A COMMUNITY-BASED CELEBRATION OF POETRY, PROSE AND PERFORMANCE, THE POWDERHORN WRITERS FESTIVAL (PWF) WILL ENLIVEN THE NEIGHBORHOOD ON APRIL 5, 6 AND 7. THE CREATIVITY AND ARTISTRY OF LOCAL WRITERS AND PERFORMERS WILL BE DISPLAYED IN READINGS, PUPPETRY, WORKSHOPS AND CONTESTS. ALL EVENTS WILL BE HELD IN VENUES IN THE BLOOMINGTON AVENUE/LAKE STREET DISTRICT AND WILL BE OFFERED AT LOW OR NO COST. The festival begins on Thursday, April 5 with a Poetry Puppetry Cabaret, co-hosted with BareBones Productions Artists Collective. Through stunning visuals, mask performance and live music, puppeteers will bring to life the work of poets like E.E. Cummings, Charles Bukowski and Dorothy Parker. Attendees can focus in on their literary interests at workshops and readings. Scheduled for both Friday and Saturday (and running concurrently at different venues), the workshops include bookmaking for families, storytelling, music and poetry, creative writing and a workshop for women on drumming and poetry. A panel of genre writers (mystery, science fiction, children's literature) will discuss their work, and on Friday night, budding poets and writers under 21 will strut their stuff in what promises to be an exciting and surprising series of readings. As usual, there will be enough contests to keep the poetic adrenaline on "high." New this year to the festival is the Magnetic Poetry Slam. Not just for the refrigerator door any longer, special Magnetic Poetry kits will be given to contestants, who will then have ten minutes to create a poem. Those who want to spend a little more time on their work can enter the Broadsides competition, the Bumpersticker Poetry Contest or the Jazz Song Lyrics competition. PWF has convinced jazz composer Paul Renz and the West Bank School of Music Jazz Ensemble to create a jazz piece from the winning poem. The ensemble will perform the composition at the cabaret on Saturday evening. The festival will culminate in an eclectic cabaret on Saturday evening featuring poets, writers, singer-songwriters, performance artists and a jazz ensemble, as well as the work of the festival contest winners. There will be work by local visual artists on display Broadsides to peruse, and plenty of food and drink. The Powderhorn Writers Festival is a grassroots, community arts organization founded by a small group of neighborhood writers in 1997. For an up-to-date calendar of events, send an SASE to Powderhorn Writers Festival, 3222 Bloomington Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55407. Forwarded by Rosalind Nelson Bancroft _______________________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - Minnesota E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
