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News Archives
December 11, 2008 - March 11, 2010
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Posted: Mon, Feb 15, 2010
READING RESISTANCE
READING RESISTANCE
Olympic Tent Village Poetry Night
*Monday February 15th
*6pm
*At the location of the Olympic Tent Village (TBA)
The Olympic Tent Village launches on Monday. It is important that a
crowd of supporters be present through the evening hours to pull the
village together and to guard against possible police interference.
Join us the inaugural evening of the Olympic Tent Village for a night
of poetry and discussion with veterans and emergent poet-fighters for
social justice. Featuring, in alphabetical order: Brad Cran, Mercedes Eng, Maxine Gadd, Cynthia Oka, and Dorothy Trujillo Lusk
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Posted: Sat, Jan 30, 2010
POVERTY OLYMPICS 2010
Participate in the 3rd Annual Poverty Olympics on February 7, 2010
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Posted: Fri, Jan 29, 2010
Cascadia Convergence 2010
This year's Cascadia Convergence will take place in Vancouver February 10th to 15th.
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Posted: Mon, Jan 25, 2010
A Night of Capilano Creative Writing!
Join Capilano University students, faculty and alumni on Thursday, January 28 at the Railway Club for a special night of poetry and performance.
Presented by the Memewar Arts and Publishing Society.
A Night of Capilano Creative Writing!
Thursday, January 28, 2010
The Railway Club (579 Dunsmuir)
Admission: FREE
Readings by:
Brook Houglum
Carmen Papalia & AJ Ivings
Chloe Lai
Colin J Brown
Melissa Critchlow
jennifer cole
Hope to see you there,
-Memewar Editors
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Posted: Mon, Jan 25, 2010
Recipes for an Encounter
Join artists, writers, and co-editors to launch the new book Recipes for an Encounter, a compendium of recipes, instructionals, diagrams, scores and texts that function as catalysts for various types of encounters. In Recipes for an Encounter, readers are invited to complete the work by testing out the recipes to yield infinitely varied outcomes. Contributors to the book and other artists will share their recipes in a night of interactive performances.
At the launch, co-editors, Berin Golonu, Candice Hopkins, and Marisa Jahn, will narrate a brief history of art works disseminated as recipes. Join artists Glenn Lewis, Kristina Podesva & Alan McConcie for the performance of their recipes.
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
19:00 - 21:00. READ Bookstore @ Emily Carr University of Art + Design
1399 Johnston Street, Granville Island
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Posted: Mon, Jan 25, 2010
Ron Sakolsky Reads at The Pavilion
The Langara Centre for Art in Public Spaces invites you to join us for a
reading of Denman Island anarchist poet and scholar Ron Sakolsky's newest
book, Swift Winds on January 28 at 6pm. The reading will take place in The
Pavilion, a project space by our current Artist-in-Residence Holly Ward.
The reading is part of The Pavilion's first exhibition, Ideas and
Integrities: A Utopian Library, which is open from January 14 - February 6,
2010. 100 West 49th Avenue.
Ron Sakolsky is an anarchist poet and scholar that has published several
articles and works on the topic of utopianism and anarchy. His works
include Creating Anarchy (2005), Swift Winds (2009), and Islands of
Resistence: Pirate Radio in Canada (2010). During in tenure at the
University of Illinois at Springfield, Sakolsky also designed and taught a
course entitled "The Utopian Imagination" in the Studies in Social Change
Program.
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Posted: Fri, Jan 22, 2010
Robson Reading Series: Nickerson and Boyko.
Thirsty for some good CanLit? Well then come on over to the UBC Bookstore/Library next Thursday, January 28 and quench your thirst when the Robson Reading Series serves up two of the most original and exciting writers in Canada poet: poet (and much-loved columnist) Billeh Nickerson and short-story writer Craig Boyko. Thursday, 28 January 2010.
18:45 - 20:30
UBC Bookstore/Library Robson Square
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Posted: Wed, Jan 20, 2010
The Expectations of Art in the Public Sphere
Miwon Kwon, in One Place After Another: site-specific art and locational identity, makes a strong link between public art and the production of urban identities: "Despite the discussions of ‘placelessness and crisis’ and the ‘death of cities’, ‘place-making’ remains a central imperative in public arts programming today.”
Building from this concept of art as a place-making activity, “Coming Soon” is the first public symposium of the new Audain Gallery at SFU Woodward's: the symposium aims to address questions regarding the different, and often competing, public and artistic expectations of art in the public sphere and art as a public discourse.
Two panel discussions with artists, curators, and cultural critics will open these issues: Lorna Brown (CA), Jamie Hilder (CA), Am Johal (CA, moderator) Ken Lum (CA), Bik Van Der Pol (NL), Makiko Hara (CA), Jeff Derksen (CA, moderator)
The symposium is in conjunction with the site-specific works, for the program Coming Soon, commissioned from SFU alumni -- Ken Lum, Kathy Slade, Lorna Brown, and Jamie Hilder –which will be shown in the Hastings Street windows of the Gallery and on its website.
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Posted: Mon, Jan 11, 2010
Open Letter re: Lisa Robertson
Open Letter is seeking submissions for a special issue dedicated to the work of Lisa Robertson. One of Canada’s most innovative and challenging writers, Robertson’s work reveals a persistent interest in the relationships among epistemology, civic space, gender, language and the visual. Her poetic engagements with thinkers ranging from Virgil and Lucretius to William Wordsworth and Emily Montague, as well as her work in and against forms such as the epic, the pastoral, the essay and the manifesto reflect her ongoing interest in literary and philosophical history and the pleasures and politics of form. This issue invites writers and critics to engage with any aspect of Robertson’s work. Possible topics might include (but are certainly not limited to) Robertson’s work and: Space, architecture, and/or geographies, Feminist poetics, Kootenay School of Writing, Genre (poetry, prose, essay, manifesto), Form, Classical texts, Philosophy, The archive, Visual art, The epic, The pastoral, Language poetry.
Please send your submissions by email to Heather Milne h.milne@uwinnipeg.ca by June 1, 2010
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Posted: Sat, Jan 02, 2010
The Poetic Front: Call for Submissions
THE POETIC FRONT is seeking submissions for its third issue. Send reviews/articles on contemporary poetry or poetics to editor Stephen Collis - deadline extended. scollis@sfuDOTca
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Posted: Fri, Jan 01, 2010
Speakeasy: w/ Charles Bernstein
SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 2010 1pm: CHARLES BERNSTEIN: Is Art Criticism 50 Years Behind Poetry? Or Aren't You the Kind that Tells? (Introduced by Jacqueline Turner)
SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2010 2pm: SAM GOULD AND ROBBY HERBST
(Moderated by Aaron Peck)
FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 2010 8pm: KATE EICHHORN AND KYLA MALLETT
(Moderated by Jacqueline Turner)
How does writing, as a practice, inform contemporary art and vice versa? Speakeasy, a semi-annual series of talks and presentations, will interrogate Artspeak's mandate to encourage dialogue between visual art and writing. From text based art, visual poetry, and parallel texts to activities of publication and research, how do writing practices and concerns intersect with contemporary art practices? This multipart series will take place at Artspeak from January to April 2010.
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Posted: Mon, Dec 28, 2009
“Making Audio Visible"
We hope you'll join us for an upcoming talk in the Print Culture Speakers Series for 2009-10:
“Making Audio Visible: The Lessons of Visual Language for the Textualization of Sound”
Charles Bernstein, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania
Friday , Jan. 8th, 3:30-4:30 pm, Simon Fraser Univ., Burnaby, AQ 6106. Free Admission.
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Posted: Fri, Dec 25, 2009
ThrilLITERATE
ThrilLITERATE (Night One)
Friday, January 22, 7:30pm
thrilLITERATE is an evening of poetry, storytelling and of recognizing literacy as a basic human right. Queer authors read to raise funds for the women's literacy program in the Downtown Eastside. Now in its second year, the event has raised over $1,500 for the Literacy and Learning Program at WISH: a centre for female survival sex workers.
Featuring: Catharine Chen, Elizabeth Bachinsky, David Findlay, Trish Kelly, Daniel Zomparelli, Amber Dawn and Michael V Smith.
ThrilLITERATE (Night Two)
Saturday, January 23, 7:30pm
thrilLITERATE is an evening of poetry, storytelling and of recognizing literacy as a basic human right. Queer authors read to raise funds for the women's literacy program in the Downtown Eastside. Now in its second year, the event has raised over $1,500 for the Literacy and Learning Program at WISH: a centre for female survival sex workers.
Featuring: Afuwa Granger, Shana Myara, Mette Bach, Tony Correia, C. E. Gatchalian, Cathleen With, and a musical finale by BlueLight (Lin Gardiner, Andrea Hector) Sliding scale: $5-$15 per night
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Posted: Thu, Dec 24, 2009
"to show, to give, to make it be there"
"to show, to give, to make it be there: Expanded Literary Practices in Vancouver, 1954-1969". SFU Gallery, AQ 3004, Burnaby Campus. Exhibition curated by Michael Turner. Opens January 9, 2-5PM. Walking tour at 3PM. Works by Tom Burrows . Judith Copithorne . Stan Douglas . Maxine Gadd
Gerry Gilbert. Ray Johnson . Roy Kiyooka . Gary Lee-Nova . Glenn Lewis
Michael Morris . Malcolm Lowry . Al Neil . Ian Wallace
"This exhibition is an exploration of a fifteen-year moment in Vancouver’s cultural history, a time when visual artists, writers, dancers and filmmakers transcended disciplines to engage in new forms of composition, new modes of production. Whether this transcendence was unconscious, or whether it speaks of a post-war artistic culture dissatisfied with modernism’s tendency to totalize and refine (at a time when the world was atomizing), are questions worth asking."
Post-opening party 6PM onwards, at Geoffrey Farmer's Every Letter of the Alphabet project space at 1875 Powell Street (and Victoria Drive).
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Posted: Sun, Dec 20, 2009
Twisted Poets
Twisted Poets
Catherine McNeil/ Don Simpson
7p
Thurs. Jan 7th
Cambie Bakery
312 Cambie (North of Hatings)
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Posted: Thu, Nov 19, 2009
Two Métis Authors at SFU
Please join English 843 for the next Thursdays for a reading and discussion with 2 Métis writers:
Playwright Marie Clements: Thursday, November 26.
Poet Sharron Proulx-Turner: Thursday, December 3.
Both events take place at:
4.30 – 5.30 pm
AQ 6106.
Free admission. All are welcome.
With a big thanks to the SFU English Department for its generous support.
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Posted: Tue, Nov 17, 2009
"RIGHT, TO THE CITY"
SABINE BITTER + HELMUT WEBER
BOOK LAUNCH
Tuesday, November 24th at 7pm
READ Books at the Charles H. Scott Gallery
Please join Fillip, the Charles H. Scott Gallery, and the artists at
READ Books for the launch of two new books "Autogestion, or Henri
Lefebvre in New Belgrade" and "Right, to the City".
"Autogestion, or Henri Lefebvre in New Belgrade"
Edited by Urban Subjects (Sabine Bitter, Jeff Derksen, Helmut Weber)
with contributions by Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber, Ljiljana Blagojevic,
Zoran Eric, Klaus Ronnberger, and a foreword by Neil Smith.
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Posted: Mon, Nov 16, 2009
Derek Beaulieu and Fiona Tinwei Lam
Poets Derek Beaulieu and Fiona Tinwei Lam Read at UBC
VANCOUVER - Step out of the cold and into the warmth of the Graham House at Green College for a
poetry reading by two of Canada’s most provocative poets. The Play Chthonics Reading Series and the
greater UBC community welcome award-winning poets Derek Beaulieu and Fiona Tinwei Lam to read their
work and discuss their poetics.
Date: Friday, November 20, 2009
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Graham House at Green College, 6201 Cecil Green Park Road, UBC
Cost: Free
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Posted: Sun, Nov 15, 2009
The Translation Workshop
The Translation Workshop. Thursday November 26, 8-9:30 pm, Coach House, Green College, UBC.
To translate or not to translate… Writers from Vancouver’s literary community, who have not done much literary translation in the past, were invited to translate a text from a contemporary writer (foreign or local) into English. The writers were encouraged to interpret the term “translation” in any way they wished. This event features readings by the writers of their various translations, as well as a discussion of their process, the intricacies, challenges and spectrum of translation.
Oana Avasilichioaei joins:
Sonnet L’Abbé, poet, critic and English Literature doctoral student at UBC (Killarnoe)
Donato Mancini, experimental writer, visual artist, polymath, member of the Kooteney School of Writing (Æthel)
Fred Wah, innovative poet, critic, editor, member of the Kooteney School of Writing (Sentenced to Light)
hosted by Susanna Braund (Professor of Latin Poetry and Its Reception, Canada Research Chair, Classics, UBC)
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Posted: Tue, Oct 27, 2009
Area Sneaks / Poetic Research Bureau
On November 7 Los Angeles based magazine Area Sneaks will launch its second issue in Vancouver. @ Artspeak, 8pm. Co-presented with Fillip
Area Sneaks is a Los Angeles-based journal edited by Joseph Mosconi and Rita Gonzalez which seeks further contact between the worlds of visual art and poetry. The first issue featured essays by Stan Apps on “social art” and Daniel Tiffany on “infidel culture and the politics of nightlife”. Interviews with artists Stephanie Taylor and Scoli Acosta; Artist projects by Marie Jager, William E. Jones and Christopher Russell, Poetry by Sawako Nakayasu, Mark Wallace, Andrew Maxwell, Therese Bachand, K. Lorraine Graham and Ian Monk and the first appearance in English of Emmanuel Hocquard’s long prose poem “The Cape of Good Hope' along with visual poems by Ben & Sandra Doller.
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Posted: Sun, Oct 25, 2009
Automaton Biographies
Arsenal Pulp Press and Frontenac House Publishers
present the launches of
Automaton Biographies by Larissa Lai
and
Wait Until LAte Afternoon by Hiromi Goto and David Bateman
Saturday November 07 at 7pm
The Rhizome Cafe
317 East Broadway
refreshments, cash bar,, book sales by Little Sisters
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Posted: Thu, Oct 22, 2009
Joyland Online
Vancouver stories by Vancouver writers -- readings from online short
fiction project Joyland
Date: Friday, November 13, 2009
Time: 8:00pm
Location: W2 Perel Gallery, 112 West Hastings (near Hastings & Abbott)
Free admission.
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Posted: Thu, Oct 01, 2009
Eileen Myles and Maggie Nelson
Eileen Myles and Maggie Nelson are reading at the Charles H. Scott Gallery this Sunday, Oct 11, at 2 pm. Emily Carr University of Art and Design
1399 Johnston Street Vancouver, BC. Free Admission.
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Posted: Tue, Sep 22, 2009
Prismatic Publics
On October 15, Emily Carr University and the On Edge Reading Series will help Toronto press Coach House Books launch its new anthology of experimental Canadian women poets, Prismatic Publics.
Featuring readings by
Dorothy Trujillo Lusk (Ogress Oblige, Redactive, Oral Tragedy)
Daphne Marlatt (Taken, Ghost Works, Ana Historic)
Lisa Robertson (The Weather, The Men, Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip)
Catriona Strang (Busted, Cold Trip, Light Sweet Crude)
Rita Wong (sybil unrest, forage, monkeypuzzle)
Thursday, October 15, 7:00 pm
Emily Carr University, 1399 Johnson Street
Granville Island, Room SB 406. Free Admission.
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Posted: Mon, Sep 14, 2009
PSA for Play Chthonics Reading Sept. 25: A.F. Moritz and Jordan Scott
August 17, 2009
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
Award-Winning Poets Jordan Scott and A.F. Moritz Read at UBC
VANCOUVER—Two of Canada’s great poets, innovator Jordan Scott and 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize winner A.F. Moritz, will join us for a late summer reading at Green College’s Graham House, Friday, September 25, 2009. The Play Chthonics Reading Series and the greater UBC community welcome these two talented poets.
Date: Friday, September 25, 2009
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: Graham House at Green College, 6201 Cecil Green Park Road
Cost: Free
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