Events Calendar
 

Past Events

 

2011-2012

  		     
Apr. 12, 2012   Film Festival: The 8th Annual UVic Sunscreen Student Film Fest.
 
Apr. 3, 2012   Book Launch & Reading: Alumni and Journey Prize winner Yasuko Thanh launches her collection of short stories, Floating Like the Dead.
 
Mar. 28, 2012  

Book Launch & Reading: Student Journal This Side of West launches Issue # 10, 'On the Edge', at the Victoria Event Centre.
 

Mar. 27, 2012   Book Launch & Reading: Governor General Award winner and faculty member Tim Lilburn launches his newest collection of poetry, Assiniboia.
 
Mar. 16, 2012   Interivews: New faculty member candidate interviews, open to all writing students and instructors.
 
Mar. 14, 2012   Book Launch & Reading: Poet and instructor Steven Price launches his latest collection of poetry, Omens in the Year of the Ox.
 
Feb. 21-22, 2012   Reading: Open Word - Author Sheila Heti reads, followed by a conversation with Lee Henderson.
 
Feb. 3-12, 2012   Film Festival: The Victoria Film Festival, including work by seven current students and alumni.
 
Feb. 1, 2012   Reading: Poet Priscila Uppal reads.
 
Dec. 1, 2011   Deadline: Writing Student Union's 2012 journal This Side of West closes its call for submissions.
 
Nov. 24, 2011   Reading: A Night With Your Editors - Editors from writing student union journal This Side of West read.
 
Nov. 24, 2011   Reading: Lorna Crozier, M.A.C. Farrant, Genni Gunn, Zoë Landale, and Madeline Sonik read from their work in Slice me some truth, an anthology of Canadian creative nonfiction.
 
Nov. 15, 2011   Reading: Open Word - Poet John Denham reads, followed by a discussion with poet Tim Lilburn.
 
Nov. 12, 2011   Reading: A stellar group of poets celebrate PK Page's life and poetry, including Marilyn Bowering, Kate Braid, Robert Bringhurst, Sandra Djwa, Cathy Ford, Patrick Friesen, Eve Joseph, Bernice Lever, Cathy Fern Lewis, Tim Lilburn, DC Reid, and Derk Wynand.
 
Nov. 9, 2011   Magazine Launch & Reading: Malahat Review's fall issue launches. Readings by poets Tom Wayman, Richard Osler, and Rhona McAdam; fiction by 2011 Far Horizons Award for Short Fiction winner Zoey Peterson; and Julie Paul, a member of their fiction board.
 
Nov. 7, 2011   Book Launch & Reading: Instructor Sally Stubbs launches her publiushed play Herr Beckmann's People.
 
Oct. 25, 2011   Discussion: Faculty member Lynne Van Luven, alumni Barbara Stewart, and Jane Johnston discuss the challenges, pleasures, and art of life writing.
 
Oct. 19-22, 2011   Conference: Vancouver 125 Poetry Conference.
 
Oct. 19, 2011   Harvey Southam Lecture & Book Launch: Terry Glavin - Working Within a Shifting Media Landscape.
 
Oct. 4, 2011   Reading: Open Word - Author and faculty member Lee Henderson reads from his work, followed by a conversation with John Threlfall.
 
Oct. 3, 2011   Reading: Playwright and novelist Don Hannah reads from his work and discusses the writing process.
 
Sep. 29, 2011   Book Launch: Alumni Ashley Little launches her debut novel Prick: Confessions of a Tattoo Artist at Vancouver's The FALL Tattooing.
 
Sep. 23, 2011   Film Screening: Public Doman, a commissioned video project featuring work of seven Canadian filmmakers, including Maureen Bradley, who created videos drawn from archival films and photographs held in the collection of Library and Archives Canada.
 
Sep. 22, 2011   Reading: Our Annual faculty reading, this year featuring Joan MacLeod, Tim Lilburn, Lee Henderson, Maureen Bradley, sessionals Carla Funk and Steven Price, and master's candidates Judy LeBlanc and Frances Backhouse.
 
Sep. 19, 2011   Launch & Reading: The Malahat Review's Summer Issue Launch. Readings by Andrea Routley ("Habitat"), Kevin Leenders ("Double Drowning"), Barbara Colebrook Peace (from both 2011 Long Poem Prize winners, "The Sun Estate" and "The Constant Gardener"), and Garth Martens (from his Brownen Wallace Award-winning poetry).
 
Sep. 14, 2011   Social: Fine Arts Dean's Welcome Back PizzaQ.
 
Sep. 10, 2011   Symposium: Wired Words - 1st annual Victoria festival from the Federation of BC Writers, to help writers keep abreast of technological changes and the new challenges and opportunities they provide.
 
 

2010-2011

  		     
May 27, 2011   Reading:"Hat Trick: A Literary Event" features three poets: the 2011 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award finalists Anne-Marie Turza (a UVic Writing MFA), Raoul Fernandes, and winner Garth Martens (also a UVic Writing MFA).
 
May 17, 2011   Reading: Open Word - Poet Donato Mancini reads from his book Buffet World, followed by a conversation with poet Colin Fulton.
 
May 3, 2011   Magazine Launch & Reading: The Malahat Review Spring 2011 issue launches.
 
Apr. 18, 2011   Staged Reading: Grad student Peter Boychuk's Fritters in Kandahar presented in Solo Flights, by the solo Collective and Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company.
 
Apr. 15, 2011   Reading & Book Launch: 4th-year student Will Johnson launches Melodramatic Musings, a collection of columns from The Martlet newspaper.
 
Apr. 8, 2011   Reading & Book Launch: Two beloved poets release collection's of poetry: Lorna Crozier presents Small Mechanics and Susan Musgrave launches Origami Dove.
 
Apr. 7, 2011   Film Screening: The 7th Annual UVic Sunscreen Student Film Festival.
 
Mar. 24, 2011   Reading & Book Launch: Steven Price launches his debut novel Into That Darkness.
 
Mar. 15, 2011   Reading: Open Word - Fiction and non-fiction author Maggie Siggins, hosted by Lynne van Luven.
 
Mar. 4, 2011   Reading: Graduating students read their work, hosted by the Writing Students Union.
 
Mar. 1/2, 2011   Reading: Open Word - Novelist Sandra Birdsell, hosted by John Gould.
 
Feb. 28, 2011   Panel Discussion: What can I do with a degree in Fine Arts?
 
Feb. 25-27 2011   Screening: Video triptych The Wild Woman by Maureen Bradley screens as part Scene + Heard, a Multicultural Storytelling Performance coproduction between Puente Theatre and CineVic Society of Independent Filmmakers.
 
Feb. 16, 2011   Lecture: Richard Wagamese, this year's Harvey S. Southam Lecturer, presents "The Power of Stories: Changing the World, One Story at a Time."
 
Feb. 15/16, 2011   Reading: Open Word - Poet Chris Hutchinson, hosted by Lorna Crozier.
 
Dec. 3, 2010   Submission Deadline: Submissions due for the 2011 edition of This Side of West, produced annually by the Writing Students Union.
 
Nov. 27/29, 2010   Reading: Open Word - Lisa Robertson, hosted by Michael Nardone.
 
Nov. 18, 2010   Reading: This Side of West Editor's reading. Showcases this year's journal editors, and raises funds toward the annual publication.
 
Nov. 12, 2010   Reading & Book Launch: Walk Myself Home, an anthology to end vioence against women, edited by writing student Andrea Toutley, includes writing undergrad Andrew Wade, grad students Yasuko Thanh, Arleen Paré, and instructors Madeline Sonik, Susan Musgrave, and Christin Geall.
 
Nov. 6, 2010   Symposium: Writing & Religion. readings and panel discussions with Jan Zwicky, Ann Michaels, Alissa York, and Dom Domanski, moderated by Tim Lilburn and Jamie Dopp.
 
Nov. 4, 2010   Reading: Don Domanski reads from All Our Wonder, Unavenged.
 
Nov. 2, 2010   Reading: Open Word - Elizabeth Bachinsky, hosted by Yvonne Blomer.
 
Oct. 26/27, 2010   Reading: Open Word - Jeramy Dodds, hosted by Michael Nardone.
 
Oct. 22, 2010   Book Launch: Patrick Lane reads from Witness, Pamela Porter reads from Cathedral.
 
Oct. 8, 2010   Book Launch: Carla Funk launches her new book, apologetic.
 
Sep. 27/28, 2010   Reading: Open Word - A. F. Moritz, hosted by Tim Lilburn.
 
Sep. 20, 2010   Reading: John Gould launches his new book at Munro's.
 
Sep. 17, 2010   Reading: Carla Funk reads from her new book at Planet Earth Poetry.
 
Sep. 15, 2010   Social: Fine Arts' annual Welcome Back BBQ hosted by the Dean.
 
Sep. 13, 2010   Film Screening: The Premiere Screening of Freshman's Wharf - The Complete Series. All ten of the student-produced webisodes.
 
 

2009-2010

  		     
Apr. 28, 2010   Magazine Launch & Reading: The Malahat Review's spring issue with readings featuring Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane.
 
Apr. 15, 2010   Film Screening: The 6th Annual UVic Sunscreen Student Film Festival.
 
Apr. 11, 2010   Book Launch & Reading: Melanie Siebert launches her debut collection of poetry, Deepwater Vee.
 
Apr. 8, 2010   Reading: Edgewise - An Evening of New Work. The UVic Writing Department's first graduate class reads and presents from their work.
 
Mar. 26, 2010   Book Launch & Reading: The Writing Student Union launches their 8th annual issue of undergraduate literary journal This Side of West.
 
Mar. 18, 2010   Lecture: Look Back to Galilee - What a Century of Kibbutz Life Can Teach Canadians about Co-operation and Community, presented by David Leach.
 
Mar. 16 & 17, 2010   Reading: Open Word - Gil Adamson, hosted by John Gould.
 
Mar. 10, 2010   Reading: Mark Anthony Jarman, Bill Gaston, and Aaron Shepard at the Fort Street Café.
 
Mar. 4-6, 2010   Drama Festival: Festival of Innovative and New Drama - Series of staged readings of juried one-act plays written by emerging playwrights from the Department of Writing and performed and directed by Phoenix Theatre students.
 
Mar. 2, 2010   Reading: Open Word - Caterina Edwards, hosted by Lynne Van Luven.
 
Feb. 25, 2010   Reading & Book Launch: The Shape of Content, edited by Chandler Davis, Marjorie Senechal, and Jan Zwicky, speaks to both mathematics and creative writing.
 
Feb. 23, 2010   Reading: Open Word - Sina Queyras, hosted by Tim Lilburn.
 
Feb. 20 & 21, 2010   Screening: Video triptych The Wild Woman by Maureen Bradley screens as part Scene + Heard, a Multicultural Storytelling Performance coproduction between Puente Theatre and CineVic Society of Independent Filmmakers.
 
Feb. 20, 2010   Reading: Lorna Crozier reads at Queenswood's Passionate Lives Dinner and Lecture Performance Series.
 
Feb. 12 & 13, 2010   Screening: Student short film Come Clean (A. Cerminara, C. deBrouwer, M. Rusell) screens at the Vancouver Island Short Film Festival.
 
Feb. 6, 2010   Screening: Award-winning student short film Bob & Lucille by Meghan Bell screens at the Victoria Film Festival.
 
Feb. 3, 2010   Lecture: Orion Series - Kevin Loring - Fish Story: A Journey from Small Fry to Big Fish in the Little Pond of Canadian Theatre.
 
Feb. 1 & 6, 2010   Screening: Fear of Snakes, Andreas Mendritzki's short film based on Lorna Crozier's poem of the same name, screens at the Victoria Film Festival.
 
Jan. 28, 2010   Lecture: Harvey Stevenson Southam Lecturer Sandra Martin - From Last Rites to the Blog of Death.
 
Jan. 19 & 20, 2010   Reading: Open Word - David O'Meara, hosted by Steven Price.
 
Jan. 19, 2010   Lecture: Dave Bidini on writing about music and sports.
 
Dec. 1, 2009   Deadline: Submissions for student journal This Side of West.
 
Nov. 30, 2009   Deadline: One-act plays for the FIND Festival.
 
Nov. 29, 2009   Reading: Open Word - Xi Chuan, one of China's foremost poets.
 
Nov. 19, 2009   Book Sale: The Malahat Review annual used book sale.
 
Nov. 17 & 19, 2009   Reading: Open Word - Craig Boyko with Lorna Jackson.
 
Nov. 17, 2009   Reading: WSU: This Side of West editor's reading.
 
Oct. 22, 2009   Haig-Brown Lecture: Ecologist Don Gayton discusses conflict and paradox in our relationship to the natural world.
 
Oct. 21, 2009   Reading: Melanie Siebert from her debut collection of poetry.
 
Oct. 8, 2009   Lecture: Xi Chuan on contemporary Chinese culture and poetry.
 
Sep. 24, 2009   Reading: Annual Writing Faculty Reading night.
 
Sep. 16, 2009   Social: Fine Arts' annual Welcome Back BBQ hosted by the Dean.
 
 

2008-2009

  		     
Jul. 7, 2009   Screening: Student-produced web series Freshman's Wharf celebrates launch at Logan's Pub.
 
Apr. 20, 2009   Reading: A magazine cabaret, hosted by Lynne Van Luven and featuring M.A.C. Farrant, Michael Kenyon, Arleen Paré, Madeline Sonik, and Yasuko Thanh.
 
Apr. 9, 2009   Screening: 5th Annual UVic Sunscreen Student Film Festival.
 
Mar. 26, 2009   Book Launch: Writing Student Union launches it's annual digest This Side of West.
 
Mar. 9, 2009   Orion Lecture: Daniel MacIvor, award-winning playwright and actor.
 
Mar. 5-7, 2009   Staged Reading: FIND Studio Series 2009 - Staged readings of five one-act plays written by emerging playwrights from the Writing Department: Graham Roebuck, Stacey Ashworth, Jessica Bloom, Will Johnson, and James Roney.
 
Feb. 25, 2009   Reading: Melanie Siebert reads and discusses poetry as a practice of contemplative attention to place.
 
Nov. 28, 2009   Reading: Graduate student Garth Martens at Planet Earth Poetry.
 
Nov. 27, 2009   Book launch: Going Home, by Tim Lilburn.
 
Nov. 20, 2009   Reading: Award-winning poet Lorna Crozier reads as part of the Distinguished Professor' Lecture Series.
 
Oct. 29, 2009   Book launch: Imperfect Penance, by Mitch Parry.
 
Oct. 23, 2009   Haig-Brown Lecture: Poet and author Seán Virgo talks as the inaugural Haig-Brown Centenary Writer-in-Residence at the University of Victoria.
 
Oct. 29, 2009   Arts Forum: Prof David Leach discusses Censorship and the Arts with Allan Antliff and Alain Pineau. (Listen to the podcast)
 
Oct. 8, 2009   Harvey Southam Lecture: Jody Paterson presents "Talking About What Matters: The Promise of Community Media in an Age of Disconnection".
 
Oct. 2009   Book Launch: Nobody's Father: Life Without Kids edited by Lynne Van Luven and Bruce Gillespie.
 
Sep. 18, 2009   Orion Lecture Series: Carmen Lenero and Lorna Crozier offer "The Perspective of the Cat", a joint poetry reading and acoustic concert.