Join writer and performer Erin Kirsh in a free workshop on literary performance. We will practice physical and vocal warm ups, rehearse performing with emotion, and do a free write. Each participant will also have an opportunity to workshop an individualized performance (please bring 3 pages or less of your own writing to practice performing!).

Please register via Eventbrite! There is a 15 person cap to this workshop. Walk-ins are welcome.

This event is FREE, and is part 1 of the JBG summer workshop series. Snacks, supplies and bus fare will be provided.

Erin Kirsh is a pushcart-nominated writer, performer, funnyman, and rant maker from Toronto. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Malahat Review, ARC Poetry Magazine, EVENT, PULP Literature, Geist and more. Kirsh has toured original works on stages across North America, and has represented Vancouver twice at both the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word and the National Poetry Slam. In 2016, Kirsh was the Managing Director of Verses Festival of Words, Canada's largest alternative literary festival. Kirsh has served as an arts educator around the Vancouver Lower Mainland for over five years. She holds a BFA from the University of British Columbia.

This event is in a building with one flight of stairs to the front door, and another flight to the bathrooms. It is in a building in which people paint, but no one will be painting/have open chemical containers in the room we will be using. Please refrain from bringing any additional scents into the space (no perfumes, etc).

This event is generously funded by the City of Vancouver. It takes place on the unceded, ancestral, and occupied, traditional lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Watuth), Stó:lō, Shíshálh (Sechelt) and Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Nations of the Coast Salish peoples.