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I’m proud to announce that Manchester’s IF P THEN Q press has just published
The Unbearable Contact with Poets
(120 pp, free PDF or perfect bound copy for £5.00, ISBN: 978-0-9571827-8-3)
The Unbearable Contact with Poets, derek beaulieu’s second selection of essays and reviews, is essential reading. A keen and shrewd essayist, he marks himself out as one of the key commentators on contemporary concrete and conceptual poetry. The selection includes a substantial review of concrete poetry by women, an exploration into concrete and conceptual poetic representations of the holocaust, alongside interviews with Tony Trehy, Natalie Simpson and Gregory Betts, as well as lots more. The edition is available as a free PDF and as a perfect bound copy.
Click here for more Information or to download / order a copy
UPDATE: Local media has been excited by our new initiative!:
“Program aims to transform empty office space into creative places”: Calgary Herald
“Calgary businesses to let artists use empty space”: Metro Calgary
“Calgary’s high office vacancy rate could benefit artists in need of space”: CBC Calgary News
“Artists in Workplace”: CBC Calgary Eyeopener [Radio]
“Calgary businesses encouraged to share office space with artists”: Metro Calgary
“Sky-high vacancy rates challenge remaining downtown businesses”: Global TV Calgary
the press release from the Calgary Chamber of Commerce
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Participating businesses to date:
Calgary Association of Self Help
Roots2STEM Admin & Creation Space
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ENROLL HERE
It’s no secret that challenging economic times are yielding a surplus of office / business space in our city. Instead of letting these spaces sit vacant, they instead could be turned into an opportunity to invest in Calgary’s cultural future that also offsets some expenses at the same time.
The Calgary Chamber in partnership with Calgary Arts Development and Calgary’s Poet Laureate, Derek Beaulieu, is excited to announce the launch of a new initiative called Artists in the Workplace, a program that connects businesses with a surplus of space with artists and art organizations who are looking for space to work.
Please see below or the full release – For additional comments or to schedule an interview, please contact Scott Crockatt at media@calgarychamber.com or 403 681 5529.
derek beaulieu
Calgary Poet Laureate 2014-2016
derek@housepress.ca
I am super proud to announce that my Alberta College of Art + Design ENGL315 students have just publishedGERM WARFARE: a suite of responses to Christian Bök’s The Xenotext (Book 1)
In “Germ Warfare” Alberta College of Art + Design ENGL315 students reply to the poetic implications of Christian Bok’s The Xenotext (Book 1) (Coach House Books, 2015).
Germ Warfare includes visual responses by ANGELA FERMOR, TANNER BUSHELL, MATTHEW CARBERRY, ZACHARY WILD, TAYLOR SOLBER, MEITAL NETZER-ISRAEL, CARLY HYNES, TIANYI WU, MIRANDA KLEIN, EMILY FERGUSON, JOSHUA BRIEN, HAILEY KOIVOLA, CODY COX, SHIGEMICHI ISHITANI, GARTH PHILPOTT, DEREK CURRIE, CHRISTY WADE, KARA MURPHY, SIMON CORMIER, ELLEN CRANCH, JULIE L. TURNER, MANALI MORE, LISA RAY-ANNE SUDEIKAT, LUSINE MANUKYAN, SARAH HARRILL, FELICIA VANDENBOOGAARD, KAYLEE NOVAKOVSKI, CAITLIN MCCANN, TOBY REID, KRISTEN ROBILLIARD, REENY HUA, JESSICA HUCK.
Edited and compiled by Derek Beaulieu.
76 pages, 7.5″x7.5″, full-colour, perfect-bound
GERM WARFARE is now available for order direct through LULU for $24.33+ postage …
i was honoured to be invited by the Institute for Canadian Citizenship to speak at Calgary’s canadian citizenship ceremony on oct 16 at Arts Commons. I spoke alongside Nobel prize nominee Doreen Spence, Arts Commons President and CEO Johan Zietsman and many other luminaries as we welcomed 59 new Canadians to the country…
Donna Stewart, Citizenship Officer /Clerk of ceremony; unknown; Cree Elder Doreen Spence; me; Judge Joseph Woodard, Presiding Official; Johann Zietsman, President and CEO ARTS Commons; unknown; unknown; Umashanie Reddy: RBC Immigrant of Distinction Award winner; Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sergeant Conal Archer
As Calgary’s Poet Laureate I’m proud to be a part of a new initiative in partnership with Calgary Reads and their Little Free Library Passport
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Are you a fan of Little Free Libraries? Do you regularly take – or leave – a book at these little wooden houses scattered throughout our neighborhoods?
Now you can become a Well-Traveled Reader and earn a badge of honour!
Visit our Passport Office (at Calgary Reads) and pick up your FREE Passport. Then with family, friends or your special group visit the 14 listed, unique Little Free Libraries (reader citizenship posts!) in Calgary. Use the stamp inside each Little Free Library to stamp your Passport on the corresponding page. Return to the Passport Office with at least 10 stamps in your Passport and receive a custom ‘Well-Traveled Reader’ badge to sew onto your jacket, backpack or cap. This project is an exciting collaboration with Calgary’s poet laureate Derek Beaulieu.
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The Little Free Library Passport features my visual poetry on every page — and if you visit the LFL locations around the city you can collect a series of stamps for your passport…
Today I guest lectured David Gissen‘s fantastic graduate-level “Architecture Between Writing and Drawing: Exploring Alphanumerical Representations of Spaces and Environments” graduate seminar at the University of Calgary. 20+ graduate students discussed the architectural implications of text and how innovative poetic methods can inform architectural practice — and students spent some time collaborative architecturally-poetic plans using dry-transfer lettering … Thank you so much for the opportunity to chat with such engaged students!
Arianne Jones, me, Brad Spence and Cassandra
When Brad Spence, founder of Helmets for Heroes, competed at the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, he was wearing a hand painted helmet by Gillian O’Blenes-Kaufman, a young patient at the Alberta Children’s Hospital. During a hospital visit a few months prior, Brad had learned of Gillian’s incredible artistic talents and wanted to bring her on his journey to Sochi. He did so by having her design and paint his Olympic helmet.
Seeing the impact that his helmet had not only on her, but also on the entire community, Brad wanted to find a way to bring the athletic and artistic worlds together, to support and help children battling adversity cope and heal. What evolved was Helmets for Heroes, an initiative aimed at doing just this. For each project, an athlete, an artist, and a child battling adversity are connected to collaborate on a helmet design that will be worn in competition by the athlete. Art not only helps children battling adversity express themselves, it improves their mood, decreases pain levels, and assists in the healing process. After completion of the projects, the helmets are auctioned off, with proceeds being donated to the charity of the child’s choice. To date, Helmets for Heroes has facilitated five very unique projects, raising more than $15,000 for charity.
I’m proud to announce that I’m working with Arianne Jones and her teammates on the Canadian National Luge Team, alongside Cassandra (age 11) to design Arianne a helmet that she can use at the World Cup and in competition through-out 2015-2016!
Watch this space for updates and news … and support Helmets for Heroes!
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