Transcanada Letters

Jan 19, 1976
Field:

Reading, Performance

Location:

Grand Luxe Hall, Western Front

Description:

Western Front hosted an evening with Roy Kiyooka in the Grand Luxe Hall to celebrate the launch of his collection Transcanada Letters (1975). Introduced by George Bowering, Kiyooka showed a number of slides from a recent trip to Mexico before reading from the book. 

The event was broadcast on Vancouver Co-operative Radio. 

Video and audio documentation is available upon request.

Related People

Western Front is a non-profit artist-run centre in Vancouver.

We acknowledge the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations as traditional owners of the land upon which Western Front stands.