2011: 100 Thousand Poets for Change: Vancouver, BC

Plant life image by Nancy Victoria Davis

Michael Rothenberg & Terri Carrion of Big Bridge are putting together a world-wide event on September 24, 2011, uniting 100 thousand poets to inspire and encourage people to change. This is sort of a sweeping statement, but the idea is to get people out of the house, get them to meet their neighbors in ever-growing times of alienation, and do something good at the local community level while celebrating the arts. There are already many cities world-wide planning their event; each of us has a unique opportunity to identify areas in our own city to address.



In Vancouver, we will involve poets and other community members in the local issues of healthy water ecosystems, preservation, and restoration. We will be cleaning up one of the dirtiest beaches in Vancouver and doing a poetry reading to raise awareness of the threats to the coast, the Great Bear Rainforest, and the Athabasca and other oil sands production areas  in regards to tar sands, including the proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline project by Enbridge.

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Join us at our Event Page on Facebook.

The blog that Michael and I put together to report overall information for 100 Thousand Poets across the world: http://www.bigbridge.org/100thousandpoetsforchange.