No Class October 20, 2011 for V125 Poetry Conference

We won’t have our usual class on Thursday October 20 because many of us will be at the V125 Poetry Conference. V125 is a three-day conference all about poetry with more than 100 poets from the US and Canada in attendance participating on panels, discussions and readings. The organizers of this conference, which celebrates Vancouver’s 125th birthday, have provided a number of passes for writers from the Downtown Eastside. Five of these passes will be given to Thursdays Writing Collective members – names will be drawn from a hat.

 

At the conference Elee Kraljii Gardiner and Michael Turner will be cohosting a panel on DTES writing on Friday October 21 at 9:15 at SFU Harbour Centre with guests Ghia Aweida from Intrepid Pens, Antonette Rhea and Irit Shimrat, both from Thursdays Writing Collective. The “First” panel seat is reserved for the voice of the community, residents and audience. You are welcome to join special invited guests in contributing to the discussion of DTES writing. While day passes for the conference cost $35, no one will be turned away from joining us for economic reasons.