Be sure to get your free ticket to this event as space is limited.
This event will be masked, masks will be available on the night. Snacks and drinks provided.
Launch Word Vancouver 2023 with us in an intimate evening of music, readings, conversations, and more. We open the night with a performance from cellist Franki Lemon, then our host will speak with Guest 2SLGBTQIA+ Curator C.E. Gatchalian and Guest Indigenous Curator Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler.
Location: Grunt Gallery
Type: Reading, Interview
Sponsored by Pace Accounting
Moderator: Jen Currin
Readers: C.E. Gatchalian, Double Melancholy: Art, Beauty, and the Making of a Brown Queer Man (Arsenal Pulp Press) | Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler, Ghost Lake (Kegedonce Press)
Music: Franki Lemon, Ruth Francis-Lyster, and Christine Yang
About The Moderator
Jen Currin’s most recent book is the poetry collection Trinity Street (House of Anansi, 2023). They have published five other books, including Hider/Seeker: Stories, which won a Canadian Independent Book Award, was a finalist for a ReLit Award, and was named a 2018 Globe and Mail Best Book; School (Coach House, 2014), which was a finalist for the Pat Lowther Award, the Dorothy Livesay Prize, and a ReLit Award; and The Inquisition Yours (Coach House, 2010), which won the 2011 Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry and was a finalist for a LAMBDA, the Dorothy Livesay Prize, and a ReLit Award. A white settler of mixed, mostly western European ancestry, Currin was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, on the traditional and ancestral territories of the Multnomah, Clackamas, Chinook, Tualatin, and other tribes. They currently live on unceded Qayqayt, Musqueam, Kwikwetlem, and Kwantlen Nation territories in New Westminster, BC and teach creative writing and English at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. www.jencurrin.com
About The Readers
Born and raised on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh peoples (“Vancouver”), currently dividing his time between “Vancouver” and Tkaronto (“Toronto”), C.E. Gatchalian is a Filipinx queer neurodivergent author, editor and playwright. The author of six books and co-editor of two anthologies, he was the 2013 recipient of the Dayne Ogilvie Prize and a three-time Lambda Literary Award finalist. His memoir, Double Melancholy: Art, Beauty and the Making of a Brown Queer Man, was published in 2019 by Arsenal Pulp Press. He is a recipient of the one-time only British Columbia Lieutenant Governor's Arts & Music Awards for his contributions to the arts in BC.
Nathan Adler is the author of Wrist, and Ghost Lake (Kegedonce Press), and co-editor of Bawaajigan ~ Stories of Power(Exile Editions), he has an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC, is recipient of an Indigenous Voices Award for Published English Prose, and a Hnatyshyn Reveal award for literature. He is Jewish and Ojibwe, and a member of Lac des Mille Lacs First Nation.
About The Musicians
Franki Lemon on cello, alongside Ruth Francis-Lyster on Viola and Christine Yang on Bass, have been playing together for almost 10 years. They have enjoyed branching out of the classical genres and love to incorporate anything from bluegrass and fiddle style music to tangos and pop into their performances. They will be sharing a few selections from their upcoming show on Sept. 24th at the Peninsula United Church in Whiterock.