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Wayde Compton

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Wayde Compton is a Vancouver writer whose books include 49th Parallel Psalm, Performance Bond and Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature. He and Jason de Couto perform turntable-based sound poetry as a duo called The Contact Zone Crew. Compton is also a co-founding member of the Hogan's Alley Memorial Project, an organization dedicated to preserving the public memory of Vancouver's original black community. He is also one of the publishers of Commodore Books. Wayde Compton teaches in Simon Fraser University's Writing and Publishing Program, where he is a creative writing instructor in The Writer's Studio; he also teaches English composition and literature at Coquitlam College. He is the Writer-in-Residence at SFU for 2007-08.

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Scream in High Park Mainstage

Monday, July 13, 2009 - 7:00pm

Dream in High Park Stage, High Park

DREAM STAGE, HIGH PARK

Cost: PWYC, $10 SUGGESTED

Each year the Scream co-opts the Dream Stage in High Park for a cacophonic evening of performances by new and established Canadian writers. We will be announcing the 2009 Mainstage readers on May 15th. Stick close to find out!

In the meantime, you can look the 2008 Mainstage line-up. Last year's Scream in High Park mainstage unveiled a who's who of innovative artistry from DJ-style sound poetry and hot new fiction, to graphic novels and poetic firestorms.

Click here to get further info and a map to our Mainstage.

Directions:

On the Bloor/Danforth subway line, get off at the High Park stop. From the main entrance, go east to get to High Park Avenue and go south to the lights at Bloor Street and High Park Avenue. Continue through the lights, keeping on the sidewalk to the left. It's about a 20 minute walk from High Park Subway station (top centre of map) to the site, so be sure to factor the time for that lovely stroll into your schedule.

You can also get to the site from the College 506 streetcar, which enters the park at the junction of Howard Park Avenue and Parkside Drive (centre right of map); or from the Queen 505 streetcar which runs along the south end of the park (bottom centre of map).

Submitted by aaron on May 30, 2008 - 4:20pm.
Submitted by aaron on June 23, 2008 - 8:18pm.

 

 

 

The Scream Literary Festival would not be possible without the generous funding of the Canada Council for the Arts, The Department of Canadian Heritage (through its Arts Presentation Program), The Ontario Arts Council and The Toronto Arts Council. Site designed by Stop14 Media.

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