On October 19th the Mile-End Poets’ Festival launches 5 days of poetry, music, readings, workshops and other literary, musical and dance events. Shows will take place on venues up and down boulevard St-Laurent, and will feature poets, performers and musicians from Montreal and across Canada.
Founded in 2010, the festival is hosted by the poets of Montreal’s Mile End district, and showcases the eclectic literary, dance and musical culture which is so much a feature of this Montreal neighbourhood.
Out of town guests will include:
• famed graphic novelist Eric Drooker, whose collaborations with Allan Ginsberg have spanned both publications and films,
• dervish and performance poet Tanya Evanson, who splits her time between Vancouver and Istanbul.
• Southern Alberta Poet Ali Riley, whose third book of poems will be released by Frontenac Books this spring.
From the local scene you can catch a host of the people who live, play and perform in and around the Mile End district.
Featured poets include Ian Ferrier and Pharmakon MTL, Kaie Kellough, RavenSara featuring Moe Clark and Alessandra Naccarato. Jason Selman, Odessa Thornhill, the Throw Collective’s Deanna Smith and many others.
Featured musicians include Constellation recording artists Les Momies de Palerme, and the Brahja Waldman Quartet.
Our last show of the festival is this:
Thursday October 27th
Catherine Kidd - Hyena Subpoena
One of the artists who would certainly be in our festival has her own solo show running at the same time. Catherine Kidd’s voice, music and video show Hyena Subpoena is outstanding work by one of the best of the Mile End Poets. You can catch it from Thursday to Sunday at 8PM from October 13th to October 29th at Les Ateliers Jean Brillant - 661 Rose de Lima (Metro Lionel Groulx). Tickets are $15 in advance or $20 at the door.
The showing on Thursday October 27th is presented by the Mile End Poets’ Festival.
Major funding for the Mile End Poets’ Festival comes from the Canada Council for the Arts. Other sponsors include the Quebec Writers’ Federation, Janejane Productions, Wired on Words Productions, Artists Against Apartheid, the Suoni per il Popolo Festival and CKUT 90.3FM.
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