Event Schedule
Thursday, May 21
Opening Mic
The Vashon Poetry Fest opens on Thursday night with Opening Mic led by Devon Atkins featuring "Young Poets Talk Back"
7:00 pm at Café Luna located on Bank Road in downtown Vashon
Free
Friday, May 22, 2009
Knocking at the Gate
A night of ecstatic poetry and sacred music with Michael Meade and The Qadim Ensemble
7:00 pm at "O" Space, 18870 103rd Ave SW
Food and wine will be available
Tickets $12 available at Vashon Bookshop or Mosaic Voices
In dark and troubled times, ancient peoples turned to the poets and mystics to find solace, understanding, and inspiration. Those old "knowers" knew that whenever we are lost or "at a loss", the soul is nearby. For the soul finds its way by touching darkness and releasing the hidden light. "Allow dark times to season you," says Hafiz. Rumi advises that somehow "your own desire will find an opening."
You are invited to an evening of ecstatic poetry and sacred music, a combined song that voices the longings of the heart and whispers words of Dark Wisdom that have encouraged the life-seekers for centuries.
Mythologist and storyteller Michael Meade will weave ecstatic poetry with ancient "wisdom tales", while The Qadim Ensemble offers devotional music of the Middle East. Qadim celebrates the rich spiritual heritage found in traditional Arabic, Jewish, Turkish Sufi, Greek, and Moroccan music.
Michael Meade will also introduce poets Samuel Green and Tony Curtis.
Saturday, May 23
Workshops
Emily’s Favorite Measure. Sam Green
Heritage Museum, 10105 SW Bank Rd, 10-noon, 15 folks, $20 donation by attendees. MORE INFO
We have the words, so now let's make a poem. Tony Curtis
Land Trust Bldg, 10014 SW Bank Rd, 1-3 p.m., 15 folks, $20 donation by attendees. MORE INFO
Poetry is not a Gated Community. Kevin Miller
Vashon Library, 17210 Vashon Hwy, 1-3 p.m., 15 folks, free, for teens, parents, grandparents, teachers. MORE INFO
Community Reading
Highlights local poets and visiting poets in a community reading.
3:30 pm at the Land Trust Building
Raising the Word in Song and Drink
Features award-winning Irish poet Tony Curtis and Samuel Green, Washington State's Poet Laureate in a rollicking evening of song, poetry and drink, led by Michael Meade
Also, accompanying them will be Randal Bays, of Whidbey Island, on fiddle and guitar.
7:00 pm Red Bicycle Bistro in downtown Vashon.
No cover charge
Sunday, May 24
Workshops
The Art of the Daily. Sam Green
Heritage Museum, 10105 SW Bank Rd, 10-noon, 15 folks, $20 donation by attendees. MORE INFO
We have the words, so now let's make a poem. Tony Curtis
Land Trust Bldg, 10014 SW Bank Rd, 1-3 p.m., 15 folks, $20 donation by attendees MORE INFO
For Closet Poets and Poetry Readers. Ann Spiers
Vashon Library, 17210 Vashon Hwy, 1-3 p.m, 15 folks, FREE MORE INFO
The Poets Feast: Readings, Conversations and Supper with the Poets
Washington State Poet Laureate will lead an evening of intimate readings and conversations accompanied by Tony Curtis of Ireland at The Hardware Store Restaurant which will offer a special Poets Dinner for $15. as well as their regular full menu and bar. Tickets, $10, available at island bookstores: Books by the Way, Vashon Book Shop, and Stranger than Fiction.
Monday, May 25
Reverie for the Living and the Dead
Begins at 12:30 pm at the Veterans Memorial in Ober Park and proceeds to the Poetry Post at the Village Green, led my Michael Meade.
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