poetry & place:
the spaces between hope and home
A workshop by fanny kearse
Thursday June 11th, 2026
7:00PM – 9:00PM
*Doors open at 6:30PM
Location: Cathedral Neighbourhood Centre (2900 13th Avenue)
Presently, fanny’s own art asks: what do we owe the land? What do we owe each other? This poetry workshop is an exploration of the places within us, the places that hold us and the spaces between where we are and where we think we might be meant to be. Using memory as an orientation of time, the duality of joy & grief as our body’s weather system, and identity seeking as a form of language, we will lean into the murky beauty of how place can inform our fate.
This workshop is free to attend, but please register in advance so we can plan seating!
More about the Artist:
fanny kearse is a Black, Queer, Jewish, Disabled human whose multidisciplinary practice spans performance, writing, and curation. A recovering people pleaser, late bloomer, dreamer, and community tender, their art traces pathways of self-reclamation; where grief becomes a guide, pain opens portals to the divine, and room is made for the joy of unbecoming. They won the Harold Green Theatre Monologue Competition in 2021, published their first book of poetry & prose, umi’s prayer in 2023 and co-produced the Telus Storyhive docuseries, Glimmers in 2025. fanny is an artist-in-residence at Maquinna elementary school, a board member with Curtain Razors Art Collective, All Bodies Dance Project, and Black & Rural Arts and is an organizer of transcendental community gatherings. she is living out the wildest of her dreams with her co-creator at life & art, Que, on the unceded, unsurrendered territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ Nations.
