{"id":63689,"date":"2020-02-04T09:42:27","date_gmt":"2020-02-04T14:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=63689"},"modified":"2020-03-13T11:19:46","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T15:19:46","slug":"brock-unesco-chair-calls-for-sustainability-poetry-contest-submissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/02\/brock-unesco-chair-calls-for-sustainability-poetry-contest-submissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainability Poetry Contest event cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i>EDITOR\u2019S NOTE: This event has been cancelled as part of Brock University\u2019s ongoing efforts to protect the health and safety of students, faculty, staff and the community in light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Submissions are now being accepted for Brock University\u2019s annual Sustainability Poetry Contest.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by Brock\u2019s United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Chair, the annual contest enhances the public\u2019s role in community sustainability through celebration of the written word.<\/p>\n<p>The theme of this year\u2019s contest is International Year of Plant Health, highlighting the importance of plant life in sustaining everything on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Liette Vasseur, Brock professor and UNESCO Chair on Community Sustainability: From Local to Global, said that when looking at sustainability, arts and culture are also important for human wellbeing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPoetry is a form of expression that can link our feelings and values to the real world,\u201d she said. \u201cThe International Year of Plant Health relates to many aspects of our lives including cultural expressions, the health of our planet and our own health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>UNESCO has been celebrating World Poetry Day annually since 1999. The goal is to use poetry as a social tool to bring awareness to social issues, give a voice to the community, promote linguistic diversity and change the way people view their place in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Sustainability Poetry Contest,\u00a0which is under the patronage of the Canadian Commission for UNESCO,\u00a0includes categories for elementary, high school and post-secondary students, as well as the general public. Poems will be accepted in English and in French.<\/p>\n<p>Poems can be submitted online until 5 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 15 by visiting the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/unesco-chair\/sustainability-poetry-contest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UNESCO Chair\u2019s website<\/a>. Prizes such as books and gift cards will be awarded in each of the four categories. Winners will be announced at the Chair\u2019s World Poetry Day celebration on Monday, March 23 at Niagara Artists\u2019 Centre\u00a0 in downtown St. Catharines. The event is free, but registration on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/unesco-chair\/sustainability-poetry-contest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chair\u2019s website<\/a>\u00a0is required as space is limited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submissions are now being accepted for Brock University\u2019s annual Sustainability Poetry Contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[7247,3231,1154,44,7248],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63689"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64703,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63689\/revisions\/64703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}