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News Archives
November 04, 2010 - February 04, 2012
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Posted: Thu, May 12, 2011
Heavy Industries Book Launch
Heavy Industries is a small chapbook press that brings together groups of like-minded poets to design and construct their own books. The run is limited to ten to fifteen copies, with each book no more than ten to twelve pages, containing one long poem. Every chapbook will be an original made by the poet. The current collection is the result of months of hanging out with glue, paper, paper cutters, wiener dog interference, hinges, sandpaper, and coffee/beer/cigarettes/love.
Books will be for sale at the launch.
When/Where:
Spartacus Books
684 Hastings Street East
7:30
May 12, 2011
The current group of industrialists: Nikki Reimer, Reg Johanson, Jason Christie, Kim Duff, and Cris Costa.
Nikki Reimer's [sic] was recently shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Prize. She likes coffee.
Reg Johanson is a writer and teacher in East Vancouver on Coast Salish land.
Jason Christie wrote i Robot and Canada Post. He's old fashioned and loves books even tho he works with computers. Also, he likes high fives and when people fist pump to celebrate breakthroughs and eureka moments. He and his wife, Andrea Ryer, would like to get a dog one day.
Kim Duff is a dissertation writer, poet, dog-mum, and lover of stuff and things. One day the next book, Huddled and Sorted, will see the light of day. One day…
Cris Costa writes poetry, fiction and etc. After spending 10 years in post-secondary education, she applied her skills by throwing dance parties for roughly 10 months. Costa recently completed her certificate in hipster training by moving to Mount Pleasant. She also likes coffee.
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Posted: Sun, May 08, 2011
BUFFET WORLD launches in VANCOUVER
On May 7, at 8:00 pm join New Star Books and Vivo Media Arts (1965 Main Street, Vancouver) in celebrating the launch of Donato Mancini's new collection of poetry.
BUFFET WORLD
Donato Mancini
128 pages
New Star Books (Vancouver)
textual poems, visual poems and conceptual writings.
statistics & food & capitalism & death & lists.
full colour.
composed 2003-2010.
in print & available.
visit the New Star Books website below
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Posted: Sun, May 08, 2011
TCR GEORGE STANLEY ISSUE
The Capilano Review launches The George Stanley Issue (3.14)
May 18 | The Sylvia Hotel
7pm reception | 7:30pm readings
GEORGE STANLEY
GEORGE BOWERING
SHARON THESEN
PETER CULLEY
The Sylvia Hotel: 1154 Gilford Street on English Bay, Vancouver
For more information: contact@thecapilanoreview.ca
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Posted: Sun, May 01, 2011
DERKSEN + MANCINI + MOTTO BOOKS
April 28 at the Waldorf hotel, Fillip and Motto Books present “Recent Publications,” a party hosted by the Waldorf Hotel in conjunction with the release of two new Fillip Editions publications: Fact ‘n’ Value by Donato Mancini and How High Is the City, How Deep Is Our Love by Jeff Derksen. Copies of the recently released spring issue of Fillip magazine will also be available, along with a large selection of other new titles from Motto Books, including recent and back issues of Graphic, The Exhibitionist, 032C, May, and Piktogram. Other titles for sale will include new releases from Roma Publications, Nieves, Sternberg Press, Bedford Press, Spector Books, and Occasional Papers, among many others.
Mittens & Gloves (Jeff K. and Courtenay W.) and Christopher Olsen will play pop music from the past five decades.
The Waldorf Hotel is located at 1489 East Hastings Street, Vancouver. The event will take place in both the hotel’s lobby and downstairs, in the Hideaway Room.
Thursday April 28, 8 pm – late
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Posted: Wed, Apr 13, 2011
New TSUNAMI Editions content
new facsimile PDFs of early Tsunami titles available for download:
Verbose, by Gerald Creede (1987)
Fruit Dots, by Peter Culley (1987)
Until, by Jeff Derksen (1987)
How Two, by Kathryn MacLeod (1987)
Visualized Chemistry, by Calvin Wharton (1987)
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All downloadable Tsunami titles:
Ambit, by Gerald Creede (1993)
Verbose, by Gerald Creede (1987)
Fruit Dots, by Peter Culley (1987)
Pause Button, by Kevin Davies (1992)
Until, by Jeff Derksen (1987)
Ape, by Dan Farrell (1988)
The Relatie Minor, by Deanna Ferguson (1993)
Oral Tragedy, by Dorothy Trujillo Lusk (1988)
How Two, by Kathryn MacLeod (1987)
Ready Terms, by Robert Mittenthal (1989)
Affordable Tedium, by Nancy Shaw (1990)
Multiple Poses, by Colin Smith (1997)
Jump/Cut, by Larry Timewell (1987)
Visualised Chemistry, by Calvin Wharton (1987)
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Posted: Thu, Mar 31, 2011
Japan Earthquake Benefit Reading
***Friends Across the Pacific: An Evening of Readings & Performances**
Join us in supporting relief efforts in Japan. The BC Japan Earthquake Fund
and the Asian Canadian Studies Society invites you to an evening of poetry, fiction, performance, with some of Vancouver's finest writers:
Daphne Marlatt, Joanne Arnott, Proma Tagore, Roy Miki, Lydia Kwa, Hiromi
Goto, Fred Wah, and more!
Thursday, March 31, 2011, 8pm. Doors open at 7:30pm
VIVO Media Arts Centre, 1965 Main Street, Vancouver
By donation. All donations will go to the Canadian Red Cross through the
BC-Japan Earthquake Relief Fund.
** All welcome. Must be 19 years of age or older to purchase alcohol. ID required.**
The BC Japan Earthquake Relief Fund (BC-JERF) is a coalition of volunteers; we are individuals, community groups and businesses concerned for the well-being of the people in Japan in the wake of the recent earthquake, tsunami, and unfolding nuclear threats. Our purpose is to vet and act as an organizational hub for BC communities' fundraising efforts and to facilitate the delivery of this financial aid to the affected people in Japan. Funds raised through BC-JERF-endorsed campaigns and events will be donated in full to reputable charities operating on the ground in Japan, such as the Japanese Red Cross.
Community Partners: VIVO Media Arts Centre, Powell Street Festival Society and Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art.
For more information contact: Julia Aoki, Communications Coordinator at julia@bc-jerf.ca
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Posted: Wed, Feb 09, 2011
The Capilano Review Launches Issue 3.13: Manifestos Now!
Please join us at our Vancouver Art Gallery launch
February 22, 2011, 6:00-9:00 pm
WE: Vancouver – 12 Manifestos for the City exhibition rooms
Readings at 8:00 pm: Colin Browne, Margot Leigh Butler, Reg Johanson, Kim Minkus, Nikki Reimer, Sheila Ross, Edward Top, and more . . .
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Manifestos Now! Exhibition Opening Reception and Panel, with Brian Ganter, Lisa Robertson, Marie-Hélène Tessier, Pierre Coupey, and Reg Johanson
March 3, 2011 at 7:00 pm
Room 7000
SFU Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings, Vancouver
followed by a walking tour of the Teck Gallery’s Manifestos Now! exhibition, which runs from February 22-May 27, 2011
For more information: contact@thecapilanoreview.ca
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Posted: Sun, Jan 30, 2011
Poet Michael McClure
Friday February 11, 2011
San Francisco writer Michael McClure gained fame as one of the five poets who read at the legendary Six Gallery event in 1955, where Allen Ginsberg first read Howl. A key member of the Beat Generation and California counterculture, McClure has published extensively as a poet, playwright, essayist, novelist and songwriter, and is known for the highly original, visionary quality of his writing as well as for his dynamic poetry performances. In recent years he has collaborated with many musicians, notably Ray Manzarek, former keyboardist with The Doors, and the composer Terry Riley. McClure’s Vancouver appearance comes on the occasion of the publication of
Of Indigo and Saffron: New and Selected Poems (U. of California Press), which follows closely the 2010 publication of Mysteriosos and Other Poems (New Directions). Abstract Alchemist of Flesh, a fifty-five minute documentary film of Michael McClure, with cameos of Dennis Hopper, Ray Manzarek, and Allen Ginsberg, is soon to be released.
Michael McClure will be making two appearances
on Friday February 11, 2011:
2:00pm
Screening of new documentary film, Abstract Alchemist of Flesh, presented by McClure
Room 7200
WAC Bennett Library
8888 University Drive
Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6
8:00pm*
Reading from his works (Introduced by George Stanley)
Room 1700 (Labatt’s Hall)
SFU Vancouver - Harbour Centre
515 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, BC V6B 5K3
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Posted: Wed, Jan 05, 2011
Three Readings: Camera, Tape and Sound
Three Readings: Camera, Tape and Sound (Kathy Acker, Steve McCaffery/bpNicol, and Kevin Davies, as introduced by George Bowering) - A screening and talk presented by Michael Turner
Western Front Media Arts is pleased to welcome Michael Turner as inaugural Western Front Media Archive researcher-in- residence, as part of Past is Prologue, an ongoing research project considering the Western Front Media Archive. Past is Prologue is a new initiative that will invite artists, writers, archivists and historians to conduct research related to the Western Front Media Archive, an on site repository of over 1300 tapes, including performance documents, video art and audio recordings.
Building an interest in expanded literary practices in Vancouver, Vancouver based author Michael Turner, conducted research around the Western Front Media Archive’s collection of largely unseen video documentation of literary readings that took place at Western Front in the 1970s and 1980s. This research has culminated in a screening titled Three Readings: Camera, Tape and Sound (Kathy Acker, bpNichol/Steve McCaffery and Kevin Davies, as introduced by George Bowering), and an accompanying essay, which will be available in a limited print run, and online as a print-on-demand downloadable PDF at www.front.bc.ca.
This screening will focus on how each reading is mediated specifically through the camera, audio recording and the qualities of archival video tape. The screening will feature Kathy Acker’s 1977 reading from The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec, bpNichol and Steve McCaffery’s 1977 performance of Aupe Relationships and Kevin Davies as introduced by George Bowering, reading from Exhibit A in 1983.
Wednesday January 12, 2011 at 6 PM.
Western Front Grande Luxe Hall, 303 East 8th, Vancouver.
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Posted: Tue, Nov 02, 2010
AN EVENING OF REVOLUTIONARY POETRY
An Evening of Revolutionary Poetry
Friday November 12
VIVO Media Arts Centre
1965 Main Street
8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
suggested $5 donation
"Home of the brave, land of the free - I don't want to be mistreated by no bourgeosie."
In times like these, it is impossible to be too political, too literal, too direct, or too vulgar. So help us bring a little concrete to the city of abstractions, a little historical texture to the city of glass. Test what it's possible to feel. Make a scandal of your sincerity. In counter-celebration, join us for a night of revolutionary poetry.
20 Vancouver writers and artists will weep and wail poems of revolution by (such poets as) Amiri Baraka, Pier Passolini, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Velimir Khlebnikov, Edwin Rolfe, Kenneth Rexroth, Cesar Vallejo, Tsang K'e-Chia, Huddie Ledbetter, Osip Mandelstamm, Paul Eluard, and many others.
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Posted: Wed, Oct 27, 2010
Call For Papers: On Lissa Wolsak
With the publication of Lissa Wolsak's collected works Squeezed Light, readers are invited to contribute a review, poetic, critical or other response to Lissa's work, to be published as a special feature in a forthcoming issue of The Poetic Front, edited by Steve Collis and Jordan Scott.
Deadline for material is November 30.
submit material to : scollis AT sfu DOT ca
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Posted: Sat, Oct 23, 2010
LaConference 2011
LaConference 2011
~~~~~ CALL FOR PAPERS ~~~~~
LaConference 2011
Lacan Salon
Vancouver, British Columbia
March 18-19, 2011
Scope of the Conference
LaConference 2011 is an initiative by the Vancouver-based Lacan Salon to provide a venue for broad discussion of themes in Lacanian psychoanalysis.
To read the fulll Call for Papers, visit the conference website below.
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Posted: Tue, Oct 19, 2010
The Conference on The Conference
Call for Papers: The Conference on The Conference
March 4th and 5th, 2011
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver BC
A School for the Contemporary Arts Graduate Candidate's Symposium/Exhibition
The Simon Fraser University School for the Contemporary Arts organizing committee for The Conference on The Conference invites you to participate in a conference exploring the different conceptual, theoretical, and methodological understandings and practices of the contemporary academic conference. The event of the conference - of institutional assembly, programmatic circulation of ideas, staging for democratic exchange, spectacle of knowledges and information - is of questionable importance today. There is a proliferation of academic forums yet a break-down in the belief that 'the conference' provides the space for critique.
To read the full call for papers, visit the conference homepage below.
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Posted: Mon, Oct 04, 2010
Play Chthonics: Lee Maracle and Fabiola Nabil
VANCOUVER — The second session of Play Chthonics promises to be
another evening filled with inspiring voices as Lee Maracle and
Fabiola Nabil Naguib share their energy, art, and creative thought.
Please arrive on time as seating is limited.
Date: Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Location: Graham House at Green College, 6201 Cecil Green Park Road
Cost: Free
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Posted: Thu, Sep 23, 2010
LISA ROBERTSON @ SFU HARBOUR CENTRE
Simon Fraser University and the Department of English are proud to present
LISA ROBERTSON
The Fall 2010 Ellen and Warren Tallman Writer in Residence
Reading and Reception.
Friday October 1 7:30-10:30pm.
Segal Centre (room 1400), SFU Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings Street.
Come help us celebrate!
Lisa Robertson will be available for consultations at Simon Fraser
University from September to December, 2010. To make an appointment, please
call the Department of English at (778) 782-3121 or email elt@sfu.ca
www.english.sfu.ca
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Posted: Wed, Sep 22, 2010
POETRY IS DEAD
What happens when you give poets five minutes in front of a microphone to do whatever they want? We don’t know. But we’re willing to find out. On October 1st we launch our second issue, and challenge the contributing poets to do anything besides read poetry.
There will be talks and readings by some of the contributors of the “TV, Beer and Video Games” issue including Billeh Nickerson, Donato Mancini, Nikki Reimer, Dina Del Bucchia, Karlene Harvey, Jordan Abel and more.
Join us for a night of poets and beer and uncertainty.
Doors open at 7:00pm.
Readings and talks start at 8:00pm.
Entry: $10.00 (includes issue).
Address: 206b Carrall St. (in Gastown).
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Posted: Tue, Sep 21, 2010
dANDelion: The Mapping Issue
Dandelion seeks submissions that investigate the concept/action of mapping – mapping as categorizing, cataloguing, interpreting, seeking, organizing, naming, uncovering. Or mapping as interference, intervention.
We encourage hybrid experiments and welcome your texts, interviews, essays, dramatic texts, visual art, sound work, video work, diagrams, charts, formulas, surveys, maps, dance notation, genome maps, genealogies or your own interpretation of this list of suggested forms.
Submissions should be 3000 words maximum for fiction/poetry, 10 minutes maximum for video and/or sound work, up to 6 images for visual art, visual poetry, diagrams, charts, etc. Feel free to contact us with inquiries about your submissions at – dandelion.magazine@gmail.com
Deadline: November 15, 2010.
Editors Oana Avasilichioaei and Kathleen Brown.
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Posted: Sun, Sep 19, 2010
CV2 ANNIVERSARY READING TOUR
CV2's Coast to Coast 35th Anniversary Reading Tour. Toronto - Halifax - Vancouver - Winnipeg. In Vancouver October 16. Celebrate the 35th anniversary of CV2.
Date: Saturday, October 16.
Time: 8:00pm.
Location: W2 Storyeum, 151 Cordova St W.
Readers: Donato Mancini, Bren Simmers, Elizabeth Bachinsky, Billeh Nickerson.
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Posted: Wed, Jul 21, 2010
** Poetry on the Ground **
* Press Release collective invites you to a poetic celebration of movements
for justice and liberation
* performances by:
Mercedes Eng
Naava Smolash
Alnoor Gova
Cecily Nicholson
Sara Kendall
Proma Tagore
Wil George
* Saturday July 24, 7-10 pm
* backyard of 1227 Victoria Drive under the spreading cedar tree
* refreshments provided
* partners, kids, allies, friends, family welcome
* Suggested donation $5. Proceeds go to G8/G20 legal support*
*join us earlier in the day at the People’s March Against Jason Kenney
2pm at Central Park, Burnaby
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Posted: Sun, Jul 18, 2010
SAD MAG: Vancouver is Burning
Vancouver is Burning
FREE EVENT
1181 Tight Lounge
1181 Davie Street
Vancouver, BC
Tuesday July 27th, 2010
Doors at 6:00 PM - Screening at 7:00 PM
This is a 19+ event
In conjunction with the 22nd Vancouver Queer Film Festival and 1181 Tight
Lounge, SAD MAG presents a screening of Jennie Livingston's 1990 gay
documentary classic Paris is Burning complete with cocktail reception,
raffle and great music by DJ Robo Santa.
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Posted: Mon, Jul 12, 2010
the Alphabet :
A Symposium on Ron Silliman’s Long Poem
25-26 March 2011
University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario
This symposium aims to invite readings of Ron Silliman’s long poem, the Alphabet , and encourages critical engagements with its formal and socio historical / ideological dynamics as well as with its contexts and interpretive frames that have accrued around the author’s time and work.
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Posted: Fri, May 28, 2010
NEGOTIATING THE SOCIAL BOND OF POETICS: A Reading and Seminar Series
This reading and critical workshop are part of an ongoing series that will run for the equivalent of one academic year, with one writer a month presenting a reading one evening and participating in a workshop, which will address the theme below, the following day. Watch the main page of the KSW website for upcoming dates. Click below to read the series abstract.
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Posted: Fri, Apr 09, 2010
Christian Bök, Lisa Robertson, Soma Feldmar, Christine LeClerc
TCR ANNOUNCES CHRISTIAN BÖK AND LISA ROBERTSON at the Cultch MAY 11 at
7:30pm. Also CUE will launch Soma Feldmar's Other and TCR will launch
the Poets Theatre issue. Readings by Soma Feldmar, Christine LeClerc and
the Institute for Domestic Research.
Admission $5 - $9. Buy tickets online below
or by phone at 604.251.1363.
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Posted: Fri, Apr 02, 2010
OCCUPYING MINDS
A Poetry Reading: Occupying Minds
The Langara College Centre for Art in Public Spaces invites you to join us for A Poetry Reading: Occupying Minds as part of The Pavilion project by artist-in-residence Holly Ward:
Thursday, April 8, 2010
7pm
The Pavilion (Langara College front lawn, 100 West 49th Ave)
Occupying Minds is a reading on the theme of “the university” in conjunction with a projection of Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber’s The University Paradox, an installation shown concurrently in Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna.
Organized by Jeff Derksen, the reading consists of a group of poets who work in and through the education industry. All language is in solidarity against "the shipwreck of the singular" (George Oppen) with all eyes on the future horizon.
Reader line-up: Clint Burnham, Stephen Collis, Jeff Derksen, Kim Duff, Reg Johanson, Larissa Lai, Donato Mancini, and Cecily Nicholson.
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Posted: Mon, Mar 29, 2010
THE POETIC FRONT, VOL 3 (2010)
The latest issue of The Poetic Front is now available.
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