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)
Monday, February 25, 2008
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)
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