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SUMMARY:A Reading of the Play El Terremoto by Christine Quintana
DESCRIPTION:Touchstone Theatre and Neworld Theatre present a reading of Christine Quintana’s play El Terremoto (directed by Daniela Atiencia). Twenty years have passed since the three Jurado sisters lost their parents\, and life just seems to continue on in their East Vancouver home. \nA birthday party\, a failed proposal\, and a missed connection fill the days and months until an earthquake nearly destroys the city\, and brings forward a shocking turn of events that splits their world wide open.\nFrom Dora-Award winning playwright Christine Quintana\, El Terremoto is a dramatic comedy about how nothing matters\, so everything matters. \n— \nA reading of the full play by seven actors will be followed by a Q & A at the end of the evening with Christine and Lois Anderson\, Artistic Director at Touchstone Theatre. Join us for a delightful evening around the playwriting process and the Canadian theatre scene. \n— \nChristine Quintana was born in Los Angeles to a Mexican-American father and a Dutch-British-Canadian mother. Christine grew up as a grateful visitor to the unceded lands of the Musqueam\, Squamish\, and Tsleil-Waututh people. Christine is an actor\, playwright\, and co-Artistic Producer of Delinquent Theatre. In these various capacities\, she has worked with Tarragon Theatre\, the Arts Club Theatre Company\, Bard on the Beach\, The Cultch\, Neworld Theatre\, Electric Company Theatre\, Rumble Theatre\, Boca Del Lupo\, Zee Zee Theatre\, Caravan Farm Theatre\, Ruby Slippers Theatre\, Playwrights Theatre Centre\, Pi Theatre\, Gateway Theatre\, Nightswimming Theatre\, Belfry Theatre\, Stratford Festival\, and Young People’s Theatre. Her writing has been translated and performed in Spanish\, French\, ASL\, and German. \nDaniela Atiencia is the Artistic Associate at Touchstone Theatre and a Latinx-Canadian theatre artist born and raised in Colombia. She has a BFA in Theatre Performance from SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts and holds an MFA in Theatre Directing from The University of Essex’s East 15 Acting School. Daniela works as a freelance bilingual director\, dramaturg\, and deviser. She is currently working on two plays as co-director for Neworld and Green Thumb Theatre. As dramaturg she is collaborating with Tetsuro Shigematsu’s latest commissioned piece for Pacific Theatre and served as Spanish Language Dramaturg for Made in Canada\, an agricultural podcast for rice & beans theatre. She is currently based on the Unceded Territories of the Coast Salish peoples (Vancouver\, B.C.) and her work recently earned her a finalist spot in the RBC Rising Star Emerging Director award. \nLois Anderson is the Artistic Director of Touchstone Theatre\, and an Adjunct Professor at UBC in the Department of Theatre and Film. She won the Jessie Award for Best Direction (Pericles\, Bard on the Beach) and the 2019 Critic’s Choice Award for Innovation (Lysistrata). She has worked extensively in Canada and Australia and has been an artistic associate with The National Arts Centre most recently directing You Used to Call Me Marie by Tai Amy Grauman.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/a-reading-of-the-play-el-terremoto-by-christine-quintana/
LOCATION:Vancouver Public Library\, Central Branch\, 350 West Georgia St.\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6B 6B1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Author Discussion,Panel
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SUMMARY:Phyllis Webb Memorial Reading featuring Wayde Compton
DESCRIPTION:Please join SFU English and Poetry in Canada for the 4th annual Phyllis Webb Memorial Reading featuring award recipient Wayde Compton. This free event takes place on Saturday\, April 11th (Doors: 6:15 PM; Event: 7-9 PM) at SFU Harbour Centre (Room 1400). Special guests include Cecily Nicholson and Courtenay Chan. Hosted by Professor Stephen Collis. Enjoy readings\, discussion\, and light refreshments. \nThe Phyllis Webb Memorial Reading honours a Canadian poet(s) with a cash award and a celebration of their work. This event will occur each April and will be organized and administered by the Poetry in Canada Society\, https://www.poetrycanada.org/. \nA Governor General’s Award–winning poet and a member of the Order of Canada\, Phyllis Webb was a major Canadian cultural figure from the 1950s through the 1980s\, publishing ten celebrated collections of poetry and prose and co-founding the CBC Radio program Ideas (in 1965). When “words abandoned” her in the early 1990s and she was no longer able to write\, she took up photography\, photocollage\, and eventually painting. \nAs Stephen Scobie once wrote\, the work of Phyllis Webb “has always been distinguished by the profundity of her insights\, the depth of her emotional feeling\, the delicacy and accuracy of her rhythms\, the beauty and mysterious resonance of her images – and by her luminous intelligence.” It is this legacy that the Phyllis Webb Memorial Reading seeks to honour\, by selecting a poet who is distinguished by similar qualities. \nIn 2026\, the fourth annual Phyllis Webb Memorial Reading honours poet Wayde Compton\, who is the author of six books and the editor of two literary anthologies. His collection of short stories\, “The Outer Harbour”\, won the City of Vancouver Book Award in 2015 and his work has been a finalist for three other City of Vancouver Book Awards. He won a National Magazine Award for Fiction in 2011 and was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 2000. In 2002\, Compton co-founded the Hogan’s Alley Memorial Project\, an organization devoted to researching and promoting Vancouver’s historical Black community and later helped establish the Hogan’s Alley Working Group and the Hogan’s Alley Society\, its successor organizations. From 2006-2011 Compton co-published Commodore Books\, Western Canada’s first Black Canadian literary press. He has been writer-in-residence at Simon Fraser University\, Green College at the University of British Columbia\, and the Vancouver Public Library. Compton currently teaches in the Department of Writing at the University of Victoria\, and his latest book is “Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics” (U of Alberta P\, 2024). \nImportant Information: \nVenue and Accessibility: This in-person event takes place at the SFU Harbour Centre (Room 1400). It is easily accessible by transit and near SkyTrain. The campus is wheelchair accessible and has wheelchair accessible washrooms. Gender neutral washrooms are also available. \nPlease note: This event may be recorded and/or photographed. If you do not wish to be photographed\, please inform the photographer.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/phyllis-webb-memorial-reading-featuring-wayde-compton/
LOCATION:SFU Harbour Centre\, 515 West Hastings Street\, Vancouver\, BC\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Author Discussion,Award,Reading
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