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... html 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 > > --- from list avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- --- from list avant-garde-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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