Philip Holden’s short story collection Heaven Has Eyes spans three cities—Singapore, Vancouver, and London—exploring belonging across space, language, culture, and time. Its new North American edition contains new stories that consider the place of the past in the present, and which are also informed by practices of narrative care in mental health. Taking Singapore as a fulcrum, […]
In this presentation, artist Jade Yumang will explore the frameworks of queer form as a method of cultural inquiry and aesthetic expression. This exploration will encompass several projects that investigate how bodies are oriented and perceived both optically and spatially. The discussion is grounded in fibre craft techniques and their histories, emphasizing how these techniques […]
“I feel like the crud / I accidentally touch sometimes, whatever it is / that collects under cushions on my couch,” writes Kayla Czaga in her third collection, Midway, an exploration of grief. In her search for meaning in the aftermath of her parents’ deaths, Czaga visits the underworld (at least twice), Vietnamese restaurants, the beach, […]
Settler colonial studies and Indigenous studies are often assumed to be the same intellectual project. In Indigenomicon: American Indians, Video Games, and the Structures of Dispossession (Duke University Press, 2025), Jodi A Byrd examines the differences between the two fields by bringing video game studies and Indigenous studies into conversation with Black studies, queer studies, and Indigenous […]
In the first event of the series ‘Living Archives,’ Green College writer in residence Theresa Muñoz will be in conversation with novelist Madeleine Thien, discussing how to weave archives and research materials into poetry and fiction. Theresa Muñoz’s latest poetry collection Archivum explores objects belonging to writer Muriel Spark, actor Maggie Smith, the 19th century slave owner’s daughter Eliza […]
Duo Oriana’s latest endeavour, the Toronto Book of Ayres, sets four texts commissioned from contemporary poets Martin Gomes and Melissa Davidson to music by lutenist Jonathan Stuchbery. Together, these four songs form the beginning of a 21st-century collection of music for lute and voice. In this lecture recital, Duo Oriana will dive into the reasoning, process, and […]
Curiosity moves us. Determination gets us there—because progress doesn’t happen on its own. See how we push forward.
