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SPIT presents: LIT LIT LIT LIT listening station on Saturday, November 17 and Sunday, November 18 for the the 2018 Eastside Culture Crawl at Moniker Press Studios!

268 Keefer St Floor LG Studio #080 11am-6pm

List all the things you’re currently working on in as much or little detail as you’d like, then tag some friends to see what they’re working on. This can be writing, art, vids, gifsets! I was tagged by my queen @themusicalbookworm

Here's part of the next HP AU chapter coming out this weekend

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LIT LIT LIT LIT VIII: Nanaimo is an evening of new readings, written and given by Sonnet L’Abbé (Nanaimo), Roger Farr (Gabriola Island), Casey Wei (Vancouver), Hamish Hardie (Nanaimo), and Charlotte Zhang (Nanaimo) Saturday, May 6 6:30 pm Art Lab at Nanaimo Art Gallery 150 Commercial Street Admission by donation SONNET L'ABBÉ, Ph.D. is the author of A Strange Relief and Killarnoe, and was the 2014 guest editor of Best Canadian Poetry. Her chapbook, Anima Canadensis, was published by Junction Books in 2016. Poems from her new project, Sonnet’s Shakespeare, in which she "writes over" all 154 of Shakespeare's sonnets, appear in Best American Experimental Writing 2016. Sonnet's Shakespeare will come out with McClelland and Stewart in 2018. L'Abbé lives on Vancouver Island and is a professor of Creative Writing and English at Vancouver Island University. ROGER FARR joined the English Department at Capilano University full-time in 2004 and has been affiliated with the Creative Writing, Culture and Technology (RIP), and Liberal Studies BA programs. He’s published two books of poetry (SURPLUS, 2006 and MEANS, 2012), a collection of prose poetry (IKMQ, 2012), a collaborative research project, and numerous articles and essays. From 2010-2013 he edited CUE books, and is currently a Contributing Editor to the Capilano Review. He also edits the poetry and poetics journal Parser. As a researcher his project revolves around the relationship between literature, aesthetics, radical social movements, and everyday life. HAMISH HARDIE is a student and aspiring writer currently completing his final year of high school. He has an interest in literature and art history, and will be pursuing post-secondary studies in these subjects. He is involved with the Nanaimo Art Gallery through volunteering and his participation in Code Switching, the Nanaimo Art Gallery's teen contemporary art collective. CASEY WEI (b. Shanghai) is an interdisciplinary artist and musician based in Vancouver. She graduated with an MFA from SFU in 2012. Her practice has evolved from filmmaking (Murky Colors (2012), Vater und Sohn / Father and Son / 父与子 (2013), into incorporating elements of relational aesthetics in works that crossover between art, music, and the community at large (Kingsgate Mall Happenings (2014), Chinatown Happenings (2015), art rock? (2015-present). In 2016, she began Agony Klub, a music and printed matter label that releases material under the framework of the 'popularesoteric.' She also plays in the musical projects Late Spring and hazy. CHARLOTTE ZHANG is an emerging artist, writer and filmmaker based in Nanaimo, BC who is completing her final year of high school. She is involved with the Nanaimo Art Gallery in the Code Switching collective and participated in the exhibition Ron Tran Somewhat Mine: A Nanaimo Retrospective (Nanaimo Art Gallery; 2016). This past November, Zhang was selected as the winner of VISFF’s new Pitch-A-Flick contest that will allow her to realize her script under the mentorship of Knight Studio Productions and more recently, she published an essay titled “The Power” in Oni Magazine.

LIT LIT LIT LIT X Artspeak, 233 Carrall St Sunday, Feb 18 Doors @ 7pm, Readings @ 7:30pm

LIT LIT LIT LIT is a bi-monthly literary event in Vancouver that simply invites four writers, poets, or artists to read their own work to interested parties. Select readings are published as chapbooks under the SOMEWHAT URGENT SERIES and all LIT LIT LIT LIT events are recorded and available as a podcast on our website and iTunes.

LIT LIT LIT LIT X presents readings by Josh Gabert-Doyon, Emma Sise, Ben Stephenson, and Ingrid Olauson whose collaborative chapbook "Pragmatics" (Publication Studio, 2018) with artist Lyndsay Pomerantz, will be launched at the event.

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JOSH GABERT-DOYON is a writer, art worker, and radio producer living on unceded Coast Salish territory. He is currently completing a fellowship at 221a, where he is working a project that tracks the Woodward's building as a site of political struggle. He works for the art book publisher Fillip and the podcast Cited.

INGRID OLAUSON is a writer living in Burnaby. She attended Emily Carr University from 2010 to 2015 and is working on her first novel. Her poetry chapbook “Pragmatics,” with images by Lyndsay Pomerantz, was published this month. "Pragmatics" was written for ‘Sleepover,’ a collaborative residency project organized by Lyndsay Pomerantz and Michael Lachmann in Berlin, Germany, 2017.

EMMA SISE currently lives, writes, and ambles around in Snuneymuxw First Nation territory, where she is curatorial intern at the Nanaimo Art Gallery. She will be reading various poems, and a Borgesian experiment. She is interested in mending cloth, grabbing a bite, and the affective qualities of being a creature among so many fantastic others.

BEN STEPHENSON is a Canadian author and artist. His debut novel A Matter of Life and Death Or Something (Douglas & McIntyre, 2012) was long listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary award, and prompted CBC Books to name him one of “10 Canadian Writers to Watch.” It was translated into Spanish and Romanian. He is currently living in Vancouver and working on something else.

~ LITX4X is the final event of the LIT LIT LIT LIT series which will soon rearrange itself to present a series of reading experiments, workshops, interviews, events, and poetic expressions in addition to public readings!

LIT would like to thank all of the venues and staff who have hosted us, friends and community members who have supported us, and most especially all of our readers and collaborators who we have worked with us over the last 3 years. The appreciation runs deep and we look forward to sharing our next (l)iteration with you! xxoo LIT

~ Artspeak is a wheelchair accessible venue.

LIT LIT LIT LIT VII & Charcuterie 2

1. STACEY HO (contributor to Charcuterie 2) reads a short text based off of an interview with her aunt, a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner and "Adventures from the Third Bureau" an unfolding sci-fi drama laced with moments of experimental form structure making for inventive techniques for reading aloud.

2. SAM WESELOWSKI celebrates his first reading by sharing two poems by the American poet Jack Spicer and then follows up with his own "Seaside Town" "Patrol Poem" "A Train Song for Carrie" "For Phyllis Webb" (serial poems with tentative title) 2X"Medieval Poems, dedicated to Peter Quartermain" "Ana" "A Second Train Song For Carrie" (with singing interlude) & 2X"Second Avenue Elegies" (serial poems dedicated to friends who are leaving).

3. JULIA DAHEE HONG reading about awkward late night pizza transactions and a sweater reparation by a Master Tailor as documented in her new chap book "A Reasonable Request" realized during a 9 month residency with Artspeak's inaugural Studio for Emerging Writers program, led by Vancouver writer Sheryda Warrener. She reads "A Reasonable Request: Part I" "The Master Tailor" and "A Reasonable Request: Part II".

4. SUNG PIL YOON (contributor to Charcuterie 2) reads the second text "Stories of Regulars" from "The Bus as Hostile Architecture"; a series of five short stories about public transit that will appear consecutively in Charcuterie.

5. Charcuterie 2 with contributions from Sung Pil Yoon, Fabiola Carranza, Maxwell Addington, Stacey Ho, Steffanie Ling and Juli Majer.

Extra special thanks to Spare Room, Bopha Chhay, Vicky Lum, Sung Pil Yoon & Eli Zibin for small and big things that matter!!

ReReading Room & LIT LIT LIT LIT

Sunday, November 20, 2016 221a E Georgia st 7:00 PM-the end of patriarchy FB Event

Rereading Room presents a collection of books, documents, and periodicals from the titles offered by the Vancouver Women's Bookstore (1973-1996) in its nascent year. Join us at 221a in the evening of Sunday, November 20th to gather among this gleaned archive for readings by Anahita Jamali Rad, Danielle LaFrance, Emma Metcalfe Hurst and Kyla Jamieson as a part of the bi-monthly reading series LIT LIT LIT LIT organized by Steffanie Ling and Emma Metcalfe Hurst with unfailing support from Alexandra Bischoff this time around. The timeless combo of books and refreshments will be available for your reading and listening delight.

Paper Hound Bookstore will have a table set up with books available for purchase. Titles from the 1973 Vancouver Women's Bookstore catalog will be included, as well as titles from the evening's readers, the Somewhat Urgent Series and other contemporary feminist texts. Both cash and credit will be accepted.

We hope you can make it, there’s a lot to catch up on.

Special thanks to 221a, Paper Houng Bookstore and our guest readers Anahita, Danielle and Kyla for partaking in this extended restaging of the Vancouver Women’s Bookstore! The gratitude runs deep.

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ANAHITA JAMALI RAD was born in Shiraz, Iran, and now lives on unceded Coast Salish Territories a.k.a. Vancouver. Jamali Rad is the author and binder of handmade chapbooks such as Un In Uni Form, You and Me Baby, Patterns, Heart/Felt/Poems, and say what you like about my glasses, but i never get drunk and drank confused when i’m out with the working classes. Alongside Danielle LaFrance, she co-organizes the women’s critical reading and discussion group, About a Bicycle, and co-edits a biannual journal of the same name. She studied Philosophy at the University of British Columbia and is currently doing a diploma in Publishing at Langara College.

DANIELLE LAFRANCE is a poet, librarian, and independent scholar. She is the author of Species Branding (CUE, 2010) and the chapbook Pink Slip (SIC, 2013). Between 2012-2016 she organized the feminist materialist collective and journal series About a Bicycle. Her work deals with the ways “total war” and “Empire” infiltrate social relations as well as the intersections between language, revolutionary action, and self-abolition. And love. Since 1983 she has mostly resided on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Skxwú7mesh, Úxwumixw, Stó:lo, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples.

EMMA METCALFE HURST is a writer, curator, artist and facilitator currently based in Nanaimo, BC on Snuneymuxw land. She is a recent graduate of Emily Carr University where she majored in Critical & Cultural Practices and minored in Curatorial Studies. A more recent turn in her practice investigates sonic space as an alternative area to investigate through a curatorial lens; text based pursuits in relation to art practices and production, the crisis of space and subsequently displacement, as well as the importance of sharing and listening oral culture activates and preserves. Metcalfe Hurst is also an avid-and very fortunate-collaborator, as co-organizer of LIT LIT LIT LIT, CRCP Radio Mondays and Avenue (2015). She currently holds the position of Curatorial Intern at the Nanaimo Art Gallery.