performance, which I really enjoyed. The dance and the music were great too. I remember Brenda McMorrow from Julia Propeller days - always loved her singing.” Lynne Munro....

“A Mother-Worldly Night....

Old and new friends have come together to create what will surely be one of the most memorable events to take place at this year’s Aeolian Summer Soirée. August 15^th will see the launch of Re:Vision, a Seasonal Song Cycle, featuring the poetry of London writer Penn Kemp as expressed through dance and music. Joining Kemp on stage will be singer Brenda McMorrow, actor Anne Anne Anglin, dancer Ruth Douthwright, drummer Rob Menegoni and electroacoustic composers John Magyar and Chris Meloche. The evening’s grand melding of sights and sounds will be in celebration of what Kemp describes as ‘the mother world.’....

‘Re:Vision is a cycle of nature poetry through the seasons,’ explained Kemp. ‘We’re touching on some natural disasters, some joys—the whole gamut of emotion. My mission is to lift poetry off the page: this show really does that.’ Inspiration came by way of a series of paintings purchased for Aeolian Hall.....

‘The paintings are of the Black Madonna, whom I adore. She’s also the goddess that appears as Isis, Kali, Tara; basically she is Mother Earth, the protector,’ said Kemp. The show will feature Kemp’s Ecco Poetry—a play on eco and echo—and a lot of audience participation. ‘There are about 25 poems with 20 different choruses, some of which Brenda does on her own, some are with two voices, most are with the whole room,’ said Kemp. McMorrow—who Londoners will remember from 90’s band Julia Propeller—is a new acquaintance of Kemp’s, as is Douthwright and Menegoni, who plays with Barenaked Ladies. Anglin and Kemp have been collaborating for 35 years.....

‘They are my dream team. We all come from very different performance traditions, so the audience can expect a lot of genre blending. We will create a space where all people’s responses will be engaged and Aeolian Hall is the perfect place for it,’ said Kemp. ‘Not only is it surrounded by these evocative images of protectors, but the space itself is alive acoustically. I intend to raise the roof!’....

The performance will begin at 8 pm and will be recorded for later release on CD/DVD.”....

Amie Ronald-Morgan, London’s Indie Art, SCENE, August 2009....

“Aeolian Hall soiree a unique event
Aeolian Hall’s Summer Soiree may be London’s most eclectic festival, and Clark Bryan wouldn’t have it any other way.
“We have built some close relationships within the London arts community and are willing to try out a fusion of things that we think will work,” Aeolian’s owner and impresario says….
London sound poet, Penn Kemp promises to raise the roof with Re:Vision, A Seasonal Song Cycle on Aug. 12). “I try in every possible way to lift poetry off the page,” says Ms. Kemp, who describes her live performances as “somewhere between theatre and a poetry reading.”
Ms. Kemp’s interactive ecco poem performance unites her words with the talents of musician and composer Brenda McMorrow, dancer Ruth Douthwright, drummer Rob Menegoni, vocalist Anne Anglin and electroacoustic composers John Magyar and Chris Meloche.” Nicole Laidler, The Londoner http://www.thelondoner.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1675805....

Re:Vision, A Seasonal Song Cycle reviewed by Kenneth Chisholm for http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Beat-Arts-in-London-Magazine/140628470019.....

“The turn of the seasons is a classic theme full of metaphors about time, change and life. This show attempts to create an engaging collage of poetry, music and dance, and it largely succeeds despite a slow warm-up, some unambitious singing and poor lighting.
The production has an evocative opening with some beautifully atmospheric nature audio. Unfortunately, this is followed by a rather inert reading of the first featured poem with the chorus simply repeating two words as if the audience is in kindergarten.
However, subsequent readings rapidly become more entertaining as the readers weave their verbal pictures with growing skill while entrusting the audience with more sophisticated sing-along lyrics. By the end, you are sucked in as the show carries you along, even if poetry doesn't interest you.
The show truly comes alive when Ruth Douthwright dances. While she does not perform for every poem, Douthwright gracefully adds irresistible illustration-in-motion to the poetry whether it is of nature's beauty or the very power of Earth itself.
Meanwhile, Brenda McMorrow supplies some beautifully composed guitar and vocal melodies to complement both the spoken and moving poetry. At her side is percussionist Menegoni, supporting her music with the imaginative and alluring collection of sounds he is capable of creating with something so simple as a bowl and stick.
Unfortunately, all that beauty is undermined by the show's staging. For instance, this show primarily used an overhead arrangement that illuminates the auditorium with as much aesthetic value as your average office cubical space. Luckily, the audio recordings of nature and related aural embellishments lend a beautiful richness to the poetry.
So while Re:Vision, A Seasonal Song Cycle has a poor beginning and worse lighting, the overall show is a revelation full of poetic grace and imagination.”

On community involvement: by Clark Bryan, August 17, 2009

What is life without community? Can the world even exist let alone the
individual. The answer is a resounding NO! We live in a time period where
most people sleep walk outside of community, drug induced by computers,
televisions and the cocooned suburban "slow death" aka narcissism and
hedonism.
Enter the Aeolian as a connecting point. What role can art, culture and
activism play in breaking the death trance? It can draw people together in
community to share, experience and create. It entreats them to consider
themselves by contrasts. Contrasts are what makes life rich and full. The
Aeolian has become a place to come out and share artistic presentation. It
is a place to meet others and exchange perspectives...
The Creative Cities premise as expounded by Richard Florida asks us to
consider an investment in Art, culture and lifestyle as a way by which to
enrich out lives in all way. He speaks about the change which arises in
neighbourhoods when art and culture is fostered. Artists are fervent
activists and catalysts for positive social change. They are the leaders of
this change and in so doing lift us out of the "sleep walk" into community.

Working with the creative spirit of Penn Kemp has opened a doorway which can potentially become a portal between the Western Academic World and the Greater London Community. Future collaborative projects like the Eco
Poetics in Re: Vision are now being discussed. ....

“Thanks for a wonderful performance!” Clark Byran, The Aeolian Hall....

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