Poetry, storytelling and songs at Wake up and Smell the Poetry!

WAKE UP & SMELL THE POETRY IN HOPKINTON  ON DECEMBER 7th!   On December 7th at 10:30 a.m., HCAM Studios will be waking up to the poetry of Rafael Campo, the story-telling of Elisa Pearmain and the songs of Al Gould. All three guest features are not only extraordinary artists, but also work in the field of either medicine/healing or the healing arts. Rafael Campo teaches and practices internal medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and has received the Nicholas E. Davies Memorial Scholar Award from the American College of Physicians, for outstanding humanism in medicine. Elisa Pearmain is a licensed psychotherapist who has used story and narrative therapy with individuals and groups in hospitals, clinical and private practice settings. Al Gould performs his prolific compositions of music on stage as well as providing therapeutic music for  number of health care facilities Each guest feature will read/perform for 20 minutes and an open mic for poetry, story and song will follow.

The program is filmed and the footage is later edited into weekly, half- hour programs for cable television. Doors open at 10:00 a.m., the program hosted by Hopkinton resident Cheryl Perreault  begins at 10:30. Admission, coffee and scones are free. The public is welcome to come out and join this monthly morning program honoring the arts of poetry, music and the spoken word story and have opportunity to meet many interesting artists, writers and people of the community. HCAM Studios is located at 77 Main Street, Hopkinton To reserve a seat and/or open mic spot and for information on past programs that can be viewed online , go to www.hcam.tv/wakeup or send email to cbperreault@gmail.com.