[Artbar] January at The Art Bar

[The Art Bar Poetry Series]

The Art Bar Poetry Series takes place at
Clinton's, 693 Bloor Street West, right by Christie Subway Station.
Click for map: http://www.artbar.org/artbarmap.jpg
Every Tuesday, 8 pm
Free admission, but we pass the hat for donations.


Art Bar Notes
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Art Bar readings. Listen to poetry while you delete spam or noodle around
on Facebook!

The back room of Clinton's is now open at 7pm, so feel free to drop in
early to chat with the poetry features, the Art Bar Team, fellow poets, or
whoever happens to enjoy dinner & drinks & mingling!



Art Bar Features
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TUESDAY JANUARY 5

Audience Appreciation Night
Poetry from the Art Bar Team - Valentino Assenza, Rudy Fearon, Rocco de
Giacomo, Cynthia Gould, Stephen Humphrey, Francine P. Lewis, Myna Wallin,
plus a special musical guest! No open mic, and no hat will be passed.


TUESDAY JANUARY 12

11th Annual Art Bar Discovery Night hosted by Nancy Bullis
On Discovery Night, up to 20 poets present their own work and are judged
by audience ballots. Open to anyone who has never featured at the Art Bar
Poetry Series. There are 3 rounds.

RULES:
1) You must sign up yourself
2) Poets are free to work in any style
3) No props, costumes, musical instruments allowed
4) Each poet gets 3 minutes to present one poem
5) Audience members decide by ballot who continues to the next round

Sign-up begins at 7:30pm. Competitors should bring 3 poems, no longer than
3 minutes each. Prize is a feature reading at the Art Bar in April 2010.
Audience - please bring a pen or pencil... your vote counts!


TUESDAY JANUARY 19

David Bateman
David Bateman is a spoken word poet and performance artist whose most
recent performance, A Brief History of White Virgins or The Night Freddy
Mercury Kissed Me was presented across Canada in 2009. He has also taught
literature and creative writing at a variety of post-secondary
institutions. His two collections of poetry, Invisible Foreground and
Impersonating Flowers, have been published by Frontenac Press (Calgary).
His third collection from Frontenac is a collaborative long poem entitled
Wait Until Late Afternoon, written with poet/novelist Hiromi Goto.

Richard Greene
Richard Greene has published two previous books of poetry. He is the
editor of the widely acclaimed Graham Greene: A Life in Letters(2007).
Greene teaches Creative Writing and British Literature at the University
of Toronto. He lives in Cobourg, Ontario.

Cathy Petch
Cathy Petch loves hosting Plasticine poetry, performing, and writing. Her
play "A Mean Thing" received an Ontario arts council grant and will be
performed by some dastardly high school kids in her hometown of
Peterborough this spring. Her plays have been produced in "Erring", "The
Next Festival" and other such venues. Her writing has found it's way into
"The Hunter Street Hummer", "A labour of Love" and other such venues. She
is currently working on a new chapbook, playing with her cool unnamed
band, working on a script with David Bateman called "The Clotted Cream
Hour" and hanging out in venues.


TUESDAY JANUARY 26

Sonja Greckol
Sonja Greckol's first book, Gravity and Flight, Has recently launched from
Inanna Press, April 15, 2009. Her work has appeared in Literary Review of
Canada, Canadian Literature, Dalhousie Review, CV2, Canadian WomenÕs
Studies, Fiddlehead and Matrix. She coordinates poetry for Women and
Environments International Magazine and served on the National Council of
the League of Canadian Poets. She has taught college and university,
studied order and disorder in jokes, done human rights and gender-based
research and consulting, and does local activism while she writes. Her
long poem, Emilie Explains Newton to Voltaire, was short-listed for the
CBC Poetry Prize in 2008. Her next poetry project, entitled, Skin of the
Day, uses newspaper headlines.

Weyman Chan
Weyman Chan, born and raised in Calgary, is the author of 2 books:  Before
A Blue Sky Moon (winner of the 2002 Stephansson Poetry Award from the
Writers Guild of Alberta; and Noise From the Laundry (nominated for the
2008 Governor General's Award for Poetry.  When he's not writing, he's
busy performing histological and electron microscopic tests in a
windowless basement of the local healthcare system. He is let out
infrequently to roam.


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Thanks for reading, and we hope to see you soon!
- The Art Bar Team


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