I’m thrilled to be moderating a free discussion on the life and work of Gertrude Stein. It will be held at 5PM on Nov 30 at SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, 149 W Hastings. I’ll be joined by panelists including: award-winning poet Renée Sarojini Saklikar; musician and co-founder of the Queer Arts Festival, Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa; UBC Professor of English, Adam J. Frank, and composer Peter Hatch.
This is a free panel preceding a paid, ticketed performance by Turning Point Ensemble who will be performing pieces inspired by Stein’s work.
The program is a staged concert including the epic Songs of War I Have Seen by arguably one of the most innovative music theatre composers of the last 20 years, Germany’s Heiner Goebbels. Goebbels’ work includes a choice of 26 texts from Stein’s book written during the Second World War in France, all narrated by female members of the ensemble. The concert will also include B.C. composer Peter Hatch’s powerful Reflections on the Atomic Bomb which includes observations of Gertrude Stein published in the ‘Previously uncollected writings of Gertrude Stein’.
Reserve your free ticket to the panel here. You can buy tickets to the Turning Points Ensemble event here.
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