Woodwards

Co-presented by SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement, Thursday May 14 offered “An Evening with Willie Thrasher and Linda Saddleback” at the Djavad Mowafaghian World Art Centre.

Thrasher is an Inuk musician from Aklavik, Inuvik who writes music that reflects his Aboriginal heritage and life story. The night was full of live music, archival visuals, and a vinyl DJ set of Indigenous music.

Harbour Centre

Last week’s Lunch Poems at SFU featured Chelene Knight and Dina Del Bucchia on May 20 at the Teck Gallery in SFU’s Harbour Centre campus.

Knight is an SFU alumna, who completed SFU’s The Writer’s Studio program for creative writing. Del Bucchia is co-artistic director of Real Vancouver Writers’ Series and the author of novels such as Coping with Emotions and Otters.