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LIT LIT LIT LIT X took place at Artspeak on February 18, 2018 with readings by Josh Gabert-Doyon, Ingrid Olauson, Emma Sise, and Ben Stephenson. Posters by Lyndsay Pomerantz adorned the walls in response to Olauson’s reading. ~ 00:05:23 - Josh Gabert-Doyon reads about psychics and Vancouver real estate speculation in “Psychic Properties.” His reading is accompanied by a series of photographs he captured which map fortune telling businesses throughout the lower mainland. 00:24:02 - Ingrid Olauson reads from her chapbook “Pragmatics” and an excerpt from her untitled novel in progress. “Pragmatics” was written for Sleepover, a project facilitated by Michael Lachmann and Lyndsay Pomerantz in Berlin in Summer 2017. Posters responding to Olauson’s text by Lyndsay Pomerantz were installed on the gallery walls during the reading. 00:44:19 - Emma Sise reads a Borgesian experiment with no nouns, only verbs, adjectives and adverbial suffixes followed by a series of poems while choosing to stand instead of taking a seat. 01:03:20 - Ben Stephenson reads two things–one short, one long. Firstly, a short fiction/memoir written in the third person called “Four Men” which is part of series recollecting Stephenson’s near-death experiences. Secondly, the opening chapter of his MFA thesis novel, three years in the making.

LIT LIT LIT LIT IX took place on Saturday, July 22 2017 as part of *Sky Island. New readings were written and given by Bára Hladíková, listen chen, Nathan Crompton and Brent Lin, followed by a conversation with LIT LIT LIT LIT co-organizer Steffanie Ling and Jannie Leung. 00:00:15- INTRO by Kara Hansen, curator of Sky Island 00:06:54 - Steffanie Ling reads “Be a Goddamn Professional” 00:12:39 - BÁRA HLADÍKOVÁ is a writer and musician who has been seen eavesdropping on local bystanders. She recently performed at Deep Blue with Silky Boys, collaborated on Behind the Curtain at Dynamo Arts Association, and hydrated her tropical plants.  00:22:16 - listen chen is a daoist and a bat-enthusiast who lives and writes on unceded coast salish territories.  00:31:46 - BRENT LIN has been a business consultant and television reporter. These days he studies media theory at McGill. His writings on digital culture have been published in attractivoquenobello and Real Life.  00:44:58 - NATHAN CROMPTON is a writer based in Vancouver, where he works as a housing organizer and edits The Mainlander. He is currently completing his PhD in French history at Simon Fraser University and has contributed art criticism to Fillip, October and the Bartleby Review.  00:53:44 - Conversation between JANNIE LEUNG and STEFFANIE LING JANNIE LEUNG 梁泳詩 is a community organizer fighting for social justice and people power with the Chinatown Action Group.  STEFFANIE LING is a producer of criticism, pamphlets, stories, essays, exhibitions, reviews, bluntness, anecdotes, shoutouts, wrestling, storylines, proposals, applications, jokes, readings, minimal poems, poems, dinner, compliments, and diatribes. She lives in Vancouver frequenting grocery stores, the Cinematheque and other air conditioned spaces. 01:20:19 - QandA

00:03:20 - Roger Farr reads “Understanding Understanding Television” a poem about television, “Transitional Demands” a poem that looks at the different syntactical ways “The People” appear via web search, and ends with a long poem based on a psycho-geography mapping of Vancouver. 00:32:21 - Charlotte Zhang reads her own “Untitled” short story. 00:43:15 - Sonnet L’Abbé shares a selection of her sonnets from “Sonnet’s Shakespeare” (to be published by Mcclelland and Stewart in 2018) where she writes over all of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets. 01:10:49 - Hamish Hardie reads his short story “The Window.” 01:18:20 - Casey Wei reads “A Letter from the Editor” (her) from the first edition of Agony Klub (AK01), a magazine and mix tape edited by Wei that invites musicians with writing and visual art practices and vice versa to contribute.

00:05:42 Stacey Ho (contributor to Charcuterie 2) reads a short text based off of an interview with her aunt, a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner and “Adventures from the Third Bureau,” published in Charcuterie 2. 00:23:41 Sam Weselowski celebrates his first reading by sharing two poems by the American poet Jack Spicer and then follows up with some of his own poems. 00:36:44 Julia Dahee Hong reading about awkward late night pizza transactions and a wool sweater repair by a Master Tailor as documented in her new chap book “A Reasonable Request.” 00:52:26 Sung Pil Yoon (contributor to Charcuterie 2) reads the second text from “The Bus as Hostile Architecture”; a series of five short stories about public transit that will appear consecutively in Charcuterie.

1. Emma Metcalfe Hurst reading “Speak White Speak What What Speak White Speak,” a bilingual autocorrect translation of Michèle Lalonde’s poem “Speak White” (1967) and Marco Micone’s poetic response “Speak What” (1989) 2. Kyla Jamieson reading some recent poems and 1 of 30 letters to her best friend that suggestively fits into the genre of “epistolary auto-fiction” 3. Anahita Jamali Rad reading two poems-one new, one old-and then some more poems from her new book “For Love and Autonomy” (Talonbooks, 2016) 4. Danielle LaFrance reads two poems: one from her new book “Friendly Fire” (Talonbooks, 2016) and one that she wrote during a time of her life when she was losing her mind again.

1. Catherine De Montreuil reading “(Convictions): How I am Queer Because I Got Hetero-Married to my Gay Friend” an homage to Erdem Taşdelen’s “Convictions” 2. Matea Kulić reading from her chapbook “A Case of Arturo” from back to front. 3. Sung Pil Yoon reading “MAKE MAKE AMERICA AMERICA GREAT GREAT AGAIN AGAIN”. 4. Marie-Hélène Tessier performing free-for-all.

LIT LIT LIT LIT KIOSK LA/BF took place at Sweet Pup in Vancouver, BC on January 30,2016. New readings were given by Emma Metcalfe Hurst (with assistance from Alyssa Dusevic, Stefana Fratila, Esteban Gonzales, Shizen Jambor, Ellis Sam and Christian Vistan) and Steffanie Ling.

LIT LIT LIT LIT IV took place at 221A in Vancouver, BC on December 6, 2015. New readings were given by Jacquelyn Ross, Bradley Iles, Eli Zibin and Steffanie Ling.

LIT LIT LIT LIT IV took place at 221A in Vancouver, BC on December 6, 2015. New readings were given by Jacquelyn Ross, Bradley Iles, Eli Zibin and Steffanie Ling.

LIT LIT LIT LIT Vancouver Art Gallery, 750 Hornby St. Vancouver BC - Tom Whalen and Emma Metcalfe Hurst.

LIT LIT LIT LIT Vancouver Art Gallery, 750 Hornby St. Vancouver BC - Hugo Noriega and Zuzia Juszkiewicz.

LIT LIT LIT LIT Publication Studio: 222 E Georgia St. Vancouver BC - ALEX BOVRIL is a writer and visual artist. Recently, he has been pouring colours of concrete and writing fiction. He is currently an MFA Candidate in Creative Writing at New York University. DONATO MANCINI makes visual and procedural poetry, bookworks, and visual art. His books and chapbooks include: Snowline (2015), Buffet World (2011) Fact ‘N’ Value (2011), Hell Passport no.22 (2008), Æthel (2007), 58 Free Coffees (2006) and Ligatures (2005). Mancini’s published critical writing includes work on the archive, time and memory in Anamnesia: Unforgetting (2011), and a discourse analysis of poetry reviews in You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence (2012). His most recent full length book, Loitersack (2014), is a labyrinthine commonplace book where critical, theoretical and para-literary tendencies intersect in the forms of poetry, poetics, theory, theory theatre, laugh particles and many many questions. KATE MOSS is an Australian artist who works with drawing, writing, painting, sculpture, sound and performance. Her works explore the possibilities of conversation through the vernacular of landscape, rhythm and material experimentation. MAIA NICHOLS (b. Berkeley, California) is an artist and writer. She holds a BA in Psychology and a BFA from the University of British Columbia. She is a Masters Candidate in the Department of Critical Studies at California Institute of the Arts. Her work is currently on view at Fundación Botín’s Villa Iris in Spain.

LIT LIT LIT LIT Publication Studio: 222 E Georgia St. Vancouver BC - ALEX BOVRIL is a writer and visual artist. Recently, he has been pouring colours of concrete and writing fiction. He is currently an MFA Candidate in Creative Writing at New York University. DONATO MANCINI makes visual and procedural poetry, bookworks, and visual art. His books and chapbooks include: Snowline (2015), Buffet World (2011) Fact ‘N’ Value (2011), Hell Passport no.22 (2008), Æthel (2007), 58 Free Coffees (2006) and Ligatures (2005). Mancini’s published critical writing includes work on the archive, time and memory in Anamnesia: Unforgetting (2011), and a discourse analysis of poetry reviews in You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence (2012). His most recent full length book, Loitersack (2014), is a labyrinthine commonplace book where critical, theoretical and para-literary tendencies intersect in the forms of poetry, poetics, theory, theory theatre, laugh particles and many many questions. KATE MOSS is an Australian artist who works with drawing, writing, painting, sculpture, sound and performance. Her works explore the possibilities of conversation through the vernacular of landscape, rhythm and material experimentation. MAIA NICHOLS (b. Berkeley, California) is an artist and writer. She holds a BA in Psychology and a BFA from the University of British Columbia. She is a Masters Candidate in the Department of Critical Studies at California Institute of the Arts. Her work is currently on view at Fundación Botín’s Villa Iris in Spain

LIT LIT LIT LIT Publication Studio: 222 E Georgia St. Vancouver BC - Bradley Iles is reading from Derby: A Poem in Six Parts,a recent collaboration with Katrina Niebergal. Reincarnation, celebrity, the nature of the self, the selfhood of nature, Mustang-transcendentalism, a poem about a movie. Bradley lives on Melville street in Vancouver. Zuzia Juszkiewicz is a fragment in some kind of multi-faceted hybrid zone or something. She was born in Gdansk, and raised in South Africa, New Zealand, and Canada. She holds a BA in Visual Arts (Vancouver), Human Geography (Vancouver) and Urbanism at AHK (Amsterdam). She collaborates with writers, musicians, filmmakers and dancers. She often works under the name Modern Catalyst, with a focus on designing cross-disciplined artists.http://modercatalyst.ca . Ronan K. Nanning-Watson is a filmmaker, writer and artist from British Columbia. His work ranges in scope, medium, and aesthetic, but is consistently uncompromising. Recently he finished his first feature film “Crusade” about a group of young hipsters who start a holy war. The next two parts in the trilogy are in preproduction. Ingrid Olauson is a writer and trawler of people’s lives. She recently wrote, produced and acted in the play and collaborative art piece Fort Eff, which debuted at Deep Blue this past May.

LIT LIT LIT LIT Publication Studio: 222 E Georgia St. Vancouver BC - Bradley Iles is reading from Derby: A Poem in Six Parts, a recent collaboration with Katrina Niebergal. Reincarnation, celebrity, the nature of the self, the selfhood of nature, Mustang-transcendentalism, a poem about a movie. Bradley lives on Melville street in Vancouver. Zuzia Juszkiewicz is a fragment in some kind of multi-faceted hybrid zone or something. She was born in Gdansk, and raised in South Africa, New Zealand, and Canada. She holds a BA in Visual Arts (Vancouver), Human Geography (Vancouver) and Urbanism at AHK (Amsterdam). She collaborates with writers, musicians, filmmakers and dancers. She often works under the name Modern Catalyst, with a focus on designing cross-disciplined artists.http://modercatalyst.ca . Ronan K. Nanning-Watson is a filmmaker, writer and artist from British Columbia. His work ranges in scope, medium, and aesthetic, but is consistently uncompromising. Recently he finished his first feature film “Crusade” about a group of young hipsters who start a holy war. The next two parts in the trilogy are in preproduction. Ingrid Olauson is a writer and trawler of people’s lives. She recently wrote, produced and acted in the play and collaborative art piece Fort Eff, which debuted at Deep Blue this past May.

LIT LIT LIT LIT KIOSK took place at Avenue in Vancouver BC on April 19, 2015 as a part of KIOSK, a reading room installation curated by ddoogg. New readings were written and given by Alex Bovril, Ingrid Olauson and Steffanie Ling.

LIT LIT LIT LIT Avenue 165 East Hastings St. Vancouver BC - Zebulon Zang, Kara Hansen, Alex Bovril, and Steffanie Ling. April 18th 2015 8:00pm. Asked to write a biography to accompany a reading, the writer can’t think of anything to write about himself. Does he give the names of cities, institutions, achievements? What achievements? He steps out for fresh air. During, a car (on which the painter’s ladders are piled) drives up. The writer asks the painter for help with the biography and the painter agrees, but they end up talking only about window cleaning. The painter wishes he could write: when you do condos you’re cleaning these windows that take, like, half a minute, and all day long briefly glimpsing hundreds of bedrooms, which is to say of hundreds of unconnected lives—or lives that just seemed unconnected but which in writing could take on connections—the painter gets to thinking. They finish enjoying the fresh air and part ways, the writer still not knowing what to say about himself. For now, Alex Bovril is a writer currently based in New York. Kara Hansen is an artist and writer living in Nanaimo and based in Vancouver. Currently she holds the position of Curatorial Intern at the Nanaimo Art Gallery. She and Jesse Birch are co-curating an exhibition entitled Spirit Gum at the Nanaimo Art Gallery come May. From time to time she bribes the karaoke guy with flowers for two songs instead of one. Steffanie Ling is a writer, curator and editor. She will have red wine and turtlenecks all year long. For LIT LIT LIT LIT she will be reading from work in process, tentatively titled “You’re a liar and a smoker” a book of twenty chapters for twenty cigarettes. Zebulon Zang is a filmmaker and writer from Maillardville, British Columbia. He is also the founder of the Maillardville Cultural Appreciation Society, an exhibition space dedicated to the promotion of culture in peripheral zones.

LIT LIT LIT LIT Avenue 165 East Hastings St. Vancouver BC - Zebulon Zang, Kara Hansen, Alex Bovril, and Steffanie Ling. April 18th 2015 8:00pm. Asked to write a biography to accompany a reading, the writer can’t think of anything to write about himself. Does he give the names of cities, institutions, achievements? What achievements? He steps out for fresh air. During, a car (on which the painter’s ladders are piled) drives up. The writer asks the painter for help with the biography and the painter agrees, but they end up talking only about window cleaning. The painter wishes he could write: when you do condos you’re cleaning these windows that take, like, half a minute, and all day long briefly glimpsing hundreds of bedrooms, which is to say of hundreds of unconnected lives—or lives that just seemed unconnected but which in writing could take on connections—the painter gets to thinking. They finish enjoying the fresh air and part ways, the writer still not knowing what to say about himself. For now, Alex Bovril is a writer currently based in New York. Kara Hansen is an artist and writer living in Nanaimo and based in Vancouver. Currently she holds the position of Curatorial Intern at the Nanaimo Art Gallery. She and Jesse Birch are co-curating an exhibition entitled Spirit Gum at the Nanaimo Art Gallery come May. From time to time she bribes the karaoke guy with flowers for two songs instead of one. Steffanie Ling is a writer, curator and editor. She will have red wine and turtlenecks all year long. For LIT LIT LIT LIT she will be reading from work in process, tentatively titled “You’re a liar and a smoker” a book of twenty chapters for twenty cigarettes. Zebulon Zang is a filmmaker and writer from Maillardville, British Columbia. He is also the founder of the Maillardville Cultural Appreciation Society, an exhibition space dedicated to the promotion of culture in peripheral zones.