Montreal, Quebec, Canada

MOE CLARK will be performing @ 100TPC Montreal 2012!

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Nominated as Montreal’s top spoken word artist (Montreal Mirror 2010), Métis artist Moe Clark fuses her unique understanding of performance narrative with traditions of circle singing and spoken word. Mistress of the looping pedal, Moe creates poetic songs that resonate with the power to heal and connect with authentic purpose.

After her debut album release “Circle of She: Story and Song” Moe has been inspiring audiences as far as Brazil, Belgium and beyond.

Feature highlights include performances for the 2012 TedXMontreal, 2010 IDEA World Congress in Belem, Brazil, the 2009 Maelström ReEvolution Poétique FiEstival in Brussels, Belgium, the 2011 Makusham APTN Series, and the ’07, ’08, ‘10 Canadian Festival of Spoken Word.

Aside from performance work, she is a community arts educator who facilitates voice, writing and spoken word performance workshops in high schools and local communities to promote literacy and creative expression. She believes that through the continuum of the oral tradition and active involvement in communities, both locally and internationally, we have the power to transform.

Here is a bilingual video that she made to cheer on the Canadians in the 2012 Olympics that just passed recently.

 

Don’t forget about our Master of Ceremonies, William (X-WAM) McMillan

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The amazing, never ending talents of this young entertainer have been cultivated for over 2 decades in Montreal / Canada. He has obtained the talents of beatboxing, rapping, singing, Djing, dancing, step dancing, hosting as an MC and Official Judge for Beatbox Canada.

Blazing a path from stage to stage, he has made his mark on multiple musical platforms in and out of the city. With trademark shows like: performing on “Musiq Plus” (several times), the International Montreal Jazz Fest. of 1994 and 2012, crowned with the title Montreal’s beatbox champ of 1999, the FrancoFolies of 2007, co-hosting on k103.7 fm, opening for Slum Village at Club Soda, closing a night for K-OSS, opening for Kardinal Offishall, preforming with “Kalmunity”, being a host for Jello-bar’s aids fundraiser, host for The privateer’s Hati & Japan fundraiser, host for Madpoetix “The Art of Performing Aural Sex” & “Intimate Nights”, the groups “One Ton” (SUPERSEX WORLD) & “The Suits XL”, finishing 15th across Canada on a show called Popstars “The One” becoming one of the 1st to Beatbox and sing on TV, Beatboxing for a McDonalds commercial McBISTRO (2012) TV & radio, Festival des arts urbains 2012, Recorded tracks with Sir Pathetik (J’rap pour toi) and Tricia Foster (Bubble Days). He has also branched out to Halifax, Quebec, Sherbrooke, Trois Riviere, Toronto, Victoria, Vancouver and even New York.

It has been said he has a drop of a new age Bobby McFerrin in his talent. But in total his style is his own and performs with just a mic, his mouth and his imagination. There is no real way of explaining the performance… but too see it, hear it and feel his music for yourself live.

 

 

With 1.3M likes on Facebook, Jean Mercier’s “A Poem A Day” will also debut at 100TPC Montreal

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Jean Mercier was born in La Tuque in the Province of Quebec, and lives now in Montreal, in Canada. His writings, films and series have been seen in more than 50 countries to date. Among his many clients we find: DISNEY CHANNEL (Australia and New Zealand), RTVE (Spain) TELEVISION MONTE-CARLO, CANAL+ (France), CINE-POP, YTV, TVA, TV ONTARIO, TVO (French Network), THE MOVIE NETWORK, SUPER-ECRAN, THE KNOWLEDGE NETWORK, SUPER-CHANNEL, MOVIEPIX, TLN and BRAVO (Canada), the ISRAELI BROADCASTING CORPORATION (Israel), BETA TAURUS (Germany), B SKY B (UK), and KCET / KFAM, and the GOODLIFE NETWORK (US).

A POEM A DAY is now the MOST POPULAR NEW POETRY page in THE WORLD on Facebook! Through 15 second long multimedia videos (see his Youtube channel) he shares love and inspiration to the entire world.

Surrealist Jovan Vuksanovich, internationally-acclaimed, at 100TPC Montreal 2012

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Here’s a biography that Jovan Vuksanovich kindly sent us:

I am a Canadian Poet, published in literary journals in Canada, U.S.A.,Europe, and India based in Montreal,QC.,Canada.

For the past 8 years, I have been presenting my poetry in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, Victoria, and New York.
In 2008, I recorded a CD of 9 of my poems entitled ‘Deviant Melody’.
October 2009, I was invited to Warsaw, Poland as ‘Feature Poet’ (in English) to perform at 5 literary events over a two week period. Recordings of several performances can be viewed at    https://www.youtube.com/rollingzenpoet

‘Jovan’s poetry has been ascribed to the lineage of symbolists and surrealists, with cascading, provocative images oscillating between vivid imagined landscapes and bitter doses of reality. His poetry brings paradoxes to light through a noble rebellion cross-hatched with irreverent humour.’
Jovita Berlin (Warsaw)

I am in the process of publishing my manuscript of poems entitled  ‘Catastrophic Bliss’.

Can you believe it? Regimental Oneton will also be reading this year!!!

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Artwork from his 2012 collage, taken from his blog (click image to visit).

Regimental Oneton will be sharing a few of his poems during this year’s 100 TPC Montreal.

Below is a video of him creating graffiti in downtown Montreal:

 

A Glance of “The Meaning of Children” by Ms. Beverly Ackerman at 100TPC Montreal

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Occasional musings on the writing life, brainwaves on family, and other considered opinions by award-winning Canadian writer and research scientist Beverly Akerman, MSc. Author of THE MEANING OF CHILDREN.

Ms. Ackerman will be reading from her award-winning novel “The Meaning of Children” at 100TPC Montreal. Below is an excerpt:

ADELA COULD NOT FIND HER WAY OUT OF THE WOODS

Adela entered the woods at precisely 9 a.m. one irreconcilable Tuesday. She wore a long coonskin coat, unfastened, a black and blue striped muffler, a top hat, black half-gloves with the ends cut off. No top, blue jeans slashed at the knees, and the most expensive Gucci thin strapped sandals she’d been able to find. Airy confections, made for posing on red carpets in gold lamé gowns, not for blazing muddy forest trails. Soon they would be ruined. Adela hoped to use the strappy sandals to ruin her father. He would say that on opening her latest credit card bill—“Adela, are you trying to RUIN me?” She had five credit cards, actually, arriving staggered through the month, so he accused her of trying to ruin him often. It was a stupid thing for him to say and he knew Adela knew it. If she spent a thousand dollars, ten thousand, a hundred thousand a day every day for the rest of her life, Adela couldn’t ruin her father, who had made all his money legally stealing the idea for a handheld communications device from the retiring nerd who discovered it. Know how hard it is to spend one hundred thousand dollars a day, every day? Adela knew. It was hard. It was.

A warm welcome to the Yellow Door Arts Director Ilona Martonfi

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An accomplished and loved Hungarian-born Montreal poet, Ilona Martonfi is one deeply interested in humanity. Not only is she the artistic director of the Yellow Door, the “oldest continuously running coffee house in North America (Coracle Press),” she has published extensively in the Montreal Serai, the Vallum MagazineAccenti, and The Fiddlehead, and authored chapbooks “Visiting the Ridge,” and two other poetry books Blue Poppy (2009) and Black Grass [note: link only provides the poem of the same name, no the book] (2012).

Below is one such poetic work.

The Women’s Shelter: Day 16

Who you are, didn’t matter.
What you said at three in the morning
to Maria, Guiseppa,
sitting around the oak table:

Day sixteen in the shelter—
peeling potatoes, carrots.
Food provided by Le Garde Manger.

Who you are, didn’t matter.
Walled garden.
Grey-painted balcony.
A clothesline.
He called you: “Puttana.”

Red tile roof.
Pool and sauna.
Nineteen mohair sweaters you knitted.
Jasmine, wild rose.
Apple trees.

“How often were you battered?”
Who you are, didn’t matter:
Leaves turning scarlet, sienna.

In your crisis worker’s office,
with the stained glass door.

Seeking refuge in 20th century Anjou.
A bad marriage—

He argued against the separation.

18K gold. Diamonds.
Four children.
Rental properties.
Overseas family trips.

By the river.
Acacia hills.

 

Yes, THE ANNA FUERSTENBERG playwright, film director and poet, will take her 5 minutes at 100TPC Montreal 2012!

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Anna Fuerstenberg

Anna Fuerstenberg was born in a refugee camp outside Stuttgart Germany. She came to Montreal as a child and won a scholarship to The Montreal Repertory Theatre School. It changed her life. Her plays and film scripts have been produced in Canada and abroad, and she has directed theatre in several languages and on several continents. Fuerstenberg was the Director of the Theatre Plant and Teatro Sin Fronteras in Toronto. Ms. Fuerstenberg has served on the board of the ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS NETWORK of Quebec (as a theatre representative), The Playwrights Guild of Canada and The Playwrights Workshop of Montreal

Her plays have been published by Playwrights Canada Press. She has written feature films and short stories and poetry, which have appeared in Parchment and Montreal Serai. She has reviewed books for the Montreal Gazette and theatre for Roverarts

She is currently shooting Café Montreal a web series she has written and she is directing TRIPLE CROSS which opened at the Fringe.

 Here is a sneak peak of what she will be performing at this year’s event! 

Across

(C) 1999 A. Fuerstenberg

Across empty heavens, star lit skies, merciless suns and perfidious moons,
Across barren tundra, rising tides, mist laced mountains and scorching dunes
Across savage cities, north, south, west, and east,
Across languages, taboos, bloody religions and political dues;
Across malignant famines and magnificent feasts,
Across rituals of loathing, ecstasy, gods and demons,
Across forests and jungles, raging rivers and mythical streams,
Across towns and villages, all built with hope, then ravaged by beasts. 

Across hunger to understand and be understood,
Across sins against our bodies and our blood
Across the urge to smash barriers of time, race and geography,
Across our bodies’ thrilled and aching topography,
Across violent armies of tortured entwined histories,
Across jack boots of intolerance and fear
Across human nature and its mysteries
Across life’s chaos and death’s jeer, 

Across all of these, remember, remember here,
Across all you think, live, breathe and do,
There is one, across all this, who yearns to find a way across to you.

 

What a night! Shane Murphy will follow immediately after The Blues Riders for a perfect ending to 100TPC Montreal!

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Shane Murphy's newest album, "street money miracle." Click on the album to hear some of the songs!

Taken directly from his official website:
Of Irish descent, the Canadian-born Murphy has performed and gigged at over 1,000 shows across North America since first hitting the local Montreal music scene in 1996. He has been requested as the opener for Grammy award winner Adele, April Wine, Grammy winning British Reggae band Steel Pulse, Our Lady Peace, among others. Murphy has appeared at dozens of local and internationally attended festivals including Canada’s premier showcase for best new music, the 2008 North by Northeast conference, as well as the world renowned Festival International de Jazz de Montreal in 2006. Shane has also won a 2009 Lys Award which recognizes the best up and coming blues artists in Quebec.

Here is a video of his performance of “The Right Side” at last year’s Festival International de Jazz de Montreal:

The Blues Riders will commence the 100TPC Musicians for Change Afterparty @ 100TPC Montreal 2012 starting 10:00pm

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THE BLUES RIDERS band is guaranteed to deliver Rock and Blues on time, with no punches pulled! From BB King to the Allman Bros to Johnny Winter to Stevie Ray Vaughan and many more.
The band cranks out tunes audiences scream for, not to mention throwing out originals to die for.
“Leave ’em buzzing and achin’ for more” is the band’s unspoken motto.

Billie Maciunas shares with 100TPC Montreal her passion for Florbela’s poetry

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Billie Maciunas became interested in Florbela’s poetry after hearing her poem “Amar” sung by the Fado singer, Cidália, in Lisbon in 1979. Captured by the ineffable quality of the poem she many years trying to translate it and became interested in translating others of Florbela’s collection. Florbela’s poetry speaks to Maciunas because of the absence and longing it expresses, along with Florbela’s use of striking imagery from nature, religion, Romanticism, and Symbolism.

Maciunas graduated from Brown University with a degree in comparative literature and from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill with a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature. Her Master’s Thesis is on Florbela  (Reading Florbela Espanca: The Imaginary of the Mother) and the doctoral dissertation is on modernist Brazilian poet Ana Cristina César. Maciunas lives in Altamonte Springs, Florida writing poetry, translating, and teaching.

Lost Soul
All night the nightingale cried,
moaned, implored, wailed forlornly!
Soul of the nightingale, human soul,
maybe you are someone who died,

maybe you are a dream that gently
passed by, mingled with pain,
maybe you are the twisted soul
of someone who wished to love and never did!

All night you cried, and I cried,
maybe because when I heard you, I knew
that no one is sadder than we!

You told the quiet night so much
that I thought you were my soul crying,
lost in your voice.

Florbela Espanca, “Alma Perdida,” Livro de Mágoas.
Tr. Billie Maciunas

Freelance writer Elizabeth Johnston and 100TPC Montreal

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Elizabeth Johnston is a freelance writer living in Montreal.  Her work has appeared in various publications including The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star and the anthology A Room at the Heart of Things. She teaches at Concordia University, as well as offering a variety of writing workshops and consultation services.  Elizabeth was awarded a Canada Council Writing Grant for her book No Small Potatoes(2008). She is a member of the Professional Writers Association of Canada, the English Language Arts Network, and the Quebec Writers Federation.

 

 

 

 

Sandra Bunting returns from Ireland, will read at 100TPC Montreal

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Sandra Bunting returned to Montreal last year after years of living in Galway Ireland. She is co-editor of the literary magazine Crannóg and her poetry collection, Identified in Trees, is published by Marram Press. Sandra taught creative writing at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

From Marram Press:

“Identified in Trees, a poetry collection by Sandra Bunting, was published by Marram Press in February, 2006, the first book brought out by the newly-founded press.

Sandra Bunting has a background in journalism but has experimented with different kinds of writing. Identified in Trees touches on her Canadian roots yet is influenced by the west of Ireland where she has lived for sixteen years with her husband and two daughters.”

 

Cameraman Dan Ahmad of Montreal will read “Poetry of the 99%”

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Though perhaps not directly related to Occupy, the title of his performance "Poetry of the 99%" is reminiscent of last year's protests.

Having read his work at fundraising events for other community events in the 80’s and 90’s, as well as performed at the O Ciel Embassy, Dan seeks to continue his community involvement through 100TPC Montreal this year with his five minutes that he dedicates to the 99%.

Storyteller who seeks to make you “the promise of yourself”– Jasmin Eldib

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Jasmin Eldiblover of life and people.  Free spirit who seeks to free others through written and spoken word.  Believes in leading through example.  Thinks running in the rain is awesome.

Due to her own personal experience, she will most likely be presenting to us a story that will inspire us to appreciate who we are, live our lives to the fullest and celebrate, rather than depreciate, this rare gift we all take for granted–life.

The Blues Riders will commence the 100TPC Musicians for Change Afterparty @ 100TPC Montreal 2012 starting 10:00pm

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THE BLUES RIDERS band is guaranteed to deliver Rock and Blues on time, with no punches pulled! From BB King to the Allman Bros to Johnny Winter to Stevie Ray Vaughan and many more.
The band cranks out tunes audiences scream for, not to mention throwing out originals to die for.
“Leave ’em buzzing and achin’ for more” is the band’s unspoken motto.

Teacher-Poet of Beaconsfield High, Melinda Cochrane 

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Melinda Cochrane (follow on Twitter) was raised in Newfoundland. She graduated from Memorial University with a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Education. Her first publication was with ditch poetry and The Stray Branch literary magazine with work recently published with Backalong books in “The art of poetic inqury. She also has a collection of poetry going into publication called “The man who stole father’s boat”, also with Backalong Books. She teaches English in Montreal at Beaconsfield high school.

Here is one piece of her work.

Universal love
I’ve dreamed us many times,
in a monk’s abbot,
in an ocean filled with stones,
I’ve passed us in forests alone
and in the tents
filled with waters,
I saw us in my hiding spot
I saw us in the air
and I knew we in
the cloaked dress

they made me wear with emeralds beaded around my face
and I heard it from the island rocks my poverty grew in.

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Thank you to Betty who made this wonderful bookmark–yet another eye-catching and thought-provoking artwork begging us to consider the purpose behind this man throwing the kid so high up into the sky and still waiting to catch this helpless kid with his arms wide open.

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You all know the 100TPC theme song, but do you know Byron Luna (Hint: Montrealer)

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What a familiar video that captured the essence of 100TPC since its inception! Byron Luna with his simple yet powerful lyrics and modern rock musical composition truly held onto the voices that need to be heard across the world for peace and sustainability. Thanks to him, 100TPC Montreal and its main organizer 100TPC has a theme song that wholeheartedly represents this global event.

Science + Poetry? Ethan Yang will show you how.

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An undergraduate biochemistry major student studying at McGill University, Ethan has always been interested in the truths about the world that science has revealed but also fervent about the poetic imagery and the scientific process involved its creation. In fact, he wrote an early scipoem (scientific poetry) that he submitted as an essay for a university application!

Due to the bipolar nature of science and poetry, it is like “mixing fire and water to create… wine (Fahrenheit 451)”

On his blog, he notes that scipoetry is not just as simple as writing about science. Instead, it is exploring the limitations and wonders of science and its effects upon society:

Instead of a simple allusion to science, scientific poetry seeks to question the impact of science upon society, the values and philosophy that it suggests, and the consequences of believing in such a dictated life.

 

A splendid summary of what scipoetry attempts to achieve. Like it on Facebook!

Perhaps the genre is not completely a novelty, the coinage of the term “scipoetry,” “scipoem” and other related terms (except sciku). In fact, the 20th century gave birth to quite a number of scipoets, including Primo Levi, Thomas Lewis, Andrew Bird, and Miroslav Holub.

According to Ethan, this is a prime example of scientific poetry, simple yet meaningful, made by by a 10th grader named Eli Cirino.

You can find more examples of scientific poetry, his current projects, and other information on his website, Facebook, or Twitter.

Do you really know Betty Esperanza? She’s more than just the CCO of 100TPC Montreal.

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A full time employee at the Canadian Liver Foundation (Montreal), Betty Esperanza is a busy soul. Not only did she dedicate her time to the success of last year‘s 100TPC Montreal single-handedly, she is the mother of many successful online blogs with a large number of subscribers/followers.

Betty brings you the culture of Cuba through her popular blog, Cladestine Cuba. She has visited Havana, Cuba on many accounts and soon she will be returning once more–with skateboards–the help those in need. Click on the image to see this blog.

Creative and talented, she has helped raise global awareness about 100TPC through her provocative and unique posters that not only embrace the freedom but also the expressiveness of 100TPC Montreal.

Some of the posters that Betty made last year for 100TPC MONTREAL. You will probably remember the Marilyn Monroe one to the left.

 She also has her own personal blog that she updates with her amazing happenings and community involvement in Montreal. It just shows how much she loves the world around her!

Betty with Rico at the Queue de Chavel 1234 grand opening August 20, 2012

Ever heard of Parneet Two-Times? She’s Amazing.

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Wonderful, wonderful performer who has amazed and enraptured the audience with her ability on stage. A second-time participant at 100TPC Montreal.

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Daria Sleiman, a child-poet wishing to reconnect

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Daria Sleiman is a student at McGill University in Philosophy, Cognitive Science and Educational Psychology. She is VP External of McSWAY, McGill’s poetry club. Passionate about poetry, she has been writing in French and English since the age of 8 and has won several awards from The Ottawa Public Library’s Awesome Authors contest. Today she wishes to reconnect with her inner child-like poet, and promote poetry as a style of life in the way that we sense beauty, gratitude, truth and love in the world at all times.

Excerpt from Le Regard d’une Feuille

”Réveillant vieux parfums enneigés de la ville,
Le crépuscule lui fit un dernier clin d’œil.”

Who is Native Son? (You don’t know him, really?!)

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Marvin Trimm aka (Native Son) is a writer, poet, spoken word artist, motivational speaker and musician. He has been engaged in the world of literary and performance art for 20 years. It is this passion for the arts that has led him to be showcased globally in the United States, Canada, Europe and the Caribbean.

Click here for a video of his spoken poetry at last year’s 100TPC Montreal.

This JUST in! Susan Shulman’s “Medusa Gaze”

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One of our featured poets and artists, Susan Shulman, will be sharing her artwork at 100 Thousand Poets For Change on September 29, 2012.

My art and spoken word will be featured at this years “100 Thousand Poets 4 Change” in Montreal September 29. It is an international grassroots event focusing on the arts, especially poetry, music, and the literary arts.
These images are from some of my latest art project seekingkali.blogspot.ca

100TPC Montreal 514 will give a tribute poetry slam for Pussy Riot

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Join us to free Pussy Riot!

Who’s Who @ 100TPC Montreal 2012

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You might be wondering who exactly is attending this fabulous event? What surprises and wonderful advocates of peace and sustainability shall I enjoy on September 29, 2012 starting at 8:00 pm at Hurley’s Pub (Click here for Google Map)? No worries, we got a growing list of performers and some of their works right here. And what’s here are just teasers. You really have to attend the event to see for yourself!

Poetry Performers starting from 8:00pm

1. Betty Esperanza
Chief Creative Organizer of the 2011 and 2012 100TPC Montreal Event. Creates magnificent posters and conjures the most seductive ideas to gain more attendees for this event.

2. Ethan Yang
McGill University Biochemistry undergraduate assisting Betty with this year’s event. Published at school magazine and particularly interested in scientific poetry.

3. Parneet Two-Times
A former participant of the 2011 100TPC Montreal from Edmonton, Alberta, who wowed the audience with her performance of “I’m an Activist.

4. Native Son
Marvin Trimm aka (Native Son) is a writer, poet, spoken word artist, motivational speaker and musician. He has been engaged in the world of literary and performance art for 20 years. It is this passion for the arts that has led him to be showcased globally in the United States, Canada, Europe and the Caribbean. Check out one of his videos!

5. Regimental Oneton
An artist who has done fantastic art and shares much of his work on his blog. See his graffiti in Montreal.

6. Moe Clark
Independent Artist, Musician, Graphic Designer who fuses her unique understanding of performance narrative with traditions of circle singing and spoken word. A strong believer of oral traditions, she has performed a bilingual spoken word “Becoming Hero,” to cheer on the Canadian Athletes in Olympics 2012.

7. Dan Ahmad
Has read his work at fundraising events for community events on the 80’s and 90’s and performed at the O Ciel Embassy. Will be doing “Poetry of the 99%”

8. Susan Shulman
An artist who has created books, videos, music and currently conceived of as an online exhibition of artist works based on the Hindu goddess Kali. Here is a video of her artwork and poetry, “Scales of Love.”

9. Daria Sleiman
Passionate about poetry, she has been writing in French and English since the age of 8 and has won several awards from The Ottawa Public Library’s Awesome Authors contest.

10. Melinda Cochrane
Newfoundlander who now teaches in Beaconsfield High School.

11. Ilona Martonfi
Author of two poetry books, Blue Poppy, (Coracle). Black Grass, (Broken Rules). Producer Yellow Door & Visual Arts Centre Readings.

12. Anna Fuerstenberg
Born in a refugee camp outside Stuttgart Germany. She came to Montreal as a child and won a scholarship to The Montreal Repertory Theatre School. Because of that she has become a renowned Canadian theatre producer/director.

13. Elizabeth Johnston

14. Jasmin Eldib

15. Christine McCaffrey

The 100 Thousand Musicians for Change AFTER-PARTY until 2:00AM

1. Blues Rider
THE BLUES RIDERS band is guaranteed to deliver Rock and Blues on time, with no punches pulled! From BB King to the Allman Bros to Johnny Winter to Stevie Ray Vaughan and many more.

2. Shane Murphy
Canadian-born Shane Murphy is a seasoned singer-songwriter and performer in the Montreal Blues and club circuit. Visit his website.

More to come!

Save the Date (and locale) for 100TPC Montreal!

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DATE: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 2012
TIME: 8:00PM TO 2:00AM (100 THOUSAND MUSICIANS FOR CHANGE AFTER PARTY STARTS AT 11:00PM. OPENING WITH The Blues Riders and HEADLINER Shane Murphy.)
PLACE: HURLEY’S IRISH PUB (1225 Crescent Street, 2nd Floor)

No experience necessary. Sign up for your 5 minutes via 100tpcmontreal@gmail.com.

Artists already signed up:
NATIVE SON, PARNEET TWO-TIMES, REGIMENTAL ONETON, MELINDA COCHRANE, SUSAN SHULMAN, CHRISTINE MACCAFFERY, ILONA MARTONFI,ETHAN YANG, MOE CLARK, DAN AHMAD and BETTY ESPERANZA.

THE EVENT IS FREE. But we do accept donations.
Thank you for sharing this event with your Friends and Family

– Betty Esperanza, Organizer and CCO

What kind of poetry do you want to see at 100TPC Montreal?

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50 Days Left Before the 2012 Event!

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50 Ways to Leave Your Lover by Paul Simon. If you try one a day, by the time you’re done, it’s time to join us @ 8:00 pm at Hurley’s Pub (Click here for Google Map). RSVP via 100tpcmontreal@gmail.com!

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Support your LOCAL talented poets, spoken word, writers, activists, slammers, influencers, artists and musicians for one night of peace and sustainabilty.

DATE: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 2012
TIME: 8:00PM TO 2:00AM (100 THOUSAND MUSICIANS FOR CHANGE AFTER PARTY STARTS AT 11:00PM. OPENING WITH The Blues Riders and HEADLINER Shane Murphy.)
PLACE: HURLEY’S IRISH PUB (1225 Crescent Street, 2nd Floor)

No experience necessary. Sign up for your 5 minutes via 100tpcmontreal@gmail.com.

Artists already signed up:
NATIVE SON, PARNEET TWO-TIMES, REGIMENTAL ONETON, MELINDA COCHRANE, SUSAN SHULMAN, CHRISTINE MACCAFFERY, ILONA MARTONFI,ETHAN YANG, MOE CLARK, DAN AHMAD and BETTY ESPERANZA.

THE EVENT IS FREE. But we do accept donations.
Thank you for sharing this event with your Friends and Family

– Betty Esperanza, Organizer and CCO

Have you watched the Olympics lately?

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Becoming Hero / Devenir un Héros

This video and poem by Moe Clark was created for, about and inspired by the Canadian Olympic athletes. This performance is meant to recognize and present the incredible accomplishments of our “Canadian Heros” that come from all across Canada, to carry on the legacy that has been created over time, and in so doing, create new chapters of that legacy. It was shown to the Canadian Olympic Team athletes two days before the Opening Ceremonies at the London 2012 Games.

Cette vidéo du poème de Moe Clark a été créée pour les athlètes olympiques canadiens et a été inspirée par ces derniers. Elle a pour but de souligner et de présenter les réalisations incroyables de nos « héros canadiens » qui viennent de partout au Canada pour perpétuer l’héritage qui a été créé avec le temps, et ce faisant, ils écrivent de nouveaux chapitres de l’histoire de cet héritage. Elle a été présentée aux athlètes de l’Équipe olympique canadienne deux jours avant la cérémonie d’ouverture des Jeux de Londres 2012.

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Change = Ceaseless Effort

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“It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop.

— Wisdom of Confucius

Change. This Needs Change.

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Caution: the content you are about to is not intended for youths.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l5tM_Za1cE

“a lil spark of lucifer for true blue kids no longer blinded by spectacle glare; the fire so bright it burnt our eyes until we could see; baby boys/ golden girls holla in the dirt.

all footage of the kids on the streets shot by Fil Kaler (http://www.filkaler.com/) true respects”

Voice your change at the 100TPC 514 (Montreal) via 100tpcmontreal@gmail.com or its Facebook page.

2011 100TPC Montreal Video

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Thank you all for the wonderful performances last year! Here is a video of the event filmed and edited by CUTV.

http://blip.tv/play/gaBugtiFWAI.html?p=1

WATCH MONTREALERS SLAM 4 CHANGE IN ENGLISH, FRENCH AND SPANISH DURING THE LARGEST POETRY EVENT IN THE WORLD!
The next event is SEPTEMBER 29-2012. RSVP via 100tpcmontreal@gmail.com.
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Resources:
BYRON LUNA TPC MONTREAL 2011 WORLDWIDE MUSIC THEME

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