Presentations
Posted by Daniela Elza on Jul 07 2007
Here I will try to keep track of places I have been or am invited to read/present/judge and community or academic events I participated in:
UPCOMING EVENTS:
- March 4th, 2010, at TWISTED POETS LITERARY SALON (1st Thursday of every month) I will read from 4poets. Christi Kramer is the other feature. Time: 7-9pm. Location: Cambie Bakery and Cafe, 312 Cambie Street (North of Hastings), Vancouver B.C. In the spirit of Vancouver all poets are welcome. Come and read, there is an open mike section.
Hosts: Bonnie Nish and Sita Carboni
- March 15th, 2010, I will be reading at a Fundraiser for Pandora’s Collective and The Vancouver Artists Collective
Time: 6 pm – 12am
Location: The Cottage Bistro
4468 Main Street @ 29th AvenueTickets: $20 at the door includes entertainment, a burger with fries and beer. After costs, all proceeds go directly Pandora’s Collective and The Vancouver Artists Collective.
There will also be door prizes so prepared to have a win/win evening. Guest musicians and poets:
6:00-6:30 ♫♫ Mary Kastle (solo) Pianist Jazz
6:30-7:00 Spoken Word: Bill McNamara and Bryant Ross
7:00-7:30 Poetry and Dance: Ryan Fletcher
7:30- 8:00 ♫♫ Natalie Edward
8:00-8:30 Poetry: Daniela Elza and Marni Norwich
8:30- 9:00 Dance: Lisa Jordon Dancers
9:00- 9:30 ♫♫ Briana and The Madman Gospel Band
9:30- 10:00 Spoken Word and Story: Shannon Rayne and Sylvia Taylor
10:00-10:30 ♫♫ Taylor Harp and the Shield.
10:30- 11:00 Spoken Word and Story: Svelte Ms. Spelt and Warren Dean Fulton
11:00- 11:30 ♫♫ Karen Larson BandRSVP if possible.
- April 23rd (Friday evening) will be reading from 4poets at Black Stilt Coffee house in Victoria as part of the Planet Earth reading series.
- November 30th, 2010. Will read at the WordStorm Reading Series, Nanaimo Centre Stage, 25 Victoria Road, Nanaimo, BC. (To reserve seats ahead of time email: ascentaspirations(at)shaw(dot)ca). Reserved seating will take place before 6:30. Walk-in seats will be available after 6:30. Music starts at 6:30 and the program begins at 7:00.)
PAST EVENTS:
- Dec. 9th, 7pm featured at World Poetry at the Urth Cafe, New Westminster.
- November 17th, at 7:30pm featured at Spoken Ink at the James Street Cafe, 3819 Canada Way, Burnaby (one block east of Boundary Road).
Launches/Readings for
4 Poets: Daniela Elza, Peter Morin, Al Rempel, Onjana Yawnghwe (Mother Tongue Publishing,2009).
- August 29th, 2009 (Saturday) Prince George, Daniela and Al at Books and Co, 7:30pm.
- Sept. 10th, 2009 (Thursday) part of the TWS reading series, Daniela reads at the Rhizome Cafe, 317 East Broadway, time 7-9pm.
- Sept. 12th, 2009 (Saturday), Salt Spring Island, Lions Club, 8 pm.
- Sept. 21st, 2009 ( Monday), VPL, Vancouver, 7:30 pm.
- Nov. 12th, 2009 (Thursday), 7pm, Robson Square Reading series
- October 25th, 2009. read as part of an evening of poetry for peace we are putting together in conjunction with Poets Against War. There will be an open mike section. It will be great to see you there. Café Montmartre, 4362 Main Street, Vancouver. Come at 6:30pm the event will start soon after.
- October 23/24/25, co-presented a workshop in collaboration with choreographer, dancer, and multimedia artist Su-Lin Tseng at the Education With/Out Boarders graduate conference that happens every year at beautiful Sasamat Lake. Will link to the schedule when it is up.
The Invitation: Moving Words
A collaboration between a poet and a dancer. We compose in space when moving our bodies, as we compose on the page when placing our words on it. We invite you to come to this creative space where you are listener and creator in an authentic relationship embodying a moment of being. Participants will be invited in a workshop atmosphere to translate movement to word and word to movement. How do we read a dance, and how do we dance a poem.
- October 15th-18th, 2009. attended and presented at the Second International Symposium on Poetic Inquiry, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Here is the program.
- On August 19th, 2009 The 6th Annual Summer Dream festival kicks off with a special reading at the Jewish Community Centre where featured poets Fran Bourassa, Christine LeClerc, Christy Hill, Daniela Elza and Steve Duncan will read poetry inspired by artist Linda Frimer’s work. Local singer-songwriter Jess Hill will start the evening. And yes, we will get together at the gallery in August a week or so before, write to the art, and then fresh, still warm with only a week or so to make the poems the best they can be will read to an audience that will also have time to write and share, in an evening of art and poetry collaboration presented by the Sidney and Gertrude Zack Gallery, The Jewish Museum & Archives of British Columbia and Pandora’s Collective. Come and play.
Time: 7:00 pm. Location: at the Jewish Community Center, 950 W. 41st Ave., Vancouver, BC
August 22nd, 2009 6th Annual Summer Dream Literary Arts Festival read, MC, and took part in the
- Panel Discussion: Has poetry lost its audience? 1:30 – 1:50 pm
Moderator: Vancouver Poet George McWhirter. Panelists: Rita Wong, Jabez Churchill, Daniela Elza, Christine LeClerc.
Discussion: At this years VIWF, Andreas Schroeder (a once-upon-a-time enthusiastic poet) said, woefully, Poetry has lost its audience. Has it? If it has, where has the audience gone instead? What did the audience want? Does poetry only have devotees now, poets writing for other poets, and no fans, no general interest? Has it separated the language of poetry from what Wordsworth called the real language? Is our crisis the same as in his time: too many rarified manners to satisfy the many?
for more details of this 12 -7 pm. event follow the link to the schedule.
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On July 7th, 2009 I had my Colloquium
- as part of my comprehensive exams at SFU. I presented for an hour (the longest poetry reading I have done so far) followed by an hour session of questions, answers, discussion. This discussion turned into an hour and a half and could have kept going if there were no pending doctor appointments, or expired parking. I thank all of you who came and supported me in this important moment in my life and also for all your comments, thoughts, questions, and love.
June 11th-13th I am invited to
- On June 11th, 2009: read at Cafe Montmartre at 4362 Main Street starting at 7.30. Shared the stage with Harold Rhenisch where we read for the first time in public some of the collaborated poems we have been working on.
- June 12, 2009: Read from A Verse Map of Vancouver at the League of Canadian Poets conference/festival in Vancouver ( SFU-Harbour Center).
- June 12, 2009. Read at 7:30 at the Cafe Deux Soleils (www.cafedeuxsoleils.com) as a New League Member.
June 4th, 7—9 pm
- Feature at Twisted Poets along with Rob Taylor.
April 29th from 2—2:30pm
- Anna Wärje and I will be on Co-op radio 102.7FM
on their Wax Poetic show.You can contact Steve Duncan in case others (Rocksalt-ers or not) would like to schedule a time to go on.
April 21, 7 pm, Poet Laureate Book Launch:
- A Verse Map of Vancouver. Edited by George McWhirter; published by Anvil Press, at the Central Library, Alice MacKay room. (I have two poems in it).
April 23rd from 6pm—9pm
- Main Street Literary festival ( for BC Book & Magazine Week 2009) in Various venues on Main Street, Vancouver. I will be part of the Rocksalt reading for Mother Tongue Publishing, at 7:45—8:20 / The Grind, 4124 Main Street.
April 10th from 7pm – 9 pm, I will be part of the
- TWS reading series, at Blenz Coffee Shop (on the corner of Hastings and Richards in downtown Vancouver). (line up: Adam Warren, Daniela Elza, Renee Sarojini Saklikar, Rob Taylor, Amalia Pistilli, Leslie Hill)
Collage: A Night of Connection.
- A number of poets (Daniela Elza, Fran Bourassa, Suzy Malcolm, Wanda John, Mary Duffy, Jason Morden, Sita Carboni and Bonnie Nish) will write to art by Assia Linkovsky’s exhibit Telescoptic. Thursday, February 5, 2009 from 7 to 9 pm
at Sidney and Gertrude Zack Gallery at the Jewish Community Centre, 950 West 41st Avenue. Admission is free and everyone is welcome. The artist will attend. The exhibit runs until Sunday, February 8, 2009.
Invited to be
- a co-judge of Pandora’s Collective Poetry Contest, Jan. 2009.
- Read at Tanglewood Books (1553 W. Broadway) on Monday night, Jan. !9th, as a feature with Pandora’s Collective.
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A number of launches are planned for Rocksalt: An Anthology of Contemporary B.C. Poetry in which I feel honored to have a poem and a poetic statement. Here are the three that I will attend, but will read at the latter two:
- Oct. 23rd, 2008. Thursday evening – Agro Café on Granville Island, (7pm) during the VIWF
- Nov. 7th, 2008. Friday, 7—9:30 pm at the Vancouver Public Library
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Nov. 21st, 2008. Friday, 7:30 pm at 32 Books, 3185 Edgemont Blvd. North Vancouver.
The Sidney and Gertrude Zack Gallery and the Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival of the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver together with Pandora’s Collective and the Vancouver Artists Collective invite you to attend:
- ECHOING VOICES
An evening of visual art, writing and readings
When: Thurs. Nov. 13, 2008, 7 – 9 p.m.
Where: Sidney and Gertrude Zack Gallery, located in the JCC, 950 West 41st Avenue, Vancouver (btwn Oak & Cambie)
Free Admission
Everyone is welcome (for more details here, scroll down)
- Was a judge in one of the categories in the Ina Coolbrith Poetry Contest, Aug., 2008.
- Hosted and read at Summer Dream Literary Arts Festival Saturday, July 26, 2008.
- The Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, May 2008 at UBC, Vancouver.
- To the oddness and distance of things: Poetic provocations to philosophical musings. (poetic presentation)
- Remembering Connection with ALL that IS: Ecological Justice from a Parenting Point of View
- Inhabitions: A collaborative creative process in multi-diciplinary arts
I was part of three panels/presentations:
- Poets and Painter’s Show at The South Delta Artist Guild, 1710 56 St., Delta, BC. Opening night: Saturday, March 29th (1-4pm)
- Education With/Out Boarders (presented on two panels):
- Are children Philosophers?: Poetic explorations and
- Inhabitions: a collaboration between a dancer and a poet, October, 2007.
- The Word on the Street (read at Poets’ Corner) Sept.30th, 2007.
- The Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences (Panel Presentation, see page 36) May, 2007.
- International School Library Day gala at the Artist for Kids Gallery in Leo Marshall Curriculum Centre, North Vancouver (organized by Sheilagh Martin in collaboration with Pandora’s Collective), Oct. 2006.
- The Word on the Street (Poets’ Corner) Sept., 2006.
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