Liu Exhibit Extended

Happy news for our exhibit at UBC’s Liu Institute: organizers have asked to continue the exhibit, which was slated to come down next week, into the new year.

 

Our second social writing event at the Liu was very well-attended, both by UBC people and others. Many of us from Thursdays Writing Collective made it to the lunchtime date thanks to Carnegie Community Centre donating the use of their van. Arts programmer Rika Uto not only did the driving but joined us in the writing prompts. The organizers and curators of the Lobby Gallery catered lunch and arranged the space so that the 40 people gathered could mingle and write easily. We felt very welcome.

 

At the Nov 29 event we wrote on housing and access as at our launch event. This time we wordsquatted in and on architectural plans from MLP Proosten,wrote an acrostic poem using acronyms from the BC Housing website, and explored words from self proclaimed UBC Real Estate Specialist Sam Huang’s website, “detached and attached.” A particular favourite was writing about this image of a 1920s stone house in Portugal with two end walls made of massive boulders.

 

At both events participants were invited to contribute their pieces to an archive that forms part of the exhibit. If you are interested in tracking the community created through writing feel free to browse the writing pinned to the bulletin board. We welcome your writing, too. Beneath the bulletin board is a basket full of images ready to be written on and about.