Pandora's Literary Events
Pandora's Collective currently offers the following on-going literary events.
We also facilitate workshops and additional events on misc dates.
We also facilitate workshops and additional events on misc dates.
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Vancouver:
Word Whips Vancouver East: 2nd Tues, every other month Word Whips Writing Series: 3rd Tuesday of every month Book Talks - Book Club: 4th Wed of every month Twisted Poets Literary Salon: 4th Thursday of every month Word Whips In the Gallery: Misc dates Poetic Pairings: Quarterly North Shore: Word Whips North Shore Edition: 4th Tues of each month White Rock: Word Whips By The Water: 1st Wed of each month |
Vancouver Events
2nd Tues, every other month
Vancouver Public Library and Pandora’s Collective Present Word Whips Vancouver East 6:30-8:30 Take the challenge. We provide the writing prompts and the opportunity for sharing. 10 -15 minutes to write to each prompt. See what you can whip up. 2nd Tuesday of Jan, March, May, July, Sept and Nov. Location: Vancouver Library--Hastings Branch 2674 E Hastings St, Vancouver, BC V5K 1Z6 Hosts: Bonnie Nish & JJami Macarty Contact: blnish@pandorascollective.com 
3rd Tuesday of every month
Pandora's Collective Presents WORD WHIPS WRITING SERIES Take the challenge. We provide the writing prompts and the opportunity for sharing. 10 -15 minutes to write to each prompt. See what you can whip up. (3rd Tuesday of each month except December) Host: Bonnie Nish and Sita Carboni Time: 6:30 - 8:30 pm Location: Britannia Library, Gallery Room, 1661 Napier Street, Vancouver, BC http://www.vpl.vancouver.bc.ca/branches/details/britannia_branch Contact: blnish@pandorascollective.com www.pandorascollective.com 
4th Wednesday of every month
Britannia Branch and Pandora’s Collective Present BOOK TALKS - BOOK CLUB Bring your favourite passages, points of interest, and share your reading experiences with us. Admission is free. Registration not required. Each person is responsible for either borrowing or buying their own copy to read. (4th Wednesday of each month except December) Oct 25th: If I Fall; If I Die by Michael Christie "The boy stepped Outside, and he did not die. Will has never been Outside, at least not since he can remember. For most of his young life he has lived happily – and safely – Inside his small house with his mother, a fiercely loving yet wildly eccentric agoraphobe who panics at the thought of opening the front door. But Will’s curiosity can’t be contained. Clad in a hockey helmet to protect himself from unknown dangers, he finally ventures Outside – and braces himself for disaster. What he finds instead will change everything. Will embraces his newfound freedom and soon befriends Jonah, an artistic loner who introduces him to the high-flying thrills of skateboarding. But life Outside quickly grows complicated. When a local boy goes missing, Will is pulled further away from the confines of his closed-off world and thrust headfirst into the throes of early adulthood and the criminal underbelly of city life. All the while his mother must grapple with her greatest fear: will she be brave enough to save her son? In dazzling, kinetic prose, Michael Christie has written a beautifully tender and emotionally resonant story about family and friendship, overcoming our fears, and learning when to protect the ones we love and when to let them fall." - Amazon.ca Upcoming Dates: Nov 22nd: Adventures in Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound By Grant Lawrence Dec - Closed for the holidays Jan 24th: One Hundred years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Feb 28th: City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp by Ben Rawlence Mar 28th: Book Recommendation Night Apr 25th: Laughing All The Way To The Mosque By Zarqa Nawaz May 23rd: Beloved by Tony Morrison Time: 6:30 – 8:30 pm Location: Britannia Library, Gallery Room, 1661 Napier Street, Vancouver, BC Hosts: Mary Duffy and Sita Carboni Contact: booktalks@pandorascollective.com www.pandorascollective.com 
4th Thursday of every month
Pandora's Collective Presents TWISTED POETS LITERARY SALON Features poets plus an open mic. Suggested donation at the door: $5 Time: 7:00 - 9:30 pm Open Mic sign up at 7 pm. Readings begin at 7:30 Hosts: Bonnie Nish & Daniela Elza Upcoming Features: October 26th: Clea Roberts,Therrien Richard & Jami Macarty Clea Roberts lives on the outskirts of Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada. She was born in North Vancouver, British Columbia, but Whitehorse has been her home for the past 15 years. Her debut collection of poems, Here Is Where We Disembark (Freehand Books, 2010) was a finalist for the League of Canadian Poets’ Gerald Lampert Award for best first book of poetry in Canada, was nominated for the ReLit Award and was published in German (Edition Rugerup, 2013) and Japanese (Shichosha 2017). Clea’s poems have been published in journals and anthologies in Canada, Europe, the United States and Australia. She has received fellowships from the Canada Council for the Arts, Vermont Studio Centre, the Atlantic Centre for the Arts, the Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity and is a five-time recipient of the Yukon Government Advanced Artist Award. Clea facilitates a workshop on poetry and grief through Hospice Yukon and is the Artistic Director of the Kicksled Reading Series. Auguries, her second collection of poetry, was published by Brick Books in Spring 2017. Richard Therrien's writing credits include film, theater and nonfiction as well as poetry and fiction. His poems have appeared in Grain, The New Quarterly, Prairie Fire, and CV2, among others. Sleeping in Tall Grass (University of Alberta Press, 2016) was shortlisted for BC Book Prize's Dorothy Livesay Award for poetry, and for Alberta Book Publishing Awards' Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry. Unarmoured Excursions will be released by Gaspereau Press in the Fall of 2018. Richard lives and writes in North Vancouver. Jami Macarty is the author of two chapbooks of poetry: Landscape of The Wait (Finishing Line Press, June 2017) and Mind of Spring, winner of the 2017 Vallum Chapbook Award (forthcoming, fall 2017). Former Executive Director of Tucson Poetry Festival (1996-2005), her current forays into arts administration include serving as a Poetry Ambassador for Vancouver's Poet Laureate and a Fresh Local Poet for Vancouver Park Board. She also teaches contemporary poetry and creative writing at Simon Fraser University, edits of the online poetry journal The Maynard, and writes the blog Peerings & Hearings--Occasional Musings on Arts in The City of Glass for Anomalous Press. A recipient of grants from Banff Center and BC Arts Council, among others; a Pushcart Prize nominee; a finalist for the 2017 Robert Kroetsch Award, and the winner of the 2016 Real Good Poem Prize (a 2,000 poetry purse!), her poems appear in American and Canadian journals, including Arc Poetry Magazine, Beloit Poetry Journal, The Fiddlehead, Grain, Prism international, Vallum: contemporary poetry, among others, and are forthcoming in Contemporary Verse 2, EVENT Magazine, the anthology Sustenance, Vancouver Poet Laureate, Rachel Rose's legacy project and in the University of Regina Press' anthology of poems responding to sexual assault, edited by Sue Goyette. Upcoming Features: November 23rd: Wendy Donawa, Susan Alexander, Michelle Vanderpol Location: Cottage Bistro, 4468 Main St, Vancouver, BC Supported by the Writers Union of Canada and The League of Canadian Poets. Hosts: Daniela Elza & Bonnie Nish Contact: blnish@pandorascollective.com www.pandorascollective.com Wednesday Oct 18th
Pandora’s Collective and Isaac Waldman Jewish Public Library Present Concussion and Mild Brain Injury: Not Just Another Headline Reading and Q & A Bonnie Nish, Vera Kinach, Ali Denno, Phyllis Bassett, Heather Williams Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver 950 West 41st Ave. Vancouver https://www.jccgv.com/content/library-main Concussion and Mild Brain Injury: Not Just Another Headline gives clear insight into how the lives of those suffering from concussion and mild brain injury (MBI) are impacted. The individual stories of injury, recovery and discovery document the effect of the survivor's MBI on immediate and extended family members, and social and work communities. These first-hand accounts of survivors of MBI in many facets of the community will bring tears, laughter and increased understanding, restoring hope that the ongoing challenges faced by the survivors in all walks of life can and will improve. Each story shows that MBI touches the lives of individuals from all strata of society, from the media famous to the relatively unknown. Books will be on sale. 
Tuesday Oct 24th
Carmen Aguirre - Author Reading and Q&A Presented by Pandora's Collective and Britannia Branch Sponsored by the Telus Carmen will be reading passages from both of her memoirs. A Book Talks special event. Free admission. Time: 7–8:30 pm Location: Britannia Library, Gallery Room, 1661 Napier Street, Vancouver, BC Author Bio: Carmen was born in Santiago, Chile and arrived in Canada when she was a small child. Her family were political refugees fleeing the Pinochet dictatorship. She is an award-winning stage actor and playwright, whose work has been seen extensively in North and South America. She has written and co-written twenty plays, including The Refugee Hotel and Blue Box. Her first book, a memoir entitled Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter, won the 2012 CBC Canada Reads contest and was a #1 national bestseller. Her second memoir, Mexican Hooker #1: And My Other Roles Since The Revolution, is a powerful, heartfelt and grippingly honest memoir of finding meaning in life and one’s voice as an artist, and of developing the strength to confront and overcome a childhood trauma. Hosts: Mary Duffy and Sita Carboni Upcoming Book Club Dates: Oct 25th: If I Fall; If I Die by Michael Christie Nov 22nd: Adventures in Solitude by Grant Lawrence Book Talks Reading List: www.pandorascollective.com/literary-events.html Contact: booktalks@pandorascollective.com Pandora's Collective is pleased to present this reading, as a part of the Identity Collage: The Canadian Mosaic program, sponsored by Telus. |
North Shore Events
4th Tuesday of every month (except August)
Pandora's Collective Presents WORD WHIPS - THE NORTH SHORE EDITION A warm environment, writing prompts and the opportunity for sharing. Great for beginners or seasoned writers. Get past the inner critic by writing ten to fifteen minutes on each prompt. See what you can whip up. Host: Fran Bourassa Time: 6:30 to 8:30pm Location: The Silk Purse Arts Centre 1570 Argyle Avenue, West Vancouver, BC, V7V 1A1 Contact: Fran at fbourassa@hotmail.com www.pandorascollective.com |
White Rock Events
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1st Wednesday of every month
Pandora's Collective Presents WORD WHIPS BY THE WATER We provide writing prompts and encourage people to take the challenge. Emphasis is on exercising the right brain in a safe environment – sharing is optional. Host: Karen Shaw, Taslim Jaffer Time: 6:30 - 8:00 pm Location: White Rock Library on Buena Vista Avenue. 15342 Buena Vista Ave, White Rock, BC V4B 1Y6 (604) 541-2201 Contact: pcwhiterock@yahoo.ca www.pandorascollective.com Karen Shaw, chezshaw2013@gmail.com |
Annual Events
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2010 - Present: Annual Gala Awards Night.
2004 - 2014: The Summer Dreams Literary Arts Festival (an annual, multi-day, summer festival, than ran for 10 years) |
