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SUMMARY:Read Local BC eBookshelf Launch
DESCRIPTION:Books BC and the BC Libraries Cooperative will host a reading event to mark the launch of Read Local BC eBookshelf. The event with feature readings BC authors Candie Tanaka and Wayde Compton at Burnaby Public Library\, McGill Branch on Thursday\, June 19\, from 11 am to noon (door open 10:30 am). \nThe event is open to the public and members of the media are invited to attend. You can register here.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/read-local-bc-ebookshelf-launch/
LOCATION:Burnaby Public Library\, McGill Branch\, 4595 Albert Street\, Burnaby\, BC\, V5C 2G6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Reading
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DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250608T190000
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SUMMARY:Launch Party: Celebrate 100 Issues of subTerrain
DESCRIPTION:Join subTerrain\, one of Vancouver’s longest standing literary magazines\, in celebrating 100 issues of literary publishing from the margins. \n \nSunday\, June 8th\nHero’s Welcome\n3917 Main St. (at 23rd Ave.)\nDoor open at 5:00 pm — Readings at 6:00
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/launch-party-celebrate-100-issues-of-subterrain/
LOCATION:BC
CATEGORIES:Launch,Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250602T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250602T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T234752
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SUMMARY:Bones of a Giant with Brian Thomas Isaac
DESCRIPTION:Join Massy Books\, Penguin Random House\, and Brian Thomas Isaac for the launch of “Bones of a Giant” at 7 pm on Monday\, June 2nd! \nBooks will be for sale at the event\, including “All the Quiet Places.” \nVenue: \nThe event will be hosted at the Massy Books\, at 229 East Georgia Street in Chinatown\, Vancouver. \nRegistration is free or by donation and required for entry. \nThe bookstore is wheelchair accessible and a gender-neutral washroom is on-site. \nPlease refrain from wearing scents or heavy perfumes. \nCovid Protocols: Masks keep our community safe and are recommended and will be provided at the venue. We ask if you are showing symptoms\, that you stay home. Thank you kindly. \nAbout the Book: \nSummer\, 1968. For the first time since his big brother\, Eddie\, disappeared two years earlier—either a runaway or dead by his own hand—sixteen-year-old Lewis Toma has shaken off some of his grief. His mother\, Grace\, and her friend Isabel have gone south to the United States to pack fruit to earn the cash Grace needs to put a bathroom and running water into the three-room shack they share on the reserve\, leaving Lewis to spend the summer with his cousins\, his Uncle Ned and his Aunt Jean in the new house they’ve built on their farm along the Salmon River. Their warm family life is almost enough to counter the pressures he feels as a boy trying to become a man in a place where responsible adult men like his uncle are largely absent\, broken by residential school and racism. Everywhere he looks\, women are left to carry the load\, sometimes with kindness\, but often with the bitterness\, anger and ferocity of his own mother\, who kicked Lewis’s lowlife father\, Jimmy\, to the curb long ago. \nLewis has vowed never to be like his father—but an encounter with a predatory older woman tests him and he suffers the consequences. Worse\, his dad is back in town and scheming on how to use the Indian Act to steal the land Lewis and his mom have been living on. And then\, at summer’s end\, more shocking revelations shake the family\, unleashing a deadly force of anger and frustration. \nWith so many traps laid around him\, how will Lewis find a path to a different future? \nAbout the Author: \nBrian Thomas Isaac was born in 1950 on the Okanagan Indian Reserve\, near Vernon\, British Columbia. After completing grade eight\, he found work in the Alberta oil fields and in construction\, eventually retiring as a bricklayer. He came to writing late in life. In 2022\, his bestselling debut\, All the Quiet Places\, won an Indigenous Voices Award\, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction and the Amazon Canada First Novel Award\, and was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and CBC’s Canada Reads. He lives with his wife in West Kelowna\, BC.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/bones-of-a-giant-with-brian-thomas-isaac/
LOCATION:Native Education College\, 285 East 5th Avenue\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5T 1H2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Signing,Interview,Launch,Meet & Greet,Panel
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250523T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250523T210000
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SUMMARY:Talonbooks Spring 2025 Launch
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the new spring releases from Talonbooks! Please join us at the Martha Lou Henley Rehearsal Hall on Friday\, May 23\, to welcome the following books to the world: \nallostatic load by Junie Désil\nCrowd Source by Cecily Nicholson\nFuture Works by Jeff Derksen\nRevolutions by Hajer Mirwali\nUiesh / Somewhere by Joséphine Bacon\, translated by Jessica Moore! \nThe launch will be hosted by andrea bennett\, author of the berry takes the shape of the bloom. \n \nMartha Lou Henley Rehearsal Hall\n1955 McLean Drive\nVancouver\, BC\nMay 23\, 2025\nDoors open at 7:00 p.m.; readings begin at 7:30 p.m.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/talonbooks-spring-2025-launch/
LOCATION:BC
CATEGORIES:Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250510T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250510T153000
DTSTAMP:20260422T234752
CREATED:20250415T235918Z
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SUMMARY:Six Little Sticks Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Book launch for Tiffany Stone’s new book Six Little Sticks! \nBook signings\, snacks\, and crafts with author Tiffany Stone to celebrate the release of her new kids picture book! \nThis event will be held at the Christianne’s Lyceum of Literature and Art on May 10th from 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. \nwww.christianneslyceum.com \n4433 West 10th Avenue\, Vancouver\, V6R 2H8
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/six-little-sticks-book-launch/
LOCATION:BC
CATEGORIES:Book Signing,Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250508T063000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250508T203000
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SUMMARY:Iona Winshaw and Gregor Craigie
DESCRIPTION:Join Munro’s Books as Iona Whishaw discusses the latest installment of her popular Lane Winslow mystery series with CBC host and author Gregor Craigie. \nPublishers Weekly calls The Cost of a Hostage “highly entertaining\,” as Lane ventures through Mexico while the team back in Nelson works on a kidnapping case that’s as open-and-shut as it is complicated.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/iona-winshaw-and-gregor-craigie/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250505T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250505T203000
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SUMMARY:Anna Veprinska and Joseph Kidney: Dual Poetry Launch
DESCRIPTION:A dual launch of poetry books Devotional Forensics and Bonememory at\nCross and Crow Books. Featuring the wonderful Dominique Bernier-Cormier. \n2836 Commercial Drive\, Vancouver B.C.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/anna-veprinska-and-joseph-kidney-dual-poetry-launch/
LOCATION:BC
CATEGORIES:Launch,Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250426T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250426T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T234752
CREATED:20250421T214842Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250421T214842Z
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SUMMARY:Tawahum Bige: Book Launch & Conversation at Enabling Arts
DESCRIPTION:Tawahum Bige will launch a new poetry collection\, Stages of Tanning Words and Remembering Spells\, at Enabling Arts on Granville Island on April 26\, 7pm. \nIn their second poetry collection\, Tawahum Bige explores belonging and voice of a Two-Spirit Dene youth. These poems are a stark plunge—an answer to how voice emerges for a young Two Spirit growing up in so-called “Surrey\, BC\,” far from his Łutselk’e Dene territories.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/tawahum-bige-book-launch-conversation-at-enabling-arts/
LOCATION:Enabling Arts\, 104-343 Railway Street\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V6A 1A4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch
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ORGANIZER;CN="Nightwood Editions":MAILTO:fernanda@shaw.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250423T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250423T210000
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SUMMARY:Rodney DeCroo Book Launch + Concert
DESCRIPTION:Come celebrate the launch of Night Moves\, Rodney’s first collection of street photography. Happening at VIFF Centre on Wednesday April 23\, count on a lively evening of poetry\, music\, film\, and thought-provoking discussion. \n7:00 pm — Reception\n7:30 pm — Introduction and slide show featuring work from Night Moves\n7:45 pm — Conversation with The Georgia Straight’s Mike Usinger on the art and ethics of street photography\, followed by Q&A and intermission\n8:30 pm — Poetry\, Music and Short Films with Rodney and his band\, The Wise Blood
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/rodney-decroo-book-launch-concert/
LOCATION:VIFF Centre\, 1164 Seymour Street\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6B 3N3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250417T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250417T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T234752
CREATED:20250407T003153Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250407T003153Z
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Holly Howe\, author of Mouthwatering Sauerkraut
DESCRIPTION:Join us at Vinca’s Kitchen for a special evening with Chef Holly Howe to celebrate the release of her new cookbook Mouthwatering Sauerkraut: Fermentation Made Easy! \nTickets are $40.00 plus tax and come with a copy of the new cookbook. There are only 35 tickets available. \nDoors open at 6:00 pm and the event will start at 6:30 pm. Chef Holly will be demonstrating a couple of recipes\, providing samples\, and answering all your questions! \nPLEASE NOTE – to purchase a ticket for this event online you MUST have your shopping location set as the Ladner store. \nYour receipt is your ticket. Your book will be available for pick up at the event. Thank you!
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/an-evening-with-holly-howe-author-of-mouthwatering-sauerkraut/
LOCATION:Vinca’s Kitchen Shop\, 5042 48 Ave\, Delta\, British Columbia\, V4K1V8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20241120T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20241120T200000
DTSTAMP:20260422T234752
CREATED:20241010T152131Z
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SUMMARY:Opheliac: Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:This is a free event\, but please RSVP on this Eventbrite page due to limited capacity: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/opheliac-launch-party-tickets-1035204884677?aff=oddtdtcreator \nOPHELIAC: LAUNCH PARTY \nJoin us on Wednesday\, November 20th to launch Opheliac\, the debut of BC-based author Emma Sloan. \nAs an informal night of celebration\, mingle with others in the literary community while enjoying Caffe Fantastico’s wide variety of seasonal sips and eats. Both alcoholic and non-alcoholic options will be available. \nMORE ABOUT THE AUTHOR: \nEmma Sloan is a poet\, short fiction author\, and journalist of 10+ years with works published across 300+ international publications. \nAs a Writing and Publishing graduate of the University of Victoria in British Columbia\, Canada\, Emma works as a professional copywriter. \nHer chapbook Opheliac was named a finalist in the Black River Chapbook Competition and is forthcoming with Black Lawrence Press in Fall 2024. \nPRAISE FOR OPHELIAC: \nOpheliac invites lovers of both Shakespeare and wordplay with vivid imagery that invokes a sensory experience throughout. This modern retelling of the literary figure of Ophelia leaves room to ponder femininity\, fragility\, and the haunting impact of tragedy–and is a collection to read again and again. \n–Natasha Silva\, author of North Star Heart \nIn Opheliac\, Emma Sloan shatters memory and rearranges its pieces into arresting shapes. The past is never far away in Opheliac—but that doesn’t stop Sloan from trying to grow a new “girl tongue\,” a voice with which to tell overlooked and necessary truths: “This is a reel of film / on the cutting room floor.” \n–Lucy Wainger\, author of In Life There Are Many Things \nMORE ABOUT THE BLACK LAWRENCE PRESS: \nFounded in upstate New York\, The Black Lawrence Press is an independent publisher of contemporary poetry\, fiction\, and creative nonfiction. \nTheir collections are distributed nationally through Independent Publishers Group to Amazon\, Barnes & Noble\, and various brick and mortar retailers\, as well as assorted conferences and book fairs.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/opheliac-launch-party/
LOCATION:Caffè Fantastico Specialty Coffees\, 965 Kings Road\, Victoria\, British Columbia\, V8T 1W7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet
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DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20241114T203000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: THE SACRED HEART MOTEL
DESCRIPTION:Join Grace Kwan for their hometown launch of THE SACRED HEART MOTEL\, hosted at the City Centre Artist Lodge (Well Studios) in Mount Pleasant. \nFeaturing special guests Kyla Jamieson and Clio Lake \nFood! Drinks! Readings! Heart-shaped key chains! \nThis is a free event. There is one flight of stairs to access the venue. There is one all-genders washroom. \n// \nIn poet Grace Kwan’s debut\, they are ruthless and nimble\, guiding us through the recesses of body and roadside space. The reader tours the motel through this multiverse narrative\, from amenities to rooms to back alleys\, through the generations of ghosts and queer love stories\, until they are left alone with the heart at the centre. The Sacred Heart Motel is a disorienting\, startling collection about placelessness and longing. \nKyla Jamieson (she/her) is the author of Body Count (Nightwood Editions\, 2020)\, which was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award\, named a CBC Best Poetry Book of 2020\, and awarded third place in the Metatron Prize for Rising Authors by CA Conrad and Anne Boyer. Kyla currently lives and relies on the traditional unceded territories of the Squamish\, Musqueam\, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations\, where she dreams of systemic change\, care-full futures\, and disabled joy. Find her online or in the water. \nGrace Kwan is a Malaysian-born sociologist and writer based in “Vancouver\,” the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish\, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Their recent poetry appears in Canthius\, Room Magazine\, and others. Find them at https://grckwn.wordpress.com/. \nClio Lake is mixed\, trans\, and gnc\, living as a settler on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm\, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh\, and səlil̓wətaʔɬ territories. They like bosc pears\, pomegranates\, and being in the water. You can find her writing collected by Publication Studio Vancouver\, BiteZine N°2\, and in ___figuration: an anthology of trans writers\, forthcoming from Gnashing Teeth. She is a recipient of accolade for drama from the UC Writing Awards.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-launch-the-sacred-heart-motel/
LOCATION:City Centre Artist Lodge\, 2111 Main Street\, Vancouver\, BC\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch
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ORGANIZER;CN="Metonymy Press":MAILTO:publish@metonymypress.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20241106T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20241106T210000
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SUMMARY:Orca Group Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:You’re invited to join Orca Book Publishers as we launch four new books! Meet the authors\, enjoy the refreshments\, and get a book signed.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/orca-group-book-launch/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20241029T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20241029T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T234752
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SUMMARY:Canadian Photographs Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:The Polygon Gallery proudly presents the launch of Canadian Photographs\, the latest book by renowned British-Canadian photographer Geoffrey James. \nPublished by Figure 1 Publishing\, and designed by Naomi MacDougall\, the 144-page volume offers a fresh look at Canada’s in-between spaces and forgotten places\, resisting the sense of a cohesive national identity. James documents telling moments: a demolition derby in Quebec\, an inmate’s decorated cell at Kingston Penitentiary\, the Dickensian side door of Massey Hall in Toronto. Captured with an eye for pictorial depth and detail\, James’ photographs do not shy from contradictions: the bifurcation of rural and urban\, rapid growth and increasing inequality\, and the slow journey toward truth and reconciliation. Largely taken from train windows in the vast terrain between the Pacific and Atlantic Coasts\, this unofficial portrait of Canada brings into sharp relief the mercurial nature of the nation. \nCanadian Photographs includes a conversation between the photographer and Peter Galassi\, former Chief Curator of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art\, New York. \nOn the occasion of the book launch\, the Artist will engage in a conversation with acclaimed art historian and curator John O’Brian\, followed by a book signing. \nDoors Open: 6pm\nConversation and Q&A: 6:30 – 7:30pm\nReception and Book Signing: 7:30 – 8pm
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/canadian-photographs-book-launch/
LOCATION:The Polygon Gallery\, 101 Carrie Cates Court\, North Vancouver\, BC\, V7M3J4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Polygon Gallery":MAILTO:info@thepolygon.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20241010T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20241010T210000
DTSTAMP:20260422T234752
CREATED:20240924T224211Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240924T224211Z
UID:26103-1728586800-1728594000@www.readlocalbc.ca
SUMMARY:Book launch. M.A.C. Farrant's expanded 20th Anniversary Edition of My Turquoise Years
DESCRIPTION:Book launch of M.A.C. Farrant’s expanded 20th Anniversary Edition of My Turquoise Years–a memoir.\nDate: October 10\, 2024\nTime: 7 – 9 pm\nPlace: Small Gods Brewing\, 9835 Third Street\, Sidney BC\nFree event.\nReaders: M.A.C. FARRANT and BARBARA BLACK\, Introduction by PAULINE HOLDSTOCK
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-launch-m-a-c-farrants-expanded-20th-anniversary-edition-of-my-turquoise-years/
LOCATION:BC
CATEGORIES:Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240928T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240928T140000
DTSTAMP:20260422T234752
CREATED:20240908T202712Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240908T202712Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Bus! Celebrating the 28th Year of Poetry in Transit
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with TransLink and BC Transit\, Read Local BC presents the launch of this year’s Poetry In Transit campaign at Word Vancouver. Now celebrating its 28th year\, this beloved community-engagement project displays the work of ten BC poets on public transit vehicles throughout the province. Join us to hear a selection of the featured 2024-25 poets read from their work\, followed by a short discussion and Q&A in which you can engage with the poets over your love of the written verse! Hosted by Evelyn Lau.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/poetry-bus-celebrating-the-28th-year-of-poetry-in-transit/
LOCATION:UBC Robson Square\, 800 Robson St\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6E 1A7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival,Launch,Reading
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ORGANIZER;CN="Word Vancouver":MAILTO:blnish_pandoras@yahoo.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240912T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240912T200000
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SUMMARY:POETRY BOOK LAUNCH! jaz papadopoulos (I FEEL THAT WAY TOO) and Melanie Siebert (SIGNAL INFINITIES)
DESCRIPTION:Join jaz papadopoulos (I FEEL THAT WAY TOO) and Melanie Siebert (SIGNAL INFINITIES) in conversation with Vancouver writer and editor Elee Kraljii Gardiner at Cross & Crows Books on Thursday\, September 12th\, 2024 at 6:30 pm.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/poetry-book-launch-jaz-papadopoulos-i-feel-that-way-too-and-melanie-siebert-signal-infinities/
LOCATION:Cross & Crows Books\, 2836 Commercial Dr\,\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5N 4C6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240625T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240625T220000
DTSTAMP:20260422T234752
CREATED:20240528T164337Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240528T164337Z
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SUMMARY:Liars of Orpheus
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by SJ Valiquette\, Liars of Orpheus revolves around writers attempting to lie their way through stories\, poems and lectures.\nEach of the five writers will produce work that are made entirely of lies with the exception of five pieces of truth each. They will win points from sneaking their truths past their opponents or having their lies mistaken for truths. The winner of this month’s competition receives a tiara and points towards our end of the season finally in April. \nFor our debut show\, Death Rides a Unicorn is very proud to present Erin Kirsh\, Sonya Littlejohn\, Holly Flauto\, Spillious the Ridiculous and a mystery storyteller. \nErin Kirsh is an award-winning writer\, performer\, and funnyman from Toronto. Her writing has appeared in publications such as The Malahat Review\, Cosmonauts Avenue\, bBarren Magazine\, Short Edition\, CV2\, ARC Poetry Magazine\, QWERTY\, Poetry is Dead\, EVENT\, PULP Literature\, Geist and more. \nHolly Flauto(she/they) is a poet\, story-teller\, learner and instructor living and writing on the traditional\, ancestral and stolen territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm\, Sḵwxwú7mesh and Selilwitulh Nations. ̱ Their debut poetry-memoir collection exploring immigration to Canada as a modern-day settler\, Permission to Settle\, will be published with Anvil Press in September 2024. Their fiction and creative memoir has previously been published in The Ex- Puritan\, Joyland\, and The Rusty Toque\, and they perform as Stella Palermo on the local story and poetry slam stages. Holly is a Creative Writing and English instructor at Capilano University.\nSonya Littlejohn recently graduated from Simon Fraser University with a certificate in Community Capacity Building. She holds a bachelor of arts from UBC\, a career in poetry performance and facilitation\, and communication building. She is a community engagement facilitator\, a cultural worker\, community coordinator\, mad artist and poet. \nSpillious aka Trevana Spilchen is a Trans feminine settler parent\, musician\, spoken word artist and educator of Ukrainian and Irish decent. They are 2024 recipient of the Zacheus Jackson Memorial award won the 2017 Grand Slam Championship of the Vancouver Poetry slam and finished 6th at the 2018 Canadian Individual Poetry Slam. \nThey have toured as a featured poet all throughout Canada and the US. Spillious has released 3 chapbooks of poetry and the last\, Tales of Trans-formation sold 200 copies. From Sept 2021-23 they shepherded the return of poetry slam in Vancouver as the Slam Coordinator for Vancouver Poetry House and the Tournament Director for the Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Championships. Most importantly\, Spillious is a parent to 4 kids ranging in age from 5 yrs to 23 yrs old and 4 cats named Cola\, Orange Crush\, Dr. Pepper & Rootbeer! \nThere will be a short open mic prior to the competition reserved for liars and faux poets. Each one of the Open Mic pieces also has to adhere to being all lies\, save 5 truths and under 5 minutes in length.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/liars-of-orpheus-2/
LOCATION:2434 Main St\, Vancouver\, BC V5T 3E2\, 2434 Main Street\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5T 3E2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Open Mic,Panel,Reading
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SUMMARY:Liars of Orpheus
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by SJ Valiquette\, Liars of Orpheus revolves around writers attempting to lie their way through stories\, poems and lectures.\nEach of the five writers will produce work that are made entirely of lies with the exception of five pieces of truth each. They will win points from sneaking their truths past their opponents or having their lies mistaken for truths. The winner of this month’s competition receives a tiara and points towards our end of the season finally in April. \nFor our debut show\, Death Rides a Unicorn is very proud to present Erin Kirsh\, Sonya Littlejohn\, Holly Flauto\, Spillious the Ridiculous and a mystery storyteller. \nErin Kirsh is an award-winning writer\, performer\, and funnyman from Toronto. Her writing has appeared in publications such as The Malahat Review\, Cosmonauts Avenue\, bBarren Magazine\, Short Edition\, CV2\, ARC Poetry Magazine\, QWERTY\, Poetry is Dead\, EVENT\, PULP Literature\, Geist and more. \nHolly Flauto(she/they) is a poet\, story-teller\, learner and instructor living and writing on the traditional\, ancestral and stolen territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm\, Sḵwxwú7mesh and Selilwitulh Nations. ̱ Their debut poetry-memoir collection exploring immigration to Canada as a modern-day settler\, Permission to Settle\, will be published with Anvil Press in September 2024. Their fiction and creative memoir has previously been published in The Ex- Puritan\, Joyland\, and The Rusty Toque\, and they perform as Stella Palermo on the local story and poetry slam stages. Holly is a Creative Writing and English instructor at Capilano University.\nSonya Littlejohn recently graduated from Simon Fraser University with a certificate in Community Capacity Building. She holds a bachelor of arts from UBC\, a career in poetry performance and facilitation\, and communication building. She is a community engagement facilitator\, a cultural worker\, community coordinator\, mad artist and poet. \nSpillious aka Trevana Spilchen is a Trans feminine settler parent\, musician\, spoken word artist and educator of Ukrainian and Irish decent. They are 2024 recipient of the Zacheus Jackson Memorial award won the 2017 Grand Slam Championship of the Vancouver Poetry slam and finished 6th at the 2018 Canadian Individual Poetry Slam. \nThey have toured as a featured poet all throughout Canada and the US. Spillious has released 3 chapbooks of poetry and the last\, Tales of Trans-formation sold 200 copies. From Sept 2021-23 they shepherded the return of poetry slam in Vancouver as the Slam Coordinator for Vancouver Poetry House and the Tournament Director for the Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Championships. Most importantly\, Spillious is a parent to 4 kids ranging in age from 5 yrs to 23 yrs old and 4 cats named Cola\, Orange Crush\, Dr. Pepper & Rootbeer! \nThere will be a short open mic prior to the competition reserved for liars and faux poets. Each one of the Open Mic pieces also has to adhere to being all lies\, save 5 truths and under 5 minutes in length.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/liars-of-orpheus/
LOCATION:2434 Main St\, Vancouver\, BC V5T 3E2\, 2434 Main Street\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5T 3E2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Open Mic,Panel,Reading
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SUMMARY:Wildlife Conservation Book Launch: Bob McDonald in Conversation with Greg Cummings and Sarah Cox
DESCRIPTION:Please join Munro’s Books in launching two new books by local authors about wildlife conversation!! We’ll present Greg Cummings\, author of Gorilla Tactics: How to Save a Species and Sarah Cox\, author of Signs of Life: Fieldnotes From the Frontlines of Extinction in conversation with Bob McDonald\, author of The Future is Now: Solving the Climate Crisis with Today’s Technologies\, and host of CBC Radio’s Quirks and Quarks! \nGorillas are among the most recognizable of the large charismatic mammals\, but climate change and poaching has brought them to the brink of extinction. Greg Cummings was the executive director of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund for seventeen years. He shares his fascinating experiences as a “wildlife Robin Hood”—raising money from the rich and famous and redistributing it to endangered gorillas and their habitats. He met and enlisted the help of celebrities such as Sigourney Weaver\, Arthur C. Clark\, Douglas Adams\, and Leonardo DiCaprio. This thirty-year worldwide journey moves from boardrooms in Manhattan and London to mountain treks in Rwanda and Congo. Gorilla Tactics is sure to enchant readers with Greg’s unique experiences\, while sharing insight into the work it takes to save a species from extinction. \nGREG CUMMINGS has been featured in international publications such as the Guardian\, Ecologist\, and Sea Angler. In 2006 his organization was awarded the BBC Animal Award for best wildlife conservation program. A fundraiser since 1990\, Cummings has raised money in America\, Britain\, France\, Holland\, Italy\, and Canada for causes ranging from wildlife conservation to mental health. As director of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund UK\, he set up dozens of innovative\, grassroots projects in troubled parts of the world—many of which are self-sustaining to this day. His global perspective has given him an eye for where the next crisis might arise\, and how to thwart it. He lives in Victoria\, British Columbia. \n— \nWhat’s to be done when only three spotted owls are left in Canada’s wild? When wolves eat endangered caribou\, cormorants kill rare trees\, and housing developments threaten a tiny frog? Environmental journalist Sarah Cox has witnessed what happens when we drive species to the brink of extinction. In Signs of Life\, she tags along with the Canadian military\, Indigenous guardians\, biologists\, conservationists\, and ordinary people who are racing to save hundreds of species before it’s too late. Travelling across the country\, Cox visits the Toronto Zoo\, home of Canada’s only wildlife biobank\, where scientists conserve living cells from endangered species in the event of future loss; tours Canada’s military bases\, home to some of Canada’s last preserved ecosystems; and travels to Indigenous communities where land stewards are striving to restore the delicate ecological balance that has sustained people for millennia. Through the eyes and work of individuals who are bringing species back from the precipice\, Cox delivers both an urgent message and a fresh perspective on how we can protect biodiversity and begin to turn things around. \nSARAH COX is an award-winning author and journalist based in Victoria\, B.C. In 2022\, Cox won the Canadian Association of Journalists’ Award for Environmental & Climate Change Reporting and her investigative reporting for the Narwhal has also been awarded the World Press Freedom Award and the Canadian Journalism Foundation’s Jackman Award for Excellence in Journalism. She has also won a Gold Digital Publishing Award with her colleagues at The Narwhal and previously won two Western Magazine Awards. Sarah’s first book Breaching the Peace: The Site C Dam and a Valley’s Stand Against Big Hydro won a B.C. Book Prize and was a finalist for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing (Writers’ Trust of Canada) and the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature. \n— \nBOB McDONALD has been the host of CBC Radio’s Quirks & Quarks since 1992. He is a regular science commentator on CBC’s News Network and a science correspondent for CBC TV’s The National. His book Measuring the Earth with a Stick was shortlisted for the Canadian Science Writers Association Book Award. He has been honoured with the 2001 Michael Smith Award for Science Promotion from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada; the 2002 Sandford Fleming Medal from The Royal Canadian Institute; and the 2005 McNeil Medal for the Public Awareness of Science from the Royal Society of Canada. In November 2011\, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. \nWHEN: Wednesday\, May 22nd at 7:00 p.m. (doors at 6:30) \nWHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government St. in Victoria \nWHAT: Readings from Greg Cummings and Sarah Cox\, followed by a conversation moderated by Bob McDonald and a Q&A with the audience. Book signings will follow. \nHOW: This event is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/wildlife-conservation-book-launch-bob-mcdonald-in-conversation-with-greg-cummings-and-sarah-cox/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Interview,Launch,Meet & Greet
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DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240510T143000
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SUMMARY:Book Signing: Hand Drawn Victoria with Emma Fitzgerald
DESCRIPTION:Join Munro’s Books on May 10th to meet Emma Fitzgerald\, author of Hand Drawn Victoria: An Illustrated Tour in and Around BC’s Capital City!! \nFor locals and visitors alike\, these sketches and stories highlight both the historic monuments and everyday moments that make Victoria shine. \nYou never know quite what you’ll come across in British Columbia’s capital city. With its unmissable landmarks that attract people from around the world\, Victoria is also rich in forested beauty\, charming houses\, and curious people\, and is steeped in local history. \nFollowing the charm of her previous book\, Hand Drawn Vancouver\, in this memorable book\, Emma FitzGerald captures the coastal city of Victoria and its surrounding communities in over 100 sketches of: \n• Iconic Landmarks: It wouldn’t be a visit to Victoria without stopping by the Empress\, Munro’s\, or Butchart Gardens.\n• Local Favourites: The longstanding Beacon Drive In and James Bay’s Birdcage Confectionary are some beloved spots honoured within these pages.\n• Beautiful Architecture: Journey back in time by admiring historic buildings\, like Queen Anne–style homes and the spiraling Belfry Theatre.\n• Stunning West Coast Landscape: Explore natural wonders\, from culturally significant fields of camas flowers to Mystic Beach’s stunning shoreline.\n• Overheard Conversations: What really makes a city are the people who live there—Emma documents snippets of passersby’s conversations as she sketches. \nStructured by neighbourhood\, Hand Drawn Victoria is a beautiful keepsake for locals and visitors alike\, and a lovely way to celebrate the city—its buildings\, its people\, and its essence. \nEMMA FITZGERALD was born to Irish parents in Lesotho\, a small mountainous kingdom in Southern Africa. She moved to Canada at a young age and spent most of her childhood in Vancouver\, BC. Emma received a BFA in Visual Art from the University of British Columbia in 2004\, and a Masters in Architecture from Dalhousie University in 2008. She has worked in architecture offices across Canada and in Johannesburg\, South Africa. Her love of drawing on location led to her first book\, Hand Drawn Halifax\, and its follow-up\, Sketch by Sketch Along Nova Scotia’s South Shore. She then turned her interest in people and places to where she grew up; Hand Drawn Vancouver was published in 2020 as she began working on Hand Drawn Victoria. In between her Hand Drawn series\, Emma has illustrated five children’s books\, including EveryBody’s Different on EveryBody Street\, written by Sheree Fitch. She lives and draws in Lunenburg\, Nova Scotia. \nWHEN: Friday\, May 10th from 1:00-2:30 p.m.\nWHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government St.\nWHAT: Meet and greet plus book signing with Emma Fitzgerald.\nHOW: This event is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-signing-hand-drawn-victoria-with-emma-fitzgerald/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240501T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240501T210000
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SUMMARY:Double Poetry Launch: Julie Paul and Miranda Pearson
DESCRIPTION:Join Munro’s Books in celebrating new work by two talented poets!! \n“Chomping / champing / championing / churlish / … / There’s a wolf at the door / that looks exactly like me.” Who is the “whiny baby” in this book? Rather than calling names or hurling insults\, the candid poems in this collection most often implicate the poet herself. Expansive in form and voice\, the poems in Julie Paul’s second collection\, Whiny Baby\, offer both love letters and laments. They take us to construction sites\, meadows\, waiting rooms\, beaches\, alleys\, gardens\, and frozen rivers\, from Montreal to Hornby Island. They ask us to live in the moment\, despite the moment. Including a spirited long poem that riffs on the fairy tale “Three Billy Goats Gruff\,” these poems are like old friends that at once console and confess. They blow kisses\, they remember\, and they celebrate the broken and the lost alongside the beautiful. At turns frank\, peevish\, introspective\, and mischievous\, the poems share sincere and intimate perspectives on the changing female body\, our natural and built landscapes\, and the idiosyncrasies of modern life. Whiny Baby calls on us to simultaneously examine and exult in our brief time on earth. \nJULIE PAUL’s second book of poetry\, Whiny Baby\, follows the 2017 release of the poetry collection The Rules of the Kingdom\, both published with McGill-Queen’s University Press. She is also the author of three short fiction collections\, The Jealousy Bone (Emdash\, 2008)\, The Pull of the Moon (Touchwood / Brindle & Glass\, 2014)\, and Meteorites (Touchwood\, 2019). Her writing has been published widely in journals and has received recognition from a number of sources. The Pull of the Moon won the 2015 Victoria Butler Book Prize\, and The Rules of the Kingdom was a finalist for both the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Her personal essay “It Not Only Rises\, It Shines” won the Edna Staebler Personal Essay Award from The New Quarterly and her short story “The Expansion” won The Rusty Toque’s Chapbook Award. Unless she’s visiting her daughter in Montreal\, Julie lives in Victoria BC\, where\, in addition to writing\, she works as a Registered Massage Therapist.\n—\n“Come\, anguish. Help us manage / the plainsong of an open shore\, / its language of high tide rich and close\, / close and hard to see.” The early elegiac poems in Bridestones emerge from the borderlands between life and death\, loss and renewal. Drawing on dreams\, opera\, and visual art\, and employing symbolist and playfully surreal imagery\, Miranda Pearson questions the ways we tend and grieve – for each other and our environment. Beginning with a sudden bereavement\, the first section ends with a long poem\, “Clearance\,” that depicts the experience of emptying and departing a home – the physicality of a house serving as a vehicle for processing grief. Pearson writes on family trauma\, illness\, love\, and desire with a pervading sense of hauntedness\, compressed\, lyrical accounts of complex and ambivalent terrain. The impact of a pandemic lurks in the background\, and themes of fear run through much of this collection\, with poems exploring how we face our fears – or deny and avoid them – and\, ultimately\, how we grow and adapt. Through meditations on art\, myth\, archaeology\, ceremony\, and death\, Pearson reveals the veil between life and death when drawn to its thinnest. Like the hovering falcon depicted in “A Song of Roses\,” the poems view the world from above: “if earth is body\, and sky – God help us\, spirit.” \nMIRANDA PEARSON is widely published in literary journals and anthologies\, and Bridestones is her sixth book of poetry. Two of the previous titles\, Harbour and The Fire Extinguisher\, were shortlisted for the BC and Yukon Book Prizes Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. While completing her MFA at UBC\, Miranda served as poetry editor for Prism international\, and has since taught at UBC and SFU. Miranda currently lives between the UK and Vancouver. \nPlease join us for readings from these two poets\, followed by a Q&A with the audience and refreshments! \nWHEN: Wednesday\, May 1st at 7:00 p.m. (doors at 6:30)\nWHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government St.\nWHAT: Readings by Julie Paul and Miranda Pearson from their new poetry collections\, followed by a Q&A with the audience. Refreshments will be provided.\nHOW: This event is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/double-poetry-launch-julie-paul-and-miranda-pearson/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet
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SUMMARY:10th Anniversary of BC Book Day
DESCRIPTION:WHEN: Tuesday\, April 23\, 2024 \nWHAT: BC Book Day invites British Columbians to celebrate the province’s book & magazine publishers\, authors\, illustrators\, bookstores\, libraries\, festivals\, and literary prizes that connect us with local stories. \nGOAL: To raise awareness among government and the general public of BC’s publishing ecosystem and its cultural and economic contributions. \nWHO: BC Book Day is coordinated by the Association of Book Publishers of BC\, which works to support the long-term health and success of the Canadian-owned book industry in British Columbia. \nDid you know? \n\nBritish Columbia is the second largest English-language book publishing region in Canada\, with more than 30 active publishers.\nBC publishers operate in several regions\, including the Southern Interior\, the Sunshine Coast\, Vancouver Island\, and the Lower Mainland.\nWe bring Canadian writing and culture to a global audience\, exporting to more than 40 countries each year.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/10th-anniversary-of-bc-book-day/
LOCATION:BC
CATEGORIES:Festival,Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240420T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240420T140000
DTSTAMP:20260422T234752
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Always On Call • Terrace\, BC
DESCRIPTION:Join bestselling author Marion McKinnon Crook to launch Always On Call: Adventures in Nursing\, Ranching\, and Rural Living—the much-anticipated sequel to Always Pack a Candle! \nSaturday\, April 20\, 2024\n1–2 pm\nTerrace Public Library\, 4610 Park Ave.\, Terrace\, BC \n• free to attend — everyone welcome\n• Books for sale by Misty River Books
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-launch-always-on-call-terrace-bc/
LOCATION:Terrace Public Library\, 4610 Park Ave\, Terrace\, BC\, V8G 1V6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240418T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240418T210000
DTSTAMP:20260422T234753
CREATED:20240321T170232Z
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Kayla Czaga and Anne Fleming
DESCRIPTION:Join Munro’s Books in celebrating the launches of new books by two talented local writers!! \n“I feel like the crud / I accidentally touch sometimes\, whatever it is / that collects under cushions on my couch\,” writes Kayla Czaga in her third collection\, Midway\, an exploration of grief in all its manifestations. In her search for meaning in the aftermath of her parents’ deaths\, Czaga visits the underworld (at least twice)\, Vietnamese restaurants\, the beach\, London’s Tate Modern\, Las Vegas casinos\, and a fish textbook. Honest\, elegiac\, characteristically strange\, and frequently funny\, these poems take the reader through bright scenery like carnival rides with fast climbs and sudden drops. The meanings and messages Czaga uncovers on her travels are complicated: hopeful\, bleak-both comforting and not. Along with the parents the poet mourns\, this collection showcases a varied cast. A suburban father-in-law copes with a troubling diagnosis. Marge Simpson quits The Simpsons. Death is a metalhead who dates girls too young for him. Midway is a welcome and necessary collection from one of the most celebrated and accomplished poets of her generation. \nKAYLA CZAGA is the author of two previous poetry collections-For Your Safety Please Hold On (Nightwood Editions\, 2014)\, and Dunk Tank (House of Anansi\, 2019). Her work has been shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for poetry and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Frequently anthologized in the Best Canadian Poetry in English series\, her writing also appears in The Walrus\, Grain\, Event\, The Fiddlehead\, and elsewhere. She lives with her wife on the traditional territory of the Lekwungen people\, the Songhees nd Esquimalt nations.\n—\nAnne Fleming’s latest novel\, Curiosities\, opens with a present-day amateur historian\, Anne\, who describes her unexpected discovery of five seventeenth-century manuscripts that\, astonishingly\, tell the same strange story from vastly different points of view. And so it falls upon Anne\, the contemporary historian\, to piece together these interlocking stories\, discover the fate of a pair of lovers\, and add her own layer of “truth” to a history and time period when there were no labels for who these lovers might truly be. \nANNE FLEMING is the author of Pool-Hopping & Other Stories (Raincoast\, 1998)\, which was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction\, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize\, and the Danuta Gleed Award\, as well as the much-praised novel\, Anomaly (Raincoast\, 2005). She is also the author of a middle-grade novel\, The Goat (Groundwood\, 2017)\, which was a Junior Library Guild and White Ravens selection\, shortlisted for Italy’s Premio Strega\, optioned for film\, and named one of the Top Ten Children’s Books of the Year by The New York Public Library and the Wall Street Journal. Anne Fleming lives in Victoria\, BC. \nWHEN: Thursday\, April 18th\, 7:00 p.m. (doors at 6:30).\nWHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government St.\nWHAT: Readings of new work from Kayla Czaga and Anne Fleming followed by a Q&A with the audience and book signings. Refreshments will be provided. The audience will also be serenaded by lute playing from Anne Fleming and local musician\, Doug Hensley.\nHOW: This event is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-launch-kayla-czaga-and-anne-fleming/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240405T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240405T170000
DTSTAMP:20260422T234753
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Boxing the Compass by Michael L. Hadley
DESCRIPTION:Join award-winning historian and mariner Michael L. Hadley on his international adventures as he launches his memoir\, Boxing the Compass: A Life of Seafaring\, Music\, and Pilgrimage (Heritage House\, 2024). \nFriday\, April 5\, 2024 | 3:30–5:00 pm\nMaritime Museum of BC | 744 Douglas St. | Victoria\, BC \nRegister at mmbc.bc.ca\nEvent included with museum admission or membership—come early to visit the museum\nBooks available for purchase and signing
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-launch-boxing-the-compass-by-michael-l-hadley-2/
LOCATION:Maritime Museum of BC\, 634 Humboldt St.\, Victoria\, BC\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240405T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240405T170000
DTSTAMP:20260422T234753
CREATED:20240409T163637Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240409T163637Z
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Boxing the Compass by Michael L. Hadley
DESCRIPTION:Join award-winning historian and mariner Michael L. Hadley on his international adventures as he launches his memoir\, Boxing the Compass: A Life of Seafaring\, Music\, and Pilgrimage (Heritage House\, 2024). \nFriday\, April 5\, 2024 | 3:30–5:00 pm\nMaritime Museum of BC | 744 Douglas St. | Victoria\, BC \nRegister at mmbc.bc.ca\nEvent included with museum admission or membership—come early to visit the museum\nBooks available for purchase and signing
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-launch-boxing-the-compass-by-michael-l-hadley/
LOCATION:Maritime Museum of BC\, 634 Humboldt St.\, Victoria\, BC\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240403T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240403T210000
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SUMMARY:Double Poetry Collection Launch: Patrick Grace and Tina Biello
DESCRIPTION:Please join Munro’s Books in celebrating the launches of two new poetry collections by local authors! \nPatrick Grace’s debut collection\, Deviant\, traces a trajectory of queer self-discovery from childhood to adulthood\, examining love\, fear\, grief\, and the violence that men are capable of in intimate same-sex relationships. Richly engaged with the tangible and experiential\, Patrick Grace’s confessional poetry captures profound\, sharp emotions\, tracking a journey impacted equally by beauty and by brutality. Coming-of-age identity struggles are recalled with wry wit\, and dreamlike poems embrace adolescent queer love and connections as a way to cope with the fear and cruelty that can occur in gay relationships. Later poems in the collection recall vivid moments of psychological trauma and stalking and explore the bias of the justice system toward gay men. Collecting memories\, dreams\, and fears about sexual identity\, Deviant makes important contributions to queer coming-of-age and intimate partner violence narratives. \nPATRICK GRACE is an author and teacher who divides his time between Vancouver and Victoria\, BC. He has read at literary festivals around Canada\, including Word Vancouver and Versefest Ottawa\, and will be appearing at the Edmonton Poetry Festival in late April. He has published two chapbooks: a blurred wind swirls back for you (2023)\, and Dastardly (2021)\, exploring aspects of love\, fear\, and trauma that represent a personal queer identity. Deviant\, his first full-length poetry collection\, continues to explore these themes. He works as managing editor of Plenitude Magazine\, and is this year’s judge for The Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Award for Poetry. \nIn Tina Biello’s new collection\, The Weight of Survival\, in a small logging town nestled near Lake Cowichan is an old elementary school. The child of immigrants from post-war Italy attends this school among the population of mostly white\, anglo-saxon families. She does not speak English. \nHer family is one of four who emigrated from southern Italy\, to this small forested community. There are other families\, from India\, who share a kinship of ‘other’ with the Italian families. What happens when your voice\, your food\, your home is different? How do you know how to be queer when there is no language or place for it? How do you remember a time not spoken of\, but passed on through the smell of walnut blossoms in the spring\, grapes in the fall? In The Weight of Survival\, Tina Biello chronicles this upbringing of otherness\, of being shaped by two very different communities\, of blending identities into one\, and what is left behind in the process. \nPoet\, playwright and actor\, TINA BIELLO was born in Lake Cowichan\, a small logging town here on Vancouver Island to immigrant parents. She has honed her skills of being from ‘two places’ and speaks a few languages because of it. She believes in the power of poetry to reach in\, grab hold and get us through. She had the great privilege of working with mentor Patrick Lane. ‘The Weight of Survival’ is her 4th book of poems. When she’s not writing poetry\, she’s gardening\, walking dogs and writing plays and more recently a screenplay. She was Nanaimo’s 2nd Poet Laureate from 2017-2020 and has just finished a 3 year cycle of writing librettos for composers with the Vancouver Island Symphony. \nWHEN: Wednesday\, April 3rd at 7:00 p.m. (doors at 6:30). \nWHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street. \nWHAT: Readings by Patrick Grace and Tina Biello\, followed by a Q&A with the audience and book signings. \nHOW: This event is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/double-poetry-collection-launch-patrick-grace-and-tina-biello/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet,Panel
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SUMMARY:Mysterious Book Launch: Susan Juby\, Kate Hilton\, and Elizabeth Renzetti
DESCRIPTION:Join Munro’s Books in celebrating the launch of two new mysteries: A Meditation on Murder by Susan Juby and Bury the Lead by Kate Hilton and Elizabeth Renzetti!! \nIn A Meditation on Murder\, Butler-detective Helen Thorpe returns to help a wannabe influencer get her life in order—and solve the murders of her fellow content creators—in this hilarious sequel to Mindful of Murder by bestselling author Susan Juby.\nWhen Buddhist butler Helen Thorpe is loaned out to help Cartier Hightower get her life in order\, Helen finds herself working for a young woman entirely unbound by the fetters of good taste or sound judgment. One of Cartier’s fellow content creators has recently died in a strange accident. Soon after Helen arrives\, another is killed in an equally bizarre way. Cartier begins to drag Helen around on the influencer circuit\, where neither of them is particularly welcome. Then comes the terrible incident at the EDM nightclub that turns Cartier into a global pariah\, at least according to social media. Helen hopes a period of simplicity and reflection and an internet detox will help Cartier find her true nature and maybe acquire some social graces. But Helen’s job gets much harder when Cartier’s friends show up at the lavish ranch where Cartier and Helen have retreated. Soon\, Helen finds herself trying to avoid becoming Instafamous while bringing some peace to a girl who very much needs it. This task turns out to be even more impossible when it becomes clear that they have been followed to Weeping Creek Ranch by a murderer. \nIn Bury the Lead\, a big-city journalist joins the staff of a small-town paper in cottage country and finds a community full of secrets … and murder. \nCat Conway has recently returned to Port Ellis to work as a reporter at the Quill & Packet. She’s fled the tattered remains of her high-profile career and bad divorce for the holiday town of her childhood\, famous for its butter tarts\, theatre\, and a century-old feud. One of Cat’s first assignments is to interview legendary actor Eliot Fraser\, the lead in the theatre’s season opener of Inherit the Wind. When Eliot ends up dead onstage on opening night\, the curtain rises on the sleepy town’s secrets. The suspects include the actor whose career Eliot ruined\, the ex-wife he betrayed\, the women he abused\, and even the baker he wronged. With the attention of the world on Port Ellis\, this story could be Cat’s chance to restore her reputation. But the police think she’s a suspect\, and the murderer wants to kill the story-and her too. Can Cat solve the mystery before she loses her job or becomes the next victim of a killer with a theatrical bent for vengeance? \nSusan Juby is the award-winning\, bestselling author of Mindful of Murder\, which debuted at number one on the independent bookstores’ bestseller list and was nominated for the Leacock Medal for Humour. She has also written Getting the Girl\, Another Kind of Cowboy and The Woefield Poultry Collective\, as well as the bestselling Alice series (Alice\, I Think; Miss Smithers; and Alice MacLeod\, Realist at Last). Her novel Republic of Dirt won the Leacock Medal in 2016. Susan Juby lives on Vancouver Island with her husband\, James\, and their dogs\, who are convinced they could have lucrative careers as social media stars. \nKate Hilton is the bestselling author of three novels: The Hole in the Middle\, Just like Family and Better Luck Next Time. When not writing\, Kate works with psychotherapy and life coaching clients in the area of transformational change. \nElizabeth Renzetti is the author of the essay collection Shrewed: A Wry and Closely Observed Look at the Lives of Women and Girls and the novel Based on a True Story. In 2020\, she won the Landsberg Award for her reporting on gender equality. \nWHEN: Tuesday\, March 19th at 7:00 p.m. (doors at 6:30).\nWHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\nWHAT: Readings from the authors of Bury the Lead and A Meditation on Murder\, followed by a Q&A with the audience and book signings.\nHOW: This event is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/mysterious-book-launch-susan-juby-kate-hilton-and-elizabeth-renzetti/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Holly Ringland and Tamara Goranson
DESCRIPTION:Please join Munro’s Books to launch new fantastical novels by Holly Ringland and Tamara Goranson!! \nHolly Ringland’s new novel\, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding\, is a haunting\, magical novel about joy\, grief\, courage and transformation that follows from the international bestselling\, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart. \n‘On the afternoon that Esther Wilding drove homeward along the coast\, a year after her sister had walked into the sea and disappeared\, the light was painfully golden.’ \nThe last time Esther Wilding’s beloved older sister Aura was seen\, she was walking along the shore towards the sea. In the wake of Aura’s disappearance\, Esther’s family struggles to live with their loss. To seek the truth about her sister’s death\, Esther reluctantly travels from Lutruwita/Tasmania\, to Copenhagen\, and then to the Faroe Islands\, following the trail of the stories Aura left behind: seven fairy tales about selkies\, swans and women\, alongside cryptic verses Aura wrote and had secretly tattooed on her body. The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding is a sweeping\, deeply beautiful and profoundly moving novel about the far reaches of sisterly love\, the power of wearing your heart on your skin and the ways life can transform when we find the courage to feel the fullness of both grief and joy. \nHolly Ringland is the author of the award-winning international bestseller The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart\, adapted into a seven-part TV series on Amazon Prime\, starring Sigourney Weaver. After living between Australia and the UK for ten years\, Holly has been based in the Yugambeh region of southeast Queensland since 2020\, where she wrote The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding in her “office\,” a vintage caravan named Frenchie. \nTamara Goranson’s Oath of Bjorn is Book 3 of her Vinland Viking Saga. Anja has just settled into a new life on the silver shores of Vinland with her beloved\, Bjorn. But then a local warrior bursts onto the scene seeking revenge\, swearing to spill Viking blood. And so Bjorn must risk everything to save the woman he loves before she steps into the darkness and sets their world ablaze. The Oath of Bjorn is an epic historical novel of gripping adventure and love everlasting – perfect for fans of Vikings and Outlander. \nTamara Goranson holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology as well as Adjunct Professor status at the University of Victoria in British Columbia\, Canada. She published several academic pieces before she turned to writing short stories\, creative non-fiction\, and historical fiction\, winning 3rd prize in the 2019 Vancouver Island Writers’ Association annual general contest for her nonfiction piece\, ‘A Voice in Time’. She lives in Victoria with her husband and two daughters. \nWHEN: Wednesday\, March 13th\, 7:00 p.m. (doors at 6:30).\nWHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government St. in Victoria.\nWHAT: Readings by Holly Ringland and Tamara Goranson\, followed by a Q&A with the audience and book signings.\nHOW: This event is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-launch-holly-ringland-and-tamara-goranson/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet
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