Split Ends – 2024 Art Writing Mentorship Public Reading

Split Ends 

Date: August 16, 2024 

Time: 6 – 8 PM 

Location: Centre A

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Join us for an intimate evening of readings by participants in our 2024 Art Writing Mentorship Program on August 16. Using place, body, and memory, they will share works of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and performance that think through uncertainty and moments of transition. 

Light snacks and refreshments will be provided.

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Reader Bio:

Oceania Chee is a student and a creative currently living, practicing, and making in “Vancouver”, on unceded Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh territory. Their moon is in Scorpio and they wear a C-cup bra, so the future bodes well for them. 

Sena Cleave works in sculpture, language, and photographic experiments to address ideas of il/legibility and hybridity, as well as exchange and reciprocity. Recent exhibitions include 560 Gallery, Seymour Art Gallery, Mónica Reyes Gallery, and Massy Arts Society. Cleave’s writing has been published in the Contemporary Art Gallery’s Timelines and The Only Animal Theatre’s Slow Practice. 

Lauren Han is an interdisciplinary artist born on Treaty 7 territory in Mohkinstsis/Calgary. Their practice is wide-ranging but mostly orbits around performance. They love both mess and precision.

Malivia Khondaker is an artist and writer located on unlawfully occupied Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-waututh territory. Malivia aspires to one day find god in all the little things. 

Parumveer Walia (b. Chandigarh, India) is an artist and writer working in photography and expanded media examining the turmoil and tenderness of being the Other. Walia is pursuing a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Emily Carr University of Art and Design with a minor in Curatorial Studies.

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Image: courtesy of Parumveer Walia and Malivia Khondaker

This program is generously supported by the Sector Innovation Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts, Regional Cultural Project Grant from Metro Vancouver and SFU’s David Lam Center.