Creative writing in Vancouver's downtown eastside
August 24, 2011 by Elee
We want to know what sort of writing you did, if any, over the summer. We’ll be talking about new work and the challenge of finding writing time when we begin meeting again on Thursday, September 15, 2011, 2-4pm at Carnegie Centre on Hastings and Main Streets, Vancouver. Some Thursdays Writing Collective members continued… Continue reading Welcome Back
June 10, 2011 by Elee
Our pilot project is celebrating a culmination on Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 7pm at Vancouver’s Roundhouse Community Centre. Four writing groups – UBC Law students, 2011 Writer’s Studio members, Write Club Literary Mamas and Thursdays Writing Collective are uniting for the first time. We have written together one-on-one and read on double… Continue reading Writers Caravan Swings into Roundhouse Community Centre
January 25, 2011 by Elee
Join us for the eighth Thursdays Writing Collective course beginning February 3, 2011. We meet Thursdays from 2-4pm in the Carnegie Centre until June 9. The first two classes will have to do with Chinese New Year and the Year of the Rabbit. We have been invited to post our written work on the Vancouver… Continue reading Spring 2011 Course Begins February 3
December 6, 2010 by Elee
Our last class of 2010 is this week, December 9. We start again on February 3, 2011. This has been a fruitful, exciting course with many new members of the Collective. Thank you to the guest authors who visited us, beginning with poet Fiona Lam in October. Fiona took us through revision stages of her… Continue reading Untitled
February 5, 2010 by Elee
The Thursdays Writing Collective participated in the Cultural Olympiad at the art installation “The Candahar,” on Sunday, Feb 21, 2-4pm, at Playwrights Theatre Centre on Granville Island. For two weeks, The Candahar was a locus for social interaction and the host site for an ambitious series of events — musical programs, theatrical presentations, performances and… Continue reading Thursdays Reading at Candahar Art Bar, Feb 21, Sunday, 2-4pm
October 27, 2009 by Elee
Join us on Thursday, November 5, 2009 2-4pm, in the third floor classroom of the Carnegie Centre at Hastings and Main Streets in Vancouver, to hear guest speaker and poet Fiona Tinwei Lam. Fiona will read from her new book of poetry Enter the Chrysanthemum, lead writing prompts and discuss the writing life. Everyone is… Continue reading Guest Speaker Fiona Tinwei Lam to visit Thursdays Writing Collective
October 20, 2009 by Elee
SFU and the Thursdays Writing Collective present an editing workshop with writer Joanne Arnott The workshop will be held in three sessions- Nov 3, 10, 17, 2009 Tuesdays 4pm-6pm in the third floor classroom at the Carnegie Community Centre. Please sign up in office, limit: 20 people, residents of the Downtown Eastside given first dibs.… Continue reading Three Week Editing Workshop with Joanne Arnott