Electric Mermaid Live Reads Featuring: Charmaine Arjoonlal @Char's

Electric Mermaid Live Reads Featuring: Charmaine Arjoonlal

Wednesday October 28th 2026 doors 5:30pm open mic 6-8pm

Charmaine Arjoonlal is a second generation South Asian/Portuguese Canadian author and social worker who lives with her husband and two rescue dogs in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. She’s grateful to reside on the Traditional Territories of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and the Ta’an Kwäch’än Council.

Born in Toronto, she grew up in Southern Ontario, and her love for the outdoors drew her to Whitehorse in her late twenties.

She is a member of the Writer’s Union of Canada and the British Columbia Federation of Writers.

When she’s not squeezing in writing, she enjoys hanging out in coffee shops, biking and swimming in cold lakes.Charmaine’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in over thirty literary magazines and four anthologies. She is working on a collection of creative nonfiction and poetry.

Website => charmainearjoonlal.wordpress.com 

What to Expect: Whether you join the Electric Mermaid in person at Char’s Landing or via Zoom, expect to enjoy an eclectic array of open mic readers sharing brief (5 minute max) samples from their literary, and sometimes musical, works, along with a longer reading from one or more featured reader(s) sharing published, or soon to be published, work. Come engage with a dynamic and inspiring literary event that welcomes and encourages writers at all levels of development.
The Electric Mermaid is a hybrid literary event that began over 20 years ago under the banner of Words on Fire. First organized by North Island College creative writing students Fran Thiessen, Vicki Drybrough, and Libbie Morin, monthly meetings took place in Smitty’s Restaurant on 3rd Avenue in Port Alberni with reader’s voices competing with the clatter of dishes emanating from the kitchen. After a brief stint in another café, Words on Fire graduated to Char’s Landing where it persisted for a few years before its resurrection into its current iteration as Electric Mermaid, named in honour of Luma, a mermaid sculpture that illuminates the hall at Char’s. Covid pushed the event onto Zoom, and it continues to thrive as a hybrid event enjoyed by audiences live at Char’s and across Canada and beyond on Zoom.

Electric Mermaid: Live Reads from Char's Landing, Port Alberni, Vancouver Island, BC, Canada and via ZOOM !

Spoken Word Open Mic, last Wednesday of each month, Char's physical doors open 5:30pm Pacific Time, Live Reads 6-8pm

Emcee: Derek Hanebury   Moderator: Karl Korven   ZOOM Producer: Charlene Patterson

We also welcome you to join us via ZOOM and click this automatic ZOOM link below:https://zoom.us/j/93236999892?pwd=N2FLZkxGMUhyTk5ySGVOenhuZFcxdz09

PRE-REGISTER and sign up for a 5-minute spot at the open mic by emailing ElectricMermaidReads@gmail.com

Char's Landing Hall & Hostel4815 Argyle @5th, Port Alberni, BC
all ages listening venue  Kids<=6 FREE
www.charslanding.com/events
call/whatsapp/text +1 250 730 1636
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