Past Events
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Tastes & Tales of the Sea VI
The Kodiak Maritime Museum annual fundraising banquet has become a favorite springtime event in Kodiak. Tickets are $50 and can be purchased at Mill Bay Coffee, The Rookery, and from Kodiak Maritime Museum boardmembers. This year's featured speaker is Alaska shipwreck expert Mike Burwell. Mike will talk about the wreck of the steamer Princess May, which went aground on Sentinel Island in southeast Alaska in August 1910. Mike is also a fine poet whose latest book of poetry, "Cartography of Water," has just been published by Northwest Press.
Friday, March 21, 2008
Out Loud: Kodiak, Fishing & the Sea
A Out Loud: Kodiak, Fishing, and the Sea, a spoken word event sponsored by the Kodiak Maritime Museum, will be held at the Gerald C. Wilson Auditorium, 7 p.m. Friday, March 21, 2008. Out Loud will feature fisherman and mariners presenting poems, stories and songs about the maritime culture of coastal Alaska. Out Loud is a continuation of the popular Kodiak Out Loud (also known as Kodiak Fisher Poets) spoken word shows which have been presented at the Kodiak Crab Festival since 2000.
The $5.00 admission fee will be waived for those folks who attend the 5 p.m. Morning Rotary Seafood Dinner at St. Mary’s and bring their ticket stubs.
Also planned is a Morning Mug-up poetry and prose workshop at 10 a.m. Saturday morning, March 22, at the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge Visitors Center conference room on Center St. Local poets and writers are encouraged to come in for coffee and a hands-on class featuring several of the writers from the evening event. The workshop will be informal, with discussion and writing exercises aimed at helping local writers find techniques for writing about their own life experiences.
Out Loud Featured Artists:
Moe Bowstern is a longtime Kodiak fisherwoman, Oregon writer and performance artist, Moe has been performing at the Astoria Fisher Poets Gathering for many years and is the editor of “Xtra Tuff,” a magazine about the live and stories of fishermen. She was featured in the documentary film, “The Fisher Poets,” in 2002.
Jon Campbell is a prolific composer of contemporary maritime music based in New England. A multi-instrumentalist and reluctant singer, his songs address issues relevant to inhabitants of any of the four coasts: East, West, Gulf of Mexico and Alaska. He’s also been a Rhode Island State Council of the Arts Folk Artist since 1982.
Dave Densmore. Kodiak born and raised, Dave has been a fisherman since the age of 12 when he went to sea with his father. He’s been writing poetry about fishing and the sea for many years and has been a favorite at both the Kodiak Crab Festival Fisher Poets and the Fisher Poets in Astoria Oregon. He was a featured performer in the 2002 film, “The Fisher Poets.”
Pat Dixon is a former salmon drift gillnet fisherman and longtime storyteller. He’s been reading his stories of the glory days of the Cook Inlet drift fishery at the Astoria Fisher Poets Gathering for years and currently lives, writes, and does photography in Puget Sound.
Erin Fristad has been a Southeast Alaskan fisherwoman for fifteen years and is a regular performer at the Astoria Fisher Poets Gathering. Her poetry focuses on what it’s like being a woman in a male dominated industry and the changes that have overtaken the fishing industry in the last few years. She lives, writes, and teaches creative writing in Port Townsend, Washington.
Joanna Reichhold has worked for six seasons on salmon boats and tenders out of Cordova. She sings, writes poems and stories about the sea and fishing, and performs at festivals across the country. Depending on the time of year, Joanna lives at various places in the coastal temperate rainforest, pacific salmon country, stretching from Cordova, Alaska to Trinidad, California. She is hard at work on her first book of poetry.
Toby Sullivan writes stories and poems about the lives of commercial fishermen, based on more than thirty years of fishing from Kodiak to Attu Island. He organizes the annual Kodiak Fisher Poets readings during the Kodiak Crab Festival and performs every year at the Astoria Fisher Poets Gathering.
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