More events this September: A Gelato a Day travel anthology launch with editor and travel writer Claudia Laroye; Working with Water: Performance by multimedia artist Johannes Zits; Poets Return, our annual poetry reading by local poets; Worth More Growing: Youth Poets Pay Homage to Trees youth anthology launch; and Exit Wounds poetry launch by Tāriq Malik.
A Gelato a Day Travel Anthology Launch
When: Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM PDT
Where: Historic Joy Kogawa House, 1450 West 64th Avenue, Vancouver
Cost: Free event
Join editor and travel writer Claudia Laroye as she launches A Gelato a Day, a collection of travel tales that highlights the good, the bad, and the not-really-that-ugly of the family travel experience.
These stories go beyond holidays-gone-wrong to dive thoughtfully into the deeper parental and family connections that can occur when we take ourselves (or are taken out of) our daily routines and comfort zones.
More often than not, entering unfamiliar places, spaces, and situations encourages us to open up to one another or react in ways that may surprise, delight, or frustrate those we hold most dear.
With readings by Helen Gowans, Robin Esrock, Maia Selkirk, and Claudia Laroye.
Books will be available for sale and signing.
Working with Water: Performance by multimedia artist Johannes Zits
When: Sun, September 18, 2022, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM PDT
Where: Historic Joy Kogawa House, 1450 West 64th Avenue, Vancouver
Cost: by donation
For his performance Working with Water, multimedia artist Johannes Zits will engage with this most essential of elements: water. Through movement, material, processes, and text, he will celebrate water’s non-human expressive and affective presences, diversity, difference, and creativity, as well as its co-agency.
Since graduating in 1984, Johannes Zits has presented work across Canada and internationally. In 2013, he presented a collection of his videos at FIFA in Montreal and the following year presented the performance “Island” at M:ST Festival, Calgary, as well as venues in Shanghai and Chongqing, China.
His photographic and collage work has been featured in galleries in Vienna, Berlin, Shanghai, Hamburg, Caen, and Mexico City.
From 2011 to 2014, he facilitated the Intensive Performance Art Workshop at Artscape Gibraltar Point and started the curatorial project S.P.A.N.E. From 2015 to 2017, he was also a member of the curatorial team Duration and Dialogue.
In 2019, the Copenhagen Contemporary Museum commissioned him to realize a score for their permanent collection. In 2020, Johannes performed a new piece at the International Biennial of Asuncion, Paraguay, and was the artist-in-residence at Western University’s McIntosh Gallery in London, Ontario, presenting the exhibition Listening to Trees.
Johannes Zits will live and work in residence at Historic Joy Kogawa House with visual artist Ed Pien from August 15 to September 30, 2022.
Book Launch: Worth More Growing
When: Date: September 20, 2022, 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Where: Historic Joy Kogawa House, 1450 West 64th Avenue, Vancouver
RSVP: info@kogawahouse.com
We are excited to announce the release of Worth More Growing: Youth Poets Pay Homage to Trees. Join us to celebrate this book and listen to youth read their incredible poems!
Books will be available for sale. You can also purchase the book directly from the website: https://caitlin-press.com/our-books/worth-more-growing/
Poets Return: Annual Poetry Night at Kogawa House
When: Tue, 20 September 2022, 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM PDT
Where: Historic Joy Kogawa House, 1450 West 64th Avenue, Vancouver
Cost: $10 or free for members
Poets return this September with an evening of readings by local poets. Many of these poets are launching new collections. Books will be available for sale and signing. Please join us for this in-person event. Prosecco and chocolates will be served.
Featuring:
- Megan Fennya Jones
- Shauna Paull
- Danny Peart
- Aislinn Hunter
- Ellie Sawatzky
- Kate Braid
- Tariq Malik
- R C Weslowski
- Kevin Spenst
Many of these poets are launching new collections. Books will be available for sale and signing.
Please join us for this in-person event. Prosecco and chocolates will be served.
Email info@kogawahouse.com in you would like to join on Zoom.
Exit Wounds Poetry Launch
When: Thu, September 22, 5 to 6:30pm
Where: Historic Joy Kogawa House, 1450 West 64th Avenue, Vancouver
Cost: Free event
Join author Tāriq Malik as he launches the groundbreaking debut collection Exit Wounds.
Malik’s poetry combines traditional Punjabi mythology and First Nations’ symbolism with contemporary events that have shaped the lives of immigrants: 9/11, RCMP violence, war. The result is a defiant triumph of the plurality of minority experiences—a poetic chorus of immigrants and their descendants coming home to the truth and power of their many worlds.
Poems in this collection weave together myth, history, and Malik’s own family experiences of immigration to uncover what it truly means to belong. Whether recalling childhood memories of the death of his father, imagining himself as a soldier lost in the sands of the Kuwaiti desert, or drawing upon his family’s experience of “three wars and migrations,” Malik’s moving search for home will resonate with anyone who has ever felt at odds with a dominant monoculture.
Please join us! Books available for sale and signing.