A book launch in the Highland Heart of Nova Scotia:
C R E A T I N G
| | Join us on August 26 for a festive book launch in Antigonish, NS, as we celebrate the power of creativity with poet, dancer, and educator Celeste Nazeli Snowber | | |
Antigonish is about to welcome acclaimed poet, dancer, and educator Celeste Nazeli Snowber to the Highland Heart of Nova Scotia for a celebration, the launch of her new poetry collection, Creating in Dangerous Times, proudly published by HARP Publishing: The People's Press.
This isn’t just a reading—it’s a vibrant afternoon of movement, words, and community spirit. Celeste will dance her first poem, read from her collection, and sign books. She’ll be joined by the young fiddlers of Wild Music School, the Grant School of Highland Dance, dancer and professor Carolina Bergonzoni, and L'Arche's own Hearts and Hands Dance Troupe.
Part poetic meditation, part call to courage, Creating in Dangerous Times invites all of us to rekindle the creative spark within.
“Each small creative act is an act of courage.”
—Celeste Nazeli Snowber
| |  | Young fiddlers from Wild Music School are scheduled to perform live. | |
An Afternoon of Music, Dance & Poetry
Young fiddlers from Wild School of Music: classic Highland tunes.
Grant School of Highland Dance: a traditional performance.
Carolina Bergonzoni: Cape Breton dancer/professor to perform a solo dance.
Hearts and Hands Dance Troupe: a splendid and colourful scarf dance.
A formal introduction: by Ellyn Lyle, Dean of Education & Health, Cape Breton University.
Dance performance of a poem: by the author herself, Celeste Nazeli Snowber.
Readings & signing: poetry brought to life!
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Advanced praise for Creating In Dangerous Times speaks volumes:
“Celeste Snowber reminds us that even amidst uncertainty, we can create, move, and live fully.” ~Jodi Proznick, award-winning bassist and composer.
“A master of inspiration, motivation, and challenge… Every word is poetic and sensory.” ~Bill Arnott, bestselling author.
“A heart-opening book… Delicious, inspired, and inspiring.” ~Margie Gillis, solo dancer and choreographer.
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RAIN OR SHINE
2pm Tuesday, August 26
Location is weather-dependent.
If clear skies:
Festivities will begin in the courtyard outside Xavier Hall, St. Francis Xavier University, located at 4500 Alumni Crescent, with lively fiddle music, a variety of dance performances, and an introduction by her colleague, contemporary and friend, Ellyn Lyle, Dean of Education and Health from the University of Cape Breton, with the author's poetry readings and signings indoors at the nearby Community Room of The People's Place Library, located at 283 Main Street.
If there's a downpour:
The celebration will be diverted to the shelter of The Library.
| | Purchase online at HARP's website to ensure 10% of profits go towards community-based arts and wellness initiatives.> | | Creating in Dangerous Times is a universal invitation to reclaim our human birthright of creativity. Each poem serves as a timely incantation—one might even say a ”prescription”—for creative malaise. Designed to stir the memory of our shared humanity, Snowber explores themes of presence and the healing arts, gently nudging us all the while to reawaken, reflect upon, and reconnect with our latent creativity. A beautiful and necessary guide and a deeply empathetic approach to healing and reconciling ourselves, one another, and the planet. | | | ABOVE: The Heart & Hands Dance Troupe prepare scarves for a performance. According to L'Arche Antigonish, Heart & Hands celebrates all creative expression, with the goal of everyone using creativity to "feel free." | | Welcoming Dr. Celeste Nazeli Snowber | | |
Celeste Nazeli Snowber, PhD is a dancer, poet, writer and award-winning educator who is a Professor in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University. She has published and performed widely and her many books include Embodied Inquiry: Writing, living and being through the body; Dance, Place and Poetics: Site-specific performance as a portal to knowing and three collections of poetry.
Her book of poetry, The Marrow of Longing, also published by HARP, explores her Armenian identity. She has performed and spoken internationally in concert venues, galleries, museums, conferences, and in various outdoor spaces.
Celeste can be found at www.celestesnowber.com or more ideally, dancing between land and sea.
| | Join us for an afternoon that promises to soothe the soul and spark the imagination... | | |
ABOVE: Dr. Celeste Snowber demonstrates how the performative arts can richly embody critical pedagogy of place.
Her research focuses on embodied ways of knowing and learning in relationship to creating and teaching.
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