The Capilano Review

Sound on. Now available on our website: is pleased to announce the latest addition to our ongoing SMALL CAPS digital publication series, by Christian Vistan & Elisa Ferrari. This digital publication also marks the first in our ongoing suite of web releases in celebration of Issue 3.42: Translingual. was written following five walks taken and recorded in July 2020 in Vistan and Ferrari’s... respective neighbourhoods of Ladner and Mount Pleasant on the unceded territories of the Tsawwassen, Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. On these walks, they read texts by and to each other alongside writing by Etel Adnan, Dylan Robinson, Édouard Glissant, Amelia Rosselli, Rhoda Rosenfeld, Craig Dworkin, and Harryette Mullen. The sonic environment is interpreted, translated, and foregrounded into text in the writing from these walks. Head to the following link to download the free, digital publication and listen to the accompanying audio track. https://thecapilanoreview.com/project/small-caps-5/

After many months of distanced reading and writing, we're happy to share our latest web folio. Edited by Jacquelyn Ross, - : features the three winners of our Spring 2020 New Physicalities Writing Contest judged by , ', and as well as longlisted contest entries and selected submissions to our online writing prompt series, Long Distance Poem. Download the free issue on our website. https:/.../thecapilanoreview.com/ With contributions by: - - óí ’ Cover image: Ryley O'Byrne, -, 2020, digital collage. Courtesy of the artist. Image Description: Text reads "ti-TCR 18 a webfolio". Underneath is a digital collage featuring screen shots from a Mac computer. We see hands holding walkers, hands grazing skin, a hand touching a large deep red flower in a bush (perhaps a rose), illustrative graphs of hands touching, inlays of finger nails and paintings of hands. Underneath text reads "new physicalities". End ID. See more

For three weeks beginning this , , celebrates the launch of Issue 3.42: Translingual with the release of three digital features. These textual, sonic, and visual activations expand the work in the print issue and feature the work of contributors , , , and . Links to each digital project will be released through our newsletter and available exclusively on our website. Stay tuned... for the first release on Friday, and in the meantime, take a sneak peek to see what we have planned. https://thecapilanoreview.com/translingual-release/ Inset image credit: Christian Vistan and Elisa Ferrari, from . See more

SOLD OUT FLASH SALE To celebrate yesterday's publishing panel, we are part of a flash sale with 5 other amazing publications. Get 6 print magazines for only $30. Act quick! Sale ends Friday at Midnight (or when we sell out)! A SUPER PACK sampler of some of the BEST Canadian indy arts publications in print now!... SIX lovingly crafted publications from across Canada - ONE LOW price - 72 hours ONLY. Https://www.photoed.ca/publishers6pack Quantities strictly limited. Each bundle include a copy of: The Capilano Review (BC) SEITIES (AB) BlackFlash (SK) PhotoED (ON) ESSE (QC) Created Here (NB)

On our website now, Clint Burnham on Evan Lee's at @sfugalleries Teck Gallery, a first in our introduction of web-only reviews. https://thecapilanoreview.com/ "I want to take seriously the argument that fakery, the fugazi nature of Evan Lee’s artwork can be read through a Marxist critique of finance capitalism. That is, a critique of fugazi can help us to understand why Marxism must not overlook the importance of immaterial, emotional, and other forms of ...non-capital producing labour." - Clint Burnham Evan Lee: Fugazi was on view from May 11, 2019 April 26, 2020 at SFU Galleries’ Teck Gallery in Vancouver. Image: , 2019, Installation view, SFU Teck Gallery Image credit: Blaine Campbell Image description: A large gallery wall perpendicular to a large window. On the wall is a mural sized image with a black background and shapes emerging with colours reminiscent of light going through prisms. End ID. See more

"As a lifelong learner I am committed to a continual practice of two-eyed seeing in which traditional knowledge is considered alongside findings from Western science. Liz Howard, in conversation with Room magazine We are honoured to have Liz Howard as our 2020 Writer-in-Residence. Read the full interview with Manahil Bandukwala : https://roommagazine.com//liz-howard-interrogating-climate

: is arriving in mailboxes. Wishing to bring more art, and experimentation to your day? Subscribe today to receive three issues per year. Since 1972. To peek the fall issue and subscribe: https://thecapilanoreview.com/ Cover art: Damla Tamer, (detail), 2019-20, ink on paper, woven, 127 x 81 cm. Image credit: SITE Photography. Courtesy of the artist and the Contemporary Art Gallery. ... Inside image: Mark Igloliorte, , 2019, seal skin. Image credit: Holly Marie Russel. Courtesy of the artist and The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, Newfoundland and Labrador. Image descriptions: 1. Photograph of the fall issue next to a plant. The cover has a white background and apricot coloured text. The cover image is an artwork by Damla Tamer which is a weaving created of strands of paper. Small text and ink drawings are incorporated into the weaving. 2. Inside of the fall issue. Features poetry. 3. Inside of the fall issue with writing and a photograph of a neck pillow created in seal skin by Mark Igloliorte. End ID. See more

Join us for an evening dedicated to Canadian print magazine publishing, with guests Sanja Lukac @seities + Maxine Procto BlackFlash Magazine + Jacquelyn Ross @TheCapilanoReview + Lauren Lavery @peripheralreview + Rita Godlevskis @PhotoEDmagazine Tuesday, November 17, 4pm PST. Tickets are $20 but, a limited number of community members can receive free entry with Coupon Code CAPILANOSUBSCRIBER at checkout! https://www.seities.ca//click-club-canadian-publisher-pane

Fall is here and we couldn't be more excited to announce our newest issue. . ( ): features new poetry, essays, conversations, visual art, and reviews by , , , , , , , , , & , , , , , , , , & ... , , and -. Purchase a copy: https://thecapilanoreview.com/issues/fall-2020-translingual/ Subscribe to get three issues of art and writing delivered to your door: https://thecapilanoreview.com/subscribe/ Cover image: Damla Tamer, (detail), 2019-20, ink on paper, woven, 127 x 81 cm. Image credit: SITE Photography. Courtesy of the artist. Image Description: Graphic featuring the cover of Issue 3.42 with an apricot coloured background. The cover has an image of an artwork consisting of black and write paper with ink stains and text woven into a tapestry. End ID. See more

Cover image: Damla Tamer, (detail), 2019-20, ink on paper, woven, 127 x 81 cm. Image credit: SITE Photography. Courtesy of the artist and the Contemporary Art Gallery.

Next Tuesday, hear from Managing Editor Jacquelyn Ross in the CLICK CLUB Canadian Publisher Panel Conversation. Ross is joined by Rita Godlevskis of Photo Ed Magazine, Maxine Proctor of BlackFlash Magazine, Lauren Lavery of Peripheral Review, Sanja Lukac of SEITIES. Special offer for community members: Join the event for free by entering Coupon Code CAPILANOSUBSCRIBER on the event link (limited offer - register today!). Register https://www.seities.ca//click-club-canadian-publisher-pane Tuesday, November 17, 4 pm PST.

This Thursday, SFU Department of English celebrates Dr. Okot Bitek's residency with a reading from her work and lively conversation with Canisia Lubrin, moderated by David Chariandy. We are so pleased to see contributor and member of the Editorial Board be appointed the 2020 Ellen and Warren Tallman writer-in-residence in SFU’s Department of English, and look forward to associated programming! Email: [email protected] to sign up for the October 8th ...event. You can watch @Jobitek read from her award-winning book, 100 and poems she wrote about COVID-19 here: http://www.warscapes.com//juliane-okot-bitek-uganda-and-ca Image description: Juliane Okot Bitek is facing the camera, holding a printed image in front of them. The image features a young woman in front of a blue blue textured wall. She is wearing a red and blue wrap around her head, and it seems she has water or mud on her face. End ID. See more

As the summer days come to an end, we reflect on all the ways we learnt to gather this year. Spaced out summer kitchens, readings in the park, film productions made by two. Our summer short films which chart part of this learning, created by Israel Seoane featuring S. F. Ho, Andrea Actis. and Garden Don't Care, are avaiable for viewing on our website. https://thecapilanoreview.com/ ... Image description: a table top scene. The table has a white table cover and has plants, fruits, bowls, collages scattered across it. End ID. @israseoane @missactis @gardendontcare See more

Join our friends at Megaphone Magazine for their annual fundraiser and celebration Megaphone Happy Houronline on September 24th, 4:30 - 6 pm. Get your tickets here: www.megaphonemagazine.com/happy_hour This event will leave you feeling inspired after a long-day of work. What you can expect: ... - Optional Interactive breakout rooms to mingle with Megaphone vendors and community members - Entertainment by the award-winning improv group - The Sunday Service - A meaningful conversation on community improvisation in the age of COVID-19 featuring Samanth Pranteau from TORO and Kathy Shimizu from Downtown Eastside Response and Powell Street Festival. - Award one very deserving vendor the 2020 Vendor of the Year award. P.S. If cost is a barrier to participation, please contact Megaphone at [email protected] for sponsored seats

This summer, The Tyee published an article examining the lesser-known history of Vancouver's "Gassy Jack" and pays tribute to the powerful Squamish leader Quahail-ya (also known as Madeline Deighton) who has often been left out of the account. There is no monument to Quahail-ya, but her story is important, Squamish cultural leader, poet and ethnobotanist T’uy’t’tanat Cease Wyss told the CBC last year." T’uy’t’tanat Cease Wyss's poem from Issue 3.35 of The Capilano Review, ..."Ode to Madeline Deighton," is featured in the article, and can be read for free through our archive: https://journals.sfu.ca///capreview/article/view/3207/3205 Read the full Tyee article: https://thetyee.ca///01/Tearning-Down-Monumental-Mistakes/ Read The Capilano Review's Issue 3.35 on Place and Displacement: https://thecapilanoreview.com/issues/spring-2018-2/

Introducing ', one of the winners of our New Physicalities contest. Ryley O'Byrne is an artist and writer from Roberts Creek, BC, the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples. She has a degree from Emily Carr University and attended the Mountain School of Art in Los Angeles. Her practice spans many mediums, and can be explored at her website www.ryleyd.com... Image credit: Ryley O'Byrne, . Image Description: A high resolution screen shot showing two Mac image previews. The image on the left has a figure wearing a full covering, created with large panels of fabric of many different textures including silver and gold sequins, colorful pastel marble, light grey, and light yellow. The figure has one arm extended to the side with silver fringe falling down along the length of the arm. The image on the right shows someone wearing the same textile, taking a selfie above a sink. Their hair is pulled back in a pony tail and we presume it is the artist, Ryley O'Byrne. She seems to be in a studio with a large white bucket in the background. #ryleyobyrne #emilycarr #vancouver #vancouverart #vancouverartist #yvr #yvrart #photography #textile #textileart #selfie #contemporary #contemporaryart #artist See more

Pleased to be sharing a bit more about , one of the winners of our New Physicalities: Spring Contest. Jasper is a writer and musician living and working on the unceded territory of the Skwx wu7mesh (Squamish), xwmkwy m (Musqueam), and Sl ilwta/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Jasper’s writing has been featured in a variety of print and online publications, including , , , and . Jasper has... recorded and performed with such musicians as Sam Tudor, Wallgrin and Harley Small. In anticipation of the ti-TCR publishing the New Physicalities entries, we encourage you to give Sam Tudor's newest release, Change My Shape, a listen. It is accompanied by a entrancing animation by Anna Firth (@tallgrill). Head to https://www.facebook.com/samtudor to watch & listen. Image credit: Concept & Animation by Anna Firth for from Sam Tudor's upcoming fall 2020 album.

Introducing a bit more about our New Physicalities: Spring Contest winners. is a poet and editor based in Verdun, Québec, on the unceded land of Kanien’keha:ka Nation. His first book, , is forthcoming from Brick Books. Bradford has published a number of chapbooks, including , available through House House Press. Bradford was also previously published in Issue 3.34, guest edited by Emmanuelle Andrews an...d Katrina Sellinger, and available to read for free through our archives. The above is an excerpt from his contribution. https://thecapilanoreview.com/issues/issue-3-34/ Image description: Black text on white background reads: Keep Breathing David Bradford. Caught a gash of them the flow strewn over the body of water licked over the strewn hand pulsed onward away from a hold of them That real people have died this way in the current Thrown there offloaded cud to the imminent passage. End ID. #poetry #NewPhysicalities #DavidBradford #TCR #TheCapilanoReview #HouseHousePress #Chapbook #BrickBooks #Writing #WritingContest #PoetryContest

Congratulations to the winners of our : , ', and ! Stay tuned as we highlight each winner and the contest judge throughout the week. Judged by , the contest call asked writers to consider the conditions of our present moment and "how we thrive": What lessons, strategies of care, and innovations are your mainstays? What new qualities are being brung to the notion of 'staying in touch'?... What is elegant; what holds; what is value IRL? We were humbled by the many submissions we received for the contest, and thank everyone who submitted for sharing their work with us. Your submission fees allowed us to make a $ last month to the @DTESResponse Fund, a coordinated effort to bring urgently needed supplies to Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and help prevent the spread of COVID-19 in the neighbourhood. All three winners will receive a $300 cash prize and publication in our forthcoming, long distance-themed issue of the web folio, ti-TCR. Not yet a subscriber? Subscribe before August 31 and receive a complimentary tote bag by Aisha Sasha John. https://thecapilanoreview.com/subscribe/ See more

Happy Independent Bookstore day! We are grateful for the critical and important role independent bookstores play in our world - not just in the publishing and bookselling realms, but in community as well. Thanks for being the best at supporting authors, carrying the best titles, and taking care of our big community Here is our most recent issue for sale at Indigenous-owned @MassyBooks, who are celebrating today with a special promotion: for every $50 spent, you receive a $5 gift card (online &in-store purchases). Check out Indigenous-owned @IronDogBooks as well! #bookstore #IndependentBookstore #IndieBookstore #IndependentBookstoreDay #MassyBooks #DowntownEastSide #Chinatown #Vancouver #VancouverReads #ShopLocal #SupportLocal