March 30 - April 1, 2012
Kickoff party, slam poetry, book readings, acoustic music, DIY talks, presentations, and demos, and awesome handmade vendors!
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Words Allowed - Readings & Performance Poetry
Saturday, January 21, 2012 @ 8 PM - Mondragon Café
Admission: Pay what you can
Words Allowed brings together a mix of emerging and established authors for an intimate night of literary readings and performance poetry.
The night features a line-up of five artists, including Drek Daa, the award winning poet, songwriter, and CBC columnist; Chandra Mayor, author of August Witch, Cherry, and All the Pretty Girls; Deborah Schnitzer, author of An Unexpected Break in the Weather; Courtney Slobogian, emerging writer and CKUW radio co-host; and Liz Worth, author of Amphetamine Heart and Treat Me Like Dirt: An Oral History of Punk in Toronto and Beyond.
When: Saturday, January 21, 8pm
Where: Mondragon Café, 91 Albert Street
Price: PWYC
Spoken Word Fringe Preview @ the Cyrk, featuring RC Weslowski
Today! Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 10 PM - The Cyrk (254 Young Street)
Suggested Donation: $5+
OPENING LINE UP:
Steve Larkin (GB)
Rob Gee (GB)
Drek Daa (WPG)
Demetra Penner (WPG)
Leif Norman (WPG
Ian Mozdzen (WPG
Sarah Burton (TO)
Penny Pollak (NY)
Aaron Simm (WPG)
Travis Bernhardt (VAN)
and others …
My friend RC Weslowski is an absolute gem on the Canadian spoken word scene. You have never heard anything like him, guaranteed (the same class as Fernando Raguero or Nereo). This is RC’s first time at the Winnipeg Fringe, and I would love for this beautiful city to give this beautiful man a very warm welcome. For this show, I asked RC to do his spoken word stuff, not his fringe show, so it’s the only chance to here his classic poems. Not to mention this is a chance to hear several other great fringe performers, poets, and musicians (incomplete list below).
Door 9:30 Show 10:00
$5 suggested donation (all donations go to the feature)
BYOB (we don’t sell alcohol)
No presale or reservations
Night Gears Launch
Saturday, April 9, 2011 @ 7 PM - Aqua Books
Poet Bren Simmers, with Jenny Berkel and Michelle Elrick
Join us for a launch that mixes words and music, as Vancouver poet Bren Simmers is joined by singer-songwriter Jenny Berkel and poet/banjo player Michelle Elrick.
Born in Vancouver, Bren Simmers studied writing at the University of Victoria and has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from The University of British Columbia. Winner of the Arc Poem of the Year Award and shortlisted for the Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award, her poetry has been published in The Antigonish Review, CV2, Event, The Fiddlehead, Prairie Fire, and Prism International. Night Gears (Wolsak and Wynn, 2010) is her first collection of poetry.
Jenny Berkel’s deep, resonant voice and truly poetic lyrics have been garnering fans ever since she started performing with her guitar three years ago. In that time, she has played with bands The Wandering Goose and Lady o’Lakes, toured across Canada, busked on the streets of Paris and Belfast, and been nominated for two music awards. This summer she released her first solo recording, Gather Your Bones. Jenny’s songs are both haunting and starkly honest, drawing their substance from personal experience and collective history, free of the all-too-easy cliché of folk lyrics. Her voice is also unique—deep and smoky, broad as the Manitoba prairie where she now lives.
Michelle Elrick is a poet and fiction writer from British Columbia and Manitoba. Growing up on a mountain overlooking the Fraser Valley contributed to a sense of perspective that has continued to develop in her writing. Now on Canada’s great plain, she lives in an attic overlooking the rooftops of Winnipeg. Her first book, a collection of poems titled To Speak, was published by The Muses’ Company in 2010. In addition, her work has appeared in The Fiddlehead, Canadian Literature, Event and other magazines, and performed at festivals and events in Vancouver, Winnipeg, London, Kingston and Belfast. She is currently deep in a second draft of her novel, Dust House, surfacing on occasion to play the banjo and walk the dog.
Fringe Review: Smartarse
by Rob Gee
Venue #11 (Red River College)
Tickets: $10 ($8 for students, seniors, and unemployed)
Under 16 not admitted. Warnings: Language. Recommended: Mature audience.
Running time: 60 min.
- July 21 @ 9 PM
- July 23 @ 7 PM
- July 24 @ 1:45 PM
- July 25 @ 2:45 PM - Best of Fest
An exhilarating story of several childhoods from the creator of last year’s sellout Fringe hit Fruitcake.
Really hilarious. I’d even say, best stand-up at the Fringe.
In Smartarse, Rob Gee uses the exploits of his boyhood and his experience presenting poetry workshops to pubescent boys to great effect. His insights on learning and people, stand-up poetry, manipulative tips on classroom management, and views on the world, they’re all fantastic. Just great stuff. Go see it.
