Art Study Program | Poetic Tour with Jillian Christmas

The Art Study Program is offered exclusively to Experiences Members and above.

Join the Gallery’s inaugural Poet in Residence Jillian Christmas for a private poetic tour of the exhibition Denyse Thomasos: just beyond. Learn more about both the painter and the poet in this intersection of art and poetry.

The Gallery’s Art Study Program takes place every second Monday at 11 AM. These events are an opportunity to meet fellow members and take a deeper dive into the Gallery’s current exhibitions, discover works by local artists or explore a theme from art history in an informal and friendly environment.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Jillian Christmas is a queer, Afro-Caribbean writer, educator, curator and consultant. She is the first Poet in Residence at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Christmas has previously served as the spoken word curator of the Vancouver Writers Fest and Artistic Director of Vancouver’s Verses Festival of Words. Among her notable achievements, Christmas made history as the first Canadian to reach the finals of the World Poetry Slam in 2015, performing her slam poem Black Feminist, and, in 2021, she was the recipient of the League of Canadian Poets’ Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award for spoken word poetry and the Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Canadian writers. Christmas has also represented both Toronto and Vancouver at 11 national poetry events. Her debut collection, The Gospel of the Breaking, was published in 2020. Christmas lives on the unceded territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam people (Vancouver).