World Poetry Canada Hosts Fourth International Peace Festival By: Ceri Naz
The World Poetry Reading Series Society is hosting and celebrating the Fourth World Poetry Canada International Peace Festival in Vancouver, BC, Canada on October 6 th- 26th, 2014.
World Poetry is a unique international network that provides a space for poets, writers, and artists from different cultures to share work in their own perspective and mother tongue. Founded 15 years ago, World Poetry strives to spread respect, honour, support, peace, and love for all through the arts and education. The youngest contributor is 12 years old and the oldest is 100 years old. The participants have diverse cultural, linguistic, and religious backgrounds, and all come together to create peace and hope to strengthen cultural bonds and build a more harmonious future. For fruitful 15 years, World Poetry also had a weekly radio show, the World Poetry Café Radio Show on CFRO 100.5 FM which is co-hosted and produced by Ariadne Sawyer. Many people call it: “Their favorite intercultural and multilingual show’’. Thousands of poets have been featured on the show and it is heard in 68 countries. Ms. Sawyer is the founder and the woman behind the global peace legacy, the World Poetry Canada and International. She is best described by the poets around the world as ‘The next would be Nobel Peace Prize Awardee’. She was honoured and awarded as PENTASI B WORLD FRIENDSHIP POETRY ‘‘Woman of World Peace Award 2013” at the Marble Hall, National Museum of the Philippines on November 15, 2013.