WORKSHOPS 2010
Blue Metropolis is once again presenting two master classes for professional and emerging writers during the 12th annual Blue Metropolis Montreal International Literary Festival.
These small workshops will be led by an internationally-recognized writer who will also be participating in public Festival events. Enrolment is limited to 8-12 participants. Participants are chosen on a first-come, first-served basis and are advised to register early. *All these master classes includes lunch with the workshop leader and are conducted in English.
Master Class in poetry with Paul Muldoon
Dates: Saturday, April 24th, 2010 10 a.m.-12.30 p.m. and Sunday, April 25th, 2010, 10 a.m. - 12.30 p.m.
Location : Room 528, Delta Centre-ville Hotel, 777, University St., Montreal.
Description: Going in humility
Going in humility is a master class that focuses on ways of developing "wise passiveness" as Wordsworth describes it, or what Keats defines as "negative capability". Paul Muldoon offers practical ways of finding, and following, the path of unknowing.
Author's biography :
Paul Muldoon was born in 1951 in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, and educated in Armagh and at the Queen's University of Belfast. From 1973 to 1986 he worked in Belfast as a radio and television producer for the British Broadcasting Corporation. Since 1987 he has lived in the United States, where he is now Howard G.B. Clark '21 Professor at Princeton University and Founding Chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts. Between 1999 and 2004 he was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. In 2007 he was appointed poetry editor of The New Yorker. Paul Muldoon's main collections of poetry are New Weather (1973), Mules (1977), Why Brownlee Left (1980), Quoof (1983), Meeting The British (1987), Madoc: A Mystery (1990), The Annals of Chile (1994), Hay (1998), Poems 1968-1998 (2001), Moy Sand and Gravel (2002), Horse Latitudes (2006) and Maggot (2010).
N.B. This is a master class for professional Canadian writers; emerging writers and university students will be admitted as space permits.
HOW TO APPLY
Download application form
Applicants are asked to submit a writing sample (5-10 pages) of their work with their application by April 1st, 2010. This material should be mailed to us; it will not be returned.
Mailing address: Blue Metropolis Foundation, 661 Rose-de-Lima Street, Suite 201, Montreal, Quebec H4C 2L7. Please mark "Blue Metropolis Writing Workshops" on the envelope.
Application deadline: April 1st, 2010. These workshops are small (8-12 participants, depending on the workshop), so applicants are advised to register early.
Registration fee: $100 CAD, all inclusive. The registration fee is non-refundable. Registration fee must be paid by cheque, Visa or MasterCard on application.
Package includes: 5 hour workshop, one lunch* with the author on Saturday, April 24th, 2010, and a reduced rate for purchase of tickets to Festival events. Please note that many Festival events will sell out and it is important to buy tickets in advance; tickets can be purchased online once the programme is published on the Web site from March 30th.
Applicants will receive email notification concerning their acceptance into the workshop within two weeks of their application. At that time, Blue Metropolis Foundation will process their payment if (and only if) they have been accepted. Selected Participants should prepare the text they wish to work on in the workshop (between 5 and 10 pages) and e-mail it to the Blue Metropolis office by April 15th, 2010; these texts will then be sent in advance to the workshop leader and other participants of the workshop.
Master Class in spoken words with Bob Holman
Dates: Saturday, April 24th, 2010 10 a.m.-12.30 p.m. and Sunday, April 25th, 2010, 10 a.m. - 12.30 p.m.
Location: Room 530, Delta Centre-ville Hotel, 777, University St., Montreal
Master Class description:
The Master Class will begin with an overview of the oral tradition from Homer through West African griots, hip hop, slam, film/video. The Master Class leader will work with participants to illuminate their own lineage outside the standard literary tradition - then we'll move to hands-on work with participants' performance/writing techniques, including opening up to collaboration with music, film, visual arts, etc. Participants may bring work they to perform and workshop.
Author's biography:
Recently dubbed a member of the Poetry Pantheon by The New York Time Magazine and featured in a Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Profile in The New Yorker, Bob Holman has been crowned Ringmaster of the Spoken Word (New York Daily News), Poetry Czar (Village Voice), Dean of the Scene (Seventeen), and this generation's Ezra Pound (San Francisco's Poetry Flash). The series he produced for PBS, The United States of Poetry, features over sixty poets; his latest collection is A Couple of Ways of Doing Something. He teaches at Columbia and NYU and is the Founder/Proprietor of the Bowery Poetry Club (NYC).
To listen to extracts from Holman performances please check these links:
http://media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/authors/Holman/Holman-Bob_She-Never-Called-Me-Back.mp3
http://www.indiefeedpp.libsyn.com/?search_string=bobholman.com&search=1
Bob Holman performs at the 10th Anniversary Urbana Party:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2lJC5lNgQg
http://about-creativity.com/2007/03/an-interview-with-bob-holman.php
http://brooklynrail.org/2006/05/poetry/bob-holman-with-monica-de-la-torre
N.B. This is a master class for professional Canadian writers; emerging writers and university students will be admitted as space permits.
HOW TO APPLY
Download application form
Application deadline: April 1st, 2010. These workshops are small (8-12 participants, depending on the workshop), so applicants are advised to register early.
Registration fee: $80 CAD, all inclusive. The registration fee is non-refundable. Registration fee must be paid by Chèque, Visa or MasterCard on application.
Package includes: 5 hour workshop, one lunch* with the author on Saturday, April 24th, 2010, and a reduced rate for purchase of tickets to Festival events. Please note that many Festival events will sell out and it is important to buy tickets in advance; tickets can be purchased online once the programme is published on the Web site from March 30th.
Applicants will receive email notification concerning their acceptance into the workshop within two weeks of their application. At that time, Blue Metropolis Foundation will process their payment if (and only if) they have been accepted. Participants should prepare the text they wish to workshop (between 5 and 10 pages) and e-mail it to the Blue Metropolis office by April 15th, 2010; these texts will then be sent to the workshop leader and other participants in advance of the workshop.
*The lunch offered is a buffet lunch at the Festival hotel (the Delta Centre-ville Hotel located at 777 University Street in Montreal). The Festival rate for a single or double room is $179,04 CAD per night, taxes are included. To reserve call 1-877-814-7706 or go online to http://www.deltahotels.com/en/reservations and please mention the name "Blue Metropolis."
Blue Metropolis Foundation reserves the right to cancel any workshop if registration is insufficient. All prices are in Canadian dollars.
For further information:
emilyjane.aouad@metropolisbleu.org or 514-932-1112 ext. 34
Blue Metropolis wishes to thank The Canada Council for the Arts for financial support of the master classes.
Click here if you are interested in our 2009 workshop.