2011 Calgary Spoken Word Society & Single Onion
100 Poets for Change
The Calgary Spoken Word Society & Single Onion come together
to present the first annual 100 Poets for Change event in Calgary.
100 Poets for Change is a worldwide event on September 24th, uniting artists and poets in a simultaneous celebration to promote social, environmental and political change.
The idea is purposefully broad – each community touching on their own local issues. Encouraging people to get out and meet their neighbors in times of ever-growing alienation. Come out and change how you see your local and global community!
Join us at the Bassbuss at Riley Park
On September 24th from 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Guest Readers and Open Mic
100 Poets for Change is happening in cities all over the world (around 60 countries so far) on September 24th please visit http://www.100tpc.org/
Thanks to Michael Rothenberg for spearheading this project on the much larger scale. Here's what he has to say about 100 Thousand Poets for Change on the universal event page he created at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=106999432715571
The first order of change is for poets, writers, artists, anybody, to actually get together to create and perform, educate and demonstrate, simultaneously, with other communities around the world. This will change how we see our local community and the global community. We have all become incredibly alienated in recent years. We hardly know our neighbors down the street let alone our creative allies who live and share our concerns in other countries. We need to feel this kind of global solidarity. I think it will be empowering.
And of course there is the political/social change that many of us are talking about these days. There is trouble in the world. Wars, ecocide, the lack of affordable medical care, racism, the list goes on. It appears that transformation towards a more sustainable world is a major concern and could be a global guiding principle for this event. Peace also seems to be a common cause. War is not sustainable. There is an increasing sense that we need to move forward and stop moving backwards. But I am trying not to be dogmatic. I am hoping that together we can develop our ideas of the "change/transformation" we are looking for as a group, and that each community group will decide their own specific area of focus for change for their particular event.
