WiE35: 7 New Plays by 7 New Playwrights | Hosted by Robert Chafe | Wed May 29

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Award winning playwright Robert Chafe is the special guest host for a night of fresh new plays from fresh new playwrights.

The troupe of playwrights will be giving dramatic readings of scenes from their new plays crafted as part of Robert Chafe’s Advanced Playwriting course at MUN. They are:

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Play Dead by Jon Aylward

A frustrated theatre director attempts to reason with an all-dead cast to complete his play … will he succeed, or is it truly curtains for Newfoundland?

Jon has been a writer for over fifteen years. He likes his stories the same way he likes his coffee: dark, and slightly sweet.

Little Orphans by Emily Bridger

Gwen, in begrudgingly coming “home” for her sisters wedding confronts the unresolved fallout, on herself and her relationships, of her parents’ past abandonment, and comes to discover a side of herself that might be at home there.

Emily Bridger is a writer/actress “known” for getting cast almost exclusively in roles that she writes. She’s from St. John’s, Newfoundland.

Work in Progress by Jana Gillis

A Sociology professor studying human connection struggles with his own ability to connect to someone, anyone.

Jana’s first ever job was standing in a parking lot playing the bagpipes all day; she wrote a play about it. She kept writing.

Piranha Pit by Morgan Murray

Cutbacks leave Carl, a plucky and hormonal parliamentary page, as top advisor to Prime Minister. As you might expect, he ends up on trial for war crimes.

Morgan is taking the night off from his regular gig hosting WiE to play with the others.

Billy Jackson, American Hero by Gary Newhook

Washed up wrestling superstar Billy Jackson gets confronted by his past.

Gary is a writer from Kilbride that moonlights as an alcoholic.

That I Would be Good. by Melanie Oates

Dolly and her patchwork family struggle to create a place within themselves and their 1950s rural Newfoundland town where they can be accepted. Nobody seen a family like this before.

Mel Oates is a saltwater fisherman’s daughter. She is a MUN graduate and Percy Janes First Novel award winner. Mel works in film/ television costume and wardrobe.

Tentative Resident by Issa Russell

Molly, a young woman from a small town, struggles to free herself from the religious and societal expectations of her family and community, and eventually gains an appreciation for her upbringing as a defining factor of the woman she’s become.

Issa is an actor by nature and a writer by obsession. A lover of words. Even the gross ones. Especially the gross ones. Poopybum.

Hosted by Robert Chafe

Wednesday, May 29, 2013, 8 PM, Eastern Edge Gallery, 72 Harbour Drive

Admission by pay-what-you-can donation

Drinks and snacks provided by Fixed Coffee & Baking

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Words in Edgewise is teaming up with Lawnya Vawnya III: An Exposition of Independent Art and Culture in St. John’s for not one, but two great events.

Music, Media and Possibilities Panel Discussion

Thursday, April 18 at 6:30 pm at Eastern Edge

Join our panel to discuss the direction music, particularly the independent variety, is headed and how the media and other factors play into that.

Featuring Meg Warren (Repartee), Vish Khanna (musician, promoter, ex-CBC3, Exclaim!), Roberto Granados-Ocon (Exclaim!), and Dennis Parker (Music NL).

The Comic Book Genius of Jeffrey Lewis

Thursday, April 18 at 6:30 pm at Eastern Edge

Jeffrey Lewis will be playing music on Thursday night at the Rocket Room (after WiE I of II), and then will pop by WiE on Friday night to talk about his comic book art.

Lewis is born and raised in New York. He has toured the world as a musician and comic book artist and scholar.

You can find out all about Jeffrey on the interwebs at: http://www.thejeffreylewissite.com/

Hosted by Morgan Murray

With food and drink from Fixed Coffee & Baking

WiE 20/20: Engage Memorial | Thu Feb 14 | 8 PM | Eastern Edge

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The best of MUN on display at a frenetic, and romantic, WiE 20/20

Words in Edgewise is teaming up with Engage Memorial week for a very special Valentine’s WiE 20/20 event featuring 11 of the best, brightest, and most engaging minds at Memorial. The ever-popular 20/20 event isThursday, February 14 at 8 PM at Eastern Edge Gallery.

Have you heard the one about the geographer, writer, chemist, geologist, English professor, physicist, world traveler, ethnomusicologist, economist, film scholar, and refugee medical program coordinator who walk into an art gallery? The punch line? You’ll have to come to Eastern Edge Gallery on Valentine’s Day to find out.

The presenters include:

Alison Coffin: “My MUN”
Alison. Economist. Educator. Entrepreneur. Entertainer. Enjoy!~a.

Kate Duff: “The MUN Med Gateway Project”
Kate works, plays and dreams in law, economics, strategic planning, evaluation, animal rights, food security, painting, and general craftiness.

Bojan Furst: “So you think you live on an island, eh?”
Bojan is a Croatian geographer-photographer transplanted to Newfoundland more or less successfully. He does require some extra Vitamin D.

David Lander: “The History of Icelandic Popular music in 6 minutes and 40 seconds”
Dave is a guy who moved from Kingston to Waterloo to Guelph to here. He likes pizza, Audrey and surprise endings.

Christopher Lockett: “Here Be Dragons: Mapping Imaginary Spaces”
Chris is an associate professor of English at Memorial University, specializing in contemporary American literature and media culture.

Marc MacKinnon: “Chemists taking back the word ‘chemicals’”
Marc is a graduate student in organic chemistry who synthesizes new materials, such as those found in your TV screens and LED lights.

Keir MacIsaac: “Tips for whirlwind business travel”
Working with the Office of Student Recruitment since 2007, Keir promotes Memorial University’s undergraduate programs in Asia and Latin America.

Gary Newhook: “20th Century Countdown”
Gary is a writer who lives in the Goulds and moonlights as an alcoholic.

Jon Petrychyn: “Eye See You at the Movies: Reflections on Vision”
Jon is an MPhil candidate in the Graduate Program in Humanities. He studies film spectatorship and identity.

Kris Poduska: “10 things you should know before dating a scientist”
Kris is a physicist at Memorial University. This cameo is unlikely to launch her career as an advice columnist.

Derek H.C. Wilton: “Till We Meet Again”
Derek, a professor of Earth Sciences, has sailed the Labrador six times; the most recent expedition was the subject of a Nature of Things episode.

The 20/20 format challenges speakers to present their work through a series of 20 images that change, ready-or-not, every 20 seconds. The result is six minutes and 40 seconds of insight, intrigue, and hilarity—always hilarity, intentional or not.

“We borrowed the 20/20 format from the pecha kutcha style,” says event organizer and host Morgan Murray. “All over the world pecha kutcha events fill giant halls. It’s because the presentations are always quick, punchy, and entertaining.”

This will be the third WiE 20/20 event held over the past three years. Murray says the 20/20 events have made for some of the most memorable Words in Edgewise events of the more than 30 that have been held altogether.

“These 20/20 talks can be surprisingly profound and surprisingly funny—often within the same talk,” he says. “Like the med student hilariously lamenting his inability to get a girlfriend and then reflecting on the first time he had a patient die in his arms, the tears of laughter turned to tears of sadness on a dime, the mood in the room was electric.”

Hosted by Morgan Murray

Thursday, February 14, 2013, 8 PM, Eastern Edge Gallery, 72 Harbour Drive.

Admission by pay-what-you-can donation.

Drinks and snacks provided by Fixed.

There will be special Valentine’s Day mood lighting and treats, so bringing dates, or finding dates, is encouraged.

Engage Memorial Week is a week of events launching Memorial’s new Public Engagement Framework, February 12th-15th. mun.ca/publicengagement

RPM:WiE | Thu Jan 24 | 8pm | Eastern Edge

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Every February hundreds of local musicians take the RPM Challenge to write and record an entire album in a month. To gear up for another musical month, Words in Edgewise presents an evening of RPM: music, film, music, talk, music.

During last year’s RPM Challenge, Mathias Kom, Megan Sutherland, and Joelle Carey made a documentary.

“You Can Punch A Hurricane: a film about women making music”

Will have it’s world premiere at RPM:WiE

A look at the stories of several women in St. John’s taking part in the RPM Challenge in February 2012. The women discuss the challenges of performing and recording in a male-dominated music world, as well as the unique opportunities of the RPM Challenge.

Along with music from sage RPM veterans: St. John’s Ukulele Orchestra, Pet Legs, and Thomas Coombes.