Vancouver's 100 Thousand Poets for Change

Eco-fiction Stage, Vancouver's Word

Community Garden

“Eco-fiction, memoir, and a variety of non-fiction presentations”

To celebrate 100,000 Poets (Authors and Artists too) for Change, we are hosting an Eco-fiction stage at Word Vancouver. Find us at the Community Garden tent on Homer Street, September 25th, from 11:00 – 12:30 p.m.

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There's a teaser up for our next contest, which will be two contests: short story writing and art, with the theme of solarpunk. Please watch the contest site for the initial news. Details coming March 1.

2015 Poets for Change

This year we are doing an anthology resulting from last year's contest. The anthology, Winds of Change: Short Stories about Our Climate, is being published October 16th. Our event this year will be the book launch on November 17. More details to come!

2014 Poets for Change

Hey folks, it has been a while since we really wrote, but we're now gearing up for 2014's 100,000 Poets for Change event on September 27.

Due to the hectic-ness of my life (school, work, running a press, etc.) I have talked with Michael Rothenberg, the main event organizer, about doing a virtual event this year. Vancouver will still be represented, and I hope to continue to include Vancouver poets, but we have a definite global theme this year: climate change in literature. And so, authors everywhere will be invited to participate.

2013 Poets for Change

Third annual 100,000 Poets for Change Event in the Lower Mainland, hosted by Moon Willow Press

Register: http://www.shorelinecleanup.ca/en/cleanup/event/fall2013/mundy-lake
Where: Mundy Lake, Coquitlam, BC
What: Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup (poetry reading to follow)
When: September 28, 10:00 am - TBA

2012 event photos and chapbook

Our 2012 event was great, and we plan to do another 100,000 Poets for Change event September 28, 2013. Moon Willow Press is creating a chapbook of poems read at our Earthwalk. More information here. The home-bound Japanese stitched book goes on sale in early December, and the e-book is already at Amazon.

100,000 Poets for Change takes place again on September 29, 2012. Elaine Woo has offered to help organize this year's event, and we have come up with a plan!

2011: Final details for our cleanup at False Creek East

Hi everyone,

Here are the last details for our False Creek East cleanup from 1:00 to about 2:15, Saturday, September 24th, near Science World. (2011)

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.

2011: Event schedule

Vancouver’s 100,000 Poets for Change will inspire the community to work toward a healthy watershed and wild salmon forever, which have been vital to Vancouver’s cultural and environmental history for thousands of years.

Map of 100 Thousand Poet Cities

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2011: Readers

Poetry Readers on September 24, 2011
Time: 3:30 - 5:00
Place: Carnegie Center at Main & Hastings (classroom number TBA)
Sponsor: Word on the Street, Vancouver

2011: False Creek East Cleanup

After having talked about the 100 Thousand Poets for Change with our director at Fraser Riverkeeper, and having just gotten the notice for the sign-up for our annual beach restoration from the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup, we've decided to go ahead and work with the big poet/arts gathering at least for part of the event and do a beach cleanup in the afternoon from about 1:00 - 2:30 on September 24th. This beach cleanup is our 4th annual cleanup, which always happens during the week of BC Rivers Day.