The new issue of The Liar, Capilano University's creative writing student magazine, will be launched this Wednesday (December 10th) at Pat's Pub, 403 E. Hastings St., from 7:30-11:30pm.
Readings by the Fall '08 Collective and the students of Cap U (past and present), as well as the musical prowess of keyboardist and human being, LASERGIANT!
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Monday, December 8, 2008
Friday, November 14, 2008
Creative Writing at Capilano University - SPRING 2009
English 100-14 & 15 Academic Writing Strategies (for Creative Writing)– Reg Johanson
This section of English 100 is designed specifically for Creative Writing students and is a required course for students in the Creative Writing Degree program. It meets for 90 minutes once a week for the fall and spring semesters. This composition class will introduce the genres and strategies that are required of creative writers working in academic situations and contexts with a focus on expository and persuasive forms such as research essays, book reviews, paratext (blurbs, bios, acknowledgements), project descriptions and grant proposals. In addition to each others work, our reading will include a survey of contemporary literary journals. These journals will provide the raw data for the year's study. What can we say about the practices, values and concerns of these "discursive communities"?
Required Texts:
A variety of literary journals, TBA.
Course pack available in bookstore.
English 190-01 Creative Writing I – Reg Johanson
This course introduces students to the cunning of fiction and poetry through reading and writing. Students learn to become critical of their own work and that of others. Students write a variety of assignments intended to open up the horizon of their writing to innovation and experimentation and are encouraged to leave the past behind. Students also attend the Open Text reading series. English 190 is a required course for the Associate of Arts Degree in Creative Writing. Students who take this course may also be interested in Academic Writing Strategies- Creative Writing Seminar, also a required course for the Degree program students.
Required Texts:
TBA
English 191-01 & 02 Creative Writing II – Ryan Knighton
In English 191 we will continue to develop our skills as writers by asking how writing can be made, not what it might mean. Specifically, we will further engage with questions of poetry, microfiction, and so-called creative non-fiction, as directed by their form and history. Our workshops, however, are neither roundtable editing sessions, nor, worse, copyediting boot camps. Rather, we will share draft examples of our own work in order to further our discussions, to expose new questions, and to seek the effects of craft. Some case examples from published works may be provided in class, but our own writing will serve as the primary texts. So will Stephen king’s memoir, On Writing, which is pretty damned fine. By the final class, students should have at least one reworked submission of writing ready for a magazine or periodical. To that end, we will survey some of the nuts-and-bolts of pitching and publishing, too.
Required Texts:
King, Stephen. On Writing. S&S.
English 290-01 Creative Writing: Letter and Line – Reg Johanson
This course focuses on “documentary” poetry and poetics. Our starting point is Kaia Sand’s challenge, “why leave journalism to journalists, news to news services?”. We study the various ways in which poets can use, co-opt, subvert, and challenge the media, the ways in which we can “document” contemporary issues and struggles, and how our work can respond to a “social command”.
Required Texts:
TBA
English 292-01 Creative Writing: Children’s Literature – Crystal Hurdle
Experience an intensive workshop in writing literature for children of various ages. Examine and practice the art of writing for children by exploring a range of different strategies and techniques: identify narrative structure, myth, character development, levels of diction, voice, etc. Discover voices and forms for your writing and express your ideas in styles appropriate for children’s interests at different ages, from picture books and nonsense rhymes for children to young adult novels in verse. In developing your own projects, become a successor to J. K. Rowling!
Required Texts:
Ellis, Sarah From Reader to Writer
Ellis, Deborah. The Breadwinnner
New, William. Dream Helmet
Porter, Pamela. The Crazy Man
Print Pack with assorted readings
Thursday, October 30, 2008
OPEN TEXT READING SERIES: Wayde Compton
Sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts
& the Creative Writing Program at Capilano University
The Fall 2008 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano University concludes on Thursday, November 6th, with a reading by Vancouver poet and public historian Wayde Compton.
WAYDE COMPTON is a Vancouver writer whose books include 49th Parallel Psalm, Performance Bond and Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature. He and Jason de Couto perform turntable-based sound poetry as a duo called The Contact Zone Crew. Compton is also a co-founding member of the Hogan's Alley Memorial Project, an organization dedicated to preserving the public memory of Vancouver's original black community. He is also one of the publishers of Commodore Books. Compton teaches in Simon Fraser University's Writing and Publishing Program, where he is a creative writing instructor in The Writer's Studio; he also teaches English composition and literature at Coquitlam College. He was Writer-in-Residence at SFU in 2007-08.
For info:
Reg Johanson
Convener, Creative Writing Program
Capilano University
rjohanso@capilanou.ca
604.986.1911 (2428)
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& the Creative Writing Program at Capilano University
The Fall 2008 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano University concludes on Thursday, November 6th, with a reading by Vancouver poet and public historian Wayde Compton.
November 6th
2:30 – 4 p.m. LB 194
Capilano University
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver
2:30 – 4 p.m. LB 194
Capilano University
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver
WAYDE COMPTON is a Vancouver writer whose books include 49th Parallel Psalm, Performance Bond and Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature. He and Jason de Couto perform turntable-based sound poetry as a duo called The Contact Zone Crew. Compton is also a co-founding member of the Hogan's Alley Memorial Project, an organization dedicated to preserving the public memory of Vancouver's original black community. He is also one of the publishers of Commodore Books. Compton teaches in Simon Fraser University's Writing and Publishing Program, where he is a creative writing instructor in The Writer's Studio; he also teaches English composition and literature at Coquitlam College. He was Writer-in-Residence at SFU in 2007-08.
For info:
Reg Johanson
Convener, Creative Writing Program
Capilano University
rjohanso@capilanou.ca
604.986.1911 (2428)
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Monday, October 27, 2008
OPEN TEXT READING SERIES: Renee Rodin
Sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts
& the Creative Writing Program at Capilano University
The Fall 2008 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano University continues on Thursday, October 30th, with a reading by Vancouver writer Renee Rodin.
RENEE RODIN, poet and visual artist, was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec. She came to Vancouver in the 60s and in the 80s began R2B2 Books along with its reading series which she ran for 8 years. Rodin is the author of Bread and Salt (Talonbooks, 1996) and the chapbook Ready for Freddy (Nomados, 2005).
For info:
Reg Johanson
Convener, Creative Writing Program
Capilano University
rjohanso@capilanou.ca
604.986.1911 (2428)
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& the Creative Writing Program at Capilano University
The Fall 2008 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano University continues on Thursday, October 30th, with a reading by Vancouver writer Renee Rodin.
October 30th
11:30 am, Library 321
Capilano University
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver
11:30 am, Library 321
Capilano University
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver
RENEE RODIN, poet and visual artist, was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec. She came to Vancouver in the 60s and in the 80s began R2B2 Books along with its reading series which she ran for 8 years. Rodin is the author of Bread and Salt (Talonbooks, 1996) and the chapbook Ready for Freddy (Nomados, 2005).
For info:
Reg Johanson
Convener, Creative Writing Program
Capilano University
rjohanso@capilanou.ca
604.986.1911 (2428)
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Sunday, October 19, 2008
Open Text Reading Series: Steve Collis, Oct. 23rd
Sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Creative Writing Program at Capilano University.
The Fall 2008 Open Text series continues with a reading by poet and critic Steve Collis.
STEVE COLLIS is the author of three books of poetry, Mine (New Star 2001) Anarchive (New Star 2005), which was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and The Commons (Talonbooks 2008). His essays on contemporary poetry and poetics have appeared in many Canadian and American journals, and he is the author of two book-length studies, Phyllis Webb and the Common Good (Talonbooks 2007) and Through Words of Others: Susan Howe and Anarcho-Scholasticism (ELS Editions 2006). A member of the Kootenay School of Writing collective, he teaches American literature, poetry, and creative writing at Simon Fraser University.
For information contact:
Reg Johanson
Convener, Creative Writing Program
Capilano University
Email: rjohanso@capilanou.ca
Phone 604-986-1911 local 2428
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The Fall 2008 Open Text series continues with a reading by poet and critic Steve Collis.
Thursday, Oct. 23
11:30 am, LIB 321
Capilano University
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver, BC
11:30 am, LIB 321
Capilano University
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver, BC
STEVE COLLIS is the author of three books of poetry, Mine (New Star 2001) Anarchive (New Star 2005), which was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and The Commons (Talonbooks 2008). His essays on contemporary poetry and poetics have appeared in many Canadian and American journals, and he is the author of two book-length studies, Phyllis Webb and the Common Good (Talonbooks 2007) and Through Words of Others: Susan Howe and Anarcho-Scholasticism (ELS Editions 2006). A member of the Kootenay School of Writing collective, he teaches American literature, poetry, and creative writing at Simon Fraser University.
For information contact:
Reg Johanson
Convener, Creative Writing Program
Capilano University
Email: rjohanso@capilanou.ca
Phone 604-986-1911 local 2428
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KinderText Reading Series: Kit Pearson
Sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts through the Writers' Union of Canada and the Creative Writing Program at Capilano University.
The fall 2008 KinderText series begins this Tuesday with a reading by award-winning Children's Literature author Kit Pearson.
KIT PEARSON worked for ten years as a children's librarian in Ontario and B.C. and is now a full-time writer living in Victoria. Her books have been published in Canada in English and French, in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Japan, the Netherlands, Germany and Great Britain. She has won twelve awards for her writing, including the Vicky Metcalf Award for her body of work in 1998. The Singing Basket, a retold folktale, illustrated by Anne Blades, is for young readers. Kit's acclaimed Guests of War trilogy, published by Penguin books, features a British brother and sister exiled by the Second World War to new life in Canada. As well, she has edited This Land: A Cross-Country Anthology of Canadian Fiction for Young Readers. Her most recent book is A Perfect Gentle Knight.
For information contact:
Crystal Hurdle
English and Creative Writing Instructor
Email: churdle@capilanou.ca
Phone 604-983-7570 local 2420
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The fall 2008 KinderText series begins this Tuesday with a reading by award-winning Children's Literature author Kit Pearson.
Tuesday Oct. 21
4pm, Room LIB 321/322
Capilano University
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver, BC
4pm, Room LIB 321/322
Capilano University
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver, BC
KIT PEARSON worked for ten years as a children's librarian in Ontario and B.C. and is now a full-time writer living in Victoria. Her books have been published in Canada in English and French, in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, Japan, the Netherlands, Germany and Great Britain. She has won twelve awards for her writing, including the Vicky Metcalf Award for her body of work in 1998. The Singing Basket, a retold folktale, illustrated by Anne Blades, is for young readers. Kit's acclaimed Guests of War trilogy, published by Penguin books, features a British brother and sister exiled by the Second World War to new life in Canada. As well, she has edited This Land: A Cross-Country Anthology of Canadian Fiction for Young Readers. Her most recent book is A Perfect Gentle Knight.
For information contact:
Crystal Hurdle
English and Creative Writing Instructor
Email: churdle@capilanou.ca
Phone 604-983-7570 local 2420
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Wednesday, October 1, 2008
CUE / Open Text Anthology Launch!
CUE | Capilano University Editions cuebooks.ca | contact@cuebooks.ca
Please join CUE in launching its inaugural season, with readings by George Bowering, Ted Byrne, Larissa Lai, Christine Leclerc, Donato Mancini, Sharon Thesen, and Lissa Wolsak.
Music by Cellosound.
Oct 17th. at 7:00 pm
Mountain View Cemetery, Celebration Hall
5455 Fraser Street (East 39th Ave. at Fraser)
Vancouver, BC
Special launch prices on all books. For more information, please contact Roger Farr (Editor)
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Thursday, September 25, 2008
CultureNet + Creative Writing Performance Night
CultureNet + Creative Writing at CapilanoU invite you to an evening of readings + performance by students past and present, w/ Special Guests Roger Farr, Kim Minkus, and Reg Johanson. The stage will be open to all Cap U writers, faculty, alumni and their friends.
8pm, Thurs Oct. 2
Hoko's Restaurant
362 Powell Street, Vancouver
Hoko's Restaurant
362 Powell Street, Vancouver
Contact Reg Johanson or Aurelea Mahood at 604.986.1911 for more information.
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http://capculturenet.blogspot.
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Saturday, September 20, 2008
OPEN TEXT READING SERIES: CLINT BURNHAM
Sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts
& the Creative Writing Program at Capilano University
The Fall 2008 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano University kicks off on Thursday, September 25th, with a reading by Vancouver writer Clint Burnham.
September 25th
11:30 am, Library 321
Capilano University
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver
CLINT BURNHAM is a Vancouver writer and teacher. His books include Rental Van (poetry, Anvil, 2007), Smoke Show (novel, Arsenal Pulp, 2005), Buddyland (poetry, Coach House, 2000), Airborne Photo (short stories, Anvil, 1999), and Be Labour Reading (poetry, ECW, 1997). Work has also appeared in The Capilano Review, Open Letter, Queen Street Review, Pyramid Power, UE, and fhole. He teaches in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University.
For info:
Reg Johanson
Convener, Creative Writing Program
Capilano University
rjohanso@capilanou.ca
604.986.1911 (2428)
& the Creative Writing Program at Capilano University
The Fall 2008 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano University kicks off on Thursday, September 25th, with a reading by Vancouver writer Clint Burnham.
September 25th
11:30 am, Library 321
Capilano University
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver
CLINT BURNHAM is a Vancouver writer and teacher. His books include Rental Van (poetry, Anvil, 2007), Smoke Show (novel, Arsenal Pulp, 2005), Buddyland (poetry, Coach House, 2000), Airborne Photo (short stories, Anvil, 1999), and Be Labour Reading (poetry, ECW, 1997). Work has also appeared in The Capilano Review, Open Letter, Queen Street Review, Pyramid Power, UE, and fhole. He teaches in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University.
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like sixties tv
greek tragedy
was too greedy
for more than one plot
you see Racine supersized it
had the son-in-law
in love with a doomed chick
me, I just want to find a young man
like Jackie Burroughs did in A Winter Tan
he could be a Foreigner, a Trooper, a Pink Floyd, a Toto
like sixties tv
greek tragedy
was too greedy
for more than one plot
you see Racine supersized it
had the son-in-law
in love with a doomed chick
me, I just want to find a young man
like Jackie Burroughs did in A Winter Tan
he could be a Foreigner, a Trooper, a Pink Floyd, a Toto
-- from "Phedra is a Cougar" (The Capilano Review, 3:1/2)
For info:
Reg Johanson
Convener, Creative Writing Program
Capilano University
rjohanso@capilanou.ca
604.986.1911 (2428)
Monday, September 8, 2008
Fall 2008 Open Text Reading Series @ CapU
The Open Text Reading Series is brought to you by Capilano U’s Creative Writing Program, the Canada Council, and the Department of English. In its second year, the series has featured the work of Peter Culley, Marie Annharte Baker, Dorothy Trujillo Lusk, Jamie Reid, Maxine Gadd, Ken Belford, George Bowering, Rob Budde, Louis Cabri, Jeff Derksen, Si Transken, Lissa Wolsak, Rita Wong, Oana Avasilichioaei, Claire Huot, Larissa Lai, Reg Johanson, Robert Majzels, Darren Wershler-Henry, Jon Paul Fiorentino, Anne Stone, Donato Mancini, and Louis Rastelli. Many Open Text writers are also featured in the forthcoming anthology Open Text: Canadian Poetry in the 21st Century, published by Capilano University Editions (CUE), a new press dedicated to documenting, supporting, and broadening innovation in contemporary Canadian arts and culture.
Fall 2008
Thurs Sept. 25 11:30 - 1 LB 321
CLINT BURNHAM is a Vancouver writer and teacher. His books include Rental Van (poetry, Anvil, 2007), Smoke Show (novel, Arsenal Pulp, 2005), Buddyland (poetry, Coach House, 2000), Airborne Photo (short stories, Anvil, 1999), and Be Labour Reading (poetry, ECW, 1997). Work has also appeared in The Capilano Review, Open Letter, Queen Street Review, Pyramid Power, UE, and fhole. He teaches in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University.
Thurs Oct 23 11:30 - 1 LB 321
Poet and critic STEVE COLLIS is the author of three books of poetry, Mine (New Star 2001) and Anarchive (New Star 2005), which was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and The Commons (Talonbooks 2008). His essays on contemporary poetry and poetics have appeared in many Canadian and American journals, and he is the author of two book-length studies, Phyllis Webb and the Common Good (Talonbooks 2007) and Through Words of Others: Susan Howe and Anarcho-Scholasticism (ELS Editions 2006). A member of the Kootenay School of Writing collective, he teaches American literature, poetry, and creative writing at Simon Fraser University.
Thurs Oct 30 11:30 - 1 LB 321
RENEE RODIN, poet and visual artist, was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec. She came to Vancouver in the 60s and in the 80s began R2B2 Books along with its reading series which she ran for 8 years. Rodin is the author of Bread and Salt (Talonbooks, 1996) and the chapbook Ready for Freddy (Nomados, 2005).
Thurs Nov 6 2:30 - 4 LB 194
WAYDE COMPTON is a Vancouver writer whose books include 49th Parallel Psalm, Performance Bond and Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature. He and Jason de Couto perform turntable-based sound poetry as a duo called The Contact Zone Crew. Compton is also a co-founding member of the Hogan's Alley Memorial Project, an organization dedicated to preserving the public memory of Vancouver's original black community. He is also one of the publishers of Commodore Books. Compton teaches in Simon Fraser University's Writing and Publishing Program, where he is a creative writing instructor in The Writer's Studio; he also teaches English composition and literature at Coquitlam College. He is currently the Writer-in-Residence at SFU (2007-08).
For more information on the Associate of Arts in Creative Writing Degree Program, see our website.
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Fall 2008
Thurs Sept. 25 11:30 - 1 LB 321
CLINT BURNHAM is a Vancouver writer and teacher. His books include Rental Van (poetry, Anvil, 2007), Smoke Show (novel, Arsenal Pulp, 2005), Buddyland (poetry, Coach House, 2000), Airborne Photo (short stories, Anvil, 1999), and Be Labour Reading (poetry, ECW, 1997). Work has also appeared in The Capilano Review, Open Letter, Queen Street Review, Pyramid Power, UE, and fhole. He teaches in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University.
Thurs Oct 23 11:30 - 1 LB 321
Poet and critic STEVE COLLIS is the author of three books of poetry, Mine (New Star 2001) and Anarchive (New Star 2005), which was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and The Commons (Talonbooks 2008). His essays on contemporary poetry and poetics have appeared in many Canadian and American journals, and he is the author of two book-length studies, Phyllis Webb and the Common Good (Talonbooks 2007) and Through Words of Others: Susan Howe and Anarcho-Scholasticism (ELS Editions 2006). A member of the Kootenay School of Writing collective, he teaches American literature, poetry, and creative writing at Simon Fraser University.
Thurs Oct 30 11:30 - 1 LB 321
RENEE RODIN, poet and visual artist, was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec. She came to Vancouver in the 60s and in the 80s began R2B2 Books along with its reading series which she ran for 8 years. Rodin is the author of Bread and Salt (Talonbooks, 1996) and the chapbook Ready for Freddy (Nomados, 2005).
Thurs Nov 6 2:30 - 4 LB 194
WAYDE COMPTON is a Vancouver writer whose books include 49th Parallel Psalm, Performance Bond and Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature. He and Jason de Couto perform turntable-based sound poetry as a duo called The Contact Zone Crew. Compton is also a co-founding member of the Hogan's Alley Memorial Project, an organization dedicated to preserving the public memory of Vancouver's original black community. He is also one of the publishers of Commodore Books. Compton teaches in Simon Fraser University's Writing and Publishing Program, where he is a creative writing instructor in The Writer's Studio; he also teaches English composition and literature at Coquitlam College. He is currently the Writer-in-Residence at SFU (2007-08).
For more information on the Associate of Arts in Creative Writing Degree Program, see our website.
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Monday, August 11, 2008
Launch of the Capilano Art-Vending Machine!
Please come out and show your support for locally-grown talent! There will be readings by first year Capilano creative writing students and a series of chapbooks available for a nickle a piece.
Wednesday August 20th
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Café Montmartre
4362 Main Street (at 28th)
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Wednesday August 20th
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Café Montmartre
4362 Main Street (at 28th)
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Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Writing is a Social Act!
Capilano University's New Creative Writing Program Now Accepting Applications for Fall 2008.
While creative writing classes are open to all University Transfer students, Capilano is now offering a unique Associate Arts Degree in Creative Writing. The program is designed for students interested in studying both contemporary literature and creative writing, with the aim of acquiring first and second year English and creative writing transfer credits.
View the Associate of Arts Degree - Creative Writing Program.
Beyond the classroom
Classroom instruction can be helpful for a writer, but we believe good writing is also the result of contact with a lively writing community. With this in mind, we are pleased to host the Open Text Reading Series, support a student publication (The Liar), as well as scholarships, awards, and internships with The Capilano Review.
Courses
Course desciptions for all creative writing courses are available in the online calendar.
Prerequisites
Currently there are no special entry requirements to the CRWR Program. However, all program students must take English 100 Academic Writing Skills (for Creative Writing), a course on research methods and critical thinking designed specifically for creative writers who are also writing in academic situations. In Fall 2008, this course will be offered as English 100, Section 14 or 15. Students must also take any section of English 190.
Contact
For more information about the program, contact the Creative Writing Convener, Reg Johanson
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Monday, April 21, 2008
TRACING THE LINES
TRACING THE LINES:
A Symposium on Contemporary Poetics
and Cultural Politics to Honour Roy Miki
May 28th to 31st, 2008
Vancouver BC
<http://tracingthelines.net>
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Wednesday May 28: 7:30 PM
Studio 41, CBC Building, 775 Cambie Street (at West Georgia St)
Chair: Sophie McCall
Opening remarks: Michael Stevenson, President, SFU
Tom Grieve, Chair, Department of English, SFU
Reading by Roy Miki. Introduced by Daphne Marlatt
Reception: sponsored by The Department of English, SFU
Thursday May 29
DAYTIME events at the Firehall Arts Centre, 280 East Cordova (at Gore)
9:30 Welcome: Larissa Lai
9:40-11:00 REPRESENTATION AND COALITIONS(S).
Rita Wong (moderator)
Jeannette Armstrong, Scott Toguri McFarlane, Jamelie Hassan
11:00-11:30: REGISTRATION and coffee break
11:30-1:00: ASIANCY.
Christine Kim (moderator)
Monika Kin Gagnon, Phinder Dulai, David Fujino, Hiromi Goto
1:00-2:00: Lunch break
2:00-3:30: CONTEMPORARY POETICS.
Roger Farr (moderator)
Louis Cabri, the Sibyls, Mark Nowak
3:30-3:45: Break
3:45-5:15: EDITORIAL ACTIVISM.
Glen Lowry (moderator)
Michael Barnholden, Jacqueline Larson, Wayde Compton, Walter K. Lew
EVENING 8:00 PM Anza Club, 3 West 8th (between Main & Cambie)
Gala launch/reading of West Coast Line, The Roy Miki issue.
Edited by Fred Wah, featuring work by Miki's friends, compatriots, former students and colleagues: George Bowering, Jacqueline Larson, Daphne Marlatt, Garry Thomas Morse, & many many more. Cash Bar. Sponsored by West Coast Line and The Kootenay School of Writing.
Friday, May 30
DAYTIME program at Firehall Art Centre, 280 East Cordova (at Gore)
10:00-11:30: POLITICS OF THE IMAGINATION.
Ashok Mathur (moderator)
Susan Crean, Jeff Derksen, Marwan Hassan, Marie Annharte Baker
11:30-11:45: coffee break
11:45-1:15: ART OF REDRESS.
Kirsten Emiko McAllister (moderator)
Cindy Mochizuki, Baco Ohama, Grace Eiko Thomson, Mona Oikawa
1:15-2:15: Lunch
2:15-4:15-GENERATIVE GENERATIONS.
Tara Lee (moderator)
Alessandra Capperdoni, Nicole Markotic, Mark Nakada, Jerry Zaslove
4:15-4:30: Closing remarks by Jacqueline Larson
4:30-5:30: cash bar
EVENING: 8:30 PM Party at Ashok Mathur's house
Saturday, May 31
7:30 PM at St John's College, 2111 Lower Mall, UBC
KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
"'i have altered the tactics to reflect the new era':
Intellectuals, Accountability, and Politics"
by Smaro Kamboureli
Introduced by David Chariandy
Discussion, reception and book display to follow
For program details and other information, see <http://tracingthelines.net>
A Symposium on Contemporary Poetics
and Cultural Politics to Honour Roy Miki
May 28th to 31st, 2008
Vancouver BC
<http://tracingthelines.net>
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Wednesday May 28: 7:30 PM
Studio 41, CBC Building, 775 Cambie Street (at West Georgia St)
Chair: Sophie McCall
Opening remarks: Michael Stevenson, President, SFU
Tom Grieve, Chair, Department of English, SFU
Reading by Roy Miki. Introduced by Daphne Marlatt
Reception: sponsored by The Department of English, SFU
Thursday May 29
DAYTIME events at the Firehall Arts Centre, 280 East Cordova (at Gore)
9:30 Welcome: Larissa Lai
9:40-11:00 REPRESENTATION AND COALITIONS(S).
Rita Wong (moderator)
Jeannette Armstrong, Scott Toguri McFarlane, Jamelie Hassan
11:00-11:30: REGISTRATION and coffee break
11:30-1:00: ASIANCY.
Christine Kim (moderator)
Monika Kin Gagnon, Phinder Dulai, David Fujino, Hiromi Goto
1:00-2:00: Lunch break
2:00-3:30: CONTEMPORARY POETICS.
Roger Farr (moderator)
Louis Cabri, the Sibyls, Mark Nowak
3:30-3:45: Break
3:45-5:15: EDITORIAL ACTIVISM.
Glen Lowry (moderator)
Michael Barnholden, Jacqueline Larson, Wayde Compton, Walter K. Lew
EVENING 8:00 PM Anza Club, 3 West 8th (between Main & Cambie)
Gala launch/reading of West Coast Line, The Roy Miki issue.
Edited by Fred Wah, featuring work by Miki's friends, compatriots, former students and colleagues: George Bowering, Jacqueline Larson, Daphne Marlatt, Garry Thomas Morse, & many many more. Cash Bar. Sponsored by West Coast Line and The Kootenay School of Writing.
Friday, May 30
DAYTIME program at Firehall Art Centre, 280 East Cordova (at Gore)
10:00-11:30: POLITICS OF THE IMAGINATION.
Ashok Mathur (moderator)
Susan Crean, Jeff Derksen, Marwan Hassan, Marie Annharte Baker
11:30-11:45: coffee break
11:45-1:15: ART OF REDRESS.
Kirsten Emiko McAllister (moderator)
Cindy Mochizuki, Baco Ohama, Grace Eiko Thomson, Mona Oikawa
1:15-2:15: Lunch
2:15-4:15-GENERATIVE GENERATIONS.
Tara Lee (moderator)
Alessandra Capperdoni, Nicole Markotic, Mark Nakada, Jerry Zaslove
4:15-4:30: Closing remarks by Jacqueline Larson
4:30-5:30: cash bar
EVENING: 8:30 PM Party at Ashok Mathur's house
Saturday, May 31
7:30 PM at St John's College, 2111 Lower Mall, UBC
KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
"'i have altered the tactics to reflect the new era':
Intellectuals, Accountability, and Politics"
by Smaro Kamboureli
Introduced by David Chariandy
Discussion, reception and book display to follow
For program details and other information, see <http://tracingthelines.net>
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
THE SPRING 2008 LIAR!
Launch party for Capilano's creative writing magazine, with readings and live music:
For info:
liarsarebetterlovers@gmail.com
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April 17th, 8:00pm
HOKO Restaurant
362 Powell St., Van
free
HOKO Restaurant
362 Powell St., Van
free
For info:
liarsarebetterlovers@gmail.com
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008
OPEN TEXT READING SERIES: REG JOHANSON
Sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts
& the Creative Writing Degree Program at Capilano College
For info:
Roger Farr
rfarr@capcollege.bc.ca
604.986.1911 (2554)
& the Creative Writing Degree Program at Capilano College
The Spring 2008 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College concludes on April 1st, 2008 with a reading by poet and critic Reg Johanson.
Library 321 @ 12:30
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver
Born in Leduc, Alberta, REG JOHANSON lives in East Vancouver, BC. Courage, My Love (Line Books, 2006) brings together a selection of works that have appeared over the last decade in W magazine, the chapbook Chips (Thuja, 2001), and in the anthologies Shift and Switch: New Canadian Poetry (Mercury, 2005) and Companions and Horizons (WCL, 2005). Critical work on Standard English as a classist and racializing disciplinary practice and on the political economy of "cheating" and plagiarism has appeared in XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics and as "Working Papers in Critical Practice #1" (recomposition.net); other essays on liquor policy, on "the radical" in poetry, on representations of missing women, and on global urbanization appear in West Coast Line and The Rain Review. A former member of the Kootenay School of Writing collective and current co-director of the Pacific Institute for Language and Literacy Studies, Johanson teaches comp and lit at Capilano College.
"Sometimes
I want the State so bad
I can taste it.
'The world needs committed, naïve people' -- Honourable Mr. Justice Stewart, Provincial Court of BC
The Revolution will not be?
'Populist Islam and Pentecostal Christianity occupy a social space analogous to that of early twentieth century socialism and anarchism'
Could be worse. Could be The Ruckus Society.
'Canadians do not tolerate orgies or other Canadians participating in orgies.' -- Québec Judge Denis Boisvert
Bring out the pedagogue."
-- Reg Johanson, from "Variations for Jean Carle"
For info:
Roger Farr
rfarr@capcollege.bc.ca
604.986.1911 (2554)
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Poetry, Video, Music: The Capilano Review launches its Collaboration issue 3.4
The Capilano Review announces the launch of the Collaborations Issue 3.4. Join us at the Western Front on March 28 at 7:30pm. Hear poets Ted Byrne, Larissa Lai and Rita Wong; see and hear an excerpt from the recording of Hadley+Maxwell and Stefan Smulovitz’s “(The Rest Is Missing)” with Turning Point Ensemble; and hear live performances of song room pieces “unselected works” by Viviane Houle, Stefan Smulovitz, Andrew Klobucar; “Occupying Army” by Vanessa Richards, John Korsrud, Chris Derksen; and more.
Tickets: $5
March 28, 7:30pm
Western Front
303 8th Avenue East
Vancouver, BC V5T 1S1
(604) 876-9343
Monday, March 17, 2008
OPEN TEXT READING SERIES: LOUIS RASTELLI
Sponsored by The Canada Council for the Arts
& the Creative Writing Degree Program at Capilano College
The Spring 2008 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College continues on Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 with a reading by Montreal novelist and small-press organizer, Louis Rastelli:
Library 321 @ 12:30
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver
LOUIS RASTELLI is the author of A Fine Ending (Insomniac Press, 2007). His writing has appeared in Vice, Clamor, Saturday Night, The Montreal Mirror and numerous other publications, as well as in a series of miniature books of short stories and historical essays. In 2001, Rastelli created the Distroboto network of cultural vending machines, which are former cigarette machines converted to sell local art, crafts, music, film and writing in cafés and bars. In 2002, along with other small publishers, he co-founded Expozine, Montreal’s annual small press, comic and zine fair; he also co-founded Archive Montreal, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the various ephemeral creations that flow steadily out of the independent cultural scene of the city. Since 1996, he has published Fish Piss Magazine, named “Canada’s best zine” by Broken Pencil. He lives in Montreal.
“It’s like Mother Nature’s revenge,” said Stephanie.
“But I wish we could say, okay, we learned our lesson, can
you bring the power back now?”
I told Stephanie about the big building projects I worked on at my day job and described a photo I’d seen of an aluminium smelter. Huge mounds of raw materials, shipped in by rail, sat at one end of the smelter, and rows of trucks loaded up massive bars of aluminium at the other end.
“And that’s only to get the aluminium into all the factories that make stuff,” I said. “Those raw materials have to get chewed up and regurgitated a lot of times before they become a pop can.
“If the machines and factories stopped working completely, we’d have to make stuff by hand again. Or at least add some treadmills or something to run the machines with, like those old sewing machines with the foot pedals.”
“My grandmother had one of those!” Stephanie said.
“I wish I had one of those right now. It would help me stay warm too.”
While we were still on the phone, my power came back on.
-- Louis Rastelli, from “A Fine Ending” (Insomniac, 2007)
For info:
Roger Farr
rfarr@capcollege.bc.ca
604.986.1911 (2554)
& the Creative Writing Degree Program at Capilano College
The Spring 2008 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College continues on Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 with a reading by Montreal novelist and small-press organizer, Louis Rastelli:
Library 321 @ 12:30
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver
LOUIS RASTELLI is the author of A Fine Ending (Insomniac Press, 2007). His writing has appeared in Vice, Clamor, Saturday Night, The Montreal Mirror and numerous other publications, as well as in a series of miniature books of short stories and historical essays. In 2001, Rastelli created the Distroboto network of cultural vending machines, which are former cigarette machines converted to sell local art, crafts, music, film and writing in cafés and bars. In 2002, along with other small publishers, he co-founded Expozine, Montreal’s annual small press, comic and zine fair; he also co-founded Archive Montreal, a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the various ephemeral creations that flow steadily out of the independent cultural scene of the city. Since 1996, he has published Fish Piss Magazine, named “Canada’s best zine” by Broken Pencil. He lives in Montreal.
“It’s like Mother Nature’s revenge,” said Stephanie.
“But I wish we could say, okay, we learned our lesson, can
you bring the power back now?”
I told Stephanie about the big building projects I worked on at my day job and described a photo I’d seen of an aluminium smelter. Huge mounds of raw materials, shipped in by rail, sat at one end of the smelter, and rows of trucks loaded up massive bars of aluminium at the other end.
“And that’s only to get the aluminium into all the factories that make stuff,” I said. “Those raw materials have to get chewed up and regurgitated a lot of times before they become a pop can.
“If the machines and factories stopped working completely, we’d have to make stuff by hand again. Or at least add some treadmills or something to run the machines with, like those old sewing machines with the foot pedals.”
“My grandmother had one of those!” Stephanie said.
“I wish I had one of those right now. It would help me stay warm too.”
While we were still on the phone, my power came back on.
-- Louis Rastelli, from “A Fine Ending” (Insomniac, 2007)
For info:
Roger Farr
rfarr@capcollege.bc.ca
604.986.1911 (2554)
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Creative Writing @ Cap College: Reading & Info-session
Tuesday March 18th
7:00 - 9:00pm
Library Room 322
Please join Capilano Creative Writing faculty and students in the Creative Writing Concentration for an evening of readings and discussion about the Associate of Arts Degree in Creative Writing at Capilano College.
Current Creative Writing faculty and students will read from their work. Faculty will discuss the structure of the CRWR Degree, ask students what courses they might like to see offered in the future, and talk about recent developments, including new courses, a new $1000 entrance scholarship for high-school students, and internships with The Capilano Review. Representatives from two student-run publications, The Capilano Courier and The Liar, will also be present to talk about how to get involved in Capilano’s lively writing community.
Open to all!
For more information contact:
Roger Farr
Creative Writing Convener
604.986.1911 (2554)
7:00 - 9:00pm
Library Room 322
Please join Capilano Creative Writing faculty and students in the Creative Writing Concentration for an evening of readings and discussion about the Associate of Arts Degree in Creative Writing at Capilano College.
Current Creative Writing faculty and students will read from their work. Faculty will discuss the structure of the CRWR Degree, ask students what courses they might like to see offered in the future, and talk about recent developments, including new courses, a new $1000 entrance scholarship for high-school students, and internships with The Capilano Review. Representatives from two student-run publications, The Capilano Courier and The Liar, will also be present to talk about how to get involved in Capilano’s lively writing community.
Open to all!
For more information contact:
Roger Farr
Creative Writing Convener
604.986.1911 (2554)
Thursday, March 6, 2008
OPEN TEXT READING SERIES: ROB BUDDE
Sponsored by The Canada Council for the Arts
& the Creative Writing Degree Program at Capilano College
The Spring 2008 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College continues on Thursday, March 13th, 2008 with a reading by Prince George poet Rob Budde:
ROB BUDDE teaches Creative Writing and Postcolonial Literature at the University of Northern BC. His books include traffick (Turnstone, 1994), Misshapen (NeWest Press, 1997) and The Dying Poem (Coach House, 2002), and, most recently, Flicker. In 2002, Rob facilitated a collection of interviews (In Muddy Water: Conversations with 11 Poets). His most recent book of poetry is Finding Ft. George (Harbour, 2007), a collection of poems about his growing relationship with Prince George and Northern BC. Budde edits an online literary journal, stonestone, and a poetry blog writingwaynorth.
For info:
Roger Farr
rfarr@capcollege.bc.ca
604.986.1911 (2554)
--
http://www.capilanocreativewriting.blogspot.com
& the Creative Writing Degree Program at Capilano College
The Spring 2008 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College continues on Thursday, March 13th, 2008 with a reading by Prince George poet Rob Budde:
Library 321 @ 12:30
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver
ROB BUDDE teaches Creative Writing and Postcolonial Literature at the University of Northern BC. His books include traffick (Turnstone, 1994), Misshapen (NeWest Press, 1997) and The Dying Poem (Coach House, 2002), and, most recently, Flicker. In 2002, Rob facilitated a collection of interviews (In Muddy Water: Conversations with 11 Poets). His most recent book of poetry is Finding Ft. George (Harbour, 2007), a collection of poems about his growing relationship with Prince George and Northern BC. Budde edits an online literary journal, stonestone, and a poetry blog writingwaynorth.
“holes filled bilaterally
landed self-serve or immigrant;
promise, missile, demise
Capital expansion and deficit re-election orders of the delay and consumer relations department making strange bedfellows in fiscal mission position, the hard headboard of directors knocking up the catch phrase, knocking down our dormant queues, ballot-boxed. The party system the morning after and fragments of memory missing.
this mission, locked
me, missing-in-action again
the prom’s dead”
-- from “3 Promises; A Renegue”
landed self-serve or immigrant;
promise, missile, demise
Capital expansion and deficit re-election orders of the delay and consumer relations department making strange bedfellows in fiscal mission position, the hard headboard of directors knocking up the catch phrase, knocking down our dormant queues, ballot-boxed. The party system the morning after and fragments of memory missing.
this mission, locked
me, missing-in-action again
the prom’s dead”
-- from “3 Promises; A Renegue”
For info:
Roger Farr
rfarr@capcollege.bc.ca
604.986.1911 (2554)
--
http://www.capilanocreativewriting.blogspot.com
Monday, February 25, 2008
OPEN TEXT READING SERIES: DONATO MANCINI
Sponsored by The Canada Council for the Arts
& the Creative Writing Degree Program at Capilano College
The Spring 2008 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College continues on Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 with a reading by Vancouver poet Donato Mancini:
Library 321 @ 12:30
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver
DONATO MANCINI's first book of poetry Ligatures (New Star Books 2005) was shortlisted for a ReLit award. His second book, Æthel, appeared in the Fall of 2007. A graduate student at Simon Fraser University, he is now at work on a study of reviews of postmodern poetry in Canada since 1961, and recently edited the new website for the Kootenay School of Writing.
"Reports from the reality-based community
sound out: Ronald Reagan
was a really nice guy,
much nicer than Khrushchev,
Gorbachev, Nardwuar, or
which modernist shut-in was it
who threw his sculpture –
or was it his wife? – out the window,
in which period of architecture
at what stage of empire?"
-- from "Hot Peace" (West Coast Line 51)
For info:
Roger Farr
rfarr@capcollege.bc.ca
604.986.1911 (2554)
& the Creative Writing Degree Program at Capilano College
The Spring 2008 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College continues on Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 with a reading by Vancouver poet Donato Mancini:
Library 321 @ 12:30
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver
DONATO MANCINI's first book of poetry Ligatures (New Star Books 2005) was shortlisted for a ReLit award. His second book, Æthel, appeared in the Fall of 2007. A graduate student at Simon Fraser University, he is now at work on a study of reviews of postmodern poetry in Canada since 1961, and recently edited the new website for the Kootenay School of Writing.
"Reports from the reality-based community
sound out: Ronald Reagan
was a really nice guy,
much nicer than Khrushchev,
Gorbachev, Nardwuar, or
which modernist shut-in was it
who threw his sculpture –
or was it his wife? – out the window,
in which period of architecture
at what stage of empire?"
-- from "Hot Peace" (West Coast Line 51)
For info:
Roger Farr
rfarr@capcollege.bc.ca
604.986.1911 (2554)
Friday, February 15, 2008
The Five-Minute Buffet
The 2008 festival of short, original plays written by Capilano Creative Writing Students, directed and performed by the Ensemble Project students in the Acting for Stage and Screen Program.
Artist-in-Residence, Kathleen Oliver, mentors the writers and instructors Dawn Moore and Des Price guide the Ensemble Project. Thirteen five-minute plays will be performed by this ensemble company of 60 writers, directors and actors.
Show dates: February 25-28 (Program A), and March 3-6 (Program B). 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m., Arbutus Studio (AR001). Free Admission
Artist-in-Residence, Kathleen Oliver, mentors the writers and instructors Dawn Moore and Des Price guide the Ensemble Project. Thirteen five-minute plays will be performed by this ensemble company of 60 writers, directors and actors.
Show dates: February 25-28 (Program A), and March 3-6 (Program B). 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m., Arbutus Studio (AR001). Free Admission
Thursday, February 14, 2008
OPEN TEXT READING SERIES: LARISSA LAI
Sponsored by The Canada Council for the Arts
& the Creative Writing Degree Program at Capilano College
The Spring 2008 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College continues on Thursday, February 21st, 2008 with a reading by Vancouver poet, novelist, and critic Larissa Lai:
LARISSA LAI is the author of two novels When Fox Is a Thousand (Press Gang 1995, Arsenal Pulp 2004) and Salt Fish Girl (Thomas Allen Publishers 2002). She holds a PhD in English from the University of Calgary. From January to June 2006, she was a Writer-in-Residence in the English Department at Simon Fraser University. She recently held a SSHRC Post-doctoral Fellowship in the English Department at the University of British Columbia, and is currently an Assistant Professor in Canadian Literature there. She is currently working on a sequel to Salt Fish Girl, a collection of long poems called automaton biographies, and a critical book called The "I" of the Storm about strategies of subject production. Forthcoming from LINEbooks is Sybil Unrest, a long poem in collaboration with Rita Wong.
-- from "Maria" (West Coast Line 44)
For info:
Roger Farr
rfarr@capcollege.bc.ca
604.986.1911 (2554)
--
& the Creative Writing Degree Program at Capilano College
The Spring 2008 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College continues on Thursday, February 21st, 2008 with a reading by Vancouver poet, novelist, and critic Larissa Lai:
Library 321 @ 12:30
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver
LARISSA LAI is the author of two novels When Fox Is a Thousand (Press Gang 1995, Arsenal Pulp 2004) and Salt Fish Girl (Thomas Allen Publishers 2002). She holds a PhD in English from the University of Calgary. From January to June 2006, she was a Writer-in-Residence in the English Department at Simon Fraser University. She recently held a SSHRC Post-doctoral Fellowship in the English Department at the University of British Columbia, and is currently an Assistant Professor in Canadian Literature there. She is currently working on a sequel to Salt Fish Girl, a collection of long poems called automaton biographies, and a critical book called The "I" of the Storm about strategies of subject production. Forthcoming from LINEbooks is Sybil Unrest, a long poem in collaboration with Rita Wong.
"see them drudge
your sensitive ignorance
pressures mechanical
engines steam temperature's limit
we race clocks
labour abstracts more labour
cogs flash lights
in blue boilers they
repeat your fear
in mathematics of your own making"
your sensitive ignorance
pressures mechanical
engines steam temperature's limit
we race clocks
labour abstracts more labour
cogs flash lights
in blue boilers they
repeat your fear
in mathematics of your own making"
-- from "Maria" (West Coast Line 44)
For info:
Roger Farr
rfarr@capcollege.bc.ca
604.986.1911 (2554)
--
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
OPEN TEXT READING SERIES: CLAIRE HUOT & ROBERT MAJZELS, FEB 12th
Sponsored by Writer's Union of Canada
& the Creative Writing Degree Program at Capilano College
The Spring 2008 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College continues on February 12th, 2008 with a presentation by Calgary & Montreal poets, playwrights, novelists, and translators Claire Huot and Robert Majzels. Majzels and Huot will present a collaborative, multi-media talk that addresses the reception of classical Chinese poetry into English.
Tuesday, February 12th
Library 321 @ 3:30
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver
CLAIRE HUOT has lived in and out of China for the past 20 years. Fully trilingual (French, English and Mandarin), she has written two books on contemporary Chinese culture— La Petite révolution culturelle, (Arles, France, 1994) and China's New Cultural Scene (Duke University Press, USA, 2000). The Prison Tangram is her first book of fiction. Huot is currently teaching Chinese film at the University of Calgary and has a feature column, in Chinese, in New World, a Chinese cultural magazine.
ROBERT MAJZELS is a novelist, playwright, poet and translator, born in Montréal, Québec. The Humbugs Diet is his fourth novel. In 2007, he won the Alcuin Society Prize for Excellence in Book Design for the limited edition of his book, Apikoros Sleuth. This Night the Kapo, his award winning full-length play, was produced at the Berkley Street Theatre in Toronto, in March 2004. He was attributed the Governor General's Award of Canada for his translation of France Daigle's Just Fine in 2000. With Erin Moure, Robert has also translated several books of poetry by Nicole Brossard. He is presently an Associate Professor in the English Department of the University of Calgary.
For info: Roger Farr
rfarr@capcollege.bc.ca
604.986.1911 (2554)
& the Creative Writing Degree Program at Capilano College
The Spring 2008 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College continues on February 12th, 2008 with a presentation by Calgary & Montreal poets, playwrights, novelists, and translators Claire Huot and Robert Majzels. Majzels and Huot will present a collaborative, multi-media talk that addresses the reception of classical Chinese poetry into English.
Tuesday, February 12th
Library 321 @ 3:30
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver
CLAIRE HUOT has lived in and out of China for the past 20 years. Fully trilingual (French, English and Mandarin), she has written two books on contemporary Chinese culture— La Petite révolution culturelle, (Arles, France, 1994) and China's New Cultural Scene (Duke University Press, USA, 2000). The Prison Tangram is her first book of fiction. Huot is currently teaching Chinese film at the University of Calgary and has a feature column, in Chinese, in New World, a Chinese cultural magazine.
ROBERT MAJZELS is a novelist, playwright, poet and translator, born in Montréal, Québec. The Humbugs Diet is his fourth novel. In 2007, he won the Alcuin Society Prize for Excellence in Book Design for the limited edition of his book, Apikoros Sleuth. This Night the Kapo, his award winning full-length play, was produced at the Berkley Street Theatre in Toronto, in March 2004. He was attributed the Governor General's Award of Canada for his translation of France Daigle's Just Fine in 2000. With Erin Moure, Robert has also translated several books of poetry by Nicole Brossard. He is presently an Associate Professor in the English Department of the University of Calgary.
For info: Roger Farr
rfarr@capcollege.bc.ca
604.986.1911 (2554)
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
OPEN TEXT READING: JAMIE REID
Sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts
& the Capilano College Creative Writing Program
The SPRING 2008 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College continues on Thursday January 24th, 2008 with a reading by North Vancouver poet, editor, and cultural organizer Jamie Reid.
Thursday, January 24th
Cedar 148 @ 12:30
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver
JAMIE REID was one of the founding editors of TISH, the well-known West Coast poetry magazine from the early 1960s. After publishing his first book, The Man Whose Path Was On Fire in 1969, he became a political activist for nearly twenty years, returning to the West Coast and the the practice of poetry in 1987. He has published three collections of poetry since while acting for several years as editor and publisher of DaDaBaBy, a magazine of poetry and commentary. I. Another. The Space Between, his most recent poetry collection, was published by Talonbooks in 2004.
"At this very moment the forces
calling themselves the forces of civilization,
of progress and of order are preparing
a chaotic disaster
for millions of poor people
far from their centres of power and influence,
all of this accompanied by the widespread use of
dangerous substances, death-dealing metals and chemicals. etc.
And still they have now begun to talk
of cleaning up the earth,
as if we should believe them."
-- Jamie Reid
For more info, contact:
Roger Farr, Capilano College
rfarr@capcollege.bc.ca
604.986.1911 (2554)
& the Capilano College Creative Writing Program
The SPRING 2008 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College continues on Thursday January 24th, 2008 with a reading by North Vancouver poet, editor, and cultural organizer Jamie Reid.
Thursday, January 24th
Cedar 148 @ 12:30
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver
JAMIE REID was one of the founding editors of TISH, the well-known West Coast poetry magazine from the early 1960s. After publishing his first book, The Man Whose Path Was On Fire in 1969, he became a political activist for nearly twenty years, returning to the West Coast and the the practice of poetry in 1987. He has published three collections of poetry since while acting for several years as editor and publisher of DaDaBaBy, a magazine of poetry and commentary. I. Another. The Space Between, his most recent poetry collection, was published by Talonbooks in 2004.
"At this very moment the forces
calling themselves the forces of civilization,
of progress and of order are preparing
a chaotic disaster
for millions of poor people
far from their centres of power and influence,
all of this accompanied by the widespread use of
dangerous substances, death-dealing metals and chemicals. etc.
And still they have now begun to talk
of cleaning up the earth,
as if we should believe them."
-- Jamie Reid
For more info, contact:
Roger Farr, Capilano College
rfarr@capcollege.bc.ca
604.986.1911 (2554)
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
FIRST OPEN TEXT READING OF 2008: OANA AVASILICHIOAEI
The 2008 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College begins on Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 with a reading by Montreal poet and translator Oana Avasilichioaei.
LB 321 @ 12:30
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver
OANA AVASILICHIOAEI is poet and translator. She has published a collection of poems (Abandon, Wolsak & Wynn, 2005), and a translation of Romanian poet Nichita Stanescu (Occupational Sickness, BuschekBooks, 2006). Her next book, feria: a poempark will be coming out in 2009 (Wolsak & Wynn). She has given readings and talks in Canada, USA, Spain and Slovenia and frequently teaches creative writing courses at Dawson College in Montreal, where she also coordinates the Atwater Poetry Project reading series ( www.atwaterlibrary.ca/poetry). Currently, she is translating some work from French Quebecois poets, collaborating with Erín Moure on a dialogic work involving translation, and working on a new project of her own poetry that explores and entangles the language of fairytales. She lives in Montreal.
I thought I could loose language and think freely like an animal. I fought with my own tongue.
Then language allowed me other linguas and limbs and I was free once more.
I loved again.
For a time the sky was an opera and we all listened.
For one brief moment no boundary was at war.
For one brief moment no boundary was a boundary.
-- from, "Il Giardino Italiano" (feria: a poempark, forthcoming)
For info:
Roger Farr
rfarr@capcollege.bc.ca
604.986.1911 (2554)
LB 321 @ 12:30
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver
OANA AVASILICHIOAEI is poet and translator. She has published a collection of poems (Abandon, Wolsak & Wynn, 2005), and a translation of Romanian poet Nichita Stanescu (Occupational Sickness, BuschekBooks, 2006). Her next book, feria: a poempark will be coming out in 2009 (Wolsak & Wynn). She has given readings and talks in Canada, USA, Spain and Slovenia and frequently teaches creative writing courses at Dawson College in Montreal, where she also coordinates the Atwater Poetry Project reading series ( www.atwaterlibrary.ca/poetry). Currently, she is translating some work from French Quebecois poets, collaborating with Erín Moure on a dialogic work involving translation, and working on a new project of her own poetry that explores and entangles the language of fairytales. She lives in Montreal.
I thought I could loose language and think freely like an animal. I fought with my own tongue.
Then language allowed me other linguas and limbs and I was free once more.
I loved again.
For a time the sky was an opera and we all listened.
For one brief moment no boundary was at war.
For one brief moment no boundary was a boundary.
-- from, "Il Giardino Italiano" (feria: a poempark, forthcoming)
For info:
Roger Farr
rfarr@capcollege.bc.ca
604.986.1911 (2554)
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