Tag: writing
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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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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…
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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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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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