THURSDAY, APRIL 23
MAIN STREET LITERARY TOUR
Thursday, April 23 · 6 PM - 9 PM · FREE
Main Street, Various venues, Vancouver
Main Street is the home of dozens of artist-run galleries, quirky cafés, boutique shopping and local writers. Your neighbourhood tour guides, writer, filmmaker and performance artist Amber Dawn, and poet Jennica Harper, lead you to various Main Street hot spots for an evening of arts and literary exploration. Select Tour A or Tour B, or mix and match sessions from each!
Welcome
6:00 - 6:20 / Café Montmartre, 4362 Main Street
Meet your tour guides and touring literary cohorts at the welcome opening.
Tour A
6:25 - 7:00 / Café Montmartre, 4362 Main Street
Singer-songwriter Judy Norbury reads from Come Back, Judy Baba: Memoirs of India and sings an Indian lullaby, followed by Caitlin Press poetry by Kate Braid (A Well-Mannered Storm: The Glenn Gould Poems) with musical accompaniment, and authors Fiona Tinwei Lam (Enter the Chrysanthemum) and Jeremy Stewart (flood basement).
7:05 - 7:40 / Once Upon a Huckleberry Bush, 4387 Main Street
Orca Book Publishers presents award-winning YA authors Diane Tullson and Shelley Hrdlitschka reading from their most recent novels, Riley Park and Sister Wife.
7:45 - 8:20 / The Grind, 4124 Main Street
Mother Tongue Publishing presents poetry readings from their most recent anthology, Rocksalt.
Tour B
6:25 - 7:00 / Neptoon Records & CD’s, 3561 Main Street
Ever wondered what it takes to be a music critic? Is your playlist in need of a little tune-up? The Tyee’s Music Picks columnists, including Adrian Mack, share the perks of music reviewing, give you tips on how to break in and play a few of their recent finds.
7:05 - 7:40 / Strategies Games & Hobbies, 3878 Main Street
Game on! Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine presents a sci-fi- and fantasy-fueled reading by Karl Johanson, Nina Munteanu and Janine Cross.
7:45 - 8:20 / The Regional Assembly of Text, 3934 Main Street
Ricepaper magazine celebrates the launch of The Aesthetic Issue, 14.2, with readings from poets Ray Hsu, Caroline Wong, Rita Wong and Onjana Yawnghwe.
After Party
8:30 onwards /Café Montmartre, 4362 Main Street
Tour guides Amber Dawn and Jennica Harper read from their newest work. Stay for a chance to win great prizes and mingle with the writers and publishers.
