Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Honour Poets with festival, street names, January 18, 1988

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Historic Cobourg could have a Summer Theatre Festival to honour literature. We are not a University Town, but we could become again, at least in the summer a window of opportunity to students who are studying theatre and journalism.

The Town has a huge inventory of costumes waiting in the dark, and a lot of wonderful young people who would love to work as performers/actors for the first time, even in a park, near Lake Ontario. Modern version of Romeo & Juliette, etc... their poetry could be fully appreciated by the public, young and old.

Literature is fascinating, it has an active role (reading) and a passive one(reflective /ideology).

Theatre by-the-Lake.
The Cobourg library could extend a participating role to that effect.
They could also provide more activities by creating a room to instruct reading nautical chart, as we are "Cobourg by the Lake", and we do have a sailing school.
We could develop a specialty of legends on the water, etc... We do have a lovely lake, rosa rugosa flowers, willows, lighthouses, a pier, floods, gails, extraordinary sunsets etc...

Sucessful communities are creative and opened to new ideas.

Of course, something could be done to build a wish list to name our streets after Canadian writers and foreign ones, special ships and their captains, as long as it is done in good taste, and monitored by professionals.

Wally Keeler said...

very good and thoughtful. Thank you very kindly for your suggestions.