There is a nice article in Wednesday’s issue of Vue Weekly on the 2007 Leonard Cohen Festival:

http://www.vueweekly.com/articles/default.aspx?i=7154/ ->

There is an article in the Grant MacEwan student paper Intercamp. The Intercamp article is a clickable pdf link and is found on page 6 with a nice picture of Darren Frank

http://www.macewan.ca/web/services/ims/client/upload/Intercamp,%20Sept.%2020.pdf

There is a great article in the Edmonton Journal on today, Saturday, page C07.

http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/culture/story.html?id=bb13f035-9fd9-4017-9335-ed46e0598e5a
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/culture/index.html

http://homepage.mac.com/evocative1/LCN2007/PhotoAlbum234.html

The Media Launch took place at City Hall on September 12th and included most of the permormers from this year’s event. We are in the process of adding captions to the image website. The young male performer there with the three person band is Ido Vanderlaan.

Larisa Sembaliuk Cheladyn is an accomplished Canadian artist, who is well known to many Edmontonians. Larisa was born in Edmonton and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Art & Design from the University of Alberta.

Larisa’s works are bold and colourful. Her preferred medium is water colour. Larisa particularly enjoys painting still-life and floral images, and loves to research and incorporate informative details into each of her compositions. Her artistic style is unique. Over the last 20 years Larisa has created a method whereby she incorporates a sculptural ripped paper technique which accentuates the realistic, 3-dimensional quality of her work.

Larisa’s artistic accomplishments have reached far into the community. She is known both for her illustrations of children’s books and school texts, as well as her fine art paintings.

http://www.artbylarisa.com/

You may read an article by Gilbert A. Bouchard about Edmonton Events in latest Edmonton Journal (Published: Saturday, September 08).

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September 23rd, 2007
Flavours Modern Bistro
10354 Whyte Avenue, Edmonton, AB
11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Dear Member,

The 2007 Leonard Cohen Festival will be held from September 7 to 24, 2007. It begins with a Visual Arts to be held at City Hall from September 7 to 21; and culminates with the splendid “Leonard Cohen Night” on September 22 (8:00 p.m.) at the Myer Horowitz Theatre.

A FREE event, a “Birthday Party” on September 21 (8:00 p.m.) at the Myer Horowitz Theatre Features Sheri-D Wilson with Douglas Barbour, as well as poetry readings and an open mike.

The festival ends with the Annual General Meeting held Sunday, September 23rd (11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.) at Flavours Modern Bistro, 10354 Whyte Avenue.

Come join other Cohenites for great artistic expression this September and especially come to this year’s Annual General Meeting on September 23rd.

Yours Sincerely,

Kim Solez, M.D.
President, Cohenights Arts Society
Cell 780.710.1644
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Douglas Barbour, poet, critic, and reviewer,

is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Alberta, where he has taught creative writing, poetry, Canadian literature, twentieth century poetry and poetics, and science fiction and fantasy. Books of poetry include Visible Visions: The Selected Poems of Douglas Barbour (NeWest Press 1984), which won Alberta’s Stephan Stephannson Award for poetry, and Story for a Saskatchewan Night (rdc press 1989).

More recently, Fragmenting Body etc. (NeWest Press 2000), Breath Takes (Wolsak & Wynn 2002), A Flame on the Spanish Stairs (greenboathouse books 2003), and Continuations, with Sheila E. Murphy (University of Alberta Press 2006). Critical works include Daphne Marlatt and Her Works, John Newlove and His Works, bpNichol and His Works (ECW Press 1992) , and Michael Ondaatje (Twayne Publishers 1993). Lyric/Anti-lyric: essays on contemporary poetry appeared from NeWest Press in 2001. Transformations of Contemporary Canadian Poetry in English appeared from Adam Marszalek in Poland in 2005.

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Crystal Plamondon has earned an international reputation as a World-class recording artist and entertainer.

Crystal’s first independent release, Carpe Diem! (1993) marked Crystal’s first #1 hit “Capitaine” followed quickly by “On va faire le rigodon” in France.

In 1992, she received the Molson Canadian ARIA (Alberta Recording Industry Association) Performer of the Year Award. In 1993, she was nominated for YWCA’s Tribute to Women Award, for Arts & Culture. In 1994, Crystal was given formal recognition by being made an honorary citizen of Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. Crystal has filmed two music videos: Rendez-vous en Louisiane filmed in Louisiana, and Cajun Girl/ La Cajine filmed in Plamondon, AB.

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Sheri-D Wilson: http://www.sheridwilson.com/home.html
Kit Johnson: http://www3.telus.net/public/kitjohn/
Darren Frank: http://www.myspace.com/darrenfrank
Bob Jahrig: https://bobjahrig.sslpowered.com/index.html
Ido Vanderlaan:http://www.myspace.com/idovanderlaan
Crystal Plamondon: http://www.crystal-plamondon.com/Crystal_Plamondon_Main.htm
Larisa Cheladyn:http://www.artbylarisa.com/