KIRA
Kingsbrae International Residence for the Arts has appointed five artists who will work in residence at Kingsbrae and Kingsbrae Gardens (St. Andrews, New Brunswick), from June 1 to June 28, 2017. The artists who will work in Kingsbrae in June are Carlos Carty (Lima, Peru, musician), Anne Wright (Ottawa, multi-media), and Elise Muller (Muskoka sculptor). They will be joined by two New Brunswick artists, Ruby Allan (Fredericton, painter), and Roger Moore (Island View, poet). Note that KIRA is making a special effort to encourage New Brunswick artists. Full details are in the link above.
The selected artists met face to face on a video conference call and discussed some of the work that they could do in common: more about this later. Suffice to say for now that joint workshops on different forms of creativity are being planned. While the residency will be an excellent time for individual work, each participant has a specific project to be undertaken during our time at St. Andrews, there will also be time for the interchange of creative ideas and for readings and workshops within the local artistic community.
My own project will be to establish a Bakhtinian poetic dialog with my time (June) and my place (Kingsbrae, St. Andrews). This follows the ideal of the Bakhtinian chronotopos, as outlined in my earlier post Alebrijes or Inspiration, and I plan to use my time to reflect upon and write about both St. Andrews and the Kingsbrae Gardens. I intend blogging regularly throughout the month of June and I look forward to posting photos and cartoons to accompany my poems and the journal that I will maintain throughout my stay. My blog is located at rogermoorepoet.com.
Further to this project, I hope to establish a rapport, much along the lines of my poems on Monet at Giverny, between myself as poet and Kingsbrae Gardens as a subject for poetry. Giverny and Monet at Giverny 1-4/16, Monet at Giverny 5-8/16, Monet at Giverny 9-12/16, and Monet at Giverny 13-16/16 offer a model for some of the art work I would like to accomplish.
Each artist will have studio space. Should you visit St. Andrews in June, please consider not only visiting Kingsbrae and its beautiful gardens but also dropping by to meet us as we work to accomplish our artistic tasks. I, personally, will be very happy to meet and talk with visitors to the residency who are interested in the daily workings of my art.
rogermoorepoet 
I look forward to reading and enjoying the work that arises from this! And to hear about your fellow artists as well. Exciting stuff!
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It is exciting. We are holding a second conference call today. That is fun as we get to se each other and discuss possibilities for cooperation.
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That sounds great! Enjoy!
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Deàr!! What is kira.?
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KIRA is the Kingsbrae International Residence for the Arts
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If you click on it in the blog article, it will take you to their page.
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Good.dear.
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Enjoy the experience cousin as i am sure you will.
An oppertunity to inspire and be inspired.
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Thanks, Fran. I’ll do my best. It’s a great feeling and there’s so much we want to do. I’ll e-mail.
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Oh well done you! I bet you’ll have a brilliant time!
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Thank you! I shall most certainly do my best and the other artists participating are delightful.
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Roger I am already being inspired by your words and your gaze. To paraphrase Neruda, you do what spring does with cherry trees. I can’t wait!
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Thank you so much Anne. That is such a delightful thing to say. I am honored and flattered. We owe you a great deal too, for setting up the conference call and the initial meeting. You started that ball rolling … and you deserve our thanks and credit. I am sure that the salon idea will become a fixture on the Kingsbrae list … and that’s your idea too. See you Thursday afternoon, I hope.
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Congratulations, Roger, on a well-deserved honour.
I look forward to more meaningful words from your pen.
-Jan
http://www.thestoneist.com
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Thank you, Jan. It is indeed an honor. I was very surprised and happy to be selected: I hoped, but then I always do … and then hope faded … and then I got the call. The group has met in a conference call and there is tremendous energy there. It will be a wonderful experience. I am certain of that.
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