Stephanie Bolster & Barbara Nickel
Stephanie Bolster & Barbara Nickel
May 28
Stephanie Bolster reads from her first book, White Stone: The Alice Poems, published by Signal Editions in 1998. She won the Malahat Review's Long Poem Prize and CV2's Poetry contest in 1997 and the Bronwen Wallace Award in 1996. Her work also appeared in Breathing Fire: Canada's New Poets, as well the Poetry in Transit program which put poetry in and on the BC Transit system buses in Victoria and Vancouver.
Barbara Nickel reads from her first book of poetry, The Gladys Elegies, published by Coteau Books in 1997. She won the Malahat Review Long Poem Contest and received an honourable mention at the 1996 National Magazine Awards.
Braaxtaal
Braaxtaal - works by Jaap Blonk
performed by: Jaap Blonk (voice), Rob Daenen (synthesizer), Theo Daenen (drums)
May 21
Visit Braxtaal's website at http://www.bajazzo.com/blonk/
Conjurer
Mark Jarman
Mark Jarman
May 14
Mark Jarman's latest novel Salvage King, Ya, was published by Anvil Press in the fall of 1997. His short stories appear in Best Canadian Short Stories 1997, and The 1997 Journey Prize Anthology. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and an instructor at the University of Victoria. Mr. Jarman has agreed to read with three local authors as part of Open Space's effort to showcase indigenous talent.
Units
Units
Sam Gomez - Vertical Gallery
May
Sam Gomez's light box uses repeated transparencies of a night-time apartment building to invoke the ubiquity of modern life. This representation of a metropolitan nightmare is an allegory of modernization's reduction of the human individual to a unit within the codes of superstructures that dominate modern life. It deals with the co-existence of seduction and oppression found in modernization. Enchanting like glittering embers from a fire, or sparkling like a starlit sky, the windows simultaneously echo computer information, cursors, pixels and any other system of the technological world.
The Lay of Your Land and Re:Collect Slash/Smoulder
Savitri String Quartet with Michael Herriot (trumpet)
Savitri String Quartet with Michael Herriot (trumpet)
works by: Peter Scolthorpe, Michael Herriot, Phillip Glass, Maurice Ravel
performed by: Kate Rhodes, Joyce Menting, Corrine Hambourg, Isabelle Roland
May 1