OPEN TEXT READING SERIES: ROY MIKI

Sponsored by The Canada Council for the Arts
& the Creative Writing Program at Capilano University

The Spring 2009 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College continues on Thursday, March 5th, 2009 with a reading by Vancouver critic, editor, poet and teacher Roy Miki:

Library 321 @ 11:30
Capilano University
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver

ROY MIKI is the author of Justice in Our Time (co-authored with Cassandra Kobayashi) (Talonbooks 1991), two books of poems, Saving Face (Turnstone 1991) and Random Access File (Red Deer College Press 1995), and a collection of critical essays, Broken Entries: Race, Subjectivity, Writing (Mercury Press 1998). His third book of poems, Surrender (Mercury Press 2001), received the Governor General’s Award for Poetry. His two most recent publications are Redress: Inside the Japanese Canadian Call for Justice (Raincoast 2004), and There (New Star Books 2006), a book of poems. He received the Order of Canada in 2006.

For info:
Reg Johanson
rjohanso@capilanou.ca
604.986.1911 (2428)

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OPEN TEXT READING SERIES: DAPHNE MARLATT

Sponsored by The Canada Council for the Arts
& the Creative Writing Program at Capilano University

The Spring 2009 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano University continues on Thursday, February 26th, 2009 with a reading by Vancouver poet, novelist, and critic Daphne Marlatt:

Library 321 @ 11:30
Capilano University
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver

Vancouver writer Daphne Marlatt has written over twenty books of poetry, fiction and essays, notably Steveston, Touch to my Tongue, This Tremor Love Is, the essay collection Readings from the Labyrinth, and two novels, Ana Historic and Taken. In 2006 Pangaea Arts (Vancouver) staged a bicultural, bilingual production of The Gull, her contemporary Noh play about Steveston’s Japanese-Canadian fishing community, winning the international Uchimura Theatre Prize. The Given was published in 2008, as was Between Brush Strokes, about the life and work of the B.C. painter Sveva Caetani. Also in 2008 Otter Bay released the CD Like Light Off Water, a collaboration with composer-musicians Robert Minden and Carla Hallett. Marlatt was awarded the Order of Canada in 2005.


For info:
Reg Johanson
rjohanso@capilanou.ca
604.986.1911 (2428)


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Progressive Texts: WCL/LINEbooks Launch

Thursday February 19th 7:30 pm
The ANZA club 3 west 8th ave in Mount Pleasant, Vancouver

Active Geographies: Women and Struggles on the Left Coast
Edited by Rita Wong & Jo-Anne Lee

Citizenship and Cultural Belonging
Edited by Sophie McCall & David Chariandy

sybil unrest
Rita Wong & Larissa Lai

The Artist and the Moose: A Fable of Forget
Roy K. Kiyooka
edited with an afterword by Roy Miki

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Info:
Michael Barnholden
Managing Editor, WCL
www.westcoastline.ca

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OPEN TEXT READING SERIES: JORDAN SCOTT

Sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts
& the Creative Writing Program at Capilano University

The Spring 2009 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano University begins on February 10th with a reading by Vancouver poet Jordan Scott.

LB 321 @ 11:30
Capilano University
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver

Originally from Coquitlam, British Columbia, JORDAN SCOTT now wanders between the Pacific and the Shield. His first book of poetry, Silt (New Star Books), was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. In the fall of 2006, he worked on the final sections of blert while acting as a writer in residence at the International Writers' and Translators' Centre in Rhodes, Greece.


For info:
Reg Johanson
rjohanso@capilnou.ca
604.986.1911 (2428)

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SOAP: On-Campus Five-Minute Play Festival

SOAP: On-Campus Five-Minute Play Festival

This festival will première eleven brand new plays written by Creative Writing students and performed and directed by Theatre students. The unifying theme is le mystère. Writer-in-residence Tom Cone has overseen the project.

All performances take place in Arbutus 001. Both groups perform every show time. Group One before the intermission and Group Two after. Tickets $5.

The date and times of the five-minute play festival SOAP are as follows:

Wednesday February 11: Groups One & Two 4pm. Groups One & Two 7pm.
Thursday February 12: Groups One & Two 7pm
Friday February 13: Groups One & Two 7pm.

Call the reservation line to book: 604.990.7979

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Call for Submissions for The Liar

It's February and that means that it is one short month until deadline for the Spring 09 issue of the Liar. Don't be shy! Give us all you got!

Again, deadline for submissions is March 1st. If more time is needed then we recommend you e-mail us telling us so. For any questions about submissions, past issues or anything else, please e-mail us at liarsarebetterlovers@gmail.com.

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