Electric Mermaid: Featuring Atma Frans' @Char's

Date:

Wednesday, May 29, 2024 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm

Venue:

Char's Landing

4815 Argyle Street, Port Alberni

Electric Mermaid: Live Reads from Char's Landing, Port Alberni, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada

Emcee: Derek Hanebury Moderator: Karl Korven ZOOM Producer: Charlene Patterson

Spoken Word Open Mic at Char's Landing, last Wednesday of each month

Char's physical doors open 5:30pm Pacific Time

MAY 29th FEATURING GIBSON LANDING'S ATMA FRANS'

Atma Frans’ poetry has won first prize in Quagmire Magazine’s Inaugural Poetry Contest, was a finalist in contests run by Freefall Magazine, Oxford Brookes University, The Malahat Review and Sunspot Literary Journal and was nominated for the National Magazine Award. Her work has been published in literary magazines, including in Prairie Fire Magazine, The New Quarterly, Plenitude Magazine, Freefall Magazine, Arc Poetry Magazine, CV2 and in the UK in Lighthouse Literary Journal and Obsessed with Pipework. In her writing, Atma searches for the voice beneath her personas: woman, mother, trauma survivor, architect, queer, author. She lives on the ancestral territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh people in Gibsons, B.C..

AVNews => https://www.albernivalleynews.com/entertainment/gibsons-poet-takes-on-electric-mermaid-in-port-alberni-7365049

YouTube => https://youtu.be/pgzMcT0oGSc?si=vJy6mCwKWwY8dHbv

MAY 29th READERS LIST

READER 01 Kathleen Vance 5 min Via zoom (Gibson B.C)

READER 02 Victoria Roscoe-Roumanis 5min in person ( Port Alberni B.C)

READER 03 Lesli Omohundro-Bronczkowski 5min Via Zoom (Germany )

FEATURE 1 Atma Fans 20 mIn + Q& A In Person (Gibson B.C.)

READER 04 David Kipling 5 Min Via Zoom ( Gibson B.C.)

READER 05 Joelunch Buckett 5 min in Person ( Port Alberni BC)

READER 06 Mark Wonneck 5 min Via Zoom ( Qualicum B.C)

READER 07 Dean lamont 5min in Person ( Port Alberni B.C )

READER 08 Peter Paul Van Camp 5 Min Via Zoom ( Denman BC)