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 […]
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 […]
Meeting Report: March 31st, 2020 by Amy Thiessen (Project Manager) Welcome to the first in a recurring series of short posts that will highlight the work being done by our UBCO SpokenWeb team. Since September 2019 our team has been […]
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 […]
A flower bed in Exeter University’s garden. During reading week this February, I had the opportunity to go with the AMP Lab to Exeter in the UK. The purpose of the exchange was to foster development on two training modules […]
Taking a moment on the Exeter Rock on the way to the Royal Albert Memorial Museum (left to right Charlotte Tupman, Eva Bodenschatz, Connor Spence, Karis Shearer, Emily Murphy) Over the course of a week, Karis Shearer, Emily Murphy, Miles […]
Stop procrastinating and write! Now!
Marjorie Mitchell, Megan Butchart, and Evan Berg were on site to talk with Opera Kelowna’s VIP guests about the SoundBox collection and the SpokenWeb partnership prior to the incredible (and free!) Opera Under the Stars event.