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Upcoming
Events
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, 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, , 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, , 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, Room D 1060, Fanshawe College, 1001 Fanshawe College Blv, London ON N5Y 5R6The 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 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: , 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.
Thursday, Oct29, 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. Contact: mjones@uwo.ca.
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.
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, 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!
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.
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 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
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
and http://www.twitter.com/pennkemp
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
http://www.mtls.ca/issue4/writings-poetry-kemp.php.
“The Dream Performance”,
Leonard Cohen: You’re Our Man, anthology for Leonard Cohen‘s 75th
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@yahoo.com.
http://dansemacabre.art.officelive.com/lerevenant.aspx.
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