A day for Calgary’s poets to walk together and tell stories of Calgary and It’s flood and to raise attention to the Invest YYC campaign fora forthcoming anthology, The Calgary Project – a City Map in Verse and Visual, and to celebrate some of the areas and businesses of the city recovering from the flood.
http://www.investyyc.com/
Organized by RE:act Art & Community Together, and partnered with Filling Station!
5 km Poetry Shuffle – a leisurely stroll along the Bow River, with poetry readings and pit stops for sustenance along the way.
Poetic Park Plaza (at 4th Ave SW + 9th St SW) after the kick off at PAGES BOOKSTORE
Poets Kirk Ramdath and Diane Guichon on the Peace Bridge
House of Blue Skies Publisher – Dymphny Dronyk and Calgary’s Poet Laureat Kris Emeanor
Filling Station
Emily Ursuliak
Ian Kinney along the banks of the Bow
Ian Kinney
Poetry as the C-Train rumbles by
Kirk Ramdath finds his swing
Calgary poets are cool
Ann Sorbie