Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Final Pure Kona at Daily Perks

Just a reminder: This Thursday will be the final Pure Kona at Daily Perks & I am honored to be able to step in and be their final feature.


Photo by Arianna

I’ve been working on some new stuff for this, so hopefully it will be a good time for all. Hope you can join us for this last night & bring some things to read, share, sing, hum or perform.


Don't forget: Pure Kona Open Mic will be moving to Mondays from 8 – 10pm at Boulder Coffee as of Monday, September 3rd.

Monday, August 20, 2007

Pure Kona Moves to Mondays at Boulder Coffee

***PURE KONA POETRY OPEN MIC IS MOVING TO BOULDER COFFEE***

Forward from Rick Petrie:

Dear People,

Pure Kona Poetry Open Mic will be moving to Boulder Coffee, at the corner of Alexander and Clinton in Rochester's South Wedge, as of LABOR DAY. The open mic will take place every MONDAY evening at 8PM beginning September 3rd.

These are the upcoming feature performers for Pure Kona:

9/3 - Erknee & Bjurton Russell

9/10 - John Roche

9/17 - Jan Wenk-Sedras

9/24 - Frank Judge

10/1 - Maureen Owens

10/8 - Elaine Heveron

10/15 - Ed Downey

10/22 - Robert Ricks

Pure Kona Poetry Open Mic weekly readings go back to 1993 at Java Joes.

That's over 700 readings and thousands of performers from Rochester and around the world. Norm Davis and Rick Petrie are the cohosts.

The featured performer starts at 8PM w/ the open mic following.

Please email or call me with any questions.

Thanks,
Rick Petrie

petrie95@hotmail.com
244-3485

2nd Annual Canandaigua Poetry Festival

The Canandaigua Poetry Festival is a marathon poetry festival we started last year as part of, or rather in extension of, the Blue Dahlia Open Mic & even though Blue Dahlia is no longer with us, the co-owners, who also own Wickedly-Sent Soap and Candle Company (Don & Scott: http://www.escentedcandle.com) are still interested in making this festival a yearly event. Yeah Don & Scott!

So, this will be our 2nd Annual Canandaigua Poetry Festival. To see the web page for last year, you can check out this link: http://www.poetryfestival.downtowncanandaigua.com

It was also included in the September/October Issue of Poets & writer’s Magazine as part of an article about Poetry Marathons, which you can read at: http://www.pw.org/mag/0609/newsmantzaris.htm

Last year we had poets reading from Noon – 6:30 pm. Single poets were allotted 15 minutes each and groups or duos - 30 minutes. It worked well to have the half-hour groupings spaced out throughout the day, so I think that’s what we’ll be working toward this year, as well. After that, we had musicians for a half-hour each (supposedly from 6:30 to 9 … but really I think we went more from @ 7 – 11).

We had great fun last year and I loved the fact that so many poets from so many separate circles got chances to hear each other’s work. The other thing I was very excited about was that every single performer showed up (on time) for their slots. With so many people participating and so many things that naturally go awry in life, this was more than I expected but I was delighted not to have to revert to a single “plan B” and so I say again, thank you to all the poets and musicians who made last years festival what it was!

Now onto this year, the festival will be held on Saturday, September 8 at The Commons on Main Street in Canandaigua. The Commons is an outdoor stage area that hosts musical acts every weekend throughout the summer. We are also looking into having All Things Art as a back up in case of rain.

That’s all I can think of for now. I’ll write again soon with a proposed schedule. Hope all is well!