The Stanza Project Launch

We launched our 6th book, The Stanza Project on June 29, 2013 at the Brickhouse. Our collaborator, architect Mark Proosten, flew in from his home in The Netherlands to celebrate with the people he has been working with throughout the year. It was a warm reunion and very exciting for us all. Thanks to all who attended – it was a full house!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here’s Mark with Anne Hopkinson.

 

 

 

If you are interested in purchasing a copy of The Stanza project Vancouver’s People’s Coop and Pulp Fiction Books have copies. Contributors also can sell their copies, pocketing the profit themselves.

 

 

 

 

Mark Proosten and Stanza Project designer Doris Cheung

 

We heard a slate of readers working in all genres – poetry, memoir, fiction – and even some sound poetry! Thanks to Anne Young for catering the event with donations from Choices and local markets and a big thank you to the Brickhouse for hosting us again.

 

Doris Cheung designed the book with architectural features that support the ethos of the project. Although this was her second book project, her experience as a designer made it easy to collaborate across 4500kms with Elee and Mark.

Anne Young, Elee Kraljii Gardiner, Patrick Foley

 

 

 

Yulia Aleynikova and Sen Yi
Thank you to Collective member Tom Quirk for photographing the launch!
Erol Almelek reads his "Amazing" sound poem

 

Joan Morelli signs a copy for Mark Proosten
Elee with Ruth Dato, who has two pieces in the book

 

 

 

 

Thursdays Editing Collective's Matt Malyon, a contributor, with Elee and Henry Doyle
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