Sara Dominici saradominici.bsky.social Jo Gane Al Purdy AFA Thanks Sara – maybe it is too early but, what do you think darkroom conference edition 2 next year?

Paul Elter Jo Gane Al Purdy AFA Possibly. In the meantime, if you are interested I can send you the recording of this one. Email me and I’ll fwd the link when it’s ready [email protected]

Well I am getting [sadly] close to the end my stay Al Purdy AFA it has been a glorious busy time making well over 100 plates, with one week-end more to go, if you are in the #PEC area come see me #MarinersMuseum bring a story-Till then blog post below elter.ca/alizarin/2023/…

Sweating torrents during todays last shoot at the #AmeliasburghLibrary after four Wednesdays feeling a little melancholy. 5 more great plates though. The chemistry was making some aesthetic decisions for me today - a good sunning needed 👌 #Wetplate #tintype Al Purdy AFA

This is it -packing up the mobile darkroom #TinCan leaving the county - for now. Yesterdays shoot at #MarinersMuseum #PEC communing with ghosts &digging into the artifacts. Fittingly ending with rain. Al Purdy AFA #Wetplate #Collodion #Tintype

Yesterday was the perfect ending to my residency here in the county- Photographed Joe Reid a 103yr old who went to school with #AlPurdy It has been 30days of #wetplateing a sizeable beginning -the #silvertongued project continues Million thx to👇 Al Purdy AFA Canada Council for the Arts

The Al Purdy A-Frame Association – ACO Heritage Awards acoheritageawards.ca/the-al-purdy-a…

Big news for Purdy fans! stratfordfestival.ca/WhatsOn/PlaysA…

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Whoa! Brand new Canadian poetry prize announced, "The Al and Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize." Funded by Eurithe Purdy, it will award $10,000 annually for a poetry book published in the last two years. No submission process or fee. First winner announced April 24th.

The winner of the inaugural Al and Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize has been announced:

“For me, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, or for flowers or beast or bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly and perfectly alive.” – Canadian poet Al Purdy. Born in #Ontario, Al is considered one of the greatest poets in Canada ♥️🇨🇦

The Al Purdy AFA is flying! Repairs to the foundation (maybe don't build on a floodplain next time, Al?) are underway. It will be back on the ground soon enough, and the call for applications for 2025/26 residencies is now open: alpurdy.ca/residency/

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Whoa! The Steven Heighton Fellowship, a collaboration between Al Purdy AFA, Queen's Department of English Literature and Kingston WritersFest, will pay one writer each year $10,000, plus almost *two months* worth of residencies + a festival appearance. More details: alpurdy.ca/apafa-launches…

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