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EVENTS

Blue Metropolis
Literary Festival:
Community Writing and Arts
A public session

Friday, April 4, 2003
1:00 – 3:45 p.m.
Renaissance Park Hotel, Salle des Pins
3625 Park Avenue
NO CHARGE for entrance


Saturday Workshop – in partnership with ADEQ (Association of Drama Educators of Quebec)

Saturday, April 5, 2003
9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
The Centre for Literacy,
Dawson College -
Room 5B.13
4001 De Maisonneuve West

Registration fee: $30
(includes materials and lunch)
Students: $15
Limit of 100 participants.
Teachers and adolescent and adult students welcome.


Registration form for the Saturday workshop: www.centreforliteracy.qc.ca or call
(514) 931-8731 x.1415.

Details on the participants, their organizations and the event schedules are on our web site.

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The Centre for Literacy

News from The Centre
WINTER 2003

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Reading and writing the word,
reading and writing the world

What do photography, music, puppetry, mime, theatre, film, have to do with literacy? Everything, as you will find out if you join us on April 4 and 5 for the Grassroots: Community Writing and Arts event, during Blue Metropolis 2003. We are getting bigger and better.

Grassroots 2003 poster image

This year’s Grassroots event will bring writers, film and T.V. producers, directors and performers from street theatre groups, adult new writers’ programs, neighborhood writing alliances, and youth antiviolence programs to share perspectives on writing and performing as ways of creating and reshaping the world.

You can hear their stories and poems, see their films, photographs and performances, during a three-hour public reading at the Blue Metropolis Literary Festival on Friday, April 4, 2003. A Saturday workshop will explore how reading and writing the word relates to reading and writing the world, and share experiences of using drama, puppetry, mime, masks, poetry, music, film, and photography as literate practices.

The confirmed participants include:

• David Diamond, Artistic Director/Joker and Jennifer Girard, Community Outreach Coordinator will present a video and talk about "Don't Say a Word", a recent, interactive Headlines Theatre production created with and performed by high school students in Vancouver.
• Sistah Caroline Outten, Instructor, and two writers from East End Literacy, Toronto. The writers were chosen through a competition where they were asked to write about writing, to explore: What inspires them to write?
• David Anderson, director and Mark Keetch, actor, from Clay and Paper Theatre, Toronto, who create, produce, and perform plays and pageants in public space, will share examples of their work using narrative theatre and large-scale puppetry and community involvement.
• Alyssa Kuzmarov, Regional Program Director, and a group of writers and photographers from Leave Out ViolencE (LOVE), Montreal, will read their work and display their compositions. The photographers will take photographs during the entire workshop. The youth members, who have all experienced violence first-hand, now lead awareness and anti-violence workshops for peers.
 
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