Ah, love poetry. There's nothing quite like it - especially when it's exceptionally bad.
The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts is looking for your most embarrassing love poetry as part of a Bad Love event that's happening in the new year.
"Send in the sanguine, the maudlin, the embarrassingly bad lyrics straight from your loving, bewildered, dreamy or smoky hearts," a press release invites.
One of the Shadbolt Centre's theatre staff members will perform the poems as part of the centre's Art on the Spot series on Feb. 4, 2012.
Poems can be sent to Joel. [email protected], or you can drop submissions off at the Shadbolt Centre's registration desk to the attention of Joel De Stefano.
You can also mail poems in to Joel De Stefano, Theatre and Literary Arts, Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, 6450 Deer Lake Ave., Burnaby, V5G 2J3, or fax to 604-291-7841.
Submissions are now being accepted and are open until Jan. 30, 2012.
So get scrounging through those old journals and keepsake boxes and find your best examples.
ON TOP OF THE WORLD
A Burnaby resident is taking on the Scots at their own game - and beating them.
Burnaby's Katelyn Garrity emerged triumphant at the recent international tenor drumming competition held in Glasgow, Scotland.
Katelyn has been a member of the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band organization for eight years, spending seven years as member of its junior bands and this past year competing for the first time as a member of the SFU Pipe Band at the worlds in August.
The first international solo tenor drumming event was held on Oct.
22, and Katelyn topped the international field of 17 drummers in the juvenile 2 event.
She took first place in a tight race after tying with Ronan Rodgers of Ireland, earning more first-place votes from the judges to emerge as the champion. Third place went to Scotland's Joanna Fairbairn.
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