Celebrate the Fourth World Poetry Canada International Peace Festival at the Britannia Library. The festival brings together Canadian and international poets as well as local multicultural poetry groups in Vancouver from October 6 to 26, 2014.
World Poetry founder Ariadne Sawyer and poet Angelica Pohveherskie will host the special opening of the festival at Vancouver Public Library’s Britannia Branch at 1661 Napier St, on October 11 from 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Filipino-Canadian Anita Aguirre Nieveras will be among the poets featured in this event, together with Yilin Wang, Bong Ja Ahn, Peter Lojewski, Selene Bertelsen, Una Bruhns, and Jemma Downes. There will also be a special youth program hosted by Angelica Pohveherskie and friends at the special opening, followed by an open mike.
Anita Aguirre-Nieveras (Juanita N. Aguirre) is a bilingual poet born in the Philippines. She started writing poems at the age of nine but kept them to herself. She has several degrees and taught in the Philippines before immigrating to Canada in 1994 under the Caregiver Program. Anita received an ESL Certificate after doing volunteer work as an ESL tutor for a number of years, and she joined the World Poetry Café at its inception in 1997. Anita was published in the World Poetry Anthology and Strange Peregrinations and published her own chapbook, “Potpourri,” and book, “Two Songbirds Singing,” which featured poems on her two young sons who passed away. She was given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the World Poetry in 2004.
This program is free and all are welcome. For more info, visit www.worldpoetry.ca.
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