Poetry Reading with Beni Xiao, M̓iƛaa Miiš, and Jane Shi (ft. Vivi Hansen)

Join Beni Xiao, M̓iƛaa Miiš, and Jane Shi, with musical guest Vivi Hansen, for an evening of poetry and music in Studio 103. Jane and Vivi will be performing new work they have been collaborating on for the first time. 

Accessibility notes
ASL interpreters will be available. Masks are highly encouraged and masks will be available for attendees. Please do not attend if you are feeling ill to keep immunocompromised performers and guests safe during flu season.

Bios
vivi hansen (she/her) is a former music journalist and attempted musician. her repeated assertions that she is known for her part in such projects as The Problem and 16kbp Future Amnesia remain unverified; as of this writing, it appears her greatest claims to public life are a hit tweet about farm communes and a single phone call to The Best Show with Tom Scharpling in 2022.

M̓iƛaa Miiš studied Spoken Word at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and at the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word was made a Poet of Honour. They have competed in poetry slams reaching top 3 and top 10 in the country. They have performed in front of Buffy Sainte-Marie, Sarah McLachlan and other important white people.

Jane Shi is a poet, writer and organizer living on the occupied, stolen and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlil̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. Her debut poetry collection echolalia echolalia (Brick Books, 2024) was shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award. She wants to live in a world where love is not a limited resource, land is not mined, hearts are not filched and bodies are not violated.

beni xiao is an artist and poet. they wrote a chapbook (bad egg published by rahila's ghost press) 9 years ago and since then, have sporadically written and published things in places, but they are otherwise usually asleep.