Upcoming Readings

Posted by Daniela Elza on Jul 07 2007

Here I will try to keep track of places I am invited to read/present/judge, as well as community or academic events I participate in: 

UPCOMING EVENTS:

September 26th, 2010.

  • Word on the Street. Poetry Tent. (I will read with Twisted Poets between 4 and 4:30 pm. (for the line up at the poetry tent go to their website).
October 16th, 2010, 7pm.

  • Will take part in Mother Tongue Publishing Night at Cafe Montmartre, 7-8pm. More details to come.

November 29th, 2010, 6:30pm

  • Will read at the WordStorm Reading Series, at the Red Martini Grill, in Nanaimo, BC. (To reserve seats ahead of time email: ascentaspirations(at)shaw(dot)ca). Reserved seating will take place before 6:30. Walk-in seats will be available after 6:30. Music starts at 6:30 and the program begins at 7:00.)

PAST EVENTS:

Friday August 20, 2010
Summer Dreams Awards Ceremony: A Night of Honour

  • Join us at the Jacana Gallery, to celebrate those in the writing community who deserve to be honoured. On the eve of the Summer Dream’s fest we will begin with a lifetime achievement award for Susan Musgrave. We will then go on to give awards to publishers of magazines who continue to support novice and established writers despite cutbacks and inflation. To be honoured are Room, Event, Prism, Sub Terrain, Geist, The Vancouver Review, The Capilano Review, and One Cool Word. Finally, the evening will end with four special awards. Three will be awards of merit for persons or organizations that support the writing community. These awards come from the writing community itself. We asked for nominations from the community and the results will be announced the night of the gala. One award will go to recognize an individual who Pandora’s Collective feels has excelled in their support of writers within our community. This years Citizenship Award goes to Daniela Elza. The evening will continue with Pandora’s Collective commitment to highlighting community involvement to the public. Music: James Mark and Mike Peacock of Melic Thrum (our musical featured guest). Jaime Reid will close the evening with poetry and music. Silent Auction. Cash Bar.
    Time: 7:00 pm. Location: Jacana Gallery (2435 Granville Street)
August 21st, 2010

The Summer Dreams Literary Arts Festival is a one day annual free event which takes place at Lumberman’s Arch, in beautiful Stanley Park.This event is an outdoor festival which showcases and celebrates the on-going literary events, programs and resources available in the community. The line up is a combination of literary performances, dancers, local bands, panel discussions, open mics etc. This year’s performers include Evelyn Lau, Betsy Warland, Brad Cran, Wayde Compton & Vancouver’s own Theatre In the Raw and more. There is also a children’s area with puppet shows, music, story tellers, face painting and craft tables. Information tables showcasing community groups and resources.
For all that you need to know please visit the website with news, information and a downloadable schedule.

August 2nd, 2010, 1-2pm.

  • Reading at Harmony Fest, Monday, August 2, 2010

    Love On a Summer’s Day: Join poets Trevor Carolan, Daniela Elza and English guitarist Andrew Collins as they perform new and favourite poems and songs on the themes of Love and Art. A lyric event for all ages at the beautiful Ambleside Landing!
    Mon., Aug. 2. 1:00-2:00 pm, ArtSpeak Tent at Ferry Building Gallery, Ambleside, West Vancouver. For more information about the Harmony Arts festival call (604) 925-7268, or visit www.harmonyarts.ca website.

Thursday, July 8th, 7:30pm.

  • Join us for an evening of poetry and conversation with poets Daniela Elza, Al Rempel, and Onjana Yawnghwe, who will read from 4poets (Mother Tongue Publishing, 2009). Thursday, July 8, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m., at Historic Joy Kogawa House, 1450 West 64th Avenue (two blocks east of Granville). Admission by donation. Books will be available for sale and signing by the authors. Space is limited, so to ensure a seat, please RSVP to kogawahouse@yahoo.ca.
Friday, July 9th, 7pm.

  • Join us at the TWS Reading Series Night on Friday, July 9th, at Take 5 Cafe (The United Kingdom Building,
    429 Granville Street, at Hastings in Downtown Vancouver). The event is from 7 to 9:30pm. Line up: Guest author: Al Rempel who will be launching understories (Caitlin Press, 2010). Other readers will be Daniela Elza, Madalyn Butler, Meaghan Rondeau, Brenda B, Jennifer Irvine, Sylvia Taylor, Cathy Sostad, Gordon Cornwall, Antonette Rea (click here for the TWS reading playbill for July).
    They will be back in September with new host/s.
    A big thank you goes to Eufemia Fantetti, an alumni of the school, who for the past year has volunteered her time to hosting The Writers’ Studio reading series, and has done a fabulous job.


Saturday, July 10th, 7pm

  • You are invited to an evening of poetry: Fiona Tinwei Lam (reading from “Enter the Chrysanthemum”), Al Rempel (guest author, launching his new book understories, Caitlin Press, 2010) , Daniela Elza (reading from “4poets” plus other selected work) and Christi Kramer (reading from selected work). July 10th, 7pm, at the Wired Monk, 2610 West 4th Ave. The event is free. Books will be available for sale and signing by the authors.
    The Wired Monk is a cafe/bistro/bar which offers free wireless internet, fair trade organic coffee & loose leaf tea and freshly made food (which includes a selection of homemade soups and stews, grilled paninis and wraps, salads, and deserts). So come and make a night of it. Live music might follow.

  • Please join poets Kate Braid, Al Rempel, Daniela Elza, & musician Clyde Reed (on bass) Sunday, July 11, 7:00pm @ Café Montmarte ( 4362 Main St.). Guest poet Al Rempel will be launching understories, (Caitlin Press, 2010). Books will be available for sale and signing by the authors. The event is free.
  • May, 27th, 2010. Reading/Writing Workshop, North Delta.
  • May 19th, 2010. Writing Workshop at SFU.
  • April 1st, 2010. Reading/Writing Workshop, SFU.
  • April 25th, 2010 5pm. Read at Chapters on Granville and Broadway as part of their Read Local, Bye Local reading events.
  • April 23rd, 2010 Planet Earth Poetry at The Black Stilt Coffee House (103-1633 Hillside Ave.,Victoria) launched Daniela Elza, Peter Morin, and Onjana Yawnghwe’s book 4poets, published by Mother Tongue Publishing. The evening begins at 7:30 with an open mike; 3$ at the door.
    This event is supported by The League of Canadian Poets and The Canada Council for the Arts.
    for more details contact planetearthpoetry@gmail.com
  • April 20, 2010, 7-9pm.:
    Word Whips: Alley Ways: The Hidden Places Uncovered: An evening of art and poetry collaboration presented by the Sidney and Gertrude Zack Gallery, The Jewish Museum & Archives of British Columbia and Pandora’s Collective. Featured poets Daniela Elza, Christi Kramer, RC Weslowski, Sue Cormier, Don Simpson, Leef Evans and Alex Winstanley will read poetry inspired by Norm Chodirker and Jeanne Krabbendam.

    Exhibit: Norm Chodirker and Jeanne Krabbendam.: Born on different continents and influenced by different cultures, these two artists found connection, respect and inspiration through each other’s artwork. Alley Ways is an exhibit that tells this story.

  • April 18, 2010read at the Federation of BC Writers Meet and Greet Luncheon in Fort Langley at Bedfort House. Time: 12:30 -3pm.
  • March 15th, 2010, Read at a Fundraiser for Pandora’s Collective and The Vancouver Artists Collective
    Time: 6 pm – 12am
    Location: The Cottage Bistro
    4468 Main Street @ 29th Avenue

    Tickets: $20 at the door includes entertainment, a burger with fries and beer. After costs, all proceeds go directly Pandora’s Collective and The Vancouver Artists Collective.

  • March 4th, 2010, at TWISTED POETS LITERARY SALON (1st Thursday of every month) I will read from 4poets. Christi Kramer is the other feature. Time: 7-9pm. Location: Cambie Bakery and Cafe, 312 Cambie Street (North of Hastings), Vancouver B.C. In the spirit of Vancouver all poets are welcome. Come and read, there is an open mike section.
    Hosts: Bonnie Nish and Sita Carboni
  • Dec. 9th, 7pm featured at World Poetry at the Urth Cafe, New Westminster.
  • November 17th, at 7:30pm featured at Spoken Ink at the James Street Cafe, 3819 Canada Way, Burnaby (one block east of Boundary Road).

Launches/Readings for
4 Poets: Daniela Elza, Peter Morin, Al Rempel, Onjana Yawnghwe (Mother Tongue Publishing,2009).

  • August 29th, 2009 (Saturday) Prince George, Daniela and Al at Books and Co, 7:30pm.
  • Sept. 10th, 2009 (Thursday) part of the TWS reading series, Daniela reads at the Rhizome Cafe, 317 East Broadway, time 7-9pm.
  • Sept. 12th, 2009 (Saturday), Salt Spring Island, Lions Club, 8 pm.
  • Sept. 21st, 2009 ( Monday), VPL, Vancouver, 7:30 pm.
  • Nov. 12th, 2009 (Thursday), 7pm, Robson Square Reading series
  • October 25th, 2009. read as part of an evening of poetry for peace we are putting together in conjunction with Poets Against War. There will be an open mike section. It will be great to see you there. Café Montmartre, 4362 Main Street, Vancouver. Come at 6:30pm the event will start soon after.
  • October 23/24/25, co-presented a workshop in collaboration with choreographer, dancer, and multimedia artist Su-Lin Tseng at the Education With/Out Boarders graduate conference that happens every year at beautiful Sasamat Lake. Will link to the schedule when it is up.

    The Invitation: Moving Words
    A collaboration between a poet and a dancer. We compose in space when moving our bodies, as we compose on the page when placing our words on it. We invite you to come to this creative space where you are listener and creator in an authentic relationship embodying a moment of being. Participants will be invited in a workshop atmosphere to translate movement to word and word to movement. How do we read a dance, and how do we dance a poem.

  • On August 19th, 2009 The 6th Annual Summer Dream festival kicks off with a special reading at the Jewish Community Centre where featured poets Fran Bourassa, Christine LeClerc, Christy Hill, Daniela Elza and Steve Duncan will read poetry inspired by artist Linda Frimer’s work. Local singer-songwriter Jess Hill will start the evening. And yes, we will get together at the gallery in August a week or so before, write to the art, and then fresh, still warm with only a week or so to make the poems the best they can be will read to an audience that will also have time to write and share, in an evening of art and poetry collaboration presented by the Sidney and Gertrude Zack Gallery, The Jewish Museum & Archives of British Columbia and Pandora’s Collective. Come and play.
    Time: 7:00 pm. Location: at the Jewish Community Center, 950 W. 41st Ave., Vancouver, BC

August 22nd, 2009 6th Annual Summer Dream Literary Arts Festival read, MC, and took part in the

  • Panel Discussion: Has poetry lost its audience? 1:30 – 1:50 pm
    Moderator: Vancouver Poet George McWhirter. Panelists: Rita Wong, Jabez Churchill, Daniela Elza, Christine LeClerc.
    Discussion: At this years VIWF, Andreas Schroeder (a once-upon-a-time enthusiastic poet) said, woefully, Poetry has lost its audience. Has it? If it has, where has the audience gone instead? What did the audience want? Does poetry only have devotees now, poets writing for other poets, and no fans, no general interest? Has it separated the language of poetry from what Wordsworth called the real language? Is our crisis the same as in his time: too many rarified manners to satisfy the many?

for more details of this 12 -7 pm. event follow the link to the schedule.

    On July 7th, 2009 I had my Colloquium

  • as part of my comprehensive exams at SFU. I presented for an hour (the longest poetry reading I have done so far) followed by an hour session of questions, answers, discussion. This discussion turned into an hour and a half and could have kept going if there were no pending doctor appointments, or expired parking. I thank all of you who came and supported me in this important moment in my life and also for all your comments, thoughts, questions, and love.

June 11th-13th I am invited to

  • On June 11th, 2009: read at Cafe Montmartre at 4362 Main Street starting at 7.30. Shared the stage with Harold Rhenisch where we read for the first time in public some of the collaborated poems we have been working on.
  • June 12, 2009: Read from A Verse Map of Vancouver at the League of Canadian Poets conference/festival in Vancouver ( SFU-Harbour Center).
  • June 12, 2009. Read at 7:30 at the Cafe Deux Soleils (www.cafedeuxsoleils.com) as a New League Member.

June 4th, 7—9 pm

  • Feature at Twisted Poets along with Rob Taylor.

April 29th from 2—2:30pm

  • Anna Wärje and I will be on Co-op radio 102.7FM
    on their Wax Poetic show.

    You can contact Steve Duncan in case others (Rocksalt-ers or not) would like to schedule a time to go on.

April 21, 7 pm, Poet Laureate Book Launch:

  • A Verse Map of Vancouver. Edited by George McWhirter; published by Anvil Press, at the Central Library, Alice MacKay room. (I have two poems in it).

April 23rd from 6pm—9pm

April 10th from 7pm – 9 pm, I will be part of the

  • TWS reading series, at Blenz Coffee Shop (on the corner of Hastings and Richards in downtown Vancouver). (line up: Adam Warren, Daniela Elza, Renee Sarojini Saklikar, Rob Taylor, Amalia Pistilli, Leslie Hill)

Collage: A Night of Connection.

  • A number of poets (Daniela Elza, Fran Bourassa, Suzy Malcolm, Wanda John, Mary Duffy, Jason Morden, Sita Carboni and Bonnie Nish) will write to art by Assia Linkovsky’s exhibit Telescoptic. Thursday, February 5, 2009 from 7 to 9 pm
    at Sidney and Gertrude Zack Gallery at the Jewish Community Centre, 950 West 41st Avenue. Admission is free and everyone is welcome. The artist will attend. The exhibit runs until Sunday, February 8, 2009.

Invited to be

  • a co-judge of Pandora’s Collective Poetry Contest, Jan. 2009.
  • Read at Tanglewood Books (1553 W. Broadway) on Monday night, Jan. !9th, as a feature with Pandora’s Collective.
  • Nov. 7th, 2008. Friday, 7—9:30 pm at the Vancouver Public Library
    • Nov. 21st, 2008. Friday, 7:30 pm at 32 Books, 3185 Edgemont Blvd. North Vancouver.

    • The Sidney and Gertrude Zack Gallery and the Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival of the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver together with Pandora’s Collective and the Vancouver Artists Collective invite you to attend:

    • ECHOING VOICES

    An evening of visual art, writing and readings

    When: Thurs. Nov. 13, 2008, 7 – 9 p.m.
    Where: Sidney and Gertrude Zack Gallery, located in the JCC, 950 West 41st Avenue, Vancouver (btwn Oak & Cambie)
    Free Admission
    Everyone is welcome (for more details here, scroll down)

    • The Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, May 2008 at UBC, Vancouver.

      • I was part of three panels/presentations:

      1. To the oddness and distance of things: Poetic provocations to philosophical musings. (poetic presentation)
      2. Remembering Connection with ALL that IS: Ecological Justice from a Parenting Point of View
      3. Inhabitions: A collaborative creative process in multi-diciplinary arts
    • Poets and Painter’s Show at The South Delta Artist Guild, 1710 56 St., Delta, BC. Opening night: Saturday, March 29th (1-4pm)
    • International School Library Day gala at the Artist for Kids Gallery in Leo Marshall Curriculum Centre, North Vancouver (organized by Sheilagh Martin in collaboration with Pandora’s Collective), Oct. 2006.


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