Reading by Sonja Arntzen

Mar 22, 1976
Field:

Reading, Performance

Location:

Grand Luxe Hall, Western Front

Time:

8:30 p.m.

Description:

As part of Western Front’s weekly Monday Night Reading Series in the Grand Luxe Hall, Sonja Arntzen presented her research on the medieval Japanese Zen Buddhist monk Ikkyū (1394–1481). Over the course of the evening, Arntzen read her own English translations of Ikkyū’s poems written in Chinese.

Captions:

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.