Poetry, the Arts and Learning
in The Grand Valley
and beyond
with Wendy Videlock
Trickster Ridge Presentations
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Speaking Ravenese Under the Mesa on Trickster Ridge: An Outdoor Event |
When: Saturday, April 9
Where: On Trickster Ridge in Palisade
(address provided on registration)
12:30-3 pm: Ritual and the Creative Process,
with Wendy and special guest, multi-media artist extraordinaire, Mary Hertert: a workshop and discussion on the sacred nature of language, the secret purpose of doodling, and the joys and necessities of ritual and living the creative life. Mary will lead us on a short walk where we will collect organic materials and turn them into something surprising. Wendy will lead a series of prompts that will get you writing and thinking of language and rhythm in entirely new ways. In order to activate the intuitional right brain, we'll experiment with neuropathic doodling. You'll come away inspired and more dedicated to the creative impulse. All skill levels welcome. Bring a journal, sketch pad, or notebook.
3:30-4:30 pm: Bringing out the Buddha in Your Dog, with special guest, dog whisperer and K-9 trainer, James Kohout. James will discuss his experience training dogs for veterans with PTSD, children with autism, and how learning to think like a dog can help us all train and communicate more meaningfully with our canine friends.
6-7:15pm: Raising the Vibration with Mary Hertert on gongs and yoga instructor Debra Weller leading us in the asanas. Bring yoga mat and we'll move with the gongs and the setting sun -- or just close your eyes and enjoy.
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*All three events for Speaking Ravenese on Trickster Ridge will take place outdoors.
ALL ACCESS PASS: $88 (access to all three events)
INDIVIDUAL EVENTS:
Buddha Dogs and Raising the Vibration:
$33 each
Individual Pass for Ritual and the Creative Process: $49
TO REGISTER, PLEASE EMAIL:
Proceeds for this event benefit Child and Migrant Services in Palisade
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Many of you will have already heard that beloved local artist Gerry Jensen has suffered a stroke and is in St. Mary's, undergoing intensive PT. Kay Crane, our fearless leader at The Blue Pig Gallery has come up with the brilliant idea of showing dozens, if not hundreds, of Gerry's unframed oils throughout February at a very reasonable price. This is how we can all help Gerry and his wife, Lyla. Come on into the gallery this month and purchase a beautiful piece of Gerry's art. All proceeds will go directly to Gerry, nothing for the gallery. The Blue Pig is located in the heart of downtown Palisade. Here's hoping Gerry has a speedy recovery!
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Mark your calendar:
MULTITUDES: a weekly multi-media arts program in support of creative aging, for those 55 and older, with Wendy Videlock. All supplies provided.
Where: Palisade Library Patio
When: Tuesdays from May 3-June 14
Free
Sponsored by: Think360 Scholarships
You can register for this series in March by calling the Pali library
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CRESTONE POEM FEST will be virtual this year. Big thanks to Pete Anderson et alia for keeping the fest fires burning. Be sure and register here: Crestone Poemfest
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Poetry at the Tavern, a monthly reading series at the Wright Theatre in Ouray, directed by Beth Paulson, features Ridgway poet Kierstin Bridger on Feb 10. For more information visit: Poetry at the Tavern
Deep Wild, a yearly anthology which celebrates wild places, is open for visual art submissions for their 2022 issue. Submission is free and can be done online at:
Poet Dan Brown's newest book, Subjects in Poetry is a wonderful read and its unusual 'subject' is getting lots of buzz in poetry world. Visit: Subjects in Poetry
Poet Jodie Hollander never fails to compile an interesting list of presentations in unusual venues throughout Colorado. Check out her website here:
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My friends, I have had a recent brush with death, a good deal of time in hospital, and a subsequent new lease on life, which has deepened my sense of gratitude and my love of life, learning, and the arts. My appreciation for my husband, children, and circle of friends has also deepened and been enriched by this experience.
While I am still learning to slow down and am still in the process of healing, I'm looking forward to teaching this spring, and will be doing some travel throughout Colorado and through various Zoom events in order to promote my two upcoming books: The Poetic Imaginarium: A Worthy Difficulty, (essays and haibun), (Lithic Books), and Wise to the West: new poems, (Able Muse Press). Big thanks to respective publishers Danny Rosen and Alex Pepple.
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Sing Up the Sun, a new festival and parade on the western slope, organized by Alice Dussart,will celebrate local art, art- making, and community at Riverbend Park in Palisade on Feb 5. My daughter, Shawnee Videlock Carrol and I will be featured that evening, along with a host of other local storytellers, singers and musicians. I'll be accompanied by Mary Hertert on gongs. For more information visit: Sing Up the Sun
Poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer appears LIVE and in person for Falling in Love with the World: More than a Poetry Reading. Saturday Feb 5. Rosemerry will be performing with guitarist Steve Law, hosted by SHYFT in at Mile High in Denver. For more info see:
The Colorado Poets Center, under the leadership of CPC Founder Bob King's widow Beth Franklin, is doing new and wonderful things. Last week in honor of UNESCO's International Holocaust Remembrance Day, poets Judyth Hill, Lynda La Rocca, David J Rothman, Art Goodtimes and others gathered on Zoom for a beautiful reading, lest we forget. You can see the full reading here: CPC
Dave and Chrissie Mason appeared recently on Al Basile's Youtube channel for a lively conversation and reading:
Western Colorado Writers Forum is under the new leadership of Melody Jones, and is running on new energy with plenty of upcoming events and opportunities for writers of all genres. Gratitude to Lynda Skinner for all her hard work as she steps down as director of the Forum. To volunteer, attend events, or sign up for the newsletter visit: WCWF
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With These Four Words
Fourteen days in hospital:
surgeries and complications
various
humiliations, mysteries
and weepy conversations,
blood-soaked
devastations, pain-filled
bifurcations — wan
and reduced
to providence and nerve,
only to emerge
with these four words:
how can I serve ….
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May you spring in the present tense. |
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IN PRINT: Some Good News
The good people at the Keats Soul-Making Organization have awarded my poem, Deconstruction, first place in the General Verse Category, and third place was awarded my sonnet, The Inquiry in the Sonnet Category.
"Deconstruction" first appeared in the Hopkins Review, and later appeared in Best American Poetry.
The wonderful anthology Deep Wild, edited by Rick Kempa and Heidi Blankenship, have nominated my poem, Ode to the Slow for a Pushcart this year.
Quite remarkably out of nowhere, the folks from Oprah Quarterly have contacted me and asked if Oprah could include my poem, "Change" in her column for the upcoming issue. "Change" first appeared in Poetry Magazine.
In addition I have new works forthcoming in Hopkins Review, Light Magazine, Alabama Literary Review, THINK Journal, Torrey House Press, and my sonnet, A Thousand Ticking Clocks, was shortlisted for Better than Starbucks' yearly prize.
I'm grateful to all editors and publishers who tirelessly support and promote the art and practice of poetry.
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As always, don't hesitate to unsubscribe from this list if you feel it doesn't serve you. May the words and the winds be with all of you, with gratitude,
wendy
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The Feminine Ending
From India to Africa
to the roads
of old America
the seeding
of hepatica, the altars
of Ganesha,
the dawning of ahimsa
returning is
amen-ra.
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