findings

Night Work: A Sawchuk Short Film

In the short film Night Work: A Sawchuk Poem (based on the book Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems by Randall Maggs), director Justin Simms explores the question: What kind of man puts himself in the path of a rubber missile travelli

A Man’s World

Charles Prince of Wales; admiration for Diana; age difference and Diana; appearance; Arabian Gulf tour; assistant private secretaries; Australia-New Zealand tour; Australia tour; at Balmoral; Beaufort Hunt and; birth of Harry and; birth of William an

Elongated Custodian

Hockey players’ nicknames from The Canadian Hockey Atlas

TODD WONG
Striking Haiku

Last summer, Vancouver Public Library workers composed Strike Haiku during their 88-day job action.

Daniel Francis
Daniel Francis Interview

Daniel Francis recently spoke to Joseph Planta from THECOMMENTARY.ca about his book, Red Light Neon: A History of Vancouver’s Sex Trade (Subway, 2007). Listen here.

Diddly Squat

List of objects destroyed by the Vancouver Police Department and the City of Vancouver at the Woodward’s Squat

Exquisite Corpse

A series of narratives and rants written collaboratively in the exquisite corpse form (write a sentence and pass the paper to the next person).

Vede Hille
Queer History Project: The Love That Won't Shut Up

Geist is proud to present a clip from the World Premiere of a new film by Ivan E. Coyote and Veda Hille. Commissioned for Out On Screen’s new Queer History Project, this is the first in a series of creative partnerships that draw out Vancouver’s forg

Blog, Slog, Filibuster

The ten most looked-up words in Merriam-Webster’s online dictionary 2003-2006.

Glass Eyes and False Teeth

Things found in the Toronto Transit Commission’s Lost and Found.

JULIE PAUL
Turning Japanese

We wake up and make sushi. A dream, to find a boy who knows how to roll the finest Californias, to cone the sweetest temakis, and here he is, slicing carrots and cucumbers into little sticks. I think, my time has come, my ship has arrived, my boy wit

Miriam Toews
Owen Unplugged

His hair is red and shaggy and longish, and he’s pale and slim and six feet tall. Music is everything to him, which makes sense because he’s fifteen. I was twenty-two when he was born. I’d never had brothers or any other close male relatives and I’d

ANDRÉ VANASSE
Swinging with Gabrielle

She led me past the house and across the lawn to a red two-seater platform swing. We climbed into it and sat facing each other. I was too intimidated to say a word.

Lesbian National Parks

This postcard was produced as part of The Lesbian National Park Rangers, a performance by Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan, which took place in July 1997. Dempsey and Millan dressed as rangers and patrolled the streets, trails and canoe routes in and

MARY MEIGS
To My Death

I can measure you more or less In years, you in the shadows Of myself, and don’t I sometimes feel your Fingers round my throat?

MARY MEIGS
The Meeting

In the pre-time being, in the rehearsal period for the real, Marj wrote to Kate, "I’ve been doing exercises between visible and invisible, between imagining touch and really touching." At the moment of meeting they are not surprised by the alchemy th

Michelle Fost
Cold Fish

Anita slept with a tourist named Hans. He was a German gymnast who had trained for the Olympics for eleven years and gave it up. Now he was driving a vw van across Canada. St. John’s was his starting point.

MARY MEIGS
The Time Being

The real story is truer than fiction, Marj once thought. But where is the truth in an imaginary love story that grows from a correspondence between two old women, separated by the distance between New South Wales and Quebec?

Bindertwine Queen

Jim Slater would be judging the competition for Bindertwine Queen that afternoon and wanted to drive over to the festival in his new tractor and park in front of the crowd, but his wife said that it was the Contestants’ day and not his day, and so he

Wigmaker

Every day she sits down at a table by the window and cuts long pieces of hair and sews them together onto mesh caps and backing strips.