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Performances and readings of PK Page works

• 90th Birthday celebration by the CBC - works by David Scott, Murray Adaskin, Anna Hostman 2007

• A special issue of The Journal of Canadian Studies, 2004

• Extraordinary Presence: The Worlds of P.K. Page - Symposium at Trent, 2002

• The Poem, Planet Earth was selected by the United Nations to be read in various locations in celebration of the program Dialogue Among Civilizations Through Poetry, 2001

• A Writers’ Tribute at The Vancouver Writers Festival, 2000

• "A Children’s Millennial Song", music by Oscar Peterson, 2000 written for the opening of the Trans-Canada Trail

• Text (Poems) for The Invisible Reality, an oratorio by Derek Holman

• "A Somewhat Irregular Renga," poems with Philip Stratford, for the CBC, 1999

• The Margaret Laurence Memorial Lecture, 1999

• A special issue of The Malahat Review, 1996

• The lyrics to: "A Children’s Hymn" - music by Harry Somers, composed for the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations. Performed in 1995 in San Francisco.

• Still Waters - The Poetry of P.K. Page (Film & Video) The National Film Board of Canada, 1991

• Afterword to "Widsom from Nonsense Land," for children, Press Porcépic

• Afterword to "Emily’s Quest," by Lucy M. Montgomery, New Canadian Library Edition, McClelland & Stewart, 1989.

• Afterword to: "Nights Below Station Street," by David Adams Richards, New Canadian Library Edition, McClelland & Stewart, 1988.

• Afterword to "The Innocent Traveler," by Ethel Wilson, New Canadian Library Edition, McClelland & Stewart, 1990.

• "Unless the Eye Catch Fire" dramatised with Joy Coghill and performed with Robert Cram, flute, 1994, and by Romany Miller,2007

• "I-Sphinx," a poem for two voices based on the life of Sibelius, radio program for the CBC, 1980's.

• Initiated, scripted and participated in "Prince Attila’s Journey to the End of the World" - for children--puppet theatre

• Poetry for: "Arras - A Garden of Cinema," music by David Scott

• Text for The Travelling Musicians, Music by Ruth Watson Henderson

• Text for "The Travelling Musicians," Music by Murray Adaskin. (comissioned by the Victoria Symphony}Performed with music by P.W. Henderson and the Toronto Children's Choir, 1990's.

• "Personal Landscape, a Song Cycle," Music by Bernard Naylor

• "Travellers’ Palm", an NFB animated film of the poem of the same name

• Script and commentary for "Teeth are to Keep," for children - an animated film which won an award at Cannes

• "The Sun and the Moon," dramatized for CBC Radio

• "The Filled Pen," Readings, CD, 2004

• "What Time is it Now?"- one act opera, music Anna Hostman, 2005

 

Updated on July 15, 2008