Michael Turner @ Prosetics

Please come on out and join us for a free, public reading by Michael Turner, award winning author of 8 x 10, The Pornographer's Poem, and American Whiskey Bar. Michael Turner is a cutting edge writer whose works both inhabit and question the genres he moves through. Whether in film, art criticism, fiction, or poetry, his thorough intelligence is always apparent. Brought to you by the Prosetics reading series, and the English and Creative Writing Department of Capilano University. Everyone is welcome.

Thursday, March 31, 2011
7:00 PM
Cafe for Contemporary Art,
140 East Esplanade, North Vancouver

Michael Turner (b. North Vancouver) is an award-winning writer of fiction, criticism and song. His books include Hard Core Logo, The Pornographer’s Poem and 8x10, and his criticism has appeared in the magazines Art Papers, Art On Paper and Modern Painters. He has written catalogue essays on Julia Feyrer, Fred Herzog and Ken Lum and has contributed to the anthologies Intertidal: Vancouver Art & Artists, Vancouver Art & Economies and Ruins In Process: Vancouver Art in the Sixties. A frequent collaborator, Turner has written scripts with Stan Douglas, poems with Geoffrey Farmer and a libretto with Andrea Young. As last year's Simon Fraser University Ellen and Warren Tallman Writer-in-Residence, he curated to show, to give, to make it be there: Expanded Literary Practices in Vancouver, 1954-1969 at SFU Gallery (Burnaby). A new curatorial project, focused on local film production, was included in the current We: Vancouver exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery. For the past four years he has sat on the board of Presentation House Gallery.

Creative Writing Info Session

Creative Writing Info Session:
(for current and future creative writing students)

Wednesday April 6th
11:30 a.m.
Library 321

Come on out on April 6th, enjoy some sweet treats and beverages, and get more information about:

 the Associate of Arts Degree in Creative Writing
 current and upcoming offerings in Creative Writing
 new second-year Creative Writing courses in the works
 how Creative Writing students might fit into the new Liberal Studies Degree

At the information session, we’ll also be gathering your feedback:
 What courses would you like to see offered in future?
 Which readers would you like to see visit campus?
 Etc.

Renee Rodin @ Prosetics Reading Series

Please join us for a free and public reading by Renee Rodin, author of Subject to Change, a collection whose stories may move with the whimsy of anecdote, but are rich with consequence. Presented by Capilano University's Creative Writing and English Department, and the Prosetics Reading Series.

Reading by Renee Rodin
Weds March 23rd, 2011.
11:30 a.m.
Capilano University, Library Building
Room LB 321
Contact: Anne Stone
Email: astone@capilanou.ca.

Renee Rodin was born and educated in Montreal and has been living in Vancouver since the late '60's. She now divides her time between Vancouver and New York and Vancouver. Her books are Bread and Salt (prose poems), Ready for Freddy (a memoir) and Subject to Change (short stories). Her work is personal, subjective and always inclusive of the outside world. It has been described by Stan Persky as "Funny, relaxed, passionately intelligent, deeply attentive to reality."

Harry Karlinsky Reading @ Prosetics

Please join us for a free and public reading by Harry Karlinsky, author of the novel The Evolution of Inanimate Objects — a Darwinian romp through the genre of faux memoir. Presented by Capilano University's Creative Writing and English Department, and the Prosetics Reading Series.

Reading by Harry Karlinsky
Weds March 9th, 2011.
11:30 a.m.
Capilano University, Library Building
Room LB 321
Contact: Anne Stone
Email: astone@capilanou.ca.

Harry Karlinsky is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia. He is also the Director of the award-winning Frames of Mind Mental Health Film Series and writes film reviews for the Canadian Psychiatric Association publication Canadian Psychiatry Aujourd'hui. For his work on The Evolution of Inanimate Objects, Dr Karlinsky was supported in part by a Hewton Bursary, awarded by the Friends of the Archives at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto. This is his first book length work of fiction.