LIT LIT LIT LIT (archive)

LIT LIT LIT LIT (2015-2017) SPITis the new iteration of LIT LIT LIT LIT which takes the form of a collaborative project that engages with text, writing, and publishing through writing workshops, site specific events, new collaborations, performances, podcasting, readings and publishing experiments. SPIT is organized by Emma Metcalfe Hurst and Christian Vistan. LITX4 was a bi-monthly literary event mostly in Vancouver organized by Steffanie Ling and Emma Metcalfe Hurst that simply invited four writers, poets, or artists to read their own work to interested parties. Selected readings are published as chapbooks under the SOMEWHAT URGENT SERIES. All past LITX4 events are recorded and available as a podcast.

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SPIT presents: LIT LIT LIT LIT listening station on Saturday, November 17 and Sunday, November 18 for the the 2018 Eastside Culture Crawl at Moniker Press Studios!

268 Keefer St Floor LG Studio #080 11am-6pm

Come say hey!

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New re-issue of LIT LIT LIT LIT's Somewhat Urgent Series chapbooks by Blank Cheque Press Available at edition Art Book Fair in Toronto.

October 26-28, 2018

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Join us on Friday, August 31 at 6PM for an outdoor group writing session at Queen Elizabeth Park. Writing will take place throughout the golden hour until the sun sets and the moon appears. We ask that you bring your own writing tools and surfaces. Some snacks and blankets will be provided, but we recommend bringing an extra layer to wear as it may cool down once the sun sets. This event is free and open to the public. Organized by SPIT on the occasion of the exhibition “It’s difficult to put a painting in the mailbox: Toward new models of artists’ publishing” currently on until September 16 at Libby Leshgold Gallery and READ Books. Directions: Google Map *Meet at the duck pond, which is the large body of water opposite Little Mountain Baseball Club House Contact [email protected] or [email protected] for any further questions. We acknowledge this event takes place on the occupied territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and the səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations.

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Toward New Models of Artists’ Publishing: A Round Table Discussion with Ryan Smith (Brick Press) Jacquie Ross (Blank Cheque Press) Emma Metcalfe Hurst and Christian Vistan (SPIT) mediated by Lyndsay Pomerantz @ Emily Carr University July 19, 2018 FB

Image: Kathy Slade

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Anecdoted Marginalia: The Inner Life of a Library lecture by the inimitable Jo Cook of Perro Verlag. From a Artist Book Research Residency at Emily Carr Univeristy. Facilitated through the library and READ Books <3

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The Collective by Lisa Robertson for the Poetry Foundation

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LIT LIT LIT LIT X Artspeak, 233 Carrall St Sunday, Feb 18 Doors @ 7pm, Readings @ 7:30pm

LIT LIT LIT LIT is a bi-monthly literary event in Vancouver that simply invites four writers, poets, or artists to read their own work to interested parties. Select readings are published as chapbooks under the SOMEWHAT URGENT SERIES and all LIT LIT LIT LIT events are recorded and available as a podcast on our website and iTunes.

LIT LIT LIT LIT X presents readings by Josh Gabert-Doyon, Emma Sise, Ben Stephenson, and Ingrid Olauson whose collaborative chapbook "Pragmatics" (Publication Studio, 2018) with artist Lyndsay Pomerantz, will be launched at the event.

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JOSH GABERT-DOYON is a writer, art worker, and radio producer living on unceded Coast Salish territory. He is currently completing a fellowship at 221a, where he is working a project that tracks the Woodward's building as a site of political struggle. He works for the art book publisher Fillip and the podcast Cited.

INGRID OLAUSON is a writer living in Burnaby. She attended Emily Carr University from 2010 to 2015 and is working on her first novel. Her poetry chapbook “Pragmatics,” with images by Lyndsay Pomerantz, was published this month. "Pragmatics" was written for ‘Sleepover,’ a collaborative residency project organized by Lyndsay Pomerantz and Michael Lachmann in Berlin, Germany, 2017.

EMMA SISE currently lives, writes, and ambles around in Snuneymuxw First Nation territory, where she is curatorial intern at the Nanaimo Art Gallery. She will be reading various poems, and a Borgesian experiment. She is interested in mending cloth, grabbing a bite, and the affective qualities of being a creature among so many fantastic others.

BEN STEPHENSON is a Canadian author and artist. His debut novel A Matter of Life and Death Or Something (Douglas & McIntyre, 2012) was long listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary award, and prompted CBC Books to name him one of “10 Canadian Writers to Watch.” It was translated into Spanish and Romanian. He is currently living in Vancouver and working on something else.

~ LITX4X is the final event of the LIT LIT LIT LIT series which will soon rearrange itself to present a series of reading experiments, workshops, interviews, events, and poetic expressions in addition to public readings!

LIT would like to thank all of the venues and staff who have hosted us, friends and community members who have supported us, and most especially all of our readers and collaborators who we have worked with us over the last 3 years. The appreciation runs deep and we look forward to sharing our next (l)iteration with you! xxoo LIT

~ Artspeak is a wheelchair accessible venue.

~ We acknowledge and are very thankful to hold our events on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

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LIT LIT LIT LIT IX is an evening of new readings, written and given by listen chen, Nathan Crompton, Bára Hladíková, and Brent Lin, followed by a conversation with LIT LIT LIT LIT co-organizer Steffanie Ling and Jannie Leung. Saturday, July 22, 2017 6:00pm Sky Island * 211 East Georgia Street Press P7 in the elevator to access the rooftop and enter through the left door This edition of LIT LIT LIT LIT is in conjunction with the launch of Chinatown and The History of Anti-Asian Racism, an essay/pamphlet co-authored by Nathan Crompton and Jannie Leung, translated from English to Traditional Chinese by Brent Lin. Published by N.O.P.E. listen chen is a daoist & a bat-enthusiast who lives & writes on unceded coast salish territories. 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. 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. JANNIE LEUNG 梁泳詩 is a community organizer fighting for social justice and people power with the Chinatown Action Group. 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. * SKY ISLAND is an art exhibition and event series occurring on the rooftop parkade at 211 East Georgia. Throughout the month of July emerging artists, dancers, musicians and writers are responding to the site and the urban context that surrounds it. The site of Sky Island is many spaces at once. As a passageway, its grounds can go unnoticed. Situated within Chinatown, cars pile on layers of asphalt inside a neighborhood community in constant odds with developments and subsequent displacement. Snowy summits and lush environment frame the city’s glossy condominiums, an endless reflection focused on lifestyle as opposed to affordable living. Curated by Kara Hansen “天島”項目七月將會在221東喬治亞街的露臺舉辦一系列展覽和活動。為期一個月，新興藝術家，舞者，音樂人和作家會對近鄰城市化的現象做以回應。“天島”既是通道，又代表華埠車水馬龍卻被迅速拆遷与開發的現狀。雪頂，雨林，瓊樓玉宇日漸交相輝映，柴米油鹽也水漲船高。

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Art Rock? no.18 Nanaimo island times!~

Friday, May 5, 2017 The Black Dot Nanaimo, BC CROTCH: https://crotch131313.bandcamp.com/ on a penniless street of dimes DS LORI: https://dslori.bandcamp.com/ we dive in dark astral for BYE HOUSE: https://byehouse.bandcamp.com/ a cup of space, serving time Art Rock? is a series of the #popularesoteric hosted at the Astoria Pub in Vancouver and programmed by Casey Wei. This series is for and inspired by the performers of sounds, visuals, and poetics. *poster by Zizek Zik Zak, film footage and edits by Casey Wei

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Art Rock? no. 18 Nanaimo island times!~

Friday, May 5, 7:00 pm The Black Dot  4 Church St, upstairs $10

A special Nanaimo edition of art rock? at The Black Dot featuring:

CROTCH on a penniless street of dimes

DS LORI we dive in dark astral for

BYE HOUSE a cup of space, serving time

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JV_Dub spinning synthetic resin discs in the aftermath

Art Rock? is a series of the #popularesoteric hosted at the Astoria Pub in Vancouver and programmed by Casey Wei. This series is for and inspired by the performers of sounds, visuals, and poetics.

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LIT LIT LIT LIT VIII: Nanaimo is an evening of new readings, written and given by Sonnet L’Abbé (Nanaimo), Roger Farr (Gabriola Island), Casey Wei (Vancouver), Hamish Hardie (Nanaimo), and Charlotte Zhang (Nanaimo) Saturday, May 6 6:30 pm Art Lab at Nanaimo Art Gallery 150 Commercial Street Admission by donation SONNET L'ABBÉ, Ph.D. is the author of A Strange Relief and Killarnoe, and was the 2014 guest editor of Best Canadian Poetry. Her chapbook, Anima Canadensis, was published by Junction Books in 2016. Poems from her new project, Sonnet’s Shakespeare, in which she "writes over" all 154 of Shakespeare's sonnets, appear in Best American Experimental Writing 2016. Sonnet's Shakespeare will come out with McClelland and Stewart in 2018. L'Abbé lives on Vancouver Island and is a professor of Creative Writing and English at Vancouver Island University. ROGER FARR joined the English Department at Capilano University full-time in 2004 and has been affiliated with the Creative Writing, Culture and Technology (RIP), and Liberal Studies BA programs. He’s published two books of poetry (SURPLUS, 2006 and MEANS, 2012), a collection of prose poetry (IKMQ, 2012), a collaborative research project, and numerous articles and essays. From 2010-2013 he edited CUE books, and is currently a Contributing Editor to the Capilano Review. He also edits the poetry and poetics journal Parser. As a researcher his project revolves around the relationship between literature, aesthetics, radical social movements, and everyday life. HAMISH HARDIE is a student and aspiring writer currently completing his final year of high school. He has an interest in literature and art history, and will be pursuing post-secondary studies in these subjects. He is involved with the Nanaimo Art Gallery through volunteering and his participation in Code Switching, the Nanaimo Art Gallery's teen contemporary art collective. CASEY WEI (b. Shanghai) is an interdisciplinary artist and musician based in Vancouver. She graduated with an MFA from SFU in 2012. Her practice has evolved from filmmaking (Murky Colors (2012), Vater und Sohn / Father and Son / 父与子 (2013), into incorporating elements of relational aesthetics in works that crossover between art, music, and the community at large (Kingsgate Mall Happenings (2014), Chinatown Happenings (2015), art rock? (2015-present). In 2016, she began Agony Klub, a music and printed matter label that releases material under the framework of the 'popularesoteric.' She also plays in the musical projects Late Spring and hazy. CHARLOTTE ZHANG is an emerging artist, writer and filmmaker based in Nanaimo, BC who is completing her final year of high school. She is involved with the Nanaimo Art Gallery in the Code Switching collective and participated in the exhibition Ron Tran Somewhat Mine: A Nanaimo Retrospective (Nanaimo Art Gallery; 2016). This past November, Zhang was selected as the winner of VISFF’s new Pitch-A-Flick contest that will allow her to realize her script under the mentorship of Knight Studio Productions and more recently, she published an essay titled “The Power” in Oni Magazine.

–Very special thanks to Nanaimo Art Gallery, Art Lab and Code Switching for supporting this event.

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Ulises Carrión (b.1947, San Andrés Tuxtla, Mexico) conceptual artist, concrete poet and founder of Other Books and So, an essential contributor to the mail art and artist book movements. "To be or not to be" (1976), a reading of Hamlet's soliloquy where tiny white balls were thrown on the floor after each word. Reading II (1974)

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Rever (To See Again), 1964, by Augusto de Campos (1931-). From Equivocabulos (São Paulo: Edições Invenção, 1970)

Masterpieces of Concrete Poetry

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LIT LIT LIT LIT VII & Charcuterie 2

1. 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" an unfolding sci-fi drama laced with moments of experimental form structure making for inventive techniques for reading aloud.

2. SAM WESELOWSKI celebrates his first reading by sharing two poems by the American poet Jack Spicer and then follows up with his own "Seaside Town" "Patrol Poem" "A Train Song for Carrie" "For Phyllis Webb" (serial poems with tentative title) 2X"Medieval Poems, dedicated to Peter Quartermain" "Ana" "A Second Train Song For Carrie" (with singing interlude) & 2X"Second Avenue Elegies" (serial poems dedicated to friends who are leaving).

3. JULIA DAHEE HONG reading about awkward late night pizza transactions and a sweater reparation by a Master Tailor as documented in her new chap book "A Reasonable Request" realized during a 9 month residency with Artspeak's inaugural Studio for Emerging Writers program, led by Vancouver writer Sheryda Warrener. She reads "A Reasonable Request: Part I" "The Master Tailor" and "A Reasonable Request: Part II".

4. SUNG PIL YOON (contributor to Charcuterie 2) reads the second text "Stories of Regulars" from "The Bus as Hostile Architecture"; a series of five short stories about public transit that will appear consecutively in Charcuterie.

5. Charcuterie 2 with contributions from Sung Pil Yoon, Fabiola Carranza, Maxwell Addington, Stacey Ho, Steffanie Ling and Juli Majer.

Extra special thanks to Spare Room, Bopha Chhay, Vicky Lum, Sung Pil Yoon & Eli Zibin for small and big things that matter!!

Podcast to come...

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LIT LIT LIT LIT VII is an evening of new readings, written and given by Julia Dahee Hong, Stacey Ho, Sam Weselowski and Sung Pil Yoon, in conjunction with launch of Charcuterie 2 Saturday, April 1, 2017 7:30pm Spare Room 2F/222 East Georgia Street Please join us for this joyous occasion, a joint reading and magazine launch with our friends at Charcuterie. Stacey Ho and Sung Pil Yoon will be reading texts written adjacent to their contributions in Charcuterie 2. Other contributors to the publication include Maxwell Addington, Fabiola Carranza, Steffanie Ling, and artist edition by Juli Majer. —Please note a brief intermission will follow the first two readings MAXWELL ADDINGTON is a writer from Vancouver, Coast Salish Territory. In 2017, he was awarded the Jill Davis Fellowship to pursue an MFA in Fiction at New York University. FABIOLA CARRANZA (b.1983) is a Costa Rican/Canadian artist living in Southern California. Carranza makes multi-disciplinary artworks that incorporate or adapt readily available materials. She examines the political potential of visual, cultural and personal phenomena through her art and writing. JULIA DAHEE HONG is an artist based in Vancouver. She is an avid liquorice connoisseur and is often seen scooting in the bike lane of the Georgia Viaduct on her classic red Razor kick scooter. Recently she participated in Artspeak Studio for Emerging Writers led by Sheryda Warrener. STACEY HO is an artist, writer, and curator living on unceded Coast Salish territories. Her practice considers intersections of culture, history, and embodied experience from a feminist perspective. With a background in photography and performance art, her art often incorporates language, sound, gesture, and everyday objects. She has presented her work at Art Metropole (Toronto), Galerie oqbo (Berlin), RAM Galleri (Oslo) and most recently in Dar’a: Full Circle, a group exhibition curated by Jamelie Hassan at Artcite (Windsor). She is working on a novel about plants and robots. STEFFANIE LING is a writer, editor and critic. Her books are Nascar (Blank Cheque, 2016) and Cuts of Thin Meat (Spare Room, 2015). In 2016 she attended the Emerging Film Critics Workshop at the 34th Cairo International Film Festival. She is co-founder/editor of Charcuterie. SAM WESELOWSKI studies poetics at Simon Fraser University. He has presented critical work in Canada, the United States, and England. Some of his writing will appear in Canadian Literature later this year. He currently lives in Vancouver on unceded Coast Salish territory. SUNG PIL YOON is a writer and curator. He is Director of Spare Room, a subsidiary of Rice Cooker Hair Salon Inc. a non-profit organization that explores the composition of theories and objects through the lens of artistic practices. Yoon is a graduate of UBC Art History and currently works in Vancouver from 222, a studio building in Chinatown JULI MAJER is a visual artist from Vancouver whose practice comprises drawing, ceramics, sculpture, installation, performance, comics and publishing. She is interested in conveying hyper-polarized psychological and emotional states, which she often mediates through narrative imagery of mysticism and myth, symbolism and snakes, gods and aliens. She teeters on the precipice of a dense and opaque wormhole, pursuing visceral abstractions, inarticulate textures, and peculiar, somatic modes of existence. CHARCUTERIE is a general interest magazine in Vancouver that assembles a polyphony of inquiry and documents the messy landscape of opinion and critique that unravels in close proximity to where we work, live and make art in Vancouver, B.C. Canada. SPARE ROOM is an exhibition space located in Vancouver that observes the relationship between subject and space through site-specific works. First conceived in 2015, the exhibition room explores the concept of space as an environment, situation, and place to research the experimental possibilities of spatial design. —Big love to Spare Room for hosting LLLL VII and Charcuterie!

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1. Emma Metcalfe Hurst reading “Speak White Speak What What Speak White Speak,” a bilingual autocorrect translation of two poems; Michèle Lalonde’s “Speak White” (1967) and Marco Micone’s “Speak What” (1989) 2. Kyla Jamieson reading some recent poems and 1 of 30 letters to her best friend that may just fit into the genre of “epistolary auto-fiction” 3. Anahita Jamali Rad reading two poems-a new and an old-and then some more poems from her 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. Extra special thanks to 221A, ReReading Room, Alexandra Bischoff and The Paperhound. LIT LIT LIT LIT ♥'s U!

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ReReading Room & LIT LIT LIT LIT Sunday, November 20, 2016 221a E Georgia st 7:00 PM-the end of patriarchy FB Event Rereading Room presents a collection of books, documents, and periodicals from the titles offered by the Vancouver Women’s Bookstore (1973-1996) in its nascent year. Join us at 221a in the evening of Sunday, November 20th to gather among this gleaned archive for readings by Anahita Jamali Rad, Danielle LaFrance, Emma Metcalfe Hurst and Kyla Jamieson as a part of the bi-monthly reading series LIT LIT LIT LIT organized by Steffanie Ling and Emma Metcalfe Hurst with unfailing support from Alexandra Bischoff this time around. The timeless combo of books and refreshments will be available for your reading and listening delight. Paper Hound Bookstore will have a table set up with books available for purchase. Titles from the 1973 Vancouver Women’s Bookstore catalog will be included, as well as titles from the evening’s readers, the Somewhat Urgent Series and other contemporary feminist texts. Both cash and credit will be accepted. We hope you can make it, there’s a lot to catch up on. Special thanks to 221a, Paper Hound and our guest readers Anahita, Danielle and Kyla for partaking in this extended restaging of the Vancouver Women’s Bookstore! The gratitude runs deep.