Events
litty Book Club Vol. 1: This is Where the Serpent Lives
The litty book club is your chance to read the books everyone’s talking about before they're talking about them. Created by readers and for readers, the litty book club is a bi-monthly function and a welcoming space for strong opinions and lively conversation around a curation of litty’s prospects — newly published books the litty ...read more
Monday, Mar 9 Upstart & Crow Studio
Decolonizing Time: Two Workshops on Embracing Alternative Timelines
In these two generative writing workshops, we’ll unpack a deceptively simple question: how do we measure time, and who decides? Across cultures and histories, people have marked time in countless ways: lunar cycles, agricultural seasons, ceremonial calendars, migrations, tides, and harvests. The familiar Gregorian calendar is only one system among many. What might it mean ...read more
Tuesday, Mar 24 Upstart & Crow Studio
Our Personal Apocalypse: A Speculative Fiction Workshop with Whitney French
There is no end To what the living world Will demand of you — Octavia E. Butler Parable Of the Sower The ending of a world also signals the beginning of a new one. Our Personal Apocalypse is a generative creative writing workshop focused on the act of sitting, listening, carving out, and recognizing our personal ...read more
Wednesday, Mar 25 Upstart & Crow Studio
Writing Across Diasporas & Generations: A Storytelling Workshop
Do you dream in more than one language? Live in the in-betweenness of cultural norms? Love and clash with different parts of your cultural inheritances? Join memoir writer Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho and poet Phebe Ferrer for a unique listening and writing workshop that invites attendees to explore storytelling in both prose and poetry. In the ...read more
Tuesday, Mar 31 Upstart & Crow Studio
In Trees: A Book Launch with Robert Moor
Join us at the Beer Farm to celebrate the new book by acclaimed local writer, Robert Moor: In Trees: An Exploration. The book promises to be a wondrous journey through the wilds of nature and the gnarls of history, exploring how trees — from the mightiest sequoia to the tiniest bonsai — can teach us to ...read more
Wednesday, Apr 1 Persephone Brewing Co.
Suzuki at 90: In Conversation with Gloria Macarenko
At 90 years old, David Suzuki continues to provoke new thinking and promote more urgent action by all of us concerned about the impact of climate change — and what it portends for human survival on our one planet. Join us on Wednesday, April 1 at 7:30 p.m. to launch Lessons From a Lifetime, and join ...read more
Wednesday, Apr 1 The Modern Green Auditorium at the Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability
At Upstart & Crow, we’re hard-pressed to think of a small press we don’t love. Biblioasis, Book*hug, Arsenal Pulp, Anvil… and those are just the Canadian ones. Small presses put out brilliant, groundbreaking books that punch way above their weight. That’s why we’re putting them at the centre of Upstart’s first ever book swap night. How ...read more
Wednesday, Apr 8 Upstart & Crow Studio
‘The Fifth Season’: An Evening of Poetry with Cori Howard
Join us for an evening to celebrate the launch of Cori Howard’s new poetry collection, The Fifth Season, out now from Caitlin Press. Expect a great evening of cocktails, conversation and poetry about marriage, motherhood, divorce, dating, desire and midlife reinvention. Howard will be in conversation with fellow poet, Andrea MacPherson, who will read from her ...read more
Thursday, Apr 9