If you’re in Toronto, catch an incredible exhibit from two visual poets: bill bissett, author of its th sailors life / still in treetment: meditaysyuns from gold mountain, and Hart Broudy at the secret handshake gallery! Join them on Saturday, December 7 from 2–5 p.m. EST to celebrate the exhibit’s opening.

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secret handshake gallery
301-360 College Street
Toronto, ON
December 7, 2024–March 15, 2025

There’s a production of Behind the Moon by award-winning author Anosh Irani coming to Victoria’s Belfry Theatre in early 2025! For more details, click here.

Behind the Moon
Belfry Theatre
Victoria, BC
February 4–March 2, 2024

As part of the Capture Photography Festival, catch the exhibit Country Mouse City Mouse Hamster by Tiziana La Melia, author of lettuce lettuce please go bad. An exploration of the amorphous space between the defining contours of rural and urban life, Country Mouse City Mouse Hamster runs at the Or Gallery until May 10. For more information, click here.

Country Mouse City Mouse Hamster
Or Gallery
Vancouver, BC
February 6–May 10, 2025

Morris Panych, award-winning playwright and author of the new play Withrow Park, will be directing a production of Flight with the Vancouver Opera. For additional details and to order tickets, click here.

Flight
Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Vancouver, BC
February 8–16

Catch the University of Winnipeg’s Theatre and Film Department’s production of Forward by eco-playwright Chantal Bilodeau. Attendance is free! For more information, click here.

Forward
ACTF Theatre
Winnipeg, MB
February 11–February 15, 2025

Catch Do Trees Need Poetry? at the Audain Gallery at the SFU School for the Contemporary Arts. The event features a talk by Dorothy Cucw-la7 Christian (Secwepemc and Syilx) on the relationship of Indigenous and settler knowledges and poetry readings from Jeff Derksen, who will be sharing work from his forthcoming collection Future Works, and Fred Wah and Rita Wong, co-authors of beholden: a poem as long as the river. The readings are presented in the context of Oscar Tuazon’s exhibition, What Trees Need.

For more information about the event, click here.

Do Trees Need Poetry?
Audain Gallery, SFU School for the Contemporary Arts
Vancouver, BC
February 13, 2025
7:00 p.m. PST

A production of the award-winning play Little Red Warrior and His Lawyer by Kevin Loring runs at Sagebrush Theatre! A Savage Society (Vancouver) and Belfry Theatre (Victoria) co-production in association with NAC Indigenous Theatre (Ottawa), this production runs from February 20 to March 2. To purchase tickets and for more information, click here.

Little Red Warrior and His Lawyer
Sagebrush Theatre
Kamloops, BC
February 20–March 2

On February 21, join Danielle LaFrance, author of #postdildo, and poet Geoffrey Nilson for the upcoming edition of the Bring Your Own Reading Series at the UNIT/PITT Society for Art and Critical Awareness. For more details, see UNIT/PITT’s event calendar here.

Bring Your Own Reading Series Featuring Danielle LaFrance and Geoffrey Nilson
UNIT/PITT Society for Art and Critical Awareness
Vancouver, BC
February 21, 2025
7:00 p.m. PST

We are pleased to announce that the outstanding community oral history Lha yudit’ih We Always Find a Way: Bringing the Tŝilhqot’in Title Case Home by Lorraine Weir with Chief Roger William has been named a finalist for the 2025 Jeanne Clark Local History Award! Presented by the Prince George Public Library, this award was founded in 1985 to commend exceptional works which highlight and preserve local history.

There will be author talks, brief video presentations from the finalists, and light refreshments. Attendance is free and seating is limited. To register to attend, email communications AT pgpl DOT ca by February 14.

2025 Jeanne Clark Local History Awards
Prince George Conference & Civic Centre
Prince George, BC
February 23, 2025
3:00 p.m. PST

On March 1, catch The Capilano Review’s second annual virtual poetry marathon and fundraiser! The event features over two dozen poets reading for eight hours. Readers include Talonites ryan fitzpatrick, author of Coast Mountain Foot; Danielle LaFrance, author of #postdildo; Samantha Nock, author of A Family of Dreamers; and Gail Scott, author of Heroine! For more details and to register to attend, click here.

Listening Before the Sound: the 2nd Annual Poetry Marathon from The Capilano Review
Online
March 1, 2025
1–9 p.m. PST

A production of Little Red Warrior and His Lawyer by Kevin Loring runs at the Cultch. For more details and to order tickets, click here.

Little Red Warrior and His Lawyer
The Cultch
Vancouver, BC
March 6–16, 2025

A production of Behind the Moon by Anosh Irani runs this spring from Touchstone Theatre. For more details and to purchase tickets, click here.

Behind the Moon
Vancity Culture Lab
Vancouver, BC
March 25–April 6, 2025

Feast, the new play by the award-winning playwright Guillermo Verdecchia, is having its Toronto debut at Tarragon Theatre this spring! Feast follows a comfortable North American family as they contend with compounding global crises and the end of things as we know them. For further details and to order tickets, click here.

Feast
Tarragon Theatre
Toronto, ON
April 1–27, 2025