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 Tuesday of every 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 Poetry and Art at the JCC: 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 Tuesday of every 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. Location: Vancouver Library--Hastings Branch 2674 E Hastings St, Vancouver, BC V5K 1Z6 Hosts: Bonnie Nish & Jami Macarty Contact: blnish@pandorascollective.com 
3rd Tuesday of every month
Britannia Branch and Pandora's Collective Present 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 Nov & Dec) 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) Sept: 25th: Book Recommendation Night Tell us about the books you love, or the ones that you would like to read. Recommendations can be fiction, non-fiction, memoirs, travel/adventure, classic, up and coming authors, etc. We will be selecting books from this evening's suggestions for our upcoming reading list. Criteria to consider: Would the book/premise generate an interesting discussion? Is the book readily available in the library system? Upcoming Dates: Oct 23rd: The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. LeGuin Nov 27th: Exit West: A Novel by Mohsin Hamid Dec: on hiatus for the holidays 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 Time: 7:00 - 9:30 pm Location: HOOD 29 4468 Main Street, Vancouver, BC Three Features + Open Mic. Sign up for Open Mic begins at 7pm, Readings begin at 7:30pm Suggested donation at the door: $5 Upcoming Features: August 22, 2019: George McWhirter, Harold Rhenisch & John Swanson September 26, 2019: Shazia Hafiz Ramji, Kate Braid & Onjana Yawnghwe October 24, 2019: George Stanley, Eufemia Fantetti & Diana E. Hayes November 28th, 2019: Linda King, Carys Cragg & Renee Norman Twisted Poets is supported by the Writers Union of Canada and The League of Canadian Poets. Contact: blnish@pandorascollective.com www.pandorascollective.com 
Wednesday September 18th
Pandora's Collective Panel: The Writer Identity This interactive panel, featuring four Vancouver writers at different stages in their writing careers, will take as its starting point the question: What does it mean to be a "writer?" How do you become one? And, once you've become one, what changes? Who gets to decide who's a "writer" and who's not? The panelists will give short readings, engage in a discussion and answer questions from the audience, as well as each other. Time: 7-8:30 pm Location: Britannia Library, Gallery Room 1661 Napier Street, Vancouver, BC Panelists: Alex Leslie is the author of the short story collections People Who Disappear, shortlisted for a Lambda Award, and We All Need to Eat, shortlisted for a 2019 BC Book Prize and named a top 10 book of 2018 by NOW Magazine. Alex has also published a collection of prose poetry, The things I heard about you. A second poetry collection Vancouver for Beginners is forthcoming in Fall 2019. Isabella Wang is, at 18, a two-time finalist for The New Quarterly's Edna Staebler Essay Contest, and holds a Pushcart Prize Nomination for poetry. Her debut poetry chapbook is On Forgetting a Language (Baseline Press 2019), and her poetry and prose have appeared in over twenty literary journals. Leanne Dunic is a multi-disciplinary artist and a writer. Her trans-media book "To Love the Coming End" was released in 2017, alongside its companion album, as performed by Dunic's band, The Deep Cove. Entropy Magazine listed "To Love the Coming End" as one of the best poetry books of 2017. Leanne's latest book/album "The Gift" will be out autumn 2019. Joseph A. Dandurand is a member of Kwantlen First Nation, located on the Fraser River about 20 minutes east of Vancouver, where he resides with his 3 children. He has published 13 books of poetry, including I WANT by Leaf Press (2015), HEAR AND FORETELL by BookLand Press (2015), The Rumour (2018) by BookLand Press and SH:LAM (the doctor) Mawenzi Press (2019). Joseph is also a playwright and storyteller, and the Director of the Kwantlen Cultural Center. Moderator: Cathy Stonehouse is a poet and writer whose debut novel The Causes (Pedlar Press) comes out in September 2019. She teaches creative writing at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, and also likes to draw. Presented by Pandora's Collective and Britannia Library. Sponsored by the BC Arts Council. Contact: blnish@pandorascollective.com www.pandorascollective.com 
Thursday Sept 19th
Poetry Evening with Pandora’s Collective Sidney and Gertrude Zack Gallery 7- 9 pm 950 West 41st Ave, Vancouver Poets: Robin Susanto, Cynthia Sharp, Winston Le, Fran Bourassa, John Swanson, JC Cortens. Rosemary Nowicki Come out and hear the work of these wonderful poets who have written to this art exhibit. There will be an open mic time when the audience will have an opportunity to write and read poems relating to the exhibit. Presented by the Sidney and Gertrude Zack Gallery in collaboration with Pandora’s Collective and the Isaac Waldman Jewish Public Library, and made possible by the Yosef Wosk Poetry Initiative Grant Art Exhibit: Essence of Earth by Liron Gertsman (Exhibit on display August 28 – September 22. Opening Reception Tu Sept 10, 7-9pm. Artist in attendance) At just 18, Liron Gertsman is already an accomplished nature photographer. Winner of multiple photography awards, he received the distinction of “highly commended” in the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest. Liron wants people to understand the importance of preserving the natural world. As a photographer, he feels it is his duty to connect people with the environment. Contact: blnish@pandorascollective.com www.pandorascollective.com 
Tues Sept 24th
Pandora's Collective and Britannia Library Present POETIC PAIRINGS IN CONJUNCTION WITH WORD VANCOUVER 6:30 – 8:30 pm Join us for delightful pairings of poetic voices. Free Event. Britannia Library, Gallery Room 1661 Napier Street, Vancouver, BC Host: Mary Duffy Poetic Pairs: Natasha Boskic and Trevor Carolan Evelyn Lau and Fiona Tinwei Lam Kogan Goh and Diane Tucker Russell Wallace and Joanne Arnott Laura Farina and Joanne Ursino Voices become differently engaged when set against another writer’s work. Listen as couplets bounce words off one another, relate their stories and rejoice in the collaboration of expression. Question period to follow. Contact: blnish@pandorascollective.com www.pandorascollective.com 
Sept 25th and Sept 28th
Pandora's Collective and Word Vancouver Present Still/ed Here - A Transmedia Poetry Project Sept 25th: 6:30 - 8:30 pm Hastings Branch, 2674 East Hastings, Vancouver, BC Sept 28th: 3 - 4:30 pm Britannia Library, Gallery Room, 1661 Napier Street, Vancouver, BC Still/ed Here is a transmedia poetry project, a collection of still/hyperphoto fragments of the voices of two poets, Natasha Boškić (Vancouver) and Mohamad Kebbewar (Syria), contained within the poetry film “On the Margin of History” projected within the installation, designed and created by mulitimedia artist, Mary McDonald (London, ON). Still/ed Here is a multiplicity of the narratives of Canada about displacement and healing, created by community participation. This project draws from personal narratives on the experience of loss or abandonment of home and land due to various reasons: war, conflict, forced migration, poverty. Event details: Join Natasha Boškić and Mary McDonald in conversation about collaboration and co-creation of poetry and media. Watch the poetry film and become part of the big narrative. The artists invite individual audience contributions to the Augmented Reality (AR) installation. The recordings and video fragments are created on-site during the exhibition. These individual stories are added to the collective story of displacement, an issue of currency, of urgency in Canada, and in our world. Presenters' Bios: Mary McDonald is a Canadian writer and multimedia artist. McDonald is passionate about exploiting digital technology to bring text and multimedia art into community, historic and natural spaces in ways that consider word through sound, image, and movement. McDonald’s multidisciplinary practice encompasses text, photography, poetryfilm, music and sound, AR (augmented reality) installation, and community participatory arts projects. Her poetry films and AR installations have been exhibited in Canada and internationally, at Houston’s Reel Poetry, Glucksman Gallery in Cork, Ireland, the Surrey City Art Gallery, BC, Canada, Novi Sad, Serbia, and in Porto, Portugal. Her writing has been published in Occasus and The New Quarterly. Mary was awarded a city of London’s Community Arts Investment Program grant by the London Arts Council for, River Revery AR/poetry film/transmedia storytelling collaboration with poet, Penn Kemp. McDonald is founder of interweaving.media. She is pursuing her Master’s of Educational Technology (MET) degree through the University of British Columbia. Mary's Website: marymconald.ca Natasha Boskic is originally from Serbia. She moved to Canada with her two children in 1999. Since then she has been living in Vancouver, Canada. She works at the University of British Columbia (UBC). A long history of family storytelling, folk tales and legends as well as her personal life experience and current times have shaped and directed her writing. Interested in technology as a new landscape for literary expression, she experiments with new media. She obtained a Ph.D. in Language and Literacy at UBC, with a focus on ethics and narratives in gameworlds. Her poetry and narratives have been published in a number of literary journals (ditch, Quills, Allegro Poetry, Visual Verse, The Post Feminist Post: Modern Romance, Dragonfly), anthologies (Timeless Voices, Alive at the Centre: An Anthology of Poems from the Pacific NorthWest) and special publications (Fugue in F minor: Explorations in the Subject of Equality, NHCF of BC Newsmagazine, On the Consequences of Hate Speech). Natasha's Website: onlywords.ca Event Contact: natasha.boskic@onlywords.ca Learn More: https://stilledhere.ca/ 
Sunday Sept 29th
Pandora's Collective at Word Vancouver For information about all of our events and community programming, and how to get involved, come find us at Word Vancouver. We will have an info table on the 9th floor. 11:30 am - 5:30 pm Vancouver Public Library, 350 West Georgia, Vancouver, BC Contact: blnish@pandorascollective.com www.pandorascollective.com |
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
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 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 or Karen Shaw, chezshaw2013@gmail.com www.pandorascollective.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) |
