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6 Out Loud at Night

Ivan E. Coyote British Columbia	Sasha Langford British Columbia	Cheryl L’Hirondelle British Columbia
Richard Van Camp Alberta

Ivan E. Coyote, British Columbia

Ivan E. Coyote is a writer and performer whose books include the story collections Close to Spider Man (shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Short Fiction Prize), One Man's Trash, Loose End (shortlisted for the Ferro-Grumley Women's Fiction Award) and The Slow Fix. Her novel, Bow Grip, won the 2007 ReLit Award. Ivan was also a founding member of the performance collective Taste This. She is a long-time columnist for Xtra! in Toronto and Xtra! West in Vancouver. Read more

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Sasha Langford, British Columbia

Sasha Langford was just 18 years old when she was one of five poets selected to represent Vancouver at the 2008 CBC Poetry Face-Off. Since then, she has served as a Canadian representative at the 2009 Women of the World Poetry Slam in Detroit, and recently won a coveted spot on the Vancouver Poetry Slam Team. A trained improviser and musician, Langford uses her passion for storytelling to offer moving and humorous character narratives by way of performance poetry. Read more

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Cheryl L’Hirondelle, British Columbia

Cheryl L’Hirondelle is an artist and musician whose projects span a wide array of disciplines. Of mixed-blood (Métis / Cree, non- status /treaty, French, German, Polish) and originally from Alberta, her creative practice investigates the junction of a Cree worldview in contemporary time and space. Her latest recording, a five-song EP entitled Giveaway, is a sample from the Vancouver version of her audio-mapping songwriting project, Songlines. A full album is scheduled for completion in 2011. Read more

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Richard Van Camp, Alberta

A Dogrib (Tlicho) Dene from Fort Smith, nwt, Richard Van Camp is an internationally renowned storyteller and bestselling author. He was awarded Storyteller of the Year for both Canada and the US by the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers in 2007. His latest collection of stories is The Moon of Letting Go. Read more

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Host: Hilary Peach
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 - 8:00pm
Revue Stage
$19.00

Spoken Word is full of surprise. It often tickles the ear of the listener as the words of the performance fly by. Of these Spoken Word artists who will perform their newly commissioned works, three are on loan from the Poetry Gabriola Festival, while a fourth, young performance poet Sasha Langford, holds place on the coveted Vancouver Poetry Slam Team. Listen up to Canada’s best flying words.