August 13th

5:30pm - 6:50pm PST

Via ZOOM

Please join us via Zoom for a thoughtful discussion between Phaneul Antwi and the commute artists, S F Ho, jaye simpson and Helena Krobath. the commute asked artists to openly respond through audio work to the concept of commuting which brought forward reflections of experiences of illness, isolation, colonialism, and migratory existence. Woven together through this project is a deeply personal invitation to hold space for what it means to be in-between.

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A zoom link will be sent to you directly to attend.

The conversation will take place in English and be Closed Captioned.

There will be a 20 minute Q+A period following the panel discussion, which will take approximately 45 minutes.

For more information artsassembly.ca/the-commute

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Phanuel Antwi works with dance, is a poet as well as an assistant professor in the Department of English language and literatures at University of British Columbia

S F Ho is a 90% chill 10% not artist living on the unceded Coast Salish territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ peoples. They’re into community building, books, and being sort of boring. They recently finished writing, George… — S F Ho is a 90% chill 10% not artist living on the unceded Coast Salish territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ peoples. They’re into community building, books, and being sort of boring. They recently finished writing, *George the Parasite*, a novella about aliens, love and boundaries.

jaye simpson is an Oji-Cree Saulteaux Indigiqueer writer, artist, performer and activist from the Sapotaweyak Cree Nation, while their settler ancestry is Scottish and French. Their poems and essays are published in Poetry Is Dead, This Magazine, PR… — jaye simpson is an Oji-Cree Saulteaux Indigiqueer writer, artist, performer and activist from the Sapotaweyak Cree Nation, while their settler ancestry is Scottish and French. Their poems and essays are published in *Poetry Is Dead, This Magazine,* *PRISM international,* *SAD Magazine*, *GUTS Magazine*, *Room*, *Today’s Parent*, *Grain,* and SubTerrain. simpson is also published in *Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Worker Poetry*, as well as *Love After The End: An Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction*. simpson is currently resisting, ruminating and residing on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-waututh), and sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) First Nations territories, colonially known as Vancouver. *it was never going to be okay* is their first book.
photograph by: Divya Nanray

Helena Krobath was born in Matsqui and grew up in Mission and Abbotsford, BC. Her family immigrated from various parts of Eastern Europe to Manitoba and British Columbia in the 1930s and 1950s. She lives in Vancouver, in the unceded and occupied ter… — Helena Krobath was born in Matsqui and grew up in Mission and Abbotsford, BC. Her family immigrated from various parts of Eastern Europe to Manitoba and British Columbia in the 1930s and 1950s. She lives in Vancouver, in the unceded and occupied territory of the səl̓ílwətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh), Skwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations. Helena has collaborated on soundwalks and interactive events for Vancouver New Music and Vancouver Soundwalk Collective. She composed a soundscape for Echos and Reflections: A co-located audio mapping exchange, hosted by the Centre for Mobilities Research at Lancaster University, and her audio work was featured in New Adventures in Sound Art’s Deep Wireless 14 radio festival. Helena co-hosts the Soundscape Show on Vancouver Co-op Radio and volunteers with Vancouver Tenants Union.