Speaking Crow October 2025 in-person edition featuring Scott Nolan

Name: Speaking Crow October 2025 in-person edition featuring Scott Nolan
Start: 2025-10-07T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-10-07T19:45:00-05:00
Location: Saint Boniface Library, 131 Provencher Boulevard, Winnipeg MB

Schedule

Tue Oct 07 2025 at 06:30 pm to 07:45 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Saint Boniface Library, 131 Provencher Boulevard, Winnipeg MB | Winnipeg, MB

We are returning to our First Tuesday in-person events at the public library.
NOTE:
-the start time is 6:30 pm. Arrive early to sign up for the open mic.
-the location is the St. Boniface library branch, right across the Provencher Bridge at Provencher and Tache. Free parking is available.
-Polish up your new poems for your 2 minutes of fame at the open mic! (We'll return to 3 minutes at the virtual events, but for now, 2 minutes each seems to work best at the in-person events.)
-No need to register. There will be a sign-up sheet on the back table.
Speaking Crow is a space that values diversity, creativity, and encouragement. Whether you do spoken word or page poetry, whether you have published widely or just started writing, we can't wait to hear your poems. Avoid racist/sexist/transphobic/homophobic/ableist terms and stereotypes to make this a respectful place for all.
If you have questions regarding the event, please email host Angeline Schellenberg: speakingcrow at thinairwinnipeg dot ca.
Speaking Crow is funded and facilitated by Plume Winnipeg (formerly called the Winnipeg International Writers Festival) which is committed to creating safe and respectful opportunities for writers, volunteers, audience members, and workers to share knowledge, explore ideas, and build community.
Featured reader: Scott Nolan
Scott Nolan is a songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and poet from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Treaty One Territory. His debut poetry collection, Moon Was a Feather, was a finalist for the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book.
His albums include The Suburb Beautiful, Before Tonight, Silverhill, North/South, Postcards, No Bourbon and Bad Radio, Receiver/Reflector, American Hotel, and Canadian Amplifier.
His songs have been recorded by Hayes Carll, Mary Gauthier, Watermelon Slim, and Corin Raymond among others.
After more than a decade of relentless touring, Scott decided to take some time away from the road to collaborate, produce records, and enjoy life, and has since produced albums for William Prince, Stephen Fearing, LynneHanson, and Watermelon Slim.
Patrick O’Connell is one of Scott’s favourite contemporary Canadian poets, and his lyrical style had a strong impact on Scott’s early songwriting. Scott’s older cousin Patrick Nolan, who developed a passion for poetry while serving a life sentence in Folsom Prison, was another early influence, sending him books and letters from prison and encouraging the younger Nolan to read and work on his writing. Scott was invited to perform and host writing workshops in the very same prison library his cousin wrote to him from and was the subject of a documentary called Visiting Day, produced for the CBC by filmmaker Charles Konowal.