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  • Emma Metcalfe-Hurst

    Writer, organizer and publisher, Metcalfe-Hurst is a Vancouver and Nanaimo based artist leading a variety of writing initiative in the lower mainland of BC. Recent collaborations include Dan Pon and grunt gallery on ‘Recollective: Vancouver Independant Archives Week’; Christian Vistan on SPIT, writing, experimental publishing and workshop projects and ‘Acts of Transfer’ at the Western Front, Vancouver

  • Kiel Torres

    Kiel Torres is an emerging writer, editor and curator working and living on unceded xwməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ territories. She thinks a lot about friendship, reading, embodiment, and fandom as apparatuses to navigate social and emotional worlds. Her chapbook Swan Dives was published by Artspeak in 2018 during her residency in the Studio for Emerging Writers. She holds a BA in Art History from the University of British Columbia.

  • Christian Vistan

    Christian Vistan is an artist and curator from the peninsula now known as Bataan, Philippines, living and working on unceded and traditional Musqueam, Squamish, Tsawwassen, and Tsleil-Waututh territories. They make paintings, texts and collaborations that describe a hybridity in form, folding together elements of biography, material exploration, poetry, and abstraction. This work is rooted in their inquiries into place, language, and memory, as well as water as a material and an agent in painting and in migrant-settler histories. Their work has been presented in Canada, US and the Philippines. In collaboration with Aubin Kwon, they run dreams comma delta, a space for artist projects and exhibitions located inside Vistan’s family home in Delta, BC.

  • CLAIRE GEDDES BAILEY

    Claire Geddes Bailey makes videos, structures, sounds, cakes, and texts. Dwelling on the narrative qualities of materials, words, symbols, and spaces, their work often addresses legibility (what can be gathered?) and place (what can be gathered here?). They see a parallel between surfaces of objects and the texture of language. Claire holds a BA in English literature and visual art from UBC. They live and work as an uninvited guest on the unceded and traditional territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

  • CRISTINA HOLMAN

    Cristina Holman lives and writes on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. She was a participant in the 2017/18 Artspeak Studio for Emerging Writers and the 2018 Banff Centre Emerging Writers Intensive. Her debut chapbook, published with Artspeak Gallery in 2018, is titled Stop Wincing/We’re Fine. Her work can be found in Bad Nudes magazine and Poetry is Dead, and her second chapbook, Repeater, was published in 2021 by Zed Press.

  • Sheryda Warrener

    Sheryda Warrener is a poet and award-winning teacher. She is the author of the poetry collections Hard Feelings (Invisible, 2010), Floating Is Everything (Nightwood, 2015), and Test Piece, forthcoming from Coach House Books this fall. You can read her work in literary journals online and in print in the Believer, Puritan, The Malahat Review, and others, and in the anthologies Best Canadian Poetry in English 2018, and The Next Wave: An Anthology of 21st Century Canadian Poetry. She lives on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded land of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations, where she is a lecturer in poetry and interdisciplinary forms in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia.

Talks & Events

Book and Cider Launch

STUDIO FOR EMERGING WRITERS
April 24, 2018

Please join us on at 7 pm to celebrate the launch of these publications:

Glue by Claire Geddes Bailey
Swan Dives by Kiel Torres
a lot, a lot  by Christian Vistan
Liminal Ziplock by Emma Metcalfe Hurst
Stop Wincing/We’re Fine by Cristina Holman

Over the past ten months, the Studio for Emerging Writers has been running weekly/bi-weekly workshops, with occasional site visits, discussions, meals, walks, edits, bus and boat rides, readings, and hang-outs. During this time together, we brewed a cider along side a set of five chapbooks, each written by a participant of the Studio.

Publications and refreshments will be available for sale.

Special thanks to Sheryda Warrener, Stephan Garneau and Erica Wilk.

Artspeak gratefully acknowledges the BC Arts Council Youth Engagement program for their support of this initiative.

Claire Geddes Bailey is a writer and artist from Edmonton currently living in Vancouver, where she studies English Literature and Visual Art at UBC. She recently attempted to cut her own hair into a 2000s-chic mullet, an experience that resulted in a pixie cut and a new appreciation for the creative power of scissors.

Cristina Holman is a writer and artist who holds a degree from the University of British Columbia, where she studied Psychology and Creative Writing. She works as an arts administrator and volunteers as a literacy mentor. Cristina has a pixie haircut that her grandparents love. She had a recent urge to ask for a bowl cut at the salon, but suppressed it. She is at peace with this.

Emma Metcalfe Hurst organizes, catalogues, records, writes, edits, reads, watches, talks, and walks, more or less interchangeably. In 2017, she was a curatorial intern at the Nanaimo Art Gallery, and now works at the Western Front on Acts of Transfer, a project that aims to highlight and annotate the performance art by women from its media archive. She is revelling in the lightness of a fresh three-inch trim.

Kiel Torres calls Vancouver home. She studies art history at the University of British Columbia and dreams of one day becoming a contestant on Jeopardy! Her writing has previously appeared in SAD Mag, the UBC Undergraduate Journal of Art History and Visual Culture, as well as in publications for the Hatch Gallery, and the Museum of Anthropology. Her bangs are not a phase.

Christian Vistan is a Filipino-Canadian artist originally from Bataan, a peninsular province. He works out of his home, his studio and various libraries in Ladner and Vancouver, BC. From 2016 to 2017, he was a Curatorial Assistant at Centre A, where he contributed to the gallery’s programs and exhibitions. His work has been exhibited in Canada, US, and the Philippines. Currently, he has hair past his shoulders and is contemplating an internal layer in the back.

Sheryda Warrener is the author of two poetry collections: Hard Feelings (Snare, 2010) and Floating is Everything (Nightwood, 2015). Her work can be found online or in print in Event, Grain, The Fiddlehead, Hazlitt, The Believer, among others. In 2017, she was the recipient of The Puritan’s Thomas Morton Memorial Prize for poetry. Originally from Grimsby, Ontario, she lives in Vancouver, where she’s a lecturer in the Creative Writing program at UBC.

Moniker Press is a risograph print and publishing studio in Vancouver, BC, that works collaboratively with artists , designers and writers to produce small editions of books, zines and print ephemera. monikerpress.ca

Stephan Garneau is a designer and writer based in Vancouver. In his work he is interested in the two-dimensional visual representation of information through textual, graphic and photographic mediums. In addition to freelance and self-directed projects relating to contemporary art and design, he works as an instructional designer for software. He is beginning his Masters of Visual Communication with a major in Information Design at Aalto University in fall 2018.

Publications

  • glue

    glue

    Artist: Claire Geddes Bailey
    Category: Studio for Emerging Writers Publication
    Design: Stephan Garneau
    Publisher: Artspeak
    Printer: Erica Wilk, Moniker Press
    Year published: 2018
    Edition: 50
    Pages: 24p
    Cover: soft
    Binding: perfect bound
    Dimensions: 260 x 182 mm
    Weight: 95g

    ISBN: 978-1-927630-04-4
    Cost: $15
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  • Swan Dives

    Swan dives

    Artist: Kiel Torres
    Category: Studio for Emerging Writer Publication
    Design: Stephan Garneau
    Publisher: Artspeak
    Printer: Erica Wilk, Moniker Press
    Year published: 2018
    Edition: 50
    Pages: 18p
    Cover: soft
    Binding: perfect bound
    Dimensions: 260 x 182 mm
    Weight: 85g

    ISBN: 978-1-927630-05-1
    Cost: $15

  • Liminal Ziplock


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    Artist: Emma Metcalfe Hurst
    Category: Studio for Emerging Writer Publication
    Design: Stephan Garneau
    Publisher: Artspeak
    Printer: Erica Wilk, Moniker Press
    Year published: 2018
    Edition: 50
    Pages: 20p
    Cover: soft
    Binding: unbound
    Dimensions: 260 x 180 mm
    Weight: 120g

    ISBN: 978-1-927630-07-5
    Cost: $15


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  • a lot, a lot

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    Artist: Christian Vistan
    Category: Studio for Emerging Writer Publication
    Design: Stephan Garneau
    Publisher: Artspeak
    Printer: Erica Wilk, Moniker Press
    Year published: 2018
    Edition: 50
    Pages: 20p
    Cover: soft
    Binding: perfect bound
    Dimensions: 260 x 182 mm
    Weight: 95g

    ISBN: 978-1-927630-06-8
    Cost: $15
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  • Stop Wincing/We’re Fine

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    Artists: Cristina Holman
    Category: Studio for Emerging Writer Publication
    Design: Stephan Garneau
    Publisher: Artspeak
    Printer: Erica Wilk, Moniker Press
    Year published: 2018
    Edition: 50
    Pages: 32p
    Cover: soft
    Binding: perfect bound
    Dimensions: 260 x 182 mm
    Weight: 95g

    ISBN: 978-1-927630-08-2
    Cost: $15
    Sold out