This week is as full as ever with great literary events country-wide. If you’re in Ottawa this week, check out Versefest, running March 24th to 30th. There’s a full range of their events on their website, but we’ve included the All Lit Up-ingnest here for your purview.Are you hosting an event featuring an author whose titles are available on All Lit Up? Send the event details, including author, book, date, and time, to hello@alllitup.ca to be included in our listings.
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This week is as full as ever with great literary events country-wide. If you’re in Ottawa this week, check out Versefest, running March 24th to 30th. There’s a full range of their events on their website, but we’ve included the All Lit Up-ingnest here for your purview.Are you hosting an event featuring an author whose titles are available on All Lit Up? Send the event details, including author, book, date, and time, to hello@alllitup.ca to be included in our listings.
Wednesday, March 25th
Scarborough, ON
Snider Fund Lecture Series Panel DiscussionWhere: University of Toronto, Scarborough Campus, Room HW 305, 1265 Military Trail, Toronto, ON When: 1-5pmMore information: The Snider Fund Lecture Series presents the panel discussion, Culture, Identity, and Representation: Blood Memory, Contemporary Practice, and Decolonizing the Classroom. charles c. smith and Pamela Mordecai will be taking part in this event. Their poetry collections are travelogue of the bereaved and Subversive Sonnets.Link: http://bit.ly/1G56cwiToronto
Poetry NOW, aka Battle of the BardsWhere: Brigantine Room, 235 Queens Quay West, Toronto, ONWhen: 7pmMore information: The International Festival of Authors and NOW Magazine present the 7th annual Poetry NOW, aka Battle of the Bards: 1 stage. 20 poets. 1 winner. Featuring: Pearl Pirie (author of the pet radish, shrunken), Jimmy McInnes, Kate Hargreaves, Liz Worth, R. Kolewe, and many more.Tickets: $10 to the general public, FREE for supporters, students and youth 25 & under.Link: http://ifoa.org/events/poetry-now-7th-annual-battle-bardsVancouver
Incite! Vancouver Writers’ Fest with Lynette LoeppkyWhere: Vancouver Public Library – Central Branch, 350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BCWhen: 7:30pmMore information: An exploration of memoir with three new Canadian voices. Cathie Borrie reads from The Long Hello, which explores the emotional rewards and challenges that she experienced while caring for her mother, who was living with Alzheimer’s disease. Lynette Loeppky reads from Cease, a memoir about her experience as the sole care-giver to the woman she had been planning to leave. And Kara Stanley reads from Fallen, the compelling story of her husband’s life-changing brain and spinal cord injury, and the role of music, science, and love in recovery. Ottawa
VerseFest’s Blue Mondays & In/Words Event Where: Knox Presbyterian Church, 120 Lisgar Street, Ottawa, ONWhen: 9pmMore information: VerseFest’s Blue Mondays & In/Words Event presents Sandra Ridley, author of The Counting House, bill bissett, Dalton Derksen, and Lise Gaboury-Diallo.Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/449775711847073/
Friday, March 27th
Toronto
the ACROSS series, no. 2Where: St. Stephen in-the-Fields Church, 103 Bellevue Ave (at College Street), Toronto, ONWhen: 7-10pmMore information: the ACROSS series, no. 2 presents performances by:
$5-$10 suggested at the door, sliding scale.Ottawa
VerseFest’s Arc Poetry Magazine eventWhere: Knox Presbyterian Church, 120 Lisgar Street, Ottawa, ONWhen: 7pmMore information: VerseFest’s Arc Poetry Magazine event presents Pearl Pirie, author of the pet radish, shrunken, Stevie Howell, author of Sharps, JC Bouchard and Marilyn Dumont, author of the upcoming The Pemmican Eaters.
