Inspired by the long-format readings held at Sir George Williams University (now Concordia) in the 1960s, this book launch will celebrate two new titles, Jason Camlot’s Vlarf and John Emil Vincent’s Bitter in the Belly (both published in the Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series of McGill-Queen’s University Press), with substantial readings and presentations of the books by the authors.
Launch | 4th Space, Bitter in the Belly, book launch, Concordia, Jason Camlot, John Emil Vincent, Reading, SpokenWeb, Vlarf
In this episode, SpokenWeb contributor Julia Polyck-O’Neill shares an archived recording of Canadian poet Lisa Robertson with us and talks us through two interviews she recorded with Robertson. Polyck-O’Neill invites us to consider the significance of Robertson’s intimate archival collections in light of the relationships between archives, memory, affect, and mortality.
Launch, Talk | Feminist Archive, launch, Lisa Robertson, Listening Party, Season 3, SpokenWeb, The SpokenWeb Podcast
We welcome Season 3 of The SpokenWeb Podcast by reintroducing and replaying an episode for you that exemplifies what our podcast is all about.
Presentations, Talk | Elizabeth Smart, Hannah McGregor, launch, Listening Party, Myra Bloom, Podcast, Season3, SpokenWeb, The SpokenWeb Podcast
The SpokenWeb partnership is delighted to announce that the online exhibition AURAL ALTERITIES by SpokenWeb 2020-2021 Curator-in-Residence jamilah malika abu-bakare can now be viewed online at auralalterities.com.
Announcements, Launch | aural alterities, curator-in-residence, CURRENT, jamilah malika, launch, news release, QTBIPOC, sound art, SpokenWeb
An online conversation with Deanna Fong, Ryan Rice, Constance Crompton, and Tomasz Neugebauer as part of the speaker series Desire Lines presented by the Art Gallery of York University (AGYU) in coordination with Artexte and SpokenWeb Curated by Felicity Tayler and Michael Maranda, with assistance from Faith Paré Friday, August 6, 2021 @ 2 – […]
AGU, Catherine d’Ignazio, Jennifer Wemigwans, Lauren F. Klein, Ruha Benjamin, Safiya Umoja Nobel, SpokenWeb
SpokenWeb is seeking a candidate to participate in the maintenance and development of our portal website: https://spokenweb.ca/.
Opportunities | Opportunity, SpokenWeb, Web Developer
This network shows us how the absences, or received lack, in one publishing project generates desire for new ones. These panelists will share their personal memories of scenes and magazines as sites of discursive community, reflecting on how one magazine can emerge as a response to another.
Presentations, Talk | Access to Print, Concordia, Desire Lines, Joy Xiang, Kass Banning, Rinaldo Walcott, SpokenWeb, Will Straw, York University
In this listening practice, guide-hosts Jason Camlot and Katherine McLeod take up the call of SpokenWeb organizational partner Blue Metropolis to conduct an event that explores the theme of hope in relation to the archival pursuits of our research network. To this end, we invite past guides of SpokenWeb listening practices, and all members of the SpokenWeb network, to select a short (30 second max) sound clip from their archival or other research interests that sounds an idea or feeling of hope, for us to listen to and discuss together.
Listening Practice | Blue Metropolis, Jason Camlot, Katherine McLeod, Listening, poetry, SpokenWeb
Intergenerational mentoring is a central experience of cultural transmission; within publishing networks we can sense a print-based trace of Black feminist sensations of belonging. Magazines of the 1980s, such as Fireweed and Tiger Lily, offer a view into activist spaces where gaining access to print was a means to rewrite the terms of racialization and socioeconomic oppression. This panel will conjure personal memories around institutions such as Sister Vision Press and Fresh Arts as crucibles for cultural production in Toronto.
Talk | Art Gallery of York University, Artexte, Concordia University, Cultural Transmission, Desire Lines, Intergenerational, Magazines, Mentoring, Speaker Series, SpokenWeb, Toronto