Myself and my two poetry bosom buddies Sean M Whelan and Alicia Sometimes are about to go on tour!
We have been invited to perform at the Festival Voix d’Amériques in Montréal
so our dates are shaped like this
Vancouver
Wednesday Feb 4
2pm Wax Poetic 102.7FM
Co-op radio
Then at
7.45pm
The Spillious Speak n Sing
Cottage Bistro
4468 Main street
Ottawa
Friday February 6
11:30am
An invitation from The Australian High Commissioner!
His Excellency Justin Brown
the High Commissioner's Residence,
407 Wilbrod Street.
Then the next night:
06 Feb 2009, 7:30PM, Hear from Melbourne - National Arts Centre - Fourth Stage
53 Elgin Street
Ottawa, Ontario
Hear from Melbourne.
Four of Australia’s Hottest Performance Poets!
The A B Series in association with Kevin Matthews presents four acclaimed Australian performance poets,
Alicia Sometimes,
Emilie Zoey Baker,
Justin Ashworth and
Sean M Whelan,
on The National Arts Centre’s Fourth Stage.
The evening’s program will be hosted by CBC Radio’s Alan Neal. Cash bar Reception and book/CD signing to follow
Tickets $18 available at The National Arts Centre Box Office and online through Ticketmaster http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=42371229108&h=H4tjO&u=O8XB0
also check the website here at
http://abseries.org/node/63
Toronto
Feb 7th, 08:00 PM @ Cervejaria
842 College.
Toronto, Ontario
Cost:$5
:A night of Poetry and Poets slammin, reading and jazzin Emilie Zoey Baker, Sean M Whelan and Alicia Sometimes along with Toronoians David Silverberg and crew plus American poet Christian Drake $5
Montreal
February 8-13, 2009
Festival Voix d’Amériques
FVA showcase February 10, 8.30pm
MEL versus YUL ou Melbourne meets Montréal
Casa Del Popolo
4873, Boulevard Saint-Laurent
with Emilie Zoey Baker, Sean M Whelan, Justin Ashworth and Montrealers Corey Frost, Puggy Hammer and The Capital of Plastic Daffodils. Hosted by David McGimpsey
Going Down Swinging #27 launch
Lancement de la revue
Wednesday February 11, 5 – 7pm
Casa Del Popolo
4873, Boulevard Saint-Laurent
with Emilie Zoey Baker, Sean M Whelan, Justin Ashworth, David Prater and Montrealers Ian Ferrier, Victoria Stanton and Fortner Anderson.
New York City
15 Feb 2009, 06:00 PM - The Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery Street (Between Houston and Bleecker)
New York City, New York
Emilie Zoey Baker, Cristin Aptowitz O’keefe, Shappy, Sean M Whelan and Justin Ashworth Three of Australia’s top performance poets battle it out with New York’s finest, a night of spoken word, sass, vagina’s, spacemen, music and the word moist.
mail@bowerypoetry.com
212-614-0505
Chicago
22 Feb 2009, 08:00 PM - The Green Mill Bar in Chicago.
Green Mill Jazz Club 4802 N. Broadway Ave.
Chicago, Illinois 60640,
Best Slam in Illinois! the Uptown Poetry Slam. Sean M Whelan and Emilie Zoey Baker book: 773.878.5552
email: greenmill@comcast.net
web: http://www.greenmilljazz.com/poetryslam.html
Then after that I am heading to Mexico for a writing holiday. My head is already deep in the fascinating world of ancient and contemporary Mexico. maybe see you on the road...