Artists: Ernie Manera, Jolanta Pyra, Carolyn Sadowska, Jill Swartz, Linda Rogers, Gail Harris, Patricia Young and Carolyn Dryburgh
Date: July 14, 1987
Open Space hosted a fundraiser for Fringe Benefits grass roots theatre.
Artists: Tom Wayman, Susan Musgrave, Fred Wah and Diana Hartog
Date: March 30, 1986
Monday Nights at Open Space
Artist: Alisdair Gray
Date: October 25, 1985
Scottish author Alisdair Gray read from his work.
Artists: Northwest Renaissance Poetry Group (Seattle)
Date: September 28, 1985
Artist: Marilyn Bowering with Larry Cohen
Date: November 17, 1984
Bowering read from her latest collection of poetry, The sunday Before Winter with Larry Cohen on piano creating the modds and themes of Bowering's poems.
Mexican Night: Poetry Cabaret
Artists: George Bowering, P.K. Page and Leon Rooke
Date: October 13, 1984
The poets read from works which described their interest in an experience of Mexico.
Sound Poetry Festival
Artists: The Four Horsemen and Re:Sounding
Date: October 2, 1982
"The experimental poetry performance group which calls itself The Four Horsement, began in 1970, when after a joint reading by b.p. Nichol and Steve McCaffery, Rafael Barreto-Rivera proposed that they should get together along with Paul Dutton and "jam."
In 1973, they issued a record, CaNADAda, which contained their first early work, such as "Matthew's Line", "Allegro 108", and "Seasons." They recorded live performances given in Vancouver and Edmonton in 1974 and these were issued as Live in the West (1977). They have also published a great number of books individually as well as collectively.
The Four Horsemen have resisted the temptations of tape technology and remained true to their purist conception of sound poetry as what can be produced by the unaided human voice.
Workshop
Artist: Sid Tafler
Date: May 25, 1982
Sid Tafler, business and political writer for news publications, led a workshop on investigative journalism; sponsored by the Periodical Writers' Association of Canada.
Journalism On The Ropes?
Artist: Sean Rossiter
Date: April 27, 1982
Vancouver writer, Sean Rossiter gave a public address; sponsored by the Writer's Association of Canada.
Artist: Ken Strange
Date: May 5, 1982
Acclaimed by the critics, Ken Strange (Ontario), combines fiction and poetry. He has published eight books including Bushed.
"Bushed is to the mentality of the urban sprawl what James Dickey's Deliverance was to the Boy Scouts of America...an atavitic tour de force...a work of startling power and insight." (Globe and Mail)
Strange's poetry has been called "precise and elegant", filled with difficulties and delights.
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