Love poetry? Join us at the AMP Lab for an epic reading experiment. We’ll take turns reading aloud from Fred Wah’s collected body of poetry, as curated and guided by poet and former AMP Lab Artist-in-Residence Xiaoxuan Huang (MFA). Come […]
By Karis Shearer (Assoc. Prof, English) & Paige Hohmann (UBCO Archivist) In the following exchange, UBC (Okanagan) SpokenWeb affiliates Karis Shearer and Paige Hohmann turn their attention to a clip from the SoundBox Collection and consider its connection to the […]
In the Archive: The Charles Olson Memorial Recording by Megan Butchart (Undergraduate Research Assistant, SpokenWeb) One of the primary challenges in compiling metadata for recordings within the SoundBox collection is the informal and amateur nature of most of the […]
by Karis Shearer (AMP Lab Director) In spring 2019 the UBCO SpokenWeb team commissioned multimedia artist Evan Berg (BFA ’19) to create a short film drawing on an archival recording from the AMP Lab’s SoundBox Collection. I was personally very […]
By Karis Shearer (Director) On Monday, SpokenWeb Podcast released its 3rd episode: Invisible Labour. Our UBCO SpokenWeb team has been following the podcast series since the inaugural episode, the occasion for which we hosted a big listening party in […]
By Amy Thiessen On September 18th, Megan Butchart curated a close listening experience during which I gathered with friends, colleagues, and guests – including Daphne Marlatt and her partner Bridget MacKenzie – with the intent to listen. We first […]
By Megan Butchart (BA, English Hons & History) Earlier this term, I invited celebrated poet Daphne Marlatt to Kelowna and organized a series of events around her visit. With support from Tuum Est Student Initiative Fund and SpokenWeb, I […]
Join us for an epic reading of Sharon Thesen’s body of work!
Visit the AMP Lab’s interactive displays that showcase two of its new projects: the SpokenWeb Project, and the Negative Heritage Project (NHP).
Stop procrastinating and write! Now!