Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent 

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Milkcraters of the Moon Reading Series with Liz Howard

Hosted by UBCO Creative Writing and Inspired Word Café

Tuesday July 3, 7 to 10pm

Milkcrate Records, 527 Lawrence Ave., Kelowna

This is the 3rd reading in the M.O.M. Reading series, a collaboration between Kelowna non-profit arts organization The Inspired Word Cafe, and the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies. The goal of the series is to foster community and coalition building between our local and institutional art communities by pairing notable Canadian authors from out of town with writers from our own community, as well as to provide a short open mic for other creators to share their work.

Author Liz Howard reads from her book Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent. This book won the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize, the first time the prize has been awarded to a debut collection. It was also a finalist for the 2015 Governor General’s Award for Poetry, received an honourable mention for the Alanna Bondar Memorial Book Prize, and was named a Globe and Mail Top 100 book. Her recent work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, The Capilano Review, Camera Austria, and The Walrus. Howard received an Honours Bachelor of Science with High Distinction from the University of Toronto, and an MFA in Creative Writing through the University of Guelph. She has been appointed the 2018-2019 Canadian Writer-in-Residence at the University of Calgary. She is of mixed European and Anishinaabe (Ojibway) descent. Born and raised on Treaty 9 territory in northern Ontario, she now lives in Toronto and assists with research on the aging brain.

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Panel Discussion Resonant Presence and Refusals: Four Artists Reflect on their Practices

Tuesday July 17, 7:00pm

With Jeneen Frei Njootli, Ayumi Goto, Peter Morin, and Olivia Whetung

Contemporary Art Gallery, 555 Nelson St., Vancouver

Join us as four artists reflect together on the many shared concerns if their practices, with the discussion moderated by CAG Curator Kimberly Phillips and Tarah Hogue, Vancouver Art Gallery's Senior Curatorial Fellow, Indigenous Art. A collaboration between the Contemporary Art Gallery and the Vancouver Art Gallery, this event seeks to register and draw out issues of hospitality, presence and the politics of refusal on the occasion of these artists' concurrent and upcoming exhibitions in Vancouver. 

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Collaboratively produced by the Contemporary Art Gallery and the Vancouver Art Gallery. Space will be limited; please RSVP to 604 681 2700.

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Panel Discussion with Guest Curator Jaimie Isaac and artists Meagan Musseau, Meghann O’Brien, and Tania Willard

Tuesday, July 17, 6pm
Kelowna Art Gallery, 1315 Water St., Kelowna

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this is not us

Saturday July 21, 2:00pm

Roving Gallery Performance

Vancouver Art Gallery, 750 Hornby St., Vancouver

This performance by Ayumi Goto, Tarah Hogue, and Peter Morin activates three portrait masks carved by Haida artist Corey Bulpitt commissioned for the exhibition Ayumi Goto and Peter Morin: how do you carry the land?. The portrait masks both protect the face from view while revealing a likeness and draw upon histories of ceremony and theatre across cultural contexts. What becomes visible in this encounter?

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Keynote presentation with Richard Van Camp

Tuesday, July 24

Milkcrate Records, 527 Lawrence Ave., Kelowna

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Richard Van Camp (2018 Writer-in-Residence) is a proud member of the Tłı̨chǫ Dene from Fort Smith, Northwest Territories. He is the author of two children’s books with the Cree artist George Littlechild: A Man Called Raven and What’s the Most Beautiful Thing You Know About Horses? His novel, The Lesser Blessed, is now a feature film with First Generation Films; his collections of short fiction include Angel Wing Splash Pattern, The Moon of Letting Go and Other Stories, Godless but Loyal to Heaven and Night Moves. He is the author of four baby books: Welcome Song for Baby: A Lullaby for Newborns; Nighty Night: A Bedtime Song for Babies and Little You (now translated into Cree, Dene and South Slavey!) and We Sang You Home, and he has two comic books out with the Healthy Aboriginal Network: Kiss Me Deadly and Path of the Warrior. His graphic novel, Three Feathers, is about restorative justice; his new novel, Whistle, is about mental health and asking for forgiveness and his graphic novel, The Blue Raven, is about mental health and the power of culture and friends. His Eisner nominated graphic novel, A Blanket of Butterflies, is about peacemaking where a grandmother is the hero of the story and his latest graphic novel, Spirit, is about suicide prevention. Cinematic adaptations of his work include “Mohawk Midnight Runners”, by Zoe Hopkins based on Richard’s short story, “Dogrib Midnight Runners” from The Moon of Letting Go,  Kelvin Redver’s adaptation of “firebear called them faith healers”,  and Jay Cardinal Villeneuve’s adaptation of “Hickey Gone Wrong”, based on Richard’s comic book with Chris Auchter and “Three Feathers”, which is available for viewing in Bush Cree, Dene and South Slavey as well as English, based on his graphic novel. Richard is offering a public reading as part of the Milkcraters of the Moon Reading Series. 

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