[{"id":"6909","cataloger_name":["Teddie,Brock"],"partnerInstitution":["Simon Fraser University"],"collection_source_collection":["Fred Wah Fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Fred Wah Fonds"],"collection_contributing_unit":["SFU Library"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_description":["The Fred Wah fonds collects materials from Vancouver-based poet Fred Wah, who was appointed as Canadau2019s fifth Parliamentary Poet Laureate in 2011 and has published 25 books between 1965 and 2016. Wah was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan in 1939 and grew up in the West Kootenay region. His Chinese and Scots-Irish ethnic background and identity have a significant influence on his literary work. Wah completed an undergraduate degree in Literature and Music at the University of British Columbia, where he became a founding editor of the TISH newsletter in 1961, and has taught at Selkirk College, the David Thompson University Centre, and the University of Calgary. The fonds contains a number of interviews, conversations, lectures, and public readings recorded between the years 1976 and 2006, featuring local and national literary and media figures such as Lorna Crozier, bpNichol, Daphne Marlatt, and Stuart McLean."],"collection_source_collection_id":["MsC 17"],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["Fred Wah, Lorna Crozier, bpNichol Panel Seminar on Poetry at Weyburn Writers' Conference, 1988"],"item_title_source":["item"],"item_title_note":["Liner notes: see the photo in material description"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Documentary recording"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["Crozier, Lorna","Wah, Fred","Nichol, bp (Barrie Phillip)"],"creator_names_search":["Crozier, Lorna","Wah, Fred","Nichol, bp (Barrie Phillip)"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/115427026\",\"name\":\"Crozier, Lorna\",\"dates\":\"1948–\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/1330211\",\"name\":\"Wah, Fred\",\"dates\":\"1939–\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/76350280\",\"name\":\"Nichol, bp (Barrie Phillip)\",\"dates\":\"1944–1988\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]}]"],"contributors":["[]"],"Production_Date":[1988],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"../Uploads/7951/Fred Wah Fonds_MsC 17e_17.jpg\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Excellent\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"\",\"physical_condition\":\"Good\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"J-card\",\"other_physical_description\":\"Black and white clear jewel case with J-card\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"https://digital.lib.sfu.ca/_flysystem/fedora/2025-03/MSC17E-17/MSC17E-17-01.mp3\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"MSC17E-17-01.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:45:49\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"44 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"Sound Recording\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"https://digital.lib.sfu.ca/fred-wah-lorna-crozier-bpnichol-panel-seminar-poetry-weyburn-writers-conference-1988-part-1\"},{\"file_url\":\"https://digital.lib.sfu.ca/_flysystem/fedora/2025-03/MSC17E-17/MSC17E-17-02.mp3\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"MSC17E-17-02.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:45:51\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"44 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"Sound Recording\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"https://digital.lib.sfu.ca/fred-wah-lorna-crozier-bpnichol-panel-seminar-poetry-weyburn-writers-conference-1988-part-2\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1988\",\"type\":\"Production Date\",\"notes\":\"Month or day not confirmed by entity, but event likely took place between April 15-17, 1988 according to WordWorks Magazine, March 1988 edition (information here: https://issuu.com/wordwork /docs/wordworks1988march). Also includes a note on p. 11 that festival inquiries should be directed to Weyburn Public Library, which could also be the venue. \",\"source\":\"item\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/52288814#map=14/49.6660/-103.8411\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"Venue not confirmed by entity, but it possibly took place at the Weyburn Public Library (see location note and more information at: https://issuu.com/wordworks/docs/wordworks1988march pp. 11) \",\"address\":\"Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Manitoba \",\"latitude\":\"49.6694050\",\"longitude\":\"-103.8510130\"}]"],"Address":["Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Manitoba "],"content_notes":["Side 2: recording ends at T00:24:15"],"Note":["[]"],"Related_works":["[]"],"_version_":1853670556050653191,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:00.367Z","score":5.1156754}]