Put your party shoes on and grab your coat, we’ve got all the literary events for this weekend and the coming week. There’s something for every interest: poetry, memoir, politics, environment, history, social justice, kids books, and more.
Tonight Friday, March 9, Planet Earth Poetry in Victoria features Elizabeth Bachinsky and Kayla Czaga
http://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/planet-earth-poetry-elizabeth-bachinsky-kayla-czaga/
In Campbell River on Saturday, March 10, award-winning author Andrew Nikiforuk will explain why the approval of Site C will be slow moving political, economic and ecological train wreck that will affect every electrical consumer in the province.
http://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/andrew-nikiforuk-every-ratepayer-know-sitec/
The Dead Poets Reading Series hits the Vancouver Public Library on Sunday, March 11 for their bimonthly event featuring Lydia Kwa, Heather Haley, and the late Chief Dan George.
http://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/dead-poets-reading-series-march-2018/
Howard Macdonald Stewart will be at UBC Green College on Tuesday, March 13 for a public lecture. Views of the Salish Sea looks at rapidly changing relations between humans and the rest of nature on and around the Strait of Georgia.
http://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/views-salish-sea-howard-stewart-ubc-lecture/
Join Dr. Jillian Roberts and Jaime Casap on Tuesday, March 13 in Victoria for the launch of On Our Street: Our First Talk About Poverty, as well as a discussion about how can we help our kids push back against the negativity and learn to create positive change in the world.
http://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/on-our-street-book-launch-raising-global-citizens-talk/
Bestselling author Chris Czajkowski will be in the unincorporated town of Tatla Lake in the Cariboo-Chilcotin on Wednesday, March 14 for a presentation sponsored by the Tatla Lake Area Community Association.
http://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/chris-czajkowski-harry-presentation-tatla-lake/
Another bestselling author, Eve Lazarus, will be giving a special history talk for North Shore Heritage’s AGM on Wednesday, March 14 in North Vancouver.
http://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/north-shore-heritage-agm-featuring-eve-lazarus/
Ivan Coyote will be joining the South Okanagan Similkameen Pride Society on Thursday, March 15 for an evening presentation in Penticton. Ivan has been described as “a natural-born storyteller” and has written 11 books, the most recent of which, Tomboy Survival Guide, was named an American Library Association Stonewall Honour Book.
http://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/evening-ivan-coyote-penticton/
The Queer Arts Festival has a new home on the fourth floor of the BC Artscape Sun Wah building. The floor was initially designed to house a Chinese restaurant but was never completed. QAF has called the new gallery and presentation space, SUM Gallery. The name has a multi-layered meaning: it nods to the original intended use of the space as a Dim Sum (點心) restaurant; summation (∑) the sum of its parts, the sum total LGBTQ2Si++; heart (心) all words pertaining to queer in Chinese have Sum 心 in them. Sum, meaning heart; and some (art).
The Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony will be holding a poetry reading as the inaugural event at SUM gallery on Thursday, March 15. Poets and ALOT writer-in-residence, Jane Byers, will be joined by Cecily-Belle Blain for a reading.
http://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/they-are-a-lesbian-with-jane-byers-and-cicely-belle-blain/