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Festival Information

Festival 2008 Main Page

The Poets

Festival Schedule

Tickets:

  • Passes are $40 OR
  • Daytime events $5
  • Evening events $10
  • On sale Oct 20
  • advance passes avail.
  • Workshop prices vary: register!
  • more ticket info...

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Schedule at a glance

All weekend: Public Art for Gabriola: Post All Poems. Around The Island.

Thurs Nov 13:

7:30pm Opening Night - Pure Poetry. The Phoenix Auditorium, The Haven.

Fri Nov 14:

4:30-5:30pm Tongue And Groove! The Roxy.
7:30pm Around The Campfire - Storytelling. The Surf Great Room.
10:00pm Bufflehead Jones: Poetry Open Mic. The Surf Pub.

Sat Nov 15:

10:30-11:30am Bootcamp For Procrastinators by Ivan Coyote. The Roxy.
Noon-2:00pm Buskers Galore! Roving: Around the Village.
1:30-2:30pm How Not To Write A Screen Play by Cindy O'Dell. The Roxy.
2:00pm Spoken Word with The Kerplunks. The Phoenix Auditorium, The Haven.
1:00pm-3:00pm Youth WORKSHOP: DANGER: Renegade Tongue Twister: How to Build an Anagram by Kaie Kellough. The Swalllow's Nest, at the Haven.
3:00-4:00pm Medicine Stories with Richard van Camp The Roxy.
4:30pm to 5:30pm In Conversation With George Bowering, The Surf Great Room.
7:00pm Alphabet Soup! The Haven Hot-tub.
7:30pm Tell it Like It Is: Spoken Word Cabaret. The Phoenix Auditorium, The Haven.
10:00pm McBufflehead: Poetry Open Mic. The Surf Pub.

Sun Nov 16:

10:00 to 11:00am Have Your Cake with Victoria Stanton. The Surf Great Room.
1:30-2:30pm Nikamok! (Let's All Sing!) -- Cheryl L'Hirondelle. The Roxy.
3:00-4:00pm Kit Pepper and Dion Pepper-Smith. The Roxy.
4:30-5:30 POETRY PATH-OLOGY with Sheri-D Wilson. The Roxy. $10.
1:30-4:00 Write Your Way To Health with Naomi Beth Wakan. The Commons.
7:30pm Such Sweet Music. Baby Dee, Victor Anthony. At the United Church.

 

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poetry gabriola society

The Poetry Gabriola Society hosts an annual four-day spoken word and storytelling festival in November, as well as concerts, performance art, and poetry events throughout the year. Our home is Gabriola Island, in the Gulf Islands archipelago of British Columbia.

Upcoming Events

Luxury Pond
Dan Goldman and Daniela Gusundheit 

Coming up on June 16th at the Roxy we have a performance by Daniel Goldman and Daniela Gusundheit as the duo LUXURY POND. This is part of our new music series and is going to be a great concert. Prehistoric sharks, reluctant biblical heroes and criminal kids are a few of the protagonists in Dan Goldman's songs. Daniela (aka Snowblink) plays small percussion toys, loops her vocals, plays a shortwave radio and sometimes sings through a wine glass. She'll also be vocalizing in a new style she's coined 'Tiny R&B'. Dan sings, plays guitar and synth-bass pedals.

Tuesday, June 16th at 7:30pm, doors open at 7:00
At The Roxy
Tickets $12 in advance at Artworks, $15 at the door.