John Scott’s Elizabeth Bishop films: Update

Over the past couple of years, we have posted a number of pieces about John Scott’s Elizabeth Bishop films – a series of shorts based on Bishop poems: “Sandpiper,” “One Art,” “First Death in Nova Scotia.” These films have been shown in Nova Scotia and across the world in festivals and at other film events. Most recently, all three will be screened on 25 April 2013 at in Minneapolis at the Minneapolis Central Library. Further, “First Death” was also screened in Münster, Germany, in the townhall on 2 May 2013 in a best Zebra Film Festival (http://www.muenster.de/stadt/kulturamt/poetry_zebra.html).

John is also busy working on his adapation of “In the Waiting Room,” which he say he hopes to have finished early in May. He plans to submit it to film festivals, including the Atlantic Film Festival, which takes place in September 2013.

 Image from "In the Waiting Room" shoot, January 2013

Find out more about John Scott's films and Magpie Productions at: http://www.magpieproductions.com/

Celebration of Creativity Day in Great Village, N.S.

"IMAGES OF MY VILLAGE” CELEBRATION OF CREATIVITY DAY IN GREAT VILLAGE, 18 May 2013

On Saturday, 18 May 2013, the Elizabeth Bishop Society of Nova Scotia will host a “Celebration of Creativity Day” at the Great Village School gymnasium. The day will begin with morning workshops (9:30 to 11:30 a.m.) for Grades 3-6 and Grades 7-9 with award-winning illustrators and authors Susan Tooke and Richard Rudnicki (spaces are limited). Afternoon festivities kick off at 12:30 p.m. The Elizabeth Bishop Society of Nova Scotia will unveil a permanent banner for Great Village with artwork done by a local young artist and will launch a virtual website of art work by 200 young people in Colchester County (www.imagesofmyvillage.com). After celebratory cake and ice cream, Colchester County fitness instructor Celeste Chesal will get everyone dancing with “Music and Motion.” There will also be face painting with Halifax writer and artist Susan Kerslake. Susan Tooke and Richard Rudnicki will be in attendance with their books, which will be for sale. They will do a book signing.

Banner and virtual exhibition background:

In the fall of 2012, the EBSNS requested all students in Colchester County to create and submit an “Image of My Village” to be part of a virtual exhibition. Approximately 200 images were submitted. The EBSNS, in partnership with Nathan McDonald and Riley MacDonald, two media arts students at the Nova Scotia Community College, Truro Campus, through their Capstone programme, created a virtual exhibition of all submissions (www.imagesofmyvillage.com). The EBSNS assembled a panel of judges from the community to select one image, from a young person directly connected to Great Village, to be a permanent banner for Great Village.

You can also check out this information and learn more about the EBSNS on the EBSNS website: www.elizabethbishopns.org 

This Celebration Day is part of the Elizabeth Bishop Centenary Legacy programme of the Elizabeth Bishop Society of Nova Scotia.

“Walking With EB” – Help support an exciting new documentary!!

Visual artist, videographer and film-maker Linda Rae Dornan, of Sackville, New Brunswick, is creating a wonderful new documentary, “Walking With EB.” She and Canadian sporano Suzie LeBlanc spent time on the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland in 2008 re-tracing Elizabeth Bishop’s walking tour of 1932.

Linda has reached the post-production stage and is doing a crowd-source fund-raising campaign on Indigogo. You can find out more about this campaign and about Linda’s delightful, funny, moving, inspiring (I have seen the draft version) documentary if you click on the link below.

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/walking-with-eb?c=home 

"Walking With EB"

 

Joanna Cooper’s blog post about the Elizabeth Bishop House

Elizabeth Bishop House, Great Village, N.S.

On 11 April 2013, American writer, poet, blogger Joanna Cooper posted a reflection about her time at the Elizabeth Bishop House on her blog Tattycoram: Poems, Prose and Noticings. Check it out:

http://joannapenncooper.blogspot.ca/2013/04/april-11th-poem.html -- “While the Baby Sleeps.”

Joanna has a book coming out with Brooklyn Arts Press:

http://joannapenncooper.blogspot.ca/2013/02/the-next-big-thing.html

 

Suzie LeBlanc talks about Elizabeth Bishop at Ottawa Chamber Festival

On Wednesday, 31 July 2013, at 5:45 p.m., at the Dominion-Chalmers United Church in Ottawa, Ontario, Suzie LeBlanc (http://www.suzieleblanc.com) will be giving a short talk about the Elizabeth Bishop Legacy Recording. Suzie is taking part in the Ottawa Chamber Festival, 25 July to 8 August 2013. This talk is part of what the festival calls “Siskind Snapshots.” Suzie’s main concert, “The Awakened Rose,” will happen the next day, 1 August 2013. Click the link to see the full line-up of this impressive festival. We are delighted that Suzie will have a chance to spread the word about the Elizabeth Bishop music to this dedicated, appreciative audience. We are on track to launch the Elizabeth Bishop Legacy Recording in early fall. Stay tuned for updates. -- http://www.ottawachamberfest.com/concerts

 Suzie LeBlanc in Toronto, fall 2012, at a fund-raiser for the Elizabeth Bishop Legacy Recording

 

Haligonians will get to hear Suzie very soon. On Sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m., 21 April 2013, Suzie joins with Opera Nova Scotia in a concert performance of selections from Debussy’s Pelleas et Melisande, taking place at the Lilian Percy Concert Hall in Halifax. -- http://www.nsopera.org/

Suzie LeBlanc talks about the Elizabeth Bishop Legacy Recording with Michael Enright

CBC Radio One's The Sunday Edition has posted Michael Enright's interview with Suzie LeBlanc, about the Elizabeth Bishop Legacy Recording. Here is the link:

http://www.cbc.ca/thesundayedition/shows/2013/03/10/suzie-leblanc-putting-poetry-to-music/

Suzie LeBlanc -- Upcoming Interview with Michael Enright on CBC Radio One's The Sunday Edition

We are excited to announce that on Sunday, 10 March 2013, the wonderful soprano Suzie LeBlanc will be interviewed by Michael Enright on CBC Radio One's The Sunday Edition (http://www.cbc.ca/thesundayedition/), sometime between 9:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. (we are not sure in which hour the interview will be broadcast -- probably the third hour 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., but Mr. Enright always outlines the full three hours at the beginning of the show, so it will be revealed then). They will be talking about the Elizabeth Bishop Legacy Recording, as well as other musical and literary things. The interview will feature the lovely, lively setting of “Sandpiper” by the incomparable composer John Plant. If you miss it on Sunday, it will likely be posted on The Sunday Edition website, so you can check there in the coming week. It is exciting that the EB Legacy recording will receive some national attention!