{"id":125828,"date":"2022-11-09T12:41:23","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T17:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=125828"},"modified":"2022-11-09T12:41:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T17:41:23","slug":"local-poet-organizing-winter-gatherings-for-creative-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/local-poet-organizing-winter-gatherings-for-creative-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Local poet organizing winter gatherings for creative community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As the first snow falls on Cortes Island, two creative groups are being formed for regular gatherings through the winter. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Soma Feldmar, a local poet, is the artist initiating the groups and hopes to create a group for writers, poets, and lyricists to gather to share and support each other in their work. The other group Feldmar is initiating is for poetry enthusiasts. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt's just about loving it and wanting to hear it and read it out loud. Poetry has a life in sound, not just on the page,\u201d she elaborated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Feldmar is a PhD of English and has a BA and MFA in writing and poetry from Naropa University.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The local poet said there is a core creative wellness that drives the reason behind the winter gatherings, <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt helps make me a better human and I wanna share that. I wanna create spaces for other people to engage in language that can make them a better human. Language is how we construct our reality, how we communicate, how we leave self and go to other.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The location and format for the gatherings has yet to be determined: Feldmar hopes to get feedback on both from those interested in participating. The poet says she is open to all location options, and a rotation of locations. She is also hoping to keep the gathering low or no cost.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To learn more, contact <\/span><a href=\"mailto:sfeldmar@gmail.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">sfeldmar@gmail.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>To hear more, listen to the CKTZ News Update below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the first snow falls on Cortes Island, two creative groups are being formed for regular gatherings through the winter. Soma Feldmar, a local poet, is the artist initiating the groups and hopes to create a group for writers, poets, and lyricists to gather to share and support each other in their work. The other&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":125831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219],"tags":[20486,20485,2664,20487,2665,20484,5928,20488,11787],"radio":[252],"origine":[280,266,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125828"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126004,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125828\/revisions\/126004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125828"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=125828"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=125828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}