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TransCanada Institute Literary Reading & Performance Series

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To download a copy of the event poster please click the image to the right (where available). To listen/watch to clips from the reading series please click on the Multimedia link to the right.

George Bowering
Canada Council Sponsored Literary Reading
Wednesday, March 13, 12:00pm.
Suzette Mayr
Canada Council Sponsored Literary Reading
Wednesday, February 6, 2013, 12:00pm.
Kim Echlin
Canada Council Sponsored Literary Reading
Wednesday, January 23, 2013, 12:00pm.
Thomas Wharton
Reading at TransCanada Institute
Wednesday October 3, 2012, 12:00pm
Christopher Dewdney
Writer in Residence for Fall 2012
Will read at the TransCanada Institute
Wednesday October 17, 2012. 11:30am
George Elliot Clarke (accompanied by bassist David Lee)
“Your bass sounds like a typewriter”
April 27, 2012. 4pm to 6pm.
at TransCanada Institute
Fred Wah
Poetry Reading
March 15, 2012, 11:30-12:30pm.
at TransCanada Institute
To listen to audio from the event please click here
Nicole Markotic and Louis Cabri
November 17, 2011, 11:30-1:00pm.
at TransCanada Institute
Roy Miki
Mobile: Of Commodity Culture, Mannequins, and Poems
Friday, March 19, 2010, 4:30 pm
at TransCanada Institute
Natalka Husar and Janice Kulyk Keefer
Dancing with the Dead
Thursday, February 11, 2010, 4:30 pm
at TransCanada Institute
Sandra Birdsell
The Guelph Lecture on Being Canadian
December 9, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
at the River Run Centre
Oana Avasilichioaei and Erín Moure
Read from Expeditions of a Chimæra
Monday, October 26, 2009, 4:30 p.m.
at TransCanada Institute
Doug Barbour, Paul Dutton, and angela rawlings
Performance Poetry
March 20, 2009, 5:00 – 7:00 PM
at TransCanada Institute
Rudy Wiebe
“Narrating Menonite Canada: History and/as Literature”
Friday, February 27th, 2009
at TransCanada Institute
Richard Van Camp
Author of Blessing Wendy and The Lesser Blend
January 29, 2009, 12:30pm
at TransCanada Institute
Lola Lemire Tostevin
Reading from The Other Sister
January 16, 2009, 4:00p
at TransCanada Institute
Esta Spalding
Reading selections of her poetry.
4:30 pm, Saturday, November 1, 2008
at TransCanada Institute
Margaret Christakos, Sonnet L’Abbé, and Armand Ruffo
were featured at the TransCanada Two conference, October 12, 2008
Sponsored by the Canada Council
David Bateman and Hiromi Goto
The Cowboy & the Geisha, a multi-media performance
February 5, 2008, 11:30 a.m.
Florence Partridge Room (McLaughlin Library, U of Guelph)
Warren Cariou
Reading from his forth coming novel Exhaust
February 13, 2008, 4:30 p.m.
TransCanada Institute
Sponsored by the Canada Council
Daphne Marlatt
Reading from her newly released long poem “The Given”
March 25, 2008, 4:30 p.m.
TransCanada Institute
Larissa Lai
March 22, 2006, 4:00 p.m.
Florence Partridge Room (McLaughlin Library, U of Guelph)
Hiromi Goto
November 13, 2006, 12:00 p.m.
Florence Partridge Room (McLaughlin Library, U of Guelph)
Fred Wah
March 29, 2005, 11:30 a.m.
McKinnon Building, 311
Roy Miki
October 11, 2005, 11:30 a.m.
Mckinnon Building, 311

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