Jillian Christmas, Bertrand Bickersteth & Ian Williams among finalists for League of Canadian Poets awards
The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, Pat Lowther Memorial Award and Raymond Souster Award, each worth $2,000, celebrate the best in Canadian poetry.
Social Sharing
Posted: Apr 15, 2021 12:33 PM ET | Last Updated: April 15
Jillian Christmas, Bertrand Bickersteth and Ian Williams are among finalists for League of Canadian Poets awards.(K. Ho, NeWest Press, Justin Morris)
Black Canada brought to the centre of the Vancouver Art Gallery vancouversun.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from vancouversun.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The 240 sq ft piece, titled
un/settled, can be found on the windows of Belzberg Library, at the intersection of West Hastings and Richards Street.
un/settled by Otoniya J. Okot Bitek and Chantal Gibson (SFU)
un/settled features poetry by Otoniya J. Okot Bitek and portraiture by Chantal Gibson, in collaboration with Mily Mumford and Adrian Bisek. Okot Bitek is the 2020 Ellen and Warren Tallman Writer-in-Residence with SFU’s Department of English while Gibson is an award-winning writer and artist, as well as a lecturer at SFU’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology.
un/settled by Otoniya J. Okot Bitek and Chantal Gibson (SFU)
Otoniya Okot Bitek is a poet in the tradition of the Acholi from northern Uganda.
Acholi poets, painters, singers and dancers bring people together through their art which usually involves social commentary.
“The poet in the Acholi tradition, is not just someone who says the flower is beautiful because it s beautiful, but gathers people to think and talk about whatever it is they re doing and what’s happening around them,” she says. “For me, as an Acholi poet, the poem is the container, the space and opportunity for people to gather in community.”
Okot Bitek began writing when she was very young to win the attention of her father, an internationally recognized poet who was exiled from Uganda when he drew the ire of the government.
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences is pleased to announce the scholars selected to the 2020-21 Jack and Doris Shadbolt Fellowship in the Humanities Program. The program increases the visibility of the contributions of the humanities and arts to the university community. It also engages the wider community through publicly involved scholarship and creativity.
The Shadbolt Fellows will engage with Metro Vancouver communities through exhibits, performances, artworks, workshops and events that realize the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences’ values of advancing reconciliation; equity, diversity and inclusion; and collaboration.
Join us online at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, January 27, 2021 to meet the Shadbolt Fellows in a panel discussion moderated by Stephen Collis (Professor, SFU Department of English) and June Scudeler (Assistant Professor, SFU Indigenous Studies). This event is hosted with the support of SFU Public Square. Register on Eventbrite.