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SUMMARY:Mad Ideas for Precarious Living: Hosted by Isabella Wang
DESCRIPTION:Publications for Mad Ideas for Precarious Living with Nicole Luongo\, Erin Soros\, and Henry Doyle\, hosted by Isabella Wang. \nThese brilliant writers and thinkers have undergone incredibly difficult lives and have wisdoms and intersections which they will share with readings from their work\, followed by a guided discussion and Q&A hosted by Isabella Wang. \nThis project has been made possible by the Government of Canada. Ce projet a été rendu possible grâce au gouvernement du Canada. \nVenue & Accessibility \nThe event will be hosted at the Massy Arts Gallery\, at 23 East Pender Street in Chinatown\, Vancouver. \nRegistration is free and required for entrance. \nThe gallery is wheelchair accessible and a gender-neutral washroom is on-site. Please refrain from wearing scents or heavy perfumes. \nFor more on accessibility including parking\, seating\, venue measurements and floor plan\, and how to request ASL interpretation please visit: massyarts.com/accessibility \nCovid Protocols: Masks keep our community safe and are mandatory (N95 masks are recommended as they offer the best protection). We ask if you are showing symptoms\, that you stay home. Thank you kindly. \nAbout the books: \nIsabella Wang’s Pebble Swing earns its title from the image of stones skipping their way across a body of water\, or\, in the author’s case\, syllables and traces of her mother tongue bouncing back at her from the water’s reflective surface. This collection is about language and family histories. It is the author’s attempt to piece together the resonant aftermath of the Chinese Cultural Revolution\, which stole the life of her paternal grandmother. As an immigrant whose grasp of Mandarin is fading\, Wang explores absences in her caesuras and fragmentation—that which is unspoken\, but endures. \nNicole Luongo’s The Becoming is a brutal account of mental illness by a woman who doesn’t believe in mental illness. As the author embarks on a PhD at the University of Oxford\, a lifetime of addiction\, eating disorders\, and trauma culminates in an explosive hospital stay that sees her achieve liberation through psychosis. Her journey from terror to acceptance is grueling\, and she makes meaning of it by weaving reflexive narrative with classic and nascent scholarship. Part phenomenological recounting\, part social critique\, the text disrupts biomedical approaches to altered states by exploring their emancipatory potential. It also illuminates how conventional mental health treatment pathologizes human suffering. In doing so\, The Becoming contributes to anti-psychiatry and Mad studies projects\, each asking\, “What does it mean to be normal?” and “Should we be sane in an insane world?” \nHenry Doyle’s No Shelter: Infused with the spirit of Charles Bukowski\, these down to earth poems by Downtown Eastside warrior poet\, Henry Doyle\, take readers on a hard-scrabble journey\, starting from Doyle’s early years as a runaway from foster homes\, an incarcerated youth\, a boxer\, and a homeless wage-earner living in shelters and on the streets of Ottawa and Toronto\, to his eventual arrival in Vancouver to work in the construction labour pools before landing work as a custodian and maintenance man. Doyle’s potent combination of gritty realism\, weary wisdom and wry humour make No Shelter an unforgettable collection. \nAbout the authors: \nNicole Luongo was born and raised on the unceded\, traditional territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish)\, Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations (Vancouver\, B. C.). She has spent a decade working in solidarity with those living at the intersections of drug prohibition\, housing-deprivation\, and disability (in)justice\, including as a member of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU). Her academic background is in medical sociology\, and she mostly conducts research in the fields of Mad and critical drug studies. She is currently the Systems Change Coordinator for the Canadian Drug Policy Coalition (CDPC)\, where she works to advance public and political support for drug policy models that are grounded in the tenets of public health and human rights. \nHenry Doyle lives and works in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. A long-time member of Thursdays Writing Collective and the Downtown Eastside Writing Collective\, Henry has published work in Poetry is Dead\, Megaphone\, Geist\, and the anthologies V6A: Writing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and From the Heart of it All: Ten Years of Writing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. He won Geist magazine’s DTES Jamboree Writing Contest in 2011 and Muriel’s Journey Poetry Prize in 2020. \nA mad settler living in Vancouver\, Erin Soros writes fiction\, nonfiction\, poetry and theory. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University and a visiting writer at Cambridge. She researches psychosis and the psychiatric and police response to it. Her poetry received The Malahat Review Long Poem Prize\, inclusion in Best Canadian Poetry\, silver at the National Magazine Awards and was a finalist for the CBC Literary Award. Her lyric essay “Cord” received gold at the National Magazine Awards for “One of a Kind Storytelling.” Her fiction received the CBC Literary Award and the Commonwealth Award for the Short Story. \nAbout the Host: \nIsabella Wang is the author of the chapbook\, On Forgetting a Language\, and her full-length debut\, Pebble Swing\, shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Among other recognitions\, she has been shortlisted for Arc’s Poem of the Year Contest\, The Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Contest and Long Poem Contest\, and was the youngest writer to be shortlisted twice for The New Quarterly’s Edna Staebler Essay Contest. She is completing a double-major in English and World Literature at SFU. An editor on the Room collective\, she is also a youth mentor with Vancouver Poetry House\, web coordinator with poetry in canada\, and directs her own non-profit editing and mentorship program\, 4827 Revise Revision St.
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SUMMARY:Jenn Ashton & Heige Boehm: An Exploration of Reconciliation through Story
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, July 13 at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Tidewater Press and Ronsdale Press in welcoming Jenn Ashton & Heige Boehm for “An Exploration of Reconciliation through Story.” \nLocal Historian and author Jenn Ashton and historical fiction author Heige Boehm delve into past global atrocities to shed light on how reconciliation can be advanced into actionable solutions. Through family accounts and storytelling\, Ashton and Boehm connect cultural histories for answers. \nThis project has been made possible by the Government of Canada. Ce projet a été rendu possible grâce au gouvernement du Canada. \nVenue & Accessibility \nThe event will be hosted online on zoom. Registration is free\, open to all and required for entrance. \nAbout The Authors \nJenn Ashton is a Squamish First Nations Artist\, Filmmaker\, Local Historian\, and Author of People Like Frank and Other Stories from the Edge of Normal (Tidewater Press 2020). She studies history at Oxford University and has recently completed work for Penguin Random House USA and David Grann on the next print edition of Killers of the Flower Moon. She is a graduate of The Writers’ Studio at Simon Fraser University and is currently working on a screenplay for her anthology series White Blotter High. https://linktr.ee/jennashton \nHeige Boehm is a historical fiction writer and the Author of Secrets in the Shadows (Ronsdale Press\, 2020). She holds a Creative Writing Certificate from The Writers’ Studio of Simon Fraser University\, Liberal Arts for 55+ Certificate from Simon Fraser University. A Certified Guided Autobiography Instructor from The Birren Center for Autobiographical Studies. Heige hosts A Writer’s Life podcast and is the founder and writing guide instructor for the Crow Story House writing workshops. She is deep into editing her second novel Black Earth. https://linktr.ee/heigeboehm \nAbout the books (click on link to purchase) \nPeople Like Frank and other stories from the edge of normal A young woman in a group home investigates a mysterious piece of knitting. An obsessed bag boy does grim battle with a squirrel. A woman\, an asparagus bag and a garbageman have a tumultuous short-term relationship. In the tradition of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night- time\, Room and If I Fall\, If I Die\, this uplifting collection explores the world through the eyes of protagonists whose perspectives are informed by their unique circumstances. Some are struggling with physical challenges while others seek to overcome psychological barriers. Far from being defined by their limitations\, these characters revel in achievements others take for granted and find wonder in unexpected places. By celebrating the private triumphs of people who are all too often dismissed\, Ashton reminds us all of our own humanity. \nSecrets in the Shadows tells the story of best friends\, Michael and Wolfie\, who are caught up in the fanatical enthusiasm of the Third Reich’s ideology in the 1930s. Their safe world turns upside down when Michael and Wolfie accidentally kill one of their own. When Michael turns sixteen\, and his father orders him to volunteer with the Waffen-SS. Wolfie joins him. Assigned to the Hitlerjugend 12th SS Panzer Division\, they cope with the horrors of war\, trying to keep one another alive on the battlefields. Their lives unravel\, and as one secret is exposed\, another is born. When the final showdown begins\, not only do they find themselves in Berlin with the Russians just blocks away\, but Michael and Wolfie confront the secrets that lie in the shadows of the past.
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LOCATION:Massy Arts\, 23 East Pender\, Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada
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