About: Using found imagery and language as well as short writing and drawing exercises we will play with chance connections and see what meaning can be made at the intersection of word and image. Invitation to bring any text or imagery (on paper) you have to hand and might like to work with. No previous writing or drawing experience necessary.
Refreshments and snacks will be available, or bring your own dinner with you!
About the Artist: Cathy Stonehouse is a poet, writer, teacher and visual artist who migrated as a young adult from the UK to Vancouver, BC—the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations—where they still live. The author of a novel, The Causes (Pedlar Press, 2019), a collection of short fiction, Something About the Animal (Biblioasis, 2011) and two previous collections of poetry—Grace Shiver (Inanna Publications, 2011) and The Words I Know (Press Gang, 1994), Stonehouse also co-edited the ground-breaking anthology Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008), is a previous editor of EVENT magazine, and currently teaches creative writing and interdisciplinary expressive arts at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Their most recent book, Dream House (Nightwood Editions), a long poem, is short listed for the 2024 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize.