Dear Friends &: A reading with Elisa Ferrari, River Halen, and Kaie Kellough

The Capilano Review and Western Front are pleased to present the next event in our monthly reading series, Dear Friends &. The event took place at 7 pm on Thursday, July 4th, 2024 at Western Front, with readings by Elisa Ferrari, River Halen, and Kaie Kellough. The evening was hosted by Deanna Fong.
Video documentation courtesy of Western Front.
Special thanks to Western Front and the BC Arts Council for their generous support of this program.
Readers’ Biographies
Elisa Ferrari is an artist who works with sound, performance, and writing. Her practice and collaborations are concerned with memory formations, idleness, sonic sediments, translingual ecologies, somatic inquiries, and the infrasonic. She hosts aux-sends-a quarterly radio series about experimental music, sound, and poetics-on Vancouver Co-op Radio. She occasionally curates exhibitions and sound events. She lives as an uninvited guest on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh territories and in Brescia, Italy, where she grew up.
River Halen is a writer, editor, and educator based in Tio’tia:ke/Mooniyang (Montréal, Canada). Their poems and essays have dealt with relation, ecology, transformation, and sexuality. Their most recent book, Dream Rooms, a collection of essays and poems, was shortlisted for the A.M. Klein Prize and selected by Renee Gladman for Artforum Magazine as a top-ten pick of the year. Halen is an acquiring editor for Brick Books and has taught sessionally in the Toronto Metropolitan University publishing program.
Kaie Kellough is a poet, fiction writer, and sound performer based in Montréal, Canada. His work emerges at a crossroads of social engagement and formal experiment. His long poem Magnetic Equator (McClelland and Stewart, 2019), won the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize. His solo and group sound performances have toured internationally, and he is a vocalist for FYEAR, a nonet whose debut was released in 2024 with Constellation Records.