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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
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ORGANIZER;CN="Wild Prose Reading Series":MAILTO:susan.sanford.blades@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Write Your Novel or Memoir
DESCRIPTION:Do you want to write a novel or a memoir? \nPlease join author\, Julianne Harvey\, of Ruby Finch Books for a fun writing class. We will talk about the things that hold us back when we want to write\, brainstorm ideas and outlines for your upcoming projects\, and do some journaling and writing prompts together in a supportive and kind atmosphere. Please bring a notebook & pen or a laptop. \nJulianne has written four books and her work has appeared in several literary magazines. She holds an MFA and a BA in Creative Writing. For more information\, please see julianneharvey.com and rubyfinchbooks.com. \nRegistration required. Register online or call 604-929-3727\, ext. 8166. Contact Vanessa at gillv@nvdpl.ca for more information. \nThis event takes place in the Enid Dearing Room at Parkgate Library.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/write-your-novel-or-memoir/
LOCATION:North Vancouver Public Library – Parkgate branch\, 3675 Banff Court\, North Vancouver\, BC\, V7H 2Z8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="North Vancouver District Public Library":MAILTO:info@nvdpl.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240119T113000
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SUMMARY:Hockey Day in Canada Book Signing with Ron MacLean\, Ken Reid\, and Brian Burke
DESCRIPTION:Please join Munro’s Books for a Hockey Day in Canada book signing!!! \nDuring the Hockey Day in Canada festivities this January\, we will welcome hockey broadcasting and analysts Ron MacLean (long-time host of CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada)\, Ken Reid (Sportsnet Central sportscaster)\, and Brian Burke (NHL executive and analyst) into the store to meet you and sign books! \nWhen you first meet Ron MacLean\, he asks where you’re from\, and he always comes back with a story. No one has crossed this country more than MacLean. In his 28 years on Hockey Night in Canada and now as host of Rogers’ Hometown Hockey\, Ron has met fascinating people from coast to coast and has had great stories to tell. In Hockey Towns\, MacLean shares untold stories of superstars Wayne Gretzky and Eric Lindros\, of Original Six legends\, of junior players who left their hearts on the ice\, of blue-collar players who persevered. These tales of triumph and sometimes tragedy will resonate with hockey fans across the country. Once again working with Kirstie McLellan Day\, co-author of the blockbuster bestsellers Playing with Fire\, Tough Guy and Cornered\, this is MacLean at his finest. \nIn many communities across Canada\, hockey lives in the nearby arenas and leagues that forge both decades-long rivalries and unbreakable friendships. Fans show up to cheer not for distant NHL superstars\, but for the homegrown heroes who define their town. These players don’t always make it to the big leagues\, but they inevitably become legends. In the entertaining collection\, Hometown Hockey Heroes\, Canadian broadcaster and Sportsnet Central host Ken Reid tells their uplifting stories\, from Pictou\, Nova Scotia\, to Kimberley\, British Columbia—and everywhere in between. \nIn Burke’s Law\, the gruffest man in hockey opens up about the challenges\, the feuds\, and the tragedies he’s fought through. Brian Burke is one of the biggest personalities in the media landscape. His brashness makes him a magnet for attention\, and he does nothing to shy away from it. Most famous for advocating “pugnacity\, truculence\, testosterone\, and belligerence” during his tenure with the Maple Leafs\, Burke has lived and breathed hockey his whole life. He has been a player\, an agent\, a league executive\, a scout\, a Stanley Cup-winning GM\, an Olympic GM\, and a media analyst. He has worked with Pat Quinn\, Gary Bettman\, and an array of future Hall of Fame players. \nWHEN: Friday\, January 19th\, 11:30AM – 1:00 PM \nWHERE: in-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government St. \nWHAT: A meet and greet and book signing with Ron MacLean\, Ken Reid\, and Brian Burke \nHOW: This event is free to attend
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/hockey-day-in-canada-book-signing-with-ron-maclean-ken-reid-and-brian-burke/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Meet & Greet
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SUMMARY:North Shore Reads: Outsider
DESCRIPTION:Join the North Shore libraries for a community-wide book club event! \nNorth Shore Reads — a collaboration between North Vancouver City Library\, North Vancouver District Public Library\, and West Vancouver Memorial Library — presents an evening with Brett Popplewell in conversation with Marsha Lederman. Popplewell will discuss his 2023 national bestseller Outsider: An Old Man\, a Mountain and the Search for a Hidden Past. \nWhen journalist Brett Popplewell first heard about Dag Aabye\, an aging former stuntman who lived alone in a school bus on a mountain\, running day and night through blizzards and heat waves\, he was intrigued and bewildered. Captivated by the seemingly implausible tale of a wild super-athlete aging more slowly than the rest of us\, he was determined to meet the apocryphal white-haired man who was pushing the boundaries of the human mind and body beyond what anyone could dream was possible. \nWhat Popplewell witnessed on a secluded mountain perch led him on a six-year odyssey to uncover the true story of the 81-year-old man. Outsider takes readers on a remarkable journey from Nazi-occupied Norway to Argentina and British Columbia. The book chronicles how a child born under mysterious circumstances during World War II finds his way onto the big screen in Goldfinger\, is heralded as the world’s first extreme skier\, and is later driven into the wilderness. Both joyful and tragic\, Outsider presents a bold challenge to our notions of aging\, belonging and human accomplishment. \nNorth Shore Reads invites you to a dynamic conversation between Brett Popplewell and Marsha Lederman. Our program will begin with a traditional Indigenous welcome from Tsitsáyxemaat Rebecca Duncan of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish) and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nation.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/north-shore-reads-outsider/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Meet & Greet
ORGANIZER;CN="North Vancouver District Public Library":MAILTO:info@nvdpl.ca
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SUMMARY:Book Launch at Massy Arts / Glass House by Andrew Heid
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, December 15th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and No Architecture in celebrating the launch of Glass Houses by Andrew Heid. \nGlass Houses presents 50 stunning architect designed homes that utilize glass to maximum effect. The international selection includes early modernist houses from the 1930s\, such as Philip Johnson’s Glass House and Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House\, and glamorous mid-century LA villas like Pierre Koenig’s Case Study #22\, alongside outstanding contemporary examples\, where new innovations have made even more daring glass structures possible. Each house is celebrated with awe-inspiring photographs that showcase the dynamic\, light-filled living spaces that only glass can deliver.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-launch-at-massy-arts-glass-house-by-andrew-heid/
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SUMMARY:Vancouver Writers Fest Digital Festival
DESCRIPTION:Watch online! 25 exceptional events from the Vancouver Writers Fest’s flagship Festival. \nPurchase a Pay-What-You-Can pass for yourself or as a gift\, and watch 25 full-length events from our flagship Festival\, from December 15 through January 31. \nFeaturing a wide range of genres and formats\, these events represent some of the most outstanding offerings from our 2023 Festival.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/vancouver-writers-fest-digital-festival/
LOCATION:Online
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ORGANIZER;CN="Vancouver Writers Fest":MAILTO:info@writersfest.bc.ca
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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
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ORGANIZER;CN="BC and Yukon Book Prizes":MAILTO:megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com
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SUMMARY:Book Launch / Tales for Late Night Bonfires by G.A. Grisenthwaite with host Molly Cross-Blanchard
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, December 6th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and Freehand books in celebrating the launch of G.A. Grisenthwaite’s Tales for Late Night Bonfires\, with host Molly Cross-Blanchard. \n“Tales for Late Night Bonfires is funny\, dark\, and rich all at once; each story is immense and alive. Grisenthwaite shows us what fiction can be when story leads the way.” QUILL & QUIRE starred review \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. Register here: https://www.showpass.com/tales-for-late-night-bonfires-by-ga-grisenthwaite-with-host-molly-cross-blanchard/ \nThe gallery is wheelchair accessible and a gender-neutral washroom is on-site. \nPlease 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 book: \nTales for Late Night Bonfires (Freehand Books\, 2023) \nThese are stories that are a litle bit larger than life\, or maybe they really happened. Tales that could be told ’round the campfire\, each one-upping the next. Tales about a car that drives herself\, ever loyal to her owner. Tales about an impossible moose hunt. Tales about the Real Santa(TM) mashed up with the book of Genesis\, alongside SPAM stew and bedroom sets from IKEA. \nG.A. Grisenthwaite’s writing is electric and inimitable\, blending meticulous literary style with oral storytelling and coming away with a voice that is entirely his own. Tales for Late Night Bonfires is truly one of a kind\, and not to be missed. \nAbout the author: \nG.A. Grisenthwaite is a Nlaka’pamux writer and a member of the Lytton First Nation. His debut novel\, Home Waltz\, was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award. Grisenthwaite lives in Kingsville\, Ontario. In 2023\, he served two months as the Writer-in-Residence at Berton House\, Dawson City. \nAbout the host: \nMolly Cross-Blanchard is a white and Métis writer and editor born on Treaty 3 territory (Fort Frances\, ON)\, raised on Treaty 6 territory (Prince Albert\, SK)\, and living on the unceded territory of the Musqueam\, Squamish\, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples (Vancouver\, BC). She published her debut collection of poems\, Exhibitionist\, in 2021 with Coach House Books\, and currently teaches Creative Writing and Indigenous Studies at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-launch-tales-for-late-night-bonfires-by-g-a-grisenthwaite-with-host-molly-cross-blanchard/
CATEGORIES:Launch
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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/
CATEGORIES:Meet & Greet,Open Mic,Panel
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ORGANIZER;CN="Wild Prose Reading Series":MAILTO:susan.sanford.blades@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231202T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231202T140000
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SUMMARY:North Shore Authors Collection Book Fair
DESCRIPTION:SHOP LOCAL\, READ LOCAL\nNorth Shore Authors Collection Book Fair \nWhen: Saturday December 2\, 2023 10am – 2pm\nWhere: Community Meeting Room across from the Lynn Valley Library \nLooking for great holiday gifts or eager to discover captivating stories written by North Shore authors? Join us to read local and support local authors. \nExplore a diverse collection of books authored by more than 20 talented writers from the North Shore Authors Collection. Meet the authors in person to chat about their work or have your books personally signed. \nNote: authors may have different payment preferences\, including cash\, e-transfer\, or cheque. \nNo registration required. Call 604-984-0286\, ext. 8144 for more information.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/north-shore-authors-collection-book-fair/
LOCATION:North Vancouver Public Library – Lynn Valley branch\, 1277 Lynn Valley Road\, North Vancouver\, BC\, V7J 0A2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Meet & Greet
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ORGANIZER;CN="North Vancouver District Public Library":MAILTO:info@nvdpl.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231201T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231201T200000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Better Next Year
DESCRIPTION:Please join Munro’s Books in launching Better Next Year: An Anthology of Christmas Epiphanies!!\nChristmas is trumpeted as a time of peace\, joy\, bounty and goodwill. Believers and non-believers alike covet the spirit of the holidays even when circumstances are screwed up. \nRecollections from acclaimed Canadian authors combine with emerging voices from across the country in an anthology that debunks the popular depiction of Christmas while delivering its messages of hope and renewal. \nWriters marginalized by personal circumstance\, faith\, and race share memories of surviving bleak Christmases past: holidays spent in shelters\, or on the streets; families marred by alcohol and violence; personal struggles with addiction\, poverty or grief; isolation and loneliness. Despite these and other obstacles\, contributors strive to salvage the spirit of the season. \nThis event will be hosted by the book’s editor\, J. J. Lee and will feature readings from Joseph Kakwinokanasum and Jordan Kawchuk. \nWHEN: Friday\, December 1st from 6PM-8PM \nWHERE: Caffe Fantastico Roastery\, 965 Kings Rd. \nWHAT: Hosted by J. J. Lee\, readings from Joseph Kakwinokanasum and Jordan Kawchuk \nHOW: This event is free to attend
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-launch-better-next-year/
LOCATION:Caffè Fantastico Specialty Coffees\, 965 Kings Road\, Victoria\, British Columbia\, V8T 1W7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet
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ORGANIZER;CN="Munro's Books":MAILTO:events@munrobooks.com
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SUMMARY:Under the Table Open Mic Series Ft. Smokii Sumac
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, December 6th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and Freehand books in celebrating the launch of G.A. Grisenthwaite’s Tales for Late Night Bonfires\, with host Molly Cross-Blanchard. \n“Tales for Late Night Bonfires is funny\, dark\, and rich all at once; each story is immense and alive. Grisenthwaite shows us what fiction can be when story leads the way.” QUILL & QUIRE starred review \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. \nPlease 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 book: \nTales for Late Night Bonfires (Freehand Books\, 2023) \nThese are stories that are a litle bit larger than life\, or maybe they really happened. Tales that could be told ’round the campfire\, each one-upping the next. Tales about a car that drives herself\, ever loyal to her owner. Tales about an impossible moose hunt. Tales about the Real Santa(TM) mashed up with the book of Genesis\, alongside SPAM stew and bedroom sets from IKEA. \nG.A. Grisenthwaite’s writing is electric and inimitable\, blending meticulous literary style with oral storytelling and coming away with a voice that is entirely his own. Tales for Late Night Bonfires is truly one of a kind\, and not to be missed. \nAbout the author: \nG.A. Grisenthwaite is a Nlaka’pamux writer and a member of the Lytton First Nation. His debut novel\, Home Waltz\, was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award. Grisenthwaite lives in Kingsville\, Ontario. In 2023\, he served two months as the Writer-in-Residence at Berton House\, Dawson City. \nAbout the host: \nMolly Cross-Blanchard is a white and Métis writer and editor born on Treaty 3 territory (Fort Frances\, ON)\, raised on Treaty 6 territory (Prince Albert\, SK)\, and living on the unceded territory of the Musqueam\, Squamish\, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples (Vancouver\, BC). She published her debut collection of poems\, Exhibitionist\, in 2021 with Coach House Books\, and currently teaches Creative Writing and Indigenous Studies at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/under-the-table-open-mic-series-ft-smokii-sumac/
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SUMMARY:Lha yudit’ih — We Always Find a Way
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, December 1st at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and Talonbooks in celebrating the launch of Lha yudit’ih — We Always Find a Way: Bringing the Tŝilhqot’in Title Case Home by Lorraine Weir with Chief Roger William. We are honoured to also have sχɬemtəna:t Audrey Siegl (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm) conducting a Welcome for this event. \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. \nPlease 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 book: \nLha yudit’ih — We Always Find a Way is a community oral history of Tsilhqot’in Nation v. British Columbia\, the first case in Canada to result in a declaration of Aboriginal Rights and Title to a specific piece of land. Told from the perspective of the Plaintiff\, Chief Roger William\, joined by fifty Xeni Gwet’ins\, Tŝilhqot’ins\, and allies\, this book encompasses ancient stories of creation\, modern stories of genocide through smallpox and residential school\, and stories of resistance including the Tŝilhqot’in War\, direct actions against logging and mining\, and the twenty-five-year battle in Canadian courts to win recognition of what Tŝilhqot’ins never gave up and have always known. \nAbout the authors: \nChief Roger William is the Plaintiff in the Tŝilhqot’in Rights and Title case. Born at Naghataneqed in Xeni\, he is from the Bulyan family and is the great-great-grandson of Warrior Qaq’ez\, older brother of Warrior Chief Lhats’assʔin. Roger served his community\, Xeni Gwet’in\, for six terms as Chief and three terms as Councillor. In recognition of his twenty-five-year contribution to the Title case\, Chief William was awarded an honorary LL.D. by the University of Northern British Columbia in 2015. \nLorraine Weir came to oral history from Irish studies early in her career and Indigenous Studies more recently via a bridge from the Law and Society field and papers on the concepts of “time immemorial” and “oral tradition” in the Tŝilhqot’in case. She worked as an expert witness in touchstone Canadian censorship court cases. A fifth-generation descendant of Irish Famine survivors\, she grew up in Montréal and holds a Ph.D. in Irish literature from Ollscoil na hÉireann (National University of Ireland). Weir is an Emeritus Professor of Indigenous Studies\, Department of English Language and Literatures\, University of British Columbia\, Vancouver. \n______ \nThis project has been made possible by the Government of Canada. Ce projet a été rendu possible grâce au gouvernement du Canada.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/lha-yuditih-we-always-find-a-way/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231130T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231130T180000
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SUMMARY:The Bones of Belonging: Finding Wholeness in a White World
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, November 30th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and Dundurn Press in celebrating The Bones of Belonging: Finding Wholeness in a White World with author Annahid Dashtgard\, in conversation with equity leader Suzanne Hawkes. \n“Annahid is a stunning writer\, daring to speak truths that are often hidden or marginalized\, and in the process opening people’s hearts and minds.” —Judy Rebick\, journalist and author \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. \nPlease 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 book: \nBones of Belonging: Finding Wholeness in a White World (Dundurn Press\, 2023) \nSharp\, funny\, and poignant stories of what it’s like to be a Brown woman working for change in a white world. \nI take a deep breath\, check my lipstick one last time on my phone camera\, and turn on my mic. It’s about ten steps\, two metres\, and one lifetime to the front of the room. “Hello\,” I repeat. “My name is Annahid — pronounced Ah-nah-heed — and shit’s about to get real!” \nIn a series of deft interlocking stories Annahid Dashtgard shares her experiences searching for\, and teaching about\, belonging in our deeply divided world. A critically acclaimed\, racialized immigrant writer and recognized inclusion leader\, Dashtgard writes with wisdom\, honesty\, and a wry humour as she considers what it means to belong — to a country\, in a marriage\, in our own skin — and what it means when belonging is absent. Like the bones of the human body\, these stories knit together a remarkable vision of what wholeness looks like as a racial outsider in a culture still dominated by whiteness. \nAbout the author: \nAnnahid Dashtgard is an author and CEO/ Co-founder of leading racial justice company Anima Leadership. Her books Bones of Belonging: Finding Wholeness in a White World (Dundurn\, 2023) and Breaking the Ocean: A Memoir of Race\, Rebellion and Reconciliation (Anansi\, 2019) have both been bestsellers\, marking her a voice to listen to. She is also host of the podcast Soundwaves of Belonging\, creator of the BIPOC Leader Lab program and spends what’s left of her free time trying to keep up with her two kids. Her personal mantra: Be excellent\, love fiercely\, no bullshit. \nAbout the guest: \nSuzanne Hawkes is an equity-centered management consultant\, leadership trainer\, and facilitator. She has supported stakeholder engagement and dialogue\, organizational planning and change initiatives across the US\, Canada and overseas for 25 years\, for a range of corporate\, governmental and not-for-profit clients. Her vision: a multi-racial\, cross-sectoral network of collaborative\, service-oriented leaders working across difference to achieve transformational change.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/the-bones-of-belonging-finding-wholeness-in-a-white-world/
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SUMMARY:The Bones of Belonging: Finding Wholeness in a White World
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, November 30th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and Dundurn Press in celebrating The Bones of Belonging: Finding Wholeness in a White World with author Annahid Dashtgard\, in conversation with equity leader Suzanne Hawkes. \n“Annahid is a stunning writer\, daring to speak truths that are often hidden or marginalized\, and in the process opening people’s hearts and minds.” —Judy Rebick\, journalist and author \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. \nPlease 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 book: \nBones of Belonging: Finding Wholeness in a White World (Dundurn Press\, 2023) \nSharp\, funny\, and poignant stories of what it’s like to be a Brown woman working for change in a white world. \nI take a deep breath\, check my lipstick one last time on my phone camera\, and turn on my mic. It’s about ten steps\, two metres\, and one lifetime to the front of the room. “Hello\,” I repeat. “My name is Annahid — pronounced Ah-nah-heed — and shit’s about to get real!” \nIn a series of deft interlocking stories Annahid Dashtgard shares her experiences searching for\, and teaching about\, belonging in our deeply divided world. A critically acclaimed\, racialized immigrant writer and recognized inclusion leader\, Dashtgard writes with wisdom\, honesty\, and a wry humour as she considers what it means to belong — to a country\, in a marriage\, in our own skin — and what it means when belonging is absent. Like the bones of the human body\, these stories knit together a remarkable vision of what wholeness looks like as a racial outsider in a culture still dominated by whiteness. \nAbout the author: \nAnnahid Dashtgard is an author and CEO/ Co-founder of leading racial justice company Anima Leadership. Her books Bones of Belonging: Finding Wholeness in a White World (Dundurn\, 2023) and Breaking the Ocean: A Memoir of Race\, Rebellion and Reconciliation (Anansi\, 2019) have both been bestsellers\, marking her a voice to listen to. She is also host of the podcast Soundwaves of Belonging\, creator of the BIPOC Leader Lab program and spends what’s left of her free time trying to keep up with her two kids. Her personal mantra: Be excellent\, love fiercely\, no bullshit. \nAbout the guest: \nSuzanne Hawkes is an equity-centered management consultant\, leadership trainer\, and facilitator. She has supported stakeholder engagement and dialogue\, organizational planning and change initiatives across the US\, Canada and overseas for 25 years\, for a range of corporate\, governmental and not-for-profit clients. Her vision: a multi-racial\, cross-sectoral network of collaborative\, service-oriented leaders working across difference to achieve transformational change.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/the-bones-of-belonging-finding-wholeness-in-a-white-world-2/
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SUMMARY:Storied: Writing and illustrating comics with Michele Assarasakorn and Nathan Fairbairn
DESCRIPTION:Join the BC and Yukon Book Prizes for Storied: Discussions on Books\, Publishing\, and the Creative Process. \nOn Wednesday\, November 29th\, Michele Assarasakorn and Nathan Fairbairn will be offering mini-lectures on writing and illustrating comics and graphic novels. Michele and Nathan’s book PAWS: Mindy Makes Some Space was a finalist for the 2023 Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize. \nThe event begins at 7 pm (PT). It will run for an hour.\nThis is a free event\, but registration is required. \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: \nNathan Fairbairn is a New York Times bestselling and Eisner-nominated creator who has worked as a colorist for such iconic characters as Spider-Man\, Batman\, Wonder Woman\, and Scott Pilgrim. He’s also co-creator\, writer\, and colorist of the graphic novel Lake of Fire. He started writing PAWS\, his middle grade debut\, as a way to share his passion for comics and storytelling with his daughter. Nathan lives with his family in Vancouver. You can follow him on Twitter and Instagram (@NathanFairbairn) and see more of his work at nathanfairbairn.com. \nMichele Assarasakorn (also known as MSASSYK) is colorist who worked on comic series such as Eisner-nominated Isola\, Gotham Academy\, and the Magnificent Ms. Marvel. Originally from Bangkok\, Thailand\, Michele now calls Vancouver home but also likes to travel the world working remotely as an artist. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram (@Msassyk) and see more of her work at msassyk.com.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/storied-writing-and-illustrating-comics-with-michele-assarasakorn-and-nathan-fairbairn/
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SUMMARY:Nimrods: a fake-punk self-hurt anti-memoir by Kawika Guillermo
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, November 29th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and Duke University Press Books in celebrating the launch of Nimrods: a fake-punk self-hurt anti-memoir by Kawika Guillermo\, with guest David Chariandy. \nTheir discussion will focus on memoir\, parenthood\, and the possibilities of love within histories of violence. Guillermo will also bring his late wife Y-Dang Troeung’s red Chinese stamp to sign copies of her memoir Landbridge on her behalf\, as she wished he do. \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 book: \nNimrods: a fake-punk self-hurt anti-memoir (Duke University Press Books\, 2023) \nIn Nimrods\, Kawika Guillermo chronicles the agonizing absurdities of being a newly minted professor (and overtired father) hired to teach in a Social Justice Institute while haunted by the inner ghosts of patriarchy\, racial pessimism\, and imperial arrogance. Charged with the “personal is political” mandate of feminist critique\, Guillermo honestly and powerfully recounts his wayward path\, from being raised by two preachers’ kids in a chaotic mixed-race family to his uncle’s death from HIV-related illness\, which helped prompt his parents’ divorce and his mother’s move to Las Vegas\, to his many attempts to flee from American gender\, racial\, and religious norms by immigrating to South Korea\, China\, Hong Kong\, and Canada. Through an often crass\, cringey\, and raw hybrid prose-poetic style\, Guillermo reflects on anger\, alcoholism\, and suicidal ideation—traits that do not simply vanish after one is cast into the treacherous role of fatherhood or the dreaded role of professor. Guillermo’s shameless mixtures of autotheory\, queer punk poetry\, musical ekphrasis\, haibun\, academic (mis)quotations\, and bad dad jokes present a bold new take on the autobiography: the fake-punk self-hurt anti-memoir. \nAbout the author: \nKawika Guillermo is a third generation Filipino American whose family is primarily from Hawai’i and Texas. He has lived in Portland\, Las Vegas\, Seattle\, Gimhae South Korea\, Nanjing China\, Hong Kong\, and Vancouver\, Canada. His debut novel\, Stamped: an anti-travel novel (2018)\, won the 2020 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award for Creative Prose\, while his follow-up speculative fiction novel\, All Flowers Bloom (2020)\, won the 2021 Reviewers Choice Gold Award for Best General Fiction/Novel. His first novel was recently adapted into the video game Stamped: an anti-travel game\, released November 1st by Analgesic Productions. \nAbout the guest reader: \nDavid Chariandy is the author of Soucouyant\, which was nominated for eleven literary awards\, including the Governor General’s Award and the Scotiabank Giller Prize\, and Brother\, nominated for fourteen awards\, winning the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize\, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize\, and the Toronto Book Award. His most recent book is a memoir entitled I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter. David lives in Vancouver and teaches literature and creative writing at Simon Fraser University. In 2019\, he received the Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction. In 2022\, he was elected a fellow of the Academies of Arts\, Humanities\, and Sciences of Canada. \nAlso featuring discussion of: \nLandbridge (Knopf Canada\, 2023) \nThe inaugural title from Alchemy by Knopf Canada: A searing account by an exquisite writer who came to Canada as a baby\, escaping war in Cambodia. \nIn 1980\, Y-Dang Troeung and her family were among the last of the 60\,000 refugees from Cambodia that then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau pledged to relocate to Canada. As the final arrivals\, their landing was widely documented in newspapers\, with photographs of the PM shaking Y-Dang’s father’s hand\, reaching out to pat baby Y-Dang’s head. Forty years later\, in her brilliant\, astonishing book\, Y-Dang returns to this moment\, and to many others before and after\, to explore the tension between that public narrative of happy “arrival\,” and the multiple\, often hidden truths of what happened to the people in her family. \nIn precise\, beautiful prose accompanied by moving black-and-white visuals\, Y-Dang weaves back and forth in time to tell stories about her parents and two brothers who lived through the Cambodian genocide\, about the lives of her grandparents and extended family\, about her own childhood in the refugee camps and in rural Ontario\, and eventually about her young son’s illness and her own diagnosis with a terminal disease. Through it all\, Y-Dang looks with bracing clarity at refugee existence\, refusal of gratitude\, becoming a scholar\, and love. \nAbout Landbridge’s author: \nY-Dang Troeung was Assistant Professor of English at the University of British Columbia\, where she did research and taught in the fields of transnational Asian literatures\, critical refugee studies\, global south studies\, and critical disability studies. She was also an Associate Editor of the journal Canadian Literature\, and a 2020 Wall Scholar at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies. Her recent publications can be found in Canadian Literature\, Brick: A Literary Magazine\, Amerasia Journal\, and Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. Y-Dang passed away in November 2022\, after completing the final draft of her extraordinary memoir\, Landbridge. See also: http://www.y-dang.com/
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/nimrods-a-fake-punk-self-hurt-anti-memoir-by-kawika-guillermo-2/
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DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231129T180000
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SUMMARY:Nimrods: a fake-punk self-hurt anti-memoir by Kawika Guillermo
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, November 29th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and Duke University Press Books in celebrating the launch of Nimrods: a fake-punk self-hurt anti-memoir by Kawika Guillermo\, with guest David Chariandy. \nTheir discussion will focus on memoir\, parenthood\, and the possibilities of love within histories of violence. Guillermo will also bring his late wife Y-Dang Troeung’s red Chinese stamp to sign copies of her memoir Landbridge on her behalf\, as she wished he do. \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 book: \nNimrods: a fake-punk self-hurt anti-memoir (Duke University Press Books\, 2023) \nIn Nimrods\, Kawika Guillermo chronicles the agonizing absurdities of being a newly minted professor (and overtired father) hired to teach in a Social Justice Institute while haunted by the inner ghosts of patriarchy\, racial pessimism\, and imperial arrogance. Charged with the “personal is political” mandate of feminist critique\, Guillermo honestly and powerfully recounts his wayward path\, from being raised by two preachers’ kids in a chaotic mixed-race family to his uncle’s death from HIV-related illness\, which helped prompt his parents’ divorce and his mother’s move to Las Vegas\, to his many attempts to flee from American gender\, racial\, and religious norms by immigrating to South Korea\, China\, Hong Kong\, and Canada. Through an often crass\, cringey\, and raw hybrid prose-poetic style\, Guillermo reflects on anger\, alcoholism\, and suicidal ideation—traits that do not simply vanish after one is cast into the treacherous role of fatherhood or the dreaded role of professor. Guillermo’s shameless mixtures of autotheory\, queer punk poetry\, musical ekphrasis\, haibun\, academic (mis)quotations\, and bad dad jokes present a bold new take on the autobiography: the fake-punk self-hurt anti-memoir. \nAbout the author: \nKawika Guillermo is a third generation Filipino American whose family is primarily from Hawai’i and Texas. He has lived in Portland\, Las Vegas\, Seattle\, Gimhae South Korea\, Nanjing China\, Hong Kong\, and Vancouver\, Canada. His debut novel\, Stamped: an anti-travel novel (2018)\, won the 2020 Association for Asian American Studies Book Award for Creative Prose\, while his follow-up speculative fiction novel\, All Flowers Bloom (2020)\, won the 2021 Reviewers Choice Gold Award for Best General Fiction/Novel. His first novel was recently adapted into the video game Stamped: an anti-travel game\, released November 1st by Analgesic Productions. \nAbout the guest reader: \nDavid Chariandy is the author of Soucouyant\, which was nominated for eleven literary awards\, including the Governor General’s Award and the Scotiabank Giller Prize\, and Brother\, nominated for fourteen awards\, winning the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize\, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize\, and the Toronto Book Award. His most recent book is a memoir entitled I’ve Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter. David lives in Vancouver and teaches literature and creative writing at Simon Fraser University. In 2019\, he received the Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction. In 2022\, he was elected a fellow of the Academies of Arts\, Humanities\, and Sciences of Canada. \nAlso featuring discussion of: \nLandbridge (Knopf Canada\, 2023) \nThe inaugural title from Alchemy by Knopf Canada: A searing account by an exquisite writer who came to Canada as a baby\, escaping war in Cambodia. \nIn 1980\, Y-Dang Troeung and her family were among the last of the 60\,000 refugees from Cambodia that then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau pledged to relocate to Canada. As the final arrivals\, their landing was widely documented in newspapers\, with photographs of the PM shaking Y-Dang’s father’s hand\, reaching out to pat baby Y-Dang’s head. Forty years later\, in her brilliant\, astonishing book\, Y-Dang returns to this moment\, and to many others before and after\, to explore the tension between that public narrative of happy “arrival\,” and the multiple\, often hidden truths of what happened to the people in her family. \nIn precise\, beautiful prose accompanied by moving black-and-white visuals\, Y-Dang weaves back and forth in time to tell stories about her parents and two brothers who lived through the Cambodian genocide\, about the lives of her grandparents and extended family\, about her own childhood in the refugee camps and in rural Ontario\, and eventually about her young son’s illness and her own diagnosis with a terminal disease. Through it all\, Y-Dang looks with bracing clarity at refugee existence\, refusal of gratitude\, becoming a scholar\, and love. \nAbout Landbridge’s author: \nY-Dang Troeung was Assistant Professor of English at the University of British Columbia\, where she did research and taught in the fields of transnational Asian literatures\, critical refugee studies\, global south studies\, and critical disability studies. She was also an Associate Editor of the journal Canadian Literature\, and a 2020 Wall Scholar at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies. Her recent publications can be found in Canadian Literature\, Brick: A Literary Magazine\, Amerasia Journal\, and Inter-Asia Cultural Studies. Y-Dang passed away in November 2022\, after completing the final draft of her extraordinary memoir\, Landbridge. See also: http://www.y-dang.com/
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/nimrods-a-fake-punk-self-hurt-anti-memoir-by-kawika-guillermo/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231126T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231126T170000
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SUMMARY:An Afternoon With Authors Featuring Tellers of Tales and Poetic Justice
DESCRIPTION:Royal City Literary Arts Society presents An Afternoon With Authors\nFeaturing Tellers of Tales and Poetic Justice\nSunday November 26\, 2023\, 1pm to 5pm \nLocation:\nI Heart New West\nCommunity Art Space\nUnit 103 – 78 10th Street\nColumbia Square Plaza\, New Westminster \nTellers of Tales – 1:00pm\n• Winona Kent – The Jason Davey Mysteries: Ticket to Ride\n• Jerena Tobiasen – The Nightingale and Sparrow Chronicles: Tsarina’s Crown.\n• Ruth Kozak – Shadow of the Lion\, Dragons in the Sky\n• Una Bruhns – Apartheid \nPoetic Justice – 3:00pm\n• Herb Bryce – Seeds of Poetry\n• Franci Louann – Portugal Calling \nMusic\n• Catherine Booth \nThe Royal City Literary Arts Society presents an afternoon of fiction and poetry\, with music\, door prizes\, a book market (signed books make wonderful Christmas gifts!)\, nibbles and an open mic. No admission charge. Free parking (the Community Art Space is across from Cockney Kings Fish & Chips in Columbia Square).
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/an-afternoon-with-authors-featuring-tellers-of-tales-and-poetic-justice/
LOCATION:I Heart New West Community Art Space\, Unit 103 - 78 10th Street\, Columbia Square Plaza\, New Westminster\, British Columbia\, V3M 1C4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Meet & Greet,Open Mic,Reading
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231125T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231125T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T210813
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SUMMARY:Horror in Seconds: Horror Poetry Night
DESCRIPTION:Join for a night of horror poetry and delicious horror-themed catering
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/horror-in-seconds-horror-poetry-night/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231125T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231125T150000
DTSTAMP:20260430T210813
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SUMMARY:Escape to Paris: History\, Archives and the City of Light
DESCRIPTION:Join local author and archivist Sonia Nicholson as she takes you to one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Following some of the locations featured in her novel\, Provenance Unknown\, travel from Victoria to Paris using local history and sense of place as a gateway for storytelling. \nThis casual talk will include an author reading and lots of opportunities for questions. Copies of the book will also be available for purchase\, (cash or e-transfer).
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/escape-to-paris-history-archives-and-the-city-of-light/
LOCATION:Vancouver Island Regional Library\, Sidney/North Saanich Branch\, 10091 Resthaven Drive\, Sidney\, BC\, V8L 3G3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Reading
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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
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SUMMARY:Tales for Late Night Bonfires by G.A. Grisenthwaite with host Molly Cross-Blanchard
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, December 6th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and Freehand books in celebrating the launch of G.A. Grisenthwaite’s Tales for Late Night Bonfires\, with host Molly Cross-Blanchard. \n“Tales for Late Night Bonfires is funny\, dark\, and rich all at once; each story is immense and alive. Grisenthwaite shows us what fiction can be when story leads the way.” QUILL & QUIRE starred review \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. \nPlease 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 book: \nTales for Late Night Bonfires (Freehand Books\, 2023) \nThese are stories that are a litle bit larger than life\, or maybe they really happened. Tales that could be told ’round the campfire\, each one-upping the next. Tales about a car that drives herself\, ever loyal to her owner. Tales about an impossible moose hunt. Tales about the Real Santa(TM) mashed up with the book of Genesis\, alongside SPAM stew and bedroom sets from IKEA. \nG.A. Grisenthwaite’s writing is electric and inimitable\, blending meticulous literary style with oral storytelling and coming away with a voice that is entirely his own. Tales for Late Night Bonfires is truly one of a kind\, and not to be missed. \nAbout the author: \nG.A. Grisenthwaite is a Nlaka’pamux writer and a member of the Lytton First Nation. His debut novel\, Home Waltz\, was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award. Grisenthwaite lives in Kingsville\, Ontario. In 2023\, he served two months as the Writer-in-Residence at Berton House\, Dawson City. \nAbout the host: \nMolly Cross-Blanchard is a white and Métis writer and editor born on Treaty 3 territory (Fort Frances\, ON)\, raised on Treaty 6 territory (Prince Albert\, SK)\, and living on the unceded territory of the Musqueam\, Squamish\, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples (Vancouver\, BC). She published her debut collection of poems\, Exhibitionist\, in 2021 with Coach House Books\, and currently teaches Creative Writing and Indigenous Studies at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/tales-for-late-night-bonfires-by-g-a-grisenthwaite-with-host-molly-cross-blanchard/
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SUMMARY:Dead Poets Reading Series - Nov. 19\, 2023
DESCRIPTION:Join Massy Arts Society on Sunday\, November 19th at 3pm for the next Dead Poets Reading Series\, as deep threads of connection and solidarity are drawn between local\, contemporary poets and a diverse array of poets from the past. \nWe welcome you to an afternoon reflection and celebration\, as poetic conversation and recitation travel through time. \nRegistration is free/by donation\, open to all and required for entrance. \nVenue & Accessibility \nThe event will be hosted at the Massy Arts Gallery\, at 23 East Pender Street in Chinatown\, Vancouver. \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. \nFeatured readers and poets include: \nPhinder Dulai reading T.S. Eliot \nPhinder Dulai is the Surrey-based author of dream/arteries (Talon Books) and two previous books of poetry: Ragas from the Periphery (Arsenal Pulp Press\, 1995) and Basmati Brown (Nightwood Editions\, 2000). Phinder toured dream / arteries extensively across Canada and the USA. His work has appeared in Canadian Literature\, Cue Books Anthology. Ankur\, Matrix\, Memewar Magazine\, Rungh Magazine\, the Capilano Review\, Canadian Ethnic Studies\, Toronto South Asian Review\, subTerrain\, and West Coast LINE. In 2017\, he was the co-creater of Canada’s first writing residency for BIPOC writers called Centering Ourselves at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Currently he serves as the Poetry Editor for Canadian Literature Journal. \nT.S. Eliot is highly distinguished as a poet\, a literary critic\, a dramatist\, an editor\, and a publisher. In 1910 and 1911\, while still a college student\, he wrote “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock\,” published in Poetry magazine\, and other poems that are landmarks in the history of modern literature. Eliot’s most notable works include The Waste Land (1922)\, Four Quartets (1943)\, and the play Murder in the Cathedral (1935). Eliot’s awards and honors include the British Order of Merit and the Nobel Prize for Literature. His play The Cocktail Party won the 1950 Tony Award for Best Play. In 1964\, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats was famously adapted in 1981 into the musical Cats\, which won seven Tony Awards. \nMeredith Quartermain reading Douglas Barbour \nMeredith Quartermain’s poetry books include Lullabies in the Real World\, Vancouver Walking (winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize) and Nightmarker (all from NeWest Press)\, and Matter and Recipes from the Red Planet (from Book*hug). \nDouglas Barbour’s books of poetry include Visible Visions: Selected Poems\, Story for a Saskatchewan Night\, Fragmenting Body etc\, Breath Takes\, and Listen. If. He was a co-founder of NeWest Press in Edmonton\, and was a professor of English at the University of Alberta. His critical work includes Worlds Out of Words: The SF Novels of Samuel R. Delany and monographs on John Newlove\, Daphne Marlatt\, bp Nichol and Michael Ondaatje. Barbour’s writing has been characterized as minimalist\, aiming to create a landscape of sound equivalent to what his eye sees. \nPeter Quartermain reading Maurice Scully \nPeter Quartermain’s most recent book is Growing Dumb: My English Education. He is the author of two books of critical essays: Stubborn Poetries and Disjunctive Poetics. He edited the award-winning two-volume Collected Poems and Plays of Robert Duncan\, and co-edited two other collections. \nMaurice Scully was an Irish poet who lived in Dublin and was the author of more than a dozen books of poetry. His books include 5 Freedoms of Movement\, Steps\, Livelihood\, Sonata\, Doing the Same in English\, Humming\, Several Dances\, and Things That Happen. Early in his writing life he edited Beau a literary magazine that featured an impressive range of writers from Ireland\, Britain and the U.S. The magazine contributed to the emergence of experimental writers in Ireland. Things That Happen (2020) has been described critically as “the most ambitious and important long poem in modern Irish literature”. \nChristopher Levenson reading Gerda Mayer \nChristopher Levenson\, born 1934 in London\, England\, has lived in Canada since 1968\, first In Ottawa for 39 years where he taught English\, Comparative Literature and poetry workshop courses at Carleton University\, and co-founded and became first editor of Arc magazine.. In 2007 he moved to Vancouver where\,. with Rob Taylor he helped re-start David Zieroth’s Dead Poets Reading Series. He has published fourteen books of poetry\, most recently Moorings (Caitlin Press\, 2023) and has translated from German and Dutch. \nGerda Mayer\, a German-speaking Jew\, was born in 1927 in Karlsbad\, Czechoslovakia. She came to England at age eleven in 1939 on one of the last Kindertransport trains. After two boarding schools during the war she worked in an office\, met and married her husband\, and studied at Bedford College\, London\, for a degree in English\, German and Art History\, after which she worked for a while for the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner. Her first major poetic success was with Treble Poets 2 in1975 and was followed in 1991 by Bernini’s Cat\, New and Selected Poems. She died in July 2021. \nFiona Lam reading Tin Lander \nTim Lander (26 February 1938 – 20 August 2023) Born in February of 1938 in Surrey\, England\, Tim Lander attended London University before moving to Canada in 1964. A penny whistle-playing itinerant ‘street poet’ and busker\, he published over 50 handmade\, hand-sewn chapbooks and 2 collections of poetry. Gentle\, thoughtful and articulate\, he remained an important presence on the West Coast poetry scene for decades\, mostly based out of Nanaimo. In 2021\, he moved to an assisted living facility and died on 20 August 2023\, at the age of 85. (Reference: BC BookWorld Archives.)
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/dead-poets-reading-series-nov-19-2023/
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Blue Camas\, Blue Camas by Danielle S. Marcotte
DESCRIPTION:Join local author Danielle S. Marcotte for the launch of her new picture book\, Blue Camas\, Blue Camas. \nSunday\, November 19 | 1:00 pm\nBlack Bond Books – Ladner Village \nBlue Camas\, Blue Camas is the captivating story of how a flower that has been cultivated on Canada’s west coast since time immemorial came to symbolize the meeting of two contrasting ways of life and the perseverance of traditional knowledge against all odds. \nBlue Camas\, Blue Camas \n“Blue Camas\, Blue Camas is a captivating story revealing the overlooked history of colonial contact and its impact on Indigenous communities. Through vivid storytelling and diverse voices\, it emphasizes land stewardship\, cultural heritage\, and fostering empathy\, making it a valuable resource for children.”\n—SAMANTHA BEYNON\, author of Oolichan Moon
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-launch-blue-camas-blue-camas-by-danielle-s-marcotte/
LOCATION:Black Bond Books – Ladner\, 5251 Ladner Trunk Road\, Ladner\, BC\, V4K 1W4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet
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SUMMARY:Moonlight Piano and Arts Festival
DESCRIPTION:A family-friendly fantasy themed autumn event showcasing a slice of the wide and diverse local artistic talent in the city. Admire the magical artwork and listen to the soothing music of our singer-storyteller pianists. Located at the venerable Massy Art Gallery at 23 W Pender St\, Vancouver\, BC\, it will be a pleasant\, relaxing way to spend a Saturday evening. \nThis is a mask mandatory space and it is recommended you come in masked\, but otherwise\, they will be provided on site. \nWe gratefully acknowledge this event takes place on the unceded lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm\, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh\, and Tsleil-Waututh nations\, who have been telling and preserving their stories since time immemorial\, as well as its close proximity to historic Chinatown who several of our artists have close ties to.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/moonlight-piano-and-arts-festival/
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SUMMARY:Better Next Year: An Anthology of Christmas Epiphanies edited by JJ Lee
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, November 16th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and Tidewater Press in celebrating the launch of Better Next Year: An Anthology of Christmas Epiphanies\, edited by JJ Lee. The evening will include light refreshments and readings from three contributors: JJ Lee\, Sonja Larsen and Joanna Baxter. \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. \nPlease 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 book: \nBetter Next Year An Anthology of Christmas Epiphanies (Tidewater Press\, 2023) \nChristmas is trumpeted as a time of peace\, joy\, bounty and goodwill. Believers and non-believers alike covet the spirit of the holidays even when their circumstances are screwed up. \nRecollections from acclaimed Canadian authors combine with emerging voices from across the country in an anthology that debunks the popular depiction of Christmas while delivering its messages of hope and renewal. \nWriters of colour\, immigrants\, Indigenous authors\, members of the queer and transgendered community and those marginalized by personal circumstance share memories of surviving bleak Christmases past: holidays spent in shelters\, prisons or on the streets; families marred by alcohol and violence; personal struggles with addiction\, poverty or grief; isolation and loneliness. Despite these and other obstacles\, contributors strive to salvage the spirit of the season. \nAbout the contributors: \nJJ Lee’s debut book\, The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father\, a Son\, and a Suit (McClelland & Stewart) was a finalist for the Hilary Weston\, Charles Taylor\, Hubert Evans and Governor General’s awards for Non-Fiction. For ten years\, he was a contributor reporter\, producer\, and host for CBC Radio and now leads a Non-Fiction workshop at The Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University. \nSonja Larsen’s memoir Red Star Tattoo: My Life as a Girl Revolutionary (Random House Canada) won the 2017 Edna Staebler Non-Fiction award and was shortlisted for The Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Award. She lives in Vancouver\, BC\, where she is currently working on her second book about her experiences running a computer lab in an inner-city community centre. \nJoanna Baxter co-founded and co-hosted a quarterly reading event and podcast called Spiel_Vancouver to support local emerging writers. She is currently working on a collection of short stories. Joanna lives with her husband and two teenagers on Vancouver’s North Shore.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/better-next-year-an-anthology-of-christmas-epiphanies-edited-by-jj-lee/
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SUMMARY:Trans People and the Choreography of Reproductive Healthcare by A.J. Lowik
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, November 15th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and Lexington Books in celebrating the launch of Trans People and the Choreography of Reproductive Healthcare: Dancing Outside the Lines\, by A.J. Lowik with host Cora Beitel. \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. \nPlease 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 THIS BOOK \nReproductive healthcare is choreographically delivered—an intricate collection of seemingly disparate but deftly balanced elements all come together in a complex dance. It is choreographed in ways that presume that the person accessing it—the dancer-patient—will be\, among other things\, cisgender. As a result\, trans people are altogether erased\, systematically unanticipated\, insufficiently accommodated\, or understood only in relation to hegemonic\, regulatory frameworks. Trans People and the Choreography of Reproductive Healthcare: Dancing Outside the Lines draws on data from a research study involving qualitative interviews and participatory photography with fourteen trans people from British Columbia\, Canada. It uses dance as a metaphor to expose facets of the restrictive choreography of reproductive healthcare\, and to document the improvisational tactics used by trans people in their pursuit of care that is competent\, safe\, and affirming. \n“Dance and choreography are more than metaphors in A.J. Lowik’s fetching blend of social science and cultural studies. Those terms offer analytically apt descriptions of how reproductive healthcare provisions for trans people seeks to script the movements of providers and recipients alike in certain ways\, while the individual participants find ways to move creatively within these structural constraints. In the end\, Lowik calls upon us all to imagine new ways of moving together in ways that better serve our lives.” — Susan Stryker\, author of Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution \n–> Special 30% Discount Offer! To get discount\, use code LXFANDF30 when ordering. https://rowman.com/Lexington \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nA.J. Lowik is a researcher\, instructor and consultant\, whose work focuses on advancing trans-inclusive and gender-affirming reproductive healthcare\, including menstruation\, pregnancy\, lactation\, sterilization\, fertility preservation and abortion. A.J. is the Vice-President of the Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada\, and a member of the B.C. Period Poverty Task Force. They are the author of Trans People and the Choreography of Reproductive Healthcare: Dancing Outside the Lines\, and the co-editor of The Liminal Chrysalis: Imagining Reproduction and Parenting Futures Beyond the Binary. A.J. is a nonbinary\, queer\, feminist\, who loves cats\, jigsaw puzzles\, board games\, and knitting. \nABOUT THE HOST \nCora Beitel is a registered midwife\, educator and community organizer working to increase access to reproductive health care for queer and trans families and undocumented people with precarious immigration status. A founder of the Strathcona Midwifery Collective\, Cora has facilitated the Trans and Queer Pregnancy and Parenting (TQPP) group since 2015. In addition to their clinical practice\, they currently work as a consultant focusing on inclusive pregnancy\, birth and postpartum care for gender diverse people. Cora is non-binary and from Eastern European Jewish ancestry and a parent to three awesome kids. When not working\, they’re with family and spend their free time knitting\, canning\, growing garlic and riding their bike.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/trans-people-and-the-choreography-of-reproductive-healthcare-by-a-j-lowik/
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Arleen Pare and Barbara Pelman
DESCRIPTION:Please join Munro’s Books for the launch of new books by two beloved local poets! \nAward-winning poet Arleen Pare’s latest collection\, Absence of Wings\, is both an intimate family portrait and a public documentation of how we\, as a society\, can fail to protect our children. \nAbsence of Wings depicts the extraordinary and tragically foreshortened life of A.—Paré’s niece\, Brazilian\, adopted\, racialized\, and living with multiple mental health diagnoses. In her deft and clear poetics\, accompanied by documentary pieces in the tradition of C.D. Wright’s One with Others\, Paré is both witness to and emotionally engaged in the life and death of A. The result is deep and heart-felt\, both factional and fictional\, poetry and prose\, holding its subject\, A.\, heart-close and 3\,000 miles away. Absence of Wings unfolds on many levels; it embraces the private and public spheres; it is as intimate as family\, as worldly as the public and personal politics that surround each life. It both observes and embraces\, always with the important question of the world’s unprotected children in mind. \nIn A Brief and Endless Sea\, award-winning poet Barbara Pelman presents a life lived in poetry\, delving into the small moments and spaces containing the greatest offerings of love\, hope and possibility. \nBorn out of waiting out the lockdown during the early days of the pandemic\, Barbara Pelman’s A Brief and Endless Sea explores a life in retrospect\, beginning with a high school typing class and ending with the Angel Purah\, cutting the ties that bind a soul to a body. Many of the poems in this collection are rooted in Jewish tradition: the prophet Isaiah’s words of comfort; the rabbinical story of the Lost Princess\, that angel and her counterpart\, the Angel Duma. Pelman takes us to difficult places—the dissolution of a marriage\, caring for a parent with dementia. But she doesn’t leave us there\, waiting. Using the power of words to map a route out\, A Brief and Endless Sea pulls us toward life in all of its vibrant details—the simple beauty of a small garden of tomatoes and roses\, the pleasures of teaching poetry\, long walks with a grandson\, and encounters with spirituality. For Pelman\, there is comfort in the making of a poem and in the “smallest life you can love.” Like the glosa form she turns to often\, something small transforms into something larger\, expansive. In A Brief and Endless Sea\, the ordinary becomes extraordinary\, and waiting in itself presents fertile ground for hope and possibility. \nWHEN: Thursday\, November 9th at 7PM (doors at 6:30) \nWHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government St. \nWHAT: A reading and Q&A with Arleen Pare and Barbara Pelman. \nHOW: This event is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-launch-arleen-pare-and-barbara-pelman/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet,Panel
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SUMMARY:A Dream Wants Waking by Lydia Kwa with host Carleigh Baker
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, November 9th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and Wolsak & Wynn in celebrating the launch of Lydia Kwa’s A Dream Wants Waking\, with host Carleigh Baker. \n“The melding of the technical with the mystical is masterfully done. This thrilling and innovative tale will have readers hooked.” — A Dream Wants Waking (Publishers Weekly\, 15/08/2023) \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. \nPlease 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 book: \nA Dream Wants Waking (Wolsak & Wynn Publishers Ltd\, 2023) \nIn the mythical Luoyang of 2219 CE\, a half-human half-fox spirit Yinhe has been asked to help liberate the chimeric creatures enslaved in labour in Dream Zone and Interstitium\, two zones of the city where they have been confined. Will Yinhe be able to stop Gui the demon from wreaking destruction on the city and on humankind? This is a novel that interweaves different times and spaces; and speaks to the power of love to motivate discovery and liberation. \nAbout the author: \nLydia Kwa has published two books of poetry (The Colours of Heroines\, 1992; sinuous\, 2013) and four novels (This Place Called Absence\, 2000; The Walking Boy\, 2005 and 2019; Pulse\, 2010 and 2014; Oracle Bone\, 2017). Her fifth novel A Dream Wants Waking is published by Buckrider Books\, an imprint of Wolsak & Wynn in Fall 2023. A third book of poetry from time to new will be published by Gordon Hill Press in Fall 2024. \nShe won the Earle Birney Poetry Prize in 2018; and her novels have been nominated for several awards\, including the Lambda Literary Award for Fiction. \nAbout the host: \nCARLEIGH BAKER is an author and teacher of Cree-Métis and European descent. Born and raised on Stó:lō territory\, she currently lives on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish)\, and səl̓ilwəta (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. Her debut story collection\, Bad Endings (Anvil Press\, 2017)\, won the City of Vancouver Book Award\, and was also a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize\, and the Indigenous Voices Award for fiction. She is a co-editor of Carving Space\, the Indigenous Voices Awards Anthology. Her new story collection\, Last Woman\, is forthcoming with McClelland & Stewart in spring 2024.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/a-dream-wants-waking-by-lydia-kwa-with-host-carleigh-baker/
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