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  • May 2025

  • Mon 5
    May 5, 2025 | 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

    Anna Veprinska and Joseph Kidney: Dual Poetry Launch

    A dual launch of poetry books Devotional Forensics and Bonememory at Cross and Crow Books. Featuring the wonderful Dominique Bernier-Cormier. 2836 Commercial Drive, Vancouver B.C.

  • Wed 21
    May 21, 2025 | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

    Enabling Arts Poetry Open Mic

    Enabling Arts 104-343 Railway Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Join us for a poetry night at 343 Railway St (#104). Whether you're a seasoned poet or a first-timer, this event is the perfect opportunity to share your work in a supportive and welcoming environment. It's a chance to connect with fellow poetry enthusiasts and be inspired by the power of spoken word, whether or […]

    $13.13
  • June 2025

  • Wed 4
    June 4, 2025 | 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

    The Teachings of Mutton: A Coast Salish Woolly Dog

    Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch 350 West Georgia St., Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Mutton was a Coast Salish Woolly Dog whose pelt lay forgotten in a Smithsonian drawer for 150 years until it was uncovered by an amateur archivist. According to Indigenous Oral Histories of the Pacific Northwest, this small dog was bred for thousands of years for its woolly fibres, which were woven into traditional blankets, robes […]

  • Sun 8
    June 8, 2025 | 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

    Launch Party: Celebrate 100 Issues of subTerrain

    Join subTerrain, one of Vancouver's longest standing literary magazines, in celebrating 100 issues of literary publishing from the margins. Sunday, June 8th Hero's Welcome 3917 Main St. (at 23rd Ave.) Door open at 5:00 pm -- Readings at 6:00

  • Thu 19
    Featured June 19, 2025 | 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

    Read Local BC eBookshelf Launch

    Burnaby Public Library, McGill Branch 4595 Albert Street, Burnaby, BC, Canada

    Join Books BC and BC Libraries Co-op for the launch of the Read Local BC eBookshelf - with author readings by Wayde Compton and Candie Tanaka.

    Free
  • Mon 30
    June 30, 2025 | 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

    Enabling Performance: an acoustic open mic night

    Enabling Arts 104-343 Railway Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Come showcase your talents at our Open Mic Night and share your music, poetry, comedy, or any other performance! Welcome to Enabling Performance: an acousistic open mic night! Come join us at Enabling Arts 343 Railway St #104 for a night of talent and fun. Whether you're a seasoned performer or a first-timer, this is […]

    $10.00
  • July 2025

  • Wed 16
    July 16, 2025 | 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

    Enabling Arts Poetry Open Mic

    Enabling Arts 104-343 Railway Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    We're back & we can't wait to hear your words! Join us for a poetry night at 343 Railway St (#104). Whether you're a seasoned poet or a first-timer, this event is the perfect opportunity to share your work in a supportive and welcoming environment. It's a chance to connect with fellow poetry enthusiasts and […]

    $13.13
  • September 2025

  • Tue 9
    September 9, 2025 | 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

    Urban Matters: Poetry in the City

    Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch 350 West Georgia St., Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Join authors Daniela Elza and Daniel Cowper for a launch, reading, and discussion on celebration of the life of a city and an interrogation of its cost on our well-being. --- Daniela Elza was longlisted for the 2024 CBC Poetry Prize for poems from her latest book SCAR/CITY (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025). Her debut prose […]

    Free
  • Wed 17
    September 17, 2025 | 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

    Encrypted: A Reading with Arleen Paré

    Upstart & Crow 1387 Railspur Alley Vancouver, BC V6H 3R7, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Join us for an evening in celebration of Paré’s newest poetry collection on grief, family, and loneliness.

    Free
  • Fri 19
    September 19, 2025 | 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

    Reading by C. E. Gatchalian

    Summerland Library ORL Branch 9533 Main Street, Summerland, BC, Canada

    Double Melancholy: Art, Beauty, and the Making of a Brown Queer Man—a lyrical exploration of race, desire, and artistic identity shaped by literature, film, and family history. For those interested, at 4pm, Gatchalian will lead Writing the Unraveling Self, a workshop that invites participants to embrace emotional rawness and creative disruption through guided prompts and […]

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