The Elora Poetry Centre & Gallery presented the annual global “100 Thousand Poets for Change” day at which poets and artists around the world celebrated peace, sustainability, and justice, and called for serious social, environmental, and political change. Canadian poet and artist, bill bissett, the “shaman of sound and performance,” read/chanted/danced his work. Among bissett’s awards are The George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award and the Dorothy Livesay Prize. The event was held on September 30th at 4p.m. at the Elora Poetry Centre & Gallery. There was live music, finger food, and conversation.

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