http://www.emilypohlweary.com/index.php Hey, hey, hey, it's EPW's blog! Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:43:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en #1. I adore the show Food Jammers, in which "Three backyard mechanics make homebrew cooking equipment using junkyard parts, found objects, and locally sourced ingredients." It redefines the DIY cooking show... Stumbled over it a while back and had this zoinks! moment where I realized one of the hosts ... http://www.emilypohlweary.com/index.php/?p=157 For my first blog post in a year, thought I'd mention this report I've been reading by the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, called: Target Crime With Literacy (2009). Some interesting facts include: 42 out of 100 Canadian adults have low literacy skills. 65 of 100 people entering correctional facilities have less ... http://www.emilypohlweary.com/index.php/?p=156 Okay, it's been a year since my last post. What's up with that? I will rise to blog again... I swear it! In the meantime, check out my Facebook page or my Twitter account. Those are updated on a daily basis. Guess I should consider feeding those posts through this blog, ... http://www.emilypohlweary.com/index.php/?p=155 Come participate in this series of writing workshops I'm running at the Parkdale Community Health Centre (1229 Queen Street West) in Toronto's west-end on Tuesday evenings!For more info or to register, visit the website, email info(a)parkdalewriters.ca, or call 416-537-2455, ext 349!PARKDALE STREET WRITERS (Coordinated by award-winning author Emily Pohl-Weary) Attention bloggers, ... http://www.emilypohlweary.com/index.php/?p=153 This past weekend, Harbourfront Centre commissioned me to conceptualize and run an interactive story room as part of their free yearly festival called GeekOUT! for kids ages 5-12. Here's the event description: What would a story written and/or drawn by a thousand people look like? Inspired by "Choose-Your-Own-Adventure" books, author Emily ... http://www.emilypohlweary.com/index.php/?p=152 Here's the flyer for the Toronto Public Library's Young Voices Writers Conference 2008. I'm running a workshop for youth on editing. It's on Saturday, October 18. Young Voices Writers Conference Express yourself • Work with professional writers on your creative writing endeavours • Meet other youth who like to write • Show your stuff at ... http://www.emilypohlweary.com/index.php/?p=151 This morning, Jesse sent me a link to this song's video (click on the image to the right) because I'm writing about Brooklyn these days. The video was shot there. It was apparently used in a trailer for Pineapple Express, but it took over my head immediately and it's also ... http://www.emilypohlweary.com/index.php/?p=150 My friend Gina Kaufman, writer and co-host of the Walt Bodine Show on KCUR in Kansas City, recently recorded me reading a particularly angsty passage from my first novel, A Girl Like Sugar, for an event she organized.Thought you might enjoy listening to it. To check it out, click here! http://www.emilypohlweary.com/index.php/?p=149 Who doesn't love top 10 lists? I was asked to name my fave characters for a class. Here's what I came up with, in no particular order: Susan (i.e. Madonna) in Desperately Seeking Susan (F) Dahlia Malloy (Minnie Driver) in The Riches (T) Victor Vargas (Victor Rasuk) in Raising Victor Vargas (F) Lizzie Bennet ... http://www.emilypohlweary.com/index.php/?p=148 http://www.emilypohlweary.com/index.php/?p=144 A few weeks ago, I was asked to say a few words at the Toronto launch for Mariko and Jillian Tamaki's graphic novel Skim (published by Groundwood Books). Since the comic started its life as a 24-page Kiss Machine Presents mini-book, I was around for the story's conception. The book's so ... http://www.emilypohlweary.com/index.php/?p=142 Amy Sherman-Palladino, the genius creator of the Gilmore Girls, one of my all-time fav shows (seriously, it's up there with Buffy and Flight of the Conchords) has a new show. The Return of Jezebel James is a 1/2 hour comedy about a book editor named Sarah (played by Parker ... http://www.emilypohlweary.com/index.php/?p=141 I'm coordinating this 10-week writing program for 16-24-year-olds at the Parkdale Library. Please pass on the word to any young people who might be interested... To participate, they don't have to be great writers, they just need to have fun! --EFor immediate release:Do you keep a blog? Constantly update your ... http://www.emilypohlweary.com/index.php/?p=140 Written by Emily Pohl-Weary Illustrated by Willow DawsonContinuing the story where issues #1, #2, and #3 left off, the final chapter of Violet's saga is now available! Will she, Elsa Bonnet, Jack Rackham and the rest of the crew find the treasure of the Devil's Throat?Preview Issue #4 Check out the first ... http://www.emilypohlweary.com/index.php/?p=139 FREE SPEECH is back with another evening of stories and song in the intimate setting at Tinto on Roncesvalles Ave, in Toronto, where owners Ricardo Rozental and Elvia Saenz are trying to create an arts and activism based community hub, rooted in fair trade and sustainability. This installment ... http://www.emilypohlweary.com/index.php/?p=138 Off to read at the Aurora Public Library today... then maybe a walk in a conservation area with my father and his puppy. If it doesn't rain, that is. The sky looks ominous.Hopefully, we won't find a Magnum .44 with its grip removed buried in the mud, like we did ... http://www.emilypohlweary.com/index.php/?p=137 This past summer, I ran two workshops for street-involved youth at the Evergreen Youth Shelter and Street Outreach Services. Some of the poems and stories written by workshop participants are now online, and they're unbelievably moving.When the program coordinator asked me to say a few words at the launch of ... http://www.emilypohlweary.com/index.php/?p=136 Cool. The two poems of mine that were animated by Karen Richardson for Toronto's "all-night art thing" Nuit Blanche are now online: My Gold Hair Is So Unreliable and To Build A Home.Just go to this page and click on the images above my bio to load up the videos. ... http://www.emilypohlweary.com/index.php/?p=135 Two of my poems are being turned into animations by Karen Richardson to be screened on the TV sets in Toronto's Subway system during all-nighter Nuit Blanche (September 29th). Here's the press release:Onestop Network and Art for Commuters Present...WORDS TRAVEL FASTat Scotiabank Nuit BlancheAnimations based on the work of three ... http://www.emilypohlweary.com/index.php/?p=134 Lately, I've been consuming cultural products like an addict. The last time I remember getting this immersed in things, and wanting to absorb them all at one time was (literally) grade school. It's nice, because it's creatively inspiring. But it also means I've been a little antisocial, and haven't done ... http://www.emilypohlweary.com/index.php/?p=133