The Vancouver Poet Laureate’s City Poems Project has involved an innovative collaboration between local poets and teams of student media artists from Simon Fraser University’s IAT 344 (Moving Images), Emily Carr University of Art & Design’s 2DN 211 (2D Animation) & Foundation 160 (Core Media Studio), and UBC’s FNIS 454 (Indigenous New Media, Critical Indigenous Studies) to create a compelling array of poetry videos based on selected poems about historical, cultural and ecological sites located on the traditional, unceded territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples, currently known as Vancouver.
This program features student artists:
Madelyne Nowell, Kara Doxator, Claire Everson, Eva Moulton
Cindy Wang, Erin Au and Rohan Samuel
Sammy Vu, Kris Reyes, Sodam Hong, Poppy Sura
Jimmy Wang and Analee Weinberger
Kais Neffati, Bhalinder Singh Oberoi, Ishmael Togi, Minh Truong
Brian Baldueza, Wilson Pham, Nanop Yansomboon
Aranza Bergés Navarrete, Alycia Chan, Ryah King, Ky Milliken, Yije Park, Yuna Shin, Chloe Worrall-Yu
Saskia Downard, Anika Kuban, Emily Martinez
Christy Fang, Vito Fan, Cici Tan, Calvin Lin
Deanne Angelina Emery, Carola Campa Garcia, Luna Davies, Emilio Terrazas Rocha, Rachel Christina Kearney, Lingjun Mi, Mingyang Pan
Joanne Kim,Yenan Huang, Dongmei Han, Hanako Oba
Ton Nu Sao Khue Nguyen and Valerie Ni Shun Chen
Alexis Lee, Van Mai, Erin Teply
Zak Zastera, Jonathon Newman, Alyssa Umbal, Russell Yuen
Learn more at https://www.vpl.ca/poetlaureate
Curated by Fiona Tinwei Lam & Alger Ji-Liang