East and West Learning Connections
(Poster made by Shirley Chen)
Enjoy poetry in music, among friends in a theatre in Downtown Toronto (beer available at the bar)!
Or, relax on the couch, have some wine, and listen to the poems and songs through the live streaming on our YouTube channel!
Thanks to national poet laureate George Elliott Clarke, the East and West Learning Connections are co-hosting this exciting in-person event for the first time since the year 2020. Continue reading “5 Poets Breaking Into Song -Live”
(Poster made by Shirley Chen)
Enjoy poetry in music, among friends in a theatre in Downtown Toronto (beer available at the bar)!
Or, relax on the couch, have some wine, and listen to the poems and songs through the live streaming on our YouTube channel!
Thanks to national poet laureate George Elliott Clarke, the East and West Learning Connections are co-hosting this exciting in-person event for the first time since the year 2020.
Time: Friday, November 5, 2021 (7-9 PM. EST)
Venue: Tranzac Club Main Hall, 292 Brunswick Ave @Bloor, Toronto
Maximum in-person attendees: 50 attendees, must show proof of full COVID vaccination.
Tickets available at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/5-poets-breaking-into-song-tickets-196724677807
Click here for live streaming on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_FfnYxypY0
For inquiries, please send emails to info@eawlc.org. Thanks!
The Poets
Ayesha Chatterjee grew up in India and is the author of two poetry collections.
Luciano Iacobelli has penned 6 collections, crafts handmade books for Lyricalmyrical Press, and co-owns Quattro Press.
Giovanna Riccio has authored 3 books. Her philosophical elegy, “The Archivist”, just won the AICW’s Venera Fazio Award.
Lisa Richer has inked 2 books, including Nautilus and Bone, winner of the National Jewish Book Award for Poetry.
Banoo Zan is the founder of Shab-e She’r (Poetry Night); sacredly secular, liberatingly rebellious, her 3 books lyric proverbs.
The Composers
Emily Hiemstra, David Jaeger, James Rolfe
The Singers
Emily Hiemstra, James Rolfe, Karen Usha
And The Pianists
Adam Hu, Juliet Palmer
Sponsors:
George Elliott Clarke
East and West Learning Connections
League of Canadian Poets
Host: George Elliott Clarke and Jovial Si
Poster Design: Shirley Chen
Everybody is welcome to spend the beautiful evening together with us, either in the theatre or on YouTube!
In collaboration with the Writers’ Union of Canada, we are thrilled to have three Italian- Canadian writers as guest speakers to discuss their stories of immigration. Woven into their stories will be the personal, social, historical, and political factors that influence how an Italian immigrant may “become” Canadian and what “being Canadian” means for the various generations.
Generations of immigrants to Canada have multi-faceted experiences. The discussion will hit on issues such as tensions and conflicts with the dominant Anglo-Canadian or Quebecois culture, discrimination, and negative and positive stereotyping of Italian-Canadians. Among Canadian immigrants, generational tensions cannot be avoided and our guests will consider conflict between first generation parents and children: how second and third generation Italian-Canadians differ from the former and how the latter connect to and express their Italian heritage. As writers, they will read briefly from their works and also share ideas on how authors express their heritage and why language and labels matter.
Time: Friday, October 29, 2021, at 7 – 8:30 P.M. Eastern Time
Language: English
Cost: Free
Online Zoom meeting. Please click below link to register:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEsd-mhrTgsHtV-l7C-UyzUIelufUiaFS2_
Room will open at 6:45 P.M.
For inquiries, please email at info@eawlc.org.
About the Writers
Antonia Facciponte is an author and an MA Candidate at the University of Toronto. Her poetry has been published in various prominent literary magazines, including Exile: The Literary Quarterly, The Northern Appeal, Libretto Magazine, and ACTA Victoriana. Antonia’s first book of poetry, To Make a Bridge, was recently published by Black Moss Press.
Francesco Loriggio was born in a small town in Calabria, one of Italy’s southern regions, and migrated to Vancouver with his family in the mid-1950s. He studied at UBC and received his PhD from UCLA. He taught at the State University of New York (Albany campus) and then at Carleton University, from which he retired, as Professor Emeritus, in 2008. As a scholar, essayist and translator, he has published extensively in a variety of journals and anthologies in Canada, the US, and Italy, edited essay collections, and published translations in both Italian and English.
He is a past president of the Canadian Society for Italian Studies (now the Canadian Association for Italian Studies). In the Italian community of Ottawa, where he has lived for most of his life, he has served, in various capacities, in the National Congress of Italian Canadians and in the Dante Alighieri Society.
Giovanna Riccio is a graduate of the University of Toronto, where she majored in philosophy. Her love of poetry is her inheritance from a gifted, autodidact father who penned his own verses. She is the author of Vittorio (Lyricalmyrical Press, 2010), Strong Bread (Quattro Books, 2011), and Plastic’s Republic (Guernica Editions, 2019), and her poems have appeared in national and international publications and numerous anthologies. Her work has been translated into Italian, French, Spanish, and Romanian. Giovanna is the 2021 winner of the Venera Fazio Poetry Prize.
Everyone is welcome to this fascinating panel discussion. Bring your own questions, and have a dialogue with our guests!
In collaboration with the Writers’ Union of Canada, we are thrilled to have three Italian- Canadian writers as guest speakers to discuss their stories of immigration. Woven into their stories will be the personal, social, historical, and political factors that influence how an Italian immigrant may “become” Canadian and what “being Canadian” means for the various generations.
Continue reading “East&West Dialogue: FROM PIAZZAS TO PARKAS — ON ITALIANS BECOMING CANADIANS”
Personal communication skills coach Eleanor James will be sitting in the clinic, and welcome our audience to ask questions they have when dealing with co-workers or bosses at work, peers or teachers in school, or neighbours, acquaintances, or even strangers on the street. Things like Continue reading “EAWLC Communication Skills Walk-in Clinic”
Personal communication skills coach Eleanor James will be sitting in the clinic, and welcome our audience to ask questions they have when dealing with co-workers or bosses at work, peers or teachers in school, or neighbours, acquaintances, or even strangers on the street. Things like Continue reading “EAWLC Communication Skills Walk-in Clinic”
What if your life plan is different from the plan life has for you? At age 15, Kai Black learned he was going blind. What has he learned over time?… that we must let go of the life we planned and accept the one that is waiting for us. “Just say yes to new experience” offers Kai, who is now an Executive Producer at the CBC, an exciting career creating award-winning projects. Hear his story, with engaging audio and video of some recent projects. Continue reading “EAWLC Dialogue with CBC Music Executive Producer: Say Yes with Kai Black”
Just say yes to new experience” offers Kai, who is now an Executive Producer at the CBC, an exciting career creating award-winning projects. Hear his story, with engaging audio and video of some recent projects.
What if your life plan is different from the plan life has for you? At age 15, Kai Black learned he was going blind. What has he learned over time?… that we must let go of the life we planned and accept the one that is waiting for us. “Just say yes to new experience” offers Kai, who is now an Executive Producer at the CBC, an exciting career creating award-winning projects. Hear his story, with engaging audio and video of some recent projects.
Time: Friday, September 24, 2021, at 7:30 – 9:00 P.M. (Eastern Time)
Cost: Free
Language: English
Venue: Online Zoom meeting. Please click the below link to register:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIkc-ioqTwrHdE7m-91qmPYi-KM1Jr1K92b
The floor will be open at 7:15 P.M.
For inquiries, please send an email to: info@eawlc.org. Thanks.
Guest Speaker Bio:
Kai Black is an Executive Producer at CBC Music. Over the 20 years at the CBC, he has created original radio shows, podcasts, TV specials, and contests, including the award-winning initiative ‘Volkswagen Beetle Roadtrip Sessions,’ and the ‘TD Rock Your Campus’ contest. He is also the leader behind The creation of the CBC Music Festival that has engaged tens of thousands of concertgoers.
Kai is legally blind. He studied classical guitar performance and landed in broadcasting by happy accident. Today Kai is a charismatic team leader at the CBC, recognized for his mentoring activities, and passion for authentic engagement both with audiences, colleagues, and stakeholders. He works to find ways to include more people with disabilities in media, spearheading the creation of the first paid placement program for people with disabilities at the CBC.
The East and West Learning Connections is very much honored to have Kai with us. Let’s listen to his fabulous life stories and music projects, and have a free dialogue with him. It is surely to be a beautiful, uplifting evening!
Professionals or home-makers, grown-ups or young students, everyone is welcome!
This dialogue will be conducted in Mandarin. For English introduction please jump to next heading in English.
不用提社交媒体和电子游戏的干扰，单单是丰富的学习资源，
欢迎朋友们前来听讲、参与讨论，
The abundance of learning resources and various opportunities in this age are overwhelming, not to mention the distractions of social media and video games. It is an “Age of Surplus”. How to learn effectively is a problem that affects us all in this time. Dr. Berlin Fang is the author of two influential books “Learning in the Age of Surplus” and “Knowledge Is Not Power”, among many others. Dr. Frank Wang, a mechanical engineer, also an avid reader, and an educational columnist, is keen on developing learning and concentration abilities in the new age. The East and West Learning Connections is honored to invite both to have a discussion on effective learning in the age of surplus, as well as new learning methods advocated by researchers and experts.
We welcome everyone to send us questions in advance.
Guest Speaker Introduction
Dr. Berlin Fang is an educational columnist, literary translator, and expert at instructional design. His major interests are faculty acceptance of educational technology, the diffusion of innovation, managed change, the ethnography of technology use in higher education, and cross-cultural comparisons of education. He has over 20 years of experience in instructional design and educational technology in both China and the United States. Berlin is currently the Director of Instructional Design at Abilene Christian University.
Berlin Fang contributes his writing to such publications as Educause Review, WISE Ed Review China Daily, Southern Weekend, South Metropolitan Daily, Chinese Education News, World Journal, Overseas Chinese News, Financial Times (Chinese), New York Times (Chinese), Radio Netherlands, and Caixin News. His books include 10 Lessons in Online Teaching, Learning in an Age of Abundance, Beyond Knowledge, More than the Passing Grade, English: Trick or Truth, A Translator’s Rant, Don’t Get Old until You’re Wiser, Tea Eggs Under the Star and Spangled Banner, and How the Pamuks Read.
As a literary translator, Berlin’s works include translations of The Sound and the Fury (by William Faulkner), Bend of the River (by V.S. Naipaul), A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (by Betty Smith), and Let the Great World Spin (by Colum McCann) and Songdogs (by Colum McCann). National Book Award winner Colum McCann considers him “one of the finest translators I have ever worked with: he is incisive, discerning, and imaginative. He is a trans-national figure, deeply involved in cultures of China, the United States, and Ireland. While working with him, I found that he crosses cultural boundaries with ease and grace. ”
Frank Wang is a professional engineer in Ontario who has worked in areas of robotics & automation, aerospace engineering, and nuclear engineering. A Ph.D. from University of Toronto in Mechanical Engineering, and most proudly a father of three, Frank cares very much about learning, education, and their trends in this rapidly changing world. He runs a book club for parents, advocating for lifetime study and generalist education. In his spare time, he enjoys writing columns for online magazines on education, among other hobbies. In 2020, Frank facilitated two dialogues at the East and West Learning Connections, one with Zhihu honorary contributor Yingfeng Zhang on generalist education, the other with human resource development strategist Annie Wang on future career and education trends. This time let’s hear what Frank and Berlin will bring to us about effective learning!
Time: Friday, September 3, 2021, at 8:00-9:30 P.M. (Eastern Time)
Language: Mandarin
Cost: Free
Zoom registration link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/
Everybody is welcome to join the dialogue. Don’t miss the opportunity to get some insight and foresight of two experts. Bring your own questions to discuss with Berlin and Frank, and make the evening even more fruitful for you!
For inquiries, please contact us at info@eawlc.org. Thanks!