News & Events
Each semester's programs and courses in the English Department present many opportunities to meet and engage with different writers and speakers from around the world.
The Department also sponsors readings and other special events to bring both literature and critical discussion to the University community.
Current Department News and Faculty Projects
Ryan Knighton adapting "Wings of Madness...."
Ryan's latest project is the adaptation of Paul Hoffman's "Wings of Madness: Alberto Santos-Dumont and the Invention of Flight" for the live-action feature debut of Chris Wedge (Ice Age, Ice Age: The Meltdown and Robots).
More details can be found online at: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118044850?refCatId=13
Issue 3.15 of The Capilano Review
Issue 3.15 of The Capilano Review is now available!
TCR’s fall open issue features Lisa Robertson in conversation with Ted Byrne, a tribute to Robert Kroetsch, Robert Keziere’s photographs accompanied by Capilano faculty Bob Sherrin’s essay, Robert Young’s paintings, new work by Susan Holbrook, Ray Hsu, Donato Mancini, Tom Raworth, Lisa Robertson, and more.
Look for your copy in the Capilano University Bookstore or order online: www.thecapilanoreview.ca
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Cockeyed makes the top 40 for Canada Reads 2012
CBC's Canada Reads 2012 is focusing on non fiction this year and they have compiled a list of the top 40 favourite memoirs, biographies and literary non-fiction reads (as nominated by the Candadian public). Capilano University instructor, Ryan Knighton's Cockeyed has made this list.
The next round of voting (which closes October 30th at midnight ET) will narrow it down to the top ten. Take a minute and check out the website to see if we can't help get Cockeyed through to the next round. There is one vote per person and you can vote for up to five books.
"Have your say in this year's battle of the books" and vote at: http://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads/
LSBA/CNET Punk Panel | 360 Degree Thinking
Tuesday, Oct 4th | 6:30pm | Lower Cafeteria | Birch Building
Roger Farr will be hosting the LSBA/CNET Punk Panel before the October 4th screening of Susanne Tabata's 2010 documentary Bloodied But Unbowed at the North Shore Credit Union Centre for the Performing Arts. The documentary takes a look at the city's vibrant punk scene in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The director and local musicians will be in attendance for a post-screening Q/A session. In keeping with this term's theme of "Life", the Punk Panel - Roger Farr, Michael Turner, and Jill Bain (aka Jade Blade) - will provide pre-screening musings on punk and the politics of "everyday life."
Official film site: Bloodied But Unbowed
This is event is open to everyone. Join us in the Lower Cafeteria at 6:30pm for light refreshments and conversation. The Punk Panel will begin at 6:45pm and wrap up at 7:15pm. The film begins at 7:30pm. Student tickets: $6.00. Limited number of free tickets available for LBSA and CNET students. Email liberalstudies@capilanou.ca by September 30th to reserve.
Suggested reading:
• John Armstrong, Guilty of Everything (2001)
• Joe Keithley, Talk - Action = 0 (2011)
• Michael Turner, Hard Core Logo (1993)
Suggested viewing:
• American Hardcore (2006)
• Hard Core Logo (1996)
• The Future is Unwritten (2007)
Capilano University Editions: Launch of Species Branding
CUE | Capilano University Editions
New Poetry and Poetics
CUE Books is pleased to announce the launch of Species Branding by Danielle LaFrance:
Saturday October 1st
7:00 – 9:00 pm
Pulp Fiction Books
2422 Main Street @ E. Broadway
Vancouver, BC
“Abjection, translation, insurrection: in LaFrance’s Species Branding these coordinates give new garb tosome of poetry's most enduring idealisms and abstractions: beauty, desire, and friendship. No frame is leftuncatalogued. Every bastion of the bourgeoisie is stormed. Every wall - every gender - is scaled. In other words,‘revolution ends here, man.’”
CUE Books
Capilano University 2055 Purcell Way North Vancouver BC 604.984.1712 cuebooks.ca | contact@cuebooks.ca
Issue One of The Parallax: a journal for cinephiles
Volume One/Issue One of The Parallax is now available! It can be found in print at various locations on campus and in a downloadable pdf version at www.theparallax.ca.
Supported by the English Department, alongside our already well-known creative writing journal, The Liar, The Parallax is Capilano University’s new student-edited journal of cinema criticism and cinema writing. Students, faculty and cinephiles are all encouraged to submit essays or creative works. The first issue contains contributions from faculty members Kent Lewis, Reg Johanson and Brian Ganter as well as from Capilano students and a variety of professional and amateur film lovers and critics.
Issue Two of The Parallax will be published in Dec. 2011 and the deadline for Capilano U. student submissions will be Oct. 10th, 2011.
Issue Three will be published in April 2012 and the deadline for student submissions will be March 10th, 2012.
For information about forthcoming issues and submission guidelines and deadlines please visit www.theparallax.ca or contact the Cinephile Collective via the CSU student club listings.
On October 10, Ryan will be presenting "It's, Like, For Real: A LIfe in Autopathography" at the Rochester Institute of Technology as part of their Visionaries Lecture Series. More details can be found online at: http://cwgp.org/ryan_knighton.php
As well, Ryan will be a speaker at the Sloan Summit on Science and Film in New York from October 27 - 30.
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The Liar: Call for Submissions Don't be shy! Give us all you got! For any questions about submissions, past issues or anything else relating to Capilano University's creative writing magazine, please e-mail us at theliarcollective@gmail.com