

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: The Nightingale Open-Mic Spoken Word Series (Featuring Nancy Mackenzie) 
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 19 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 19 Mar, 2026 at 09:30 pm
- **Event Description**: ?

“A Poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness, and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician, who feel that they are moved and softened, yet know not whence or why.” 
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

?Doors open @ 6:30pm - event starts at 7pm. 15 minute feature, followed by a traditional open-mic. The sign-up will be located at the entrance.?

?No cover. Admission by donation.?

?All forms of literature welcome, including prose.?

You are all cordially invited to attend a convivial soirée featuring one Nancy MacKenzie, a superb rhapsodic poet who is based out of "The Gateway City of the North".

Our magnificent master of ceremonies will be the ebullient Kathy Fisher!

A prime location for poetry readings, The Kasbar is an exotic lounge with a superb Greek Mediterranean menu and an equally excellent selection of spirits, ale, wine. There will also be a great selection of non-alcoholic beverages.

Under the auspices of the stars, we dare you to partake in an exciting evening of comedy and drama. Come and forge new friendships, or mend old ones anew. But above all, come and sate your sense of adventure - come and have fun.

? Nancy Mackenzie is an Edmonton-based poet writing, editing, and riding on the land known as amiskwaciwâskahikan (Beaver Hills House). She has 4 books of poetry and a novel published by Ekstasis Editions, 5 self-published chapbooks, including one for sale tonight; 1 poetry book and cd published by her 20-year + writing group (Five Magpie Press); 3 books for children published by Reidmore Books and Plains Publishing, and an ethics primer published by Three Rascals Press. Nancy is a professional writer and editor operating as Bronze Horse Communications, recently working on the review of a Provincial Act of legislation, a PhD thesis, and a novel for clients. Her love of a dressage horse named Rowan will canter through some of poems. Nancy is writing a science fiction/fantasy novel about the effects of mining Earth’s resources on Dragon-People, the Ælfen, and Nixies, not to mention humans! Her poetry introduces themes of what Fred Wah calls “a philosophy of is-ness.” Calvin Wharton writes, “Mackenzie’s skill at weaving together the mythological, the ecological, and the personal, is matched by her coincident awareness of the beautiful and the magical hidden in plain sight all around her.” And Lorri Neilsen Glenn writes, “Like Nancy Mackenzie’s ancestors, we pull up our chairs to her hearth, drawn in by the fire and clarity of her spirit and her words. Here is a poet who offers us not only the wild and the raven, but a glass of the finest, purest river.

? Kathy Fisher is an Edmonton-based, Montreal-born multidisciplinary artist, performance poet and documentarian.

“Her poems are beautiful narratives, a lyrical weave of words that move you through the stories she wants to tell about life, death and everything in between." ~ Edmonton Examiner

#yeg #yegart #edmlife #poetrycommunity #canadianpoet #canlit #spokenword #yegopenmic
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/edmonton/the-nightingale-open-mic-spoken-word-series-featuring-nancy-mackenzie/200029799259245
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, open-mic, trips-adventures, entertainment, spoken-word, performances, music, theatre, comedy, nonprofit
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 40

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Edmonton
- **state**: AB
- **country**: Canada
- **location**: 10444 82 Ave NW, Edmonton, AB T6E 2A2, Canada
- **lat**: 53.51844
- **long**: -113.49929
- **full address**: 10444 82 Ave NW, Edmonton, AB T6E 2A2, Canada

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: The Nightingale  (https://allevents.in/org/the-nightingale/25433768)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 19 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 10444 82 Ave NW, Edmonton, AB T6E 2A2, Canada
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** The Nightingale
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, open-mic, trips-adventures, entertainment, spoken-word, performances, music, theatre, comedy, nonprofit
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about The Nightingale Open-Mic Spoken Word Series (Featuring Nancy Mackenzie)  ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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