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Tiny Desk Concert, June 14, 2025

Join us for VPL’s first TDC featuring Chris Bose, the 2025 Indigenous Storyteller in Residence, The City of Vancouver’s Poet Laureate for 2025-2027, Elee Kraljii Gardiner, and special musical guest, Graham How with How Sound. Vancouver Public Library Central Branch, 350 West Georgia St., Saturday June 14, 2025 1pm-3pm Vancouver Public Library’s Tiny Desk Concert…
8east’s 3rd Thursday Improvised Music Series, June 19, 2025

8east’s 3rd Thursday improvised music series presents:Elee Kraljii Gardiner – poetAysha Dulong – electronicsCindy Kao – violinJohanna Hauser – clarinetsTorsten Müller – bass By donation $20/10/free 8 East Pender St, 8pm-10pm Location and accessibility info here.
DTES Writers Festival, May 22, 2025-onwards

Mark your calendars! Join us for the DTES Writers Festival opening event, Thursday, May 22: 1-2:30pm in the Carnegie Community Centre Theatre at 401 Main St (at Hastings) in Vancouver. Everyone welcome! Elder in Residence, Les Nelson will offer a welcome, Vancouver’s Poet Laureate Elee will do a short reading, as will DTES Writers Collective…
Lunch Poems, May 21, 2025

May’s Lunch Poems reading at SFU Harbour Centre’s Teck Gallery features poets Elee Kraljii Gardiner and Rob Taylor. Wed, May 21, 2025 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM PDT SFU Teck Gallery515 West Hastings Street Vancouver, BC V6B 1A1 Canada Rob Taylor is the author of five poetry collections, including Weather and The News, which was a finalist for the…
sometimes, forest launch in CALGARY, June 16, 2026

Shelf Life books, 1302 4th St., Calgary, 7pm With fantastic readers Samantha Jones, Nikki Reimer, Tolu Oloruntoba, Ryan Fitzpatrick!
Here, Hearing Residencies: Apply by May 15, 2025

The Here, Hearing Residencies are open for both POET and HOST applications until May 15, 2025! Five Citizen Poets will be matched with five Host Sites for self-directed writing residencies in Vancouver. These residencies aim to make poetry visible by creating a dedicated time and space for thinking, dreaming, writing. Please visit here to apply.
Sublime: Poems for Vanishing Ice, edited by Yvonne Blomer, CALGARY

Join us in launching this new anthology from Caitlin Books about ice! With readers Elee Kraljii Gardiner, David Martin, Mary Vlooswyk, Tonya Lailey, Juleta Severson-Bake,Tanis MacDonald, Jared Blustein, Calgary Climate Hub, Yvonne Blomer. June 15, 2026, 7pm Erickson Centre, 640 14 Ave SE, 7pm
Chapbook-Making Workshop with Kevin Spenst, May 27th

Enabling Arts 343 Railway, Vancouver doors at 6 and workshop 6:30-8:30 TO REGISTER CLICK HERE While chapbooks can be crafted from handmade paper with fantastically ornate bindings and bells and whistles, they can also be made on the fly with whatever’s at hand. In this workshop at Enabling Arts, we’ll write some poetry (using two…
Jane’s (Poetry) Walk in the West End, May 4, 2025 with Poetry Ambassador Kevin Spenst

Listening to the Songs of Displacement Poets take us elsewhere. In this sense, they transport us. They sing a sort of displacement in verses rooted in the everyday moments that poetry helps us experience in radically different ways. With Vancouver’s history of people being displaced due to colonialism and racism and with real estate…
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…