Centre for Literatures in Canada | 2021 CLC Kreisel Lecture with Vivek Shraya: "Next Time There's a Pandemic" (Full Event) @clcualberta | Uploaded April 2021 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
On March 29th, 2021, the inimitable Vivek Shraya delivered the 2021 Kreisel Lecture: "Next Time There's a Pandemic." Watch the full event, including an introduction by U of A writer-in-residence J.R. Carpenter and Q&A with Vivek!
View the event programme: drive.google.com/file/d/1bOidIJsracZWeAiAR_gvnSDulxTt6Lm-/view
Artist and writer Vivek Shraya reflects on how she might have approached 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic differently, and what she wishes we collectively might have done differently.
Vivek Shraya is an artist whose body of work crosses the boundaries of music, literature, visual art, theatre, and film. Her best-selling book I’m Afraid of Men was heralded by Vanity Fair as “cultural rocket fuel,” and her album with Queer Songbook Orchestra, Part‑Time Woman, was nominated for the Polaris Music Prize. She is also the founder of the publishing imprint VS. Books.
A six-time Lambda Literary Award finalist, Vivek was a Pride Toronto Grand Marshal and has featured on The Globe and Mail’s Best Dressed list. She is a director on the board of the Tegan and Sara Foundation, an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Calgary, and is currently adapting her debut play, How To Fail As A Popstar, into a television pilot script with the support of CBC.
Special thanks to our sponsors and community partners: University of Alberta Press, Writer-in-Residence, Faculty of Arts, Intersections of Gender & Peter Lougheed Leadership College
Please visit ualberta.ca/arts/alumni-and-giving, click on the "Give to Arts" button, and specify that you intend your gift to go to the Canadian Literature Centre.
On March 29th, 2021, the inimitable Vivek Shraya delivered the 2021 Kreisel Lecture: "Next Time There's a Pandemic." Watch the full event, including an introduction by U of A writer-in-residence J.R. Carpenter and Q&A with Vivek!
View the event programme: drive.google.com/file/d/1bOidIJsracZWeAiAR_gvnSDulxTt6Lm-/view
Artist and writer Vivek Shraya reflects on how she might have approached 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic differently, and what she wishes we collectively might have done differently.
Vivek Shraya is an artist whose body of work crosses the boundaries of music, literature, visual art, theatre, and film. Her best-selling book I’m Afraid of Men was heralded by Vanity Fair as “cultural rocket fuel,” and her album with Queer Songbook Orchestra, Part‑Time Woman, was nominated for the Polaris Music Prize. She is also the founder of the publishing imprint VS. Books.
A six-time Lambda Literary Award finalist, Vivek was a Pride Toronto Grand Marshal and has featured on The Globe and Mail’s Best Dressed list. She is a director on the board of the Tegan and Sara Foundation, an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Calgary, and is currently adapting her debut play, How To Fail As A Popstar, into a television pilot script with the support of CBC.
Special thanks to our sponsors and community partners: University of Alberta Press, Writer-in-Residence, Faculty of Arts, Intersections of Gender & Peter Lougheed Leadership College
Please visit ualberta.ca/arts/alumni-and-giving, click on the "Give to Arts" button, and specify that you intend your gift to go to the Canadian Literature Centre.
