Real Vancouver Writers’ Series: Take 5
ANNOUNCING THE RETURN OF W2RVWS TO STORYEUM IN VANCOUVER’S DTES!
After an eight month hiatus we’re finally bringing the W2 Real Vancouver Writers Series back to Vancouver’s Downtown East Side.
This time we’ll be occupying the Sound Room at W2′s Storyeum space at 151 West Cordova Street where we look forward to another full house of enthusiastic fans of local literature.
We will also be livestreaming the event via UStream and capturing the video for use by the performers and their publishers later on.
Very excited to be bringing the series back and super-stoked about the writers that we have involved in this edition.
For those of you who disappeared during the Olympics (the last time we launched this vessel) or were too busy watching hockey or the luge, here’s a little breakdown:
We started the series back in February 2010 when it became apparent that there was little comprehensive programming showcasing a wide variety writing and writers during the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games Cultural Olympiad. We staged this independent series at the old W2 Culture and Media House on Hastings Street on every Wednesday in February. Standing Room Only. Amazing audiences, amazing energy and performances. 44 writers over 4 weeks. We sold books, we exposed people to writers that they may never have known and mashed-up writers from across the spectrum to perform together.
Writers as diverse as Larissa Lai, Chris Walter, Heather Haley, Charles Demers, Sonnet L’Abbe, Kevin Chong, Lee Henderson, Teresa McWhirter, Steven Galloway and more performing on the same stage on the same nights.
Young as-yet-unpublished writers, independents and award winners!
And we’re doing it again.
Our partnership with W2 Community Media Arts means that we have the ability to video record and livestream the event to the world.
The event is designed to give the writers a chance to deliver short examples of their work and to have it recorded and broadcast live on the internet – while simultaneously providing a warm, supportive atmosphere in the room. The capture of the video will be made available to the writers for their own use under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license – which basically means you can edit it and share it in any way that you like so long as you attribute W2 & the Real Vancouver Series.
This means that your friends/family that cannot make it to the show or who may live far away can watch your performance live and that you can then use it for promotion or otherwise ie: uploading it to YouTube and/or posting it to your Facebook profile or whatever.
For more information please contact me here: sean at booksontheradio dot com.
Here’s a cool video from one of the February sessions:
