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SUMMARY:Stage Your Own Play with Cee Peal - Part One
DESCRIPTION:Gain a comprehensive understanding of the playwriting process from initial concept to production and finally opening night in this three-part series program. Learn about the concepts of Scene and Monologue Writing\, Text Analysis\, Staging\, Performance\, Production and more. \nUse this time to explore the early stages of theatre development and experiment with others in a collaborative and unique process. \n— \nCee Peal is a theatre artist from the Nisga’a First Nation of Northern B.C. now working in Vancouver on the traditional\, unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-waututh)\, and sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) peoples. He brings to the library his experience in storytelling\, theatre\, and image making\, drawing from his experience working as an actor\, director\, writer\, dancer\, and producer on various productions. With a passion for Indigenous studies and cultural evolution\, Cee is also the Indigenous outreach coordinator at The Cultch and the artistic associate at The Carmen Arts Group. \nTo find out more about Cee’s residency and keep up with his upcoming events visit: vpl.ca/storyteller
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/stage-your-own-play-with-cee-peal-part-one/
LOCATION:VANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARY – CENTRAL LIBRARY
CATEGORIES:Author Discussion,Meet & Greet,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260411T130000
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SUMMARY:Creator Series: Audio Plays with Cee Peal
DESCRIPTION:An audio play or drama relies strictly on acoustical elements for its manifestation. There are no visual components involved as it’s rendered strictly with dialogue\, sound effects\, and music alone to help listeners imagine the characters and the story. \nAt this fun and playful event\, participants are invited to create a live audio play with Cee Peal the 2026 Indigenous Storyteller in Residence. \nHave you ever imagined yourself as an actor? If so\, then maybe you’d like to use your voice to recite dialogue (practice with our play collection on level 6 at Central Library). Would you like to be more in the background and create noise with sounds effects? Do you know about the Inspiration Lab and its resources? If you are a musician\, you may want to experiment with a new instrument. In that case\, we want to make sure that you are aware of our Musical Instrument Lending Library. If you’d prefer to sit and watch that is wonderful too as audience members are a huge part of this event as well. \n— \nCee Peal is a theatre artist from the Nisga’a First Nation of Northern B.C. now working in Vancouver on the traditional\, unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-waututh)\, and sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) peoples. He brings to the library his experience in storytelling\, theatre\, and image making\, drawing from his experience working as an actor\, director\, writer\, dancer\, and producer on various productions. With a passion for Indigenous studies and cultural evolution\, Cee is also the Indigenous outreach coordinator at The Cultch and the artistic associate at The Carmen Arts Group. \nTo find out more about Cee’s residency and keep up with his upcoming events visit: vpl.ca/storyteller
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/creator-series-audio-plays-with-cee-peal/
LOCATION:VANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARY – CENTRAL LIBRARY
CATEGORIES:Meet & Greet,Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Vancouver Public Library":MAILTO:candie.tanaka@vpl.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260331T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260331T193000
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SUMMARY:Introducing Cee Peal: 2026 Indigenous Storyteller in Residence
DESCRIPTION:Vancouver Public Library is honoured to introduce Cee Peal as the 2026 Indigenous Storyteller in Residence. \nCee Peal is a theatre artist from the Nisga’a First Nation of Northern B.C. now working in Vancouver on the traditional\, unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-waututh)\, and sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) peoples. He brings to the library his experience in storytelling\, theatre\, and image making\, drawing from his experience working as an actor\, director\, writer\, dancer\, and producer on various productions. With a passion for Indigenous studies and cultural evolution\, Cee is also the Indigenous outreach coordinator at The Cultch and the artistic associate at The Carmen Arts Group. \nTo find out more about Cee’s residency and keep up with his upcoming events visit: vpl.ca/storyteller \n— \nJoin us for an evening of storytelling and theatre magic with special guests.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/introducing-cee-peal-2026-indigenous-storyteller-in-residence/
LOCATION:VANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARY – CENTRAL LIBRARY
CATEGORIES:Author Discussion,Launch,Meet & Greet
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ORGANIZER;CN="Vancouver Public Library":MAILTO:candie.tanaka@vpl.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260210T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260210T200000
DTSTAMP:20260422T222330
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260202T201359Z
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SUMMARY:Comic Pre-Launch Party: Passing in the Night
DESCRIPTION:Meet the author of Passing in the Night by Meghan Kemp-Gee\, an upcoming graphic novel published by Vancouver-based publisher Shrimp Cult Press. Passing in the Night is the story of two star-crossed lovers\, Ruth and Gloria. Ruth is a busy medical resident with a sleep disorder… and Gloria transforms into a giant flying lizard every night. While they struggle to make things work at home\, Ruth gets kidnapped by fairies and anti-magic riots spread throughout the city. Can they make things work\, or are they just two ships passing in the night? \nPassing in the Night was illustrated by the incredibly talented\, GLAAD and RINGO-award-winning Lane Lloyd\, and lettered by Megan Praz\, the illustrator of One More Year an Contested Strip. \nThe event will include a talk by author Meghan Kemp-Gee\, snacks\, non-alcoholic drinks\, and an exclusive comic of the opening pages of the book for anyone who backs the Kickstarter. We are generously hosted by Cross & Crows Books\, a bookstore in East Vancouver that celebrates queer stories.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/comic-pre-launch-party-passing-in-the-night/
LOCATION:Cross & Crows Books\, 2836 Commercial Dr\,\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5N 4C6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet
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ORGANIZER;CN="Shrimp Cult Press":MAILTO:peter@shrimpcultpress.ca
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DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251206T170000
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SUMMARY:North Shore Authors Collection Book Sale
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an exciting Book Sale featuring the authors from the 2025/2026 North Shore Authors Collection! \nThe North Shore Authors Collection celebrates the literary talent of North Shore authors by highlighting locally created content in all three North Shore libraries. This is your opportunity to purchase some of the titles featured in this year’s collection while meeting the authors in person to chat about their work or have your books personally signed. \nBring your friends\, your family\, and your love for local literature. We can’t wait to see you there! \nLet’s read local and support local authors. \nNote: authors may have different payment preferences\, including cash\, e-transfer\, or cheque.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/north-shore-authors-collection-book-sale-2/
LOCATION:North Vancouver Public Library – Lynn Valley branch\, 1277 Lynn Valley Road\, North Vancouver\, BC\, V7J 0A2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Meet & Greet
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ORGANIZER;CN="North Vancouver District Public Library":MAILTO:info@nvdpl.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251011T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251011T150000
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SUMMARY:Indigo Park Royal: Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:Visit Indigo Park Royal between 1PM – 3PM on October 11th to meet local author Emma Sloan and claim your free gift with purchase of your signed copy of “Opheliac.”
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/indigo-park-royal-book-signing/
LOCATION:Chapters Indigo – Park Royal\, 900 Park Royal S.\, West Vancouver\, BC\, V7T 1A1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Signing,Meet & Greet
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ORGANIZER;CN="Indigo Park Royal":MAILTO:emmacourtenaysloan@outlook.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250925T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250925T200000
DTSTAMP:20260422T222330
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250904T222429Z
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Richard Van Camp
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an amazing storytelling event with best selling author\, Richard Van Camp. He will share his life’s work of reclaiming stories\, family and community medicines and interviews with Elders from his community of Fort Smith\, NWT. You’ll hear miracle stories about how he and others whose parents went to residential schools have spent their adults lives reclaiming what was almost lost. \nRichard Van Camp is a proud member of the Dogrib Nation from Fort Smith\, Northwest Territories. He is an internationally renowned storyteller and best-selling author\, and the recipient of the Order of the Northwest Territories. He is the author of five collections of short stories\, six baby books\, three children’s books\, five comics and much more.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/an-evening-with-richard-van-camp/
LOCATION:Richmond Public Library\, Brighouse Branch\, 7700 Minoru Gate\, Richmond\, BC\, V6Y 1R8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Author Discussion,Meet & Greet
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ORGANIZER;CN="Richmond Public Library":MAILTO:askus@yourlibrary.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250923T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250923T200000
DTSTAMP:20260422T222330
CREATED:20250904T223316Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250904T223316Z
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SUMMARY:Author Talk: Daniel Kalla
DESCRIPTION:Join Richmond Public Library as they welcome back international best-selling author Daniel Kalla as he reads and answers your questions about his newly released novel\, The Deepest Fake.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/author-talk-daniel-kalla/
LOCATION:Richmond Public Library\, Brighouse Branch\, 7700 Minoru Gate\, Richmond\, BC\, V6Y 1R8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Meet & Greet,Reading
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ORGANIZER;CN="Richmond Public Library":MAILTO:askus@yourlibrary.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250919T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250919T160000
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CREATED:20250904T224212Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250904T224212Z
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SUMMARY:Reading by C. E. Gatchalian
DESCRIPTION:Double Melancholy: Art\, Beauty\, and the Making of a Brown Queer Man—a lyrical exploration of race\, desire\, and artistic identity shaped by literature\, film\, and family history. \nFor those interested\, at 4pm\, Gatchalian will lead Writing the Unraveling Self\, a workshop that invites participants to embrace emotional rawness and creative disruption through guided prompts and reflection. The reading is Pay What You Can\, and the workshop is $25.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/reading-by-c-e-gatchalian/
LOCATION:Summerland Library ORL Branch\, 9533 Main Street\, Summerland\, BC\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Meet & Greet,Reading
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Ryga Festival Society":MAILTO:gm@rygafest.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250914T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250914T150000
DTSTAMP:20260422T222330
CREATED:20250904T214102Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250904T214102Z
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SUMMARY:Indigo Mayfair: Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:Visit Indigo Mayfair from 12PM – 3PM on September 14th for a signed copy of “Opheliac” by British Columbian author Emma Sloan (and your limited-time gift with purchase).
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/indigo-mayfair-book-signing/
LOCATION:Chapters Indigo – Victoria\, 1212 Douglas St\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 2E5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Signing,Meet & Greet
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ORGANIZER;CN="Indigo":MAILTO:emmacourtenaysloan@outlook.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250614T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250614T120000
DTSTAMP:20260422T222330
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250422T184402Z
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SUMMARY:Word Vancouver & Timothy Taylor: Literary Walking Tour
DESCRIPTION:Become a member of Word Vancouver to get access to exclusive events! \nOn June 14th\, Timothy Taylor will host a Literary Walking Tour.\nJoin Timothy and Word Vancouver on a walk through the streets of downtown while Timothy Taylor talks about the spots which influenced his latest book The Rise and Fall of Magic Wolf (Dundurn Press.) To be followed by lunch with Timothy. Restaurant tba. \nTimothy Taylor is a Vancouver novelist\, journalist\, and creative writing professor. He’s the author of the best selling award winning novel Stanley Park\, as well as numerous other works of fiction and nonfiction. His most recent nonfiction work is the six part documentary Walrus Labs podcast The Hidden Holocaust Papers. His most recent novel is The Rise and Fall of Magic Wolf. \nEmail wordvancouverinfo@gmail.com to register.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/word-vancouver-timothy-taylor-literary-walking-tour/
LOCATION:BC
CATEGORIES:Interview,Meet & Greet
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250608T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250608T150000
DTSTAMP:20260422T222330
CREATED:20250512T052040Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250512T052242Z
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SUMMARY:Book Talk with Karen Harmon
DESCRIPTION:NVDPL is excited to host author Karen Harmon for a book talk at the Capilano Library! \nKaren will be reading from her new book\, Class of ’56 \nSet against the nostalgic backdrop of diners\, hot rods\, and sock hops\, Class of ’56 is a prequel to Karen Harmon’s award-winning Class of ’78\, where the secrets behind MeadowBrook’s white picket fences begin to crack\, revealing a town where no one is truly innocent. \nKaren will then read three short excerpts from her latest book\, Class of ’56\, followed by a Q&A session and three fun prize draws.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-talk-with-karen-harmon/
LOCATION:North Vancouver Public Library – Capilano branch\, 3045 Highland Blvd.\, North Vancouver\, BC\, V7R 2X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Meet & Greet
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ORGANIZER;CN="North Vancouver District Public Library":MAILTO:info@nvdpl.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250602T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250602T203000
DTSTAMP:20260422T222330
CREATED:20250522T070521Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250522T070521Z
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SUMMARY:Bones of a Giant with Brian Thomas Isaac
DESCRIPTION:Join Massy Books\, Penguin Random House\, and Brian Thomas Isaac for the launch of “Bones of a Giant” at 7 pm on Monday\, June 2nd! \nBooks will be for sale at the event\, including “All the Quiet Places.” \nVenue: \nThe event will be hosted at the Massy Books\, at 229 East Georgia Street in Chinatown\, Vancouver. \nRegistration is free or by donation and required for entry. \nThe bookstore is wheelchair accessible and a gender-neutral washroom is on-site. \nPlease refrain from wearing scents or heavy perfumes. \nCovid Protocols: Masks keep our community safe and are recommended and will be provided at the venue. We ask if you are showing symptoms\, that you stay home. Thank you kindly. \nAbout the Book: \nSummer\, 1968. For the first time since his big brother\, Eddie\, disappeared two years earlier—either a runaway or dead by his own hand—sixteen-year-old Lewis Toma has shaken off some of his grief. His mother\, Grace\, and her friend Isabel have gone south to the United States to pack fruit to earn the cash Grace needs to put a bathroom and running water into the three-room shack they share on the reserve\, leaving Lewis to spend the summer with his cousins\, his Uncle Ned and his Aunt Jean in the new house they’ve built on their farm along the Salmon River. Their warm family life is almost enough to counter the pressures he feels as a boy trying to become a man in a place where responsible adult men like his uncle are largely absent\, broken by residential school and racism. Everywhere he looks\, women are left to carry the load\, sometimes with kindness\, but often with the bitterness\, anger and ferocity of his own mother\, who kicked Lewis’s lowlife father\, Jimmy\, to the curb long ago. \nLewis has vowed never to be like his father—but an encounter with a predatory older woman tests him and he suffers the consequences. Worse\, his dad is back in town and scheming on how to use the Indian Act to steal the land Lewis and his mom have been living on. And then\, at summer’s end\, more shocking revelations shake the family\, unleashing a deadly force of anger and frustration. \nWith so many traps laid around him\, how will Lewis find a path to a different future? \nAbout the Author: \nBrian Thomas Isaac was born in 1950 on the Okanagan Indian Reserve\, near Vernon\, British Columbia. After completing grade eight\, he found work in the Alberta oil fields and in construction\, eventually retiring as a bricklayer. He came to writing late in life. In 2022\, his bestselling debut\, All the Quiet Places\, won an Indigenous Voices Award\, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction and the Amazon Canada First Novel Award\, and was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and CBC’s Canada Reads. He lives with his wife in West Kelowna\, BC.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/bones-of-a-giant-with-brian-thomas-isaac/
LOCATION:Native Education College\, 285 East 5th Avenue\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5T 1H2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Signing,Interview,Launch,Meet & Greet,Panel
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ORGANIZER;CN="massy books":MAILTO:info@massybooks.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250407T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250407T170000
DTSTAMP:20260422T222330
CREATED:20250408T202146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250408T202146Z
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SUMMARY:TriCities Writers Fest
DESCRIPTION:Get ready for the Tri-Cities Writers Festival 2025! \nWe’re welcoming more than a dozen celebrated authors to our community for four days of talks\, panels\, and workshops this May. Sessions will be in-person and online\, and include a kick-off cocktail reception\, where you can enjoy great food and drink alongside your fellow book lovers\, and our panel of guest authors. \nThe Writers Festival is a collaboration between local libraries and the Tri-City Wordsmiths\, with support from OverDrive\, Evergreen Cultural Centre\, and the Writers’ Union of Canada. With funding from Canada Council for the Arts/Conseil des arts du Canada. \nFor the schedule and author lineup\, visit: https://www.coqlibrary.ca/seasonal-pages/tri-cities-writers-festival
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/tricities-writers-fest/
LOCATION:BC
CATEGORIES:Festival,Meet & Greet,Panel,Reading
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ORGANIZER;CN="Coquitlam Public Library":MAILTO:ask@coqlibrary.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20241120T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20241120T200000
DTSTAMP:20260422T222330
CREATED:20241010T152131Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241010T152131Z
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SUMMARY:Opheliac: Launch Party
DESCRIPTION:This is a free event\, but please RSVP on this Eventbrite page due to limited capacity: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/opheliac-launch-party-tickets-1035204884677?aff=oddtdtcreator \nOPHELIAC: LAUNCH PARTY \nJoin us on Wednesday\, November 20th to launch Opheliac\, the debut of BC-based author Emma Sloan. \nAs an informal night of celebration\, mingle with others in the literary community while enjoying Caffe Fantastico’s wide variety of seasonal sips and eats. Both alcoholic and non-alcoholic options will be available. \nMORE ABOUT THE AUTHOR: \nEmma Sloan is a poet\, short fiction author\, and journalist of 10+ years with works published across 300+ international publications. \nAs a Writing and Publishing graduate of the University of Victoria in British Columbia\, Canada\, Emma works as a professional copywriter. \nHer chapbook Opheliac was named a finalist in the Black River Chapbook Competition and is forthcoming with Black Lawrence Press in Fall 2024. \nPRAISE FOR OPHELIAC: \nOpheliac invites lovers of both Shakespeare and wordplay with vivid imagery that invokes a sensory experience throughout. This modern retelling of the literary figure of Ophelia leaves room to ponder femininity\, fragility\, and the haunting impact of tragedy–and is a collection to read again and again. \n–Natasha Silva\, author of North Star Heart \nIn Opheliac\, Emma Sloan shatters memory and rearranges its pieces into arresting shapes. The past is never far away in Opheliac—but that doesn’t stop Sloan from trying to grow a new “girl tongue\,” a voice with which to tell overlooked and necessary truths: “This is a reel of film / on the cutting room floor.” \n–Lucy Wainger\, author of In Life There Are Many Things \nMORE ABOUT THE BLACK LAWRENCE PRESS: \nFounded in upstate New York\, The Black Lawrence Press is an independent publisher of contemporary poetry\, fiction\, and creative nonfiction. \nTheir collections are distributed nationally through Independent Publishers Group to Amazon\, Barnes & Noble\, and various brick and mortar retailers\, as well as assorted conferences and book fairs.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/opheliac-launch-party/
LOCATION:Caffè Fantastico Specialty Coffees\, 965 Kings Road\, Victoria\, British Columbia\, V8T 1W7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240914T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240914T210000
DTSTAMP:20260422T222330
CREATED:20240812T172714Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240812T172714Z
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SUMMARY:More Than Two\, Second Edition: Book Launch and Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Join us and Eve Rickert & Andrea Zanin for the release of More Than Two\, Second Edition. Cultivating nonmonogamous relationships with kindness and integrity\, in conversation with Carrie Jenkins. \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.For 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\nMore Than Two\, Second Edition: Cultivating Nonmonogamous Relationships with Kindness and Integrity. by Eve Rickert and Andrea Zanin\, with a foreword by Dr. Kim TallBear\, author of The Critical Polyamorist. \n“A modern topology of nonmonogamy’s many possibilities—and consequences—fully revised and updated on the tenth anniversary of the bestselling first edition” \n“Can you love more than one person?” A lot of conversations about nonmonogamy start this way. When we discuss “opening”relationships\, contemplate whether we want to beexclusive with our partners\, or introduce multiple partners tofriends and family\, we are asking the people in our lives\, and ourselves\, to contend with this question. The answer is obvious\, and misleading. The love one feels in their heart and the love one expresses through daily acts of care and affection are both “love” in the true sense\, but they have different requirements\, present different options and produce different outcomes. \nMore Than Two can’t promise outcomes\, but it is a guide to the paths—from anchor or nesting partnerships to relationship anarchy—possible within nonmonogamy. This long-awaited second edition bridges emerging theories on attachment and relationship diversity with authors Eve Rickert and Andrea Zanin’s insight and experience. The arcs of nonmonogamous partnerships bend towards complexity\, introspection and compromise—or at least they can\, if we work at it. \nAbout the Authors\nEve Rickert is a Gen X\, queer\, solo polyamorous\, relationship anarchist\, neurodivergent cis woman living on unceded WSÁNEC and Lekwungen territory on the west coast of the place currently known as Canada. She is the curator of the More Than Two Essentials series and the nonmonogamy resource site morethantwo.ca\, the founder and publisher of Thornapple Press\, and the founder and mastermind of the science communications firm Talk Science to Me. \nAndrea Zanin\, MA\, is a white\, nonbinary\, middle-aged queer writer who lives in Tkaronto (Toronto\, Ontario)\, on the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit\, the Anishnabeg\, the Chippewa\, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples. Andrea is the author of Post-Nonmonogamy and Beyond\, part of the More Than Two Essentials series\, and has written for the Globe and Mail\, The Tyee\, Bitch\, Ms.\, Xtra\, IN Magazine\, Outlooks Magazine and the Montreal Mirror. Andrea blogs at sexgeek.wordpress.com\, where they created the 10 Rules for Happy Nonmonogamy and coined the term “polynormativity.” \nAbout the Moderator\nCarrie Jenkins: is a professor of philosophy at the University of British Columbia and the author of What Love Is (and What it Could Be)\, Sad Love: Romance and the Search for Meaning\, and Nonmonogamy and Happiness as well as other titles. She holds a PhD in philosophy from Trinity College\, Cambridge\, and an MFA in creative writing from UBC. She has been featured in The Atlantic\, the New York Times\, the Globe and Mail and the Telegraph\, among others.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/more-than-two-second-edition-book-launch-and-conversation/
LOCATION:Massy Arts\, 23 East Pender\, Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Meet & Greet,Reading
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SUMMARY:Write on Bowen Festival for Readers & Writers
DESCRIPTION:The Write on Bowen Festival of Readers & Writers is a three-day event on beautiful Bowen Island that showcases writers and authors and their work. It provides opportunities for participants to attend workshops and other events that will aid them in the development of word-based creative endeavours. It allows everyone\, including the general public\, to be exposed to a rich diversity of voices\, styles and presentation of works. It engenders connections and inspiration between and amongst all in attendance as they are drawn together around the love of the written and spoken word. \nIn addition to offering stimulating interactive workshops to writers of all genres and levels\, the Festival presents author readings\, a Saturday night Gala featuring a keynote speaker\, luncheon panels and other special events. We look forward to welcoming you to our idyllic island.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/write-on-bowen-festival-for-readers-writers-2/
LOCATION:Cove Commons on Bowen Island\, 430 Bowen Island Trunk Rd\, Bowen Island\, British Columbia\, V0N 1G0\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival,Meet & Greet,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Book Signing: William Deverell's Long-Shot Trial
DESCRIPTION:Join Munro’s Books on June 15th to meet William Deverell\, the author of the Arthur Beauchamp thriller series! He’ll be signing the ninth book in the series: The Long-Shot Trial! \nIn the Long-Shot Trial\, Arthur Beauchamp takes a break from the courtroom to write a memoir so he can set the record straight about a headline murder case he fought as a young lawyer in 1966. The trial would either mark him as a pathetic loser or thrust him into the top ranks of criminal counsel. The background: in 1966\, a young housemaid was raped by her employer\, a callous and vindictive millionaire. She shot him point blank\, so it seemed an open-and-shut case of first-degree murder. Enter Arthur Beauchamp\, a young lawyer haunted by having bungled his only previous murder case. He is now called upon to defend a case that he is almost certain can’t be won. But as the trial speeds through twists and turns\, his slashing cross-examinations bring hope that the jury might entertain a reasonable doubt. In the present time\, Arthur learns that writing about his social gaffes\, booze\, and sex is not easy\, especially as his efforts are regularly interrupted by the quirky characters who inhabit his supposedly idyllic Garibaldi Island. \nAfter careers as a journalist\, criminal lawyer\, and political activist\, WILLIAM DEVERELL turned to fiction\, and his first effort won the Seal First Novel Award. Since then\, he has earned multiple prizes for his 20 published novels\, including the Dashiell Hammett Prize for literary excellence in crime writing in North America\, two Crime Writers of Canada Awards (formerly the Arthur Ellis Award)\, and two runners-up for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. He lives on Pender Island in British Columbia. \nWHEN: Saturday\, June 15th from 12:00 p.m. until 1:30 p.m.\nWHERE: In-Store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government St. in Victoria.\nWHAT: Meet\, greet\, and have William Deverell sign your copies of his book!\nHOW: This event is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-signing-william-deverells-long-shot-trial/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Meet & Greet
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SUMMARY:Wild Prose Reading Series Presents: BACK to the Future!
DESCRIPTION:Join the Wild Prose Reading Series on Thursday\, May 30th for BACK to the Future! Readings about time travel and nostalgia\, from Astrid Blodgett (This is How You Start to Disappear)\, Kevin Chong (The Double Life of Benson Yu)\, and Lori Hahnel (Flicker)! \nWe’ll begin with an open mic\, as always (ALL genres welcome) at 7:00 (sign up at 6:30) and then featured readings will start at 7:30. \nBACK to the Future! with Astrid Blodgett\, Kevin Chong\, and Lori Hahnel\nThursday\, May 30th\nat Paul Phillips Hall\, 1923 Fernwood Road\nDoors 6:30\nOpen Mic 7:00\nFeatured Readers 7:30\nAdmission: $5 or pay what you can (CASH)\nFree refreshments \nPlease bring CASH for admission and books \nMore info: https://www.susansanfordblades.com/wild-prose-reading-series
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/wild-prose-reading-series-presents-back-to-the-future/
LOCATION:Paul Phillips Hall\, 1923 Fernwood Road\, Victoria\, BC\, V8T 0A5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Meet & Greet,Open Mic,Panel
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SUMMARY:Wildlife Conservation Book Launch: Bob McDonald in Conversation with Greg Cummings and Sarah Cox
DESCRIPTION:Please join Munro’s Books in launching two new books by local authors about wildlife conversation!! We’ll present Greg Cummings\, author of Gorilla Tactics: How to Save a Species and Sarah Cox\, author of Signs of Life: Fieldnotes From the Frontlines of Extinction in conversation with Bob McDonald\, author of The Future is Now: Solving the Climate Crisis with Today’s Technologies\, and host of CBC Radio’s Quirks and Quarks! \nGorillas are among the most recognizable of the large charismatic mammals\, but climate change and poaching has brought them to the brink of extinction. Greg Cummings was the executive director of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund for seventeen years. He shares his fascinating experiences as a “wildlife Robin Hood”—raising money from the rich and famous and redistributing it to endangered gorillas and their habitats. He met and enlisted the help of celebrities such as Sigourney Weaver\, Arthur C. Clark\, Douglas Adams\, and Leonardo DiCaprio. This thirty-year worldwide journey moves from boardrooms in Manhattan and London to mountain treks in Rwanda and Congo. Gorilla Tactics is sure to enchant readers with Greg’s unique experiences\, while sharing insight into the work it takes to save a species from extinction. \nGREG CUMMINGS has been featured in international publications such as the Guardian\, Ecologist\, and Sea Angler. In 2006 his organization was awarded the BBC Animal Award for best wildlife conservation program. A fundraiser since 1990\, Cummings has raised money in America\, Britain\, France\, Holland\, Italy\, and Canada for causes ranging from wildlife conservation to mental health. As director of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund UK\, he set up dozens of innovative\, grassroots projects in troubled parts of the world—many of which are self-sustaining to this day. His global perspective has given him an eye for where the next crisis might arise\, and how to thwart it. He lives in Victoria\, British Columbia. \n— \nWhat’s to be done when only three spotted owls are left in Canada’s wild? When wolves eat endangered caribou\, cormorants kill rare trees\, and housing developments threaten a tiny frog? Environmental journalist Sarah Cox has witnessed what happens when we drive species to the brink of extinction. In Signs of Life\, she tags along with the Canadian military\, Indigenous guardians\, biologists\, conservationists\, and ordinary people who are racing to save hundreds of species before it’s too late. Travelling across the country\, Cox visits the Toronto Zoo\, home of Canada’s only wildlife biobank\, where scientists conserve living cells from endangered species in the event of future loss; tours Canada’s military bases\, home to some of Canada’s last preserved ecosystems; and travels to Indigenous communities where land stewards are striving to restore the delicate ecological balance that has sustained people for millennia. Through the eyes and work of individuals who are bringing species back from the precipice\, Cox delivers both an urgent message and a fresh perspective on how we can protect biodiversity and begin to turn things around. \nSARAH COX is an award-winning author and journalist based in Victoria\, B.C. In 2022\, Cox won the Canadian Association of Journalists’ Award for Environmental & Climate Change Reporting and her investigative reporting for the Narwhal has also been awarded the World Press Freedom Award and the Canadian Journalism Foundation’s Jackman Award for Excellence in Journalism. She has also won a Gold Digital Publishing Award with her colleagues at The Narwhal and previously won two Western Magazine Awards. Sarah’s first book Breaching the Peace: The Site C Dam and a Valley’s Stand Against Big Hydro won a B.C. Book Prize and was a finalist for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing (Writers’ Trust of Canada) and the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature. \n— \nBOB McDONALD has been the host of CBC Radio’s Quirks & Quarks since 1992. He is a regular science commentator on CBC’s News Network and a science correspondent for CBC TV’s The National. His book Measuring the Earth with a Stick was shortlisted for the Canadian Science Writers Association Book Award. He has been honoured with the 2001 Michael Smith Award for Science Promotion from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada; the 2002 Sandford Fleming Medal from The Royal Canadian Institute; and the 2005 McNeil Medal for the Public Awareness of Science from the Royal Society of Canada. In November 2011\, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. \nWHEN: Wednesday\, May 22nd at 7:00 p.m. (doors at 6:30) \nWHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government St. in Victoria \nWHAT: Readings from Greg Cummings and Sarah Cox\, followed by a conversation moderated by Bob McDonald and a Q&A with the audience. Book signings will follow. \nHOW: This event is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/wildlife-conservation-book-launch-bob-mcdonald-in-conversation-with-greg-cummings-and-sarah-cox/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Interview,Launch,Meet & Greet
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SUMMARY:Victoria Day Explore Victoria Book Signing!
DESCRIPTION:Join Munro’s Books on Victoria Day to meet the authors of four local books: Collin Varner’s 50 Keystone Flora Species of Coastal British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest and 50 Keystone Fauna Species of Coastal British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest; Taryn Eyton’s Backpacking on Vancouver Island; and Dave Doroghy and Graeme Menzies’ 111 Places in Victoria That You Must Not Miss! \n12:00-1:30 p.m.: Collin Varner and Taryn Eyton \nAbout 50 Keystone Flora Species of Coastal British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest: \nA keystone species is an organism that defines and supports an entire ecosystem\, filling a vital ecological niche. Without these species\, the ecosystem would be radically altered or even collapse. This pocket-sized field guide by bestselling naturalist Collin Varner highlights 50 keystone trees\, flowering plants\, fruit-bearing plants\, marine plants\, and fungi found across the Pacific Northwest bioregion—including Douglas Fir\, Sitka Spruce\, Large-leafed Lupine\, Wild Mint\, Salal\, Salmonberry\, Marine Eelgrass\, Red-belted Polypore\, and more. Each entry features clear photography\, etymology\, descriptions\, habitat information\, risks and warnings. This convenient and easy reference is perfect for casual walkers\, hikers\, campers\, and beachcombers\, and draws awareness to the importance of conservation and protection of these crucial species. \nAbout 50 Keystone Fauna Species of Coastal British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest: \nA keystone species is an organism that defines and supports an entire ecosystem\, filling a vital ecological niche. Without these species\, the ecosystem would be radically altered or even collapse. This pocket-sized field guide by bestselling naturalist Collin Varner highlights 50 keystone birds\, mammals\, amphibians\, insects\, fish\, shellfish\, and mollusks found across the Pacific Northwest bioregion—including the American Crow\, Bald Eagle\, American Beaver\, California Sea Lion\, Sea Otter\, Orca\, Coyote\, Grizzly Bear\, Giant Pacific Octopus\, Chinook Salmon\, Pacific Tree Frog\, Pacific Banana Slug\, Mixed Bumblebee\, and more. Each entry features clear photography\, etymology\, descriptions\, habitat information\, risks and warnings. This convenient and easy reference is perfect for casual walkers\, hikers\, campers\, beachcombers\, sailors\, paddlers\, and whale watchers\, and draws awareness to the importance of conservation and protection of these crucial species. \nAbout Backpacking on Vancouver Island: \nDiscover 35 of Vancouver Island’s best day hikes and overnight trips. Vancouver Island is home to legendary backpacking routes\, and this expertly researched book takes you to the best of the best\, whether you’re looking for a weekend trip to a mountain peak\, a multi-day adventure to a secluded beach\, or an easy day trip to a waterfall. The author\, Taryn Eyton\, is an experienced backpacker and Leave No Trace Master Educator. In addition to sharing the best backpacking routes on the Island\, she provides practical advice to promote fun wilderness experiences and minimize your environmental impact. Every featured backpacking trip includes: Elevation\, distance\, and time information Route descriptions and trail maps Points of cultural and natural history Tips on where to camp and where to find water Information about fees\, permits\, and reservations. \n1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.: Dave Doroghy and Graeme Menzies \nAbout 111 Places in Victoria That You Must Not Miss: \nAuthors Dave Doroghy and Graeme Menzies take you to find the cool\, the quirky\, and the unusual places hidden in Victoria amidst the fascinating architecture and glorious outdoor scenery. Visit the place where author Rudyard Kipling slept. Explore Canada’s largest ant farm. Answer the call of nature in a pub’s haunted loo. Or take a date to a secluded\, waterfront fish-and-chips shop. See the world’s tallest totem pole while it still stands. If it’s history you’re after\, consider that James Cook was the first non-indigenous person to set foot near here in 1778. Later\, the Hudson’s Bay Company established the spot as a trading post\, naming it Fort Victoria after the reigning British queen. Vestiges of the old British Empire can still be spotted in the majestic colonial buildings in the inner harbor\, the red double decker buses on its busy streets and the occasional old fashioned British telephone booths. \nWHEN: Monday\, May 20th from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.\nWHERE: At Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government St. Outside\, weather permitting\, or inside the store.\nWHAT: Book signings with Collin Varner\, Taryn Eyton\, Dave Doroghy\, and Graeme Menzies\nHOW: This event is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/victoria-day-explore-victoria-book-signing/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Meet & Greet
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SUMMARY:Book Signing: Hand Drawn Victoria with Emma Fitzgerald
DESCRIPTION:Join Munro’s Books on May 10th to meet Emma Fitzgerald\, author of Hand Drawn Victoria: An Illustrated Tour in and Around BC’s Capital City!! \nFor locals and visitors alike\, these sketches and stories highlight both the historic monuments and everyday moments that make Victoria shine. \nYou never know quite what you’ll come across in British Columbia’s capital city. With its unmissable landmarks that attract people from around the world\, Victoria is also rich in forested beauty\, charming houses\, and curious people\, and is steeped in local history. \nFollowing the charm of her previous book\, Hand Drawn Vancouver\, in this memorable book\, Emma FitzGerald captures the coastal city of Victoria and its surrounding communities in over 100 sketches of: \n• Iconic Landmarks: It wouldn’t be a visit to Victoria without stopping by the Empress\, Munro’s\, or Butchart Gardens.\n• Local Favourites: The longstanding Beacon Drive In and James Bay’s Birdcage Confectionary are some beloved spots honoured within these pages.\n• Beautiful Architecture: Journey back in time by admiring historic buildings\, like Queen Anne–style homes and the spiraling Belfry Theatre.\n• Stunning West Coast Landscape: Explore natural wonders\, from culturally significant fields of camas flowers to Mystic Beach’s stunning shoreline.\n• Overheard Conversations: What really makes a city are the people who live there—Emma documents snippets of passersby’s conversations as she sketches. \nStructured by neighbourhood\, Hand Drawn Victoria is a beautiful keepsake for locals and visitors alike\, and a lovely way to celebrate the city—its buildings\, its people\, and its essence. \nEMMA FITZGERALD was born to Irish parents in Lesotho\, a small mountainous kingdom in Southern Africa. She moved to Canada at a young age and spent most of her childhood in Vancouver\, BC. Emma received a BFA in Visual Art from the University of British Columbia in 2004\, and a Masters in Architecture from Dalhousie University in 2008. She has worked in architecture offices across Canada and in Johannesburg\, South Africa. Her love of drawing on location led to her first book\, Hand Drawn Halifax\, and its follow-up\, Sketch by Sketch Along Nova Scotia’s South Shore. She then turned her interest in people and places to where she grew up; Hand Drawn Vancouver was published in 2020 as she began working on Hand Drawn Victoria. In between her Hand Drawn series\, Emma has illustrated five children’s books\, including EveryBody’s Different on EveryBody Street\, written by Sheree Fitch. She lives and draws in Lunenburg\, Nova Scotia. \nWHEN: Friday\, May 10th from 1:00-2:30 p.m.\nWHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government St.\nWHAT: Meet and greet plus book signing with Emma Fitzgerald.\nHOW: This event is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-signing-hand-drawn-victoria-with-emma-fitzgerald/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet
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SUMMARY:Double Poetry Launch: Julie Paul and Miranda Pearson
DESCRIPTION:Join Munro’s Books in celebrating new work by two talented poets!! \n“Chomping / champing / championing / churlish / … / There’s a wolf at the door / that looks exactly like me.” Who is the “whiny baby” in this book? Rather than calling names or hurling insults\, the candid poems in this collection most often implicate the poet herself. Expansive in form and voice\, the poems in Julie Paul’s second collection\, Whiny Baby\, offer both love letters and laments. They take us to construction sites\, meadows\, waiting rooms\, beaches\, alleys\, gardens\, and frozen rivers\, from Montreal to Hornby Island. They ask us to live in the moment\, despite the moment. Including a spirited long poem that riffs on the fairy tale “Three Billy Goats Gruff\,” these poems are like old friends that at once console and confess. They blow kisses\, they remember\, and they celebrate the broken and the lost alongside the beautiful. At turns frank\, peevish\, introspective\, and mischievous\, the poems share sincere and intimate perspectives on the changing female body\, our natural and built landscapes\, and the idiosyncrasies of modern life. Whiny Baby calls on us to simultaneously examine and exult in our brief time on earth. \nJULIE PAUL’s second book of poetry\, Whiny Baby\, follows the 2017 release of the poetry collection The Rules of the Kingdom\, both published with McGill-Queen’s University Press. She is also the author of three short fiction collections\, The Jealousy Bone (Emdash\, 2008)\, The Pull of the Moon (Touchwood / Brindle & Glass\, 2014)\, and Meteorites (Touchwood\, 2019). Her writing has been published widely in journals and has received recognition from a number of sources. The Pull of the Moon won the 2015 Victoria Butler Book Prize\, and The Rules of the Kingdom was a finalist for both the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Her personal essay “It Not Only Rises\, It Shines” won the Edna Staebler Personal Essay Award from The New Quarterly and her short story “The Expansion” won The Rusty Toque’s Chapbook Award. Unless she’s visiting her daughter in Montreal\, Julie lives in Victoria BC\, where\, in addition to writing\, she works as a Registered Massage Therapist.\n—\n“Come\, anguish. Help us manage / the plainsong of an open shore\, / its language of high tide rich and close\, / close and hard to see.” The early elegiac poems in Bridestones emerge from the borderlands between life and death\, loss and renewal. Drawing on dreams\, opera\, and visual art\, and employing symbolist and playfully surreal imagery\, Miranda Pearson questions the ways we tend and grieve – for each other and our environment. Beginning with a sudden bereavement\, the first section ends with a long poem\, “Clearance\,” that depicts the experience of emptying and departing a home – the physicality of a house serving as a vehicle for processing grief. Pearson writes on family trauma\, illness\, love\, and desire with a pervading sense of hauntedness\, compressed\, lyrical accounts of complex and ambivalent terrain. The impact of a pandemic lurks in the background\, and themes of fear run through much of this collection\, with poems exploring how we face our fears – or deny and avoid them – and\, ultimately\, how we grow and adapt. Through meditations on art\, myth\, archaeology\, ceremony\, and death\, Pearson reveals the veil between life and death when drawn to its thinnest. Like the hovering falcon depicted in “A Song of Roses\,” the poems view the world from above: “if earth is body\, and sky – God help us\, spirit.” \nMIRANDA PEARSON is widely published in literary journals and anthologies\, and Bridestones is her sixth book of poetry. Two of the previous titles\, Harbour and The Fire Extinguisher\, were shortlisted for the BC and Yukon Book Prizes Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. While completing her MFA at UBC\, Miranda served as poetry editor for Prism international\, and has since taught at UBC and SFU. Miranda currently lives between the UK and Vancouver. \nPlease join us for readings from these two poets\, followed by a Q&A with the audience and refreshments! \nWHEN: Wednesday\, May 1st at 7:00 p.m. (doors at 6:30)\nWHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government St.\nWHAT: Readings by Julie Paul and Miranda Pearson from their new poetry collections\, followed by a Q&A with the audience. Refreshments will be provided.\nHOW: This event is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/double-poetry-launch-julie-paul-and-miranda-pearson/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet
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SUMMARY:Canadian Independent Bookstore Day at Munro's Books!!
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, April 27th\, celebrate Canadian Independent Bookstore Day with Munro’s Books!!! \nOn Saturday\, April 27\, readers across the country will have the opportunity to support local independent bookshops by participating in Canadian Independent Bookstore Day (CIBD). With more than 150 participating shops expected\, CIBD is an annual cultural celebration and an opportunity for book buyers\, authors\, illustrators\, and publishers to acknowledge the vibrant literary ecosystem created by our “indie” bookshops. The stores in this national network act as key community ambassadors\, convenors of important conversations\, and contributors to vibrant local economies. \nHere’s what will be going on at Munro’s: \nALL DAY:\nEarn double points with all purchases!\nEnter to win one of two prize packages!\nMatch the author to their book cover game!\nMunro’s bookmark photobooth!\nBookmark colouring station!\nBlind Date with a Book!\nPostcards to Munro’s: A display of postcards to Munro’s from some of our favourite authors! We’ve sent Munro’s Books postcards to authors\, both local and across the country and the world and have asked them to write about a favourite moment at Munro’s\, or what they love about Munro’s\, why Munro’s is important to them\, or just the importance of independent bookstores in general. On April 27th\, we’ll have these authors’ postcards on display for you to read! \nBOOK SIGNINGS:\nCome and meet these local authors! \n12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. – Gregor Craigie\n1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. – Michael Christie\n2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. – Sho Yamagushiku \nCHILDREN’S STORY TIME:\n3:00 – 3:30 p.m. – with Esi Edugyan\n3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. – with Monique Gray Smith \nWe hope you’ll join us to celebrate and continue to cultivate the important and special relationship that exists between writers\, readers\, and bookstores!! \nWHEN: Saturday\, April 27th all day (9:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.).\nWHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street in Victoria.\nWHAT: A celebration of Canadian Independent Bookstore Day!\nHOW: This celebration is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/canadian-independent-bookstore-day-at-munros-books/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Meet & Greet
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SUMMARY:Meet the Author: Robyn Harding: "A Drowning Woman"
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of engaging discussion with Robyn Harding\, about her latest book:\nThe Drowning Woman \nDrinks and light fare provided.\nWine supplied by Sage Hayward Vineyards. \nAbout the author:\nRobyn Harding is the author of numerous international bestsellers\, including The Party\, The Arrangement\, The Swap and The Drowning Woman. As a speaker\, she is definitely a Lyceum favourite – her presentation style is fluid so that she can meet the needs of everyone in her audience. Robyn has also written and executive produced an independent film\, The Steps. She lives in Vancouver\, BC\, with her family and two cute\, but deadly\, rescue chihuahuas.\nVisit her at RobynHarding.com or follow her on Twitter and Instagram @RHardingWriter or Facebook @AuthorRobynHarding.\nDo not miss out\, register soon and pick up your copy of The Drowning Woman at the Lyceum and save 15%. \nAbout the book:\nThe Drowning Woman is a deliciously twisted story of friendship\, retribution\, and betrayal about a homeless woman fleeing a dangerous past—and the wealthy society wife she saves from drowning\, who pulls her into a dark web of secrets and lies. \nLee Gulliver never thought she’d find herself living on the streets—no one ever does—but when her restaurant fails\, and she falls deeper into debt\, she leaves her old life behind with nothing but her clothes and her Toyota Corolla. In Seattle\, she parks in a secluded spot by the beach to lay low and plan her next move—until early one morning\, she sees a sobbing woman throw herself into the ocean. Lee hauls the woman back to the surface\, but instead of appreciation\, she is met with fury. The drowning woman\, Hazel\, tells her that she’s trapped in a toxic\, abusive marriage\, that she’s a prisoner in her own home. Lee has thwarted her one chance to escape her life. \nOut of options\, Hazel retreats to her gilded cage\, and Lee thinks she’s seen the last of her\, until her unexpected return the next morning. Bonded by disparate but difficult circumstances\, the women soon strike up a close and unlikely friendship. And then one day\, Hazel makes a shocking request… \nReview:\nWith deceitful characters who are not what they seem\, a myriad of unexpected twists and turns\, and a story that moves along at high speed\, “The Drowning Woman” is everything I love in a thriller. Robyn Harding keeps readers hooked until the end.”\n-Mary Kubica\, New York Times bestselling authot of “Local Woman Missing”
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/meet-the-author-robyn-harding-a-drowning-woman/
LOCATION:Christianne’s Lyceum of Literature and Art\, 4433 West 10th Avenue\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6R2H8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Meet & Greet
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Kayla Czaga and Anne Fleming
DESCRIPTION:Join Munro’s Books in celebrating the launches of new books by two talented local writers!! \n“I feel like the crud / I accidentally touch sometimes\, whatever it is / that collects under cushions on my couch\,” writes Kayla Czaga in her third collection\, Midway\, an exploration of grief in all its manifestations. In her search for meaning in the aftermath of her parents’ deaths\, Czaga visits the underworld (at least twice)\, Vietnamese restaurants\, the beach\, London’s Tate Modern\, Las Vegas casinos\, and a fish textbook. Honest\, elegiac\, characteristically strange\, and frequently funny\, these poems take the reader through bright scenery like carnival rides with fast climbs and sudden drops. The meanings and messages Czaga uncovers on her travels are complicated: hopeful\, bleak-both comforting and not. Along with the parents the poet mourns\, this collection showcases a varied cast. A suburban father-in-law copes with a troubling diagnosis. Marge Simpson quits The Simpsons. Death is a metalhead who dates girls too young for him. Midway is a welcome and necessary collection from one of the most celebrated and accomplished poets of her generation. \nKAYLA CZAGA is the author of two previous poetry collections-For Your Safety Please Hold On (Nightwood Editions\, 2014)\, and Dunk Tank (House of Anansi\, 2019). Her work has been shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for poetry and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Frequently anthologized in the Best Canadian Poetry in English series\, her writing also appears in The Walrus\, Grain\, Event\, The Fiddlehead\, and elsewhere. She lives with her wife on the traditional territory of the Lekwungen people\, the Songhees nd Esquimalt nations.\n—\nAnne Fleming’s latest novel\, Curiosities\, opens with a present-day amateur historian\, Anne\, who describes her unexpected discovery of five seventeenth-century manuscripts that\, astonishingly\, tell the same strange story from vastly different points of view. And so it falls upon Anne\, the contemporary historian\, to piece together these interlocking stories\, discover the fate of a pair of lovers\, and add her own layer of “truth” to a history and time period when there were no labels for who these lovers might truly be. \nANNE FLEMING is the author of Pool-Hopping & Other Stories (Raincoast\, 1998)\, which was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction\, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize\, and the Danuta Gleed Award\, as well as the much-praised novel\, Anomaly (Raincoast\, 2005). She is also the author of a middle-grade novel\, The Goat (Groundwood\, 2017)\, which was a Junior Library Guild and White Ravens selection\, shortlisted for Italy’s Premio Strega\, optioned for film\, and named one of the Top Ten Children’s Books of the Year by The New York Public Library and the Wall Street Journal. Anne Fleming lives in Victoria\, BC. \nWHEN: Thursday\, April 18th\, 7:00 p.m. (doors at 6:30).\nWHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government St.\nWHAT: Readings of new work from Kayla Czaga and Anne Fleming followed by a Q&A with the audience and book signings. Refreshments will be provided. The audience will also be serenaded by lute playing from Anne Fleming and local musician\, Doug Hensley.\nHOW: This event is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-launch-kayla-czaga-and-anne-fleming/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet
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SUMMARY:Double Poetry Collection Launch: Patrick Grace and Tina Biello
DESCRIPTION:Please join Munro’s Books in celebrating the launches of two new poetry collections by local authors! \nPatrick Grace’s debut collection\, Deviant\, traces a trajectory of queer self-discovery from childhood to adulthood\, examining love\, fear\, grief\, and the violence that men are capable of in intimate same-sex relationships. Richly engaged with the tangible and experiential\, Patrick Grace’s confessional poetry captures profound\, sharp emotions\, tracking a journey impacted equally by beauty and by brutality. Coming-of-age identity struggles are recalled with wry wit\, and dreamlike poems embrace adolescent queer love and connections as a way to cope with the fear and cruelty that can occur in gay relationships. Later poems in the collection recall vivid moments of psychological trauma and stalking and explore the bias of the justice system toward gay men. Collecting memories\, dreams\, and fears about sexual identity\, Deviant makes important contributions to queer coming-of-age and intimate partner violence narratives. \nPATRICK GRACE is an author and teacher who divides his time between Vancouver and Victoria\, BC. He has read at literary festivals around Canada\, including Word Vancouver and Versefest Ottawa\, and will be appearing at the Edmonton Poetry Festival in late April. He has published two chapbooks: a blurred wind swirls back for you (2023)\, and Dastardly (2021)\, exploring aspects of love\, fear\, and trauma that represent a personal queer identity. Deviant\, his first full-length poetry collection\, continues to explore these themes. He works as managing editor of Plenitude Magazine\, and is this year’s judge for The Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Award for Poetry. \nIn Tina Biello’s new collection\, The Weight of Survival\, in a small logging town nestled near Lake Cowichan is an old elementary school. The child of immigrants from post-war Italy attends this school among the population of mostly white\, anglo-saxon families. She does not speak English. \nHer family is one of four who emigrated from southern Italy\, to this small forested community. There are other families\, from India\, who share a kinship of ‘other’ with the Italian families. What happens when your voice\, your food\, your home is different? How do you know how to be queer when there is no language or place for it? How do you remember a time not spoken of\, but passed on through the smell of walnut blossoms in the spring\, grapes in the fall? In The Weight of Survival\, Tina Biello chronicles this upbringing of otherness\, of being shaped by two very different communities\, of blending identities into one\, and what is left behind in the process. \nPoet\, playwright and actor\, TINA BIELLO was born in Lake Cowichan\, a small logging town here on Vancouver Island to immigrant parents. She has honed her skills of being from ‘two places’ and speaks a few languages because of it. She believes in the power of poetry to reach in\, grab hold and get us through. She had the great privilege of working with mentor Patrick Lane. ‘The Weight of Survival’ is her 4th book of poems. When she’s not writing poetry\, she’s gardening\, walking dogs and writing plays and more recently a screenplay. She was Nanaimo’s 2nd Poet Laureate from 2017-2020 and has just finished a 3 year cycle of writing librettos for composers with the Vancouver Island Symphony. \nWHEN: Wednesday\, April 3rd at 7:00 p.m. (doors at 6:30). \nWHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street. \nWHAT: Readings by Patrick Grace and Tina Biello\, followed by a Q&A with the audience and book signings. \nHOW: This event is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/double-poetry-collection-launch-patrick-grace-and-tina-biello/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet,Panel
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SUMMARY:Mysterious Book Launch: Susan Juby\, Kate Hilton\, and Elizabeth Renzetti
DESCRIPTION:Join Munro’s Books in celebrating the launch of two new mysteries: A Meditation on Murder by Susan Juby and Bury the Lead by Kate Hilton and Elizabeth Renzetti!! \nIn A Meditation on Murder\, Butler-detective Helen Thorpe returns to help a wannabe influencer get her life in order—and solve the murders of her fellow content creators—in this hilarious sequel to Mindful of Murder by bestselling author Susan Juby.\nWhen Buddhist butler Helen Thorpe is loaned out to help Cartier Hightower get her life in order\, Helen finds herself working for a young woman entirely unbound by the fetters of good taste or sound judgment. One of Cartier’s fellow content creators has recently died in a strange accident. Soon after Helen arrives\, another is killed in an equally bizarre way. Cartier begins to drag Helen around on the influencer circuit\, where neither of them is particularly welcome. Then comes the terrible incident at the EDM nightclub that turns Cartier into a global pariah\, at least according to social media. Helen hopes a period of simplicity and reflection and an internet detox will help Cartier find her true nature and maybe acquire some social graces. But Helen’s job gets much harder when Cartier’s friends show up at the lavish ranch where Cartier and Helen have retreated. Soon\, Helen finds herself trying to avoid becoming Instafamous while bringing some peace to a girl who very much needs it. This task turns out to be even more impossible when it becomes clear that they have been followed to Weeping Creek Ranch by a murderer. \nIn Bury the Lead\, a big-city journalist joins the staff of a small-town paper in cottage country and finds a community full of secrets … and murder. \nCat Conway has recently returned to Port Ellis to work as a reporter at the Quill & Packet. She’s fled the tattered remains of her high-profile career and bad divorce for the holiday town of her childhood\, famous for its butter tarts\, theatre\, and a century-old feud. One of Cat’s first assignments is to interview legendary actor Eliot Fraser\, the lead in the theatre’s season opener of Inherit the Wind. When Eliot ends up dead onstage on opening night\, the curtain rises on the sleepy town’s secrets. The suspects include the actor whose career Eliot ruined\, the ex-wife he betrayed\, the women he abused\, and even the baker he wronged. With the attention of the world on Port Ellis\, this story could be Cat’s chance to restore her reputation. But the police think she’s a suspect\, and the murderer wants to kill the story-and her too. Can Cat solve the mystery before she loses her job or becomes the next victim of a killer with a theatrical bent for vengeance? \nSusan Juby is the award-winning\, bestselling author of Mindful of Murder\, which debuted at number one on the independent bookstores’ bestseller list and was nominated for the Leacock Medal for Humour. She has also written Getting the Girl\, Another Kind of Cowboy and The Woefield Poultry Collective\, as well as the bestselling Alice series (Alice\, I Think; Miss Smithers; and Alice MacLeod\, Realist at Last). Her novel Republic of Dirt won the Leacock Medal in 2016. Susan Juby lives on Vancouver Island with her husband\, James\, and their dogs\, who are convinced they could have lucrative careers as social media stars. \nKate Hilton is the bestselling author of three novels: The Hole in the Middle\, Just like Family and Better Luck Next Time. When not writing\, Kate works with psychotherapy and life coaching clients in the area of transformational change. \nElizabeth Renzetti is the author of the essay collection Shrewed: A Wry and Closely Observed Look at the Lives of Women and Girls and the novel Based on a True Story. In 2020\, she won the Landsberg Award for her reporting on gender equality. \nWHEN: Tuesday\, March 19th at 7:00 p.m. (doors at 6:30).\nWHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\nWHAT: Readings from the authors of Bury the Lead and A Meditation on Murder\, followed by a Q&A with the audience and book signings.\nHOW: This event is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/mysterious-book-launch-susan-juby-kate-hilton-and-elizabeth-renzetti/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Holly Ringland and Tamara Goranson
DESCRIPTION:Please join Munro’s Books to launch new fantastical novels by Holly Ringland and Tamara Goranson!! \nHolly Ringland’s new novel\, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding\, is a haunting\, magical novel about joy\, grief\, courage and transformation that follows from the international bestselling\, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart. \n‘On the afternoon that Esther Wilding drove homeward along the coast\, a year after her sister had walked into the sea and disappeared\, the light was painfully golden.’ \nThe last time Esther Wilding’s beloved older sister Aura was seen\, she was walking along the shore towards the sea. In the wake of Aura’s disappearance\, Esther’s family struggles to live with their loss. To seek the truth about her sister’s death\, Esther reluctantly travels from Lutruwita/Tasmania\, to Copenhagen\, and then to the Faroe Islands\, following the trail of the stories Aura left behind: seven fairy tales about selkies\, swans and women\, alongside cryptic verses Aura wrote and had secretly tattooed on her body. The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding is a sweeping\, deeply beautiful and profoundly moving novel about the far reaches of sisterly love\, the power of wearing your heart on your skin and the ways life can transform when we find the courage to feel the fullness of both grief and joy. \nHolly Ringland is the author of the award-winning international bestseller The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart\, adapted into a seven-part TV series on Amazon Prime\, starring Sigourney Weaver. After living between Australia and the UK for ten years\, Holly has been based in the Yugambeh region of southeast Queensland since 2020\, where she wrote The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding in her “office\,” a vintage caravan named Frenchie. \nTamara Goranson’s Oath of Bjorn is Book 3 of her Vinland Viking Saga. Anja has just settled into a new life on the silver shores of Vinland with her beloved\, Bjorn. But then a local warrior bursts onto the scene seeking revenge\, swearing to spill Viking blood. And so Bjorn must risk everything to save the woman he loves before she steps into the darkness and sets their world ablaze. The Oath of Bjorn is an epic historical novel of gripping adventure and love everlasting – perfect for fans of Vikings and Outlander. \nTamara Goranson holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology as well as Adjunct Professor status at the University of Victoria in British Columbia\, Canada. She published several academic pieces before she turned to writing short stories\, creative non-fiction\, and historical fiction\, winning 3rd prize in the 2019 Vancouver Island Writers’ Association annual general contest for her nonfiction piece\, ‘A Voice in Time’. She lives in Victoria with her husband and two daughters. \nWHEN: Wednesday\, March 13th\, 7:00 p.m. (doors at 6:30).\nWHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government St. in Victoria.\nWHAT: Readings by Holly Ringland and Tamara Goranson\, followed by a Q&A with the audience and book signings.\nHOW: This event is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-launch-holly-ringland-and-tamara-goranson/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet
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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
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