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Pat Martin Bates Gallery at Victoria Arts Council 670 Fort Street, Victoria, British Columbia V8W 3V2
Victoria Arts Council, "Concrete is Porous," 2020
STANZAS anchor exhibition, concrete is porous, takes place at the VAC’s main gallery (1800 Store Street) and features work by twenty-eight preeminent Canadian poets such as bpNichol, bill bissett, and Paul Dutton, along with sections of work by Griffin Poetry Prize Winner Jordan Abel’s latest collection, NISHGA. Also on view at the VAC is project by local poet-librarian Christine Walde using lyrics from the popular band Joy Division, a folio of concrete poetry by Internationally-recognized Vancouver Island artist Michael Morris, as well as the most expensive poem ever published: Aram Saroyan’s“lighght”.
- A Reading from the Ether by bill bissett @ VAC, Thursday 22 October, 4:30PM [remote presentation]