LIT LIT LIT LIT VIII took a trip to Vancouver Island to host an evening of readings at Nanaimo Art Gallery in Nanaimo, BC on Saturday, May 6 2017. The evening featured poets Sonnet L’Abbé (Nanaimo) and Roger Farr (Gabriola Island) with artist Casey Wei (Vancouver), alongside emerging Code Switching writers Hamish Hardie (Nanaimo) and Charlotte Zhang (Nanaimo).
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00:03:20 - Roger Farr reads “Understanding Understanding Television” a poem about television, “Transitional Demands” a poem that looks at the different syntactical ways “The People” appear via web search, and ends with a long poem based on a psycho-geography mapping of Vancouver.
00:32:21 - Charlotte Zhang reads her own “Untitled” short story.
00:43:15 - Sonnet L’Abbé shares a selection of her sonnets from “Sonnet’s Shakespeare” (to be published by Mcclelland and Stewart in 2018) where she writes over all of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets.
01:10:49 - Hamish Hardie reads his short story “The Window.”
01:18:20 - Casey Wei reads “A Letter from the Editor” (her) from the first edition of Agony Klub (AK01), a magazine and mix tape edited by Wei that invites musicians with writing and visual art practices and vice versa to contribute.
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This event occurred in conjunction with Art Rock? No.18 on Friday, May 5 2017. Performances by Bye House, CROTCH and DS Lori were hosted at The Black Dot in Nanaimo, BC.
Special thanks to the City of Nanaimo, Art Lab and Nanaimo Art Gallery for supporting this event.