Events
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.
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
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
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
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
We hold this truth to be self-evident: not only do women play an essential role in ensuring the long-term wellbeing of their communities, especially in times of crisis, but we cannot weather the climate impacts we face without their leadership and solutions-building. That’s why we’re hosting a free, informal event for women who work in ...read more
Thursday, Mar 5 Upstart & Crow Studio
Time, Memory, Nostalgia: An Evening of Bulgarian Literature & Visual Art
“Gospodinov’s tuga is ‘a longing for something that hasn’t happened . . . a sudden realization that life is slipping away and that certain things will never happen to you, for a whole list of reasons—personal, geographical, political." — Garth Greenwell, The Bulgarian Sadness of Georgi Gospodinov. Join us on Tuesday, March 3 at 6:30pm ...read more
Tuesday, Mar 3 Upstart & Crow Studio
‘Nothing But Time’: An Evening with José Teodoro
Join us in celebrating the Vancouver launch of José Teodoro’s Nothing But Time: Conversations with Peter Mettler about Life and Cinema, out now from the great Anvil Press. In the cosmology of Canadian cinema, Peter Mettler is our seeker. With the release of the auteur’s latest and most ambitious film, While the Green Grass Grows: A ...read more
Tuesday, Feb 24 Upstart & Crow Studio
Joy, Grief, Magic: Why We Need YA Climate Stories & How to Tell Them
At a moment when climate anxiety is rising and youth are inundated with narratives of doom, the stories we tell matter more than ever. Join author, organizer, and researcher Grace Nosek for an urgent and energizing workshop on why young people need climate stories that make room for complexity, and how to tell them well. ...read more
Thursday, Feb 19 Upstart & Crow Studio
Printed with Love: A Valentine’s Printmaking Workshop with New Leaf Editions
This Valentine’s Day, Friday, February 14, we’re teaming up with the legendary New Leaf Editions for a special, all-day printmaking intensive all about love. Working in the tradition of one of Vancouver’s most singular print studios, you’ll learn the essentials of letterpress and print — including inking techniques, how to set your own type, operate the press, and ...read more
Saturday, Feb 14 New Leaf Studio
Every Poem is a Love Poem: A Poetry Workshop with Kyla Jamieson
According to the poet Chen Chen, “poetry matters because it nourishes the heart.” Likewise, the heart nourishes poetry. In this workshop, we’ll look at poets and authors who engage with love as their subject matter or as a guiding principle for their writing. Participants will learn about poetic forms and tools, reflect on who and ...read more
Thursday, Feb 12 Upstart & Crow Studio
What if your research did more than convey facts, but could move people? Join journalist Anne Shibata Casselman for a one-of-a-kind writing workshop that invites researchers to explore how storytelling can bring science to life on the page. To help uncover the essential message you want to convey, we’ll begin by distilling your research into a ...read more
Wednesday, Jan 28 Upstart & Crow Studio