A.B. Series; Sound Poetry by Nobuo Kubota and Penn Kemp

Friday, October 1, 2010 - 7:00pm

The Mercury Lounge
56 Byward Market Square
upstairs
Ottawa, ON
K1N 7A2

Come and see two solo performances by Canadian masters of the craft of sound poetry. Ottawa's AB Reading Series opens its season with icons Nobuo Kubota and Penn Kemp.

ABOUT:

Nobuo Kubota, winner of a 2009 Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts, is a multi-media artist whose work includes sculpture, installations, video, music, and sound poetry. In the early 1980s, he was introduced to sound poetry by the legendary Four Horsemen. He is the author of Deep Text and Phonic Slices both published by Coach House Books. He has also won an Allied Arts award from The Royal Architectural Institute and has received the Victor Martyn Lynch Award for Visual Art.

Canadian poet, performer and playwright Penn Kemp has published twenty-five books of poetry and drama, had six plays and ten CDs produced as well as a DVD, Canada's first poetry CD-ROM and several award-winning videopoems. She performs in festivals around the world. Her Muse News is renewed monthly on Penn Letters and on Facebook. Penn can also be heard on MySpace and mytown.ca. Penn was the Canada Council Writer-in-Residence at the University of Western Ontario for 2009-10. She hosts Gathering Voices on CHRW 94.9 FM, archive on Gathering Voices. Penn will launch Luminous Entrance: a sound opera for climate change action in The A B Series on October 1st. Videos of Penn can be seen at House of Anansi Press and Poetry Visualized.
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Performance: 7:30pm to 9:30pm with intermission between
Cost: $9 admission at the door / $7 low income

Sponsored by the Writers’ Union of Canada.

More info: http://www.abseries.org/