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SUMMARY:Victoria Festival of Authors
DESCRIPTION:Since 2016\, Victoria Festival of Authors (VFA) has been the largest celebration of books and book lovers on Vancouver Island. Each fall we invite authors from our region and beyond to share their books and ideas with Victoria’s readers. We showcase established and emerging poets\, prose writers\, and other storytellers\, with artistic achievement\, creative innovation and a diversity of voices driving our mandate. Our traditional five-day festival includes author readings\, discussion panels and workshops. Since 2021\, VFA has been a hybrid festival\, with in-person and virtual-only events. Most of our in-person events are livestreamed\, with recordings available on VFA’s YouTube channel. \nThis year VFA is focused on accessibility and inclusion; we are addressing all barriers to participation\, including financial barriers. As such\, tickets for all virtual events and most in-person events will have sliding-scale pricing\, with a “no fee” option. All events will be captioned\, with ASL translation upon request.
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LOCATION:Langham Court Theatre\, 805 Langham Court\, Victoria\, BC\, V8V 4J3\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Whistler Writers Festival
DESCRIPTION:The annual Whistler Writers Festival is Oct. 12 to 15\, 2023 in Whistler. Hear the newest\, enthralling works from favourite local\, Canadian\, and international authors\, connect with literary agents and publishers\, take workshops\, and enjoy live music. Select events available online. Visit whistlerwritersfest.com for the latest information & tickets. Tickets on sale August 21\, 2023. #WhistlerWritersFest
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LOCATION:Fairmont Chateau Whistler\, 4599 Chateau Blvd\, Whistler\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Sonnets from a Cell by Bradley Peters with Guests
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, October 13th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and Brick Books in launching Bradley Peters’ Sonnets from a Cell. Bradley will be joined by Rob Taylor\, Kayla Czaga\, Marc Perez\, Nick Thran\, and host\, Sheryda Warrener. \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 book: \nSonnets from a Cell (Brick Books\, 2023) \nPoems for and about the incarcerated. \nMoving from riots to mall parkades to church\, the poems in Bradley Peters’ debut Sonnets from a Cell mix inmate speech\, prison psychology\, skateboard slang and contemporary lyricism in a way that is tough and tender\, that is accountable both to Peters’ own days “caught between the past and nothing” and to the structures that sentence so many “to lose.” Written behind doors our culture too often keeps closed\, this is poetry reaching out for moments of longing\, wild joy and grace. \nDrawing on his own experiences as a teenager and young adult in and out of the Canadian prison system\, Peters has written both a personal reckoning and a damning and eloquent account of our violence- and enforcement-obsessed capitalist and patriarchal cultures. \nAbout the author: \nBradley Peters is a poet\, actor\, and carpenter from Mission\, BC. His poetry has been published in numerous literary magazines\, has been shortlisted for The Fiddlehead‘s Ralph Gustafson Award\, has twice been the runner-up for Subterrain‘s Lush Triumphant Award\, and in 2019 placed first in Grain Magazine‘s Short Grain contest. Sonnets from a Cell is his first book. \nAbout the host: \nSheryda Warrener is a poet and teacher\, most recently the author of Test Piece (Coach House Books\, 2022). Her work has been published in the Malahat Review\, Maisonneuve\, Hazlitt\, The Believer\, among other journals. A recipient of the Puritan’s Thomas Morton Memorial Prize for poetry and a finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize\, she teaches poetry and interdisciplinary forms in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. \nAbout the readers: \nRob Taylor is the author of four poetry collections\, including The News (Gaspereau Press\, 2016) and Strangers (Biblioasis\, 2021). His fifth collection\, Weather\, will be published by Gaspereau Press in Spring 2024. He lives in Port Moody\, on the unceded territory of the Tsleil-Waututh and Kwikwetlem peoples\, and teaches creative writing at SFU and UFV\, where he gets to work with talented writers who sometimes – like tonight! – go on to do great things. \nKayla Czaga is the author For Your Safety Please Hold On and Dunk Tank\, which were both nominated for the BC and Yukon Book Prizes’ Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Often anthologized in the Best Canadian Poetry in English series\, her work also appears in PRISM International\, The Walrus\, The Fiddlehead\, and elsewhere. Her third collection\, Midway\, will be released by House of Anansi in 2024. \nMarc Perez is the author of the chapbook\, Borderlands (Anstruther Press\, 2020)\, and the full-length collection\, Dayo (Brick Books\, Spring 2024). His fiction\, creative nonfiction\, and poetry have appeared in The Fiddlehead\, EVENT\, decomp journal\, CV2\, PRISM international\, among others. His poems are also forthcoming in Magdaragat: an Anthology of Filipino-Canadian Writing (Cormorant Press\, 2023). Born and raised in Manila\, he lives with his wife and two children in the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish\, and Tsleil-Waututh nations. \nNick Thran is the author of three collections of poems. His second collection\, Earworm (Nightwood Editions\, 2011)\, won the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. After stops in Toronto\, Victoria\, New York\, Calgary\, Madrid and Montreal\, he now lives in Fredericton\, New Brunswick\, on the unceded and unsurrendered territory of the Wolastoqiyik\, where\, in addition to writing\, he works as an editor and bookseller.
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SUMMARY:Haida Modern Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:The Shadbolt Centre is honoured to present a screening of the film Haida Modern documenting the life and legacy of renowned Master Artist Robert Davidson. 80 min run time\, followed by a Q & A\, book sales/signing and reception with Robert Davidson\, whose work is featured in Echoes of the Supernatural: The Graphic Art of Robert Davidson (Figure 1 Publishing\, 2022). \nBook sales by Iron Dog Books \nTickets: Adult $25.00\, Seniors/Student $20.00\, Youth 17 & under $15.00 \nNo refunds on tickets\n$2.00 fee per ticket for exchanges\nContact the box office at 604-205-3000 with any ticketing questions.
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LOCATION:James Cowan Theatre\, 6450 Deer Lake Ave\, Burnaby\, BC\, Canada
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