Past Events from Thursday, May 4, 2023 – Wednesday, October 27, 2021

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November 2025

In Translation

In Translation Book Club: The Wax Child

Welcome to Upstart & Crow’s In Translation Book Club, a celebration of global literature and storytelling across languages and borders! This free, bi-monthly event in our studio space introduces readers to powerful voices writing in languages other than English, amplifying fresh perspectives, underheard narratives and bold ideas. After a brief summer reprieve, we’re back with a ...read more

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Poetry

Poetry as Research Method: “don’t panic! and don’t write nature poems!”

In this workshop, we’ll consider poetry as a kind of research method that can help us think through crucial questions — in a time of climate crisis, on stolen and unceded Indigenous lands: Where are we? How did we get here? What do we know, and what do we still need to know, about how ...read more

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Tangled in Tinsel: Join the Contributors of Better This Year!

You're cordially invited to an intimate evening celebrating the launch of Better This Year: More Tales from Christmas Survivors, the highly anticipated third volume in the beloved Better Next Year anthology series which collect stories that are as horrible as they are true, offering a refreshing and authentic perspective on the often-chaotic holiday time of year. This will ...read more

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Poetry

Sounding Out: Exploring, Creating & Performing Text Scores with Elee Kraljii Gardiner

A text score is, “a collection of verbally notated meditations that may be enjoyed by anyone in a variety of ways: read as poetry, performed alone or performed for an audience.” Pauline Oliveros, Sonic Meditations I – XXV (1971) Join us on Friday, November 21 at 6pm for a mini-intensive workshop with Vancouver Poet Laureate, Elee Kraljii ...read more

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‘Razing Palestine’: Vancouver Launch

Join us on Thursday, November 20 at 6pm as we commemorate two years of escalating violence in Gaza, and the histories of resilience through ongoing genocide. While many institutions have chosen silence, countless people around the world — including here in Canada — have refused to look away. Those who spoke about the carnage were ...read more

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Best Canadian Stories 2026: Launch

Join us for a wonderful evening to launch the 2026 Best Canadian Stories compilation, published by Biblioasis. Selected and introduced by Zsuzsi Gartner, this compilation provides a distinctive sample of the best Canadian short fiction published over the last year. The 15 chosen stories draw together an expressive range of characters and narratives, from contributors both familiar ...read more

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In Translation

Tamil Terrains: Poems, Translations, Reflections with Trace Press

What happens when a two-thousand-year-old language, rooted in a classical poetics of land, is moved, along with its peoples, through colonial and postcolonial upheavals, war and forced or voluntary migrations? Join us online on Sunday Nov 16 at 9:30am PST to celebrate Trance Press’ newest release in their translating series, Tamil Terrains. We’ll be joined by ...read more

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‘The Broken Map Home’: Book Launch

Join us on Saturday, November 15, at 6:30 pm for a captivating evening with writer Keiko Honda as we celebrate her new book, The Broken Map Home. Through her skilled translation, this poignant work brings to life her late grandfather Konosuke Masuda's harrowing WWII memoir. Bridging past and present, the book highlights the enduring strength of the ...read more

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Climate Solutions

Writer’s Block: An Evening of Climate Writing

Struggling to commit to your journal? Hitting a rough patch in your thesis? Feel like your op-ed is swirling the drain? As a great storyteller once said; “My world’s on fire - how about yours?” Join local environmental group the sword fern collective for an evening of focused writing and community connection. In these infamously unprecedented times, ...read more

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‘Starting from Here’: Book Launch

Join us in celebrating the launch of Paula Saunders’s new novel, Starting from Here, a coming-of-age tale about a young girl whose dreams of becoming a dancer are complicated by the need to break away from her Midwestern family. Paula will be in conversation with Karen Parrish. More than anything, René wants to be a dancer. Eve, ...read more

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‘women & roosters’: A Poetry Launch with Fenn Stewart

Join us for an evening celebrating the launch of Fenn Stewart’s new work of poetry, women and roosters, published by the incredible indie press, Book*hug. Stewart will be joined in reading by Laura Morales Padilla, and Afuwa will moderate a question and answer period. Taking its title from ancient physician Galen’s claim that “all creatures are sad ...read more

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October 2025

Mandylion Press: Delve into the Hair-Raising World of Victorian Science and the Occult

On the eve of Halloween, discover Mandylion Press: a daring new publishing house dedicated to unearthing lost literary gems written by women and weirdos in the (very) long nineteenth century. From the shelf of the theologian to that of the medical man, the nineteenth century was alive with speculation, experimentation, and eerie inquiry into the ...read more