Translating Translating Montréal!

Mark your calendars! "Translating Translating Montréal" is a colloquium featuring discussion and performance of innovative poetic translation by Montrealers Oana Avasilichioaei and Angela Carr, and ex-pat-Montrealers-and/or-sometime Calgarians Robert Majzels and Erín Moure.

Thursday, March 8
University of Calgary – Learning Commons Room, Biology 540A – 2:30pm-5pm - Free

1)Translating Translating Montréal: A Colloquium on the Theory and Practice of Poetic Translation, moderated by Calgary poet Jill Hartman

• Erín Moure – “Co-Translating ‘Nicole Brossard’: Three-Way Spectacle or Spectre de Trois?”
• Oana Avasilichioaei – “Towards a multiplied authorship and against a transparent I: in translational collaboration with the work of Paul Celan and Nichita Stanescu”
• Angela Carr: “Undercover/undiscover: Love and Eros between Languages”
• Robert Majzels: “Whittling: Translating Tang Dynasty Poets into 85 Letters”

University of Calgary – ST 147 – 7pm-8:30pm (by donation)

2)Mountroyal!: Poetry/Translation Performances by the four writers


Friday, March 9
The New Gallery – 516D - 9th Avenue SW – 7:00pm (by donation, door prizes)

3)Vacheville!: Performances by Oana Avasilichioaei, Angela Carr, Robert Majzels, and Erín Moure

Readings hosted by lovely filling Station and dANDelion personalities (TBA-- ooh mystery hosts!), book table stocked with oodles of participants' books as well as limited edition broadsheets provided by the wonderful U of C Bookstore, venues of majesty provided by the always generous New Gallery and the scholarly University of Calgary. Listen for ads on Calgary's best radio station, CJSW 90.9 FM, and see you there!