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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
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SUMMARY:Double Lives & Lovely Afternoons: Kevin Chong & Patti Flather with Guests
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
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SUMMARY:Book Signing with Darrel J. McLeod
DESCRIPTION:Please join Munro’s Books for a book signing with beloved local author\, Darrel J. McLeod!! \nDarrel J. McLeod will be in-store to sign copies of his debut novel\, A Season in Chezgh’un. \nA 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. \nJames\, a talented and conflicted Cree man from a tiny settlement in Northern Alberta\, has settled into a comfortable middle-class life in Kitsilano\, a trendy neighbourhood of Vancouver. He is living the life he had once dreamed of—travel\, a charming circle of sophisticated friends\, a promising career and a loving relationship with a caring man—but he chafes at being assimilated into mainstream society\, removed from his people and culture. \nThe untimely death of James’s mother\, his only link to his extended family and community\, propels him into a quest to reconnect with his roots. He secures a job as a principal in a remote northern Dakelh community but quickly learns that life there isn’t the fix he’d hoped it would be: His encounters with poverty\, cultural disruption and abuse conjure ghosts from his past that drive him toward self-destruction. During the single year he spends in northern BC\, James takes solace in the richness of the Dakelh culture—the indomitable spirit of the people\, and the splendour of nature—all the while fighting to keep his dark side from destroying his life. \nWHEN: Thursday\, November 2nd from 12:30-2:00 PM. \nWHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street. \nWHAT: A book signing of A Season in Chezgh’un with Darrel J. McLeod. \nHOW: This event is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-signing-with-darrel-j-mcleod/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Meet & Greet
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SUMMARY:Ali Blythe and Jason Jobin Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Please join Munro’s Books in celebrating new books by two local authors: Ali Blythe and Jason Jobin! \nBright star\, would I were stedfast as thou art — \nBreaking open John Keats’s “Last Sonnet\,” in his third book of poetry\, Stedfast\, Ali Blythe writes marginality into the canon\, at once claiming\, reviving\, and un-fixing the Romantic vision. \nTaking place over one night\, the poet in bed next to a sleeping lover\, Blythe’s revelatory poems struggle with questions of illusion and reality\, immersion and escapism\, that which endures and that which is transient. Held taut in formal quivers of short lines\, each poem is shot through with eros — to address\, to dress and undress\, the subject of the love poem and perhaps love itself. \nJason Jobin’s debut\, The Wild Mandrake\, is a memoir that covers his life from the cusp of adulthood\, as he faces cancer that keeps coming back. \nDoctors used to tell him he was cured. That was a long time ago. Ever since he first left home at age nineteen\, writer Jason Jobin has had cancer. Every five years\, like clockwork\, it relapses\, and yet he always pulls through\, surrounded by friends and family but isolated by illness. Chemotherapy\, surgeries\, radiation — these persist\, but they aren’t the milestones of his life. They can’t be\, he won’t let them be. \nFrom helicoptering into the Yukon backcountry to teaching in an elite writing program\, Jason strives to enter adulthood with some normalcy\, but his is the life of “a special case.” And he does live. He lives working at a deli for minimum wage as his students come down the hill to shop and ask what he’s doing there. He lives measuring out nausea pills and benzos while his roommates drink and smoke and party. He lives lying to girlfriends about past diagnoses because what can you say? What do you build on rubble? He lives high and low and in between. Again he is sick\, again he is cured. It’s miraculous. A great gift. But never enough. \nTold in short glimpses\, this story redefines what it means to survive. Jobin brings together the illuminated moments of loss and joy as he navigates chronic illness and builds from it something new and wildly unexpected. \nWHEN: Wednesday\, November 1st at 7:00 PM (doors at 6:30). \nWHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government St. \nWHAT: A reading and signings by Ali Blythe and Jason Jobin. \nHOW: This event is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/ali-blythe-and-jason-jobin-book-launch/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch
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SUMMARY:Children’s Graphic Novel Writing & Illustration Festival
DESCRIPTION:Do you know any children who aspire to create their own illustrated characters and bring them to life through a comic or graphic novel? \nJoin award-winning and Emmy nominated animation director\, and acclaimed author and illustrator Jeff Chiba Stearns as he shows students aged six to twelve fun and innovative ways to tell stories through the creation of their own graphic novel! \nEach workshop registration includes a ticket to a performance of Dog Man: The Musical following the workshop! This hilarious production based on the worldwide bestselling graphic novel series by Dav Pilkey!
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/childrens-graphic-novel-writing-illustration-festival/
LOCATION:Eighth & Eight Creative Spaces (Massey Theatre)\, 735 Eighth Avenue\, New Westminster\, BC\, V3M 2R2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Dream House by Cathy Stonehouse with Guests
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, October 27th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and Nightwood Editions for the launch of Cathy Stonehouse’s Dream House with guests. Cathy will be joined by special guest readers Renée Saklikar and Nina Mosall with host Nicola Harwood. \n“Cathy Stonehouse’s Dream House\, like any magical dwelling\, is not what it at first appears to be. Walk inside. Explore its rooms. It is larger and more expansive than you might think. Also stranger\, more peculiar\, idiosyncratic. It is a metaverse of possibilities\, the locus where what is lived intersects with what is imagined. As Stonehouse herself puts it\, ‘The house is a cocoon\, an open coffin. It is full of weather\, and changes / every time you dare to look.’ Open the door. Close your eyes. The operative word is not house but dream. Look around. You are already there.” –Paul Vermeersch\, author of Shared Universe: New and Selected Poems 1995–2020 \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: \nDream House (Nightwood Editions\, 2023) \nA long poem in six sections\, Dream House takes its cue from Gaston Bachelard’s Poetics of Space in its investigation of female embodiment by calling up such feral\, liminal spaces as the pregnant body\, the aging mind\, snail shells\, broom closets\, low-ceilinged pubs and abandoned pizza boxes. Part Tardis\, part townhouse\, part Howl’s moving castle\, this wry\, surreal and many-peopled narrative interrogates what metaphor might hold of history\, both personal and social\, in the wake of a mother’s passing. Its migrant speaker trawls through hedgerows and recipe books to unearth stained birdsong and undead civil wars\, intent on tracing a matrilineal path across four generations while traversing the haunted margins between existence and belonging. \nAbout the author: \nCATHY STONEHOUSE (she/they) is a poet\, writer\, teacher and visual artist in Vancouver\, BC. The author of a novel\, The Causes\, a collection of short fiction\, Something About the Animal\, and two previous collections of poetry—Grace Shiver and The Words I Know. Stonehouse co-edited the ground-breaking anthology Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood and is a former editor of EVENT magazine. They teach creative writing and interdisciplinary expressive arts at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. \nAbout the guest readers & host: \nRenée Saklikar is the author of five books\, including the award-winning Children of Air India and Listening to the Bees. Her poetry\, essays\, and short fiction have appeared in many literary magazines and anthologies\, including Exile Editions\, Chatelaine\, The Capilano Review\, and Pulp Literature. The latest volume of her epic fantasy in verse\, Bramah’s Quest\, was released in August 2023 (Nightwood Editions). She was poet laureate for the City of Surrey 2015–2018 and volunteers for Event Magazine\, Meet the Presses\, Surrey International Writers Conference\, and Poetry in Canada. Renée teaches creative writing and editing at Kwantlen Polytechnic University and hosts Lunch Poems at SFU. \nNina Mosall (bio coming soon) \nNicola Harwood (she/they) is a queer writer and interdisciplinary artist. Her plays\, performances and installation projects have been produced in Canada\, Europe and the US. Nicola often works in collaboration with other artists and she has facilitated many art\, writing and theatre projects with youth and community members. Recent installation projects include Summoning\, No Words\, an interactive sound installation built out of the female voice and High Muck-a-Muck: Playing Chinese (2014) an artist / programmer collaboration which won the 2015 UK New Media Writing Prize. Her memoir about queer family\, Flight Instructions for the Commitment Impaired\, was published by Caitlin Press in 2016. She is grateful to live and love on the ancestral and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish)\, and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations also known as Vancouver\, Canada. Nicola teaches Creative Writing and Interdisciplinary Expressive Arts at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. www.nicolaharwood.com
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LOCATION:British Columbia
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SUMMARY:Book Signing with Ken McGoogan
DESCRIPTION:Please join Munro’s Books for a book signing with award-winning\, globe-trotting\, history-hunting storyteller\, Ken McGoogan! \nIn his latest book\, Searing for Franklin: New Light on the Great Arctic Mystery\, arctic historian Ken McGoogan approaches the legacy of nineteenth-century explorer Sir John Franklin from a contemporary perspective and offers a surprising new explanation of an enduring Northern mystery. \nTwo of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin’s expeditions were monumental failures—the last one leading to more than a hundred deaths\, including his own. Yet many still see the Royal Navy man as a heroic figure who sacrificed himself to discover the Northwest Passage. \nThis book\, McGoogan’s sixth about Arctic exploration\, challenges that vision. It rejects old orthodoxies\, incorporates the latest discoveries\, and interweaves two main narratives. The first treats the Royal Navy’s Arctic Overland Expedition of 1819\, a harbinger-misadventure during which Franklin rejected the advice of Dene and Métis leaders and lost eleven of his twenty-one men to exhaustion\, starvation and murder. The second discovers a startling new answer to that greatest of Arctic mysteries: what was the root cause of the catastrophe that engulfed Franklin’s last expedition? \nThe well-preserved wrecks of Erebus and Terror—located in 2014 and 2016—promise to yield more clues about what cost the lives of the expedition members\, some of whom were reduced to cannibalism. Contemporary researchers\, rejecting theories of lead poisoning and botulism\, continue to seek conclusive evidence both underwater and on land. \nDrawing on his own research and Inuit oral accounts\, McGoogan teases out many intriguing aspects of Franklin’s expeditions\, including the explorer’s lethal hubris in ignoring the expert advice of the Dene leader Akaitcho. Franklin disappeared into the Arctic in 1845\, yet people remain fascinated with his final doomed voyage: what happened? McGoogan will captivate readers with his first-hand account of travelling to relevant locations\, visiting the graves of dead sailors and experiencing the Arctic—one of the most dramatic and challenging landscapes on the planet.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-signing-with-ken-mcgoogan/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Tula ng Tiyanak
DESCRIPTION:👻Kapal Kollective presents: Tula ng Tiyanak – Open-mic Poetry👻 \n*Tula ng Tiyanak (“The poetry of a baby goblin) refers to a tiyanak with various origin stories from what is now known as the Philippines. The tiyanak in this graphic was illustrated by Viv. \nKikiligin\, kikilabutan\, at kakabahan ang mga totoong tiyanak sa Vancouver! (The true tiyanak in Vancouver will be thrilled\, terrified\, and tense!) Bring your creepiest\, gut-wrenching\, mysterious\, shocking poetry on October 26 at Massy Arts Gallery for an open mic poetry featuring Pinxy and Pinay peeps. \nHuwag kang magpahuli (don’t delay) — perk your ears up\, grab your garlic and salt\, and moisten your throat to scream in delight for the Tula ng Tiyanak. \n🕷️Themes of poetry could include: ghostly encounters\, scary\, grief\, death\, social horror\, mystical\, mythical\, creepy. The poems could be serious or comedic\, or anything else. We will ask poets to provide content warning\, and please take care of yourself when you’re onsite. \n🥚Potluck: Please bring a snack to share if you’d like! We will let you know a week ahead if there are dietary considerations to be mindful of. Please bring your own water bottle. \n🕯️Sign up to read your poetry: \nWe are making this space specifically for Pinxy and Pinay. Pinxy is a term referring to non-binary and gender non-conforming people who are from or have roots from the Philippines\, and Pinay is a term referring to women who are from or have roots from the Philippines. \nChoose your own adventure: \n✨1. Sign up to perform ahead of time (up to five can sign up): https://forms.gle/BHDoYYDXch4grtbn9 \n✨2. Sign up onsite – Five spots will be available – please register here on Eventbrite as a regular guest if you plan to sign up as performer onsite. \nYou can read anything as long as it’s your work! What can you do in five minutes? We are rooting for you. Poetry can be in any language from the Philippines or English. \nPlease make sure to include content warning for our audience or inform any of the organizers prior to your set time. \n😈Evil-est Laugh Contest: \nDo you have the most evil and scariest HALAKHAK (cackle)? Warm up your vocal chords and practice in front of the mirror – there will be prizes! \n🎃Accessibility: \nTo take care of each other’s health considerations\, please wear a mask. Masks and sanitizers will be provided onsite. \nMassy Arts Gallery is transit-friendly. Please check out their accessibility guidelines: https://massyarts.com/accessibility/. \n👻Organizers: This event is organized by Kapal Kollective\, where the power of poetry meets community\, led by the creative spirits of Pinxy and Pinay people – April\, Justinne\, and Phebe. We have the support of the National Pilipino Canadian Cultural Centre and Massy Arts Society. \nThis event will take place on the unceded\, stolen\, and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish)\, and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations who have resisted against colonization and have stewarded the lands since time immemorial. As Pinxy/Pinay folks who are here as settler immigrants\, migrants\, and refugees\, we are in solidarity with Indigenous folks in resisting against white supremacy\, capitalism\, and colonization. This poetry night is intended to keep our hopes up\, and to be with community despite the destruction around us.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/tula-ng-tiyanak/
LOCATION:British Columbia
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SUMMARY:Storied: World-building with Rachel Hartman and Janice Lynn Mather
DESCRIPTION:Join the BC and Yukon Book Prizes for Storied: Discussions on Books\, Publishing\, and the Creative Process. \nOn Wednesday\, October 25th\, Rachel Hartman and Janice Lynn Mather will be offering mini-lectures on world-building. Rachel Hartman’s book In the Serpent’s Wake is the winner of the 2023 Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize. Janice Lynn Mather’s book Uncertain Kin is a finalist for the 2023 Ethel Wilson Fiction 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: \nRachel Hartman was born in Kentucky\, but has lived a variety of places including Chicago\, Philadelphia\, St. Louis\, England\, and Japan. She has a BA in Comparative Literature\, although she insists it should have been a BS because her undergraduate thesis was called “Paradox and Parody in Don Quixote and the satires of Lucian.” She eschewed graduate school in favor of drawing comic books. She now lives in Vancouver\, BC\, with her family\, their whippet\, and a talking frog and salamander. \nRachel Hartman is the recipient of the 2013 William C. Morris YA Debut Award which honors a debut book published by a first-time author writing for teens and celebrating impressive new voices in young adult literature. \nJanice Lynn Mather is the author of two acclaimed novels for young adults: Learning to Breathe\, which was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award\, and Facing the Sun\, which won the Amy Mathers Teen Book Award. She lives in Vancouver. Uncertain Kin is her adult debut.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/storied-world-building-with-rachel-hartman-and-janice-lynn-mather/
LOCATION:British Columbia
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ORGANIZER;CN="BC and Yukon Book Prizes":MAILTO:megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231021T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231021T210000
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SUMMARY:Mona Awad and Lauren Groff in Conversation with Kathryn Marlow
DESCRIPTION:Join Munro’s Books in celebrating the release of two highly anticipated new novels by critically acclaimed writers Mona Awad and Lauren Groff\, in conversation with CBC Radio’s Kathryn Marlow!! \nFrom the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes Mona Awad’s Rouge\, a horror-tinted\, gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother’s unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path in pursuit of youth and beauty. Can she escape her mother’s fate—and find a connection that is more than skin deep? \nLauren Groff’s new novel\, The Vaster Wilds\, is at once a thrilling adventure story and a penetrating fable about trying to find a new way of living in a world succumbing to the churn of colonialism. The Vaster Wilds is a work of raw and prophetic power that tells the story of America in miniature\, through one girl at a hinge point in history\, to ask how—and if—we can adapt quickly enough to save ourselves. \nWHEN: Saturday\, October 21st\, at 7PM (doors at 6:30) \nWHERE: Dave Dunnet Theatre\, Oak Bay High School\, 2121 Cadboro Bay Rd \nWHAT: A celebration of new releases by Mona Awad and Lauren Groff\, in conversation with CBC Radio’s Kathryn Marlow. \nHOW: Tickets are $20 and can be purchased at https://awadgroff.eventbrite.ca
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/mona-awad-and-lauren-groff-in-conversation-with-kathryn-marlow/
LOCATION:Dave Dunnet Theatre 2121 Cadboro Bay Road\, Victoria\, 2121 Cadboro Bay Road\, Victoria\, British Columbia\, V8R 5G4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Interview,Meet & Greet
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231020T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231020T180000
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SUMMARY:Tauhou by Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, October 20th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and House of Anansi Press in welcoming Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall to celebrate her innovative novel Tauhou. Kōtuku will be joined by moderator Shirarose Wilensky. \n“…Masterful dialogue and rich scenes move emotions like the currents around Aotearoa and the Salish Seas\, a beautiful display of lyricism that loudly proclaims that Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall belongs in the crescendo of rising voices in CanLit. Tauhou is not a collection to miss!” — jaye simpson\, author of it was never going to be okay \n“The stories in this collection move like the waves of the ocean that divide Vancouver Island and Aotearoa. Once you emerge from Tauhou’s narrative depths\, you’ll miss its imagination\, its rhythms\, its heart.” — Alicia Elliott\, author of A Mind Spread Out on the Ground \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: \nTauhou (House of Anansi Press\, 2023) \nAn inventive exploration of Indigenous families\, womanhood\, and alternate post-colonial realities by a writer of Māori and Coast Salish descent. \nTauhou envisions a shared past between two Indigenous cultures\, set on reimagined versions of Vancouver Island and Aotearoa that sit side by side in the ocean. Each chapter in this innovative hybrid novel is a fable\, an autobiographical memory\, a poem. A monster guards cultural objects in a museum\, a woman uncovers her own grave\, another woman remembers her estranged father. On rainforest beaches and grassy dunes\, sisters and cousins contend with the ghosts of the past — all the way back to when the first foreign ships arrived on their shores. \nIn a testament to the resilience of Indigenous women\, the two sides of this family\, Coast Salish and Māori\, must work together in understanding and forgiveness to heal that which has been forced upon them by colonialism. Tauhou is an ardent search for answers\, for ways to live with truth. It is a longing for home\, to return to the land and sea. \nAbout the author \nKŌTUKU TITIHUIA NUTTALL (Te Ātiawa\, Ngāti Tūwharetoa\, W̱SÁNEĆ) holds an MA from the International Institute of Modern Letters. She won the 2020 Adam Foundation Prize and was runner-up in the 2021 Surrey Hotel-Newsroom writer’s residency award. She lives on the Kāpiti Coast of Aotearoa New Zealand. \nAbout the moderator \nShirarose Wilensky is an editor at House of Anansi Press\, where she specializes in literary upmarket fiction and narrative non-fiction by BIPOC\, LGBTQ2S+\, and emerging writers. A winner of the Editors Canada Tom Fairley Award\, she attended Simon Fraser University’s Master of Publishing Program and has worked for Arsenal Pulp Press\, Greystone Books\, Douglas & McIntyre\, and Harbour Publishing. She lives in Port Moody\, BC. \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/tauhou-by-kotuku-titihuia-nuttall/
LOCATION:British Columbia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231020T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231020T170000
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SUMMARY:56. Carving Space (VFW)
DESCRIPTION:At the Vancouver Writers Festival \nEstablished in 2017\, the Indigenous Voices Awards honour the sovereignty of Indigenous creative voices and nurture the work of emerging Indigenous writers in lands claimed by Canada. The awards have ushered in a new and dynamic generation of Indigenous writers\, with past recipients including Billy-Ray Belcourt\, Tanya Tagaq\, and Jesse Thistle. This anthology\, celebrating the awards’ fifth anniversary\, collects selected works by finalists over the past five years. \nWe welcome co-editor Carleigh Baker and three contributors to the anthology\, and former finalists of the Awards: Nathan Adler\, Troy Sebastian\, and jaye simpson. They’ll share readings from their works and discuss the writers they admire\, what it’s felt like to have their own writing careers burgeon\, and the exceptional breadth and depth in modern Indigenous writing. \nPresented in partnership with SFU Library
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/56-carving-space-vfw/
LOCATION:Revue Stage
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ORGANIZER;CN="Vancouver Writers Fest":MAILTO:info@writersfest.bc.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231019T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231019T180000
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SUMMARY:42. It Stops Here: Rueben George in Conversation (VWF)
DESCRIPTION:At the Vancouver Writers Festival \nRueben George is Sun Dance Chief\, a member of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation (TWN)\, and manager of the TWN’s Sacred Trust initiative to protect the unceded Tsleil-Waututh lands and waters from the proposed Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion. \nIn his new memoir\, he shares the story of the spiritual\, cultural\, and political resurgence of a nation taking action to reclaim their lands\, waters\, law\, and food systems in the face of colonization. It Stops Here reveals extraordinary insights and revelations from someone who has devoted more than a decade of his life to fighting the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion. He speaks with Michelle Cyca\, the editor of Indigenous-led conservation coverage for The Narwhal. \nPresented in partnership with Talking Stick Festival
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/42-it-stops-here-rueben-george-in-conversation-vwf/
LOCATION:Waterfront Theatre\, 1412 Cartwright St.\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6H 3R8\, Canada
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ORGANIZER;CN="Vancouver Writers Fest":MAILTO:info@writersfest.bc.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231018T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231018T203000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch Event for Male Pregnancy in Reverse!
DESCRIPTION:Tom will be reading with Mark Laba in Vancouver in October: \nHe will be reading from his forthcoming collection\, Male Pregnancy in Reverse\, releasing on September 30th! \nTom Prime is\, as described by Daniel Harris\, author of The Posthuman Series\, “at the forefront of a new generation of avant-gardists.” His latest work is a long poem “in 5 Acts” that transmutes a disturbing and sometimes horrifying experience—albeit one which is only ever obliquely and allegorically described—into a dazzling and heady literary puzzle. \nPlease note that if you wish to reserve a seat at the event\, you may add the FREE ticket below to your cart when purchasing your book at the Cross and Crows website. All Preorders (not-yet-published books) are 20% off\, taken at checkout. Preorders must be prepaid to receive the discount.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-launch-event-for-male-pregnancy-in-reverse-2/
LOCATION:Cross and Crows Bookstore\, 2836 Commercial Drive\, Vancouver\, BC\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch
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DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231018T180000
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SUMMARY:26. The Strength of Storytelling (VWF)
DESCRIPTION:At the Vancouver Writers Fest \nWhat a gift to be joined by three of the most lauded and creative Indigenous writers\, who will share the strength of Indigenous women at the heart of their poignant and moving new novels. \nAlicia Elliott’s And Then She Fell was published just this week to rave reviews. Heather O’Neill called it “shocking\, riveting\, uncomfortable\, gorgeous and visionary.” Michelle Porter’s nationally bestselling debut novel A Grandmother Begins the Story follows five generations of Métis women as they tell the stories that will sing their family\, and perhaps the land itself\, into healing. Multi-award-winning author katherena vermette returns with The Circle\, an instant bestseller; “this book is truth in all her fluid forms.”—Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers\nPresented in partnership with Penguin Random House and Talking Stick Festival
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/26-the-strength-of-storytelling-vwf/
LOCATION:Performance Woorks
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ORGANIZER;CN="Vancouver Writers Fest":MAILTO:info@writersfest.bc.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231018T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231018T180000
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SUMMARY:A Stranger in the Citadel by Tobias Buckell with Guest Karen Lord
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, October 18th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and Tachyon Publications in celebrating Tobias Buckell’s A Stranger in the Citadel. Tobias will be joined by guest reader Karen Lord. \n“With A Stranger In The Citadel\, Tobias Buckell writes to the moment we live in\, with a clarity and urgency that only fable can provide. Read it.” —John Scalzi\, author of The Kaiju Preservation Society \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: \nA Stranger in the Citadel (Tachyon Publications\, 2023) \nFrom powerful storyteller Tobias Buckell (Crystal Rain\, The Tangled Lands)\, a complex novel of humanity’s passion for the written word. At the revolutionary crossroads of magic\, betrayal\, and long-forgotten truths\, a naïve\, compassionate royal and a determined\, hunted librarian discover a dangerous world of mortal and ancient menaces. \nThe life of the youngest musketress of Ninetha has been one of hard training. But Lilith’s days have also contained many pleasures\, the royal privileges of her family’s guardianship of the Cornucopia\, a mystical source of limitless bounty. Lilith has never seen a book\, and she never expects to encounter one within the safety of the citadel. \nWhen Ishmael\, an outcast librarian\, shows up outside the Afriq Gate\, Lilith saves him from immediate execution by her father’s second-in-command\, the zealot Kira. As Lilith’s curiosity draws her to Ishmael\, she lets slip her family’s most dangerous secret to Kira\, sparking a deadly rebellion and an unexpected journey full of stunning revelations. \nThe Blue\, Beautiful World (Del Rey\, Penguin Random House\, 2023) \nAs first contact transforms Earth\, a team of gifted visionaries race to create a new future in this wondrous science fiction novel from the award-winning author of The Best of All Possible Worlds. \n“A complex story of first contact from a unique perspective that is warm\, engaging\, and wildly original.”—Martha Wells\, New York Times bestselling author of The Murderbot Diaries \nThe world is changing\, and humanity must change with it. Rising seas and soaring temperatures have radically transformed the face of Earth. Meanwhile\, Earth is being observed from afar by other civilizations . . . and now they are ready to make contact. \nVying to prepare humanity for first contact are a group of dreamers and changemakers\, including Peter Hendrix\, the genius inventor behind the most advanced VR tech; Charyssa\, a beloved celebrity icon with a passion for humanitarian work; and Kanoa\, a member of a global council of young people drafted to reimagine the relationship between humankind and alien societies. \nAnd they may have an unexpected secret weapon: Owen\, a pop megastar whose ability to connect with his adoring fans is more than charisma. His hidden talent could be the key to uniting Earth as it looks toward the stars. \nBut Owen’s abilities are so unique that no one can control him and so seductive that he cannot help but use them. Can he transcend his human limitations and find the freedom he has always dreamed of? Or is he doomed to become the dictator of his nightmares? \nAbout the authors: \nCalled “violent\, poetic and compulsively readable” by Maclean’s\, science fiction author Tobias S. Buckell is a New York Times bestselling writer and World Fantasy Award winner. He is biracial\, and was born in the Caribbean\, grew up in Grenada\, and spent time in the British and US Virgin Islands. His Xenowealth series begins with Crystal Rain. Along with other standalone novels and his almost one hundred stories\, Buckell’s works have been translated into twenty different languages. He has been nominated for the Hugo and Nebula Awards\, and the Astounding Award for Best New Science Fiction Author. Buckell currently lives in Bluffton\, Ohio with his wife and two daughters\, where he teaches Creative Writing at Bluffton University. He’s online at http://www.TobiasBuckell.com and is also an instructor at the Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing program. \nBarbadian novelist Dr. Karen Lord is the author of Redemption in Indigo\, which won the 2008 Frank Collymore Literary Award\, the 2010 Carl Brandon Parallax Award\, the 2011 William L. Crawford Award\, the 2011 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature and the 2012 Kitschies Golden Tentacle (Best Debut). Her other works include the science fiction novels The Best of All Possible Worlds and The Galaxy Game\, and the crime- fantasy novel Unraveling. She edited the anthology New Worlds\, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean. Her latest book\, The Blue\, Beautiful World\, was published in August 2023.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/a-stranger-in-the-citadel-by-tobias-buckell-with-guest-karen-lord/
LOCATION:British Columbia
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231024
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231017T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231017T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T204658
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SUMMARY:Crushed Wild Mint by Jess Housty with Guests
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday\, October 17th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and Nightwood Editions in celebrating the launch of Jess Housty’s Crushed Wild Mint with guests. Jess will be joined by host Selina Boan\, and reader Samantha Nock. Audrey Siegl will provide the Welcome. \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 \nCrushed Wild Mint (Nightwood Editions\, 2023) \nCrushed Wild Mint is a collection of poems embodying land love and ancestral wisdom\, deeply rooted to the poet’s motherland and their experience as a parent\, herbalist and careful observer of the patterns and power of their territory. Jess Housty grapples with the natural and the supernatural\, transformation and the hard work of living that our bodies are doing—held by mountains\, by oceans\, by ancestors and by the grief and love that come with communing. \nHousty’s poems are textural—blossoms\, feathers\, stubborn blots of snow—and reading them is a sensory offering that invites the reader’s whole body to be transported in the experience. Their writing converses with mountains\, animals and all our kin beyond the human realm as they sit beside their ancestors’ bones and move throughout the geography of their homeland. Housty’s exploration of history and futurity\, ceremony and sexuality\, grieving and thriving invites us to look both inward and outward to redefine our sense of community. \nThrough these poems we can explore living and loving as a practice\, and placemaking as an essential part of exploring our humanity and relationality. \nWhen the mountains of your territory are your ancestors\, you paint the landscapes as Jess Housty does in this evocative\, powerful collection of poetry: in the language of ceremony as taut as the inner surface of a mussel shell when the meat is stripped away. Their hyperlocality is precise medicine\, an expansive\, generous meditation on the mutual care of mountains\, the forgiving veins of rivers\, all the liminal territories and beings soaked in the verdant magic of the Pacific Northwest Coast. –Eden Robinson \nI return to read and then stop to wonder\, return to read and still wonder: How is this so true? Let these words love you. They’ll sing. –Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas \nAbout the author: \nJess Housty (‘Cúagilákv) is a parent\, writer and grassroots activist with Heiltsuk (Indigenous) and mixed settler ancestry. They serve their community as an herbalist and land-based educator alongside broader work in the non-profit and philanthropic sectors. They are inspired and guided by relationships with their homelands\, their extended family\, and their non-human kin\, and they are committed to raising their children in a similar framework of kinship and land love. They reside and thrive in their unceded ancestral territory in the community of Bella Bella\, BC. \nAbout the host: \nSelina Boan is a white settler-nehiyaw (Cree) writer living on the traditional\, unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-waututh)\, and sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) peoples. Her debut poetry collection\, Undoing Hours\, was published in Spring 2021 by Nightwood Editions which won the 2022 Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Indigenous Voices Award for Published Poetry in English. Her work has been published widely\, including The Best Canadian Poetry 2018 and 2020. She is a poetry editor for CV2. \nAbout the reader: \nSamantha Nock is an apihtaw’kos’an iskwew who grew up in Treaty 8 territory in Northeast BC. Her family is originally from Ile-a-la-Crosse (Sakitawak)\, SK. Her debut book of poetry A Family of Dreamers will be available Fall 2024 with Talon Books \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/crushed-wild-mint-by-jess-housty-with-guests/
LOCATION:British Columbia
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231024
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SUMMARY:The Vancouver Writers Fest
DESCRIPTION:The Vancouver Writers Fest connects people to exceptional books\, ideas\, and dialogue through year-round programming that ignites a passion for words and the world around us. \nMeet 115+ authors joining us at this year’s flagship Festival\, from October 16-22!
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/the-vancouver-writers-fest/
LOCATION:Granville Island (various)\, 202-1398 Cartwright Street\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6H 3R8\, Canada
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ORGANIZER;CN="Vancouver Writers Fest":MAILTO:info@writersfest.bc.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231014T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231014T160000
DTSTAMP:20260430T204658
CREATED:20230929T165630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230929T165630Z
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SUMMARY:Dual Launch of "Gumboot Guys" and "Knots and Stitches"
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the Adventurous Spirit of Coastal Living in the 1970s.\nTwo new Books are being launched in the inviting ambience of the Osborne Bay Pub.\nYou can buy a beer\, buy a book\, meet the authors\, and get your books signed. \nFrom the vibrant era of the 1970s when adventure seekers\, dreamers\, and wanderers flocked to the rugged shores of British Columbia’s West Coast\, two captivating books emerge\, chronicling the tales of resilience\, camaraderie\, and love for the sea. \nGumboot Guys: Nautical Adventures on British Columbia’s North Coast\, edited by Lou Allison with Jane Wilde\, and Knots & Stitches: Community Quilts Across the Harbour by Kristin Miller\, transport readers to a time when possibilities seemed endless and community was everything.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/dual-launch-of-gumboot-guys-and-knots-and-stitches/
LOCATION:Osborne Bay Pub\, 1534 Joan Ave\, Crofton\, B.C.\, v0r1r0\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231013T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231013T213000
DTSTAMP:20260430T204658
CREATED:20230912T164846Z
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SUMMARY:Haida Modern Film Screening
DESCRIPTION:The Shadbolt Centre is honoured to present a screening of the film Haida Modern documenting the life and legacy of renowned Master Artist Robert Davidson. 80 min run time\, followed by a Q & A\, book sales/signing and reception with Robert Davidson\, whose work is featured in Echoes of the Supernatural: The Graphic Art of Robert Davidson (Figure 1 Publishing\, 2022). \nBook sales by Iron Dog Books \nTickets: Adult $25.00\, Seniors/Student $20.00\, Youth 17 & under $15.00 \nNo refunds on tickets\n$2.00 fee per ticket for exchanges\nContact the box office at 604-205-3000 with any ticketing questions.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/haida-modern-film-screening/
LOCATION:James Cowan Theatre\, 6450 Deer Lake Ave\, Burnaby\, BC\, Canada
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ORGANIZER;CN="Shadbolt Centre for the Arts":MAILTO:shadboltinfo@burnaby.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231013T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231013T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T204658
CREATED:20230929T165719Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230929T165719Z
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SUMMARY:Sonnets from a Cell by Bradley Peters with Guests
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, October 13th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and Brick Books in launching Bradley Peters’ Sonnets from a Cell. Bradley will be joined by Rob Taylor\, Kayla Czaga\, Marc Perez\, Nick Thran\, and host\, Sheryda Warrener. \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: \nSonnets from a Cell (Brick Books\, 2023) \nPoems for and about the incarcerated. \nMoving from riots to mall parkades to church\, the poems in Bradley Peters’ debut Sonnets from a Cell mix inmate speech\, prison psychology\, skateboard slang and contemporary lyricism in a way that is tough and tender\, that is accountable both to Peters’ own days “caught between the past and nothing” and to the structures that sentence so many “to lose.” Written behind doors our culture too often keeps closed\, this is poetry reaching out for moments of longing\, wild joy and grace. \nDrawing on his own experiences as a teenager and young adult in and out of the Canadian prison system\, Peters has written both a personal reckoning and a damning and eloquent account of our violence- and enforcement-obsessed capitalist and patriarchal cultures. \nAbout the author: \nBradley Peters is a poet\, actor\, and carpenter from Mission\, BC. His poetry has been published in numerous literary magazines\, has been shortlisted for The Fiddlehead‘s Ralph Gustafson Award\, has twice been the runner-up for Subterrain‘s Lush Triumphant Award\, and in 2019 placed first in Grain Magazine‘s Short Grain contest. Sonnets from a Cell is his first book. \nAbout the host: \nSheryda Warrener is a poet and teacher\, most recently the author of Test Piece (Coach House Books\, 2022). Her work has been published in the Malahat Review\, Maisonneuve\, Hazlitt\, The Believer\, among other journals. A recipient of the Puritan’s Thomas Morton Memorial Prize for poetry and a finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize\, she teaches poetry and interdisciplinary forms in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. \nAbout the readers: \nRob Taylor is the author of four poetry collections\, including The News (Gaspereau Press\, 2016) and Strangers (Biblioasis\, 2021). His fifth collection\, Weather\, will be published by Gaspereau Press in Spring 2024. He lives in Port Moody\, on the unceded territory of the Tsleil-Waututh and Kwikwetlem peoples\, and teaches creative writing at SFU and UFV\, where he gets to work with talented writers who sometimes – like tonight! – go on to do great things. \nKayla Czaga is the author For Your Safety Please Hold On and Dunk Tank\, which were both nominated for the BC and Yukon Book Prizes’ Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Often anthologized in the Best Canadian Poetry in English series\, her work also appears in PRISM International\, The Walrus\, The Fiddlehead\, and elsewhere. Her third collection\, Midway\, will be released by House of Anansi in 2024. \nMarc Perez is the author of the chapbook\, Borderlands (Anstruther Press\, 2020)\, and the full-length collection\, Dayo (Brick Books\, Spring 2024). His fiction\, creative nonfiction\, and poetry have appeared in The Fiddlehead\, EVENT\, decomp journal\, CV2\, PRISM international\, among others. His poems are also forthcoming in Magdaragat: an Anthology of Filipino-Canadian Writing (Cormorant Press\, 2023). Born and raised in Manila\, he lives with his wife and two children in the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish\, and Tsleil-Waututh nations. \nNick Thran is the author of three collections of poems. His second collection\, Earworm (Nightwood Editions\, 2011)\, won the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. After stops in Toronto\, Victoria\, New York\, Calgary\, Madrid and Montreal\, he now lives in Fredericton\, New Brunswick\, on the unceded and unsurrendered territory of the Wolastoqiyik\, where\, in addition to writing\, he works as an editor and bookseller.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/sonnets-from-a-cell-by-bradley-peters-with-guests/
LOCATION:British Columbia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231012T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231012T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T204658
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SUMMARY:Reuniting with Strangers by Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio with Guests
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, October 12th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and Douglas & McIntyre in celebrating the launch of Reuniting with Strangers\, a novel by Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio. Jennilee will be joined by Kawika Guillermo\, Leah Ranada\, Vincent Ternida\, and Christine Añonuevo. \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 author: \nJennilee Austria-Bonifacio’s work as a school board consultant\, researcher\, journalist\, Little Manila tour guide\, and settlement worker led to her novel\, Reuniting with Strangers. As the founder of Filipino Talks\, she builds bridges between Canadian educators and Filipino families. Her stories have been published in Geist\, TAYO Literary Magazine\, Changing the Face of Canadian Literature\, and Magdaragat: An Anthology of Filipino-Canadian Writing. She was a finalist for the Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Authors Award. As a founding member of Pluma\, a collective of Toronto-based Filipino writers\, she loves launches that are a celebration of multiple Filipino-Canadian books! \nHer favourite Tagalog word is “kwan” because it’s a brilliant filler for many words! \nAbout the host: \nKawika Guillermo is an award-winning author of two novels and the just-released prose-poetry book\, Nimrods: a fake-punk self-hurt anti-memoir (2023). Under his patrilineal name\, Christopher Patterson\, he is an Associate Professor in UBC’s Social Justice Institute\, and is the author of the nonfiction books Transitive Cultures and Open World Empire. \nHis favourite Filipino word is “pogi” because someone called him that once and it made his day. \nAbout the readers: \nLeah Ranada’s stories have been published in On Spec\, Room Magazine\, Santa Ana River Review\, emerge 2013\, and elsewhere. Her writing is informed by her childhood in Metro Manila and eventual move to Vancouver in 2006\, where she made writing her permanent home. \nIn 2013\, she attended The Writer’s Studio (TWS) at SFU. She released her debut novel\, The Cine Star Salon (NeWest Press)\, in 2021. She is honoured to have her work included in Magdaragat: An Anthology of Filipino-Canadian Writing. \nHer favourite Tagalog word is “kilig” (a shiver of pleasure) which has no translatable word in English. \nVincent Ternida is the author of the novella The Seven Muses of Harry Salcedo. His essays\, articles\, and poetry have appeared in several publications including The Polyglot\, The British Columbia Review\, rabble.ca\, Rappler\, Voice and Verse Poetry Magazine\, and PR&TA Journal. Acacia\, a short story he developed in Diaspora Dialogues has been selected in Magdaragat: An Anthology Filipino-Canadian Writing; published by Cormorant Books in 2023. He lives in Vancouver. \nHis favorite Filipino phrase is “Bahala Na”. Reframing the usual dismissive usage for said term\, he sees it more as an absurdist rebellion against late stage capitalism’s kafkaesque rules and mores we mindlessly adhere to everyday; wherein he can just say “Bahala Na”\, do the said activity anyway\, throwing all of his faith to either\, knowing that everything will be just fine. \nChristine Añonuevo is a writer\, community organizer & PhD candidate in Human and Health Sciences at the University of Northern British Columbia. Christine dwells in South Hazelton on the unceded and ancestral territory of the Gitxsan nation. She enjoys long walks with her dog Ruckus along the Skeena river. Her favourite pastime is prying her kids away from their electronic devices to teach them how to write cursive\, read analogue watches and identify constellations. \nShe loves the Tagalog word “tadhana” because it evokes our relationship with the cosmos.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/reuniting-with-strangers-by-jennilee-austria-bonifacio-with-guests/
LOCATION:British Columbia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231012T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231015T160000
DTSTAMP:20260430T204658
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SUMMARY:Whistler Writers Festival
DESCRIPTION:The annual Whistler Writers Festival is Oct. 12 to 15\, 2023 in Whistler. Hear the newest\, enthralling works from favourite local\, Canadian\, and international authors\, connect with literary agents and publishers\, take workshops\, and enjoy live music. Select events available online. Visit whistlerwritersfest.com for the latest information & tickets. Tickets on sale August 21\, 2023. #WhistlerWritersFest
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/whistler-writers-festival/
LOCATION:Fairmont Chateau Whistler\, 4599 Chateau Blvd\, Whistler\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival
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ORGANIZER;CN="Whistler Writing Society":MAILTO:writers@whistlerwritersfest.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231011T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231015T213000
DTSTAMP:20260430T204658
CREATED:20230622T172333Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230622T172333Z
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SUMMARY:Victoria Festival of Authors
DESCRIPTION:Since 2016\, Victoria Festival of Authors (VFA) has been the largest celebration of books and book lovers on Vancouver Island. Each fall we invite authors from our region and beyond to share their books and ideas with Victoria’s readers. We showcase established and emerging poets\, prose writers\, and other storytellers\, with artistic achievement\, creative innovation and a diversity of voices driving our mandate. Our traditional five-day festival includes author readings\, discussion panels and workshops. Since 2021\, VFA has been a hybrid festival\, with in-person and virtual-only events. Most of our in-person events are livestreamed\, with recordings available on VFA’s YouTube channel. \nThis year VFA is focused on accessibility and inclusion; we are addressing all barriers to participation\, including financial barriers. As such\, tickets for all virtual events and most in-person events will have sliding-scale pricing\, with a “no fee” option. All events will be captioned\, with ASL translation upon request.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/victoria-festival-of-authors/
LOCATION:Langham Court Theatre\, 805 Langham Court\, Victoria\, BC\, V8V 4J3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival
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ORGANIZER;CN="Victoria Festival of Authors":MAILTO:info@victoriafestivalofauthors.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231011T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231011T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T204658
CREATED:20230929T165643Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230929T165643Z
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SUMMARY:River Meets the Sea by Rachael Moorthy with guest Harrison Mooney
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, October 11th\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and House of Anansi Press in celebrating Rachael Moorthy’s debut novel\, River Meets the Sea. Rachael will be joined by guest reader Invisible Boy author Harrison Mooney. \n“Brilliant and inventive\, River Meets the Sea is elegantly told in heartrending poetry\, flowing smoothly between the protagonists’ histories\, the forces that propel them\, and their inevitable meeting.” —FRANCESCA EKWUYASI\, AUTHOR OF BUTTER HONEY PIG BREAD \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: \nRiver Meets the Sea (House of Anansi Press\, 2023) \nAn enthralling nautical epic\, River Meets the Sea traces the dual timelines of two men with displaced Indigenous identity: a white-passing foster child in 1940s Vancouver and a teenage immigrant in the suburbs of Nanaimo who is racially coded as Black in the 1970s. \nA natural-born storyteller\, Ronny is a left-handed “alley mutt” without a birth certificate who searches for his mother everywhere — most powerfully\, he hears her voice in the surging Stó:lō River. Born in the middle of the ocean on a merchant ship departing Ceylon\, Chandra is a dark-skinned Dravidian boy with complicated roots and who finds his haven from his colourist mother and the pressure to assimilate by swimming and surfing in the Salish Sea. \nMoving gracefully between these parallel stories like a wave\, the novel traces the seemingly separate lives of these sensitive young men\, their displaced Indigenous identities\, and their everlasting connections to water. When their troubled paths inevitably cross\, they form a sacred bond based on the mutual understanding of what it means to be othered\, illuminating the interconnectedness of humanity and our innate relationship with the natural world. \nAbout the author: \nRachael Moorthy is a storyteller of all trades from the Salish Sea to Switzerland. She grew up identifying the way the world told her to: half Black\, half white\, because including the complexity of her diasporic and displaced Indigenous roots often took too much breath. Today she exists in a perpetual state of Mixed Girl Blues. Her debut novel\, River Meets the Sea\, featured on CBC’s Canadian Fiction to Read in 2023 list and Capsule Stories Most Anticipated Books of 2023\, follows the seemingly separate timelines of two young men with displaced Indigenous roots: one coded as Black\, one white-passing\, until their lives ultimately intersect on the sequoia-lined Salish Coast. Her writing was short-listed for The Malahat Review’s 2020 Far Horizon Award and has appeared in publications such as PRISM\, SAD Mag\, and TSOW. \nAbout the guest reader: \nHarrison Mooney\, Invisible Boy (HarperCollins\, 2022) is a writer and journalist. Born to a West African immigrant mother\, he was adopted as an infant by a white family and raised in the Bible belt of British Columbia. He has worked for the Vancouver Sun for nearly a decade as a reporter\, an editor and a columnist. His writing has also appeared in the National Post\, the Guardian\, Yahoo and Maclean’s. Harrison Mooney lives in East Vancouver with his family.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/river-meets-the-sea-by-rachael-moorthy-with-guest-harrison-mooney/
LOCATION:British Columbia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231011T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231011T140000
DTSTAMP:20260430T204658
CREATED:20230929T165541Z
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SUMMARY:Reconciliation Reading Series (#6): “Birdie”
DESCRIPTION:Spiritual Path to Awakening (SPA) is proud to offer Julia Rohan’s Reconciliation Reading Series\, as an opportunity for learning and dialogue related to reconciliation. SPA takes pride in our commitment to making Indigenous Knowledge and Truth and Reconciliation an integral part of our event culture. This Reconciliation Reading Series is the seventh Active Allyship Event. \nThe sixth Reconciliation Reading Series will take place over 3-consecutive weeks in October 2023 and focus on “Birdie” by Tracey Lindberg. \nAdditional details and registration can be found on our website: https://abbyspa.com/collections/programming/products/reconciliation-reading-series-6-birdie
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/reconciliation-reading-series-6-birdie/
LOCATION:Trinity Memorial United Church\, Abbotsford\, 33737 George Ferguson Way\, Abbotsford\, British Columbia\, V2S 2M4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Spiritual Path to Awakening (SPA)":MAILTO:path.awakening@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231010T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231010T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T204658
CREATED:20230929T165612Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230929T165612Z
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SUMMARY:“And So To Tenderness I Add My Action”: Illness\, Disability\, & Poetry
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday\, October 10th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts and Massy Books in welcoming Steffi Tad-y\, Kess Mohammadi\, and Jody Chan for an online poetry event around the topics of tenderness and disability. \nVenue & Accessibility \nThis event will be held on ZOOM at 6pm Pacific Time. \nClosed captioning is available through ZOOM. \nThis event is free but registration is required. \nAbout the authors: \nBorn and raised in Manila\, Philippines\, Steffi Tad-y (she/her) is a poet & writer based in the territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish\, & Tsleil-Waututh Nations\, also known as Vancouver\, British Columbia. Her chapbook of poems Merienda published by Rahila’s Ghost Press was nominated for the 2021 bpNichol Chapbook Award. In 2022\, she published her debut book of poetry From the Shoreline with Gordon Hill Press. Steffi’s poems often reflect on kinship\, diasporic geographies\, & formations of the mind. \nKhashayar “Kess” Mohammadi (They/Them) is a queer\, Iranian born\, Toronto-based Poet\, Writer and Translator. They were shortlisted for the 2021 Austin Clarke poetry prize\, 2022’s Arc Poem of the year award\, The Malahat Review’s 2023 Open Season awards for poetry and they are the winner of the 2021 Vallum Poetry Prize. They are the author of four poetry chapbooks and three translated poetry chapbooks. They have released two full-length collections of poetry with Gordon Hill Press. Their full-length collaborative poetry manuscript “G” is forthcoming with Palimpsest press Fall 2023\, and their full-length collection of experimental dream-poems “Daffod*ls” is forthcoming from Pamenar Press Fall 2023. \nJody Chan (they/them) is a writer\, drummer\, therapist\, and organizer based in Toronto/Tkaronto. Their writing explores themes of home\, belonging\, kinship\, queerness\, and Madness/disability. They are the author of haunt (Damaged Goods Press)\, all our futures (PANK)\, and sick (Black Lawrence Press)\, winner of the 2018 St. Lawrence Book Award and 2021 Trillium Award for Poetry. They are also a performing member of Raging Asian Womxn Taiko Drummers (RAW). Their work has received fellowships and support from VONA\, Tin House\, Feminist Art Collective (FAC)\, Toronto Arts Council\, Ontario Arts Council\, and Canada Council for the Arts.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/and-so-to-tenderness-i-add-my-action-illness-disability-poetry/
LOCATION:British Columbia
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SUMMARY:An Afternoon with Claire G. Coleman
DESCRIPTION:On Sunday\, October 8th at 2pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and Emily Carr University of Art and Design in welcoming bestselling and award-winning author Claire G. Coleman. \n“Coleman’s targets in Enclave are clear: racism\, homophobia\, transphobia\, inequality – all enabled\, amplified\, by an atomised\, consumerist society. … ‘Aboriginal people live in a dystopia every day\,’ Coleman told the Guardian in 2017; as she wrote in Lies\, Damned Lies\, ‘the apocalypse is not coming\, the apocalypse has begun.'” — The Guardian \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 author: \nClaire G. Coleman is a Wirlomin Noongar woman whose ancestral country is on the south coast of Western Australia. Born in Perth she has spent most of her life in Naarm. She writes fiction\, non-fiction and verse and has been extensively published. \nHer debut novel Terra Nullius was published by Hachette in Australia and Small Beer in the US and was listed for over 15 awards. The Old Lie (Hachette 2019) is her second novel. Lies Damned Lies: A Personal Exploration of the Impact of Colonisation\, her first nonfiction book\, was published in September 2021 by Ultimo Press and won the 2022 University of Queensland Non Fiction Award. Enclave (Hachette 2022)\, her third novel\, was long listed for the Miles Franklin Literary Award. \nAbout the moderator: \n(coming soon) \nAbout the books: \nTerra Nullius (Small Beer Press\, 2018) \nTerra Nullius (def): land belonging to no one; no man’s land \n“Jacky was running. There was no thought in his head\, only an intense drive to run. There was no sense he was getting anywhere\, no plan\, no destination\, no future. All he had was a sense of what was behind\, what he was running from. Jacky was running.” \nThe Natives of the Colony are restless. The Settlers are eager to bring peace to their new home\, and they have a plan for how to achieve it. They will tear Native families apart and provide re-education to those who do not understand why they should submit to their betters. \nPeace and prosperity are worth any price\, but who will pay it? This rich land\, Australia\, will provide for all if only the Natives can learn their place. \nJacky has escaped the Home where the Settlers sent him\, but where will he go? The Head of the Department for the Protection of Natives\, known to Settlers and Natives alike as the Devil\, is chasing Jacky. And when the Devil catches him\, Sister Bagra\, who knows her duty to the ungodly\, will be waiting for Jacky back at Home. \nAn incendiary\, timely\, and fantastical debut from an essential Australian Aboriginal writer\, Claire G. Coleman. \nDo you recognize this story? Look again. \nThis is not Australia as we know it. This is not the Australia of our history books. This Terra Nullius —shortlisted for the 2018 Stella Prize and Highly Commended for the Victorian Premiers Literary Awards — is something new\, but all too familiar. \nEnclave (Hatchette Australia\, 2023) \n‘These are troubling times. The world is a dangerous place\,’ the voice of the Chairman said. ‘I can continue to assure you of this: within the Wall you are perfectly safe.’ \nChristine could not sleep\, she could not wake\, she could not think. She stared\, half-blind\, at the cold screen of her smartphone. She was told the Agency was keeping them safe from the dangers outside\, an outside world she would never see. \nShe never imagined questioning what she was told\, what she was allowed to know\, what she was permitted to think. She never even thought there were questions to ask. \nThe enclave was the only world she knew\, the world outside was not safe. Staying or leaving was not a choice she had the power to make. But then Christine dared start thinking . . . and from that moment\, danger was everywhere. \nIn our turbulent times\, Claire G. Coleman’s Enclave is a powerful dystopian allegory that confronts the ugly realities of racism\, homophobia\, surveillance\, greed and privilege and the self-destructive distortions that occur when we ignore our shared humanity. \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/an-afternoon-with-claire-g-coleman/
LOCATION:British Columbia
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SUMMARY:Daddy Lessons by Steacy Easton with host Andrea Warner
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, October 7th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and Coach House Books for the Vancouver launch of Daddy Lessons by Steacy Easton with host Andrea Warner. \nPart memoir\, part literary study\, part formalist exercise in excitement\, Daddy Lessons is a transgressive text of pleasure\, bodies\, the Lord\, and the West. \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: \nDaddy Lessons (Coach House Books\, 2023) \nIn this post-gender\, post-sexuality\, queer prairie Decameron\, Steacy Easton’s sexual anxiety becomes textual anxiety. This is a messy history of Mormon missionaries\, bathhouses\, Anglican boarding schools\, the back rooms of prairie bars\, Montreal classrooms\, and the many religious spaces that have tried to snuff out queer desire while turning a blind eye to abuse. These are provocative tales to turn on\, offend\, and sentimentalize. Easton explores the seminal texts of their sexuality\, from Frank O’Hara to Neil LaBute\, Kip Moore to Lorelei James\, and delves into their own encounters as they came of age. These daddy lessons are blunt about the ambivalences of trauma and the pleasures of disobedience\, slippery and difficult\, reveling in the funk of memory and desire. \nAbout the author: \nSteacy Easton is a writer and visual artist\, originally from Edmonton\, who has lived in Hamilton for more than seven years. They have written on gender\, sexuality\, and country music for publications including Slate\, NPR\, and the Atlantic Online. Their upcoming books include Why Tammy Wynette Matters for University of Texas and a 33 1⁄3 Volume for Bloomsbury. They were the 2022 Martha Street Artist Residence in Winnipeg. \nAbout the host: \nAndrea Warner writes and talks. A lot. She’s the author of 2023’s Rise Up and Sing! Power\, Protest\, and Activism in Music\, 2018’s Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography\, and co-wrote the 2022 documentary Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On. Andrea is a settler who was born and raised in Vancouver on the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish\, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. \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/daddy-lessons-by-steacy-easton-with-host-andrea-warner/
LOCATION:British Columbia
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