BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Read Local BC - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH 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 BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20260308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20261101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20270314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20271107T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260402T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260402T200000 DTSTAMP:20260422T223503 CREATED:20260122T012505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260219T004457Z UID:47682-1775152800-1775160000@www.readlocalbc.ca SUMMARY:A Reading of the Play El Terremoto by Christine Quintana DESCRIPTION:Touchstone Theatre and Neworld Theatre present a reading of Christine Quintana’s play El Terremoto (directed by Daniela Atiencia). Twenty years have passed since the three Jurado sisters lost their parents\, and life just seems to continue on in their East Vancouver home. \nA birthday party\, a failed proposal\, and a missed connection fill the days and months until an earthquake nearly destroys the city\, and brings forward a shocking turn of events that splits their world wide open.\nFrom Dora-Award winning playwright Christine Quintana\, El Terremoto is a dramatic comedy about how nothing matters\, so everything matters. \n— \nA reading of the full play by seven actors will be followed by a Q & A at the end of the evening with Christine and Lois Anderson\, Artistic Director at Touchstone Theatre. Join us for a delightful evening around the playwriting process and the Canadian theatre scene. \n— \nChristine Quintana was born in Los Angeles to a Mexican-American father and a Dutch-British-Canadian mother. Christine grew up as a grateful visitor to the unceded lands of the Musqueam\, Squamish\, and Tsleil-Waututh people. Christine is an actor\, playwright\, and co-Artistic Producer of Delinquent Theatre. In these various capacities\, she has worked with Tarragon Theatre\, the Arts Club Theatre Company\, Bard on the Beach\, The Cultch\, Neworld Theatre\, Electric Company Theatre\, Rumble Theatre\, Boca Del Lupo\, Zee Zee Theatre\, Caravan Farm Theatre\, Ruby Slippers Theatre\, Playwrights Theatre Centre\, Pi Theatre\, Gateway Theatre\, Nightswimming Theatre\, Belfry Theatre\, Stratford Festival\, and Young People’s Theatre. Her writing has been translated and performed in Spanish\, French\, ASL\, and German. \nDaniela Atiencia is the Artistic Associate at Touchstone Theatre and a Latinx-Canadian theatre artist born and raised in Colombia. She has a BFA in Theatre Performance from SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts and holds an MFA in Theatre Directing from The University of Essex’s East 15 Acting School. Daniela works as a freelance bilingual director\, dramaturg\, and deviser. She is currently working on two plays as co-director for Neworld and Green Thumb Theatre. As dramaturg she is collaborating with Tetsuro Shigematsu’s latest commissioned piece for Pacific Theatre and served as Spanish Language Dramaturg for Made in Canada\, an agricultural podcast for rice & beans theatre. She is currently based on the Unceded Territories of the Coast Salish peoples (Vancouver\, B.C.) and her work recently earned her a finalist spot in the RBC Rising Star Emerging Director award. \nLois Anderson is the Artistic Director of Touchstone Theatre\, and an Adjunct Professor at UBC in the Department of Theatre and Film. She won the Jessie Award for Best Direction (Pericles\, Bard on the Beach) and the 2019 Critic’s Choice Award for Innovation (Lysistrata). She has worked extensively in Canada and Australia and has been an artistic associate with The National Arts Centre most recently directing You Used to Call Me Marie by Tai Amy Grauman. URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/a-reading-of-the-play-el-terremoto-by-christine-quintana/ LOCATION:Vancouver Public Library\, Central Branch\, 350 West Georgia St.\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6B 6B1\, Canada CATEGORIES:Author Discussion,Panel ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/El_TERREMOTO-image_760X380.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Vancouver Public Library":MAILTO:candie.tanaka@vpl.ca END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260310T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260310T170000 DTSTAMP:20260422T223503 CREATED:20260202T201217Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260202T201217Z UID:47923-1773158400-1773162000@www.readlocalbc.ca SUMMARY:FREE Celebration of Outdoor Learning Books! DESCRIPTION:Free 1 Hour Virtual Event on Tues\, March 10 at 4pm Pacific / 7pm Eastern Time. \nSign-up: https://outdoorlearning.com/event/spring-celebration-2026/ \nThis is a chance to connect virtually with the incredible authors of some of the outdoor and Indigenous learning resources that we’ve published. Get the inside scoop\, hear about their process\, and ask any burning questions. Offered in partnership with Take Me Outside\, with the support of Creative BC. \nAll registrants will receive: \n– Access the recording\, in case you can’t join us live\n– Access a Certificate of Attendance\n– Entry for some great prizes!\n– A 15% coupon code to access any of the books featured! \nOffered in partnership with Take Me Outside\, with the support of Creative BC. URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/free-celebration-of-outdoor-learning-books/ LOCATION:https://outdoorlearning.com/event/spring-celebration-2026/\, Virtual Event CATEGORIES:Author Discussion,Day of Celebration,Panel ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Outdoor-Learning-Spring-Celebration-2026-Feature-CreativeBC.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Outdoor Learning School &%3B Store":MAILTO:info@outdoorlearning.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260228T033000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260228T173000 DTSTAMP:20260422T223503 CREATED:20260219T004637Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260219T004637Z UID:48399-1772249400-1772299800@www.readlocalbc.ca SUMMARY:"The Librarians" Film Screening at the Rio Theatre DESCRIPTION:Celebrate Freedom to Read by joining local libraries for a screening of the 2025 documentary The Librarians\, a documentary film about how Librarians unite to combat book banning\, defending intellectual freedom on democracy’s frontlines amid unprecedented censorship in Texas\, Florida\, and beyond. \nThe screening will be accompanied by a short discussion with local librarians and academics on book bans and challenges in Canada\, including libraries’ roles in protecting freedom to read and how we can all defend our right to intellectual freedom. \nWhere: Rio Theatre (1660 East Broadway\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5N 1W1)\nWhen: Saturday\, February 28 (Doors 3:00 pm | Movie 3:30 pm) \nTickets & more info: $16 from the Rio Theatre:\nhttps://riotheatretickets.ca/events/40213-the-librarians-with-post-show-panel-discussion URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/the-librarians-film-screening-at-the-rio-theatre/ LOCATION:BC CATEGORIES:Panel ORGANIZER;CN="North Vancouver District Public Library":MAILTO:info@nvdpl.ca END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251030T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20251030T200000 DTSTAMP:20260422T223503 CREATED:20251006T181334Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251006T181334Z UID:41628-1761849000-1761854400@www.readlocalbc.ca SUMMARY:Poetry in Translation DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening lost in translation with three talented poets as they discuss the often overlooked art of translation. How do you carry a book from one language to another\, line by line\, with precision? UBC Associate Professor Bronwen Tate will moderate the discussion with poets Rhea Tregebov\, Rahat Kurd and Deborah Woodard. \n— \nBronwen Tate is the author of the poetry collection The Silk the Moths Ignore. She is an Associate Professor of Teaching and Undergraduate Chair in the UBC School of Creative Writing\, where she offers courses in poetry\, creative writing pedagogy\, and literary translation. A Practical Guide to Teaching Creative Writing: Supporting Inclusive Pedagogy\, a collaboration with colleague John Vigna\, is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic in Spring 2026. \nRhea Tregebov is the author of eight collections of poetry\, most recently\, Talking to Strangers. She edited and co-translated the anthology Arguing With the Storm: Stories by Yiddish Women Writers and taught workshops in literary translation at UBC. In 2019 she taught a graduate course for the English Department at Tsuda University in Tokyo entitled “Translating the Self: Issues in Literary Translation.” Tregebov has translated poetry from French and Spanish and has worked in tandem translation from Japanese\, Catalan and Finnish\, languages she does not know. She is now an Associate Professor Emerita at the School of Creative Writing at UBC. \nRahat Kurd is a poet\, writer\, and editor of Kashmiri and north Indian family origin\, born in Canada and based in Vancouver. The Book Of Z\, published by Talonbooks this fall 2025\, is her second full-length work of poetry. Her previous literary titles with Talonbooks are The City That Is Leaving Forever: Kashmiri Letters\, (2021)\, co-authored with Kashmiri poet Sumayya Syed\, and Cosmophilia\, (poems\, 2015). In her work as a beginner translator of contemporary Urdu poetry\, Rahat Kurd is particularly interested in the ways lyrical resonances from the classical ghazal tradition have influenced modern and feminist Urdu-language poetic sensibilities. \nDeborah Woodard studied with Charles Simic at the University of New Hampshire and has a PhD from the University of Washington. Her books include Borrowed Tales (Stockport Flats) and No Finis: Triangle Testimonies\, 1911 (Ravenna Press). With Roberta Antognini\, she has translated the poetry of Amelia Rosselli in Hospital Series (New Directions)\, Obtuse Diary\, The Dragonfly\, and Notes Scattered and Lost (Entre Rios Books). Their translation of Rosselli’s Document has just been published by World Poetry Books. Deborah teaches at Hugo House in Seattle\, Washington and co-curates the reading series Margin Shift. \n*This event is curated by writer\, Jen Currin (Disembark and Trinity Street amongst many others). URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/poetry-in-translation/ LOCATION:Vancouver Public Library\, Central Branch\, 350 West Georgia St.\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6B 6B1\, Canada CATEGORIES:Book Signing,Panel,Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/TranslationEventFinal.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Vancouver Public Library":MAILTO:candie.tanaka@vpl.ca END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250915T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250915T200000 DTSTAMP:20260422T223503 CREATED:20250903T163612Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250903T163612Z UID:33724-1757961000-1757966400@www.readlocalbc.ca SUMMARY:Women of the Fur Trade: An Evening with Playwright and Journalist Frances Koncan DESCRIPTION:Frances Koncan’s play Women of the Fur Trade is about the Métis-led Red River Resistance against European colonisers. In eighteen hundred and something something\, somewhere upon the banks of a Reddish River in Treaty One Territory\, three very different women with a preference for twenty-first century slang sit in a fort sharing their views on life\, love\, and the hot nerd Louis Riel. \nWinner of the Toronto Fringe Best New Play Contest 2018\, this lively historical satire of survival and cultural in-heritance shifts perspectives from the male gaze onto women’s power in the past and present through the lens of the rapidly changing world of the Canadian fur trade. \nFrances will be in conversation with Lois Anderson\, Artistic Director at Touchstone Theatre for a delightful evening around the playwriting process and the Canadian theatre scene. \nStorylines invites audiences into the creative worlds of Canada’s leading playwrights through a series of rich conversations presented by Touchstone Theatre and the Vancouver Public Library. \n— \nFrances Koncan is an Anishinaabe and Slovene playwright and theatre artist from Couchiching First Nation. They hold an MFA in Playwriting from the City University of New York Brooklyn College. They were the Writer-in-Residence at the Winnipeg Public Library (2022-2023) and Writer-in-Residence at the University of Manitoba (2021-2022)\, as well as journalist at the Winnipeg Free Press (2019-2021). \nProductions of their work include Women of the Fur Trade (2023) at the Stratford Festival directed by Yvette Nolan\, Women of the Fur Trade (2024) at the National Arts Centre Indigenous Theatre/Great Canadian Theatre Company directed by Renae Morriseau\, Space Girl (2023) at Prairie Theatre Exchange directed by Krista Jackson\, The Crows (2023) at Gwaandak Theatre directed by Miki Wolf\, and Women of the Fur Trade (2020) at the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre directed by Audrey Dwyer. \nLois Anderson is the Artistic Director of Touchstone Theatre\, and an Adjunct Professor at UBC in the Department of Theatre and Film. She won the Jessie Award for Best Direction (Pericles\, Bard on the Beach) and the 2019 Critic’s Choice Award for Innovation (Lysistrata). She has worked extensively in Canada and Australia and has been an Artistic Associate with The National Arts Centre most recently directing You Used to Call Me Marie by Tai Amy Grauman. Her directing credits include Behind the Moon\, Henry V\, Fun Home\, Medea\, Timothy Findley’s The Wars\, Iphigenia at Aulis\, CHILDISH\, Gertrude and Alice\, Taming of the Shrew\, My Granny the Goldfish\, Buffoon. \nIn partnership with Touchstone Theatre. URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/women-of-the-fur-trade-an-evening-with-playwright-and-journalist-frances-koncan/ LOCATION:Vancouver Public Library\, Central Branch\, 350 West Georgia St.\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6B 6B1\, Canada CATEGORIES:Interview,Panel ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Storylines-Biblioevent.png ORGANIZER;CN="Vancouver Public Library":MAILTO:candie.tanaka@vpl.ca END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250722T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250722T200000 DTSTAMP:20260422T223503 CREATED:20250903T205723Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250903T205723Z UID:32570-1753207200-1753214400@www.readlocalbc.ca SUMMARY:Summer Sounds and Sonics in Poetic Form DESCRIPTION:City of Vancouver Poet Laureate Elee Kraljii Gardiner hosts a night of poems with poetry ambassadors Johnny Trinh\, Kevin Spenst\, and Marc Perez. These four poets with distinct craft practices invite you to consider the role of sounds and sonics within the framework of the poem. Vocalizations\, modulations\, polyphony\, multilingualism\, repetition\, call and response are potential ingredients in this lively and festive introduction to the poet laureate team. \n— \nKevin Spenst (he/him) is a poet\, teacher\, and reviewer\, has published four full-length poetry collections\, most recently A Bouquet Brought Back From Space (Anvil Press\, 2024) and 17 chapbooks\, most recently Windowful (Anstruther Press\, 2025). He is one of the organizers of the Dead Poets Reading Series\, has a chapbook review column for subTerrain magazine\, and occasionally co-hosts Wax Poetic on Vancouver Co-op Radio. He is a Poetry Mentor at The Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver on unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) territory where he cohabitates with the one and only Cheryl Rossi. \nMarc Perez is the author of Dayo\, published by Brick Books in 2024. Perez observes and draws inspiration from the world around him. He believes that writing is a powerful political act\, and he uses poetry to participate in the discourses that affect him\, his communities\, and the society in general. Through his poems\, he offers the reader his inner self\, imaginations\, and worldview. He aims to create images that move hearts. In his free time\, he likes to wander with his camera and capture fleeting moments in the city. \nJohnny D Trinh loves making noise\, making food\, and feasting with people. Trinh has a long practice in spoken word poetry\, theatre making\, and community-engaged culinary art. Johnny’s work is focused on celebrating and unpacking the way we tell our stories and how we find identity and community through storytelling. Johnny is the artistic director for Vancouver Poetry House\, interim executive director for Historic Joy Kogawa House\, and founder of Stage to Page Performance Society. Trinh is also a resident artist with the City of Vancouver creating programs that bring multicultural and multigenerational communities together to share stories and celebrate cultural foods. “It takes a community to build an artist\, whether we are nurtured by it… or resist against it.” johnnydavidtrinh.com \nElee Kraljii Gardiner is an author\, editor\, and creative mentor living in Vancouver\, Canada. She is the author of two poetry books\, Trauma Head\, and Serpentine Loop. She is also editor of the anthologies Against Death: 35 Essays on Living and V6A: Writing From Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. A frequent collaborator with choreographers\, musicians\, and visual artists\, Elee is currently collaborating with nature via a series of durational art installations that investigate the law of thermodynamics and cultural ideas regarding the passing of time. Elee directs Vancouver Manuscript Intensive\, an online program pairing authors with mentors\, and is the seventh poet laureate of Vancouver. eleekg.com URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/summer-sounds-and-sonics-in-poetic-form/ LOCATION:Vancouver Public Library\, Central Branch\, 350 West Georgia St.\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6B 6B1\, Canada CATEGORIES:Book Signing,Panel ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Final-SummerSounds.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Vancouver Public Library":MAILTO:candie.tanaka@vpl.ca END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250602T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250602T203000 DTSTAMP:20260422T223503 CREATED:20250522T070521Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250522T070521Z UID:30957-1748890800-1748896200@www.readlocalbc.ca 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Massy-books-4.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="massy books":MAILTO:info@massybooks.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250506T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250506T110000 DTSTAMP:20260422T223503 CREATED:20250423T220553Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250423T220553Z UID:30651-1746525600-1746529200@www.readlocalbc.ca SUMMARY:Indie Kids Book Buzz DESCRIPTION:Join on May 6 for an indie kids bonanza as five publishers chat through their fall 2025 titles with host Kellyanne Healey\, children’s librarian at Lake Hiawatha Branch Library / 2024 ALA Emerging Leader.Register for the event here! URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/indie-kids-book-buzz/ LOCATION:BC CATEGORIES:Panel END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250407T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20250407T170000 DTSTAMP:20260422T223503 CREATED:20250408T202146Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250408T202146Z UID:30195-1744012800-1744045200@www.readlocalbc.ca 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Writers-Fest-2025-FB.png ORGANIZER;CN="Coquitlam Public Library":MAILTO:ask@coqlibrary.ca END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240625T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240625T220000 DTSTAMP:20260422T223503 CREATED:20240528T164337Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240528T164337Z UID:22555-1719338400-1719352800@www.readlocalbc.ca SUMMARY:Liars of Orpheus DESCRIPTION:Hosted by SJ Valiquette\, Liars of Orpheus revolves around writers attempting to lie their way through stories\, poems and lectures.\nEach of the five writers will produce work that are made entirely of lies with the exception of five pieces of truth each. They will win points from sneaking their truths past their opponents or having their lies mistaken for truths. The winner of this month’s competition receives a tiara and points towards our end of the season finally in April. \nFor our debut show\, Death Rides a Unicorn is very proud to present Erin Kirsh\, Sonya Littlejohn\, Holly Flauto\, Spillious the Ridiculous and a mystery storyteller. \nErin Kirsh is an award-winning writer\, performer\, and funnyman from Toronto. Her writing has appeared in publications such as The Malahat Review\, Cosmonauts Avenue\, bBarren Magazine\, Short Edition\, CV2\, ARC Poetry Magazine\, QWERTY\, Poetry is Dead\, EVENT\, PULP Literature\, Geist and more. \nHolly Flauto(she/they) is a poet\, story-teller\, learner and instructor living and writing on the traditional\, ancestral and stolen territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm\, Sḵwxwú7mesh and Selilwitulh Nations. ̱ Their debut poetry-memoir collection exploring immigration to Canada as a modern-day settler\, Permission to Settle\, will be published with Anvil Press in September 2024. Their fiction and creative memoir has previously been published in The Ex- Puritan\, Joyland\, and The Rusty Toque\, and they perform as Stella Palermo on the local story and poetry slam stages. Holly is a Creative Writing and English instructor at Capilano University.\nSonya Littlejohn recently graduated from Simon Fraser University with a certificate in Community Capacity Building. She holds a bachelor of arts from UBC\, a career in poetry performance and facilitation\, and communication building. She is a community engagement facilitator\, a cultural worker\, community coordinator\, mad artist and poet. \nSpillious aka Trevana Spilchen is a Trans feminine settler parent\, musician\, spoken word artist and educator of Ukrainian and Irish decent. They are 2024 recipient of the Zacheus Jackson Memorial award won the 2017 Grand Slam Championship of the Vancouver Poetry slam and finished 6th at the 2018 Canadian Individual Poetry Slam. \nThey have toured as a featured poet all throughout Canada and the US. Spillious has released 3 chapbooks of poetry and the last\, Tales of Trans-formation sold 200 copies. From Sept 2021-23 they shepherded the return of poetry slam in Vancouver as the Slam Coordinator for Vancouver Poetry House and the Tournament Director for the Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Championships. Most importantly\, Spillious is a parent to 4 kids ranging in age from 5 yrs to 23 yrs old and 4 cats named Cola\, Orange Crush\, Dr. Pepper & Rootbeer! \nThere will be a short open mic prior to the competition reserved for liars and faux poets. Each one of the Open Mic pieces also has to adhere to being all lies\, save 5 truths and under 5 minutes in length. URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/liars-of-orpheus-2/ LOCATION:2434 Main St\, Vancouver\, BC V5T 3E2\, 2434 Main Street\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5T 3E2\, Canada CATEGORIES:Launch,Open Mic,Panel,Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Eventbrite-for-Liars-of-Orpheus-2160-x-1080-px-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Death Rides a Unicorn":MAILTO:sean@deathridesaunicorn.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240625T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240625T220000 DTSTAMP:20260422T223503 CREATED:20240528T164302Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240528T164302Z UID:22551-1719338400-1719352800@www.readlocalbc.ca SUMMARY:Liars of Orpheus DESCRIPTION:Hosted by SJ Valiquette\, Liars of Orpheus revolves around writers attempting to lie their way through stories\, poems and lectures.\nEach of the five writers will produce work that are made entirely of lies with the exception of five pieces of truth each. They will win points from sneaking their truths past their opponents or having their lies mistaken for truths. The winner of this month’s competition receives a tiara and points towards our end of the season finally in April. \nFor our debut show\, Death Rides a Unicorn is very proud to present Erin Kirsh\, Sonya Littlejohn\, Holly Flauto\, Spillious the Ridiculous and a mystery storyteller. \nErin Kirsh is an award-winning writer\, performer\, and funnyman from Toronto. Her writing has appeared in publications such as The Malahat Review\, Cosmonauts Avenue\, bBarren Magazine\, Short Edition\, CV2\, ARC Poetry Magazine\, QWERTY\, Poetry is Dead\, EVENT\, PULP Literature\, Geist and more. \nHolly Flauto(she/they) is a poet\, story-teller\, learner and instructor living and writing on the traditional\, ancestral and stolen territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm\, Sḵwxwú7mesh and Selilwitulh Nations. ̱ Their debut poetry-memoir collection exploring immigration to Canada as a modern-day settler\, Permission to Settle\, will be published with Anvil Press in September 2024. Their fiction and creative memoir has previously been published in The Ex- Puritan\, Joyland\, and The Rusty Toque\, and they perform as Stella Palermo on the local story and poetry slam stages. Holly is a Creative Writing and English instructor at Capilano University.\nSonya Littlejohn recently graduated from Simon Fraser University with a certificate in Community Capacity Building. She holds a bachelor of arts from UBC\, a career in poetry performance and facilitation\, and communication building. She is a community engagement facilitator\, a cultural worker\, community coordinator\, mad artist and poet. \nSpillious aka Trevana Spilchen is a Trans feminine settler parent\, musician\, spoken word artist and educator of Ukrainian and Irish decent. They are 2024 recipient of the Zacheus Jackson Memorial award won the 2017 Grand Slam Championship of the Vancouver Poetry slam and finished 6th at the 2018 Canadian Individual Poetry Slam. \nThey have toured as a featured poet all throughout Canada and the US. Spillious has released 3 chapbooks of poetry and the last\, Tales of Trans-formation sold 200 copies. From Sept 2021-23 they shepherded the return of poetry slam in Vancouver as the Slam Coordinator for Vancouver Poetry House and the Tournament Director for the Canadian Individual Poetry Slam Championships. Most importantly\, Spillious is a parent to 4 kids ranging in age from 5 yrs to 23 yrs old and 4 cats named Cola\, Orange Crush\, Dr. Pepper & Rootbeer! \nThere will be a short open mic prior to the competition reserved for liars and faux poets. Each one of the Open Mic pieces also has to adhere to being all lies\, save 5 truths and under 5 minutes in length. URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/liars-of-orpheus/ LOCATION:2434 Main St\, Vancouver\, BC V5T 3E2\, 2434 Main Street\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5T 3E2\, Canada CATEGORIES:Launch,Open Mic,Panel,Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Eventbrite-for-Liars-of-Orpheus-2160-x-1080-px.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Death Rides a Unicorn":MAILTO:sean@deathridesaunicorn.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240605T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240605T210000 DTSTAMP:20260422T223503 CREATED:20240516T173026Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240516T173026Z UID:22229-1717614000-1717621200@www.readlocalbc.ca SUMMARY:BC Yukon Book Prizes Finalists' Reading with Darrel J. McLeod\, David Norwell\, and Chelsea Wakelyn DESCRIPTION:Please join Munro’s Books in celebrating three local authors who are finalists for 2024 BC Yukon Book Prizes: \nDarrel J. McLeod\, finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for A Season in Chezgh’un\nDavid Norwell\, finalist for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize for A Complex Coast: A Kayak Journey From Vancouver Island to Alaska\nChelsea Wakelyn\, finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for What Remains of Elsie Jane \nA Season in Chezgh’un is a 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. \nDARREL J. MCLEOD is Cree from Treaty-8 territory in Northern Alberta. Before deciding to pursue writing\, he worked as an educator\, chief negotiator of land claims for the federal government and executive director of education and international affairs with the Assembly of First Nations. He holds degrees in French literature and education from the University of British Columbia. He is the author of two memoirs: the award-winning Mamaskatch (2018; winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction; shortlisted for many other major prizes; translated into French and German editions)\, followed by Peyakow (2021) which was also shortlisted for several literary prizes. He currently lives in Sooke\, BC\, and divides his time between writing and singing in a jazz band.\n__\nA Complex Coast is a soul-searching personal account of a young man’s 1\,700-kilometre kayak journey from Victoria\, BC\, to Gustavas\, Alaska\, illustrated with whimsical watercolour maps and illustrations of local flora\, fauna\, and landscapes. \nDAVID NORWELL is an author\, illustrator\, and world traveller. He holds a BSc in Geography from the University of Victoria\, and has worked for six seasons conducting biological and geological surveys In BC\, Alberta\, and the Yukon. His passion is communicating science in a way that accesses the human heart. David has visited thirty-three countries\, sailed across the Atlantic and Indian Ocean\, trekked over the Himalayas with a kitten\, and hitchhiked over two hundred rides. He is dedicated to understanding the human experience and sharing his findings. When not working on books\, he is volunteering at schools\, studying Buddhism\, and practising meditation.\n__\nWhat Remains of Elsie Jane is a heartbreaking and darkly funny portrait of a woman unravelling in the wake of tragedy. \nCHELSEA WAKELYN is a writer\, musician\, and mother to two lovely\, eccentric humans. She lives on Vancouver Island. \nWHEN: Wednesday\, June 5th at 7:00 p.m. (doors at 6:30).\nWHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street in Victoria.\nWHAT: Readings from three BC Yukon Book Prizes finalists: Darrel J. McLeod\, David Norwell\, and Chelsea Wakelyn.\nHOW: This event is free to attend. URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/bc-yukon-book-prizes-finalists-reading-with-darrel-j-mcleod-david-norwell-and-chelsea-wakelyn/ LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada CATEGORIES:Awards,Panel ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/BC-Yukon-IG.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Munro's Books":MAILTO:events@munrobooks.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240530T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240530T220000 DTSTAMP:20260422T223503 CREATED:20240516T173014Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240516T173014Z UID:22135-1717095600-1717106400@www.readlocalbc.ca 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/May-Instagram.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Wild Prose Reading Series":MAILTO:susan.sanford.blades@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240529T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240529T200000 DTSTAMP:20260422T223503 CREATED:20240528T164204Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240528T164204Z UID:22541-1717009200-1717012800@www.readlocalbc.ca SUMMARY:Incite: BC and Yukon Book Prizes DESCRIPTION:Join the Vancouver Writers Fest\, VPL\, and BC and Yukon Book Prizes for an evening of celebrating the finalists of the BC and Yukon Book Prizes. Hear from three lauded local authors\, each nominated in a different category of this year’s awards: \n– Henry Tsang\, nominated for the Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award for White Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver\n– Samantha Nock\, nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for A Family of Dreamers\n– Brandon Reid\, nominated for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for Beautiful Beautiful \nWhite Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver is a thought-provoking collection of essays and photographs that documents the anti-Asian riots of 1907 in the context of contemporary anti-Asian sentiment. Samantha Nock redefines where and what “home” is in her debut poetry collection. And Beautiful Beautiful is a coming-of-age story exploring indigeneity\, masculinity\, and cultural tradition. \nThe authors will discuss their shortlisted titles\, and the importance of place in each of their works\, with Megan Cole\, the Prize’s Director of Programming and Communications. Their insightful conversation will be rounded out by readings and an audience Q+A. \nBooks will be for sale at the event courtesy of Book Warehouse\, a division of Black Bond Books. Can’t make the event time? Register for the livestream option and we’ll send you a link to watch the recording! URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/incite-bc-and-yukon-book-prizes/ LOCATION:Vancouver Public Library\, Central Branch\, 350 West Georgia St.\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6B 6B1\, Canada CATEGORIES:Awards,Panel ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/2024_Incite-05-29_social-banner.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Vancouver Writers Fest":MAILTO:info@writersfest.bc.ca END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240522T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240522T193000 DTSTAMP:20260422T223503 CREATED:20240516T172959Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240516T172959Z UID:22107-1716400800-1716406200@www.readlocalbc.ca SUMMARY:North Shore Authors Collection: Children's Authors Talk DESCRIPTION:The North Shore Authors Collection inspires\, supports\, and celebrates the literary talent of North Shore authors by showcasing locally-created content in all three North Shore libraries. \nJoin us as we celebrate some of the children’s authors whose works were chosen this year. The authors will discuss their works and answer questions from the audience. URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/north-shore-authors-collection-childrens-authors-talk/ LOCATION:North Vancouver Public Library – Lynn Valley branch\, 1277 Lynn Valley Road\, North Vancouver\, BC\, V7J 0A2\, Canada CATEGORIES:Panel ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2023-NSAC_small_Photo-by-Jayne-Drew-13.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="North Vancouver District Public Library":MAILTO:info@nvdpl.ca END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240403T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240403T210000 DTSTAMP:20260422T223503 CREATED:20240305T191921Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240305T191921Z UID:20628-1712170800-1712178000@www.readlocalbc.ca 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Grace-Biello-IG.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Munro's Books":MAILTO:events@munrobooks.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240313T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240313T200000 DTSTAMP:20260422T223503 CREATED:20240130T204733Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240130T204733Z UID:20159-1710356400-1710360000@www.readlocalbc.ca SUMMARY:Author to Author: The Fusion of Fact and Fiction DESCRIPTION:“Truth is so hard to tell\, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.” —Francis Bacon \nCritically acclaimed authors Tara McGuire and Frances Peck create worlds that feel real because of accurate local and technical details\, and also journey into emotional and psychological truths that only fiction can reveal. \nIn this inspiring author conversation\, Tara and Frances will discuss the making of their books: their process\, research\, characters\, themes\, and the choices they made to blend fact and fiction on the page. \nTheir books will be for sale (cash or e-transfer). \nAuthor Bios: \nTara McGuire is a writer and broadcaster from North Vancouver. Her first book\, Holden After & Before — Love Letter for a Son Lost to Overdose\, a hybrid work in memoir and fiction exploring grief\, motherhood\, and the overdose crisis (Arsenal Pulp Press)\, was recognized by The Walrus as one of the favourite books of 2022 and was a finalist for the 2023 City of Vancouver Book Award. https://taramcguire.com/ \nFrances Peck is the author of Uncontrolled Flight\, a “complex and revelatory” (Vancouver Sun) story about the death of an aerial firefighter. Her previous novel\, The Broken Places\, about an earthquake rocking Vancouver\, was a Globe and Mail best book of 2022 and a finalist for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. She lives in North Vancouver. \nRegistration required. Register online or call 604-984-0286\, ext. 8144. \nThis event takes place in the Community Meeting Room at Lynn Valley Library. URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/author-to-author-the-fusion-of-fact-and-fiction/ LOCATION:North Vancouver Public Library – Lynn Valley branch\, 1277 Lynn Valley Road\, North Vancouver\, BC\, V7J 0A2\, Canada CATEGORIES:Panel ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Screenshot-2024-01-29-121543.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="North Vancouver District Public Library":MAILTO:info@nvdpl.ca END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240220T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240220T210000 DTSTAMP:20260422T223503 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:20240125T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240125T220000 DTSTAMP:20260422T223503 CREATED:20240109T185802Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240109T185802Z UID:19701-1706209200-1706220000@www.readlocalbc.ca SUMMARY:Wild Prose Reading Series Presents: The Subversives DESCRIPTION:Please join us for The Subversives—readings from books about women and nonbinary people subverting the status quo. JD Derbyshire will read from Mercy Gene\, the Man-Made Making of a Madwoman\, a genre-smashing work of auto-fiction about gender confusion\, patriarchy\, addiction\, and mental health; Kathryn Mockler will read from her book of short stories\, Anecdotes\, a book of varied\, immersive works that bristle with truth in the face of unprecedented change; and Emi Sasagawa will read from her debut novel\, Atomweight\, about a “good girl” who becomes herself through fighting—a novel about the need to reconcile competing cultures\, traditions\, and values and explores sexual identity and violence. The evening will begin with an open mic at 7:00 p.m. The open mic will be opened by local writer Justina Elias\, reading “To Do\,” her Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Award-winning story\, published in issue #217 of The Malahat Review – and then it’ll open up to YOU! Bring some writing of any genre to share (poetry is very welcome)! URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/wild-prose-reading-series-presents-the-subversives/ LOCATION:Paul Phillips Hall\, 1923 Fernwood Road\, Victoria\, BC\, V8T 0A5\, Canada CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Panel ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/January-Instagram.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Wild Prose Reading Series":MAILTO:susan.sanford.blades@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231213T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231213T200000 DTSTAMP:20260422T223503 CREATED:20231102T214906Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231102T214906Z UID:19199-1702494000-1702497600@www.readlocalbc.ca SUMMARY:Storied: On queerness in children’s books with Danny Ramadan and Robin Stevenson DESCRIPTION:Join the BC and Yukon Book Prizes for Storied: Discussions on Books\, Publishing\, and the Creative Process. \nOn Wednesday\, December 13th\, Danny Ramadan\, author of Salma the Syrian Chef\, The Foghorn Echoes and more\, and Robin Stevenson\, winner of the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence\, will discuss queerness in children’s book. \nThe event begins at 7 pm (PT). It will run for an hour.\nThis is a free event\, but registration is required. There will be no recording for this event. \nFunding for the Storied Series is thanks to Canada Book Fund\, Creative BC\, the Government of BC and the Canada Council for the Arts. \nAbout the guests: \nDanny Ramadan is a Syrian-Canadian author and LGBTQ-refugees advocate. His latest novel\, The Foghorn Echoes (Penguin – 2022) won the Lambda Award for Gay Fiction\, and is shortlisted for the BC & Yukon Book awards\, as well as the city of Vancouver Book Award. The Clothesline Swing (Nightwood – 2017) is translated to multiple languages. His award-winning children’s books The Salma Series includes picture book Salma the Syrian Chef (2020)\, and early chapters books Salma Makes a Home\, Salma Writes a Book (2023) and Salma Joins the Team (2024). He is expected to release his memoir Crooked Teeth in 2024. His short stories and essays have appeared in publications across North America and Europe. Since his arrival to Canada\, Ramadan has raised over $300\,000 for LGBTQ+ identifying refugees. \nRobin Stevenson is the award winning author of thirty books of fiction and non-fiction for kids and teens: her writing has been translated into numerous languages and published in more than a dozen countries. Robin’s books have won the Silver Birch Award\, the Sheila A. Egoff award and a Stonewall Honor\, and been finalists for the Governor General’s Literary Awards\, the Lambda Literary Awards\, and many reader’s choice awards. She is the Book and Periodical Council of Canada’s Champion of Free Expression for 2022. URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/storied-on-queerness-in-childrens-books-with-danny-ramadan-and-robin-stevenson/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Panel ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Post-7_1-100.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="BC and Yukon Book Prizes":MAILTO:megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231203T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231203T220000 DTSTAMP:20260422T223503 CREATED:20231019T175539Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231019T175539Z UID:19031-1701630000-1701640800@www.readlocalbc.ca SUMMARY:Wild Prose Readings Presents: Boy\, Interrupted DESCRIPTION:Please join the Wild Prose Reading Series for Boy\, Interrupted—readings from books about young men whose lives were interrupted\, and the story of how they came back. Jason Jobin will read from his memoir\, The Wild Mandrake\, about his struggle with cancer as a young man; Katłįà will read from her novel\, This House is Not A Home\, about a young Dene man who goes hunting and returns to find that his home has been bulldozed by the government\, and Jason Schreurs will read from his memoir about how punk rock has helped him and many others cope with their mental health issues: Scream Therapy: A Punk Journey Through Mental Health. The evening will begin with an open mic\, opened by local poet\, Sophie Crocker. URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/wild-prose-readings-presents-boy-interrupted/ LOCATION:BC CATEGORIES:Meet & Greet,Open Mic,Panel ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/December-Instagram.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Wild Prose Reading Series":MAILTO:susan.sanford.blades@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231125T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231125T150000 DTSTAMP:20260422T223503 CREATED:20231121T193849Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231121T193849Z UID:19378-1700917200-1700924400@www.readlocalbc.ca SUMMARY:Family Holiday Book Pop-Up & Reading! DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, November 25th at 1pm\, join Massy Arts and Massy Books at the Family Holiday Book Pop-Up & Reading\, featuring childrens\, middle-reader\, and young adult fiction and non-fiction with authors Tanya Boteju\, Jillian Christmas\, Tony Correia\, Hasan Namir\, Emily Pohl-Weary\, Holman Wang\, and Andrea Warner. Plus\, enjoy arts & crafts\, story prompts\, shopping\, and book signings! URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/family-holiday-book-pop-up-reading/ LOCATION:Massy Arts\, 23 East Pender\, Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada CATEGORIES:Panel ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/NOV-25-Andrea-Warner-Friends-header-1200-x-600-px.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231109T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231109T210000 DTSTAMP:20260422T223503 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:20231102T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231102T200000 DTSTAMP:20260422T223503 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;VALUE=DATE:20231018 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231024 DTSTAMP:20260422T223503 CREATED:20230705T232011Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230705T232011Z UID:17424-1697594400-1698026399@www.readlocalbc.ca SUMMARY:Surrey International Writers' Conference DESCRIPTION:The Surrey International Writers’ Conference is the most comprehensive professional development conference of its kind in Canada. SiWC offers writers in all genres — from beginners to experts — the opportunity to hone their craft. \nSiWC will be a hybrid in person and online conference again in 2023. \nSiWC runs October 20-22\, 2023 (in person and virtual)\, with optional pre-conference master classes on October 18 (virtual) and October 19 (virtual and in person). \nThis Day We Write! URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/surrey-international-writers-conference/ LOCATION:Sheraton Vancouver Guildford Hotel\, 15269 104th Avenue\, Surrey\, BC\, V3R 1N5\, Canada CATEGORIES:Meet & Greet,Panel,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/SiWC-23-EmailSig-2r.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Surrey International Writers' Conference":MAILTO:info@siwc.ca END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230916T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230916T140000 DTSTAMP:20260422T223503 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:20230830T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230830T133000 DTSTAMP:20260422T223503 CREATED:20230830T172600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230830T172600Z UID:18237-1693396800-1693402200@www.readlocalbc.ca SUMMARY:Summer Issue Book Club: In(ter)ventions in the Archive DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, August 30\, 2023\n12:00pm PST / 3:00pm EST\nFree Admission\nVirtual attendance by Zoom (Register on Eventbrite) \nTo celebrate the summer launch of Issue 3.50: In(ter)ventions in the Archive\, The Capilano Review invites readers to join us for an open “book club”-style discussion of the issue alongside co-editors Deanna Fong and Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross. The event will open with an informal discussion of how the issue’s archival concept and contents materialized. We will then open the floor to readers. Which pieces spoke to you and why? What is your own experience working in archives\, and how did the issue reflect (or not reflect) that experience? What connections did you find between pieces? Bring your thoughts and questions for discussion. We value your engagement and are excited to connect with you in this new forum! \nAccessibility and joining information:\nThe event will be held over Zoom. Attendees are invited to pre-register through Eventbrite. If you have trouble accessing the Zoom link through Eventbrite\, email us at contact@thecapilanoreview.com for access. \nThe Capilano Review is committed to ensuring an inclusive and respectful environment for all that is free of harassment\, violence\, and discrimination. We will not tolerate any disrespectful conduct at the event\, and are committed to preventing and eliminating inappropriate behaviour through active moderation. URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/summer-issue-book-club-interventions-in-the-archive/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Panel ORGANIZER;CN="The Capilano Review":MAILTO:contact@thecapilanoreview.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230713T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230713T193000 DTSTAMP:20260422T223503 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:20230711T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230711T210000 DTSTAMP:20260422T223503 CREATED:20230612T200556Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230612T200556Z UID:17143-1689102000-1689109200@www.readlocalbc.ca SUMMARY:Meet the Authors Night at 40 Knots Winery DESCRIPTION:Grab a glass of wine and join three BC travel writers – Ella Harvey\, Meaghan Hackinen\, and Lisa Duncan – for an evening of stories\, slides\, and enticing readings from around the world! Books available for purchase. \nElla Harvey\n“In A Time of Light and Shadow\, Ella Harvey gracefully ties together the multiple landscapes of travel and work in humanitarian disasters with a personal journey of purpose\, identity\, love\, and reconciliation. Ella’s skilled\, lyrical writing gives colour to the immediacy of her experiences\, holding the beauty and brokenness of our world together.” ~ Dianne Westwood\, Psychologist \nLisa Duncan\n“If you ever wanted to travel to Africa\, Chasing Africa is your second-hand\, vicarious chance to go\, and Lisa Duncan is a charming and upbeat travel companion.”\nWanda Baxter ~ Miramichi Reader \nMeaghan Hackinen\n“Everyone says ‘Be careful\,’ but Meaghan Marie Hackinen wants to live large. South Away will fill your lungs with the fresh air of adventure and restore your faith in human goodness. An exhilarating debut.”\n~ Candace Savage\, author of A Geography of Blood and Strangers in the House URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/meet-the-authors-night-at-40-knots-winery/ LOCATION:40 Knots Winery\, 2400 Anderton Rd\, Comox\, BC\, V9M 4E5\, Canada CATEGORIES:Meet & Greet,Panel,Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Meet-the-Authors_40-Knots.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230525T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230525T213000 DTSTAMP:20260422T223503 CREATED:20230419T173251Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230419T173251Z UID:16344-1685039400-1685050200@www.readlocalbc.ca SUMMARY:Wild Prose Readings Presents: Earth-Shattering Prose DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of earthquake-themed readings! First\, share YOUR work with us at the open mic. Then\, we’ll hear from Gregor Craigie\, reading from his nonfiction book about earthquakes\, On Borrowed Time; fiction author Jen Neale\, reading from her novel-in-progress about the Vancouver earthquake\, Frances Peck reading from her debut novel about the Vancouver earthquake\, The Broken Places\, and finally Eliza Robertson will read from her brand new true-crime book\, I Got a Name: The Murder of Krystal Senyk. We’ll end the evening with a Q&A with the authors. URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/wild-prose-readings-presents-earth-shattering-prose/ LOCATION:Paul Phillips Hall\, 1923 Fernwood Road\, Victoria\, BC\, V8T 0A5\, Canada CATEGORIES:Open Mic,Panel,Reading ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Earth-Shattering-Prose-Instagram.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Wild Prose Reading Series":MAILTO:susan.sanford.blades@gmail.com END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR