Literary Café

Join us for the 44th Annual Harrison Festival of the Arts. We are excited to welcome everyone back to Harrison this year for a thrilling Festival! For full details on the festival such as Schedule, Artist Lineup, workshops, Children's Day, the Artisan Market and more... continue on to the Hompage.

Literary Café

In Partnership with the Vancouver Poetry House

Location: Harrison Memorial Hall (290 Esplanade Ave.)

Time: Monday, July 10th, 8:30pm

The Harrison Festival is proud to produce this year's installment of the literary Café with Vancouver based not for profit, the Vancouver Poetry House and present three amazing writer as well as some musical accompaniment (TBD).

Vancouver Poetry House Description:

Vancouver Poetry House is the largest spoken word organization in Canada. VPH is dedicated to bringing poetry from diverse oral and literary traditions to Vancouver and British Columbia. VPH oversees three programs: Vancouver Poetry Slam, a weekly community stage with a headlining performer; WordPlay Poets, an outreach program that offers workshops and performances in schools and communities around BC; and Verses Festival of Words, Canada’s largest, annual spoken word festival. Two of our artists will be Johnny Trinh and RC Weslowski, the third is TBA. Johnny and I are four days away from the start of our festival and will not be able to answer any questions about July until the beginning of May.

Johnny D Trinh is an interdisciplinary, community-engaged artist whose practice includes: spoken word, theatre, music, movement, creative technology with an emphasis on social media and online performance. Johnny is the founder of Stage to Page Performance Society. Johnny is interested in self as performance, and performance of self in relation to building community, especially when community seems inaccessible. Johnny is also dedicated to the continual application and creation of consent based, decolonizing, and trauma-informed practice when engaging with community to create art.  Johnny currently creates, works, resides, and is sustained on the traditional, unceded, ancestral lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh people. For more information visit: stagetopage.org

RC Weslowski is the 2021 Zaccheus Jackson Nyce Memorial Award Winner, The 2016 Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award Winner and a Canadian Festival of Spoken Word and Victoria Spoken Word Festival Poet of Honour. RC is a Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Champion, an Underground Indies Champion, A CFSW Team Champion, a Haiku Death Match and Nerd Poetry Slam Champion. RC co-hosts and produces Wax Poetic and Oh No Not Another Podcast podcasts. RC is the Artistic Director for Hullabaloo: The BC Youth Spoken Word Festival and curator for Mashed Poetics, a quarterly spoken word and music mash up event that has been running for over a decade. RC’s first book of poetry, “My Soft Response to the Wars” is out on Write Bloody North Publishing. www.writebloodynorth.ca