CohenFestival 08 - Media release

CohenFestival 08 - Media launch invite.doc

01:04 Server tori (~ellement_@S01060004e218e2fd.ed.shawcable.net) has joined the room
01:04 Kim hi!
01:04 tori hi!
01:05 Kim Beautiful day outside. Incentive to sit in front of computer is limited I think!
01:07 Kim colia has already volunteered to help with event. She is from Holland.
01:08 Kim She will fly from Holland. Belgium. or Germany
01:09 Kim They started daylight saving time in Holland today!
01:11 colia hello
01:11 Kim Hi colia.
01:12 Kim Marilyn Wiens had very nice things to say about the work Lila has been doing on our websites.
01:12 tori Nice; Lila has definitely done a good job
01:13 Kim Yes the interactive maps are really nice.
01:15 colia are they on the site?
01:15 tori I haven’t seen those yet! I will go look
01:16 Kim Yes let me find them.
01:17 Kim http://leonardcohenevent.info/2008/03/24/113
01:17 Kim http://www.leonardcohennights.org/map/map.html

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Look at Lila’s Map - with some important places for The Event Participants:

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The cult of Leonard Cohen

His album output is sporadic and he hasn’t toured in 15 years. So how does this music icon still command such undying devotion from his fans?

The Star / Music, Mar 23, 2008, by Francine Kopun

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Vicky Hynes performance career is a spectrum of radio, television, theatre, film and music production. Her self-titled CD released in 2000 is a pallet of Newfoundland songwriting talent delivered by her smoky yet firey vocals. Hynes is creator and producer of the immensely popular A Feast of Cohen; an annual music event, and holiday tradition, featuring the songs of Leonard Cohen performed by a variety of Newfoundland artists. Producing the show’s Live CD that was launched in December 2007, Vicky also is developing its documentary with CBC Television & Rink Rat Productions.

A Feast of Cohen is annual sell-out concert of Leonard Cohen songs presented by a diverse group of Newfoundland artists. A Feast of Cohen is staged at the LSPU Hall, the Resource Centre for the Arts in downtown St. John’s, Newfoundland beginning December 27 every year since 2000!

Ted Bishop

Ted Bishop has authored books and articles on Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and modernist publishing. His literary non-fiction has appeared in Cycle Canada, Enroute, Prairie Fire, Rider, and Word Carving: The Craft of Literary Journalism. Riding with Rilke was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction, it was nominated for the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize, and it won the Motorcycle Awards of Excellence. Ted Bishop lives in Edmonton and teaches at the University of Alberta.

A professor of English literature and film studies at the University of Alberta, his first non-academic publication was Riding with Rilke: Reflections on Motorcycles and Books, a memoir which was a Canadian bestseller in 2005 and a finalist for the 2005 Governor General’s Award for English non-fiction.

Todd Babiak

Todd Babiak grew up in Leduc. He moved to Edmonton to attend the University of Alberta. In 1995 he was thrilled to graduate with a BA in Political Science. There was much rejoicing when he learned he would move to Montreal to do a Master’s Degree in English literature at Concordia University.  Read the rest of this entry »