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La Ville d’Ottawa et VERSE OTTAWA instaurent un programme de poètes lauréats / The City of Ottawa and VERSE OTTAWA establish a poet laureate program
Ottawa, 31 janvier 2017 – VERSE OTTAWA qui est responsable depuis sept ans de l’organisation du VERSEFest – Festival international et bilingue de poésie à Ottawa – annonce qu’elle a conclu une entente pour l’achat de ses services par la Ville d’Ottawa, en vue de la mise en œuvre d’un programme de « poètes lauréats ». En effet, à partir de 2017 VERSE OTTAWA gérera le processus de nomination des poètes francophone et anglophone et supervisera les activités que proposeront les poètes désignés. Ainsi, la Ville d’Ottawa pourra compter sur deux poètes de renom qui seront désignés pour un mandat de deux ans. À ce titre et forts de leurs écrits, ces poètes se feront ambassadeurs de l’art de la poésie ici à Ottawa et partout où ils seront appelés à prendre la parole ; gardant au cœur de leurs préoccupations trois grands aspects des programmes de poète lauréat : nation, population et art.
Financé à hauteur de vingt-cinq mille dollars par année, le programme permettra d’octroyer des honoraires annuels de cinq mille dollars à chacun des poètes. Les sommes restantes couvriront les activités proposées par les poètes sélectionnés ainsi que les frais d’administration du programme.
Les comités francophone et anglophone, qui sont responsables de la désignation des poètes lauréats, sont mis sur pied par VERSE OTTAWA. Le dévoilement des poètes lauréats devrait se faire tous les deux, ans à partir de 2017, lors du festival VERSEfest, dont la prochaine édition se tiendra à Ottawa du 21 au 26 mars 2017 (www.versefest.ca).
Rappelons que la Ville d’Ottawa a été dotée d’un programme de poète-lauréat unilingue anglophone de 1982 à 1990. En 2012, le Conseil municipal d’Ottawa a approuvé un plan culturel sur six ans (2013-2018) comprenant un nouveau programme de poète lauréat. Depuis, le comité de pilotage pour le renouvellement du Plan pour la culture a recommandé la mise en place parallèle de deux poètes lauréats pour Ottawa – un francophone et un anglophone.
Renseignements
Yves Turbide, président de VERSE OTTAWA 613-744-0902 • dg@aaof.ca
Ottawa, January 31st, 2017 – VERSE OTTAWA, which is responsible for the organization of VERSEfest – a bilingual and international poetry festival in Ottawa – announces that the City of Ottawa has reached an agreement to purchase the services of VERSE OTTAWA to facilitate a “poet laureate” program. Starting in 2017, VERSE OTTAWA will manage the nomination process of Francophone and Anglophone poets and supervise the activities that will be suggested by the designated poets. This way, the City of Ottawa will be able to count on two renowned poets who will be designated for a two year mandate. With this title and their writings, the two poets will act as ambassadors of poetry here in Ottawa and anywhere they are asked to speak. At the heart of their concerns, they will keep three important facets of the poet laureate program: nation, population and art.
Financed up to a maximum of twenty-five thousand dollars per year, the program will offer an honorarium of five thousand dollars to each poet. The remaining money will cover activities proposed by the selected poets and the administrative costs of the program.
The Francophone and Anglophone committees responsible for the designation of the poet laureates will be created by VERSE OTTAWA. The announcement of the selected poet laureates should take place every two years, starting in 2017, during VERSEfest which will take place in Ottawa between March 21st and 26th, 2017 (www.versefest.ca).
Let’s be reminded that the City of Ottawa had a unilingual poet laureate program between 1982 and 1990. In 2012, the city council of Ottawa approved a new six year cultural policy (2013-2018) that included a new poet laureate program. Since then, the steering committee for the renewal of the cultural policy has recommended establishing two parallel poet laureates for Ottawa – one Francophone and one Anglophone.
For more information:
Yves Turbide, president of VERSE OTTAWA 613-744-0902 • dg@aaof.ca
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Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Tuesday, October 09, 2012
Jenny Sampirisi & kevin mcpherson eckhoff
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More info: abseries.org |
Join us for an evening of visual poetry and poly-vocal performance!
8pm
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Ottawa Art Gallery
Arts Court
2 Daly Ave.
Ottawa, Ont.
Jenny Sampirisi is the author of the novel is/was from Insomniac Press. She is the former Managing Editor of BookThug and current co-director of the Toronto New School of Writing, a series of reading and writing workshops designed and facilitated by working writers. She teaches English Literature, Creative Writing and Composition at Ryerson University. She is the 2011 recipient of the K.M. Hunter Artist Award for Literature. Croak, a libretto of hermaphroditic Frogirls, is her first poetry collection. It is a poetic narrative of love, loss, and compromise played out on a Beckettian stage. She will present a poly-vocal rendering of the text at the A B Series.
kevin mcpherson eckhoff equals rhapsodomancy plus easy peasy! Will he win the ReLit award this year? Join whobet.com to make it interesting. His bestfriend is named Jake Kennedy; together they enjoy art, popcorn, hugs, Open Letter, musick, kindness, whey protein, students at Okanagan College, clinamen, Tim & Eric, Denny's, pretend violence, and eventually finishing their community-written novel, Death Valley. kevin’s words have been made for real totes in-print, like, within West Wind Review, Fact*Simile and Descant. He lives & loves in Armstrong, BC, with some rescue dogs and a dog-rescuing super-lady, Laurel. She & he are merely weeks away from welcoming their first & craziest collaboration ever, which remains, as of yet, untitled.
8pm
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Ottawa Art Gallery
Arts Court
2 Daly Ave.
Ottawa, Ont.
Jenny Sampirisi is the author of the novel is/was from Insomniac Press. She is the former Managing Editor of BookThug and current co-director of the Toronto New School of Writing, a series of reading and writing workshops designed and facilitated by working writers. She teaches English Literature, Creative Writing and Composition at Ryerson University. She is the 2011 recipient of the K.M. Hunter Artist Award for Literature. Croak, a libretto of hermaphroditic Frogirls, is her first poetry collection. It is a poetic narrative of love, loss, and compromise played out on a Beckettian stage. She will present a poly-vocal rendering of the text at the A B Series.
kevin mcpherson eckhoff equals rhapsodomancy plus easy peasy! Will he win the ReLit award this year? Join whobet.com to make it interesting. His bestfriend is named Jake Kennedy; together they enjoy art, popcorn, hugs, Open Letter, musick, kindness, whey protein, students at Okanagan College, clinamen, Tim & Eric, Denny's, pretend violence, and eventually finishing their community-written novel, Death Valley. kevin’s words have been made for real totes in-print, like, within West Wind Review, Fact*Simile and Descant. He lives & loves in Armstrong, BC, with some rescue dogs and a dog-rescuing super-lady, Laurel. She & he are merely weeks away from welcoming their first & craziest collaboration ever, which remains, as of yet, untitled.
More info: abseries.org
Tuesday, February 07, 2012
GEODE Music & Poetry
The poster for the February 16 GEODE show -- pictured left to right are JENNIFER GILES (keyboards), ALRICK HUEBNER (bass) and SUSAN McMASTER (poet). They'll be joined in performance on February 16 by DAVID BROSCOE (winds), JOHN HIGNEY (steel guitar) and MIKE ESSOUDRY (percussion). GEODE's inimitable repertoire blends poetry with music drawn from a variety of genres including jazz, blues, new music, world music, contemporary and classical. And see a performance of WordMusic with special guest DEAN STEADMAN!
8:00pm
(Admission and seating begin at 7:30pm.)
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Gallery 101
301 1/2 Bank Street
Ottawa, Ontario
$9 admission / $7 for students
Labels:
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Alrick Huebener,
City of Ottawa,
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Dean Steadman,
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John Higney,
Mike Essoudry,
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Ottawa Poetry,
Susan McMaster
Friday, November 18, 2011
Thursday, June 02, 2011
Erín Moure & Christopher Dewdney in the A B Series
Labels:
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Christopher Dewdney,
City of Ottawa,
Erin Moure,
Laurier House,
Ontario Arts Council,
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