
Saturday, March 1, 2025
1–9 pm PST / 4 pm–12 am EST
Virtual Fundraiser
Tickets by Donation ($40 suggested)
For over fifty years, The Capilano Review has supported and been sustained by a vibrant community of readers, writers, and artists committed to experimentation, collaboration, and critical inquiry. This winter, we invite you to show your support for this vision by joining us for our 2nd annual virtual fundraising event!
Listening before the sound brings together 26 writers for an eight-hour-long journey of readings that seeks to foreground the intimate sense-relations through which we commune with literary work. Join us from daylight to nightfall as readers share poetry, prose, performances, diary entries, voice memos, and other hybrid literary creations that are sure to delight and resound — attuning us to new frameworks for collective listening.
Join us for readings and presentations by:
Saif Alsaegh, D.M. Bradford, Yoon Sook Cha, Rob Macaisa Colgate, Wayde Compton, Klara du Plessis, ryan fitzpatrick, Laura Grier & Irum Ayse Karabag, River Halen, Cristina Holman, Dallas Hunt, Aisha Sasha John, Sonnet L’Abbé, Danielle LaFrance, John Love, Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi, Hoa Nguyen, Samantha Marie Nock, Chimedum Ohaegbu, Gail Scott, Zoe Imani Sharpe, Jane Shi, Lee Suksi, Isabella Wang, and beni xiao.
This event will be hosted by members of The Capilano Review’s Staff and Board.
Tickets to the event are sliding-scale, with a suggested donation of $40. Your ticket includes continuous access to the day-long virtual event, as well as automatic entry in various literary-themed raffles.
All proceeds from the event will go to support The Capilano Review’s biannual magazine and year-round public programs. All donations over $25 will receive a charitable tax receipt.
Special thanks to our event sponsors, SFU Galleries and The Paper Hound.
Credits: The title of this year’s event, Listening before the sound, is taken from Klara du Plessis and Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi’s collaborative poem “Speech:” from G (Palimpsest, 2023), and is used by permission of the authors. Poster design by Victoria Lum.