Larissa reads this Sunday, August 8 at 2:40pm on the Malcolm Lowry Stage. To see the full line-up, click here.

Woven is  an evening of celebration and support for Vancouver Status of Women, which despite its many years of vital work, has recently suffered major funding cuts. Participants in VSW programs, as well as an array of supporters and allies present an event celebrating intentional community and its creative possibilities, with a photography exhibit by women from VSW’s EMERGE project, and performances by local poets and artists. Indigenous womyn, womyn of colour, single moms, children, disabled folks, queer, two-spirited and trans- folks especially encouraged to attend!

Rhizome Cafe, 317 East Broadway, Vancouver, BC

$5-$20 suggested donation, but no one turned away

Larissa reads from Automaton Biographies.

Sheila James launches new book of short stories, In the Wake of Loss.

The Wired Monk (a cafe, bistro and bar)
2610 4th Ave. Vancouver
(at the corner of 4th and Trafalgar Street)
Entry is free
Readings begin at 7:30 pm

The Pavilion (Langara College front lawn, 100 West 49th Ave)

Occupying Minds is a reading on the theme of “the university” in conjunction with a projection of Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber’s The University Paradox, an installation shown concurrently in Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna.

Organized by Jeff Derksen, the reading consists of a group of poets who work in and through the education industry. All language is in solidarity against “the shipwreck of the singular” (George Oppen) with all eyes on the future horizon.

Reader line-up: Clint Burnham, Stephen Collis, Jeff Derksen, Kim Duff, Reg Johanson, Larissa Lai, Donato Mancini, and Cecily Nicholson.

Hosted by Charlie Demers

Kevin Chong, Jen Sookfong Lee, Catherine Owen, Chris Walter, Peter Darbyshire, Jenn Farrell, Jane Sayers, Shay Wilson, Larissa Lai, Anne Stone.

The series features a different host with different writers every week. Check out the full line-up here.

Noon hour talk at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, 6331 Crescent Road, UBC Campus

by invitation

In this talk, Larissa Lai considers the possible forms that relation between Asian and Indigenous peoples can take in the present moment, on North American soil, given the complicated relationship both have had to European colonial presence. As colonized subjects and as members of settler culture, Asian Canadian writers and thinkers can make no claims to innocence. Through a reading of the Movement Project’s How We Forgot Here, David Khang’s performance piece How to Feed a Piano, and Marie Clements’s Burning Vision, Lai proposes that we need to attend more deeply to indigenous understandings of the term “respect” and that such understandings may actually require the embrace of a non-linear model of time.

In(ter)ventions: Literary Practice at the Edge: A Gathering

The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta

Feb. 18-21, 2010

Full program available here.

Larissa’s events:

Friday February 19

9:00 a.m.  Panel: What is Literature Today; What is Writing?
-10:30 a.m. Max Bell Auditorium
Moderator: Marjorie Perloff
Christian Bök, Larissa Lai, Nick Montfort

Saturday February 20

9:00 a.m.  Panel: Betwixt & Between – Collaboration & Cross-Disciplinary
- 10:30 a.m.  Literary Creation
Max Bell Auditorium
Moderator: Larissa Lai
Jen Bervin, Fred Wah, Daphne Marlatt, D Kimm

Larissa Lai launches Automaton Biographies

Sarah Dowling launches Security Postures

Vancouver and Philadelphia should meet like this more often.

1135 Kensington Road NW

Larissa reads for Toddish McWong’s signature Chinese New Year/Robbie Burns Day Dinner and ensuing melee

Floata Seafood Restaurant

400 – 180 Keefer Street

Tickets available through the Firehall Arts Centre (604-689-0926)

$65 adults

$54.50 students with ID

$44 children 13 and under

A NOMADOS MOMENT:
readings by Nomados Books Authors

Jaqueline Turner
George Bowering
Aaron Peck
Larissa Lai

Saturday January 30, 2010
W2 Perel Gallery
112 West Hastings
8:00 pm
Admission – 3 – 5$ sliding scale
(no one will be turned away )

a celebratory evening, featuring Jaqueline Turner’s new Nomados chapbook :
The Ends of the Earth