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- May 2012
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Saturday May 19, 2012
UPROOTED AGAIN book launch - National Nikkei Heritage Centre -
Wednesday May 23, 2012
The eh List Author Series: Michel Tremblay and Sheila Fischman -
Wednesday May 23, 2012
Talon Poetry Night - Weyman Chan, Colin Browne, and Daniel Zomparelli at Audreys Books -
Thursday May 24, 2012
Talon Poetry Night - Weyman Chan, Colin Browne, and Daniel Zomparelli at Pages -
Saturday May 26, 2012
Ghosts of Violence - Sharon Pollock - Bluma Appel Theatre - June 2012
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Tuesday June 5, 2012
B.Someday Presents Suburban Motel in June - Walking Fish Theatre -
Wednesday June 20, 2012
Wanderlust - Morris Panych - Stratford Shakespeare Festival -
Tuesday June 26, 2012
The Best Brothers - Daniel MacIvor - Stratford Shakespeare Festival -
Thursday June 28, 2012
George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award - Presented to Daphne Marlatt - July 2012
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Thursday July 5, 2012
Twisted Poets Literary Salon - bill bissett - Prophouse Cafe -
Thursday July 19, 2012
Denman Island Readers & Writers Festival - 2012 -
Thursday July 26, 2012
Schoolhouse - Leanna Brodie - Stone Fence Theatre - August 2012
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Monday August 20, 2012
KlezKanada Poetry Retreat: Three Millennia of Poetic Subversion - Adeena Karasick - September 2012
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Tuesday September 18, 2012
Chickens - Lucia Frangione - Chemainus Theatre - October 2012
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Thursday October 11, 2012
Where the Blood Mixes - Kevin Loring - Sagebrush Theatre - November 2012
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Saturday November 3, 2012
Tom and the Coyote - Michel Marc Bouchard - Factory Theatre - January 2013
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Tuesday January 15, 2013
Carmen Aguirre's Blue Box - Great Canadian Theatre Company -
Friday January 25, 2013
Leave of Absence - Lucia Frangione - Pacific Theatre - February 2013
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Tuesday February 26, 2013
The Glace Bay Miners' Museum - Wendy Lill - Neptune Theatre - March 2013
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Thursday March 14, 2013
Dead Metaphor - George F. Walker - Factory Theatre - April 2013
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Thursday April 4, 2013
My Turquoise Years - M.A.C. Farrant - Arts Club Theatre -
Tuesday April 30, 2013
Le Chant de Sainte Carmen de la Main - Théatre du Nouveau Monde
Shadow Catch - Daphne Marlatt Pens Libretto for Local Opera
The music for Shadow Catch is composed by Dorothy Chang, Benton Roark, Jennifer Butler, and Farshid Samandari. The libretto is by Daphne Marlatt.
Using elements of Japanese Noh theatre under the direction of Colleen Lanki, and with music direction by Marguerite Witvoet, Shadow Catch recounts the dreams of a young runaway newly arrived in the city.
As the night progresses, he is visited in turn by the spirits of four troubled souls who once inhabited the area: the spirit of an old maple tree whose grove was decimated by loggers, a member of the brilliant Asahi baseball team whose players were sent off to Japanese internment camps, the madame of a 1920’s brothel who is haunted by her tragic past, and a roughneck policeman from the 1930’s who fell to corruption.
This is a story not only about characters from Vancouver’s historical and cultural background, but about the journey and transformation that must take place in order to confront ones greatest fears and regrets.
As part of Vancouver Pro Musica’s Further East Further West Series and the City of Vancouver’s 125th Anniversary Celebration, Shadow Catch premieres December 2nd at the Firehall Arts Centre (mere blocks from where the events of the opera take place) and runs until December 4th.
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Thursday May 10, 2012 in Meta-Talon
A Conversation with Martine Desjardins
A Conversation with Martine Desjardins about her novel Maleficium:
Maleficium is a shift for me, because I have left that realm to venture a little more toward the unreal. Thus the main female character has physical attributes that make her appear foreign, almost monstrous and alien. She has a harelip, but is also described as having a long tail, vulvar stamens, perfumed earwax, thorns growing from her scalp; she is seen carrying a larva in her navel, shedding tortoiseshell tears, extracting iridescent oil from her skin.
Thursday May 10, 2012 in Meta-Talon
The Long Goodbye: A Review of Morris Panych's Vigil
Morris Panych’s Vigil is reviewed by James MacKillop:
Once playwright Panych has won us over with the audacity of his concept, Kemp’s outrageous lack of compassion, he has given himself the problem of making this increasingly interesting for nearly two hours. Ratcheting up the zingers works for a start: “I’m concerned about your health these past few days: It seems to be improving.” This escalates until Kemp introduces a do-it-yourself suicide machine, with a lethal brick and an electrocutionist’s helmet.
Wednesday May 9, 2012 in Meta-Talon
Do You Pass the Empathy Test for Conceptual Writing?
Does Adeena Karasick consider herself a “conceptual” writer? Here is her response:
So, in asking “Do you consider yourself a Conceptual Poet”, one has to ask – where do the aesthetics begin and the friendships end? How do you continuously (contiguously) belong without belonging in an ever-widening circle of language, production, filiation, power and desire.
Monday May 7, 2012 in Meta-Talon
“Living the Border” with Guillermo Verdecchia
Steve Fisher interviews Guillermo Verdecchia about returning to Fronteras Americanas:
It’s a deeply Canadian play, and while I think it makes sense in other places—you could take this play to Mexico, or Argentina, or anywhere, because these borders and bi-cultural negotiations take place all over the world—it’s of ongoing interest to Canadians. It’s another way of looking at our nation; there are plays that have been produced in Canada that hold up an image that I don’t believe ever existed, but we like to think did…
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