Experience “The Natural Voice with Anna Beaumont,” where you’ll delve into vocal exercises from the Uncovering The Voice School inspired by none other than Rudolph Steiner, founder of Waldorf Schools.
Open the channel of your voice through embodiment practices designed to uncover and free your voice.
In this three hour workshop , we’ll utilize the timeless poetry of Rumi through songs written by Anna, to embody the essence of his words.
Discover:
– Vocal exercises influenced by Rudolph Steiner (The Uncovering the Voice School)
– Embodiment techniques to deepen your vocal connection
– Singing the poetry of Rumi
The Road to Appledore & How Can You Live Here? by Tom Wayman
Gardener and poet Tom Wayman regales us with his prose memoir of back-to-the-land adventures in the Kootenays, and his latest poetic reflections on rural life there.
Free but space is limited; register online or call the Library: 604-886-2130. Also accessible live via this Zoom from the Library’s website.
Charlotte Morganti, mystery writer, is coming to SCWES on Sunday, May 26th, 5 pm at Mission House, Davis Bay. Also, a celebration of our poetry and writing marathon participants with readings from Maggie Guzzi, Monica Davis, KB Nelson, and others.
Thursday, April 18th, 12pm – 3pm. Free and open to all, no preregistration required!
Exhibiting artist Eleanor Hannan of Stories From Skins and Skirts will be in attendance in the Main Gallery, Thursday, April 18th 12noon – 3pm to meet visitors, answer questions and offer a free demonstration. Eleanor will be demonstrating how she incorporates narrative in her textiles, via stitching, applique and painting. Come and meet Eleanor and bring your questions. Free and open to all.
to Apr 28. Two textile artists and two poets come together in an exhibition based on mutual appreciation, one medium sparking the other to bring about a confluence of ideas and inspiration. Stories from Skins and Skirts in the Main Gallery demonstrates the myriad ways in which the artist and writer work together. Never simply a straightforward illustration where the writer writes and the artist uses their skills to respond, this collaboration takes many subtle and unexpected forms that exemplify our interpolations of each other’s creative geographies while negotiating our current time. Through mythology, narrative, figurative exploration, and abstract expression, they find themselves revisiting themes of autonomy.
Join us for the opening reception on Saturday, April 6th, 2pm – 4pm. All are welcome!
Join us on Saturday, April 6th, 2pm – 4pm to meet the artists behind Stories From Skins and Skirts. All are welcome!
Eleanor Hannan and Jane Kenyon are visual artists working primarily in textiles. Jude Neale and Elizabeth Dancoes are poets whose writings have informed and inspired Hannan and Kenyon’s works. Stories from Skins and Skirts in the Main Gallery demonstrates the myriad ways in which the artist and writer work together. That all four artists are women of a certain age is not a coincidence. Decades of friendship and artistic partnership have allowed them to persevere. Through mythology, narrative, figurative exploration, and abstract expression, they find themselves revisiting themes of autonomy.
Celebrate National Poetry Month’s “Weather ” theme with original interpretations by local poets: Fran Bourassa, Jane Covernton, Monica Davis, Jon Eriksson, Atma Frans, Maggie Guzzi & David Phillips, Heidi Greco, Ross Harry, Rosella Leslie, Catherine McNeil, Anne Miles, Rosa Reid, Edith & Sheila Weaver.
Free but in-person space is limited; register online or contact the library.
Also accessible live via Zoom from our website.
Richard Austin
Would often get lost in
Some Poet’s musing
On loving and losing.
Local actor and poet Richard Austin will treat us to selections of his favourite poems, from the ridiculous to the sublime. Free but in-person space is limited; register online or contact the Library.
“Jazzing the Language”
With joy and esteem, celebrate the connected families of jazz and poetry for Poetry Month.
Jacquie Allan: vocals
Budge Schachte: jazz guitar
James Meger: bass
Free but space is limited; register online or contact the Library.
April is National Poetry Month, and this year’s theme is Weather. Wed Apr 17, 6:30-8:00 pm, Gibsons Library will hold a group reading of selected poets, each reading their own weather-related poems for up to five minutes. We invite any Sunshine Coast poet to send us one or two of their weather-related poems, by March 7th. We will let everyone know our selections on Mar 8th. Please email poems to Lise: LKreps@gibsonslibrary.ca. Thank you!
Dream House: A Poem
Part Tardis, part townhouse, part Howl’s Moving Castle, Dream House is a long poem in six sections that interrogates what metaphor might hold of personal and social history after a mother’s passing.
“Stonehouse nails what it’s like to bring ghosts who will not rest from one hallucinatory place to the next. This is a deeply affecting collection you will not want to miss.” –Elizabeth Bachinsky, author of The Hottest Summer in Recorded History
Free but in-person space is limited; contact the Library to register or register below. Also accessible live via Zoom from the Library’s website.
Join us for a special presentation by local artists and authors from this summer’s 2nd Annual Art & Words Festival. Artists and writers paired together to prompt each other’s creativity, resulting in stunning art and accompanying literary works, that were published in the Art & Words Anthology 2021-2023. Selected writers will read from their works. Tea and baked goods from Sandy’s will be served. Free but space is limited. Registration is required. Contact the Gibsons and District Library. For the entire month of September, selected works from the show will be on display at the library.
Aug 18, 1-6pm; Aug 19, 10am-6pm; Aug 20, 10am-3pm. For the first time at Seaside Centre visit an extraordinary gathering and collaboration of Sunshine Coast artists, photographers, and authors.
Art exhibits, photography display, book signings, literary readings, weaving demonstrations, workshops and more.
Artists, photographers, and authors to book your space, email sunshinecoastwritersandeditors.com
Hosted by the Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society.
Surround yourself in art, literary voices, and live music by the lovely sea wall. Immerse yourself in one or more of fourteen workshops for artists, photographers and writers. This August 10-13th at the Gibsons Public Market, let the magic happen again.
Deadline March 10. Celebration of Authors, Books and Community (a joint initiative of School District 46 – Sunshine Coast and the Festival of the Written Arts) is looking for budding authors of all ages—from kindergarten to grade 12 students. The thirteenth edition of Coastal Voices, an adjudicated anthology of student writing, will be published in June, and the deadline for submissions is March 10, 2023.
Students enrolled at School District 46 are invited to submit up to three pieces of poetry, short stories, personal narrative or essays. Maximum length is 500 words per submission. For more information about Coastal Voices, students can talk to their teachers, or email John Lussier at jlussier(at)sd46.bc.ca.
