Electric Mermaid: Featuring Lozan Yamolky @Char's

Date:

Wednesday, October 30, 2024 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm

Venue:

Char's Landing

4815 Argyle Street, Port Alberni

Contact:

[email protected]

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

ZOOM Hybrid event. Char's physical doors open 5:30pm Pacific Time

OCTOBER 30TH FEATURING LOZAN YAMOLKY

AVNews => https://www.albernivalleynews.com/entertainment/distinguished-poet-to-read-at-electric-mermaid-in-port-alberni-7607350

Lozan Yamolky is the author of 3 poetry books: I'm No Hero, Counting Waves, published with Silver Bow Publishing & Dreamers Needed, which was self-published through McNally Robinson.

Among her many achievements, public speaking events, radio interviews, publications, contests and various awards, Lozan was one of the recipients of the Distinguished Poet Award from Writer International Network Canada in 2018, and her poem, Peace Treaty, won the 1st Prize at the 2019 International Rabindranath Tagore Poetry Contest.

The DaCapo Chamber Choir, from Waterloo, Ontario, commissioned her to write about her refugee experience. Her poem, I am Here, is in the production of Following the Moon-road. In May 2020, Following the Moon-road won the Honorable mention for Outstanding Choral Composition from Choral Canada. Lozan Yamolky is of Kurdish descent and was born and raised in Baghdad. She immigrated to Canada in 1995.

Due to a traumatic brain injury she sustained in a motor vehicle accident, Lozan withdrew from the poetry community as her injury caused her to lose her ability to write poetry or even read her own for a while. She is recovering well with multiple therapists and is pleased and thankful to be back among her community of poets, authors and audiences who cherish the gift of poetry.

Lozan is editing her fourth poetry collection, Hush, Let the Silence Speak.

Website => https://lozanyamolky.com/

The publisher McNally Robinson in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada

https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/home

or Black Bond Books in Maple Ridge, BC Canada

https://www.blackbondbooks.com/

or Renascence Books in New Westminster, BC Canada

http://www.renaissancebookstore.com/

www.mcnallyrobinson.com

https://www.silverbowpublishing.com/lozan-yamolky.html

OCTOBER 30TH READERS' LIST

READER 02 Dan Biggs 5 min in Person ( Port Alberni, B.C )