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Dazibao presents a Lecture and Reading by Shannon Webb-Campbell

Dazibao 5455 avenue de Gaspé, #109, Montreal, QC, Canada

Reading-intervention by Shannon Webb-Campell : What’s Wrong With Romance To conclude the exhibition Spécial Video Pool Special: What's Wrong With Romance?, Dazibao is pleased to welcome Mi’kmaq poet, writer and critic Shannon Webb-Campbell. Placing her own texts in conversation with a selection of videos works from What’s Wrong With Romance?, Webb-Campbell proposes a dialogue on […]

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Incite Reading Series presents Incite: Homegrown with Chelene Knight

Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch, Alice MacKay Room, 350 W Georgia St., Vancouver, BC, Canada

Incite Reading Series presents Incite:Homegrown, with Chelene Knight (author of Dear Current Occupant) and Terese Mailhot. From the wilds of the Pacific Northwest to the visceral Downtown Eastside, geography holds a powerful role in the construction of our memories. The essential relationship between people and land is, once more, coming to the forefront of our […]

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Emily Carr University presents Jacob Wren

Emily Carr University of Art and Design

Emily Carr University presents a reading with Jacob Wren, author of Authenticity is a Feeling: My Life in PME-ART.

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Tonic presents Chelene Knight

The Heatley 696 East Hastings, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Tonic is proud to announce our latest event, quite the spring sizzler, featuring: Chelene Knight, author of Dear Current Occupant, Ivanna Besenovsky, Amber Dawn, and David Ly. Tonic is proud to launch Amber Dawn's novel SODOM ROAD EXIT, David Ly's chapbook STUBBLE BURN, and Chelene Knight's memoir DEAR CURRENT OCCUPANT. Come congratulate the authors and […]

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READ Books presents a Book Launch and Reading for Jacob Wren

READ Books 520 East 1st Avenue, Vancouver, BC, Canada

READ Books presents a book launch and reading for Jacob Wren's latest book, Authenticity is a Feeling: My Life in PME-ART. Book Launch + Reading Tuesday, March 20, 2018 7pm  

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University of Calgary presents Oana Avasilichioaei

Big Secret Theatre (Arts Commons) 225 8 Ave SE, Calgary, AB, Canada

The Calgary Distinguished Writers Program is delighted to present In Conversation: Oana Avasilichioaei and Richard Harrison. Both former CDWP Canadian Writers-in-Residence and 2017 Governor General’s Literary Award winners, Avasilichioaei and Harrison will be joined by another of our accomplished former Writers-in-Residence, Marcello Di Cintio. Avasilichioaei and Harrison will read their work and participate in an […]

Vancouver Launch of Dear Current Occupant by Chelene Knight

The Cottage Bistro 4470 Main Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Please join Chelene Knight to celebrate the Vancouver launch of her highly anticipated new book, Dear Current Occupant, a creative nonfiction memoir,about home and belonging set in the 80s and 90s of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Host/Emcee: Meharoona Ghani With guest readers: Simone Chnarakis & Jonina Lynn Kirton Music by What it is! (whatitissoul.com) Book sales […]

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Hapa-palooza Festival presents Mixed Me: Multi-ethnic Storytelling for Teens & Kids, with Chelene Knight

Museum of Vancouver (Joyce Walley Room) 1100 Chestnut Street, Vanier Park, Kitsilano, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Hapa-palooza Festival presents Mixed Me: Multi-ethnic Storytelling for Teens & Kids, with Chelene Knight, author of Dear Current Occupant. For story-tellers and story-lovers! Hapa-palooza Festival, a celebration of mixed heritage arts and ideas, presents an afternoon of multi-ethnic storytelling for teens, kids, and families. Please join three exciting mixed race authors, poet and memoirist Chelene Knight […]

IFOA presents the 10th annual Battle of the Bards, with Aaron Tucker

Harboufront Centre, Brigantine Room 235 Queens Quay West, Toronto, ON, Canada

The popular poetry competition from Toronto's International Festival of Authors returns featuring readings by 20 of Canada’s emerging and established poets, including Aaron Tucker, author of Irresponsible Mediums: The Chess Games of Marcel Duchamp. Hosted by Susan G. Cole. The poets will be judged by Geoffrey E. Taylor (IFOA Director), Zviko Mhakayakora (IFOA Executive Assistant Programming) and 2017 […]

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