How to Make Turkish Coffee
October 13, 2015 by Elee
In our investigation into food, Sustain and Nourish, we are looking at all sorts of ceremonies, recipes, rituals and communal events around food. Erol Almelek has a youtube channel where he posts different videos ranging from laughter yoga to sound poetry to How To videos. Here is one called How to Make Turkish Coffee. Erol… Continue reading How to Make Turkish Coffee
New Library Seeks Art
October 3, 2015 by Elee
The nə́c̓aʔmat ct Strathcona neighbourhood library branch is the first building in Vancouver to have a First Nations name. Click here to learn how to pronounce this Musqueam word meaning “we are one”. Here’s an update from librarian and coordinator Beth Davies: Work on the nə́c̓aʔmat ct Strathcona Branch continues, and the library is beginning to… Continue reading New Library Seeks Art
Awards
September 25, 2015 by Elee
Tonight, Sep 25, 2015, Thursdays Writing Collective founder Elee Kraljii Gardiner receives an award from Pandora’s Collective and WORD Festival for mentoring! The BC Writer Mentor Award recognizes efforts to foster the writing of others (see more info below). The event is free and everyone is welcome. Big congratulations to the other awardees – Daphne… Continue reading Awards
Sustain and Nourish
August 19, 2015 by Elee
We begin our next project, Sustain and Nourish, on September 17, 2pm-4pm at Carnegie Community Centre in Vancouver, BC. This year-long project is about food. We will read texts about food, write about feasts and favourite foods, question the distribution of food in the neighbourhood, write recipes for living in the Downtown Eastside, look at… Continue reading Sustain and Nourish
Cover Artist
July 11, 2015 by Elee
Dwayne Woloshyn, the artist who created the painting on the cover of Voice to Voice, appeared in the Keremeos paper!
Interval, a CBC radio doc
July 1, 2015 by Elee
Journalist Pamela Post followed our progress with Voice to Voice and had a chance to interview many of the participants over the course of several months. Her 40+ hours of tape were a gold mine – she said she had enough to serve for eleven documentaries. As she came to know the writers and the… Continue reading Interval, a CBC radio doc
Voice to Voice Launches!
June 5, 2015 by Elee
Join us for a fun evening of socializing and celebration. The evening will include a SHORT reading (15mins), catered free snacks, book sales and some silliness. Details will be posted asap. This book of poems, stories, songs and memoir by members of the Downtown Eastside community of Vancouver represents a year of thinking about music… Continue reading Voice to Voice Launches!
Post Concert, Pre Book Launch
May 3, 2015 by Elee
In the last few weeks we have continued to process hearing our poems in song form. It’s been a strange period between that tremendous exuberance and the upcoming book launch (tentative date June 18). We have been gathering our texts, proofing bios, ferrying them into design layout – a stage of work that is at once… Continue reading Post Concert, Pre Book Launch
World Premiere of Voice to Voice Project
March 24, 2015 by Elee
We invite you to the premieres of 11 original art song compositions based on texts by Thursdays Writing Collective and brought to life by UBC graduate composers and performers. The first evening is April 2, 2015 at 8pm at UBC’s School of Music, Roy Barnett Hall 6361 Memorial Rd. The second is April 16, 2015 at 8pm… Continue reading World Premiere of Voice to Voice Project
Fruitful
March 4, 2015 by Elee
Kate Braid’s visit to read us her poetry and talk about music yielded an unexpected surprise: she brought her collaborator, jazz musician Clyde Reed. Their openness and connection to each other’s work was contagious. They invited us to try reading as Clyde played improvisational bass on the spot. You can see video snippets of the… Continue reading Fruitful
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