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
Friday, February 15, 2008
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)
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
OPEN TEXT READING: RITA WONG
Sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts
& the Capilano College Creative Writing Program
The FALL 2007 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College concludes on Monday November 26th, 2007 with a reading by Vancouver poet and critic Rita Wong.
Monday, November 26th
Library 321 @ 12:30
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver
RITA WONG’s book of poems, monkeypuzzle (Press Gang, 1998), received the Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop Emerging Writer Award. Currently she is Assistant Professor in Critical & Cultural studies at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver. Her second book, entitled Forage, is forthcoming with Nightwood Editions in 2007.
achtung!
with crumpled deutschmarks in my pockets…
choke on gucci and starbucks as you tread towards checkpoint charlie
the fiscal year of the living dead
caveat emptor in the trauma room
lederhosen, lederhosen, let down your girth
the streets are alive with the sound of money, podcast
or ac/dc: back in black down memory lane in melbourne, berlin, calgary
skins & masks, still
don’t want to be someone's escape fantasy nor their fear of invasion
nor their model majority
pudendum, addendum, memorandum: what’s your agenda, pussycat?
-- from “forage” (Nightwood, 2007)
For more info, contact:
Roger Farr, Capilano College
rfarr@capcollege.bc.ca
604.986.1911 (2554)
& the Capilano College Creative Writing Program
The FALL 2007 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College concludes on Monday November 26th, 2007 with a reading by Vancouver poet and critic Rita Wong.
Monday, November 26th
Library 321 @ 12:30
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver
RITA WONG’s book of poems, monkeypuzzle (Press Gang, 1998), received the Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop Emerging Writer Award. Currently she is Assistant Professor in Critical & Cultural studies at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver. Her second book, entitled Forage, is forthcoming with Nightwood Editions in 2007.
achtung!
with crumpled deutschmarks in my pockets…
choke on gucci and starbucks as you tread towards checkpoint charlie
the fiscal year of the living dead
caveat emptor in the trauma room
lederhosen, lederhosen, let down your girth
the streets are alive with the sound of money, podcast
or ac/dc: back in black down memory lane in melbourne, berlin, calgary
skins & masks, still
don’t want to be someone's escape fantasy nor their fear of invasion
nor their model majority
pudendum, addendum, memorandum: what’s your agenda, pussycat?
-- from “forage” (Nightwood, 2007)
For more info, contact:
Roger Farr, Capilano College
rfarr@capcollege.bc.ca
604.986.1911 (2554)
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
OPEN TEXT READING SERIES: THREE NORTHERN POETS
Sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts
& the Creative Writing Concentration at Capilano College
"The north moves north. / The song is an article of evidence."
– Ken Belford
The FALL 2007 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College continues on November 20th, 2007 with a reading by three Northern poets: Ken Belford, Rob Budde, and Si Transken.
Tuesday, November 20th
Library 197 @ 12:30
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver
KEN BELFORD was born to a farming family near DeBolt, Alberta, and grew up in East Vancouver. For 35 years he lived in the remote, unroaded Nass River headwaters at Damdochax Lake. His gaze is of subsistence and the other, in that he looks out at the consumptive habits of western culture from the mountains. In addition to 15 chapbooks. he has published four books of poetry; Fireweed, The Post Electric Caveman, Pathways Into the Mountains, and ecologue. His most recent chapbook, from Nomados, is When Snakes Awaken. Difficult to categorize, Belford's poetics blend borders. He is a self-educated land(d)guage poet who mixes a learned pre-industrial knowledge with the push and pull of the questions, conversations, and what he sees as new linguistic possibilities.
ROB BUDDE teaches Creative Writing at the University of Northern BC. He has published five books (two poetry - Catch as Catch and traffick - two novels - Misshapen and The Dying Poem - and, most recently, short fiction - Flicker). In 2002, Rob facilitated a collection of interviews (In Muddy Water: Conversations with 11 Poets). Finding Ft. George (Caitlin 2007) is a collection of poems about Rob's growing relationship with Prince George and Northern BC. He lives in Prince George with his partner, Debbie Keahey and four children: Robin, Erin, Quinlan, and Anya. Check out his online literary journal called stonestone <http://stonestone.unbc.ca> and his poetry blog writingwaynorth <http://writingwaynorth.blogspot.com>.
SI TRANSKEN uses her creative writing to educate, vent, stir up troubles and joys, have fun and accomplish solidarity. She reads at Gay Pride, Women's fundraisers and other social justice events. She has been an activist in these movements for more than two decades. Si works at a shelter with drug addicted/ homeless/ survival sex trade workers. In her ivory tower roles she teaches for two universities in sociology, women's studies and social work. Entirely unbelievably she gets people laughing. Her work has been published in scholarly contexts such as Cultural Studies & Critical Methodologies, Atlantis, Canadian Women's Studies and her funky stuff has been published in contexts such as This Ain¹t Your Patriarchs' Poetry Book; Groping Beyond Grief; Stress (Full) Sister (Hood); and Battle Chants.
For info:
Roger Farr
rfarr@capcollege.bc.ca
604.986.1911 (2554)
& the Creative Writing Concentration at Capilano College
"The north moves north. / The song is an article of evidence."
– Ken Belford
The FALL 2007 OPEN TEXT series at Capilano College continues on November 20th, 2007 with a reading by three Northern poets: Ken Belford, Rob Budde, and Si Transken.
Tuesday, November 20th
Library 197 @ 12:30
Capilano College
2055 Purcell Way
North Vancouver
KEN BELFORD was born to a farming family near DeBolt, Alberta, and grew up in East Vancouver. For 35 years he lived in the remote, unroaded Nass River headwaters at Damdochax Lake. His gaze is of subsistence and the other, in that he looks out at the consumptive habits of western culture from the mountains. In addition to 15 chapbooks. he has published four books of poetry; Fireweed, The Post Electric Caveman, Pathways Into the Mountains, and ecologue. His most recent chapbook, from Nomados, is When Snakes Awaken. Difficult to categorize, Belford's poetics blend borders. He is a self-educated land(d)guage poet who mixes a learned pre-industrial knowledge with the push and pull of the questions, conversations, and what he sees as new linguistic possibilities.
ROB BUDDE teaches Creative Writing at the University of Northern BC. He has published five books (two poetry - Catch as Catch and traffick - two novels - Misshapen and The Dying Poem - and, most recently, short fiction - Flicker). In 2002, Rob facilitated a collection of interviews (In Muddy Water: Conversations with 11 Poets). Finding Ft. George (Caitlin 2007) is a collection of poems about Rob's growing relationship with Prince George and Northern BC. He lives in Prince George with his partner, Debbie Keahey and four children: Robin, Erin, Quinlan, and Anya. Check out his online literary journal called stonestone <http://stonestone.unbc.ca> and his poetry blog writingwaynorth <http://writingwaynorth.blogspot.com>.
SI TRANSKEN uses her creative writing to educate, vent, stir up troubles and joys, have fun and accomplish solidarity. She reads at Gay Pride, Women's fundraisers and other social justice events. She has been an activist in these movements for more than two decades. Si works at a shelter with drug addicted/ homeless/ survival sex trade workers. In her ivory tower roles she teaches for two universities in sociology, women's studies and social work. Entirely unbelievably she gets people laughing. Her work has been published in scholarly contexts such as Cultural Studies & Critical Methodologies, Atlantis, Canadian Women's Studies and her funky stuff has been published in contexts such as This Ain¹t Your Patriarchs' Poetry Book; Groping Beyond Grief; Stress (Full) Sister (Hood); and Battle Chants.
For info:
Roger Farr
rfarr@capcollege.bc.ca
604.986.1911 (2554)
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