Thursday, October 3, 2024
Doors at 7 pm / Readings at 7:30 pm
Free Admission
In-person at Western Front (RSVP on Eventbrite)
Virtual attendance by livestream
Dear Friends,
The Capilano Review and Western Front are pleased to invite you to the next event in our monthly reading series, Dear Friends &. Please join us at 7 pm on Thursday, October 3, 2024 at Western Front for an evening of poetry by Jordan Abel, Phanuel Antwi, and Tiziana La Melia. The evening will be hosted by Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross and Kiel Torres.
Admission is free, but registration is required for in-person attendance. The event will also be available to virtual audiences by livestream.
Special thanks to Western Front and the BC Arts Council for their generous support of this program.
We can’t wait to see you,
The Capilano Review
Readers’ Biographies
Jordan Abel is a queer Nisga’a writer from Vancouver, Canada. He is the author of the award-winning poetry collections The Place of Scraps (2013), Un/inhabited (2014), Injun (2017), and NISHGA (2022), and the novel Empty Spaces (2023). Abel completed a PhD at Simon Fraser University in 2019, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta where he teaches Indigenous Literatures, Research-Creation, and Creative Writing.
Phanuel Antwi is an artist, curator, and organizer concerned with race, poetics, movements, intimacy and struggle. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at UBC. In 2022 he was named Canada Research Chair in Black Arts and Epistemologies. He is the author of On Cuddling: Loved to Death in the Racial Embrace (2024).
Tiziana La Melia is a painter, poet, and collaborator based on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and Sel̓íl̓witulh territories (Vancouver, Canada). In her writing and art practice, La Melia gleans the detritus of the everyday and transmutes it into material textures, fantasy, iterative shapes, and symbols that move through layers of diasporic time. She is the author of lettuce lettuce please go bad (2024), The Eyelash and the Monochrome (2018), and Oral Like Cloaks, Dialect (2015/2018).
Accessibility
The Grand Luxe Hall is located on the second floor of Western Front, which is accessed by a flight of 26 stairs. While plans for a full building upgrade to facilitate access for wheelchair and scooter users are still underway, all events in the Luxe are made available virtually via high-quality livestream (see link above). Further details about accessibility at Western Front can be found here. Please feel free to contact Western Front directly at info@westernfront.ca or +1 (604) 876-9343 for specific access requests in advance of your visit. We are grateful for your patience as we work towards securing the long-term accessibility of this historic space.
COVID-19 Safety
Masks are optional but encouraged at this event. Masks will be available free-of-charge at the venue for anyone who would like one. The windows of the Grand Luxe Hall will also be open for this event.
