File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1999/avant-garde.9901, message 49


Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 08:12:51 -0500
From: Barry Smylie <barrysmylie-AT-iname.com>
Subject: Re: Art and History Lectures-Vancouver


this invite is as appropriate as Peter Gzowski's guests showing their
paintings on morning side radio

sure - i'll be there
just let me hookup my oxe and sled
and stock up some pemican for the journey
now...
where did i put my buffalo coat?

and...
how much does it cost to transport my travel gear via Air Canada to
Vancouver with a stop off at Thunder Bay?

see you soon...
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CL Hamshaw wrote:

> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> EVENT DATES: Friday, February 19, 1999, 8pm
> Sunday, March 7, 1999, 1pm
> Friday, March 19, 1999, 8pm
> LOCATION: Room 148, Cedar Building, Capilano College, 2055 Purcell Way,
> North Vancouver
> CONTACT: Carol L. Hamshaw, 984-1712/904-9362
>
> The Koerner Lecture Series: Art, Politics, & History
> Michael Turner, Nettie Wild, and Duncan McNaughton
> Sponsored by The Capilano Review and the Capilano College Foundation
>
> This spring The Capilano Review presents its first annual Koerner
> Lecture
> Series on Art, Politics, and History. Vancouver poet Michael Turner
> (Hard
> Core Logo, American Whiskey Bar), Vancouver documentary filmmaker Nettie
> Wild (A Place Called Chiapas), and San Francisco poet Duncan McNaughton
> (Valparaiso, another set / of circumstance.) will present selections
> from
> their work, and will discuss the impact of art and history on that work
> and
> on the formation
> of contemporary culture in a highly politicized world.
>
> Friday, February 19, 8:00 pm  <The Tyranny of Genre, or Why Listen to
> Peter
> Gzowski When You Can Talk About Contemporary Writing?> In this lecture
> Michael Turner will address issues of genre, modernism, experimentation,
> recent trends in Can Lit in relation to "our" international profile, and
> will explain "how Peter Gzowski has ruined writing in this country." He
> will also relate these issues to selections from his own work, from the
> documentary poems of Company Town (Arsenal Pulp Press) to his
> forthcoming
> book, The Pornographer's Poem (Doubleday Canada). Michael Turner is the
> author of four books, including the novel-in-verse Hard Core Logo, which
> was made into an award-winning motion picture. American Whiskey Bar,
> Turner's latest book, was recently made into a short film by City TV.
>
> Sunday, March 7, 1:00 pm   <Outside Eyes: Art, Politics, Contradictions>
> In
> this lecture Nettie Wild will show selections from her recent
> documentary,
> A Place Called Chiapas , and will discuss the relationships she sees
> between the politics of Mexico and Canada. She will also speak about
> "the
> role an artist plays in relation to political movements where the stakes
> are high." Wild's other award-winning films include A Rustling of
> Leaves:
> Inside the Philippine Revolution (1989) and Blockade (1993). She is
> travelling North America and Europe to attend screenings of A Place
> Called
> Chiapas, which was also broadcast as a two hour prime time special on
> CBC
> TV this last fall.
>
> Friday, March 19, 8:00 pm  <another set / of circumstance.: Poetry &
> Historical Geography>  In this lecture Duncan McNaughton will discuss
> the
> relationship between poetry, history, and geography, arguing there is no
> history without geography, and that poetry
> as a form is central to contemporary thought. He will read from and
> speak
> to the work in his most recent book, another set / of circumstance.
> (hawkhaven). He has published over eleven volumes
> of poetry, including the wrapped church (Blue Millennium/AIOU), Kicking
> the
> Feather (First Intensity), and Valparaiso (Listening Chamber).
>
> Admission is $5 adults, $3 students, and free for members of The
> Capilano
> Press Society, the publisher of The Capilano Review.  Advance passes for
> all three lectures in the series are available for $12 by calling
> 984-1712
> or 904-9362, or they can be bought at the door.  Proceeds go to The
> Capilano Review Endowment Fund. Support for the series has been
> graciously
> provided by The Leon & Thea Koerner Foundation, The Capilano College
> Foundation, and the Humanities Division of Capilano College.
> The Capilano Review has been publishing innovative poetry, fiction,
> drama,
> and work in visual media for over 25 years.  It has received several
> National Magazine Awards, Western Magazine Awards, and has been included
> in
> The Journey Prize Anthology.
>
> Carol L. Hamshaw
> Managing Editor
> The Capilano Review
> 604-984-1712
>
> www.capcollege.bc.ca/dept/TCR
>
> --
> Carol L. Hamshaw
> Administrator
> Edgewise ElectroLit Centre
> http://www.edgewisecafe.org
>
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