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Masterclass Talk: What is a transpacific arts collective?

Join award-winning Canadian poet, Ray Hsu, as he reads his poems and shares his insights into how we can forge a collective under the banner of the arts.
In his talk, he will address how individual writers and artists can benefit from collective approaches to the arts.

Accompanied by artistic collaborator, Julian Wang, as a fellow discussant, Ray will also touch on other issues like:
- How do arts collectives collectively pose challenges to prevailing models of artists as individuals who compete for prestige and resources?
- What new creative horizon is produced by artistic exchange across the Pacific?
- What does artistic exchange share with other kinds of exchange and how does it differ?

Bio of speaker:

Ray Hsu is a founding member of Axis of Culture, a transpacific arts forum. He is also the author of Anthropy, which won the 2005 League of Canadian Poets’ Gerald Lampert Award for best first book and was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. While completing his PhD in English Literature, he taught in a US prison for almost three years and co-founded with incarcerated writers the award-winning Prison Writing Workshop as well as an essay-writing programme. He was recently featured on the television documentary series, Heart of a Poet. He now teaches creative writing at the University of British Columbia.

Date & Time: Wednesday, March 11, 7pm – 9pm
Venue: Central Public Library (Multipurpose Room), National Library Board, 100 Victoria Street, Basement
Admission: Free

This event is organised as part of National Arts Council’s Mentor Access Project and supported by Elephant & Coral PenCo Pte Ltd and National Library Board.