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Upcoming readings/events Summer 2015
August 30th … Weaving Words Storytelling Festival … Featured reader at this prestigious annual event at Sharon Temple, Sharon National Historic Site and Museum, 18974 Leslie Street. Sharon, Ontario
Headlining the event is Giller Prize nominee, Canada Reads winner, Governor General Literary Award finalist,Joseph Boyden
See here for more details about the festival http://www.weavingwords.ca/index.html
June 14th … Writers’ Community of York Region Monthly meeting … Featured reader at the monthly brunch meeting at Newmarket Community Centre & Lions Hall
200 Doug Duncan Drive, Newmarket, Ontario
Headlining the event is Giller Prize nominee, Canada Reads winner, Governor General Literary Award finalist,Joseph Boyden
See here for more details of the venue http://www.wcyork.ca/
Upcoming readings/events Nov/Dec 2014
Dec 20th … Humble Beginnings Toronto West/Central … An afternoon of music an poetry where Jim will be reading from the new book “On Tropical Islands and Shining Seas” that has just come out.
See here for more details of the venue https://www.facebook.com/events/1530617680518230/?fref=ts
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Dec 13th … EL MOCAMBO, downtown Toronto An evening of poetry, art and music where Jim is one of the invited readers at Toronto’s most famous club that has seen the likes of The Rolling Stones, Marylin Monroe, Miles Davis, The Ramones, Leonard Cohen, etc.
http://elmocambo.com/shows/default/index/
464 Spadina Ave
Toronto ON
M5T 2G8
Here’s what it looked like at that event.
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FRI NOV 28th … ALTON MILLS ARTS CENTRE, A FREE evening of poetry and music where Jim is one of the invited readers in an idyllic setting. Light refreshments provided. http://altonmill.ca/visit/events/culture-cafe-poetry_event/
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Jim Reading at the Bookapalooza event listed below.
SAT NOV 22nd … BOOKAPALOOZA, Oshawa over 90 vendors associated with the publishing industry including dozens of authors. Perfect for Christmas shopping. Jim will be at the Writers’ Community of York Region’s booth
University of Ontario Institute of Technology
Campus Recreation and Wellness Centre (CRWC)
2000 Simcoe Street North
Oshawa, ON
10:00 a.m
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SAT NOV 22nd, Toronto East, The Black Swan Tavern for An evening of poetry, art and music where Jim will be hitting the open mic at Toronto’s longest running poetry venue
https://www.facebook.com/blackswantavern1/
BOOK TWO, ON TROPICAL ISLANDSABDSPARKLING SEAS WILL AVAILABLE FROM THE “NEW RELEASS” SECTION AT FRIESEN PRESS DECEMBER 1st 2014 AT http://www.friesenpress.com/bookstore
BOOK ONE, ON FIVE CONTINENTS AND THREE OCEANS IS NOW AVAILABLE IN KOBO FORMAT AT http://www.kobobooks.com/search/search.html?q=wanderings+and+sojourns
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Wednesday May 7th Jim is a featured presenter at the “Best Originals” event in down town Toronto, For more information go to https://www.facebook.com/events/375104302630867/?source=3&source_newsfeed_story_type=regular
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JIM’S TELEVISION DEBUT! Rogers TV from their Richmond Hill studio have a series called Writers and Readers and Jim is one of the two featured writers this week.
Access details at http://www.rogerstv.com/page.aspx?sid=6155&rid=17&lid=12, and here’s the schedule for those interested.
Acclaimed Canadian author Tom Taylor sits down with other authors to discuss the process of creating a great literary work. This week Tom is joined by Canadian author Richard Pyves and British author and poet Jim Scott.
Thursday, Feb 27 9:00 AM, 7:30 PM
Friday, Feb 28 8:00 AM
Saturday, Mar 01 7:00 PM
Sunday, Mar 02 6:30 AM
Monday, Mar 03 4:00 AM, 12:30 PM
Tuesday, Mar 046:30 AM
Wednesday, Mar 055:00 PM
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Sunday February 23rd at 3:00 pm at the Newmarket main Library Jim is again a featured reader in their “Artspeaks” series. More details here http://www.newmarket.ca/en/lifestyle/artsandculture.asp
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Following on from the post below, Jim was voted one of the top two presenters at the Best Poet of the Month event and is now one of the two “features” at the February event. This means he gets to read for 20 minutes of so instead of the six he was allowed at the last months where he was a “presenter”. The venue is the Free Times Cafe, 320 College Street, Toronto at 6:45 pm on February 26th…… Jim’s 61st Birthday!
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This Wednesday, Jan 29th, I’ve been accepted as one of the poets/reader at an event in downtown Toronto. Unusual for me as I tend to stay away from cities, but this event looks to be well worth the trek. Some well known names on the Toronto poetry scene will also be reading. Anyone in the area want to come along and enjoy an evening of poetry and prosetry and perhaps some song in a convivial atmosphere, here’s the details.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1453855391502503/?ef_dashboard_filter=upcoming
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The spring edition of 2013 Mosaic featured another of my poems “If I Could Change”
Click here http://kingmosaic.ca and go to page 8
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The sequel to “On Five Continents and Three Oceans” is now written. “On Tropical islands and Sparkling Seas” is now entering the publishing process and hopefully will be available sometime in May 2014.
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The first book in a new series, this time children’s books, is well underway with final illustrations being prepared and discussions with the printer started. Like the Wanderings and Sojourns (WANDS) series, this series will relate to real events/experiences, but with a children’s story wrapped around them. The first book is an expansion/conversion (to purely a child’s story) of “River Elf to the Rescue” which appears as the last story in book one of the WANDS series “On Five Continents and Three Oceans”. The book will contain a dozen original pictures by the renowned illustrator Cheryl E. Uhrig, and we are working on putting the Elven songs to music in collaboration with children’s music and Orff teaching specialist Karen Kastner. The idea is for a book where children can be introduced at an early age to the integrated world of story, written word, poetry, music and song and if the parents reading the book with their children, or the children themselves, wish to add original dance to that mix, well then that would make it even better.
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The June 2012 issue of MOSAIC Magazine in Canada will feature one of Jim’s poems from Book 3 “The Songs And Verses” http://www.kingmosaic.ca/
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When the new “OnlineBVI” Magazine launches in 2012 it will feature one of Jim’s Stories from Book 1 ” On Five Continents And Three Oceans”. Jim will be featured regularly as a contributing writer in that publication thereafter… http://www.onlinebvi.com/
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The books and Jim’s Caribbean sailing days, and particularly his years with Virgin Islands Search And Rescue (VISAR) are profiled in an article in the April 2012 edition of the Caribbean’s water front magazine “ALL AT SEA” http://www.allatsea.net/ also available in over 800 outlets from San Diego, California to the Southern Caribbean islands. Pick up a copy or access on line to learn more about the life that gave birth to the books.
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Reading at the Loose Leaf Poets and Writers’ acoustic coffee house gathering in Etobicoke, Ontario, June 2012.
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(Photo Forster’s Book Garden)
Reading at Forster’s Book Garden, Bolton Ontario, January 28th 2012, invoked much discussion not just about the poems themselves but about the broader subject of writing in general and publishing. Forster’s Book Garden is very supportive of the writerss’ community and a great venue for not just book readings, but for book browsing and shopping as well.
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(Photo: Writers’ Community York Region)
Reading to the Writers Community of York Region, December 11th, 2011. Dynamic community of people from all areas of writing of which I am pleased to be a member. I encourage anyone involved in writing in York Region to join. For a link go to the “related links page” on this website.
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(photo by Steve Boissineau)
“The Songs and Verses” Book Launch Lunch at Daniel’s of Nobleton Restaurant on November 20th 2011 was very well attended. Several readings resulted in some of the invited guests ordering 5 copies at a time as they considered the book would make an excellent Christmas present.
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Weekend of Sept 17th/18th at the Schomberg Village Street Gallery, readings went very well. Several visitors asked if an audio version of the poems would be available…. We are seriously looking into that option.
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Posted May 13th 2011
Book # 1 “On Five Continents and Three Oceans” and book #3 “The Verses and Songs” are now with the publisher undergoing proofing and lay-up. We’re getting closer. Book #2 “On Tropical Islands and Sparkling Seas” is nearing completion. Book #4 in the series, with the working title of “Book #4 in the series” (OK, OK …… I promise to come up with something better before I publish it) is now started.
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Posted Feb 2nd 2011
FIRST READING TO BE HELD IN THE BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS!!!!!!
As many of the stories are based upon experiences during Jim’s almost two decades in the British Virgin Islands where he was involved in the marine trades in one form or another, it seemed only fitting that the first reading from the Wanderings and Sojourns series should be held at the Royal British Virgin Islands Yacht Club on the beautiful island of Tortola where he not only lived for so many years, but where his youngest children were born.
JIM SCOTT
Long time BVI resident in the ‘80s and ‘90s will be at the RBVIYC on Monday, February 21st from 6:30 where he will be reading from his upcoming series of books entitled “WANDERINGS AND SOJOURNS”.
The many island and sailing stories and poems include several from his days in the BVI as VISAR coordinator, charter/delivery skipper, racer, diver with yet more yarns from Antigua, St Barths, Bahamas, etc.
RBVIYC will have good grub at a sensible price and of course the bar will be open. Advance book purchases can be made with no payment required until books are ready to ship. And VISAR will receive a sensible share from every book purchased in the BVI. So come out and support RBVIYC and VISAR!!!
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