Great Falls International
Word Festival
All events in this list are at the Shea Theater, either up stairs in the larger theater or downstairs reading room will be posted soon. There are other venues that will be listed with times and dates.
Friday Oct 11th at the Shea Theater
Is National Coming Out Day (NCOD) is an annual LGBT awareness day
and
First Day of the Girl Child. The observation supports more opportunity for girls and increases awareness of gender inequality faced by girls worldwide based upon their gender.
At the Shea Theater
6:00 - Pop up book store will open.
First Show 7:30 Show - $5 to $10 ticket or Festival Button
Paula Sayword
Anne Perkins
Kate Rex
JM
Alice Barrett
Grace Ariela B
Timothy Ranney-Blake
Roger West
Anna Laird Barto
Rescue Poetix
Tantra Zawadi
Annie Hassett
Surprises Abiodun Oyewole
20 minute break
Open Mic, One 3 minute poem each trip to the mic into the night.
Saturday Oct 12
At the Shea Theater
11:00 Book Store Opens
12:00 Saturday
Up Stairs – Open Mic, One poem, 3 minutes, each trip to the mic
Down Stairs Slate Roof Workshop – Book Arts Presentation
11:00 Saturday
Up Stairs – Novels / Short Stories
Stephen Billias
Alan Harris
Nancy Stark
Richard Horton
Jan Maher
Down Stairs - Slate Roof - Reading
2:00 Saturday
Up Stairs
Raine Brown
Robert Eugene Perry
Karen Warinsky
Susan Middleton
David Henri
Down Stairs -
Tommy Twilite Workshop
3:00 Saturday
Up Stairs - Meat For Tea Authors
Host: Elizabeth MacDuffie
Giorgia Alexander
Richard Horton
Seth Cable
Candace Curran
Cori Cannavino
Down Stairs
GREEN RIVER WRITERS
Mary Chicoine
Ilina Singh
Faith Kindness
Marion Griswold
Karen Miller
Jovonna Van Pelt
At the Discovery Center
3:00 Saturday
Haiku Circle
4:00 Saturday Up Stairs Shea
do
Tom Timmins
Timothy Gager
Terry S Johnson
Jon Wesick
Linda Wlodyka
Down Stairs
Deb Habib and Rick Baruc
Debbie Tosun Kilday
Donald Fisher
James Paul Wagner
Kate Rex
Dinner Break 5:00 6:45
7:00 – Florence Poets
Gerry Yelle
Anita Gallers
Linda Wlodyka
Sasha Berman
Eileen Kennedy
Tommy Twilite
Howie Faerstein
Rosie McMahan
8:30 - Do It Now
Paul Richmond
John Sheldon
Tony Vacca
Jo Sallins
“A Collaboration of Masters. Together they create a funkadelic and free-flow concoction of cool Beat Poetry, soaring melodies and irresistible percussion. Equal parts magic carpet ride, mesmerizing sound-web and outspoken words. What these guys do just might be the perfect industrial-strength elixir for our tumultuous times.”
$10 to $20 sliding scale ticket or festival button 4 this show.
Sunday Oct 13th
At the Shea Theater
11:00 Sunday Book Store
12:00 Sunday - Up Stairs - Open Mic, One poem 3 minutes, each trip to the mic
Down Stairs – Solo Pieces
1) Nina Gross
2) Surprises TBN
1:00 Sunday - Up Stairs -
Historical Oracles
Laura Rodley Hosts
Down Stairs - Dina Stander - Workshop - Making Friends With the Mic
2:00 Sunday
Up Stairs
Carlos Raúl Dufflar
Ángel Martínez
Willie Velázquez
Larry Green
Rick Marsh
Dimitri Rimsky
Down Stairs – Well Done Writers of Greenfield
3:00 Sunday
Up Stairs - Climate Change Plays
Down Stairs
Open Mic, One poem, 3 minutes, each trip to the mic
Down Stairs Greenroom - Tantra-zawadi & Rescue Poetix Workshop
4:00 Sunday
4:00 Sunday - Up Stairs
Human Error Publishing
Amy Laprade
Ron Whittle
Dina Stander
Eric Wasileski
Richard Horton
Paul Richmond
Down Stairs
Suan Middleton
Maddy Leue
Janice Sorensen
Dennis Piana
Paul Szlosek
Kate Rex
Dinner Break 5:00 6:45
Sunday Night Shows
$5 to $10 ticket or Button
7:00 “True” Stories
Amie Hyson
Doug Anderson
Susan Cocailin
Moonlight
Andrew Shelffo
Paul Richmond
Dina Stander
8:30 - Sunday Night
Tony Vacca will be performing solo and accompaning
Siomara
Candace Curran
Doug Anderson
John Sheldon
Roger West
Tantra-zawadi
Rescue Poet
Abiodun Oyewole
Surprises TBA
Oct 14th Monday
11:00 Book Store Opens
12:00 - Monday
Up Stairs & Down Stairs Open Mic, One poem, 3 minutes, each trip to the mic
Monday 1:00
Up Stairs
Storm
David Wyman
Lori Lamothe
SurprisesTBN
Down Stairs – Kate Rex workshop
Monday 2:00
Up Stairs – Open Mic on Climate Change
Jan Maher Host
Michael Travisano
Down Stairs Open Mic, One poem, 3 minutes, each trip to the mic
Monday 3:00
Up Stairs - Kate Rex -
Writers from the workshop
Down Stairs - roundtable/forum on role of poets and writers in catastrophic times
Monday 4:00
Up Stairs – Wordwifery presents “Chalice of Crones” reading Memoir.
Ruth Flohr, Facilitator
Morning Star Chenven
Shelley Hines
Kai Jud
Nan Riebschlaeger
Nancy Spittle
Sharon Tracy
Ilina Singh
Dinner Break 5:00 6:45
Final Show - $5 to $10 or Festival Button
Monday 7:00 – This Surprise finally will include many of the
poets and performers who have taken part in the festival for one last grand show.