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SUMMARY:Incite: Maggie Helwig on Encampment
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library. \nThe housing crisis plaguing major urban centres across Canada has sent countless people into the streets. In spring 2022\, some of them found their way to the yard beside the Anglican church in Toronto’s Kensington Market\, where Maggie Helwig is the priest. They pitched tents\, formed an encampment\, and settled in. Known as an outspoken social justice activist\, Helwig has spent the last three years getting to know the residents and fighting tooth and nail to allow them to stay. \nWinner of the 2025 Toronto Book Award and one of CBC Books’ and the Globe and Mail’s best books of 2025\, Encampment tells the story of Helwig’s life-long activism as preparation for her fight to keep her churchyard open to people needing a home. More importantly\, it introduces us to the Artist\, to Jeff\, and to Robin: their lives\, their challenges\, their humanity. It confronts our society’s callousness in allowing so many to go unhoused and demands\, by bringing their stories to the fore\, that we begin to respond with compassion and grace. \nHelwig shares her story and theirs\, and answers audience questions\, with The Tyee senior editor Jackie Wong\, whose journalism on housing and drug policy has been published widely. Books will be for sale at the event by Upstart & Crow\, with a signing afterwards.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/incite-maggie-helwig-on-encampment/
LOCATION:VANCOUVER PUBLIC LIBRARY – CENTRAL LIBRARY
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ORGANIZER;CN="Vancouver Writers Fest":MAILTO:info@writersfest.bc.ca
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SUMMARY:Off the Shelf Poetry Reading Series: Jeff Derksen & Saba Pakdel
DESCRIPTION:Please join Simon Fraser University’s Department of English and Poetry in Canada for a poetry reading featuring Jeff Derksen and Saba Pakdel.\nDetails:\nDate/Time: Friday\, February 27th (Doors 6:30 PM; Event: 7-9 PM)\nLocation: SFU Belzberg Library at Harbour Centre campus (515 West Hastings St. Vancouver\, BC V6B 5K3)\nThis is a free event\, no RSVP required. \nBios: \nJeff Derksen: https://www.sfu.ca/english/people-dir/faculty/jeff-derksen.html \nSaba Pakdel: Saba Pakdel: Saba Pakdel is a poet\, migration literature scholar\, and PhD candidate in English at the University of Victoria. In her SSHRC-funded PhD research\, Saba specializes in migration study and climate-induced mobility with a focus on modern and contemporary literature\, exploring the experience of exile\, displacement\, and climate crises. Saba has published two poetry chapbooks In-Between (2022) and Un-Composed (2024) by above / ground press. \nVenue Accessibility:\nThis in-person event takes place at the SFU’s Harbour Centre campus. It is easily accessible by transit and near SkyTrain. The campus is wheelchair accessible and has wheelchair accessible washrooms. Gender neutral washrooms are also available.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/off-the-shelf-poetry-reading-series-jeff-derksen-saba-pakdel/
LOCATION:SFU Harbour Centre\, 515 West Hastings Street\, Vancouver\, BC\, Canada
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