Portal Magazine Fundraiser - Dope Soda at the Corner Lounge

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Friday, February 10th, 2012
10:00 PM to 1:00 AM

Dope Soda, a local ROOTS ROCK, REGGAE ‘N SKA band will be rocking the Corner Lounge, in downtown Nanaimo, while helping the class of Portal 2012 to raise funds for the publication of the latest issue of VIU`s literary magazine. The event starts at 10 p.m. and the cover charge is a mere $5.00—not bad when you consider that the money raised goes to help the students of Portal 2012 to realize their dream of printing a full colour issue of Portal for the first time in the magazine`s history.

In conjunction with this event, Portal 2012 has also opened an account at both Nanaimo Bottle Depots and invites the community to donate their returnable drink container refunds to the magazine. Simply go to either bottle depot and ask that your refund be donated to “VIU Portal magazine.”

During the fall semester, the Portal 2012 class learned the ropes of publishing and editing a magazine; which included working with a design student to come up with a layout template, as well as putting out the call for literary and art submissions from the VIU student body. This semester, the focus will shift to the tough work of deciding which fiction, non-fiction, poetry, scripts, photography, and artwork will be published in Portal 2012. After which, the students of Portal 2012 will work with the accepted authors and artists in order to edit these pieces so that a polished and professional looking magazine will be published, launched, and sold in April 2012.

Portal magazine has been around for over 19 years and has allowed burgeoning VIU student writers, photographers, and artists a place to showcase their work. It has been, and still is, the only literary magazine published in the Nanaimo area. This year the class has undergone a few changes, the first of which is the retirement of Rhonda Bailey, a Creative Writing and Publishing instructor, who has been teaching the Portal class almost since its inception and helping its students to birth a unique issue each spring semester. Bailey’s position has been passed on to Joy Gugeler, Creative Writing and Digital Media Studies instructor and long time editor. Gugeler has helped to bring about the second significant change; the listing of Portal on Magazines Canada, which will allow for the distribution of Portal 2012 all across Canada.

For further information, please contact Tamu Miles, the Portal 2012 Promotions Manager, at tamumiles@hotmail.com or by phone at 250-538-7714.