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Free Belarus Now!

Box Office — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 12:07:24 +0000

International Director Irina Bogdanova in conversation with Richard Demarco and Zara Coombes.

Richard Demarco and Zara Coombes will interview Irina Bogdanova, Director of Free Belarus Now and sister of imprisoned Presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov, about how her personal tragedy became a global fight for political freedom.

On December 19^th 2010 Presidential “elections” that took place in Belarus. Irina Bogdanova’s brother Andrei Sannikov, a former Deputy Foreign Minister, was the most credible Presidential candidate in that race. But he did not win, the election results were rigged. The incumbent dictator Alexander Lukashenko remained in power. Andrei, his wife Iryna Khalip, an investigative journalist, and over 30,000 Belarusian citizens took to the streets in peaceful protest on election night. Violent mass arrests followed. Andrei is still in custody.

Since that day his sister, Irina has lived in a world where words like, disappearance, KGB, and Torture are in every day use. Irina founded the Free Belarus Now movement to fight for every political prisoner Belarus, and to fight for free and fair elections in Belarus. She now speaks to politicians from around the world, working with other NGO’s to coordinate the Belarusian peoples fighting for freedom.

BAC: Artist Brainstorm

Box Office — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 12:04:17 +0000

If you have some creative ideas you would like to share with BAC, then come on down to Summerhall and join us for a cuppa. A chance to meet the BAC Producing team and to hear more about BAC’s new artistic model ‘Cook Up – Tuck In – Take Out’ and share your ideas with us too.

Canadian Poetry: Northern Lights Reading

Box Office — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 19:03:06 +0000

Five established Canadian poets take to the stage to read their work. Though they come from different perspectives and poetic stances, each performer delivers a high standard of poetic achievement, and together, these voices represent a cross-section of current Canadian artistic concerns. Tickle and assuage your curiosity in this session with these five distinguished poets from Canada!

Poets: Ruth Roach Pierson, Jim Nason, Maureen Hynes, Myna Wallin, Moira MacDougall

Jim Nason

Myna Wallin

Ruth Roach Pierson

Maureen Hynes

Moira MacDougall

Canadian Poetry: Canada, the Frigid North? Eros and Desire in Poetry

Box Office — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 18:41:09 +0000

Canadian poet Myna Wallin’s collection, A Thousand Profane Pieces, is full of eroticism and free expressions of sexuality. But do there seem to be fewer poets interested in writing about sex these days? Is it considered passé? Declassé? Why are more poets writing about loons than sexual politics?

The lush, sensual tradition of Leonard Cohen and Irving Layton seems to have vanished. Or has it? Do more female than male poets write from and of the body now? These questions and others are worth considering in an increasingly cerebral and diversified poetic landscape.

Panelists: Myna Wallin, Moira MacDougall, Jim Nason, Halli Villegas

Canadian Poetry: Where We Stand: Urban and Wilderness Poetics

Box Office — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 18:31:46 +0000

How does place compel our creativity and shape our poetic imagination? Whether at home or abroad, whether on a pastoral retreat or in an off-hour at a busy city job, how does the writer’s location seep into the written work? Why does travel, a new environment, stimulate and inspire new work for some writers? This panel considers poems where place is a key motif.

Panelists: Ruth Roach Pierson, Maureen Hynes, Myna Wallin, Moira MacDougall

Best Canadian Poetry: Group Event

Box Office — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 18:16:54 +0000

Under the stewardship of esteemed series editor, Molly Peacock, The Best Canadian Poetry in English takes the pulse of Canada’s poetry on an annual basis.

Governor General’s Award winner Lorna Crozier guest edited the recent edition, selecting the fifty best Canadian poems published in Canadian literary magazines in the previous year. The Best Canadian Poetry series is now the measure of excellence on the Canadian literary scene. Series editor Molly Peacock says Best Canadian Poetry is “for all who are curious about Canadian poetry but need a place for such curiosity to begin.”

Featuring readings from the 2010 anthology plus an introduction by series publisher, Halli Villegas, and including poets: Maureen Hynes, Jim Nason, Moira MacDougall, Ruth Roach Pierson, Myna Wallin.

Canadian Poetry: Beyond the Self, Within the Self: Ekphrastic Poetry

Box Office — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 17:52:44 +0000

To walk into a gallery, to look poetically at a painting, photograph or sculpture can take a poet both
deeper within the self and beyond the self. But in doing so, despite the long tradition of ekphrastic
poetry and its current resurgence, compelling questions arise: Is the poem then in some way an art
heist? Is it a reproduction or a conversation with the work of art? What gap lies between the poem and
the art?

Panelists: Ruth Roach Pierson, Jim Nason, Maureen Hynes

Rose Bruford College Introductory Talk

Box Office — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:42:13 +0000

Rose Bruford College invites you to meet their principal Michael Earley for the opportunity to discuss their range of programmes which include Undergraduate Courses such as BA (Hons) Acting, Costume Production, Theatre Studies, Theatre Design and Postgraduate courses in Ensemble Theatre and Theatre and Performing Arts amongst many others.

Rose Bruford College has a host of associated productions at this year’s festival including the much talked about Hotel Medea and Traumatikon.

The Practice of the Impossible: A Discussion

Box Office — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:54:58 +0000

- We are sorry, this event has now been cancelled-

Last year Summerhall’s Director Rupert Thomson wrote a far-fetched manifesto called ‘The Theatre of the Impossible’, which has since been presented at Battersea Arts Centre, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and with the National Theatre of Scotland. For this event he will be in conversation with a selection of contemporary theatre practitioners about making the impossible real: What does that even mean? And why would we want to do it if we could? General questions about the meaning of life are also likely to be touched on: come and share your impossible experiences.

ACT GREEN

Box Office — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:35:33 +0000

EVENT CANCELLED.

SINCEREST APOLOGIES FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE CAUSED.

What can the performing arts do about Climate Change? Is it the role of artists to address major global issues? And if so, how? A range of experienced speakers will discuss this highly topical and emotive issue.

Presented by the BiDiNG TiME project.