Creative writing in Vancouver's downtown eastside
October 21, 2015 by Elee
Last spring we were invited to participate in a CBC project with Secret Location. They invited 11 arts collectives across Canada to make short videos about their work. We were lucky enough to collaborate with Mateo Zepeda who knew us from making our Indiegogo video. Mateo masterminded a video shoot that includes as many of… Continue reading We’re Part of CBC’s “The Collective” Project!
October 25, 2014 by Elee
We’d like to invite you to an event Thursdays Writing Collective is doing as part of the Heart of the City Festival. It’s a reading of work by and related to the Downtown Eastside’s Bud Osborn, a poet and activist who died this May. Here is a memory of Bud by Am Johal. Jean Swanson… Continue reading Heart of the City Festival
July 30, 2013 by Elee
We hold our writing sessions two floors above the Carnegie Community Centre DTES branch of the Vancouver Public Library and we have a close relationship with the staff there. Vancouver reader, writer, activist, teacher Rita Wong sent this letter today. We’re sharing it with her permission. Dear readers & writers, If you’ve recently… Continue reading We Love Libraries
December 2, 2012 by Elee
Happy news for our exhibit at UBC’s Liu Institute: organizers have asked to continue the exhibit, which was slated to come down next week, into the new year. Our second social writing event at the Liu was very well-attended, both by UBC people and others. Many of us from Thursdays Writing Collective made it… Continue reading Liu Exhibit Extended
July 17, 2012 by Elee
Word on the Street 2012 comes to the Carnegie Centre on Saturday, September 29! DTES Writers: The Type-Up, from 10AM until noon, is an excellent chance to have your writing typed up and looking good! Volunteers will enter your stories/poems/letters on their laptops and then email them to you or save them to a… Continue reading Type Up for DTES Writers
February 7, 2012 by Elee
The love letter is a form that can go far beyond a profession of romance for one’s paramour. As writers in the Downtown Eastside, an area in Canada with one of the highest per capita rates of artists, we are inspired by the people around us. In honour of World Community Arts day we’ll… Continue reading Writing Love Letters to Art and Artists
September 12, 2011 by Elee
As part of the Word on the Street Festival Mercedes Eng is holding a free workshop for DTES writers who have a collection of poetry or prose they would like to publish in a small book format. Info is below and sign up is at Vancouver’s Carnegie Community Centre in the office. Space is limited!… Continue reading Learn How to Make Your Own Chapbook
November 18, 2009 by Elee
A two-day schedule of panels and workshops for Downtown Eastside writers begins on Thursday, November 19, 2009 at the Carnegie Centre. Events include one-on-one editing sessions, two roundtables each day on writing-related issues, readings and an open mike. Come and talk with high-level editors and writers who are keen to answer your questions. The Writer’s… Continue reading Writer’s Jamboree Set to Start Thursday, Nov 19
January 19, 2009 by Elee
The chapbook “thursdays: poems and prose from the Downtown Eastside” is a paper reflection of a group of writers that has been meeting every Thursday afternoon at the Carnegie Community Centre on the downtown Eastside of Vancouver. The word “chapbook” is said to come from the Old English “ceop” for “cheap,” meaning that chapbooks are… Continue reading Welcome to thursdays: Poems and Prose from the Downtown Eastside