About this Event
Join us for (Re)Making & Marvelling: Poetry Reading & Writing Sessions with Brandon Wint.
This workshop will be on Mondays in September for the following dates: 9th, 16th, 23rd and 30th from 6:00pm-7:30pm
Cost: $100 for full registration , or $25 if you'd like to drop in on individual sessions
*TO REGISTER IN FULL: email [email protected]
To register for individual sessions, choose your desired date and purchase a ticket through eventbrite.
Venue & Accessibility:
The event will be hosted at the Massy Arts Gallery, at 23 East Pender Street in Chinatown, Vancouver. We are located in the former MING WO building.
The gallery is wheelchair accessible and a gender-neutral washroom is on-site.
Please refrain from wearing scents or heavy perfumes.
For more on accessibility including parking, seating, venue measurements and floor plan, and how to request ASL interpretation please visit: massyarts.com/accessibility
Covid Protocols: Masks keep our community safe and are mandatory (N95 masks are recommended as they offer the best protection). We ask if you are showing symptoms, that you stay home. Thank you kindly.
About the gatherings: It is Brandon Wint's firm belief that learning to love poetry --- both as a reader and a writer--- can be a life-changing practice. The spirit of these sessions emerges from Brandon's love and respect for poetry, and the belief that emotional intelligence -- our capacity to know, learn and create by feeling --- is our first super power as human beings. In this way, (Re)Making and Marvelling intends to be a space for feeling and thinking through the possibilities, nuances, questions, implications and subtle truths that poems offer.These sessions need not be grounded in your ability to express expertise, or even comfort, as a reader or writer of poetry (though your expertise is welcome). This will be a space for generating curiosity, wonder, and intrigue around the poems we read and write together.
Each week, Brandon will present one poem by an established poet. We'll spend time collectively discussing that poem in order to uncover what moves us, jars us, delights us, confuses and/or unnerves us within the poem. Then, we'll do a writing prompt to generate new, honest and courageous poetic words of our own.
We'll read and reflect on poems by Aracelis Girmay, Ross Gay, and Ada Limon, among others.
About Brandon Wint: Brandon is an Ontario-born poet, spoken word artist, educator and multi-disciplinary storyteller based in western Canada. For more than a decade, Brandon has been a sought-after touring performance poet, having shared his work all over Canada, and internationally at festivals and showcases in the United States, Australia, Jamaica, Latvia and Lithuania. Brandon is ever-grateful for the power of poetry as a spiritual technology and social force. He is devoted to using poetry as a tool for refining his sense of justice, love, and intimacy. Brandon Wint's poems and essays have been published in The Ex Puritan, Event Magazine, Arc Poetry Magazine, and Black Writers Matter, among other places. Divine Animal (Write Bloody North, 2020) is his debut collection of poetry. His debut film, My Body Is A Poem/The World Makes With Me screened at DOXA documentary film festival and Reelworld Film Festival in 2023.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Massy Arts Society, 23 East Pender Street, Vancouver, Canada
CAD 27.96