BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Asian Heritage Foundation - ECPv6.11.2//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Asian Heritage Foundation
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://asianheritageyyc.ca
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Asian Heritage Foundation
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Vancouver
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20260308T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20261101T090000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260511T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260511T190000
DTSTAMP:20260626T203710
CREATED:20260501T154717Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260505T063534Z
UID:5709-1778526000-1778526000@asianheritageyyc.ca
SUMMARY:Writing the Body Politic with Joanne Leow
DESCRIPTION:What does it really mean to say that the personal is the political? In this craft lecture\, Joanne Leow shares the challenges and methods that she used to weave fragmentary life writing with political critique in her new book Exhumations. \nDrawing from her experience as a journalist\, researcher\, educator\, and poet\, she will discuss how to calibrate between different registers of writing while preserving the coherence of a longer manuscript. She will examine what it means to write not just as an author but also as a mother\, daughter\, caregiver\, patient\, and political subject. \nWe will be using a new format for this Creative Writing Class. Joanne will be giving a lecture on writing craft\, followed by a Q + A. There will not be peer group work in this session. \n—\n \nJoanne Leow grew up in Singapore and lives on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish)\, and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. She is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair at Simon Fraser University. Her work includes the academic monograph Counter-Cartographies: Reading Singapore Otherwise (Liverpool University Press\, 2024)\, the poetry collection Seas Move Away (Turnstone Press\, 2022)\, and the hybrid memoir Exhumations: Inside the Body of the Petrostate (Alchemy Press\, 2026).
URL:https://asianheritageyyc.ca/events/writing-the-body-politic-with-joanne-leow/
LOCATION:Vancouver\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Asian Heritage Month 2026,British Columbia
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://asianheritageyyc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/writing-the-body.png
ORGANIZER;CN="Vancouver Public Library":MAILTO:info@vpl.ca
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR