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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 being…
Even If We Never Figure out What Happened, Reykjavík, March 19

Join us for an afternoon of poetry and sound with Elee Kraljii Gardiner and Eduardo Abrantes supported by the Embassy of Canada. Forlagið, Fiskislóð 39, Reykjavík, March 19, 2025, 16:00 The afternoon will feature a reading from Elee’s poetry collection Trauma Head and a representation of the collaborative project based on the text. Eduardo Abrantes…
Launch of SOME 10, Jan 11, 2025

Sat. Jan 11, 2025, 7pm People’s Co-Op Bookstore1391 Commercial Drive, Vancouver Readings by Steve Collis, Catriona Strang, Elee Kraljii Gardiner, and a video reading by Rhoda Rosenfeld
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…
Pandora’s Collective Book Launch Fundraiser, Dec 17, 2024

Tues. Dec 17, 7pm Celebration Hall and Courtyard Mountainview Cemetery 5445 Fraser Street Vancouver Please join us for a Pandora’s Collective reading and gathering that also doubles as a fundraiser for Musqueam youth.
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…
(Art)Song Lab application deadline January 12, 2026

Are you a poet or composer curious about creating new work via collaboration with performers in voice and piano? This summer creative lab June 29-July 5 in Vancouver focusses on the genre of ART SONG and is an accelerator for craft and collaboration. I will be on board as the poetry mentor! Apply by January…
Pandora’s Collective Presents TWISTED POETS LITERARY SALON with three poets laureate: Wed, Jan 21, 2026

Hosted by: Daniela Elza and Natasha Boskic, Pandora’s Collective & Britannia Library Readings by three poets laureate: Kyeren Regehr (Victoria), Elee Kraljii Gardiner (Vancouver), and Janet Kvammen (New Westminster). Join us for open mic! Wed, January 21, 2026, 6:00 – 7:50 pm Britannia Library, 1661 Napier St, Vancouver, BC More info here.