PurdyFest #7: “LivesayFest”
Purdy Country LitFests (PurdyFests) held in Hastings County are Canada’s first and longest running People’s Poetry festivals. Several other communities across Canada have followed our example and our now holding their own annual events. On this summer’s August long weekend we’ll be celebrating fest #7. This year we’ll be honouring the legacy of seminal People’s Poet Dorothy
Livesay. Professor Joyce Wayne will emcee our Saturday Symposium on Livesay, and Ryerson journalism prof Marsha Barber will present tapes and a talk on an interview she held with Dorothy Livesay.
This summer’s “LivesayFest” will again be held in the Marmora area, with events beginning with a Friday night (Aug. 2nd) POTLUCK SUPPER at ZenRiver Gardens retreat in the pioneer hamlet of Malone. Free rough camping is available at ZenRiver.
Events continue on Saturday with the SYMPOSIUM on Dorothy Livesay in the William Shannon Room at the Marmora Public Library.
Saturday afternoon ANOTHER DAM POETRY READING will be held on the islet in the Marmora Dam. Marmora singer/musician Morley Ellis will kick off the round robin reading. Everyone is encouraged to bring their poetry and read at the dam.
On Sunday afternoon events return to ZenRiver. Tai Grove, President of the Canada-Cuba Literary Alliance and the publisher of Hidden Brook Press, will emcee two readings by CCLA members and Hidden Brook Press authors.
For further info on times and locations, please contact Chris Faiers at:
zenriver@sympatico.ca
613-472-6186.