Exhibitions are curated selections of recordings from the SoundBox Collection, with a focus on amplifying diverse voices of IBPOC, 2SLGBTQIA+, working-class individuals, and women within sounded moments in the literary history of British Columbia.
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“It really was an elaborate trip”: Earle Birney on work, writing, and the BC Southern Interior
By Karis Shearer & Paige Hohmann In the following exchange, UBC (Okanagan) SpokenWeb affiliates Karis Shearer and Paige Hohmann turn their attention to a clip from the SoundBox Collection and consider its connection to the B.C. Interior and the B.C. Regional Digitized History archive. This is part one of a series called “Archival Bonds” where…
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“World word alive”: Fred Wah at Malaspina
By Klara du Plessis On 3 February 1972 at 8pm, Fred Wah was recorded on ¼ inch magnetic tape reading at Malaspina College (now Vancouver Island University) in Nanaimo, B.C. The event was sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts and formed part of a two-month series that included other poets such as Stan Persky and Robert Kroetsch. The reel-to-reel is part of the Fred Wah fonds in the SoundBox Collection at the University…