Tamar Haytayan – Surrey Muse

Tamar Haytayan is a writer and photographer working from a personal and intuitive perspective to capture candid moments of the culture of everyday life. Tamar studied photography at the Bournemouth & Poole College of Art & Design in UK, and her body of work spans over the last 28 years. Exploration of memory, mortality and grief has been a major theme of her work. Two of her recent projects explore the idea of fate and memory after genocide and intergenerational trauma as well as the self in middle age. She has shown at the Armenian Centre for Contemporary Art (Yerevan, Armenia), PhotoHaus Gallery (Vancouver, Canada), Philadelphia Photo Arts Center (Philadelphia, USA), The Women’s Art Show (Vancouver, Canada), The Center for Fine Art Photography (Fort Collins, Colorado), Los Angeles Centre of Photography (Los Angeles), The Blue Sky Gallery (Portland, Oregon), and has collaborated with the performance artist and poet Dr. Celeste Snowber (SFU). Tamar has received an Honorable Mention for the Norval Morrisseau Award 2022. At this time, she resides in Vancouver.

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At the March 25, 2023 gathering of Surrey Muse, Tamar will be the Featured Artist. More about the event is here: saturday-march-25

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Karen Schauber – Surrey Muse


Karen Schauber is a Flash Fiction writer obsessed with the form since she was first introduced to it two years ago. Her brief condensed short stories have appeared in 25 international literary magazines and anthologies including Brilliant Flash Fiction, Bending Genres, CarpeArte, Ekphrastic Review, and Fiction Southeast. Karen is working on her first editorial/curatorial flash venture titled ‘The Group of Seven Reimagined: Contemporary Stories Inspired by Historic Canadian Paintings’ that celebrates the Canadian modernist landscape painters. Karen runs Vancouver Flash Fiction, a flash fiction Resource Hub and Critique Circle, and in her spare time, she is a seasoned Family Therapist and a writer of non-fiction. A native of Montreal, she has called Vancouver home for the past three decades.

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At the July 26 gathering of Surrey Muse, Karen will begin the Open Mic session. More information about the event is here: july-26-2019-gathering

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Raoul Fernandes – Surrey Muse

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Raoul Fernandes is a poet whose first collection of poems, ‘Transmitter and Receiver‘ (Nightwood Editions, 2015), won the Dorothy Livesay Award and the Debut-litzer Award for Poetry in 2016 and was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry. He has been published in numerous literary journals and anthologies, including The Best of the Best Canadian Poetry in English. Raoul completed the Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University in 2009. He was a finalist for the 2010 Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, and winner of the 2010 Sakura Award at the Vancouver International Cherry Blossom Festival. Raoul writes and lives in Vancouver, with his wife and two sons.

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At the April 26 gathering of Surrey Muse, Raoul will be the Featured Poet. More information about the event is here: april-26-gathering

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