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 END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230317T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230317T210000 DTSTAMP:20260423T060828 CREATED:20230302T222831Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230302T222831Z UID:15761-1679079600-1679086800@www.readlocalbc.ca SUMMARY:Caitlin Press Book Launch & Readings: Susan Braley\, Judy LeBlanc\, Andrea Routley DESCRIPTION:Judy LeBlanc will be launching her debut novel The Broken Heart of Winter and reading alongside Andrea Routley and Susan Braley. All three writers are published by Caitlin Press. \nSusan Braley will be reading from her recently released collection of poetry Tilling the Darkness and Andrea Routley will be reading from her novella collection This Unlikely Soil published in Fall 2022. \nFor more information on these books and their writers visit the Caitlin Press website. \nThis event will be held at the Fanny Bay Hall\, 7793 Island Highway\, between Qualicum and Courtenay. Donations at the door. URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/caitlin-press-book-launch-readings-susan-braley-judy-leblanc-andrea-routley/ LOCATION:Fanny Bay Hall\, Fanny Bay CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet,Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/4Judy2023FatOysterWeb.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230317T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230317T210000 DTSTAMP:20260423T060828 CREATED:20230202T194831Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230202T194831Z UID:15210-1679079600-1679086800@www.readlocalbc.ca SUMMARY:Book Launch: The Broken Heart of Winter DESCRIPTION:📚\nThe Broken Heart of Winter by Judy LeBlanc is available to pre-order from Indigo\, caitlin-press.com\, and your local independent bookstore.\n📚\nIn award-winning writer Judy LeBlanc’s debut novel\, three women are linked by generations of hardship\, displacement\, and the mystery of an eighteenth-century French musket that has been passed down through the LeBlanc family since the time of the Acadian expulsion. A riveting and heart-wrenching look at the effects of cultural trauma on Canada’s Acadian community\, The Broken Heart of Winter takes readers on a riveting ride from modern-day Canada to a 19th-century Maritime island to untangle a family’s web of secrets and lies.\n📚\n“If you are Acadian\, Mi’kmaq\, or a Vietnamese baker working the night shift in Victoria\, BC\, what does survival—physical\, familial\, cultural and financial—look and sound and feel like? This powerful\, beautifully written novel explores the grim historical realities of Acadian expulsion and exile as well as the glorious small and large-scale triumphs of survival in the 1830s and modern-day Canada. A timely and necessary contribution to understanding and empathy for this planet’s perennial population of refugees\, the exiled\, those who perished and those who survived.”\n—Caroline Woodward\, author of Alaska Highway Two-Step\n📚\nLeBlanc will launch her book in Fanny Bay with fellow Caitlin Press authors Andrea Routley (This Unlikely Soil) and Susan Braley (Tilling the Darkness). URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-launch-the-broken-heart-of-winter/ LOCATION:Fanny Bay Hall\, Fanny Bay CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet,Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Screen-Shot-2023-02-02-at-11.46.42-AM.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230315T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230315T200000 DTSTAMP:20260423T060828 CREATED:20230222T211257Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230222T211257Z UID:15497-1678906800-1678910400@www.readlocalbc.ca SUMMARY:READING: An Evening with Tara MacLean DESCRIPTION:Singer/songwriter Tara MacLean has had an extraordinary musical career. From being discovered singing on a BC ferry to touring with Dido\, Tom Cochrane and Lilith Fair\, her solo albums and those with the band Shaye have touched legions of fans. But she hasn’t\, until now\, disclosed the details of how the power of song saved her from a childhood filled with danger. Come out and hear her story as she introduces her new memoir\, Song of the Sparrow\, with both readings and songs. It’s going to be an evening of beautiful things! URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/reading-an-evening-with-tara-maclean/ LOCATION:Bolen Books\, #111-1644 Hillside Ave.\, Victoria\, BC\, V8T 2C5\, Canada CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet,Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Copy-of-FB-event-cover-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Bolen Books":MAILTO:heidi@bolen.bc.ca END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230222T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230222T203000 DTSTAMP:20260423T060828 CREATED:20230222T204924Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230222T204924Z UID:15426-1677092400-1677097800@www.readlocalbc.ca SUMMARY:Incite: VenCo: Cherie Dimaline DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Vancouver Writers Fest in partnership with Vancouver Public Library and Massy Books. \nDon your cloaks and gather with other members of our literary coven for an evening of divine storytelling and witchcraft. Our third Incite event features Festival favourite Cherie Dimaline\, whose book The Marrow Thieves has garnered multiple awards and maintained an astonishingly frequent presence on the Canadian bestseller’s list for the past five years. Her latest novel for adults invites readers on an enchanting\, treacherous road trip adventure that will “bring magic back into your life” (Eden Robinson). \nVenCo is a wickedly subversive\, deliciously imaginative\, deeply feminist novel of contemporary witches on the rise. When MĂ©tis millennial Lucky St. James finds a spoon in her basement inscribed with the letters S-A-L-E-M\, she joins a network of extraordinary women across North America who are searching desperately for the final spoon—and the unknown witch who holds it. The Kirkus Prize and Governor General’s Literary Award winning author joins author and academic Billy-Ray Belcourt (A History of My Brief Body\, A Minor Chorus) to discuss her spellbinding new book\, and her prolific and varied writing life. \nBooks will be for sale before and after the event courtesy of Massy Books. URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/incite-venco-cherie-dimaline/ LOCATION:Vancouver Public Library\, Central Branch\, 350 West Georgia St.\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6B 6B1\, Canada CATEGORIES:Meet & Greet,Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2023-Incite_social_02-22_banner.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Vancouver Writers Fest":MAILTO:info@writersfest.bc.ca END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230215T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230215T210000 DTSTAMP:20260423T060828 CREATED:20230202T193147Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230202T193147Z UID:15205-1676487600-1676494800@www.readlocalbc.ca SUMMARY:Book Launch: Hand on My Heart: A Canadian Doctor's Awakening in Afghanistan DESCRIPTION:MaureenMayhew‘s Hand on My Heart: A Canadian Doctor’s Awakening in Afghanistan. Mark your calendars for the upcoming book launch: February 15th\, 7-9 PM at UBC’s School of Population and Public Health. Books will be available for sale! URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-launch-hand-on-my-heart-a-canadian-doctors-awakening-in-afghanistan/ LOCATION:ubc school of population and public health CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet,Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/FnfM0QTXoAALiiN.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230211T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230211T180000 DTSTAMP:20260423T060828 CREATED:20230202T192748Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230202T192748Z UID:15200-1676131200-1676138400@www.readlocalbc.ca SUMMARY:Book Signing: Bloom Where You Are Planted | Indigo Granville DESCRIPTION:Chat with the author and pick up a copy of “Bloom Where You Are Planted: 50 Conversations with Inspiring British Columbians” at Indigo Granville.\nA gorgeous book to keep or gift\, “Bloom Where You Are Planted” is a collection of interviews and photography that celebrates 50 innovative\, hard-working\, diverse people.\nhttps://www.chapters.indigo.ca/
/9781772034295-item.html URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-signing-bloom-where-you-are-planted-indigo-granville/ LOCATION:Chapters Indigo – Vancouver\, Granville & Broadway\, 2505 Granville Street\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6H 3G7\, Canada CATEGORIES:Meet & Greet,Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Fn-qfJhaYAUpeU9.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230208T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230208T203000 DTSTAMP:20260423T060828 CREATED:20230202T214035Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230202T214035Z UID:15214-1675882800-1675888200@www.readlocalbc.ca SUMMARY:Incite: Superfan: Jen Sookfong Lee DESCRIPTION:Music. Movies. Celebrity crushes. Pop culture permeates all levels of our lives\, from the entertainment we consume (or abhor) to the memes we make and share with friends. Jen Sookfong Lee has been at the centre of this commentary for years\, as author\, lifestyle commentator\, podcaster\, and now memoirist of Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart\, a searing\, revelatory\, and intimate collection exploring the ways in which pop culture has shaped—and unshaped—Lee throughout her life. \nJoined by longtime Festival friend and Globe and Mail columnist Marsha Lederman\, this special Incite event will celebrate Lee’s debut memoir-in-pieces\, and explore all the ways in which pop culture intersects with the reality of so many\, how our collective obsessions make and break us\, and why our fascinations persist in spite of it all. URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/incite-superfan-jen-sookfong-lee/ LOCATION:Vancouver Public Library\, Central Branch\, 350 West Georgia St.\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6B 6B1\, Canada CATEGORIES:Meet & Greet,Panel,Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Website-banner-Incite-02-08.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR