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chronicle: performance as a site of research

thecanadaproject wrote 1 month ago: April 13, 2013. Evening. Douglas College. children of air india– about writing / performance a … more →

Tags: thecanadaproject readings, New Westminster, John Oliver, New West Lit Fest, Douglas College, bp Nichol, Pauline Butler

Performance as a site of research w/ J.Arnott, W.Compton, M.Turner, J.Oliver

thecanadaproject wrote 2 months ago: about a past, present “…to write: the vertical…”(Bhanu Kapil) “… … more →

Tags: thecanadaproject readings, about doing the work, SFU Woodwards, Joanne Arnott, Michael Turner, Am Johal

March readings: Poetic Justice, SFU Woodwards, Canadian Music Centre

thecanadaproject wrote 2 months ago: Sunday, March 03, 3-5pm ~ with Taryn Hubbard and Kevin Spenst at Poetic Justice, Backroom, Heritage … more →

Tags: thecanadaproject readings, Taryn Hubbard, Kevin Spenst, poetic justice, SFU Woodwards, Joanne Arnott, Michael Turner, Sandy V.A. Moore, canadian music centre

Reading a City's Past: Exploring Local History Collections with a Look at Vancouver's Hogan Alley

Laedee Chai wrote 3 months ago: Cities, towns, and the neighbourhoods within them often make for fantastic discoveries. Imagine walk … more →

Tags: local history collections, Black History Month, hogan's alley, Black community - Vancouver, Strathcona Vancouver, east vancouver

Black History Month: Wayde Compton

thecanadaproject wrote 3 months ago: about meeting Wayde at a Roy Miki conference, Firehall Theatre about before that, hearing Wayde read … more →

Tags: about doing the work, rita wong, Black History Month, Juliane Okot Bitek, performance bond, After Canaan

Catching up to Canaan

mateakulic wrote 4 months ago: Ok so this is gonna be a bit of a tangential post because I haven’t written anything here sinc … more →

Tags: Origins, Race, Exodus

Sometimes a great notion: Garry Thomas Morse and Wayde Compton

thecanadaproject wrote 5 months ago: there is that which is the voice there is that question which becomes the text                       … more →

Tags: about doing the work, garry thomas morse, Discovery Passages, 49th Parallel Psalm

November 11 @ Project Space: reading the dead

thecanadaproject wrote 6 months ago: on November 11th, 2012 from 3-5 PM at Project Space.  Vancouver poets read the dead: Robin Blaser (1 … more →

Tags: thecanadaproject readings, Robin Blaser, Dead Poets Reading Series, Daniel Zomparelli, Project Space, SUSAN McCASLIN, Pam Galloway, Robert Hayden, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Finding Jam Ismail, thinking about Tim Bowling and WH New's YVR

thecanadaproject wrote 7 months ago: about language, inside/out-sides: lyric/linear about  talis/woman for the road, language hobbyist, f … more →

Tags: about doing the work, Ryga, Fred Wah, Jam Ismail, The Writer’s Studio SFU, Simon Fraser University, A Journal of Provocations, WH New, YVR

Congratulations to our 2011 National Magazine Awards nominees!

EVENT Magazine wrote 1 year ago: In the Fiction Category: Wayde Compton was nominated for ‘The Instrument’ (issue 40/1) a … more →

Tags: News, national magazine awards, Kudos, NMA, Nomination, wayde, Compton, Bill Gaston, Bill

Wayde Compton: Hybridity and Hogan’s Alley

EVENT Magazine wrote 1 year ago: Photo by Lani Russwurm As I head toward Little Italy, also known as Commercial Drive, to interview V … more →

Tags: blogs, Event Magazine, Douglas College, Poetry, Prose, Non-Fiction, event, Stories, After Canaan

REVIEW: After Canaan2 comments

andrea bennett wrote 2 years ago: After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing and Region By Wayde Compton Arsenal Pulp Press Reviewed by Kai … more →

Tags: Reviews, After Canaan, Kaitlin Fontana, racializiation, Vancouver, arsenal pulp

Mark your calendar: gritLIT, Hamilton's literary festival starts April 7

mohawkmatters wrote 2 years ago:   gritLIT, Hamilton’s very own literary festival, is just a few weeks away. Below is a summary … more →

Tags: Alexander MacLeod, Alison Pick, Drew Hayden Taylor, "evelyn lau", gary barwin, gritLIT, hamilton, Jonathan Goldstein, Karen Solie

Mark your calendar: gritLIT, Hamilton's literary festival starts April 7

mohawkmatters wrote 2 years ago:   gritLIT, Hamilton’s very own literary festival, is just a few weeks away. Below is a summary … more →

Tags: Alexander MacLeod, Alison Pick, Drew Hayden Taylor, "evelyn lau", gary barwin, gritLIT, hamilton, Jonathan Goldstein, Karen Solie

March 12th Reading

crossborderp wrote 2 years ago: The Cross Border Pollination Reading Series returns again with some amazing authors! Come out to hea … more →

Tags: Readings, Sarah Leavitt, Kelli Russell Agodon, miranda pearson, Jacqueline Osherow, cross border pollination, Poetry, Reading, sfu

Hopkinson, Nalo: So Long Been Dreaming

Calico wrote 2 years ago: So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy (2004) Edited by: Nalo Hopkinson … more →

Tags: Reviews, Book Club, Science Fiction, Fantasy, 7 - Good Read, authors of color, Short Fiction, Tobias S. Buckell, Karin Lowachee

Review: So Long Been Dreaming9 comments

The Literary Omnivore wrote 2 years ago: So Long Been Dreaming ed. by Nalo Hopkinson and Uppinder Mehan I first stumbled upon So Long Been Dr … more →

Tags: Fiction, Fantasy, Alternate History, Science Fiction, features, Reviews, Ratings, 4 Stars, Genre

My favorite reads in 20082 comments

yharlap wrote 4 years ago: This year I started keeping a reading diary, on the advice of friend and mentor Wayde Compton. Wayde … more →

Tags: Books, BEST OF, Steven Galloway, David Mitchell, Christian Bok, Michael Chabon, Muriel Barbery, Kazuo Ishiguro

TRACING THE LINES: A Symposium on Contemporary Poetics and Cultural Politics to Honour Roy Miki

Julie Burtinshaw wrote 5 years ago: This just in: TRACING THE LINES: A Symposium on Contemporary Poetics and Cultural Politics to Honour … more →

Tags: stuff to do, Tracing the lines, Roy Miki, Vancouver literary events, George Bowering


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