Riverbed Reading Series - VERSeFest 2023

Schedule

Thu Mar 23 2023 at 07:00 pm

Location

Knox Presbyterian Church Ottawa | Ottawa, ON

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Register here: https://www.verseottawa.ca/en/event/riverbed2023
Join us for an evening of bilingual poetry sponsored by Riverbed Reading Series, hosted by co-curators Ellen Chang-Richardson and nina jane drystek!
About the poets:
Manahil Bandukwala is a writer and visual artist originally from Pakistan and now settled in Canada. She works as Coordinating Editor for Arc Poetry Magazine, and is Digital Content Editor for Canthius. She is the author of many chapbooks, most recently Orbital Cultivation (Collusion 2021, with Liam Burke) and encounter (Rahila's Ghost Press 2022, with Nimra Bandukwala). She is a member of Ottawa-based collaborative writing group VII. Her debut poetry collection is MONUMENT (Brick Books).
Liam Burke (he/him/himbo) lives in Ottawa, Canada, on unceded Algonquin Anishinaabe land. He is most recently the co-author of 'Orbital Cultivation' with Manahil Bandukwala (Collusion, 2021) and 'machine dreams' with natalie hanna (Collusion, 2021) which was shortlisted for the 2022 bpNichol Chapbook Award. His poem "Can we locate souls in space? The pairing problem, solved", co-written with Manahil Bandukwala, was shortlisted for the 2022 Austin Clarke Award.
Molly Cross-Blanchard is a white and Métis writer and editor born on Treaty 3 territory (Fort Frances, ON), raised on Treaty 6 territory (Prince Albert, SK), and living on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples (Vancouver, BC). She teaches creative writing at Kwantlen Polytechnic University, and her first collection of poetry is Exhibitionist (Coach House Books, 2021).
Chantal Neveu est l’autrice de sept livres de poésie, you, La vie radieuse, coït, mentale (La Peuplade), Une spectaculaire influence (l’Hexagone), èdres (É=É), Dans l’architecture (coécrit avec Nicolas Tardy / Rhizome). Elle est créatrice de nombreux projets littéraires interdisciplinaires produits avec plusieurs partenaires au Canada et à l’international. Ses livres traduits en anglais sont tous publiés chez Book*Hug Press : This Radiant Life par Erín Moure (gagnant du Prix littéraire du Gouverneur général pour la traduction 2021, gagnant du Prix Nelson Ball 2021), A Spectacular Influence par Nathanaël, et Coït par Angela Carr. Neveu vit à Montréal.
About the Riverbed Reading Series:
Riverbed Reading Series est motivé par la conviction que les champs artistiques sont interconnectés. Nous avons créé un point de rassemblement expérimental et inclusif au croisement de la littérature, de la musique et de la performance dans la tradition d’espaces renommés comme Café le Hibou à Ottawa (1960-1975) et Cabaret Voltaire à Zurich (1916). Nous fonctionner actuellement par un modèle hybride (livestream et en personne) sur le territoire ancestral et non cédé de la Nation algonquine anishinaabe (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada).
Riverbed Reading Series is driven by the belief that the artistic spheres are connected. Inspired by the spirit of Café le Hibou Ottawa (1960-70) and Cabaret Voltaire Zurich (1916), we are an inclusive, experimental gathering space at the very intersection of literature, music and performance. We are currently operating on a hybrid model (livestream and in person) from the traditional unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada).
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Where is it happening?

Knox Presbyterian Church Ottawa, 120 Lisgar St.,Ottawa,ON,Canada

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