Pandora's Collective Presents A Night for Giving: Book Launch Fundraiser
Schedule
Tue, 17 Dec, 2024 at 07:00 pm
UTC-08:00Location
Celebration Hall and Courtyard, 5445 Fraser St, Vancouver, BC | Vancouver, BC
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Please join us as poets and authors Kevin Spenst, A Bouquet Brought Back from Space (Anvil Press), Hymned Data (Pinhole Poetry 2023), Jane Shi, echolalia echolalia (Brick Books, 2024), Onjana Yawnghwe We Follow the River (Catlin Press, 2024) and Marc Perez, Dayo (Brick Books, 2024) and the forthcoming poetry chapbook, Domus (Anstruther Press, 2025), share readings from their newly released chapbooks. We are pleased to announce that Vancouver Poet Laureate Elee Kraljii Gardiner will open the evening off with a reading. Hosted by Lorraine White-Wilkinson.Please sign up if you are coming in person.
Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1092495987909?aff=oddtdtcreator
Since 2006 Pandora’s Collective has run a fundraiser for the youth and their families in need from Musqueam over the holiday season.There is a list of children should you want to bring a new gift. There will be a donation box at the door. And please remember to support all these wonderful poets.
Donate:
If you cannot be at the event please consider sending a cash donation through Pandora’s
website https://www.pandorascollective.com/contact-us.html
or a gift by getting in touch with Bonnie Nish at [email protected]
Tax receipts will be issued for donations over $20.
The Poets:
Kevin Spenst has authored sixteen chapbooks and four full-length books of poetry. He’s an organizer for the Dead Poets Reading Series, writes for subTerrain magazine, occasionally co-hosts Wax Poetic on Vancouver Co-op Radio, and teaches poetry at SFU’s The Writer’s Studio in Vancouver on unceded Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh territory
Jane Shi lives on the occupied, stolen, and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlil̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations. She is the author of the chapbook Leaving Chang’e on Read (Rahila’s Ghost Press, 2022) and the winner of The Capilano Review’s 2022 In(ter)ventions in the Archive Contest. echolalia echolalia (Brick Books, 2024) is her debut poetry collection. She wants to live in a world where love is not a limited resource, land is not mined, hearts are not filched, and bodies are not violated.
Onjana Yawnghwe is the author of Fragments, Desire, and The Small Way, both nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Her third book of poetry, We Follow the River, was published in Spring 2024 by Caitlin Press. More recently, a comic work, "Long Lost Lido" was published in the Fall issue of Geist Magazine. She lives in the traditional, ancestral, and unceded lands of the Kwikwetlem First Nation (Coquitlam), and works as a registered nurse.
Marc Perez
Born and raised in Manila, Marc Perez lives with his wife and two children in Sunset. He is the author of Dayo (Brick Books, 2024) and a forthcoming chapbook (Anstruther Press, 2025). His work has appeared in literary magazines, including Event, The Fiddlehead, Vallum, among others, and received support from the BC Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts. He is a writer in residence at Deer Lake Artist Residency in April 2025.
Elee Kraljii Gardiner is the author of two books of poetry, Trauma Head and serpentine loop, and editor of the anthologies Against Death: 35 Essays on Living and V6A: Writing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. A frequent collaborator, Elee is currently collaborating with nature via a series of durational installations that investigate the law of thermodynamics and cultural ideas regarding the passing of time. Originally from Boston, Elee directs Vancouver Manuscript Intensive, a program pairing authors with mentors. In January 2025 she becomes the poet laureate for the City of Vancouver for three years. eleekg.com
If you would like to donate a new item here is the list of items needed. We do not have information on all the children’s sizes at this time. New toys and games are always appreciated and socks are always needed.
Boy age 12, Size mens M
Boy age 10, Size boys L
Boy age 6, Size boys 10
Boy age 11, Size mens L
Girl age 10, Size Ladies M
Girl age 10, Size Ladies M/L
Boy age 7, Size Y 10/12
Girl age 3, Size Children 5/6
Boy age 9, Size boys 12/14
Boy age 6, Size boys 7-8
Boy age 16, Size L/M
Girl age 16, Size Ladies L
Mom, Size xxi
Mom Size L
Dad, XL
Girl age 16, Size Ladies XL
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A special thank you to the Mountain View Cemetery and Ryan McLeod for the use of this space.
Contact: [email protected]
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Where is it happening?
Celebration Hall and Courtyard, 5445 Fraser St, Vancouver, BC, CanadaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
