Spoken Word Artist: Julia Pileggi www.juliapileggi.com

and Host Artist: Carol McQuaid www.carolmcquaidart.com

Our Bar:  The Bimini in Vancouver

Our guest artist today is poet and spoken word performer Julia Pileggi.  I watched her perform at an opening at the Arts Factory and just had to have her on the show.

Lean in at the Bimini while Julia and I swap stories and she performs three of her pieces live on the spot.  Amazing.

 In this episode you’ll hear about:

* Performance: “Us at the Beach” written for her younger brother

* On her big Italian family and how they show up in her work  “Loud is a normal volume for us”

* The role of delivery in spoken word

* Instagram and sharing snippets of poetry as art throughout April: National poetry month @juliapileggipoetry

* “Go in Poet” and what it means

* The big writing topics; love, sex, food, family and self worth

* Balancing the feelings of friends and lovers as they’re appearing in her work

* Performance: “When You Were Gone”

* where opportunities to perform come from

* Work habits: binge writing vs steady writing

* “These 5 Minutes”, writing prompts called ‘daily dip’ Julia and her writing partner have been writing and posting daily since 2011!

* Living in Italy going to language school learning Italian in order to communicate with her Nona (grandmother)

* The realization that she wanted to be a writer and her first writing project, age 7, called “The Geek Who Followed Me Home”

* On education; studying theatre and playwriting at university, taking comedy writing at Second City, and studying the craft on her own

* Future goals, writing and stage shows

* Performance: “The Restaurant Rap” a rap from her days as a server that she wrote during her Second City days

* After which we swap waitressmare stories

* Her goods: prints with poetry and art, chapbooks

* Vancouver poetry slam page youtube

* Upcoming: a series of food poems

* Stay tuned until the end as Julia gives us another awesome punchline for the show title.

Follow Julia on

*  instagram @juliapileggipoetry

 

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*  instagram, twitter and facebook @carolmcquaidart

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Explore these Resources

In this episode, we mentioned the following resources:

* Vancouver Poetry Slam Page on YouTube – Julia Pileggi

* “These 5 Minutes” writing prompts page www.thesefiveminutes.com

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