TORONTO
Friday October 19, 6pm-8pm, Emma Healey Poetry Launch, Type Books, 883 Queen Street West
Emma Healey will be launching her new poetry collection, Begin With the End in Mind, at Type Books on Queen Street in Toronto.
Emma’s writing examines the animate qualities of seemingly inanimate things and explores personal relationships, collective and individual human experiences, as they are distilled through our encounters with such things as the CBC, chain bookstores, the contents of a kitchen, or the expanse of a whole city. Read our cover story on Emma from Issue 56 here.
Emma will be joined by Toronto writer Chandler Levack, whose work has been featured in the Village Voice, Toronto Life, and the National Post.
This is a one-day conference and skillshare event happening the day before Canzine presented by Broken Pencil! Join us for a day of creative discussion and learning. Meet your fellow zinesters and members of the indie arts community in Toronto and beyond. Share your work and find inspiration. AND there’s a tasty vegan lunch in it for you too. Featuring: A Primp Your Zine workshop featuring Lisa MacDonald, Ian Sullivan and Elija Montgomery, Fundraising Strategies for DIY Projects Large and Small, a Zine Swap and Speed Meeting Lunch and What is Indie? Eight-minute hyperspeed talks exploring practical and philosophical issues related to the making of Indie culture in the 21st century.
MONTREAL
Presenting two fine members of the Colosse Comics Collective! Sophie will be reading from her graphically daring, poetic journal strips In Situ and In Situ 2 (Colosse Comic Collective). Julie will be reading from a selection of her published work. This event will be a multimedia one, with projections of artwork and live drawing.
HALIFAX
Brought to you by the Anchor Archive Zine Library and Strange Adventures. For thirteen years running, this event has been an awesome, annual showcase of all kinds of do-it-yourself projects- zines, small press books, comics, posters, records, cassettes, and more. Featuring Mike Holmes, Invisible Publishing, Conundrum Press, finders keepers printing co, Chris Foster, Yorodeo, PANSY TWIST distro, go it alone (together), Anchor Archive/Roberts Street and many many more!
VANCOUVER
Tuesday October 16 – Sunday October 21, Vancouver Writer’s Fest, Granville Island
The 25th annual celebration of the written word offers a range of events for readers with established and emerging writers in interviews, panel discussions, and readings. Highlights include a spoken-word event for adults, theatrical events with Electric Company Theatre and Ruby Slippers Theatre, and musical collaborations with Chor Leoni, Gregorian chanters from Christ Church Cathedral, and writer-musician Dave Bidini.