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SUMMARY:Book Signing with Darrel J. McLeod
DESCRIPTION:Please join Munro’s Books for a book signing with beloved local author\, Darrel J. McLeod!! \nDarrel J. McLeod will be in-store to sign copies of his debut novel\, A Season in Chezgh’un. \nA subversive novel by acclaimed Cree author Darrel J. McLeod\, infused with the contradictory triumph and pain of finding conventional success in a world that feels alien. \nJames\, a talented and conflicted Cree man from a tiny settlement in Northern Alberta\, has settled into a comfortable middle-class life in Kitsilano\, a trendy neighbourhood of Vancouver. He is living the life he had once dreamed of—travel\, a charming circle of sophisticated friends\, a promising career and a loving relationship with a caring man—but he chafes at being assimilated into mainstream society\, removed from his people and culture. \nThe untimely death of James’s mother\, his only link to his extended family and community\, propels him into a quest to reconnect with his roots. He secures a job as a principal in a remote northern Dakelh community but quickly learns that life there isn’t the fix he’d hoped it would be: His encounters with poverty\, cultural disruption and abuse conjure ghosts from his past that drive him toward self-destruction. During the single year he spends in northern BC\, James takes solace in the richness of the Dakelh culture—the indomitable spirit of the people\, and the splendour of nature—all the while fighting to keep his dark side from destroying his life. \nWHEN: Thursday\, November 2nd from 12:30-2:00 PM. \nWHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street. \nWHAT: A book signing of A Season in Chezgh’un with Darrel J. McLeod. \nHOW: This event is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-signing-with-darrel-j-mcleod/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Meet & Greet
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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
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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. \nBlue 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
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SUMMARY:An Afternoon With Authors Featuring Tellers of Tales and Poetic Justice
DESCRIPTION:Royal City Literary Arts Society presents An Afternoon With Authors\nFeaturing Tellers of Tales and Poetic Justice\nSunday November 26\, 2023\, 1pm to 5pm \nLocation:\nI Heart New West\nCommunity Art Space\nUnit 103 – 78 10th Street\nColumbia Square Plaza\, New Westminster \nTellers of Tales – 1:00pm\n• Winona Kent – The Jason Davey Mysteries: Ticket to Ride\n• Jerena Tobiasen – The Nightingale and Sparrow Chronicles: Tsarina’s Crown.\n• Ruth Kozak – Shadow of the Lion\, Dragons in the Sky\n• Una Bruhns – Apartheid \nPoetic Justice – 3:00pm\n• Herb Bryce – Seeds of Poetry\n• Franci Louann – Portugal Calling \nMusic\n• Catherine Booth \nThe Royal City Literary Arts Society presents an afternoon of fiction and poetry\, with music\, door prizes\, a book market (signed books make wonderful Christmas gifts!)\, nibbles and an open mic. No admission charge. Free parking (the Community Art Space is across from Cockney Kings Fish & Chips in Columbia Square).
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/an-afternoon-with-authors-featuring-tellers-of-tales-and-poetic-justice/
LOCATION:I Heart New West Community Art Space\, Unit 103 - 78 10th Street\, Columbia Square Plaza\, New Westminster\, British Columbia\, V3M 1C4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Meet & Greet,Open Mic,Reading
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