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..
 
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READER 00 Derek Hanebury
 
Electric Mermaid: Live Reads from Char's Landing and via ZOOM !
Spoken Word Open Mic, last Wednesday of each month, Char's physical doors open 5:30pm Pacific Time
 
We also welcome you to join us via ZOOM and click this automatic ZOOM link below:
 
We encourage our guests to ZOOM in early and keep video on to enjoy the virtual social gathering.
Please engage the CHAT window for comments to the artists or to ask Karl to be added to the open mic list.
 
PayWhatYouCan cover in lieu of rental to help Char's Landing support the live arts gratefully accepted with our thanks.
Online bank transfers to http://[email protected] please include the event date and your email address
PayPal to https://www.paypal.me/CharsLanding please include the event date and your email address
OR text/call 250-730-1636 to charge by phone.
OR stop by Char’s Landing to pay by cash/cheque/interac
 
PRE-REGISTER and sign up for a 5-minute spot at the open mic at [email protected]
SUBSCRIBE to Char's YouTube video list to see past events https://www.youtube.com/user/CharsLanding/videos
 
UPCOMING FEATURES: 
May 29th  Atma 20 mIn  + Q& A  via  zoom  (Gibson B.C.
May 29th 
 
June 26th Karen Hofmann  20min +Q&A In  person  (Victoria B.C)
June 26th 
 
July 31st TBA
July 31st
 
Aug 28th John barton 20min +Q &A  (Victoria, B.C)
Aug 28th 
 
Sep 25th  Jennifer  Wenn  20 min + Q & A   (London Ont )
Sep 25th
 
Oct 30th  Lozan  Yamolky  20 min + Q & A  ( Maple  Ridge B.C)
Oct 30th
 
Nov 27th TBA
Nov 27th
 
Dec ??? Members  Night 
 
 
 
 
 
PAST FEATURES:
2024
April 24th Kathleen Vance  & David Kippling https://alberni.ca/events/37375
March 27th Janice Nielsen https://alberni.ca/events/37374
February 28th Perry Bulwer + Judith Reeves https://alberni.ca/events/37373
January 31st Karen Poirier https://alberni.ca/events/37360 
 
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Char’s Landing 19+ (accompanied kids welcome until 10pm)
4815 Argyle @5th Port Alberni, Vancouver Island, CANADA V9Y 1V9
Tel: 778-421-2427 www.charslanding.com
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