BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Read Local BC - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Read Local BC
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Read Local BC
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Vancouver
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20220313T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20221106T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20230312T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20231105T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20240310T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20241103T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20250309T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20251102T090000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240228T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240228T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T034031
CREATED:20240213T185803Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240213T185803Z
UID:20301-1709146800-1709154000@www.readlocalbc.ca
SUMMARY:Best Canadian Poetry in English 2024 Launch Party!!
DESCRIPTION:Please join Munro’s Books in celebrating the launch of the Best Canadian Poetry in English 2024! \nLocal poet Yvonne Blomer will host a reading by five of this year’s local poets included in the collection: Nicholas Bradley\, Kayla Czaga\, Hilary Clark\, Anna Moore\, and Joanna Streetly. \nPraise for the book includes: \n“Buy it\, or borrow it\, but do read it.” —Arc Poetry Magazine \n“A magnet\, I think\, for the many people who would like to know contemporary poetry.” —A.F. Moritz\, Griffin Poetry Prize winner \nWHEN: Wednesday\, February 28th\, 7:00 p.m. \nWHERE: Fortune Gallery\, 537 Fisgard St. in Victoria \nWHAT: Readings by Nicholas Bradley\, Kayla Czaga\, Hilary Clark\, Anna Moore\, and Joanna Streetly\, hosted by Yvonne Blomer. \nHOW: This event is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/best-canadian-poetry-in-english-2024-launch-party/
LOCATION:Fortune Gallery\, 537 Fisgard Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1R3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/BCPE-IG.png
ORGANIZER;CN="Munro's Books":MAILTO:events@munrobooks.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240224T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240224T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T034031
CREATED:20240109T185729Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240109T185729Z
UID:19691-1708801200-1708808400@www.readlocalbc.ca
SUMMARY:Dr. Jen Gunter in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join Munro’s Books in celebrating the launch of Dr. Jen Gunter’s newest book\, Blood: The Science\, Medicine\, and Mythology of Menstruation. We’ll present Dr. Gunter in conversation with UVic Gender Studies Professor Dr. Thea Cacchioni\, followed by a Q&A with the audience (no requests for medical advice\, please) and a book signing! \nBlood\, The galvanizing new book from Dr. Jen Gunter\, #1 bestselling author of The Vagina Bible and The Menopause Manifesto\, dispels the shame\, mythology\, and misinformation around menstruation with scientific facts\, medical expertise\, and a fierce feminist perspective. \nMost of us know about as much about how the uterus and ovaries function as we do about how the liver works. Add in societal shame around the menstrual cycle and it’s not surprising that misinformation is widespread. But\, as women’s health advocate and trusted OB-GYN Dr. Jen Gunter writes\, “you don’t have to think about your liver 5 days a month for 30 years\, so I’d argue people should know more about the uterus.” Enter Blood. \nIn her new book\, Dr. Gunter offers a clear\, no-nonsense guide to reproductive anatomy and answers all the questions you never knew you had about menstrual bleeding—for example\, where does the blood come from? And where does it go if you miss a period? Why do we even menstruate in the first place? With her expertise and trademark wit\, Dr. Gunter debunks myths and challenges patriarchal attitudes toward this natural bodily process. \nDr. Jen Gunter is board certified in OB/GYN and pain medicine. She writes about the intersection of women’s health\, sex\, science\, and pop culture for the New York Times. She has been called a fierce advocate for women’s health\, Twitter’s gynecologist\, and “strangely confident” by GOOP.com. She believes an empowered patient requires facts and she is here to fix the medical Internet and smash the patriarchy. \nDr. Thea Cacchioni is an Associate Professor of Gender Studies at UVic. Her research examines the medicalization of sex\, gender\, and sexuality\, broadly\, as well as through specific diagnoses such as Female Sexual Dysfunction and Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. She is interested in the ways in which doctors\, psychiatrists\, and more recently\, drug companies shape understandings of “normalcy” and “deviance” across categories of gender\, racialization\, and class. Her work examines the pathologization of some sexual acts and identities and the “healthicization” of others. \nWHEN: Saturday\, February 24th at 7:00PM (doors at 6:30) \nWHERE: Victoria Conference Centre Lecture Theatre\, 720 Douglas St. in Victoria \nWHAT: Dr. Jen Gunter in conversation with Dr. Thea Cacchioni\, followed by a Q&A with the audience (no requests for medical advice\, please) and a book signing \nHOW: Tickets can be purchased HERE: https://jengunterblood.eventbrite.ca \nBook plus ticket: $42 (includes a copy of BLOOD to be picked up at the event)\nTicket: $20
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/dr-jen-gunter-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Victoria Conference Centre\, 720 Douglas Street\, Victoria\, British Columbia\, V8W 3M7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Interview,Launch,Meet & Greet
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/23-1286-EVENTBRITE-Gunter-Blood-v2-002-scaled.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Munro's Books":MAILTO:events@munrobooks.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240220T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240220T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T034031
CREATED:20240130T204708Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240130T204708Z
UID:20152-1708455600-1708462800@www.readlocalbc.ca
SUMMARY:Sheila Heti in Conversation with Lee Henderson
DESCRIPTION:Please join Munro’s Books in celebrating the launch of Sheila Heti’s latest book\, Alphabetical Diaries. Sheila will be in conversation with UVic writing professor\, Lee Henderson. \nMunro’s Books is pleased to present two Canadian award-winning authors\, Sheila Heti and Lee Henderson\, in conversation at their store on Tuesday\, February 20th at 7:00 p.m. Sheila Heti will read from her new book Alphabetical Diaries and then chat about it with local fiction writer and UVic creative writing professor\, Lee Henderson. The evening will end with a Q&A with audience members and a book signing with Sheila Heti. This event is free to attend. \nA little over a decade ago\, Sheila Heti—the award-winning author of a string of modern classics including How Should a Person Be?\, Motherhood\, and Pure Colour—began looking back at the diaries she’d kept over the previous ten years\, searching for signs of deeper change inside herself. She loaded all 500\,000 words of her journals into Microsoft Excel\, to order the sentences alphabetically and seek out patterns and repetitions. How many times had she written\, “I hate him\,” for example? With the sentences untethered from the narrative of her diaries\, she started to see herself—and the Self—in a new way: as something quite solid\, anchored by shockingly few characteristic preoccupations. Returning to the project over the years\, something more universal and novelistic emerged. Alphabetical Diaries is the sublime and probing result—one that rises to the heights of artistry and insight for which Heti is rightfully acclaimed. \nSheila Heti is one of our greatest literary innovators and has been pushing boundaries with her work since the age of 24\, when she published her first book\, the short-story collection\, The Middle Stories\, in 2001. She’s since won the Governor General’s Award for Fiction and the Vine Award for Canadian Jewish Literature\, and has been shortlisted for the Giller Prize and longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Heti’s fiction and criticism have appeared in the New York Review of Books\, London Review of Books\, The Paris Review\, The New Yorker\, and Granta. \nWHEN: Tuesday\, February 20th at 7:00 p.m. (doors at 6:30). \nWHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government St. \nWHAT: A reading by Sheila Heti from her latest book\, followed by a conversation with Lee Henderson and a Q&A with the audience. \nHOW: This event is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/sheila-heti-in-conversation-with-lee-henderson/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Interview,Launch,Meet & Greet,Panel
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Alphabetical-Diaries-Feb-20-FB-banner.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Munro's Books":MAILTO:events@munrobooks.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231206T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231206T200000
DTSTAMP:20260423T034031
CREATED:20231204T210643Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231204T210643Z
UID:19517-1701885600-1701892800@www.readlocalbc.ca
SUMMARY:Book Launch / Tales for Late Night Bonfires by G.A. Grisenthwaite with host Molly Cross-Blanchard
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, December 6th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and Freehand books in celebrating the launch of G.A. Grisenthwaite’s Tales for Late Night Bonfires\, with host Molly Cross-Blanchard. \n“Tales for Late Night Bonfires is funny\, dark\, and rich all at once; each story is immense and alive. Grisenthwaite shows us what fiction can be when story leads the way.” QUILL & QUIRE starred review \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. Register here: https://www.showpass.com/tales-for-late-night-bonfires-by-ga-grisenthwaite-with-host-molly-cross-blanchard/ \nThe gallery is wheelchair accessible and a gender-neutral washroom is on-site. \nPlease 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: \nTales for Late Night Bonfires (Freehand Books\, 2023) \nThese are stories that are a litle bit larger than life\, or maybe they really happened. Tales that could be told ’round the campfire\, each one-upping the next. Tales about a car that drives herself\, ever loyal to her owner. Tales about an impossible moose hunt. Tales about the Real Santa(TM) mashed up with the book of Genesis\, alongside SPAM stew and bedroom sets from IKEA. \nG.A. Grisenthwaite’s writing is electric and inimitable\, blending meticulous literary style with oral storytelling and coming away with a voice that is entirely his own. Tales for Late Night Bonfires is truly one of a kind\, and not to be missed. \nAbout the author: \nG.A. Grisenthwaite is a Nlaka’pamux writer and a member of the Lytton First Nation. His debut novel\, Home Waltz\, was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award. Grisenthwaite lives in Kingsville\, Ontario. In 2023\, he served two months as the Writer-in-Residence at Berton House\, Dawson City. \nAbout the host: \nMolly Cross-Blanchard is a white and Métis writer and editor born on Treaty 3 territory (Fort Frances\, ON)\, raised on Treaty 6 territory (Prince Albert\, SK)\, and living on the unceded territory of the Musqueam\, Squamish\, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples (Vancouver\, BC). She published her debut collection of poems\, Exhibitionist\, in 2021 with Coach House Books\, and currently teaches Creative Writing and Indigenous Studies at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-launch-tales-for-late-night-bonfires-by-g-a-grisenthwaite-with-host-molly-cross-blanchard/
LOCATION:BC
CATEGORIES:Launch
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/DEC-6-Bonfire-header.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231201T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231201T200000
DTSTAMP:20260423T034031
CREATED:20231106T190423Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231106T190423Z
UID:19231-1701453600-1701460800@www.readlocalbc.ca
SUMMARY:Book Launch: Better Next Year
DESCRIPTION:Please join Munro’s Books in launching Better Next Year: An Anthology of Christmas Epiphanies!!\nChristmas is trumpeted as a time of peace\, joy\, bounty and goodwill. Believers and non-believers alike covet the spirit of the holidays even when circumstances are screwed up. \nRecollections from acclaimed Canadian authors combine with emerging voices from across the country in an anthology that debunks the popular depiction of Christmas while delivering its messages of hope and renewal. \nWriters marginalized by personal circumstance\, faith\, and race share memories of surviving bleak Christmases past: holidays spent in shelters\, or on the streets; families marred by alcohol and violence; personal struggles with addiction\, poverty or grief; isolation and loneliness. Despite these and other obstacles\, contributors strive to salvage the spirit of the season. \nThis event will be hosted by the book’s editor\, J. J. Lee and will feature readings from Joseph Kakwinokanasum and Jordan Kawchuk. \nWHEN: Friday\, December 1st from 6PM-8PM \nWHERE: Caffe Fantastico Roastery\, 965 Kings Rd. \nWHAT: Hosted by J. J. Lee\, readings from Joseph Kakwinokanasum and Jordan Kawchuk \nHOW: This event is free to attend
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-launch-better-next-year/
LOCATION:Caffè Fantastico Specialty Coffees\, 965 Kings Road\, Victoria\, British Columbia\, V8T 1W7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Better-Next-Year-IG.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Munro's Books":MAILTO:events@munrobooks.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231119T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231119T143000
DTSTAMP:20260423T034031
CREATED:20231102T214846Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231102T214846Z
UID:19189-1700398800-1700404200@www.readlocalbc.ca
SUMMARY:Book Launch: Blue Camas\, Blue Camas by Danielle S. Marcotte
DESCRIPTION:Join local author Danielle S. Marcotte for the launch of her new picture book\, Blue Camas\, Blue Camas. \nSunday\, November 19 | 1:00 pm\nBlack Bond Books – Ladner Village \nBlue Camas\, Blue Camas is the captivating story of how a flower that has been cultivated on Canada’s west coast since time immemorial came to symbolize the meeting of two contrasting ways of life and the perseverance of traditional knowledge against all odds. \nhttps://www.heritagehouse.ca/book/blue-camas-blue-camas/ \n“Blue Camas\, Blue Camas is a captivating story revealing the overlooked history of colonial contact and its impact on Indigenous communities. Through vivid storytelling and diverse voices\, it emphasizes land stewardship\, cultural heritage\, and fostering empathy\, making it a valuable resource for children.”\n—SAMANTHA BEYNON\, author of Oolichan Moon
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-launch-blue-camas-blue-camas-by-danielle-s-marcotte/
LOCATION:Black Bond Books – Ladner\, 5251 Ladner Trunk Road\, Ladner\, BC\, V4K 1W4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/370171274_760536946082160_4838523719056452819_n.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231109T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231109T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T034031
CREATED:20231003T194758Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231003T194758Z
UID:18871-1699556400-1699563600@www.readlocalbc.ca
SUMMARY:Book Launch: Arleen Pare and Barbara Pelman
DESCRIPTION:Please join Munro’s Books for the launch of new books by two beloved local poets! \nAward-winning poet Arleen Pare’s latest collection\, Absence of Wings\, is both an intimate family portrait and a public documentation of how we\, as a society\, can fail to protect our children. \nAbsence of Wings depicts the extraordinary and tragically foreshortened life of A.—Paré’s niece\, Brazilian\, adopted\, racialized\, and living with multiple mental health diagnoses. In her deft and clear poetics\, accompanied by documentary pieces in the tradition of C.D. Wright’s One with Others\, Paré is both witness to and emotionally engaged in the life and death of A. The result is deep and heart-felt\, both factional and fictional\, poetry and prose\, holding its subject\, A.\, heart-close and 3\,000 miles away. Absence of Wings unfolds on many levels; it embraces the private and public spheres; it is as intimate as family\, as worldly as the public and personal politics that surround each life. It both observes and embraces\, always with the important question of the world’s unprotected children in mind. \nIn A Brief and Endless Sea\, award-winning poet Barbara Pelman presents a life lived in poetry\, delving into the small moments and spaces containing the greatest offerings of love\, hope and possibility. \nBorn out of waiting out the lockdown during the early days of the pandemic\, Barbara Pelman’s A Brief and Endless Sea explores a life in retrospect\, beginning with a high school typing class and ending with the Angel Purah\, cutting the ties that bind a soul to a body. Many of the poems in this collection are rooted in Jewish tradition: the prophet Isaiah’s words of comfort; the rabbinical story of the Lost Princess\, that angel and her counterpart\, the Angel Duma. Pelman takes us to difficult places—the dissolution of a marriage\, caring for a parent with dementia. But she doesn’t leave us there\, waiting. Using the power of words to map a route out\, A Brief and Endless Sea pulls us toward life in all of its vibrant details—the simple beauty of a small garden of tomatoes and roses\, the pleasures of teaching poetry\, long walks with a grandson\, and encounters with spirituality. For Pelman\, there is comfort in the making of a poem and in the “smallest life you can love.” Like the glosa form she turns to often\, something small transforms into something larger\, expansive. In A Brief and Endless Sea\, the ordinary becomes extraordinary\, and waiting in itself presents fertile ground for hope and possibility. \nWHEN: Thursday\, November 9th at 7PM (doors at 6:30) \nWHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government St. \nWHAT: A reading and Q&A with Arleen Pare and Barbara Pelman. \nHOW: This event is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-launch-arleen-pare-and-barbara-pelman/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet,Panel
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Arleen-and-Barbara-FB-cover.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Munro's Books":MAILTO:events@munrobooks.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231107T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231107T180000
DTSTAMP:20260423T034031
CREATED:20231027T195833Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231027T195833Z
UID:19082-1699380000-1699380000@www.readlocalbc.ca
SUMMARY:Under the Table Open Mic Series Ft. Sheniz Janmohamed
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday\, November 7th at 6pm PDT / 9pm EDT\, join Massy Arts Society and a collective of brilliant poet organizers for Under The Table Open Mic Series\, featuring Sheniz Janmohamed. \nZoom room and sign-up opens at 5:45 PDT / 8:45 EDT\, show starts at 6pm PDT / 9pm EDT \n(we run on crip time with the understanding that bodies and brains aren’t always on schedule) \nWe invite you to sign up for the open mic as Under The Table welcomes us to laugh\, cry\, celebrate and sit in the richness of queer and disabled life\, writing and poetics. \nThis event will unfortunately not have ASL interpretation. We are working to secure funding to continue having ASL at future events. \nPlease join the zoom room with the same email you used on eventbrite. If you have any issues joining please email us at underthetablepoetry@gmail.com \nAbout Under The Table: \nUnder the Table is an open mic series centering disabled and/or queer poets. This series was dreamed up out of a desire to share work\, experience art\, and connect with community in a covid safer\, more accessible\, and anti-oppressive space. Partnering with Massy Voices and Kickstart Disability Arts & Culture\, Under the Table Open Mic Series will be on the first Tuesday of each month with some events in person at Massy Arts Society and others virtually on zoom. \nUnder the Table is a space where the richness that is queer and disabled life and art\, flourishes and finds a home. It’s a space to share work that’s asking to be told\, but might not be welcomed in other spaces\, if you are able to access those spaces at all. It’s a space where being queer and/or disabled (whether or not those specific words resonate for you) makes your work a brilliant fit\, regardless of how queer or disabled you think the poetry you wish to share is\, how connected you are to disabled and/or queer community\, and whether you feel disabled and/or queer “enough” to participate. It’s a space to witness and engage with the work of incredible artists\, anywhere on their path of sharing their work–from the person who has never shared in front of an audience\, to artists who have read or performed work many times. It’s a space where there’s room to be scared\, and choose to be in community\, share\, and engage with others’ work. It’s a space where we don’t claim to know all the answers\, but are willing to be in the messy\, nuanced space of learning together. Come to “Under the Table” to laugh\, cry\, celebrate\, sit in discomfort\, feel understood\, and be together. \nThis event has been made possible by Massy Voices\, The Government of Canada\, The League of Canadian Poets\, and the Canada Council for the Arts. \nVenue & Accessibility \nThe event will be hosted virtually via zoom. Automatic captioning will be turned on\, we recognize automatic captioning is imperfect. We are working towards securing funding for CART to improve the quality of captioning. We ask anyone speaking or performing to provide a visual description for blind and low vision audience members. We also ask that people don’t message in the chat during poems\, to increase accessibility for people using screen readers. \nWith Author & Featured Poet: \nSheniz Janmohamed was born and raised in Tkaronto with ancestral ties to Kenya and India. A poet\, artist educator and nature artist\, Sheniz is a graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing program at the University of Guelph. \nSheniz has been performing her poetry for 15 years\, including features at the Jaipur Literature Festival\, Aga Khan Museum\, and Vancouver Writers Fest to name a few. Her writing has been published in Arc Poetry Magazine\, Descant and Canthius and she is a regular reviewer for Quill & Quire. She has three collections of poetry\, published by Mawenzi House: Bleeding Light (2010)\, Firesmoke (2014) and Reminders on the Path (2021). \nHer nature art has been featured across Turtle Island\, including the National Arts Centre\, MOCA and the Art Gallery of Mississauga. \nA recipient of the Lois Birkenshaw-Fleming Creative Teaching Scholarship\, Sheniz holds an Artist Educator Mentor certification from the Royal Conservatory. She visits dozens organizations and schools to offer performances\, talks and workshops in poetry and nature art. \nSheniz served as the Writer-in-Residence at the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus (Winter/Spring 2022)\, and is currently working on her fourth book\, a collection of hybrid essays about her grandmother’s garden in the highlands of Kenya.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/under-the-table-open-mic-series-ft-sheniz-janmohamed/
LOCATION:BC
CATEGORIES:Launch
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_614323389_462702708128_1_original.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231102T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231102T200000
DTSTAMP:20260423T034031
CREATED:20231027T200046Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231027T200046Z
UID:19111-1698948000-1698955200@www.readlocalbc.ca
SUMMARY:Double Lives & Lovely Afternoons: Kevin Chong  & Patti Flather with Marcus Youssef & Christine Quintana
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, November 2nd at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books\, Simon & Schuster\, and Inanna Publications for ‘Double Lives & Lovely Afternoons: Kevin Chong & Patti Flather with Marcus Youssef and Christine Quintana’. \nThe Double Life of Bensen Yu was just shortlisted for a Scotiabank Giller Prize and Kevin Chong will be joining this event remotely from the Maritimes. \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: \nThe Double Life of Benson Yu (Simon & Schuster\, 2023) \nThis fresh and unique work of metafiction follows a graphic novelist losing control of his own narrative as he attempts to write a polished retelling of his fraught upbringing in 1980s Chinatown. \nIn a Chinatown housing project lives twelve-year-old Benny\, his ailing grandmother\, and his strange neighbor Constantine\, a man who believes he’s a reincarnated medieval samurai. When his grandmother is hospitalized\, Benny manages to survive on his own until a social worker comes snooping. With no other family\, he is reluctantly taken in by Constantine and soon\, an unlikely bond forms between the two. \nAt least\, that’s what Yu\, the narrator of the story\, wants to write. \nThe creator of a bestselling comic book\, Yu is struggling with continuing the poignant tale of Benny and Constantine and can’t help but interject from the present day\, slowly revealing a darker backstory. Can Yu confront the demons he’s spent his adult life avoiding or risk his own life…and Benny’s? \nSuch A Lovely Afternoon (Inanna Publications\, 2022) \nSuch a Lovely Afternoon is a dazzling debut collection from award-winning Yukon writer Patti Flather. \nA feisty young tomboy grapples with gender roles with sometimes hilarious results\, a refugee single dad struggles for dignity in his northern community\, and a malfunctioning compost toilet and wacky neighbours upturn a woman’s island cabin life\, among other tales. \nAgainst vivid landscapes from Canada’s West Coast to Hong Kong to the Yukon\, Flather reveals poignant beauty\, compassion and humour in everyday lives\, with characters searching for identity and belonging\, delving into their resilience and humanity. Published by Inanna Publications. \n“Fall into Such a Lovely Afternoon in the middle of the night. These take-no-prisoners\, let-your-hair-down stories are a heart-to-heart with your BFF about love\, loss\, and the lives of women making themselves up in the late 20th century\, choice by choice\, at the edge of the world. Patti Flather’s stories are literary lightning.” – Linda Svendsen\, Guggenheim winner and author of Marine Life and Sussex Drive \nAbout the authors: \nKevin Chong is the author of seven books of fiction and nonfiction\, including the new novel The Double Life of Benson Yu. Those titles have been named books of the year by Globe and Mail\, National Post\, and Amazon.ca\, listed for a CBC prize\, a BC Book Prize\, and a National Magazine Award\, optioned for film and TV\, and published in the US\, Europe\, and Australia. His creative nonfiction and journalism have recently appeared in the Guardian\, the Times Literary Supplement\, the Rumpus\, and the South China Morning Post. An Associate Professor at the UBC Okanagan\, he lives in Vancouver with his family. \nPatti Flather is an award-winning author. Her plays Paradise and Sixty Below have been shared on stages across Canada and published. Where the River Meets the Sea won the Canadian National Playwriting Competition\, her radio play West Edmonton Mall was nominated for a Canadian Screenwriting Award\, and her stories have appeared in literary magazines. A winner of the Borealis Prize for Yukon literary contribution\, Patti has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of BC. She grew up in North Vancouver\, BC\, and lives in Kwanlin Dün First Nation and Ta’an Kwäch’än territory in Whitehorse\, Yukon. www.pattiflather.com \nAbout the guests: \nMarcus Youssef’s fifteen or so plays all investigate some aspect of difference and belonging. They have been produced in multiple languages in in twenty countries across North America\, Europe and Asia\, from Seattle to New York to Reykjavik\, London\, Venice\, Hong Kong\, Vienna\, Athens\, Frankfurt and Berlin. He is the recipient of Canada’s largest theatre award\, the Siminovitch Prize for Theatre\, for his body of work as a playwright\, as well as Berlin\, Germany’s Ikarus Prize\, the Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award\, the Rio Tinto Alcan Performing Arts Award\, the Chalmers’ Canadian Play Award\, the Seattle Times Footlight award\, the Vancouver Critics’ Innovation award (three times) and the Canada Council Staunch-Lynton Award. \nChristine Quintana Born in Los Angeles to a Mexican-American father and a Dutch-British-Canadian mother\, Christine is now a grateful visitor to the unceded lands of the Musqueam\, Squamish\, and Tsleil-Waututh people. Christine is an actor\, playwright\, co-Artistic Producer of Delinquent Theatre\, and artistic associate of Neworld Theatre. Winner of a LA Drama Critic’s Circle Award\, Dora Mavor Moore Award\, Jessie Richardson Theatre Award\, Tom Hendry Award\, a Governor General’s Award nomination\, and the Siminovitch Protégée Prize for Playwriting\, Christine’s works have been translated and performed in Spanish\, French\, German\, and ASL. As a performer\, she’s acted on stages big and small\, in a camper van\, in neighbourhoods across East Vancouver\, and on a farm. She is currently working on a commission for the Manhattan Theatre Club\, and will premiere 4 new works next year across Canada. She is a graduate of UBC’s BFA Acting Program. christinequintana.ca
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/double-lives-lovely-afternoons-kevin-chong-patti-flather-with-marcus-youssef-christine-quintana/
LOCATION:Massy Arts\, 23 East Pender\, Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Panel
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/NOV-2-Double-Lives-Lovely-Afternoons-header.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231101T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231101T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T034031
CREATED:20230912T164550Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230912T164550Z
UID:18440-1698865200-1698872400@www.readlocalbc.ca
SUMMARY:Ali Blythe and Jason Jobin Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Please join Munro’s Books in celebrating new books by two local authors: Ali Blythe and Jason Jobin! \nBright star\, would I were stedfast as thou art — \nBreaking open John Keats’s “Last Sonnet\,” in his third book of poetry\, Stedfast\, Ali Blythe writes marginality into the canon\, at once claiming\, reviving\, and un-fixing the Romantic vision. \nTaking place over one night\, the poet in bed next to a sleeping lover\, Blythe’s revelatory poems struggle with questions of illusion and reality\, immersion and escapism\, that which endures and that which is transient. Held taut in formal quivers of short lines\, each poem is shot through with eros — to address\, to dress and undress\, the subject of the love poem and perhaps love itself. \nJason Jobin’s debut\, The Wild Mandrake\, is a memoir that covers his life from the cusp of adulthood\, as he faces cancer that keeps coming back. \nDoctors used to tell him he was cured. That was a long time ago. Ever since he first left home at age nineteen\, writer Jason Jobin has had cancer. Every five years\, like clockwork\, it relapses\, and yet he always pulls through\, surrounded by friends and family but isolated by illness. Chemotherapy\, surgeries\, radiation — these persist\, but they aren’t the milestones of his life. They can’t be\, he won’t let them be. \nFrom helicoptering into the Yukon backcountry to teaching in an elite writing program\, Jason strives to enter adulthood with some normalcy\, but his is the life of “a special case.” And he does live. He lives working at a deli for minimum wage as his students come down the hill to shop and ask what he’s doing there. He lives measuring out nausea pills and benzos while his roommates drink and smoke and party. He lives lying to girlfriends about past diagnoses because what can you say? What do you build on rubble? He lives high and low and in between. Again he is sick\, again he is cured. It’s miraculous. A great gift. But never enough. \nTold in short glimpses\, this story redefines what it means to survive. Jobin brings together the illuminated moments of loss and joy as he navigates chronic illness and builds from it something new and wildly unexpected. \nWHEN: Wednesday\, November 1st at 7:00 PM (doors at 6:30). \nWHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government St. \nWHAT: A reading and signings by Ali Blythe and Jason Jobin. \nHOW: This event is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/ali-blythe-and-jason-jobin-book-launch/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Ali-and-Jason-IG.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Munro's Books":MAILTO:events@munrobooks.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231018T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231018T203000
DTSTAMP:20260423T034031
CREATED:20231012T165359Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231012T165359Z
UID:18962-1697655600-1697661000@www.readlocalbc.ca
SUMMARY:Book Launch Event for Male Pregnancy in Reverse!
DESCRIPTION:Tom will be reading with Mark Laba in Vancouver in October: \nHe will be reading from his forthcoming collection\, Male Pregnancy in Reverse\, releasing on September 30th! \nTom Prime is\, as described by Daniel Harris\, author of The Posthuman Series\, “at the forefront of a new generation of avant-gardists.” His latest work is a long poem “in 5 Acts” that transmutes a disturbing and sometimes horrifying experience—albeit one which is only ever obliquely and allegorically described—into a dazzling and heady literary puzzle. \nPlease note that if you wish to reserve a seat at the event\, you may add the FREE ticket below to your cart when purchasing your book at the Cross and Crows website. All Preorders (not-yet-published books) are 20% off\, taken at checkout. Preorders must be prepaid to receive the discount.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-launch-event-for-male-pregnancy-in-reverse-2/
LOCATION:Cross and Crows Bookstore\, 2836 Commercial Drive\, Vancouver\, BC\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/MPiR_VancouverSquare-1-1536x1536-1.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231014T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231014T160000
DTSTAMP:20260423T034031
CREATED:20230929T165630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230929T165630Z
UID:18801-1697288400-1697299200@www.readlocalbc.ca
SUMMARY:Dual Launch of "Gumboot Guys" and "Knots and Stitches"
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the Adventurous Spirit of Coastal Living in the 1970s.\nTwo new Books are being launched in the inviting ambience of the Osborne Bay Pub.\nYou can buy a beer\, buy a book\, meet the authors\, and get your books signed. \nFrom the vibrant era of the 1970s when adventure seekers\, dreamers\, and wanderers flocked to the rugged shores of British Columbia’s West Coast\, two captivating books emerge\, chronicling the tales of resilience\, camaraderie\, and love for the sea. \nGumboot Guys: Nautical Adventures on British Columbia’s North Coast\, edited by Lou Allison with Jane Wilde\, and Knots & Stitches: Community Quilts Across the Harbour by Kristin Miller\, transport readers to a time when possibilities seemed endless and community was everything.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/dual-launch-of-gumboot-guys-and-knots-and-stitches/
LOCATION:Osborne Bay Pub\, 1534 Joan Ave\, Crofton\, B.C.\, v0r1r0\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Knots-and-Stitches-Gumboot-Guys-covers.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231003T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231003T203000
DTSTAMP:20260423T034031
CREATED:20230926T212545Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230926T212545Z
UID:18750-1696359600-1696365000@www.readlocalbc.ca
SUMMARY:Book Launch: Freddie by Grant Hayter-Menzies • Victoria\, BC
DESCRIPTION:Join local author Grant Hayter-Menzies as he presents Freddie: The Rescue Dog Who Rescued Me\, a book for anyone who has ever loved and lost an animal. \nFreddie is the moving memoir of a writer—a biographer of historical animals—whose life was forever changed when a rescue dog came into his life. \nTracing their journey from Freddie’s adoption and socialization through his growing bond with Grant to his devastating cancer diagnosis in 2020\, this memoir reminds us of everything that animals can teach us about love\, loyalty\, and courage\, and is a call to action to end the unethical and abusive treatment of animals everywhere. \n• Free to attend\n• All ages welcome\n• LGBTQ friendly\n• Books will be available for purchase and signing\n• To RSVP: To register for this event\, use the ‘Buy Tickets’ (free) button at bolenbooks.com https://bolenbooks.com/events/29491\nhttps://www.heritagehouse.ca/book/freddie/
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-launch-freddie-by-grant-hayter-menzies-victoria-bc/
LOCATION:Bolen Books\, #111-1644 Hillside Ave.\, Victoria\, BC\, V8T 2C5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/371309252_759880599481128_1914493124087304454_n.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230927T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230927T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T034031
CREATED:20230830T172416Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230830T172416Z
UID:18193-1695841200-1695848400@www.readlocalbc.ca
SUMMARY:Launch of Hologram: an Homage to P.K. Page
DESCRIPTION:Join Munro’s Books for the launch of Hologram: an Homage to P.K. Page \nEditors Yvonne Blomer and D.C. Reid will host an evening of poetry with local poets John Barton\, Stephen T. Berg\, Barbara Black\, Wendy Donawa\, Beth Kope\, Dan MacIsaac\, Lynne Mustard\, Barbara Pelman\, Pamela Porter\, and Cynthia Woodman Kerkham in a poetic tribute to one of Canada’s most influential and celebrated poets. \nEdited by Yvonne Blomer and DC Reid\, and featuring pieces from renowned poets including John Barton\, Marilyn Bowering\, Lorna Crozier\, Eve Joseph\, Patrick Lane\, Alice Major\, kjmunro\, Patricia Young\, and many others\, Hologram is testament to the mentoring that P.K. Page offered through community and conversation\, as a living writer and through her poetry.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/launch-of-hologram-an-homage-to-p-k-page/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Hologram-Launch-Social-Media-Post-Square.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Munro's Books":MAILTO:events@munrobooks.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230916T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230916T140000
DTSTAMP:20260423T034031
CREATED:20230814T191020Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230814T191020Z
UID:18060-1694867400-1694872800@www.readlocalbc.ca
SUMMARY:Poetry Bus! Celebrating the 27th 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 27th 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 2023-24 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. \nReaders:\nSusan Braley – Tilling the Darkness (Caitlin Press & Dagger Editions)\nP.W. Bridgman – At the Bakery After the Pathology Report Arrives (Ekstasis Editions)\nEdward Byrne – Tracery (Talonbooks)\nMegan Fennya Jones – The Program (Goose Lane Editions)\nMark Leiren-Young – Big Sharks\, Small World (Orca Book Publishers)\nEmily Osborne – Safety Razor (Gordon Hill Press)\nKirsten Pendreigh – Best Canadian Poetry 2021 (Biblioasis)\nIan Thomas – Green Islands: Poems from the Great Bear Rainforest (Rainbow Publishers & Raven Chapbooks)
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/poetry-bus-celebrating-the-27th-year-of-poetry-in-transit/
LOCATION:UBC Robson Square\, 800 Robson St\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6E 1A7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival,Launch,Meet & Greet,Panel
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PoetryinTransit-WordVan-landscape-1.png
ORGANIZER;CN="Word Vancouver":MAILTO:blnish_pandoras@yahoo.ca
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230913T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230913T210000
DTSTAMP:20260423T034031
CREATED:20230823T220900Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230823T220900Z
UID:18102-1694631600-1694638800@www.readlocalbc.ca
SUMMARY:Book Launch: Lorna Crozier and M.A.C. Farrant
DESCRIPTION:Join Munro’s Books in celebrating the newest releases from two incredibly talented local authors! \nLorna Crozier’s After That is a book written from the dark hollow we fall into when we lose those we love. Lorna’s sure poetry engages with the grief that comes from the death of her partner\, the writer Patrick Lane\, with whom she’d lived for forty years\, many of them tumultuous. With grace and precision\, she illuminates sorrow. M.A.C Farrant’s Jigsaw comprises ninety-three literary puzzle pieces that mimic the actual practice of assembling a jigsaw puzzle. By turns whimsical\, insightful\, meditative\, funny\, and factual\, the “pieces” of Jigsaw touch on several themes readers of Farrant have encountered before: existence\, love\, joy\, science\, history\, aging\, roads\, and Buddhism – as well as our universal love of jigsaw puzzles.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-launch-lorna-crozier-and-m-a-c-farrant/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Lorna-and-MAC-Sep13-banner-FINAL.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Munro's Books":MAILTO:events@munrobooks.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230824T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230824T220000
DTSTAMP:20260423T034031
CREATED:20230721T170127Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230721T170127Z
UID:17788-1692901800-1692914400@www.readlocalbc.ca
SUMMARY:Wild Prose Readings Presents: Troubled Towns and Waters with Curtis LeBlanc\, Michael Melgaard and Mike Sadava
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an evening of small-town and watery crime literature! The evening will begin with an open mic at 7 – bring your writing to share! Featured readers will begin at 7:30 p.m.: Vancouver-based poet and novelist Curtis LeBlanc will read from his debut novel\, Sunsetter\, which is about crime and drugs at a small-town rodeo; Toronto-based\, island-raised author Michael Melgaard will read from his debut novel\, Not That Kind of Place\, which is about the aftermath of a murder in a small town on Vancouver Island; and local author Mike Sadava will read from his debut novel\, Troubled Waters\, which is about a potential earth-changing experiment gone horribly wrong and the international crime behind it. \nPlease bring cash for admission and authors’ books.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/wild-prose-readings-presents-troubled-towns-and-waters-with-curtis-leblanc-michael-melgaard-and-mike-sadava/
LOCATION:Paul Phillips Hall\, 1923 Fernwood Road\, Victoria\, BC\, V8T 0A5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Open Mic,Reading
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/August-Instagram.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Wild Prose Reading Series":MAILTO:susan.sanford.blades@gmail.com
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230802T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230802T180000
DTSTAMP:20260423T034031
CREATED:20230712T211800Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230712T211800Z
UID:17527-1690999200-1690999200@www.readlocalbc.ca
SUMMARY:Ever-Arriving Openings: An Evening with Adeena Karasick
DESCRIPTION:On Thurs. Aug. 3 at 6pm\, join Massy Arts and Dialogos / Lavender Ink for the double launch of Adeena Karasick’s latest poetry books: Ærotomania: The Book of Lumenations and Ouvert Oeuvre: Openings . \nThrough a poetics of politically engaged aesthetic resistance\, Ærotomania negotiates turbulence\, loss\, nostalgia and hope\, while the poems in Ouvert Oeuvre speak-sing to re-entering the world after a long period in quarantine. Adeena will be joined by special guest Jim Andrews\, who will be screening some of their recent vispo collaborations: Lorem Ipsum\, Checking In 1\, Checking In 2\, Touching in the Wake of the Virus. \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 \nÆrotomania: The Book of LumenationsLavender Ink\, 2023) \nA lyrically explosive mix of pathos\, comedy\, and wit\, and a visual feast in full color. \nMarked by a playful “cognitive dissidence” and a lyrically and visually explosive mix of pathos\, comedy\, and wit\, Ærotomania: The Book of Lumenations is Karasick’s twelfth volume of poetry. Through a poetics of politically engaged aesthetic resistance\, this work negotiates turbulence\, loss\, nostalgia and hope\, inscribing a prescient “present” ever-arriving through jubilation and bereavement\, in immanence and irruption\, exposing how the airplane as an erotic theater functions like a language. \nOuvert Oeuvre: Openings (Lavender Ink\, 2023) \nAn ecstatically wrought\, never quite post-Covid celebration/trepidation of openings. \nInscribing what Levinas might call “espace vital” (the space we can survive)\, Ouvert Oeuvre: Openings is an ecstatically wrought\, never quite post-Covid celebration/trepidation of openings. Written by Adeena Karasick and visualized by Warren Lehrer\, the two poems track the pain of openings read through socio-economic\, geographic and bodily space. They explore a range of intralingual etymologies of the word opening\, laced with post-consumerist and erotic language\, theoretical discourse\, philosophical and Kabbalistic aphorisms. The poems foreground language as an organism of hope–highlighting the concept of opening as an ever-swirling palimpsest of spectral voices\, textures\, whispers and codes transported through passion\, politics and pleasure as we negotiate loss and light. This book is the first collaboration between poet\, performer\, cultural theorist and media artist Adeena Karasick\, and pioneer designer/author and vis lit practitioner Warren Lehrer. The poems\, written by Karasick\, speak-sing to re-entering the world after a long period in quarantine. Lehrer choreographs Karasick’s words on the stage of the page and through the pages of this volume. His typographic compositions give form to the interior\, emotional\, metaphorical\, historical and performative underpinnings of the poems. Together\, the writing and visuals create a new whole that engages the reader to become an active participant in the experience/performance of the poems. View the book’s website here. \nAbout the author \nAdeena Karasick\, Ph.D\, is a New York based Canadian poet\, performer\, cultural theorist and media artist and the author of 14 books of poetry and poetics. Her Kabbalistically inflected\, urban\, Jewish feminist mashups have been described as “electricity in language” (Nicole Brossard)\, “proto-ecstatic jet-propulsive word torsion” (George Quasha)\, noted for their “cross-fertilization of punning and knowing\, theatre and theory” (Charles Bernstein) “a twined virtuosity of mind and ear which leaves the reader deliciously lost in Karasick’s signature ‘syllabic labyrinth’” (Craig Dworkin); “demonstrating how desire flows through language\, an unstoppable flood of allusion (both literary and pop-cultural)\, word-play\, and extravagant and outrageous sound-work.” (Mark Scroggins). Most recently is Massaging the Medium: 7 Pechakuchas\, (The Institute of General Semantics Press: 2022)\, shortlisted for Outstanding Book of the Year Award (ICA\, 2023) and winner of the 2023 Susanne K. Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Symbolic Form. (MEA)\, Checking In (Talonbooks\, 2018) and Salomé: Woman of Valor (University of Padova Press\, Italy\, 2017)\, the libretto for her Spoken Word opera; Salomé: Woman of Valor CD\, (NuJu Records\, 2020)\, and Salomé Birangona\, translation into Bengali (Boibhashik Prokashoni Press\, Kolkata\, 2020). Karasick teaches Literature and Critical Theory for the Humanities and Media Studies Dept. at Pratt Institute\, is Poetry Editor for Explorations in Media Ecology\, Associate International Editor of New Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication\, 2021 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Award recipient and winner of the Voce Donna Italia award for her contributions to feminist thinking\, and has just been appointed Poet Laureate of the Institute of General Semantics. The “Adeena Karasick Archive” is established at Special Collections\, Simon Fraser University. Hot off the press is Ærotomania: The Book of Lumenations\, and Ouvert: Oeuvre: Openings\, (Lavender Ink Press\, 2023). \nAlso featuring: \nJim Andrews has been publishing https://vispo.com since 1996. It’s the centre of his work as a poet\, visual artist\, audio artist\, theoretician and programmer. Vispo.com is a site of interactive\, multimedia poetry.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/ever-arriving-openings-an-evening-with-adeena-karasick/
LOCATION:Massy Arts\, 23 East Pender\, Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_547669939_462702708128_1_original.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230801T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230801T200000
DTSTAMP:20260423T034031
CREATED:20230712T211746Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230712T211746Z
UID:17525-1690912800-1690920000@www.readlocalbc.ca
SUMMARY:Poetry Workshops / Chasing The Poem – 4th Edition / All Queer Mentorship
DESCRIPTION:From July 11th to August 1st\, Massy Arts and Massy Books host\, Chasing The Poem – Fourth Edition\, an online poetry workshop marathon for emerging writers\, in three courses created by queer poets to demystify poetry writing\, to present useful writing prompts\, to incite imagination\, and to address political and poetic points of view through poetic literature. \nThe classes – conducted by published poets David Ly + Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch + Isabella Wang\, will be held through Zoom in an exclusively online method\, with 2-hours long experimental courses that will mix literary theory + artistic expression. \nBy the end of this writing marathon\, attendees will have received feedback about their writing by authors in production\, aware of the market’s demands – but also aware of poetry’s potential. \nThe event will be hosted at Massy Arts’ Zoom room. \nTickets are limited\, and registration is mandatory + required for participation. \nThis project has been made possible by the Government of Canada. Ce projet a été rendu possible grâce au gouvernement du Canada. \n: : \nChasing The Poem – A unique opportunity for emerging writers \nWhether an emerging poet\, unpublished author\, poetry enthusiast\, or someone searching for new ways of expressing their creativity – Chasing The Poem will connect our creative community in three courses: \nJuly 11 – Tue – 6pm to 8pm PST \nDavid Ly \nRe-imagining Your Mythologies \nJuly 18 – Tue – 6pm to 8pm PST \nEli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch \nForm as the container for the personal and the political \nAugust 1 – Tue – 6pm to 8pm PST \nIsabella Wang \nPoetry Lab: Form’s Experimental Roots \n: : \nThe Workshops \n: : \n“Re-imagining Your Mythologies: Writing to See Yourself in Imagistic Poetry” by David Ly \nA workshop for emerging and established poets to practice flexing their imagination in composing poetry with vivid imagery that pushes a narrative of the self forward. \nWhether you love to write with imagery\, or would want to imbue more of it into your poems\, this workshop will be guide you through discussions\, close-readings\, and a series of writing exercises an imagistic poem. While strongly imbuing your poem with images that speak to you\, the other purpose of this workshop will be refining your poem so that it reflects your identity\, and re-imagines ideas (“mythologies”) that you have about yourself. \nAs poets\, we often explore our sense(s) of self in our work\, and by the end of this workshop\, you will leave inspired to explore what other images you can include in future poems\, that resonate with you and speak to your identity. \nDavid Ly is the author of Mythical Man (2020)\, which was shortlisted for the 2021 ReLit Poetry Award\, and Dream of Me as Water (2022)\, both published under the Anstruther Books imprint of Palimpsest Press. He is also co-editor (with Daniel Zomparelli) of Queer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry (Arsenal Pulp Press\, 2022). David’s poems have appeared in publications such as Arc Poetry Magazine\, Best Canadian Poetry\, PRISM International\, and The Ex-Puritan\, where he won the inaugural Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence. David is the Poetry Editor at This Magazine. \n: : \n“Form as the container for the personal and the political: How to write non-didactic political poetry” by Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch \nHow can writing about the daily minutia\, the sounds you like to hear\, the images you can’t get out of your head\, the construction in your city\, the long bus ride to work\, open up space to look at broader political\, social\, or interpersonal trials and difficulties? \nWriting poetry with a political or social “message” is difficult when trying to make sure it doesn’t come off as didactic or overbearing. One way of pushing through this difficulty is to lean on craft\, form\, and hybrid genres/forms in order to help shape your poetry\, the same way you would mold clay with your hands to create pottery. \nThis workshop will try to help workshop attendees to think about multiplicity as a strength in order to give their poems texture\, layers\, feeling\, energy\, elasticity\, and to avoid flatness or didacticism. We are working here with the everything\, the too much\, the big feelings\, the tiny little images stored in the back of ones head\, the gross\, the weird\, the strange\, and we’ll try to whittle it all down to a poem. \nOther ideas we’ll be thinking about: the personal vs. the political\, ways to create lenses through which we can write difficult subject matter\, caring about the self through the writing practice and also the impact on the reader. \nEli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch is a writer living in Tio’tia:ke. Their work has appeared in The Best \nCanadian Poetry 2018 anthology\, The New Quarterly\, Arc Poetry Magazine\, and elsewhere. They were longlisted for the CBC poetry prize in 2019. Their book\, knot body (2020)\, published by Metatron Press\, was shortlisted for the QWF Concordia First Book Award\, and their second book\, The Good Arabs\, published by Metonymy Press in 2021\, was granted the honorary mention for poetry by the Arab American Book Awards and won the Grand Prix du Livre de Montreal. They are an acquisitions editor at Metonymy Press. Their translation of Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay’s La fille d’elle-même from the French is forthcoming Spring 2023. With co-editor Samia Marshy\, they are editing El Ghourabaa\, an anthology of weird and experimental queer and trans writing by Arab and Arabophone writers\, forthcoming Spring 2024. \n: : \n“Poetry Lab: Form’s Experimental Roots” by Isabella Wang \nFocused on experimentation as a synaptic device in poetry. This workshop leads participants on an exploration of the experimental foundation of traditional poetic forms\, as well as the synergy from which new\, experimental forms arises from experimentation to shoulder the immediate\, aesthetic\, personal\, environmental\, and political visions of writers today. \nWe will journey with the term poiesis—a beloved term by poets—which translates loosely to mean ’the making of something out of nothing.’ Together\, participants will be encouraged to consider not only language’s ability to bring into being new feelings\, perspectives\, and original metaphors\, but equally how such perspectives are found in the unearthing of new experimental or hybrid forms. \nWhat is the relationship to form and poetic language? How do pre-existing forms or free-verse stanzas assist or hinder a poet’s intended creative representation? Is experimental poetry empowering? Political? An act of refusal and resistance? \nWe will begin by engaging in a series of writing exercises ranging from experimental prose poetry to diptych and triptych forms. Exercises will followed by periods of collaborative sharing. Breaks will be interspersed with sample poems by contemporary poets\, artists\, and activists whose works engage with experimentation\, new\, and found forms. \nWe will end with a fun and artsy individual project to take home\, commemorate our writing in our time together. \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. She works in freelance editing\, is a youth mentor with Vancouver Poetry House\, and web coordinator for Poetry In Canada.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/poetry-workshops-chasing-the-poem-4th-edition-all-queer-mentorship/
LOCATION:Massy Arts\, 23 East Pender\, Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230729T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230729T200000
DTSTAMP:20260423T034031
CREATED:20230712T211728Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230712T211728Z
UID:17500-1690653600-1690660800@www.readlocalbc.ca
SUMMARY:Remnants of Place: Natalie Virginia Lang with Guests
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, July 29th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books\, and Caitlin Press for Remnants of Place: Natalie Virginia Lang with Guests Stephen Collis\, Betsy Warland and Daniela Elza. \nThrough poetic prose\, Lang meditates on the social\, historical\, cultural\, and environmental losses suffered at the hands of infringement upon natural areas. \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 \nRemnants: Reveries of a Mountain Dweller (Caitlin Press\, 2023) \nIn Remnants: Reveries of a Mountain Dweller\, writer and educator Natalie Virginia Lang offers a vision of Sumas Mountain throughout the seasons to expose the impact of toxic progress on Place. Through poetic prose\, Lang meditates on the social\, historical\, cultural\, and environmental losses suffered at the hands of infringement upon natural areas. Remnants ventures into the natural spaces on Sumas Mountain\, illuminating the errors of the modern colonial approach to progress and posing philosophical queries for alternate pathways into the future. \nAbout the author \nNatalie Virginia Lang is an educator and writer\, living on Sumas Mountain in Abbotsford. Lang is passionate about the environment and is dedicated to the preservation of natural spaces\, wherever possible. \nLang holds a Master of Arts degree from Simon Fraser University where she won multiple awards\, including the Jean-Jacques Rousseau Award\, the Julie Andreyev- Animal Lover Scholarship\, the Ewan Clark Memorial Award\, and a Graduate Fellowship. She also has a degree in Literature and Anthropology from the University of the Fraser Valley and an Education degree from Simon Fraser University. \nWith readers: \nStephen Collis is the author of a dozen books of poetry and prose\, including The Commons (2008)\, the BC Book Prize winning On the Material (2010)\, Once in Blockadia (2016)\, Almost Islands: Phyllis Webb and the Pursuit of the Unwritten (2018)\, and A History of the Theories of Rain (2021)—all published by Talonbooks. In 2015 he was awarded the Nora and Ted Sterling Prize in Support of Controversy\, after he was sued by oil company Kinder Morgan\, whose lawyers entered Collis’s poetry as evidence in court. In 2019 he was the recipient of the Latner Writers’ Trust of Canada Poetry Prize in recognition of his body of work. \nBetsy Warland has published 13 books of creative nonfiction and poetry. The second edition of Warland’s Breathing the Page—Reading the Act of Writing (2010)\, is coming out with new material in 2023. Former director of The Writers Studio at SFU\, and the Vancouver Manuscript Intensive\, Warland was a co-founder of the Creative Nonfiction Collective. A manuscript consultant\, editor and teacher\, they received the City of Vancouver Mayor’s Award for Literary Excellence in 2016. In 2022\, an annual national prize\, The VMI Betsy Warland Between Genres Award\, was launched. \nDaniela Elza lived on three continents before immigrating to Canada in 1999. Her latest poetry collections are the broken boat (2020) and slow erosions (2020). In 2021\, she became a founding member of the Place Mattering Matters Collective and has been actively involved in preserving the affordable housing in her community in Vancouver\, located on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish)\, and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. She is also working on a manuscript on the topic.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/remnants-of-place-natalie-virginia-lang-with-guests/
LOCATION:Massy Arts\, 23 East Pender\, Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230720T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230720T200000
DTSTAMP:20260423T034031
CREATED:20230712T211530Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230712T211530Z
UID:17494-1689876000-1689883200@www.readlocalbc.ca
SUMMARY:Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City by Jane Wong with Guests
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, July 20th\, at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and Tin House for the West Coast launch of Jane Wong’s “blazing\, lyrical” memoir\, Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City. Jane will be joined by guest readers Britt McGillivray and Adèle Barclay. \nIn what Elissa Washuta calls “a perfect and glimmering book”\, Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City is a resounding love song of the Asian American working class\, a portrait of how we become who we are\, and a story of lyric wisdom to hold and to share. \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: \nMeet Me Tonight in Atlantic City (TinHouse\, 2023) \nAn incandescent\, exquisitely written memoir about family\, food\, girlhood\, resistance\, and growing up in a Chinese American restaurant on the Jersey shore. \nIn the late 1980s on the Jersey shore\, Jane Wong watches her mother shake ants from an MSG bin behind the family’s Chinese restaurant. She is a hungry daughter frying crab rangoon for lunch\, a child sneaking naps on bags of rice\, a playful sister scheming to trap her brother in the freezer before he traps her first. Jane is part of a family staking their claim to the American dream\, even as this dream crumbles. Beneath Atlantic City’s promise lies her father’s gambling addiction\, an addiction that causes him to disappear for days and ultimately leads to the loss of the restaurant. \nIn her debut memoir\, Jane Wong tells a new story about Atlantic City\, one that resists a single identity\, a single story as she writes about making do with what you have—and what you don’t. What does it mean\, she asks\, to be both tender and angry? What is strength without vulnerability—and humor? Filled with beauty found in unexpected places\, Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City is a resounding love song of the Asian American working class\, a portrait of how we become who we are\, and a story of lyric wisdom to hold and to share. \nAbout the Author: \nJane Wong is the author of a memoir\, Meet Me Tonight in Atlantic City (Tin House\, 2023)\, and two collections of poetry: How to Not Be Afraid of Everything (Alice James\, 2021) and Overpour (Action Books\, 2016). She is an associate professor of creative writing at Western Washington University and lives in Seattle. \nWith Guest Readers: \nBritt McGillivray is a poet\, editor\, and non-fiction writer from the Pacific Northwest. Born in Vancouver\, BC (unceded territory of the Tsleil-Waututh\, Squamish\, and Musqueam Nations)\, they run writing retreats on Orcas Island\, WA\, and spend their time between Vancouver and Seattle. Britt is finishing their first novel. \nAdèle Barclay’s (she/they) poetry\, fiction\, and essays have appeared in The Walrus\, The Tyee\, The Pinch\, Heavy Feather Review\, glitterMOB\, PRISM\, Cosmonauts Avenue and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the 2016 Lit POP Award\, The Walrus’ 2016 Readers’ Choice Award for Poetry and The Fiddlehead’s 2022 Fiction Prize. Their debut poetry collection\, If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You won the 2017 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Her second collection\, Renaissance Normcore was nominated for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the ReLit Award and placed third for the 2020 Fred Cogswell Award. Excerpts from their memoir-in-progress Black Cherry have been published in Impact: Women Writing After Concussion\, This Magazine\, and The Puritan and have been nominated for creative nonfiction prizes by The Fiddlehead and The Malahat.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/meet-me-tonight-in-atlantic-city-by-jane-wong-with-guests/
LOCATION:Massy Arts\, 23 East Pender\, Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_538980629_462702708128_1_original.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230719T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230719T200000
DTSTAMP:20260423T034031
CREATED:20230712T211514Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230712T211514Z
UID:17491-1689789600-1689796800@www.readlocalbc.ca
SUMMARY:A History of Burning by Janika Oza in conversation with Brandon Wint
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, July 19th\, at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and Penguin Random House Canada for the West Coast launch of Janika Oza’s A History of Burning. \nIn what the New York Times Book Review calls “Remarkable. . . . A haunting\, symphonic tale”\, Oza’s A History of Burning is a profoundly moving debut novel spanning India\, Uganda\, England\, and Canada\, about how one act of survival reverberates across generations of a family and their search for a place of their own. \nJoin her in conversation with poet Brandon Wint at Massy Arts Society for this special event. \nRegistration is free or by donation\, however you can pay $30 for a signed copy of A History is Burning when you register. \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 \nA History of Burning (McLelland & Stewart\, 2023) \nFour generations. Three sisters. One impossible choice. A profoundly moving debut novel spanning India\, Uganda\, England\, and Canada\, about how one act of survival reverberates across generations of a family and their search for a place of their own. Named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Pick\, and a most anticipated book of 2023 by the Toronto Star\, the Globe and Mail\, OprahDaily\, and Goodreads. \nIndia\, 1898. Pirbhai is the thirteen-year-old breadwinner for his family when he steps into a dhow on the promise of work\, only to be taken across the ocean to labour on the East African Railway for the British. With no money or voice but a strong will to survive\, he makes an impossible choice that will haunt him for the rest of his days and reverberate across generations. \nPirbhai’s children go on to thrive in Uganda during the waning days of British colonial rule. As the country moves towards independence and military dictatorship\, Pirbhai’s granddaughters—sisters Latika\, Mayuri\, and Kiya—come of age in a divided nation\, each forging her own path for the future. Latika is an aspiring journalist with a fierce determination to fight for what she believes in. Mayuri’s ambitions will take her farther away from her family than she ever imagined. And fearless Kiya will have to bear the weight of their secrets. \nForced to flee Uganda during Idi Amin’s brutal expulsion of South Asians in 1972\, the family must start their lives over again in Toronto. Then one day news arrives that makes each generation question how far they are willing to go\, and who they are willing to defy\, to secure a place of their own in the world. \nA masterful and breathtakingly intimate saga of colonialism and exile\, complicity and resistance\, A History of Burning is a radiant debut about the stories our families choose to share—and those that remain unspoken. \nAbout the author \nJANIKA OZA is the winner of the 2022 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction and the 2020 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Award. She has received support from The Millay Colony\, Tin House Summer and Winter Workshops\, VONA/Voices of Our Nation\, and the One Story Summer Writers’ Conference\, and her stories and essays have appeared in publications such as The Best Small Fictions 2019 Anthology\, Catapult\, The Adroit Journal\, and The Cincinnati Review\, among others. A chapter of A History of Burning was longlisted for the 2019 CBC Short Story Prize and published in Prairie Schooner. She lives in Toronto. \nWith host: \nBrandon Wint is a poet\, spoken word artist\, educator and emerging musician based in western Canada. For more than a decade\, Brandon has been a sought-after touring performer\, educator and collaborator. He has shared his work internationally\, including in festivals and showcases in Latvia\, Lithuania\, Australia and Jamaica. His poetry has also been published in Ex-Puritan\, Arc Poetry Magazine and Write Magazine\, among others. He is currently the artistic director of Tree Reading Series. His debut collection of poetry is Divine Animal (Write Bloody North\, 2020).
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/a-history-of-burning-by-janika-oza-in-conversation-with-brandon-wint/
LOCATION:Massy Arts\, 23 East Pender\, Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/burning.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230718T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230718T200000
DTSTAMP:20260423T034031
CREATED:20230712T211451Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230712T211451Z
UID:17488-1689703200-1689710400@www.readlocalbc.ca
SUMMARY:Double Launch: PRISM International: Issues 61.2 (SPRING) & 61.3 (IBPOC)
DESCRIPTION:On Tues. July 18th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts and PRISM international for the launch of two issues: 61.2 (SPRING) and 61.3 (IBPOC). \n61.2 (SPRING) is haunted by fleeting moments of recognition and sticky moments of queer desire. 61.3 is PRISM international’s first entirely IBPOC issue. The poems and stories in this issue explore what goes unsaid between generations\, magic\, and the transformational power of asking “what-if”. Looking at these two issues side by side\, they represent what PRISM hopes to do: publish the best contemporary writing. \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\, open to all and required for entrance. The 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\, 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 readers: \nNadia Froese is a poetry and fiction writer from the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (Vancouver). Her writing has previously appeared in Phoebe\, Bat City Review and The Temz Review. Her debut chapbook of poetry\, Something Spectacular\, was published by 845 Press in 2021. Link to book: https://www.thetemzreview.com/store/p30/Something_Spectacular.html \nCatherine Lewis is a Vancouver-based Chinese Canadian writer. Her chap- book Zipless (845 Press\, 2021) was a Bisexual Book Awards finalist. Her work has been published in The Humber Literary Review\, is forthcoming in The Fiddlehead\, and was shortlisted in contests at Room Magazine and Pulp Literature. Link to book: https://www.catherinewriter.com/zipless/ \nKathy Mak’s debut chapbook\, Another Day\, is published by 845 Press (2020). Her poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared/are forthcoming in The/tƐmz/Review\, Marías at Sampaguitas\, Kissing Dynamite\, This Magazine\, Understorey Magazine\, Canthius\, The Malahat Review\, and What You Need to Know About Me Anthology. She creates to capture fleeting moments of life and to reflect on her experiences. Visit her website: kathymak.weebly.com \nAbout PRISM international \nPRISM international is a quarterly magazine out of Vancouver\, British Columbia\, whose office is located on the traditional\, ancestral\, and unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm people. Our mandate is to publish the best in contemporary writing and translation from Canada and around the world. Writing from PRISM has been featured in Best American Stories\, Best American Essays and The Journey Prize Stories\, amongst other noted publications. \nThe mandate of the magazine’s website is to provide a supplement to the print edition that connects readers with the literary community through author interviews\, book reviews\, news about Canadian writing and publishing events\, and other information of interest to our readers\, many of whom are writers themselves.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/double-launch-prism-international-issues-61-2-spring-61-3-ibpoc/
LOCATION:Massy Arts\, 23 East Pender\, Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/prism.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230717T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230717T200000
DTSTAMP:20260423T034031
CREATED:20230712T211347Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230712T211347Z
UID:17484-1689616800-1689624000@www.readlocalbc.ca
SUMMARY:An Evening with Finalists of the 2023 BC and Yukon Book Prizes
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, July 17th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books\, and BC and Yukon Book Prizes for a literary evening with three finalists of the 2023 BC and Yukon Book Prizes: Tsering Yangzom Lama\, Harrison Mooney\, and Cecily Nicholson. \nThe in-person event will feature readings of the We Measure the Earth with our Bodies (McLelland and Stewart\, 2022)\, Invisible Boy (HarperCollins 2022)\, and Harrowings (Talonbooks\, 2022) followed by a Q&A session with the audience. \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\, open to all and required for entrance. The 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 or to request ASL interpretation\, 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 and authors \nWe Measure the Earth with Our Bodies For readers of Homegoing and The Boat People\, a compelling and profound debut novel about a Tibetan family’s journey through exile. \nIn the wake of China’s invasion of Tibet throughout the 1950s\, Lhamo and her sister\, Tenkyi\, arrive at a refugee camp on the border of Nepal\, having survived the dangerous journey across the Himalayas into exile when so many others did not. As Lhamo—haunted by the loss of her homeland and her mother\, the village oracle—tries to rebuild a life amid a shattered community\, hope arrives in the form of a young man named Samphel and his uncle\, who brings with him the ancient statue of the Nameless Saint\, a relic long rumoured to vanish and reappear in times of need. \nDecades later\, the sisters are separated\, and Tenkyi is living with Lhamo’s daughter\, Dolma\, in Toronto’s Parkdale neighbourhood. While Tenkyi works as a cleaner and struggles with traumatic memories\, Dolma vies for a place as a scholar of Tibetan Studies. But when Dolma comes across the Nameless Saint in a collector’s vault\, she must decide what she is willing to do for her community\, even if it means risking her dreams. \nBreathtaking in scope and powerfully intimate\, We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies is a gorgeously written meditation on colonization\, displacement\, and the lengths we’ll go to remain connected to our families and ancestral lands. Told through the lives of four people over fifty years\, this beautifully lyrical debut novel provides a nuanced portrait of the world of Tibetan exiles. \nTsering Yangzom Lama holds a BA in creative writing and international relations from the University of British Columbia\, and an MFA from Columbia University. Born and raised in Nepal\, Lama has lived in Toronto\, New York City\, and Vancouver\, where she now resides. We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies is her first novel\, and it was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize\, and longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize\, the Toronto Book Award\, and the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. \nInvisible Boy A narrative that amplifies a voice rarely heard—that of the child at the centre of a transracial adoption—and a searing account of being raised by religious fundamentalists \nHarrison Mooney was born to a West African mother and adopted as an infant by a white evangelical family. Growing up as a Black child\, Harry’s racial identity is mocked and derided\, while at the same time he is made to participate in the fervour of his family’s revivalist church. Confused and crushed by fundamentalist dogma and consistently abused for his colour\, Harry must transition from child to young adult while navigating and surviving zealotry\, paranoia and prejudice. \nAfter years of internalized anti-Blackness\, Harry begins to redefine his terms and reconsider his history. His journey from white cult to Black consciousness culminates in a moving reunion with his biological mother\, who waited twenty-five years for the chance to tell her son the truth: she wanted to keep him. \nThis powerful memoir considers the controversial practice of transracial adoption from the perspective of families that are torn apart and children who are stripped of their culture\, all in order to fill evangelical communities’ demand for babies. Throughout this most timely tale of race\, religion and displacement\, Harrison Mooney’s wry\, evocative prose renders his deeply personal tale of identity accessible and light\, giving us a Black coming-of-age narrative set in a world with little love for Black children. \nHarrison Mooney is a writer and journalist. Born to a West African immigrant mother\, he was adopted as an infant by a white family and raised in the Bible belt of British Columbia. He has worked for the Vancouver Sun for nearly a decade as a reporter\, an editor and a columnist. His writing has also appeared in the National Post\, the Guardian\, Yahoo and Maclean’s. Harrison Mooney lives in East Vancouver with his family. \nHARROWINGS takes place mainly in the rural and reconnects with a history of Black intellectual and artistic history in relation to agriculture. The poems include pulses of memoir from the poet’s childhood growing up in the country on a farm. These experiences connect to her volunteer work during the recent pandemic\, on a local “prison farm” – an agricultural enterprise whose leadership includes people who were formerly incarcerated. Considering movements organizing for food security\, and related\, resurgent practices\, HARROWINGS addresses the work of cultivation. Underlying references include almanacs and Anglo idioms\, drawing upon tabular information\, weather\, and the workings of the sun\, moon\, and points of stars as may be practical in relation to a localized\, growing year. The poems refuse the romance of husbandry\, cultivation\, and predictive customs. Understanding “the farm” as a tract of colonial advance – tropes of charming and white\, tradition and supremacy\, are confronted in a study of biome\, water\, soil\, and seed. With love\, despite episodic and chronic illness\, duress\, and dissociative relationships to time – the poetry advances by way of practical tasks such as watering\, weeding\, and sowing toward abolitionist futures. \nCecily Nicholson is from rural\, small-town Ontario via Toronto and South Bend\, relocated to the Pacific Coast now almost two decades. On Musqueam-\, Squamish-\, and Tsleil-Waututh-occupied lands known as Vancouver\, she worked for many years in the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood. A part of the Joint Effort prison abolitionist group and a member of the Research Ethics Board for Emily Carr University of Art and Design\, Cecily was also the 2017 Ellen Warren Tallman Writer in Residence at Simon Fraser University. She is the author of Triage\, From the Poplars\, winner of the 2015 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize\, and Wayside Sang\, winner of the 2018 Governor General’s Literary Award for English-Language Poetry.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/an-evening-with-finalists-of-the-2023-bc-and-yukon-book-prizes/
LOCATION:Massy Arts\, 23 East Pender\, Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_535427269_462702708128_1_original.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230713T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230713T193000
DTSTAMP:20260423T034031
CREATED:20230712T211322Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230712T211322Z
UID:17481-1689271200-1689276600@www.readlocalbc.ca
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.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/jenn-ashton-heige-boehm-an-exploration-of-reconciliation-through-story/
LOCATION:Massy Arts\, 23 East Pender\, Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Panel
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/https___cdn.evbuc_.com_images_535970589_462702708128_1_original.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230613T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230613T200000
DTSTAMP:20260423T034031
CREATED:20230419T174050Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230419T174050Z
UID:16426-1686682800-1686686400@www.readlocalbc.ca
SUMMARY:Nature\, Nurture\, and Rewild
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a triple book launch!\nHear from Chef Robin Kort\, Amanda Lewis\, and Carolyn Redl\, in conversation with moderator Yvonne Blomer as they discuss all things wild and natural. \n— “The Coastal Forager’s Cookbook: Feasting Wild in the Pacific Northwest” by ROBIN KORT is a collection of 40 recipes that showcase foraged ingredients from the Pacific Northwest coast by the chef behind the popular Swallow Tail Supper Club.\n— “Tracking Giants: Big Trees\, Tiny Triumphs\, and Misadventures in the Forest” by AMANDA LEWIS is a funny\, deeply relatable book about one woman’s quest to track some of the world’s biggest trees.\n— “Four Seasons by the Salish Sea: Discovering the Natural Wonders of Coastal Living” by CAROLYN REDL is part travelogue\, part natural history\, this enchanting book explores Island life over the course of a year.\nWith moderator YVONNE BLOMER—writer\, editor\, teacher\, and poet\, Blomer is a past City of Victoria Poet Laureate. Her latest book is “The Last Show on Earth” (2022). \n• Books for sale & signing\n• Everyone welcome\n• Free to attend
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/nature-nurture-and-rewild/
LOCATION:Bolen Books\, #111-1644 Hillside Ave.\, Victoria\, BC\, V8T 2C5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230529T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230529T193000
DTSTAMP:20260423T034031
CREATED:20230510T205451Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230510T205451Z
UID:16737-1685385000-1685388600@www.readlocalbc.ca
SUMMARY:Author Talk: Ellen Schwartz - Galena Bay Odyssey | Kaslo\, BC
DESCRIPTION:Laugh and reminisce about the 70s in the Kootenay region with award-winning author Ellen Schwartz.\nEllen will share funny and touching stories from her new book\, “Galena Bay Odyssey: Reflections of a Hippie Homesteader” (Heritage House\, 2023).\nIn her memoir\, Ellen reflects on the idealistic\, tumultuous\, and eye-opening time she spent as a back-to-the-land hippie homesteader in Kootenays in the 1970s.\nhttps://www.heritagehouse.ca/book/galena-bay-odyssey/
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/author-talk-ellen-schwartz-galena-bay-odyssey-kaslo-bc/
LOCATION:Kaslo & District Public Library\, 413 4th St\, Kaslo\, BC\, V0G 1M0\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Schwartz_Kaslo_May2023_Facebook.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230528T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230528T113000
DTSTAMP:20260423T034031
CREATED:20230419T174132Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230419T174132Z
UID:16482-1685266200-1685273400@www.readlocalbc.ca
SUMMARY:Family Storytime with Arts and Crafts
DESCRIPTION:Debut author E.G. Alaraj will join Kinder Books for a book launch/story time\, followed by an arts and crafts session led by Saskatchewan artist (and sister to E.G. Alaraj) Olivia Maney.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/family-storytime-with-arts-and-crafts/
LOCATION:Kinder Books\, 810 Quayside Drive\, New Westminster\, BC\, V3M 6B9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Reading
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/WhenStarsAriseEvent_kinderbooks.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Kinder Books":MAILTO:info@kinderbooks.ca
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230527T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230527T163000
DTSTAMP:20260423T034031
CREATED:20230419T174235Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230419T174246Z
UID:16437-1685199600-1685205000@www.readlocalbc.ca
SUMMARY:On Local Nature: Author Talk & Panel Discussion | Parksville\, BC
DESCRIPTION:Join the VIRL in welcoming local author CAROLYN REDL with her new book\, “Four Seasons by the Salish Sea: Discovering the Natural Wonders of Coastal Living” (Heritage House\, 2023).\n• • • • •\nSaturday\, May 27\n3:00–4:30 pm\nThe Forum: Parksville Civic & Technology Centre\n100 Jensen Ave. E.\, Parksville\, BC\n• • • • •\nPart travelogue\, part natural history\, this enchanting book explores Island life over the course of a year.\nCarolyn will be joined by contributing photographer Nancy Randall as well as two Oceanside residents and retired teachers\, Linda Fullalove and Nanci Langford.\nListen to an author reading and learn about the wonders in the region along with gardening and travel tips.\n• Books for sale at event by Sea & Summit Bookshop\n• Everyone welcome\n• Free to attend
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/on-local-nature-author-talk-panel-discussion-parksville-bc/
LOCATION:Parksville Civic And Technology Centre\, 100 Jensen Ave E\, Parksville\, BC\, V9P 2H3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Redl_VIRL-Parksville_Facebook-rev.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230527T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230527T160000
DTSTAMP:20260423T034031
CREATED:20230510T205704Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230510T205704Z
UID:16747-1685196000-1685203200@www.readlocalbc.ca
SUMMARY:Book Signing: Ellen Schwartz - Galena Bay Odyssey | Nelson\, BC
DESCRIPTION:Meet award-winning author Ellen Schwartz and get a signed copy of her new book\, “Galena Bay Odyssey: Reflections of a Hippie Homesteader” (Heritage House\, 2023).\nIn her memoir\, Ellen reflects on the idealistic\, tumultuous\, and eye-opening time she spent as a back-to-the-land hippie homesteader in Kootenays in the 1970s.\nhttps://www.heritagehouse.ca/book/galena-bay-odyssey/
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-signing-ellen-schwartz-galena-bay-odyssey-nelson-bc/
LOCATION:Otter Books\, 398 Baker St\, Nelson\, BC\, V1L 4H5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Schwartz_Otter-Books_May2023_Facebook.jpg
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR