Events

I am pleased to be invited as guest critic to the T.O. Writers' Co-op workshop on Sunday, May 13th, 2012 at 2pm. It will be held in the Elizabeth Beeton Auditorium on the first floor of the Toronto Reference Library (789 Yonge Street). For more info...

March 14, 2012, doors open at 7.00pm at Harbour Front Centre (235 Queens Quay West Toronto, ON. (416) 973-4000). Ann and John Rammell will kick off the Toronto celebration of the anniversary of Irving Layton’s 100th birthday with a 20 minute reprise...

I am the featured poet at "Portobello Series", an afternoon of music and poetry hosted by Linda Stitt and Peter Solmes, at the Portobello Cafe, 1.30-4.30, 905 Bay St, 416 926 1800

February 22, 2012, 12.00 noon:  A Poetic Duo, With Donna Langevin at the University Women’s Club. The club has moved to The Faculty Club, 41 Willcocks St. (subway stop at Willcocks and Spadina) For further information contact Barbara Falby at bf...

Ann Elizabeth Carson will be reading from her manuscript, We All Become Stories, Make Yours a Good One, at The Only Café, 966 Danforth (at Donlands Station) www.theonlycafe.com at 3.00 pm. For more information, please visit http://draftreadings.wo...

I am a guest poet at "Portobello Sundays" , an afternoon of music and poetry hosted by Linda Stitt and Peter Solmes, at the Portobello Cafe, 1.30-4.30, 905 Bay St, 416 926 1800

"A Tribute to P.K. Page" on Sunday December 4, 2.00 -4.00pm is a poetry reading at the Courtneypark Branch of the Mississauga Library. Members of the League of Canadian Poets are featured and there is an open mic for poets from Oakville and Mississ...

Reading at the Rivoli (3:30pm), at the launch of The Ulysses Man by Shane Joseph and A Patch of Blue by Brian Mullally.

On November 4 (Time TBA) at The Arts and Letters Club, Ann and John Rammell will reprise “Between the Lines” readings of selected passages from Dorothy Rath’s book “An Unlikely Affair,” selected letters from her 30 year correspondence with Ir...

Event Update: “Salon 3 by 3″ on October 30 at the Merchant’s of Green Coffee Café was a wonderful success. Poets Gianna Patriarca, Donna Langevin and I read poems responding to the work of artists Tina Conlon, Patsy Berton, and Grethe Jensen...

At the Debajehmujig theatre space, Manitowaning, Manitoulin Island. Ann’s entry this year is Manitoulin Laundry Lines presented by Jimmy on guitar, with Bob Dylan's The Man in the Long Black Coat For a second year Debajehmujig invites Manitoulin ...

My poem "Lake-escape-Manitoulin" will be part of this wonderful event. If you are in and around the Manitoulin Island, you might be interested in attending! Location: Edwards Studios and Art Gallery / Old Mill Heritage Center, 15 Old Mill Road Kaga...

At Commffest (5th annual Global Commffest Community Film festival) on Saturday September 24 at 5.45 at Rainbow Market Square, two of my poems will begin and end the evenings’ films. This year Commffest puts a spotlight on “Homelessness” screen...

Art Speaks with Music & Words: "Emily, The Way You Are: A One-Woman Opera Celebrating the Life and Work of Emily Carr", is part of the Heliconian Club's concert series. This concert will feature an opera written for one soprano by artist and compos...

Along with other members of the Manitoulin Writer’s Circle, I will be participating in the Linda Finn exhibition entitled The War Letters Project at the Gore Bay Museum, showing from Sept. 10 to Oct. 21, 2011. On September 11 I will read "Coming of A...

Poetry Painting and Fabric, is the title of Ann's mixed media presentation at this year's annual Manitoulin Island Art Tour. Held every year on the 3rd week-end of July the Art Tour showcases a wide variety of art, this year with over 80 artists in 32...

The Many Tastes of Manitoulin, a poem for “Manitoulin Morsels”, at the Taste of Manitoulin Festival, Gore Bay Museum.

The selected letters of Dorothy Rath and Irving Layton, read by Ann Elizabeth Carson and actor John Rammell. Contact Tina Conlon at westdonam@gmail.com. Official press release below: Thursday May 12, 7.00 -9.00 p.m., “Between the Lines”, at ...

Allison Melville’s The Bird Project reads  “… the depths of my looking” from The Risks of Remembrance.  

Join me at the Beach branch of the TPL on Saturday from 2.00 - 4.30 in the afternoon, April (9/23/30): A multi-media event of poetry, music and art with Allan Briesmaster, poet, editor, publisher; Holly Briesmaster, painter; Kent Bowman, poet and mus...

March 6: First Sunday of the month readings of LiT LiVe, Hamilton, Sky Dragon Centre cafe. A mix of local and out of town writers

On February 22, 2.00 p.m., Ann will be reading from The Risks of Remembrance at The Older Women's Network, 115 The Esplanade with Olive Senior, poet and journalist and Dorothy Rath, poet and memoirist.

On February 13 Ann will be reading at The Ontario Poetry Society's "For the Love of Poetry Festival", February 13, 12.00 noon at The Rivoli, 332 Queen West (at Spadina)

2.00 - 4.00 Ann Elizabeth Carson will be the guest reader/speaker at a Poet Study sponsored by The Tower Poetry Society at the Westdale Library, 955 King St West, Hamilton.

Ann and dancers from Pia Bouman’s School for Ballet and Creative Movement will read/dance from Ann’s new book

Ann Elizabeth Carson will be reading from her new book of poems, The Risks of Remembrance, on December 9 from 7.00-8.15 in a multi media event with Stoney Creek author and poet Valerie Nielsen, author of Green Light, and Heather Glerum, Toronto musicia...

Toronto launch at the Toronto Heliconian Club on November 2 at at 7.00 p.m. All are welcome to come and meet Jane Burns whose paintings (with a few of my sculptures) illuminate the poems, photographer Karen Hendrick who took the flattering head shot an...

From October 15-30, 2010 Ann is one of 25 pairs of artists and writers participating in this year’s "Cross-pollination Two", sponsored by the Manitoulin Writers' Circle and the Gore Bay Museum and Heritage Centre, and in Installation "The Dock" for t...

At Art Speaks with Music and Words at The Toronto Heliconian Club on September 24, Ann read “Norway Poems”, a section from The Risks of Remembrance, with Roger Greenwald, Norwegian speaker and Brenda Muller on cello. Flying Dinosaur, the painting b...

Ann also read from The Risks of Remembrance at a Poetry Festival in July at the Gore Bay Museum on Manitoulin Island and signed books in August at two Manitoulin art galleries.