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forest ecology/a system of weather: a double book welcome party, June 22, 2026

Montreal: join Elee Kraljii Gardiner and Astrida Neimanis and guests and friends in launching sometimes, forest from Talonbooks by Elee and How to Weather Together: Feminist Practice for Climate Change from Bloomsbury by Astrida Neimanis and Jennifer Mae Hamilton with guests Anne Bourne, Lindsay Kelley, Krusa Neimligers Open mic! Snacks! Cavorting! All welcome! June 22, 2026, 18-21h…
Poetry, Art and All the Brightness in-between: Jane’s Walk in Mount Pleasant, May 2, 2026

On our annual Jane’s Walk through Mount Pleasant, we’ll be looking and listening with the assistance (and insistence!) of poetry. While the bulk of the walk will take us through several art galleries, poetry will be read by some of Vancouver’s most engaging poets who will explore art on and off the page in the…
Forest Weathering: A Double Book Welcome with Astrida Neimanis and Elee Kraljii Gardiner

Forest Weathering: A Double Book Welcome with Astrida Neimanis and Elee Kraljii Gardiner Thursday, May 7, 2026, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm VPL Central Library, 350 West Georgia St, Vancouver at the Grand Staircase between the 8th and 9th floors Free, accessible, all welcome. You are invited to be part of a gathering-reading-experience marking the release of…
Talonbooks Spring Launch, May 1 2026

Join us at the Martha Lou Henley Rehearsal Hall for the launch of the Talonbooks spring 2026 titles! Come help us celebrate this season’s authors and books. Here’s the lineup! It’s going to be an amazing evening. Taryn Hubbard will read from Beautiful Unknown FutureJenn Ashton (attending digitally) will read from Growing My Way HomeGeorge Bowering (attending digitally) will read…
Un-Closing Captions: possibilities for descriptive text

VERSES Festival Wednesday, April 29, 2026 @ 2:30 pm at Chill-X Studios Un-Closing Captions: possibilities for descriptive text Closed captions are an important accessibility feature for many viewers. But, as artist Christine Sun Kim points out, descriptive subtitles for the musical soundtrack in videos often default to something unspecific such as [MUSIC PLAYING]. How can…
Applications are OPEN

✨ Applications are now open for Citizen Poet “Here, Hearing” — mini residencies that bring poetry into everyday spaces and make part of Vancouver’s public life. Apply to be a Citizen Poet, or host one in your space! 🖋️ What’s a mini residency? A two-month, self directed, creative pause. Poets spend 2 hours a week at a host site simply…
Forest/Weather: A Climate Justice Walkshop, April 11, 2026

Join us on a WALKSHOP at Smoke Forecast, a one-day gathering that foregrounds artistic, embodied and community-engaged practices to approach fire and climate justice, at the Belkin Gallery at UBC. Forest/Weather: A Climate Justice Walkshop will take place at 11:30am with facilitators Elee Kraljii Gardiner, Astrida Neimanis, χʷəy̓χʷiq̓tən/ Audrey Siegl and Ruby Singh. Please dress for the weather; while the…
We Are Still and Time Moves through Us

March 1 + 3, 2026 Graz, Austria We Are Still and Time Moves Through Us is an interdisciplinary performance project that brings together contemporary composition, figure skating, literary arts, and real-time sound processing in an ice arena. Elee has written poems on the theme of time that are the text of a multidisciplinary performance and co…
Here, Hearing: An Evening with Citizen Poets, January 13, 2026

Vancouver Poet laureate Elee Kraljii Gardiner welcomes you to an evening of reportage and readings from seven Citizen Poets who did Here, Hearing residencies and brought poetry into public venues. Learn what they did, where they worked, and what they heard from the city and its citizens. As a record of the first year of…
open 2, curated by Allison Lang: Thurs, December 18, 2025

We welcome you to Allison Lang’s performance series, open two. A two-performance evening at KW Studios. “Katy Perry in Space” by Nathan Coburn and Elle of Paper Rabbits This a dance piece exploring questions of our relationship to each other, the world, and the cosmos. We are fascinated by astrophysics principles, the vast and ever…