Creative writing in Vancouver's downtown eastside
June 6, 2013 by Elee
Join us for a celebration and selected readings from our perfect-bound, 108 page beauty! Wed, June 19, 2013, doors at 8pm Brickhouse Bar, 730 Main St, Vancouver Accessible, free, all welcome The Stanza Project is our 6th book of creative writing by Downtown Eastside writers and is a collaboration with Dutch architect MLP Proosten.… Continue reading The Stanza Project launches!
January 31, 2013 by Elee
The beauty of a project like V6A is the ongoing connections we forge with people and groups in different areas who work and write with similar impulses. At the launch in Montreal John Asfour and I met Sandra Sjollema, a McGill University researcher who is involved with Anneau Poetique, a writing group in Cote de… Continue reading UK Journal Cites Thursdays Writing Collective
December 2, 2012 by Elee
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… Continue reading Liu Exhibit Extended
November 23, 2012 by Elee
We opened our UBC Liu Institute exhibit with a social writing event that was so well-received they invited us back! On November 29 Thursdays Writing Collective and DTES residents will travel to UBC to the Liu Institute for Global Issues. It’s a lunchtime writing session open to DTES writers, students, professors, and the public. Join… Continue reading Fieldtrip! No class at Carnegie Nov 29
November 15, 2012 by Elee
On Thursday, November 15, 2012 from 2-4pm we will have a visit from poet Melanie Siebert. Melanie will read from her book, Deepwater Vee, and lead us in some writing prompts. Everyone is welcome! Melanie Siebert completed an MFA at the University of Victoria with a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Fellowship. She has worked… Continue reading Guest Author
October 24, 2012 by Elee
We are excited to return to the Heart of the City Festival on Nov 1, 2012 at Dunlevy Snackbar, 433 Dunlevy (at Hastings) for a 7pm social writing event called Building. During this two hour free session open to DTES residents and others, we will write short pieces about housing and architectural space. Some… Continue reading “Building” at the Heart of the City Festival Nov 1
July 30, 2012 by Elee
Thursdays Writing Collective has been invited to read at the 2012 Summer Dreams Festival at Trout Lake in East Vancouver on Saturday Aug 25. We will be on the main stage from 5:15-5:30pm with readings by Elee Kraljii Gardiner and Brenn Kapitan. Complete schedule info and details are here. It is a great festival… Continue reading Summer Dreams Festival
April 14, 2012 by Elee
The V6A anthology launch included a reading by Henry Doyle, who has written with us for four years. Henry read “Broken Key,” a poem that references his love of manual typewriters. In the audience was cartographer and artist Erick Villagomez. Erick was struck by Henry’s reading and produced this sketch from memory at home later… Continue reading Gesture
April 8, 2012 by Elee
March 15, 2012 by Elee
Geist magazine is holding an Erasure Poem contest, deadline Aug 1, 2012. Details are here. Erasure poems are poems made by erasing or blacking out words and sections from a text and reading the remaining words as the new text. This is a tactic we have been experimenting in as part of our investigation… Continue reading Poetry Contest