Article by Tammy MacKenzie
The Lanark County Live Poets Society, or LiPS, is sending a team of local spoken word performance poets to the five day long Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, where they will compete against nineteen other teams from across Canada. To help raise funds to send the team to Toronto this October, LiPS is hosting an event in Perth on Saturday October 8th.
Several team members will be at the Farmers Market as the day?s charity group, from 8 am to 1:30 pm, with basket draw and silent auction items, and collecting donations. Tickets for the basket draws may be purchased and allocated to any basket(s) you wish, as many times as you wish. Bidding for silent auction items is done by writing down your bid, keeping in mind later bids can top yours so you have to check back in.
Everything will be moved over to the Factory Grind at 1 Sherbrooke St. after the Market, where an open-stage style evening of entertainment will be held, welcoming poets, musicians and storytellers to participate, and everyone to enjoy features by a number of guest performers.
The silent auction will conclude at the end of the evening, and basket items drawn as well, so some people will be going home with treasures and goodies.
Matt Dickson, a local musician with the acoustic duet band Rockin? Horse, lead singer for The Respectables, and drummer for both Beatlejuice and the Commuters, will be the evening?s MC as well as performing, and two guests from Ottawa will also feature: spoken word artist Rusty Priske, the Capital Poetry Collective?s Slam Master and repeat member of their Capital Slam national team, and storyteller ?aka professional liar? Ruthanne Edwards, founder and Slam Master of Once Upon A Slam and member of the Kymeras storyteller troupe.
The members of the Lanark County Slam team, Poettiquette, Inez Dekker, Andy Kerr-Wilson and b!WILDer, will also be performing spoken word poetry. For those who have not yet experienced spoken word and slam poetry, you will be in for a pleasant surprise with this performance art, which has been rapidly gaining in popularity around the world. It is not likely to resemble what you may be thinking of as ?poetry reading?.
Doors open at 6:30 and the stage opens at 7.
Admission is $5 and includes a free basket draw ticket.
For more information please e-mail lanarklips@hotmail.com or look for LiPS on Facebook.
Tags: Canadian Festival of Spoken Word, Fundraiser in Ottawa, Lanark County Slam team, LiPS, The Lanark County Live Poets Society
Source: http://www.ottawatonite.com/2011/09/local-fundraiser-for-lanark-county-poets-society/
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