Our celebration of poet Colleen Thibaudeau’s centenary continues this month on November 7-9 with AlvegoRoot Theatre‘s brand new concert version of Colleening: The Letters and Poetry of Colleen Thibaudeau, which premiered in 2013.

Compiled by Adam Corrigan Holowitz with music by Stephen Holowitz and Oliver Whitehead,  Colleen’s letters and poems take us on a journey through childhood memories, home life, and Canadian culture.
The performers are Katy Clark, Paul Grambo, and Kydra Ryan.

Where: The Manor Park Memorial Hall, 11 Briscoe Street W, London, Ontario
When: Friday November 7 at 7:30 pm and matinees at 2 pm on Saturday November 8 and Sunday November 9.

Tickets: $30 available at OnStageDirect.

Miniatures II
The grass-seed sower casts, casts,
And behind her the birds come
Greedy for her hopes. They are eating up
This poem almost as quickly as I can make it.
Colleen Thibaudeau, 1991