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August 24 & 25, 2024 A Weekend of Cascadian Zen: Cumberland

Watershed Press celebrates the Cumberland launch of Cascadian Zen Volume I

August 24 & 25, featuring talks by poets, philosphers, and an indigenous elder, along with poetry readings and a poetry workshop. A project of the Cascadia Poetics LAB.

Schedule

Saturday 8/24

  • 2 PM – 4:30 PM – A poetry workshop by Seattle poet Paul Nelson, “Poetics as Cosmology” (a workshop on spontaneous composition). Cost: $24-$75
  • 7 PM – 9 PM – A talk, “What is Cascadian Zen?” by the editors of Cascadian Zen (Wirth, Nelson, and MacWilliam). Followed by readings by contributors to the Cascadian Zen anthology and drinks afterward at the Waverly Pub. Suggested donation of $15.00

Sunday 8/25

  • 10 AM – 12 PM – A talk by Indigenous elder Wedlidi Speck, Wedlidi is a member of the Namgis First Nation of Alert Bay and hereditary Head chief of the G’ixsam Clan of the Kwakiutl proper. Suggested donation of $15.00
  • 2 PM – 4 PM –  A talk by award-winning poet and philosopher Jan Zwicky on nature poetry and lyric. Suggested donation of $15.00.

Location and Date

The Abbey Studio
2689 Penrith Ave
Cumberland, B.C.

August 24, 2024, 2PM – 4:30PM
August 25, 2024, 10AM-12PM; 2PM-4PM

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7 Comments

  1. Claire Gordon

    Hi. Do I need to preregister for this? Thanks!

  2. Ryukan

    No.

  3. Matt Law

    Can you elaborate on the sliding scale for Saturday’s workshop? Thx.

  4. Ryukan

    Pay what you can.

  5. Cornelia Hoogland

    Great line up! I’d love to hear Wedleki speak.

  6. Bud Taylor

    Good mooring, yon tatters all zenly postage stump perhaps informative yet alluring…

    Look forward wallowing in a rebellious scourge scarred trough with that nefarious seadog from down Seattle way tittilated to joyful tears witness the crawlspace lurch along the poetic plank with a Dodge City Pepperoni perched precariously, some manknight says jauntily askew atop a feathered thunderbolt tricorne, hauntingly munching a chew of the last critic’s pew.

    The Watershed submissions page requires tending please?

  7. Judith

    No mention of accommodation options, such as billeting…

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