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Thursdays Writing Collective Joins Candahar Art Bar
The Thursdays Writing Collective led by Elee Kraljii Gardiner (TWS 2009) is participating in the Cultural Olympiad at the Candahar Art Bar on Sunday, February 21st, 2-4pm. Playwrights Theatre Centre, 219-1398 Cartwright Street, Granville Island (Just past Kids’ Market on right) Tickets at door $7.
Based on the Downtown Eastside at the Carnegie Centre, the Thursdays Writing Collective meets weekly to write and transcend the poverty-related issues of the neighourhood. Thursdays has published three chapbook anthologies of work and given many public readings, earning a reputation as a fresh and vivid creative force. A dozen participants of the Collective will read pieces of published work and discuss the process of arriving on the page. Please join us for an afternoon of laughter and entertainment with an edge.
The Candahar is a locus for social interaction and the host site for an ambitious series of events, musical programs, theatrical presentations, performances and dialogues, both scripted and unscripted, curated by Winnipeg artist Paul Butler and Vancouver author Michael Turner (Hard CoreLogo).
The name “Candahar” refers to the original location of the now defunctBlackthorn Bar in Belfast pub. Irish artist Theo Sims has recreated the bar in Granville Island’s Playwright Theatre. Part sculpture, part theatrical
stage, The Candahar is an artwork that is also a functioning bar, open to the public and staffed, in collaboration with two Belfast bartenders who act as unscripted performers. The project fuses the authentic with fantasy, spectacle with stage, and at its heart acts as a catalyst for conversation, debate and dialogue and a pint here or there.
For more info contact Elee Kraljii Gardiner at thursdayseditor@telus.net or
604-202-0072.www.presentationhousegall.com/candahar.html
www.thursdayspoemsandprose.ca