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b'Spoken Word Artist: Julia Pileggi www.juliapileggi.com
\\nand Host Artist: Carol McQuaid www.carolmcquaidart.com
\\nOur Bar:\\xa0 The Bimini in Vancouver
\\nOur guest artist today is poet and spoken word performer Julia Pileggi.\\xa0 I watched her perform at an opening at the Arts Factory and just had to have her on the show.
\\nLean in at the Bimini while Julia and I swap stories and she performs three of her pieces live on the spot.\\xa0 Amazing.
\\n\\xa0In this episode you\\u2019ll hear about:
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\\n* Performance: \\u201cUs at the Beach\\u201d written for her younger brother
\\n* On her big Italian family and how they show up in her work\\xa0 \\u201cLoud is a normal volume for us\\u201d
\\n* The role of delivery in spoken word
\\n* Instagram and sharing snippets of poetry as art throughout April: National poetry month @juliapileggipoetry
\\n* \\u201cGo in Poet\\u201d and what it means
\\n* The big writing topics; love, sex, food, family and self worth
\\n* Balancing the feelings of friends and lovers as they\\u2019re appearing in her work
\\n* Performance: \\u201cWhen You Were Gone\\u201d
\\n* where opportunities to perform come from
\\n* Work habits: binge writing vs steady writing
\\n* \\u201cThese 5 Minutes\\u201d, writing prompts called \\u2018daily dip\\u2019 Julia and her writing partner have been writing and posting daily since 2011!
\\n* Living in Italy going to language school learning Italian in order to communicate with her Nona (grandmother)
\\n* The realization that she wanted to be a writer and her first writing project, age 7, called \\u201cThe Geek Who Followed Me Home\\u201d
\\n* On education; studying theatre and playwriting at university, taking comedy writing at Second City, and studying the craft on her own
\\n* Future goals, writing and stage shows
\\n* Performance: \\u201cThe Restaurant Rap\\u201d a rap from her days as a server that she wrote during her Second City days
\\n* After which we swap waitressmare stories
\\n* Her goods: prints with poetry and art, chapbooks
\\n* Vancouver poetry slam page youtube
\\n* Upcoming: a series of food poems
\\n* Stay tuned until the end as Julia gives us another awesome punchline for the show title.
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\\n* \\xa0instagram\\xa0@juliapileggipoetry
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\\nExplore these Resources
\\nIn this episode, we mentioned the following resources:
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\\n* Vancouver Poetry Slam Page on YouTube – Julia Pileggi
\\n* \\u201cThese 5 Minutes\\u201d writing prompts page www.thesefiveminutes.com
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