Name: A Night for Giving: A Special Chapbook Launch and Fundraiser
Start: 2023-12-12T19:00:00-08:00
End: 2023-12-12T21:00:00-08:00
Location: Celebration Hall and Courtyard

A Night for Giving: A Special Chapbook Launch and Fundraiser

Pandora's Collective Outreach Society

Poets Kevin Spenst, Kurt Trzcinski, Salena Wiener, Christina Shah launch their chapbooks, Special guest Vancouver Poet Laureate Fiona Tinwei

Celebration Hall and Courtyard

Tuesday December 17th, 2024 Pandora's Collective Presents A Night for Giving: A Special Chapbook Launch and Fundraiser Time: 7:00 - 9:00 pm Location: Celebration Hall at Mountain View Cemetery 5445 Fraser St, Vancouver, BC V5W 2Z3 Free Please join us as poets and authors Kevin Spenst, A Bouquet Brought Back from Space (Anvil Press), Hymned Data (Pinhole Poetry 2023), Jane Shi, echolalia echolalia (Brick Books, 2024), Onjana Yawnghwe We Follow the River (Catlin Press, 2024) and Marc Perez, Dayo (Brick Books, 2024) and the forthcoming poetry chapbook, Domus (Anstruther Press, 2025), share readings from their newly released chapbooks. We are pleased to announce that Vancouver Poet Laureate Elee Kraljii Gardiner will open the evening off with a reading.Since 2006 Pandora’s Collective has run a fundraiser for the youth and their families in need from Musqueam over the holiday season. Since 2006 Pandora’s Collective has run a fundraiser for the youth and their families in need from Musqueam over the holiday season.There is a list of children should you want to bring a new gift. There will be a donation box at the door. And please remember to support all these wonderful poets. Donate: If you cannot be at the event please consider sending a cash donation through Pandora’s <a href="https://website https://www.pandorascollective.com/contact-us.html" title="https://website https://www.pandorascollective.com/contact-us.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">website https://www.pandorascollective.com/contact-us.html</a> or a gift by getting in touch with Bonnie Nish at blnish_pandoras@yahoo.ca The Poets: Kevin Spenst has authored sixteen chapbooks and four full-length books of poetry. He’s an organizer for the Dead Poets Reading Series, writes for subTerrain magazine, occasionally co-hosts Wax Poetic on Vancouver Co-op Radio, and teaches poetry at SFU’s The Writer’s Studio in Vancouver on unceded Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh territoryJane Shi lives on the occupied, stolen, and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlil̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations. She is the author of the chapbook Leaving Chang’e on Read (Rahila’s Ghost Press, 2022) and the winner of The Capilano Review’s 2022 In(ter)ventions in the Archive Contest. echolalia echolalia (Brick Books, 2024) is her debut poetry collection. She wants to live in a world where love is not a limited resource, land is not mined, hearts are not filched, and bodies are not violated.Onjana Yawnghwe is the author of Fragments, Desire, and The Small Way, both nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Her third book of poetry, We Follow the River, was published in Spring 2024 by Caitlin Press. More recently, a comic work, "Long Lost Lido" was published in the Fall issue of Geist Magazine. She lives in the traditional, ancestral, and unceded lands of the Kwikwetlem First Nation (Coquitlam), and works as a registered nurse. Marc PerezBorn and raised in the Manila, Marc Perez lives with his wife and two children in Sunset. He is the author of Dayo (Brick Books, 2024) and the forthcoming poetry chapbook, Domus (Anstruther Press, 2025). He is also a member of Migrante BC, a Filipino migrant justice organization. In his free time, he walks around the city streets with his film camera, pretending to be a photographer or an oblivious tourist. Vancouver's 7th Poet Laureate, Elee Kraljii Gardiner is a writer, editor, and creative mentor living in Vancouver. She is the author of 2 poetry books, Trauma Head, which investigates the experience of stroke, and serpentine loop, which considers gender and physicality through the idea of ice. She is also editor of the anthologies Against Death: 35 Essays on Living and V6A: Writing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside with John Asfour. For a decade she ran Thursdays Writing Collective, a beloved drop-in program for DTES residents that produced 10 anthologies.t If you would like to donate a new item here is the list of items needed. We do not have information on all the children’s sizes at this time. New toys and games are always appreciated and socks are always needed. A special thank you to the Mountain View Cemetery and Ryan McLeod for the use of this space. ​ Contact: blnish@pandorascollective.com

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