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Poetry in Transit at WORD, Sep 20, 2025
UBC Robson Square, 800 Robson Street, Vancouver, BC In the Poetry Tent, next to the Poetry Bus, street level on Howe St. Join us in celebrating the 29th year of Poetry in Transit at “Poetry Bus!”, the campaign launch event at the Word Vancouver Festival at UBC Robson Square. On Saturday, September 20 at 2-3:30…
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Free Verse, WORD Vancouver, September 20, 2025
Free Verse seeks to bring the voices of incarcerated writers to the Vancouver community through a public presentation of their writing in an effort to expand the literary community, build empathy, and leverage the power of storytelling to instigate change. Work is from writers in Mission Medium (men) and Fraser Valley (women) Institutions. Free Verse…
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Citizen Poet Lauren Peat, Write Like a River workshop, August 20, 2025
Lauren Peat is holding a workshop at the site of her Here, Hearing Residency. Please click here for $15 tickets. It starts at 6:30pm at Enabling Arts, 104-343 Railway St., Vancouver.
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Summer Sounds and Sonics in Poetic Form, July 22, 2025
Meet the Poetry Ambassadors! City of Vancouver Poet Laureate Elee Kraljii Gardiner hosts a night of poems with poetry ambassadors Johnny Trinh, Kevin Spenst, and Marc Perez. These four poets with distinct craft practices invite you to consider the role of sounds and sonics within the framework of the poem. Vocalizations, modulations, polyphony, multilingualism, repetition, call…
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Friday Night Frogs, July 18, 2025
Come meander and listen to REAL frogs! No agenda, no plan, no time constraint. All welcome! We will gently gather around 9:30pm at the water feature at Mundell Park at UBC Wesbrook Village and enjoy the chorus. Stay 5 mins or 500, it’s up to you! This is a low-stakes, listening to nature event and…
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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…
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Poetry in the Park, July 2, 2025
Royal City Literary Arts Society presents Poetry in the Park 2025 Opening NightWednesday July 2, 6:30 pm – 8:30pmQueen’s Park Bandshell, New WestminsterFeature Poets Elee Kraljii Gardiner and Kevin SpenstWith Host Jonina Kirton Elee Kraljii Gardiner is the author of Trauma Head and serpentine loop, and the anthologies Against Death: 35 Essays on Living and…
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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.
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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…
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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…