Sat, Oct 03
|Capitol Theatre
Poetry, Philosophy, and Reckoning
Author readings, performance art, and a panel discussion featuring Brandi Bird, Scott Alexander Howard, and Tony Louie. Please buy tickets here: https://purchase.capitoltheatre.ca/EventAvailability?EventId=35802
Time & Location
Oct 03, 2026, 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Capitol Theatre, 421 Victoria St, Nelson, BC V1L 1S9, Canada
About the Event
Brandi Bird is an Indigiqueer Saulteaux, Cree and Métis writer from Treaty 1 territory. They live in Vancouver, the land of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh & Musqueam peoples. Pitiful is Bird’s second poetry collection and details the author’s struggles with eating disorders. Their first collection, The All + Flesh, was a finalist for a 2024 Governor General's Award and won the 2024 Indigenous Voices Award for Poetry. Brandi works as a freelance writer, workshop facilitator, and manuscript consultant but their most important roles are spouse, friend, sibling, daanis and dad to two troublesome daughter cats.
Scott Alexander Howard has a PhD in philosophy from the University of Toronto and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, where his research focused on the relationship between emotion and memory. His debut novel, The Other Valley, was an instant national bestseller, a CBC best book of the year, a Washington Post notable novel of 2024, and a…