July 5, 2019 by Surrey Muse

July 26-2019 Gathering of Surrey Muse

84th Gathering

Featured art by Ed Kuris, poster design by Mariam Zohra

July 26, 2019
Author Veeno Dewan
Poet Kyle McKillop
Artist Ed Kuris
Open Mic Opener Karen Schauber
Featured Art by Ed Kuris
Host Nefertiti SheLa Morrison

5:30 – 8:30 PM
Room 405 – City Centre branch
Surrey Public Library
Phone: (604) 598-7420
(Surrey Central skytrain)

Open Mic
Book Table
Refreshments

Free event
Donations welcome

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Raghavendra Rao K.V. – Surrey Muse

Raghavendra Rao K.V. is a South Asian Canadian artist who has just finished a series of paintings on the historic incident of Komagata Maru. Born and raised in Bangalore, Karnataka (India), he attended the Ken School of Art and after completing his diploma in painting, he received a fellowship at the Kanoria Centre for Arts in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. As an emerging artist, he participated in ‘Four Young Contemporaries’ curated by Rekha Rodwittiya. As well, Raghu Jee explored the idea of installation art along with his peers, and participated in numerous solo and group shows in India, Europe, and North America. He has undertaken residencies in Switzerland, Scotland, Mauritius, numerous locations in India itself, and at a major collaborative art festival in Lille, France. Raghu Jee began teaching at Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology in Bangalore in 1997, and has taught there occasionally since 2012. He splits his time between Bangalore and Vancouver, where he paints and lives with his wife and two children.

More about Raghu Jee
raghuraokv.wordpress.com
Contact
raghuraokarkala@gmail.com

At the June 28 gathering of Surrey Muse, Raghu Jee will be the Featured Artist, and we’ll hear him via Skype from Europe where he is now visiting. More about the event: june-28-2019-gathering

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June 4, 2019 by Surrey Muse

June 28-2019 Gathering of Surrey Muse

83rd Gathering

June 28, 2019
Author Shashi Bhat
Poet Lozan Yamolky
Artist Raghavendra Rao K.V.
Open Mic Opener Val Parks
Featured Art by Raghavendra Rao K.V.
Host Randeep Purewall

5:30 – 8:30 PM
Room 405 – City Centre branch
Surrey Public Library
Phone: (604) 598-7420
(Surrey Central skytrain)

Open Mic
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May 27, 2019 by Surrey Muse

Surrey Muse Program July-November 2019

Art work by David Hale

Session 16
July-November 2019

July 26
Author Veeno Dewan
Poet Kyle McKillop
Performer Angel Edwards
Open Mic Opener Karen Schauber
Host Nefertiti SheLah Morrison

August 23
Author Asel Omar
Poet Isabella Wang
Performer Saroop Soofi
Open Mic Opener Tamar Vokey
Host Fauzia Rafique

September 27
Author Chimedum Ohaegbu
Poet Jessica Johns
Performer Tim Mar
Open Mic Opener Randeep Purewall
Host Mariam Zohra

October 25
Author Shazia Hafiz Ramji
Poet Ian Cognito
Performer Bill Arnott
Open Mic Opener Enna de Guzman
Host Jovian Radheshwar

November 22
Author Dorothy Christian
Poet Johnny MacRae
Performer Summer Pervez Sultan
Visiting Author Sharon Berg (Toronto)
Open Mic Opener Winston Le
Host Sana Janjua

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Surrey Muse program is put together twice a year, in Nov/Dec for January-June session, and in May/June for July-November session. Dates are blind-picked by participants through an invitation. Participants are invited from a recommendations list that stays open throughout the year. To recommend authors, poets and performers to be featured at Surrey Muse, use the email address at the bottom of this post or try the online recommendations form

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May 20, 2019 by Surrey Muse

Jovian Radheshwar – Surrey Muse

Jovian Radheshwar is a rapper, poet and an educator now based in Vancouver. Having grown up in New York listening to rap during an increasingly racialized America in the mid-1990s, Jovian began to practice rap as a medium for his artistic expression. In 2012, he collaborated as MC Bitter Buffalo with Bobby Musgrave (Pensive Blue Polar Bear) and Ed Keenan (DJ California Condor) in exploring the endangered nature of existence in a technologized modern world for the album ‘No Hooks’, and since then they have performed in Canada and the USA as the Endangered Species. Jovian’s poetry explores history, difference, drugs, science, knowledge, and the globalization of race. His music inspirations include Outkast, Nas and Pink Floyd where Hunter S. Thompson, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Frantz Fanon are among his literary influences. Jovian was born in Bombay and raised in New York, later he taught Black Studies, Global Studies, and Political Science in California for over ten years. Jovian lives in Burnaby and works as a professor of Political Science at Douglas College in New Westminster.

Visit Jovian’s SoundCloud profile
soundcloud.com/endangeredspecies
Contact Jovian
jovian.radheshwar@protonmail.com

At the May 24 gathering of Surrey Muse, Jovian will be the Featured Performer. More information about the event is here:
may-24-2019-gathering

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May 14, 2019 by Surrey Muse

Rahat Kurd – Surrey Muse

Rahat Kurd is a writer, poet, editor, and a librettist based in Vancouver. The first collection of her poems titled COSMOPHILIA was published by Talonbooks in 2015, and her poem ‘Alkohol’ was a finalist for the 2019 Malahat Review Long Poem Prize. Rahat’s first libretto, commissioned by composer Brian Current for his oratorio ‘The River of Light’ was performed earlier this month at the Vancouver Opera Festival. Her essays and reviews have appeared in the Literary Review of Canada, Rungh, The Walrus, and Maisonneuve magazines. She is the guest editor of the forthcoming 2019 Summer Supplement issue of The Puritan online literary magazine themed around ‘What does it mean to be a Muslim writer?’ Over the next year she hopes to complete a critical memoir about the transformation of Muslim identity, once a matter of private conscience, into a public spectacle.

More about Rahat
talonbooks.com/authors/rahat-kurd
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Contact Rahat
kurdrahat@gmail.com

At the May 24 gathering of Surrey Muse, Rahat will be our Featured Author. More information about the event is here:
may-24-2019-gathering

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May 9, 2019 by Surrey Muse

May 24-2019 Gathering of Surrey Muse

82nd Gathering

May 24, 2019
Author Rahat Kurd
Poet Kevin Spenst
Performer Jovian radheshwar
Open Mic Opener Idrian Burgos
Featured Art by Kanwal Dhaliwal
Host Mariam Zohra