Thursday, November 7, 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, November 7, 2024 at Western Front for an evening of readings by Cody Caetano, Dorothy Trujillo Lusk, and Fred Wah. The evening will be hosted by Deanna Fong.
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
Cody Caetano is a writer and literary agent in Toronto. He works at CookeMcDermid and serves on the board of directors for the Toronto International Festival of Authors. His debut memoir, Half-Bads in White Regalia, received the 2023 Indigenous Voices Award for Best Published Prose.
Dorothy Trujillo Lusk is a writer based on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ peoples (Vancouver, Canada). She is associated with the collectives Vultures, Red Queen, the Kootenay School of Writing, and About a Bicycle. Her books include Ogress Oblige (Krupskaya, 2001), Sleek Vinyl Drill (Thuja, 2000), Volume Delays (Sprang Texts, 1995), Redactive (Talonbooks, 1990 / pulped,1995), and Oral Tragedy (Tsunami Editions, 1988).
Fred Wah is a poet based in Vancouver and on Kootenay Lake, Canada. Working across poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, his texts explore themes of hybridity, memory, and lineage, and often involves collaboration with visual artists.His most recent projects include Music at the Heart of Thinking: Improvisations 1-170 (Talonbooks, 2020), beholden: a poem as long as the river (Talonbooks, 2018) made in collaboration with Rita Wong about the Columbia River, and the online project High Muck a Muck: Playing Chinese, An Interactive Poem.
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.
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.
