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SUMMARY:Meet Marion McKinnon Crook in Williams Lake
DESCRIPTION:Join bestselling author Marion McKinnon Crook for a book signing and reading of Always On Call: Adventures in Nursing\, Ranching\, and Rural Living\, the much-anticipated sequel to Always Pack a Candle! \nFriday\, May 17\, 2024\nsigning 3–5 pm\nreading at 4:45 pm
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/meet-marion-mckinnon-crook-in-williams-lake/
LOCATION:The Open Book\, 247 Oliver St.\, Williams Lake\, BC\, V2G 1M2\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Book Signing: Hand Drawn Victoria with Emma Fitzgerald
DESCRIPTION:Join Munro’s Books on May 10th to meet Emma Fitzgerald\, author of Hand Drawn Victoria: An Illustrated Tour in and Around BC’s Capital City!! \nFor locals and visitors alike\, these sketches and stories highlight both the historic monuments and everyday moments that make Victoria shine. \nYou never know quite what you’ll come across in British Columbia’s capital city. With its unmissable landmarks that attract people from around the world\, Victoria is also rich in forested beauty\, charming houses\, and curious people\, and is steeped in local history. \nFollowing the charm of her previous book\, Hand Drawn Vancouver\, in this memorable book\, Emma FitzGerald captures the coastal city of Victoria and its surrounding communities in over 100 sketches of: \n• Iconic Landmarks: It wouldn’t be a visit to Victoria without stopping by the Empress\, Munro’s\, or Butchart Gardens.\n• Local Favourites: The longstanding Beacon Drive In and James Bay’s Birdcage Confectionary are some beloved spots honoured within these pages.\n• Beautiful Architecture: Journey back in time by admiring historic buildings\, like Queen Anne–style homes and the spiraling Belfry Theatre.\n• Stunning West Coast Landscape: Explore natural wonders\, from culturally significant fields of camas flowers to Mystic Beach’s stunning shoreline.\n• Overheard Conversations: What really makes a city are the people who live there—Emma documents snippets of passersby’s conversations as she sketches. \nStructured by neighbourhood\, Hand Drawn Victoria is a beautiful keepsake for locals and visitors alike\, and a lovely way to celebrate the city—its buildings\, its people\, and its essence. \nEMMA FITZGERALD was born to Irish parents in Lesotho\, a small mountainous kingdom in Southern Africa. She moved to Canada at a young age and spent most of her childhood in Vancouver\, BC. Emma received a BFA in Visual Art from the University of British Columbia in 2004\, and a Masters in Architecture from Dalhousie University in 2008. She has worked in architecture offices across Canada and in Johannesburg\, South Africa. Her love of drawing on location led to her first book\, Hand Drawn Halifax\, and its follow-up\, Sketch by Sketch Along Nova Scotia’s South Shore. She then turned her interest in people and places to where she grew up; Hand Drawn Vancouver was published in 2020 as she began working on Hand Drawn Victoria. In between her Hand Drawn series\, Emma has illustrated five children’s books\, including EveryBody’s Different on EveryBody Street\, written by Sheree Fitch. She lives and draws in Lunenburg\, Nova Scotia. \nWHEN: Friday\, May 10th from 1:00-2:30 p.m.\nWHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government St.\nWHAT: Meet and greet plus book signing with Emma Fitzgerald.\nHOW: This event is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-signing-hand-drawn-victoria-with-emma-fitzgerald/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet
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SUMMARY:Double Poetry Launch: Julie Paul and Miranda Pearson
DESCRIPTION:Join Munro’s Books in celebrating new work by two talented poets!! \n“Chomping / champing / championing / churlish / … / There’s a wolf at the door / that looks exactly like me.” Who is the “whiny baby” in this book? Rather than calling names or hurling insults\, the candid poems in this collection most often implicate the poet herself. Expansive in form and voice\, the poems in Julie Paul’s second collection\, Whiny Baby\, offer both love letters and laments. They take us to construction sites\, meadows\, waiting rooms\, beaches\, alleys\, gardens\, and frozen rivers\, from Montreal to Hornby Island. They ask us to live in the moment\, despite the moment. Including a spirited long poem that riffs on the fairy tale “Three Billy Goats Gruff\,” these poems are like old friends that at once console and confess. They blow kisses\, they remember\, and they celebrate the broken and the lost alongside the beautiful. At turns frank\, peevish\, introspective\, and mischievous\, the poems share sincere and intimate perspectives on the changing female body\, our natural and built landscapes\, and the idiosyncrasies of modern life. Whiny Baby calls on us to simultaneously examine and exult in our brief time on earth. \nJULIE PAUL’s second book of poetry\, Whiny Baby\, follows the 2017 release of the poetry collection The Rules of the Kingdom\, both published with McGill-Queen’s University Press. She is also the author of three short fiction collections\, The Jealousy Bone (Emdash\, 2008)\, The Pull of the Moon (Touchwood / Brindle & Glass\, 2014)\, and Meteorites (Touchwood\, 2019). Her writing has been published widely in journals and has received recognition from a number of sources. The Pull of the Moon won the 2015 Victoria Butler Book Prize\, and The Rules of the Kingdom was a finalist for both the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Her personal essay “It Not Only Rises\, It Shines” won the Edna Staebler Personal Essay Award from The New Quarterly and her short story “The Expansion” won The Rusty Toque’s Chapbook Award. Unless she’s visiting her daughter in Montreal\, Julie lives in Victoria BC\, where\, in addition to writing\, she works as a Registered Massage Therapist.\n—\n“Come\, anguish. Help us manage / the plainsong of an open shore\, / its language of high tide rich and close\, / close and hard to see.” The early elegiac poems in Bridestones emerge from the borderlands between life and death\, loss and renewal. Drawing on dreams\, opera\, and visual art\, and employing symbolist and playfully surreal imagery\, Miranda Pearson questions the ways we tend and grieve – for each other and our environment. Beginning with a sudden bereavement\, the first section ends with a long poem\, “Clearance\,” that depicts the experience of emptying and departing a home – the physicality of a house serving as a vehicle for processing grief. Pearson writes on family trauma\, illness\, love\, and desire with a pervading sense of hauntedness\, compressed\, lyrical accounts of complex and ambivalent terrain. The impact of a pandemic lurks in the background\, and themes of fear run through much of this collection\, with poems exploring how we face our fears – or deny and avoid them – and\, ultimately\, how we grow and adapt. Through meditations on art\, myth\, archaeology\, ceremony\, and death\, Pearson reveals the veil between life and death when drawn to its thinnest. Like the hovering falcon depicted in “A Song of Roses\,” the poems view the world from above: “if earth is body\, and sky – God help us\, spirit.” \nMIRANDA PEARSON is widely published in literary journals and anthologies\, and Bridestones is her sixth book of poetry. Two of the previous titles\, Harbour and The Fire Extinguisher\, were shortlisted for the BC and Yukon Book Prizes Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. While completing her MFA at UBC\, Miranda served as poetry editor for Prism international\, and has since taught at UBC and SFU. Miranda currently lives between the UK and Vancouver. \nPlease join us for readings from these two poets\, followed by a Q&A with the audience and refreshments! \nWHEN: Wednesday\, May 1st at 7:00 p.m. (doors at 6:30)\nWHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government St.\nWHAT: Readings by Julie Paul and Miranda Pearson from their new poetry collections\, followed by a Q&A with the audience. Refreshments will be provided.\nHOW: This event is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/double-poetry-launch-julie-paul-and-miranda-pearson/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet
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SUMMARY:On Mother Tongues and Translingual Poetics: Yilin Wang and Guests
DESCRIPTION:On Sunday\, April 28th at 2pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and Invisible Publishing in celebrating the launch of The Lantern and the Night Moths by Yilin Wang\, with guests Penny So\, Karla Comanda\, and Dominique Bernier-Cormier. \nIn The Lantern and the Night Moths\, Chinese Canadian poet-translator Yilin Wang has selected and translated poems by five of China’s most innovative modern and contemporary poets: Fei Ming\, Qiu Jin\, Zhang Qiaohui\, Xiao Xi\, and Dai Wangshu. Their poetry expands and subverts the long lineage of Classical Chinese poetry that precedes them. \nWe would like to acknowledge the support of the League of Canadian Poets and the Canada Council for the Arts. This project has also 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/on-mother-tongues-and-translingual-poetics-yilin-wang-and-guests/
LOCATION:British Columbia
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SUMMARY:Ward Toward by Cindy Juyoung Ok & Root Fractures by Diana Khoi Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:Ward Toward by Cindy Juyoung Ok & Root Fractures by Diana Khoi Nguyen\nSaturday\, April 27th 2024\, 6:00 PM PDT\nOn Saturday\, April 27th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books\, Yale University Press\, and Scribner in celebrating the dual launches of Ward Toward by Cindy Juyoung Ok & Root Fractures by Diana Khoi Nguyen\, with host Bronwen Tate. \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/ward-toward-by-cindy-juyoung-ok-root-fractures-by-diana-khoi-nguyen/
LOCATION:British Columbia
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SUMMARY:Canadian Independent Bookstore Day at Munro's Books!!
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, April 27th\, celebrate Canadian Independent Bookstore Day with Munro’s Books!!! \nOn Saturday\, April 27\, readers across the country will have the opportunity to support local independent bookshops by participating in Canadian Independent Bookstore Day (CIBD). With more than 150 participating shops expected\, CIBD is an annual cultural celebration and an opportunity for book buyers\, authors\, illustrators\, and publishers to acknowledge the vibrant literary ecosystem created by our “indie” bookshops. The stores in this national network act as key community ambassadors\, convenors of important conversations\, and contributors to vibrant local economies. \nHere’s what will be going on at Munro’s: \nALL DAY:\nEarn double points with all purchases!\nEnter to win one of two prize packages!\nMatch the author to their book cover game!\nMunro’s bookmark photobooth!\nBookmark colouring station!\nBlind Date with a Book!\nPostcards to Munro’s: A display of postcards to Munro’s from some of our favourite authors! We’ve sent Munro’s Books postcards to authors\, both local and across the country and the world and have asked them to write about a favourite moment at Munro’s\, or what they love about Munro’s\, why Munro’s is important to them\, or just the importance of independent bookstores in general. On April 27th\, we’ll have these authors’ postcards on display for you to read! \nBOOK SIGNINGS:\nCome and meet these local authors! \n12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. – Gregor Craigie\n1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. – Michael Christie\n2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. – Sho Yamagushiku \nCHILDREN’S STORY TIME:\n3:00 – 3:30 p.m. – with Esi Edugyan\n3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. – with Monique Gray Smith \nWe hope you’ll join us to celebrate and continue to cultivate the important and special relationship that exists between writers\, readers\, and bookstores!! \nWHEN: Saturday\, April 27th all day (9:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.).\nWHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street in Victoria.\nWHAT: A celebration of Canadian Independent Bookstore Day!\nHOW: This celebration is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/canadian-independent-bookstore-day-at-munros-books/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Meet & Greet
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SUMMARY:Poets in the Round
DESCRIPTION:Poets in the Round\nThursday\, April 25th 2024\, 6:00 PM PDT\nOn Thursday\, April 25th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts and Massy Books in welcoming Poets in the Round\, in celebration of poetry month. Featured poets include: Jen Currin\, Mercedes Eng\, Marc Perez\, Molly Cross-Blanchard\, Brandon Wint\, Rahat Kurd\, and Melanie Noel. \nPoets\, seated in a semi-circle\, will listen to other poets’ poems and respond with their own poems in a kinetic conversation of ideas and inspiration. \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/poets-in-the-round/
LOCATION:British Columbia
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SUMMARY:Meet the Author: Robyn Harding: "A Drowning Woman"
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of engaging discussion with Robyn Harding\, about her latest book:\nThe Drowning Woman \nDrinks and light fare provided.\nWine supplied by Sage Hayward Vineyards. \nAbout the author:\nRobyn Harding is the author of numerous international bestsellers\, including The Party\, The Arrangement\, The Swap and The Drowning Woman. As a speaker\, she is definitely a Lyceum favourite – her presentation style is fluid so that she can meet the needs of everyone in her audience. Robyn has also written and executive produced an independent film\, The Steps. She lives in Vancouver\, BC\, with her family and two cute\, but deadly\, rescue chihuahuas.\nVisit her at RobynHarding.com or follow her on Twitter and Instagram @RHardingWriter or Facebook @AuthorRobynHarding.\nDo not miss out\, register soon and pick up your copy of The Drowning Woman at the Lyceum and save 15%. \nAbout the book:\nThe Drowning Woman is a deliciously twisted story of friendship\, retribution\, and betrayal about a homeless woman fleeing a dangerous past—and the wealthy society wife she saves from drowning\, who pulls her into a dark web of secrets and lies. \nLee Gulliver never thought she’d find herself living on the streets—no one ever does—but when her restaurant fails\, and she falls deeper into debt\, she leaves her old life behind with nothing but her clothes and her Toyota Corolla. In Seattle\, she parks in a secluded spot by the beach to lay low and plan her next move—until early one morning\, she sees a sobbing woman throw herself into the ocean. Lee hauls the woman back to the surface\, but instead of appreciation\, she is met with fury. The drowning woman\, Hazel\, tells her that she’s trapped in a toxic\, abusive marriage\, that she’s a prisoner in her own home. Lee has thwarted her one chance to escape her life. \nOut of options\, Hazel retreats to her gilded cage\, and Lee thinks she’s seen the last of her\, until her unexpected return the next morning. Bonded by disparate but difficult circumstances\, the women soon strike up a close and unlikely friendship. And then one day\, Hazel makes a shocking request… \nReview:\nWith deceitful characters who are not what they seem\, a myriad of unexpected twists and turns\, and a story that moves along at high speed\, “The Drowning Woman” is everything I love in a thriller. Robyn Harding keeps readers hooked until the end.”\n-Mary Kubica\, New York Times bestselling authot of “Local Woman Missing”
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/meet-the-author-robyn-harding-a-drowning-woman/
LOCATION:Christianne’s Lyceum of Literature and Art\, 4433 West 10th Avenue\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6R2H8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Meet & Greet
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SUMMARY:Roundtable Discussion: Witnessing Genocide in Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Roundtable Discussion: Witnessing Genocide in Palestine\nTuesday\, April 23rd 2024\, 6:00 PM PDT\nOn Tuesday\, April 23rd at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and UBC Public Humanities in gathering for a roundtable discussion on the theme: “Witnessing Genocide in Palestine” with scholars Brenna Bhandar\, Adel Iskander\, Jasbir K. Puar\, and André Elias Mazawi. \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/roundtable-discussion-witnessing-genocide-in-palestine/
LOCATION:British Columbia
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SUMMARY:10th Anniversary of BC Book Day
DESCRIPTION:WHEN: Tuesday\, April 23\, 2024 \nWHAT: BC Book Day invites British Columbians to celebrate the province’s book & magazine publishers\, authors\, illustrators\, bookstores\, libraries\, festivals\, and literary prizes that connect us with local stories. \nGOAL: To raise awareness among government and the general public of BC’s publishing ecosystem and its cultural and economic contributions. \nWHO: BC Book Day is coordinated by the Association of Book Publishers of BC\, which works to support the long-term health and success of the Canadian-owned book industry in British Columbia. \nDid you know? \n\nBritish Columbia is the second largest English-language book publishing region in Canada\, with more than 30 active publishers.\nBC publishers operate in several regions\, including the Southern Interior\, the Sunshine Coast\, Vancouver Island\, and the Lower Mainland.\nWe bring Canadian writing and culture to a global audience\, exporting to more than 40 countries each year.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/10th-anniversary-of-bc-book-day/
LOCATION:British Columbia
CATEGORIES:Festival,Launch
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SUMMARY:In Grief and Poetry with Patrick de Belen - screening + poetry + workshop
DESCRIPTION:In Grief and Poetry with Patrick de Belen – screening + poetry + workshop\nMonday\, April 22nd 2024\, 6:00 PM PDT\nOn Monday\, April 22nd at 6pm\, join Massy Arts and Massy Books in welcoming poet and filmmaker Patrick de Belen to the space for a screening\, poetry performance and workshop\, In Grief and Poetry.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/in-grief-and-poetry-with-patrick-de-belen-screening-poetry-workshop/
LOCATION:British Columbia
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Always On Call • Terrace\, BC
DESCRIPTION:Join bestselling author Marion McKinnon Crook to launch Always On Call: Adventures in Nursing\, Ranching\, and Rural Living—the much-anticipated sequel to Always Pack a Candle! \nSaturday\, April 20\, 2024\n1–2 pm\nTerrace Public Library\, 4610 Park Ave.\, Terrace\, BC \n• free to attend — everyone welcome\n• Books for sale by Misty River Books
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-launch-always-on-call-terrace-bc/
LOCATION:Terrace Public Library\, 4610 Park Ave\, Terrace\, BC\, V8G 1V6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Kayla Czaga and Anne Fleming
DESCRIPTION:Join Munro’s Books in celebrating the launches of new books by two talented local writers!! \n“I feel like the crud / I accidentally touch sometimes\, whatever it is / that collects under cushions on my couch\,” writes Kayla Czaga in her third collection\, Midway\, an exploration of grief in all its manifestations. In her search for meaning in the aftermath of her parents’ deaths\, Czaga visits the underworld (at least twice)\, Vietnamese restaurants\, the beach\, London’s Tate Modern\, Las Vegas casinos\, and a fish textbook. Honest\, elegiac\, characteristically strange\, and frequently funny\, these poems take the reader through bright scenery like carnival rides with fast climbs and sudden drops. The meanings and messages Czaga uncovers on her travels are complicated: hopeful\, bleak-both comforting and not. Along with the parents the poet mourns\, this collection showcases a varied cast. A suburban father-in-law copes with a troubling diagnosis. Marge Simpson quits The Simpsons. Death is a metalhead who dates girls too young for him. Midway is a welcome and necessary collection from one of the most celebrated and accomplished poets of her generation. \nKAYLA CZAGA is the author of two previous poetry collections-For Your Safety Please Hold On (Nightwood Editions\, 2014)\, and Dunk Tank (House of Anansi\, 2019). Her work has been shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for poetry and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Frequently anthologized in the Best Canadian Poetry in English series\, her writing also appears in The Walrus\, Grain\, Event\, The Fiddlehead\, and elsewhere. She lives with her wife on the traditional territory of the Lekwungen people\, the Songhees nd Esquimalt nations.\n—\nAnne Fleming’s latest novel\, Curiosities\, opens with a present-day amateur historian\, Anne\, who describes her unexpected discovery of five seventeenth-century manuscripts that\, astonishingly\, tell the same strange story from vastly different points of view. And so it falls upon Anne\, the contemporary historian\, to piece together these interlocking stories\, discover the fate of a pair of lovers\, and add her own layer of “truth” to a history and time period when there were no labels for who these lovers might truly be. \nANNE FLEMING is the author of Pool-Hopping & Other Stories (Raincoast\, 1998)\, which was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction\, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize\, and the Danuta Gleed Award\, as well as the much-praised novel\, Anomaly (Raincoast\, 2005). She is also the author of a middle-grade novel\, The Goat (Groundwood\, 2017)\, which was a Junior Library Guild and White Ravens selection\, shortlisted for Italy’s Premio Strega\, optioned for film\, and named one of the Top Ten Children’s Books of the Year by The New York Public Library and the Wall Street Journal. Anne Fleming lives in Victoria\, BC. \nWHEN: Thursday\, April 18th\, 7:00 p.m. (doors at 6:30).\nWHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government St.\nWHAT: Readings of new work from Kayla Czaga and Anne Fleming followed by a Q&A with the audience and book signings. Refreshments will be provided. The audience will also be serenaded by lute playing from Anne Fleming and local musician\, Doug Hensley.\nHOW: This event is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-launch-kayla-czaga-and-anne-fleming/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet
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SUMMARY:RCLAS presents Poetic Justice In Celebration of National Poetry Month Featuring Isabella Wang & Catherine Lewis with Alan Hill
DESCRIPTION:Royal City Literary Arts Society presents “Poetic Justice”\nIn Celebration of National Poetry Month\nSunday\, April 14 from 2-4pm \nFeaturing poets Isabella Wang and Catherine Lewis with host Alan Hill. \nPlus\, additional readings from “A Poetry of Place: Journeys Across New Westminster”\, the poetry postcard anthology project\, curated and edited by Alan Hill\, published in 2021 by the City of New Westminster. \nOpen Mic. \nLocated at the New West Artists exhibit at the\n📍#IHeartNewWest Community Art Space Columbia Square Plaza\, Downtown New West. \n📌UNIT 103\, 78 Tenth Street\, New Westminster. \nCatherine Lewis (she/her) is a Chinese Canadian writer and poet. Her debut poetry chapbook Zipless (845 Press) is a finalist for two Bisexual Book Awards\, including Bi Writer of the Year. Her writing has been longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize\, nominated for a Pushcart Prize\, and published in The Fiddlehead\, PRISM international\, The Humber Literary Review\, Pulp Literature\, and Plenitude Magazine. A graduate of SFU’s Writer’s Studio\, she is a two-time Banff Centre Literary Arts alumna. Born in Hong Kong and raised in Canada\, she lives in Vancouver on the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish\, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. \nIsabella Wang is the author of the chapbook\, On Forgetting a Language\, and her full-length debut\, Pebble Swing\, shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Among other recognitions\, she has been shortlisted for Arc’s Poem of the Year Contest\, The Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Contest and Long Poem Contest\, and was the youngest writer to be shortlisted twice for The New Quarterly’s Edna Staebler Essay Contest. She is in her Masters of Sociology at SFU. An editor on the Room collective\, she is also a youth mentor with Vancouver Poetry House\, poetry mentor with the UBC Learning Exchange\, web coordinator with poetry in canada\, and directs her own non-profit editing and mentorship program\, 4827 Revise Revision St. \nAlan Hill was born in the UK and immigrated to Canada in 2005. He is the former Poet Laureate of the City of New Westminster\, BC (2017-2020)\, former president of the Royal City Literary Arts Society (RCLAS)\, and was the editor and curator of A Poetry of Place: Journeys Across New Westminster\, published in partnership with New Westminster Arts Services. His writing has been published internationally and his poetry has appeared in Event\, CV2\, Canadian Literature\, The Antigonish Review\, subTerrain\, Poetry is Dead\, among others. He works in the field of community development and immigrant settlement and lives in New Westminster\, BC. His book In the Blood was published by Caitlin Press in 2022.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/rclas-presents-poetic-justice-in-celebration-of-national-poetry-month-featuring-isabella-wang-catherine-lewis-with-alan-hill/
LOCATION:#IHeartNewWest Community Art Space Columbia Square Plaza\,  Unit 103 – 78 10th Street\, New Westminster.\, Unit 103 - 78 10th Street\, New Westminster\, BC\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:The Knot of My Tongue: Poems and Prose by Zehra Naqvi with guests
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, April 12th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and Penguin Random House Canada for the launch of The Knot of My Tongue: Poems and Prose by Zehra Naqvi\, joined by Rahat Kurd\, Seemi Ghazi and Sarah Munawar. \nFor readers of Fatimah Asghar’s If They Come for Us\, here is a searing\, multidimensional debut about the search for language and self\, which is life itself. \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. We are located in the former MING WO building\, which is still the name on the facade of our building. \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: \nThe Knot of My Tongue (Penguin Random House\, 2024) \nI knew it was time to build what could carry\, what could find the high point to name what I knew to be the world and carry it with me \nAt the heart of The Knot of My Tongue is Zehra Naqvi’s storying of language itself and the self-re- visioning that follows devastating personal rupture. Employing a variety of poetic forms\, these intimate\, searching poems address generations\, continents\, and dominions\nto examine loss of expression in the aftermath of collisions with\npowerful forces\, ranging from histories to intimacies. \nNaqvi follows a cast of characters from personal memory\, family history\, and Quranic traditions\, at instances where they have either been rendered silent or found ways to attempt the inexpressible— a father struggling to speak as an immigrant in Canada; a grandmother as she loses her children and her home after the 1947 Partition; the Islamic story of Hajar\, abandoned in the desert without water; the myth of Philomela who finds language even after her husband cuts off her tongue. \nBrilliantly blending the personal and the communal\, memory and myth\, theology and tradition\, the poems in this collection train our attention—slow and immediate\, public and private—on our primal ability to communicate\, recover\, and survive. This example is striking for the power of its speaking through loss and a singular\, radiant vision. \nAbout the author \nZEHRA NAQVI is a Karachi-born writer raised on unceded Coast Salish Territories (Vancouver\, BC). She is a winner of the 2021 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers awarded by the Writers’ Trust of Canada. Her poem “forgetting urdu” was the winner of Room’s 2016 Poetry Contest. Zehra has written and edited for various publications internationally. She holds two MSc degrees in migration studies and social anthropology from Oxford University where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. The Knot of My Tongue is her debut poetry collection. \nAbout the guests \nRahat Kurd is the daughter & granddaughter of Kashmiri women. She has studied Urdu and Persian poetry for several years. Her work includes COSMOPHILIA (Talonbooks 2015)\, a collection of poems\, and THE CITY THAT IS LEAVING FOREVER: KASHMIRI LETTERS (Talonbooks 2021)\, a hybrid book of correspondence and poetics co-authored with the Kashmiri poet Sumayya Syed. \nDr. Sarah Munawar (She/Her) is a Pakistani-Muslim and settler living in relationship with and sustained by the occupied and unceded land and waters of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish)\, Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (TsleilWaututh) Nations. She is a political science instructor at Columbia College\, a mother and a scholar of care ethics\, disability justice and health equity. In her writing\, she articulates the right of Muslims to think about care islamically\, and offers a vision of disability justice and collective accessibility that draws upon various lineages of anti-oppressive Islamic knowledge.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/the-knot-of-my-tongue-poems-and-prose-by-zehra-naqvi-with-guests/
LOCATION:British Columbia
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Boxing the Compass by Michael L. Hadley
DESCRIPTION:Join award-winning historian and mariner Michael L. Hadley on his international adventures as he launches his memoir\, Boxing the Compass: A Life of Seafaring\, Music\, and Pilgrimage (Heritage House\, 2024). \nFriday\, April 5\, 2024 | 3:30–5:00 pm\nMaritime Museum of BC | 744 Douglas St. | Victoria\, BC \nRegister at mmbc.bc.ca\nEvent included with museum admission or membership—come early to visit the museum\nBooks available for purchase and signing
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-launch-boxing-the-compass-by-michael-l-hadley-2/
LOCATION:Maritime Museum of BC\, 634 Humboldt St.\, Victoria\, BC\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Boxing the Compass by Michael L. Hadley
DESCRIPTION:Join award-winning historian and mariner Michael L. Hadley on his international adventures as he launches his memoir\, Boxing the Compass: A Life of Seafaring\, Music\, and Pilgrimage (Heritage House\, 2024). \nFriday\, April 5\, 2024 | 3:30–5:00 pm\nMaritime Museum of BC | 744 Douglas St. | Victoria\, BC \nRegister at mmbc.bc.ca\nEvent included with museum admission or membership—come early to visit the museum\nBooks available for purchase and signing
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-launch-boxing-the-compass-by-michael-l-hadley/
LOCATION:Maritime Museum of BC\, 634 Humboldt St.\, Victoria\, BC\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch
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SUMMARY:Double Poetry Collection Launch: Patrick Grace and Tina Biello
DESCRIPTION:Please join Munro’s Books in celebrating the launches of two new poetry collections by local authors! \nPatrick Grace’s debut collection\, Deviant\, traces a trajectory of queer self-discovery from childhood to adulthood\, examining love\, fear\, grief\, and the violence that men are capable of in intimate same-sex relationships. Richly engaged with the tangible and experiential\, Patrick Grace’s confessional poetry captures profound\, sharp emotions\, tracking a journey impacted equally by beauty and by brutality. Coming-of-age identity struggles are recalled with wry wit\, and dreamlike poems embrace adolescent queer love and connections as a way to cope with the fear and cruelty that can occur in gay relationships. Later poems in the collection recall vivid moments of psychological trauma and stalking and explore the bias of the justice system toward gay men. Collecting memories\, dreams\, and fears about sexual identity\, Deviant makes important contributions to queer coming-of-age and intimate partner violence narratives. \nPATRICK GRACE is an author and teacher who divides his time between Vancouver and Victoria\, BC. He has read at literary festivals around Canada\, including Word Vancouver and Versefest Ottawa\, and will be appearing at the Edmonton Poetry Festival in late April. He has published two chapbooks: a blurred wind swirls back for you (2023)\, and Dastardly (2021)\, exploring aspects of love\, fear\, and trauma that represent a personal queer identity. Deviant\, his first full-length poetry collection\, continues to explore these themes. He works as managing editor of Plenitude Magazine\, and is this year’s judge for The Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Award for Poetry. \nIn Tina Biello’s new collection\, The Weight of Survival\, in a small logging town nestled near Lake Cowichan is an old elementary school. The child of immigrants from post-war Italy attends this school among the population of mostly white\, anglo-saxon families. She does not speak English. \nHer family is one of four who emigrated from southern Italy\, to this small forested community. There are other families\, from India\, who share a kinship of ‘other’ with the Italian families. What happens when your voice\, your food\, your home is different? How do you know how to be queer when there is no language or place for it? How do you remember a time not spoken of\, but passed on through the smell of walnut blossoms in the spring\, grapes in the fall? In The Weight of Survival\, Tina Biello chronicles this upbringing of otherness\, of being shaped by two very different communities\, of blending identities into one\, and what is left behind in the process. \nPoet\, playwright and actor\, TINA BIELLO was born in Lake Cowichan\, a small logging town here on Vancouver Island to immigrant parents. She has honed her skills of being from ‘two places’ and speaks a few languages because of it. She believes in the power of poetry to reach in\, grab hold and get us through. She had the great privilege of working with mentor Patrick Lane. ‘The Weight of Survival’ is her 4th book of poems. When she’s not writing poetry\, she’s gardening\, walking dogs and writing plays and more recently a screenplay. She was Nanaimo’s 2nd Poet Laureate from 2017-2020 and has just finished a 3 year cycle of writing librettos for composers with the Vancouver Island Symphony. \nWHEN: Wednesday\, April 3rd at 7:00 p.m. (doors at 6:30). \nWHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street. \nWHAT: Readings by Patrick Grace and Tina Biello\, followed by a Q&A with the audience and book signings. \nHOW: This event is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/double-poetry-collection-launch-patrick-grace-and-tina-biello/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet,Panel
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Gathering Colour\, by Caitlin ffrench
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of Caitlin ffrench’s new book\, Gathering Colour: Foraging Magic & Making Art from the World Around you. \nEnjoy an author reading\, book signing\, and light refreshments. Book sales provided by Iron Dog Books. \nWHEN: Thursday\, March 21\, 2024. 6:00–8:00 PM. \nWHERE: Rennie Hall (Rm B2160)\, Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Transit accessible. Parking on-site.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-launch-gathering-colour-by-caitlin-ffrench/
LOCATION:Emily Carr University of Art + Design\, 520 E 1st Ave\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5T 0H2\, Canada
ORGANIZER;CN="Nine Ten Publications":MAILTO:kim@ninetenpublications.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240319T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240319T210000
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SUMMARY:Mysterious Book Launch: Susan Juby\, Kate Hilton\, and Elizabeth Renzetti
DESCRIPTION:Join Munro’s Books in celebrating the launch of two new mysteries: A Meditation on Murder by Susan Juby and Bury the Lead by Kate Hilton and Elizabeth Renzetti!! \nIn A Meditation on Murder\, Butler-detective Helen Thorpe returns to help a wannabe influencer get her life in order—and solve the murders of her fellow content creators—in this hilarious sequel to Mindful of Murder by bestselling author Susan Juby.\nWhen Buddhist butler Helen Thorpe is loaned out to help Cartier Hightower get her life in order\, Helen finds herself working for a young woman entirely unbound by the fetters of good taste or sound judgment. One of Cartier’s fellow content creators has recently died in a strange accident. Soon after Helen arrives\, another is killed in an equally bizarre way. Cartier begins to drag Helen around on the influencer circuit\, where neither of them is particularly welcome. Then comes the terrible incident at the EDM nightclub that turns Cartier into a global pariah\, at least according to social media. Helen hopes a period of simplicity and reflection and an internet detox will help Cartier find her true nature and maybe acquire some social graces. But Helen’s job gets much harder when Cartier’s friends show up at the lavish ranch where Cartier and Helen have retreated. Soon\, Helen finds herself trying to avoid becoming Instafamous while bringing some peace to a girl who very much needs it. This task turns out to be even more impossible when it becomes clear that they have been followed to Weeping Creek Ranch by a murderer. \nIn Bury the Lead\, a big-city journalist joins the staff of a small-town paper in cottage country and finds a community full of secrets … and murder. \nCat Conway has recently returned to Port Ellis to work as a reporter at the Quill & Packet. She’s fled the tattered remains of her high-profile career and bad divorce for the holiday town of her childhood\, famous for its butter tarts\, theatre\, and a century-old feud. One of Cat’s first assignments is to interview legendary actor Eliot Fraser\, the lead in the theatre’s season opener of Inherit the Wind. When Eliot ends up dead onstage on opening night\, the curtain rises on the sleepy town’s secrets. The suspects include the actor whose career Eliot ruined\, the ex-wife he betrayed\, the women he abused\, and even the baker he wronged. With the attention of the world on Port Ellis\, this story could be Cat’s chance to restore her reputation. But the police think she’s a suspect\, and the murderer wants to kill the story-and her too. Can Cat solve the mystery before she loses her job or becomes the next victim of a killer with a theatrical bent for vengeance? \nSusan Juby is the award-winning\, bestselling author of Mindful of Murder\, which debuted at number one on the independent bookstores’ bestseller list and was nominated for the Leacock Medal for Humour. She has also written Getting the Girl\, Another Kind of Cowboy and The Woefield Poultry Collective\, as well as the bestselling Alice series (Alice\, I Think; Miss Smithers; and Alice MacLeod\, Realist at Last). Her novel Republic of Dirt won the Leacock Medal in 2016. Susan Juby lives on Vancouver Island with her husband\, James\, and their dogs\, who are convinced they could have lucrative careers as social media stars. \nKate Hilton is the bestselling author of three novels: The Hole in the Middle\, Just like Family and Better Luck Next Time. When not writing\, Kate works with psychotherapy and life coaching clients in the area of transformational change. \nElizabeth Renzetti is the author of the essay collection Shrewed: A Wry and Closely Observed Look at the Lives of Women and Girls and the novel Based on a True Story. In 2020\, she won the Landsberg Award for her reporting on gender equality. \nWHEN: Tuesday\, March 19th at 7:00 p.m. (doors at 6:30).\nWHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\nWHAT: Readings from the authors of Bury the Lead and A Meditation on Murder\, followed by a Q&A with the audience and book signings.\nHOW: This event is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/mysterious-book-launch-susan-juby-kate-hilton-and-elizabeth-renzetti/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet
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SUMMARY:SFU Open Mic Remix: The Second
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, March 16th\, the SFU Creative Writing Club would like to present SFU OPEN MIC REMIX: THE SECOND. Our now second open mic event open to SFU and the community at large! Swing by to enjoy the work of local wordsmiths\, and maybe take the stage yourself! \nThis event is FREE and will start at 6PM (doors open at 5:30pm) at the Massy Art Society\, taking place on the unceded territory of səlilwətaɬ\, kʷikʷəƛ̓əm\, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm Nations.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/sfu-open-mic-remix-the-second/
LOCATION:British Columbia
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SUMMARY:Kazim Ali and Friends
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, March 14th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts and Massy Books in celebrating the work of Kazim Ali and Friends: Cecily Nicholson\, Bronwen Tate\, Jen Currin and Hari Alluri\, with host Brandon Wint. \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/kazim-ali-and-friends/
LOCATION:British Columbia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240313T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240313T210000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Holly Ringland and Tamara Goranson
DESCRIPTION:Please join Munro’s Books to launch new fantastical novels by Holly Ringland and Tamara Goranson!! \nHolly Ringland’s new novel\, The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding\, is a haunting\, magical novel about joy\, grief\, courage and transformation that follows from the international bestselling\, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart. \n‘On the afternoon that Esther Wilding drove homeward along the coast\, a year after her sister had walked into the sea and disappeared\, the light was painfully golden.’ \nThe last time Esther Wilding’s beloved older sister Aura was seen\, she was walking along the shore towards the sea. In the wake of Aura’s disappearance\, Esther’s family struggles to live with their loss. To seek the truth about her sister’s death\, Esther reluctantly travels from Lutruwita/Tasmania\, to Copenhagen\, and then to the Faroe Islands\, following the trail of the stories Aura left behind: seven fairy tales about selkies\, swans and women\, alongside cryptic verses Aura wrote and had secretly tattooed on her body. The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding is a sweeping\, deeply beautiful and profoundly moving novel about the far reaches of sisterly love\, the power of wearing your heart on your skin and the ways life can transform when we find the courage to feel the fullness of both grief and joy. \nHolly Ringland is the author of the award-winning international bestseller The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart\, adapted into a seven-part TV series on Amazon Prime\, starring Sigourney Weaver. After living between Australia and the UK for ten years\, Holly has been based in the Yugambeh region of southeast Queensland since 2020\, where she wrote The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding in her “office\,” a vintage caravan named Frenchie. \nTamara Goranson’s Oath of Bjorn is Book 3 of her Vinland Viking Saga. Anja has just settled into a new life on the silver shores of Vinland with her beloved\, Bjorn. But then a local warrior bursts onto the scene seeking revenge\, swearing to spill Viking blood. And so Bjorn must risk everything to save the woman he loves before she steps into the darkness and sets their world ablaze. The Oath of Bjorn is an epic historical novel of gripping adventure and love everlasting – perfect for fans of Vikings and Outlander. \nTamara Goranson holds a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology as well as Adjunct Professor status at the University of Victoria in British Columbia\, Canada. She published several academic pieces before she turned to writing short stories\, creative non-fiction\, and historical fiction\, winning 3rd prize in the 2019 Vancouver Island Writers’ Association annual general contest for her nonfiction piece\, ‘A Voice in Time’. She lives in Victoria with her husband and two daughters. \nWHEN: Wednesday\, March 13th\, 7:00 p.m. (doors at 6:30).\nWHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government St. in Victoria.\nWHAT: Readings by Holly Ringland and Tamara Goranson\, followed by a Q&A with the audience and book signings.\nHOW: This event is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-launch-holly-ringland-and-tamara-goranson/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet
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SUMMARY:Author to Author: The Fusion of Fact and Fiction
DESCRIPTION:“Truth is so hard to tell\, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.” —Francis Bacon \nCritically acclaimed authors Tara McGuire and Frances Peck create worlds that feel real because of accurate local and technical details\, and also journey into emotional and psychological truths that only fiction can reveal. \nIn this inspiring author conversation\, Tara and Frances will discuss the making of their books: their process\, research\, characters\, themes\, and the choices they made to blend fact and fiction on the page. \nTheir books will be for sale (cash or e-transfer). \nAuthor Bios: \nTara McGuire is a writer and broadcaster from North Vancouver. Her first book\, Holden After & Before — Love Letter for a Son Lost to Overdose\, a hybrid work in memoir and fiction exploring grief\, motherhood\, and the overdose crisis (Arsenal Pulp Press)\, was recognized by The Walrus as one of the favourite books of 2022 and was a finalist for the 2023 City of Vancouver Book Award. https://taramcguire.com/ \nFrances Peck is the author of Uncontrolled Flight\, a “complex and revelatory” (Vancouver Sun) story about the death of an aerial firefighter. Her previous novel\, The Broken Places\, about an earthquake rocking Vancouver\, was a Globe and Mail best book of 2022 and a finalist for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. She lives in North Vancouver. \nRegistration required. Register online or call 604-984-0286\, ext. 8144. \nThis event takes place in the Community Meeting Room at Lynn Valley Library.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/author-to-author-the-fusion-of-fact-and-fiction/
LOCATION:North Vancouver Public Library – Lynn Valley branch\, 1277 Lynn Valley Road\, North Vancouver\, BC\, V7J 0A2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Panel
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ORGANIZER;CN="North Vancouver District Public Library":MAILTO:info@nvdpl.ca
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DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240310T180000
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SUMMARY:Dead Poets Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Join Massy Arts Society on Sunday\, March 10th 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. We are located in the former MING WO building. \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 readers and poets: \nRahat Kurd’s publications include THE CITY THAT IS LEAVING FOREVER: KASHMIRI LETTERS (co-authored with Sumayya Syed\, Talonbooks 2021) and COSMOPHILIA (Talonbooks 2015). \nreading: \nPARVEEN SHAKIR (1952-1994)\, born in Karachi\, Pakistan\, began to write poetry in Urdu at a young age. Her first book\, KHUSHBU [Fragrance] was published in 1976\, and was widely acclaimed for her contemporary approach to classical ghazal poetics\, grounding lived experience in a feminine voice. Shakir was tragically killed in a car accident in Islamabad at the age of 42. She left behind a young son and several published poetry volumes; one final work\, KAF-E-AINA [The Mirror’s Edge] was published posthumously. \n+ \nDevon Rae (she/her) is a queer writer from Montreal who now lives in Vancouver. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Arc Poetry Magazine\, PRISM International\, Canthius\, SAD Magazine\, Touch the Donkey\, Periodicities\, and elsewhere. Her poetry chapbook\, Thirteen Conversations with My Body\, will be published by Anstruther Press in 2024. \nreading: \nIkkyū Sōjun (1394 – 1481) was an eccentric and iconoclastic Zen master and a prolific poet. He also had a profound influence on Japanese tea ceremony\, calligraphy\, and shakuhachi (bamboo flute). When he was appointed abbot of Daitokuji Temple\, he left after just nine days to protest the rampant hypocrisy\, and told the monks to go looking for him in fish stalls\, bars\, and brothels. Ikkyu (or Crazy Cloud\, as he was also known) loved Zen\, sake\, and women\, and famously burned his enlightenment certificate to ashes. \n+ \nRC Weslowski is an award-winning poet\, broadcaster\, podcaster\, clown and MC. He’s performed at and led workshops at festival across Turtle Island and parts of Europe. His first collection of poetry “My Soft Response to the Wars” is available now from Write Bloody North Publishing www.writebloodynorth.ca \nreading: \nIan Ferrier (1954-2023) was a poet\, performer and musician; author of four books of poetry and prose: Quel est ce lieu (Éditions du Noroît 2017); Bear Dreams (Popolo Press\, 2016); Coming & Going (Popolo Press 2015); Exploding Head Man (Planète rebelle 2000). 3 releases on compact disc: Pharmakon MTL (BongoBeat 2011); What is This Place (BongoBeat 2007); Exploding Head Man (Wired on Words 2000) ; founder of The Canadian Review of Literature in Performance (LITLIVE.CA); founder and Executive Producer of Wired on Words\, a label that releases spoken word and poetry and music projects; founder and curator of annual Mile End Poets’ Festival (Montreal\, Canada) and of the monthly Words & Music Show (Montreal)\, now in its 17th year. His essays have appeared in the Review of the Americas\, Canadian Theatre Review and The Canadian Review of Literature in Performance. A former president of the Quebec Writers’ Federation\, he resided in Montreal. He toured poetry and music shows in North America and Europe as a solo artist and with the spoken word/dance company For Body and Light. ( http://forbodyandlight.org ) \n+ \nEstlin McPhee is a writer and librarian who lives on the traditional\, ancestral\, and unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish\, and Tsleil-Waututh people. Estlin holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and is the author of the poetry chapbook Shapeshifters (Rahila’s Ghost Press\, 2018). For many years they co-organized REVERB\, a queer reading series in Vancouver\, with the wonderful Leah Horlick. Estlin’s debut poetry collection is forthcoming in spring 2025 with Brick Books. \nreading: \nSiegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) was born in Kent\, England. He served in the trenches during the First World War\, where he began to write the poems for which he is remembered. Dispatched as “shell-shocked” to hospital\, he organised public protest against the war. Sassoon was gay\, and after the war he had a series of relationships with other men\, including most famously with socialite Stephen Tennant. Sassoon’s poetry initially met with little response\, but his reputation grew steadily in the following decades\, though it is as a novelist and autobiographer that he is perhaps better known.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/dead-poets-reading-series-3/
LOCATION:British Columbia
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SUMMARY:Dinner on Monster Island by Tania De Rozario with Lydia Kwa and Joanne Leow
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, March 7th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and Harper Perennial in celebrating the launch of Dinner on Monster Island by Tania De Rozario with guests Lydia Kwa and Joanne Leow\, moderated by Kanksha Chawla. \n“In Dinner on Monster Island\, Tania De Rozario brilliantly exorcises the demons of her upbringing—an evangelical mother\, homophobic policies and culturally pervasive fatphobia—using horror films as an outlet and metaphor for her estrangement. As a writer\, De Rozario is searing\, stirring\, and soaring.” — Kevin Chong\, Author of The Double Life of Benson Yu. \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. We are located in the former MING WO building. \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: \nDinner on Monster Island (Harper Perennial\, 2024) \nTania De Rozario was just twelve when she was gay-exorcised. That day\, the young girl realized that monsters weren’t just found in horror tales. They could lurk anywhere—including your own family and community—and look just like you. Dinner on Monster Island is a collection of essays that examines De Rozario’s experiences growing up a queer\, Brown\, fat girl in Singapore\, intertwined with analyses of women in horror films. Moving and lyrical\, it is a deeply personal examination of one woman’s experience grappling with identity and a fantastic analysis of monsters\, monstrous women and the worlds in which they live. \nAbout the author: \nTania De Rozario is a writer\, visual artist and the author of four books. Her work has won the New Ohio Review Nonfiction Contest (2020)\, the Muriel Craft Bailey Memorial Poetry Contest (2021)\, Singapore’s Golden Point Award (2011) and was a finalist for a 2021 Lambda Literary Award. Her visual art has been showcased in galleries and art spaces in Singapore\, Amsterdam\, London\, Spain and San Francisco. Born in Singapore\, she lives on the traditional unceded territories of xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish)\, and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. \nAbout the guests: \nLydia Kwa has published two books of poetry (The Colours of Heroines\, 1992; sinuous\, 2013) and five novels (This Place Called Absence\, 2000; The Walking Boy\, 2005 and 2019; Pulse\, 2010 and 2014; Oracle Bone\, 2017; A Dream Wants Waking\, 2023). A third book of poetry from time to new will be published by Gordon Hill Press in Fall 2024. (Headshot credit: Joshua Paul) \nJoanne Leow grew up in Singapore and lives on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish)\, and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. She is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair of Transnational and Decolonial Digital Humanities in the Department of English at Simon Fraser University. She is also a poet and writer with a debut collection of poetry\, Seas Move Away (2022)\, published by Turnstone Press. (Headshot credit: Sweetmoon photography) \nAbout the moderator: \nKanksha Chawla (she/they) is an Indian immigrant who grew up in Singapore and lives on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish)\, and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. She is an organizer\, writer\, and student of English Literature at Simon Fraser University. Her work has appeared in anthologies and zines including Crazy Little Pyromaniacs: 35 Poets Under 35 (Math Paper Press) and We are the Fossil Free Future (S4F).
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/dinner-on-monster-island-by-tania-de-rozario-with-lydia-kwa-and-joanne-leow/
LOCATION:British Columbia
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SUMMARY:Under the Table: Poetry Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Under The Table Open Mic Series \nOn Wednesday March 6th at 6pm PDT\, join Massy Arts Society and a collective of brilliant poet organizers for the first Under The Table Open Mic of the year! This event will not have a feature poet\, leaving even more space for our wonderful open mic-ers! Sign-up for the open mic at the venue upon arrival. \n*Please note this show is on a Wednesday! We will resume with our events on the first Tuesday of each month starting in April* \n(we run on crip time with the understanding that bodies and brains aren’t always on schedule) \nWe invite you to sign up for the open mic as Under The Table welcomes us to laugh\, cry\, celebrate and sit in the richness of queer and disabled life\, writing and poetics. \nThis event will unfortunately not have ASL interpretation. We are working to secure funding to continue having ASL at future events. \nUnder the Table is an open mic series centering disabled and/or queer poets. This series was dreamed up out of a desire to share work\, experience art\, and connect with community in a covid safer\, more accessible\, and anti-oppressive space. Partnering with Massy Art Gallery and Kickstart Disability Arts & Culture\, Under the Table Open Mic Series will be on the first Tuesday of each month (with the exception of this month!) with some events in person at Massy Arts Society and others virtually on zoom. \nVenue & Accessibility \nThe event will be hosted at the Massy Arts Gallery\, at 23 East Pender Street in Chinatown\, Vancouver. \nMassy Arts Gallery is a single-level space\, in one single room. The entryway to the building is 38″ wide\, with a transition less than 0.5″. The front door is a push door that swings inward to the left. There is no automatic opening door or switch but the door will stay open until the show starts. There is one gender inclusive bathroom in the space. The door is not automatic. Pull to enter\, push to exit. The width of the doorway is 90cm / 35.5in. The bathroom is 45sq ft. There are two sets of grab bars located behind and to the right of the toilet.The space is a scent-free space. We kindly ask that event attendees refrain from wearing scented products in the space. The venue has a scent free soap and uses scent free cleaning products. \nThis event will unfortunately not have ASL interpretation. We are working to secure funding to continue having ASL at future events. For more info on accessibility including transit and parking\, seating\, and venue measurements and floor plan\, please visit: massyarts.com/accessibility. If you have questions about accessibility at this event please email us at info@massyarts.com or underthetablepoetry@gmail.com \nCOVID-19 SAFETY \nMasks are required for this event (N95 masks are recommended as they offer the best protection) and will be provided for anyone who does not bring one. There will be an air purifier in the space as well as antibacterial microphone covers. The host and feature poet will rapid test before the event and we encourage attendees to rapid test before coming as well. We ask that you stay home if you are showing symptoms or had a recent exposure. \nAbout Under The Table: \nUnder the Table is a space where the richness that is queer and disabled life and art\, flourishes and finds a home. It’s a space to share work that’s asking to be told\, but might not be welcomed in other spaces\, if you are able to access those spaces at all. It’s a space where being queer and/or disabled (whether or not those specific words resonate for you) makes your work a brilliant fit\, regardless of how queer or disabled you think the poetry you wish to share is\, how connected you are to disabled and/or queer community\, and whether you feel disabled and/or queer “enough” to participate. Come to “Under the Table” to laugh\, cry\, celebrate\, sit in discomfort\, feel understood\, and be together.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/under-the-table-poetry-open-mic/
LOCATION:British Columbia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240303T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240303T170000
DTSTAMP:20260430T101427
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SUMMARY:History in Novels: Sarah Mughal & Xiran Jay Zhao - Hope Ablaze & Iron Widow
DESCRIPTION:On Sunday\, March 3rd at 2pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and St Martin’s Press for the launch of Hope Ablaze by Sarah Mughal Rana in conversation with Xiran Jay Zhao and Emily Varga as they discuss how colonial history and their cultures inspired and shaped their writings. \nWith a touch of magic and poetry sprinkled throughout\, Canadian author Sarah Mughal Rana’s Hope Ablaze is heartbreaking\, often funny\, and ultimately uplifting\, not only celebrating the Islamic faith and Pakistani culture\, but simultaneously confronting racism and Islamophobia with unflinching bravery. \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: \nHope Ablaze (St. Martin’s Press\, 2024) \nAll My Rage meets The Poet X in this electric debut that explores a Muslim teen finding her voice in a post-9/11 America. \nNida has always been known as Mamou Abdul-Hafeedh’s niece – the poet that will fill her uncle’s shoes after he was wrongfully incarcerated during the war on terror. But for Nida\, her poetry letters are her heart and sharing so much of herself with a world that stereotypes her faith and her hijab is not an option. \nWhen Nida is illegally frisked at a Democratic Senatorial candidate’s political rally\, she writes a scathing poem about the politician\, never expecting the letter to go viral weeks before Election Day. Nida discovers her poem has won first place in a national contest\, a contest she never entered\, and her quiet life is toppled. But worst of all\, Nida loses her ability to write poetry. In the aftermath of her win\, Nida struggles to balance the expectations of her mother\, her uncle\, and her vibrant Muslim community with the person she truly wants to be. \nAbout the author: \nSarah Mughal Rana\, author of the debut novel Hope Ablaze\, is a writer and student at Oxford University\, pursuing her MPhil at the intersection of human rights and policy. She is a BookTok personality and the co-host of On the Write Track Podcast where she enjoys spilling tea with her favourite authors about the book world. Outside of school\, she falls down history rabbit holes and trains in traditional martial arts. These days can find her on Instagram & Tiktok . \nAbout the guest: \nXiran Jay Zhao is the #1 New-York-Times-bestselling author of the Iron Widow series and Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor. Their books have been a finalist or winner of many awards\, including the Nebula\, BFSA\, and Locus awards. A first-gen Hui Chinese immigrant from small-town China to Vancouver\, Canada\, they were raised by the Internet and made the inexplicable decision to leave their biochem degree in the dust to write books and make educational content instead. You can find them on Twitter for memes\, Instagram for cosplays and fancy outfits\, TikTok for fun short videos\, and YouTube for long videos about Chinese history and culture. \nAbout the moderator: \nEmily Varga is a YA Fantasy author with a fondness for getting lost in bookstores\, eating copious amounts of rice\, and watching a lot of terrible reality tv. She has lived all over the world\, but currently calls the Rocky Mountains of western Canada home\, where she lives with her family and their menagerie of pets. When she’s not writing\, Emily works as a family lawyer\, where she learned more about storytelling than she ever expected. Emily’s debut novel FOR SHE IS WRATH is a Pakistani-inspired Count of Monte Cristo retelling meets Kill Bill and is out in fall 2024 with Wednesday Books.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/history-in-novels-sarah-mughal-xiran-jay-zhao-hope-ablaze-iron-widow/
LOCATION:British Columbia
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SUMMARY:Zaatari: Culinary Traditions from a Syrian Refugee Camp
DESCRIPTION:How do you preserve the tastes of home when you’ve been forced to flee the place you’re from? \nIn Zaatari\, Karen E. Fisher takes us to the largest Syrian refugee camp in the world\, home to over 80\,000 people\, and shares the stories\, the recipes\, the traditions and the art of its indomitable residents. More than a cookbook\, it is an immersive culinary tour full of culture\, vitality and perseverance. \nMohammad Shwamra\, a resident of Zaatari Camp who was editorial and production assistant for this book\, is traveling to Canada to join Karen for this book presentation. \nKaren and Mohammad will appear in conversation with Nihal Elwan\, entrepreneur and founder of Tayybeh\, a catering company and social enterprise in Vancouver\, that provides steady employment opportunities for Syrian newcomer women. \n— \nKaren E. Fisher is a Professor at the Information School\, and Adjunct Professor in the Communication Department at the University of Washington. She is also an embedded field ethnographer for UNHCR Jordan\, Adjunct Professor\, Åbo Akademi University\, Turku\, Finland\, and Visiting Professor at the Information School\, Siegen University\, DE. Karen’s focus is the Syrian war and she works in the Levant\, and much of her work is at UNHCR Za’atari Camp in Jordan\, where she’s led projects like the Za’atari Camp Cookbook—a multi-year co-design project with over 2000 Syrians about preserving indigenous knowledge of food\, Arab medicine and culture; and Za’atari Camp Libraries—the world’s first\, refugee-run\, camp-wide library system. \nNihal Elwan is the founder of Tayybeh Foods\, a social enterprise\, caterer\, food processor\, and restaurant with a mission to empower and uplift newcomer and refugee women from Syria and the Middle East. Since its inception in 2017\, Tayybeh has received multiple awards including “Foodies of the Year” by Western Living magazine\, “Champion of Women” Award from Voices of Muslim Women\, the City of Vancouver’s Award of Excellence\, and most recently the Enterprise of the Year Award by the Francophone Chamber of Commerce. Nihal’s academic background is in Anthropology\, International Development studies and Economics\, with over 15 years of professional experience researching\, implementing\, monitoring and evaluating economic and social inclusion programmes\, with special focus on gender and women’s issues in the Middle East.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/zaatari-culinary-traditions-from-a-syrian-refugee-camp/
LOCATION:British Columbia
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DTSTAMP:20260430T101427
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SUMMARY:Best Canadian Poetry in English 2024 Launch Party!!
DESCRIPTION:Please join Munro’s Books in celebrating the launch of the Best Canadian Poetry in English 2024! \nLocal poet Yvonne Blomer will host a reading by five of this year’s local poets included in the collection: Nicholas Bradley\, Kayla Czaga\, Hilary Clark\, Anna Moore\, and Joanna Streetly. \nPraise for the book includes: \n“Buy it\, or borrow it\, but do read it.” —Arc Poetry Magazine \n“A magnet\, I think\, for the many people who would like to know contemporary poetry.” —A.F. Moritz\, Griffin Poetry Prize winner \nWHEN: Wednesday\, February 28th\, 7:00 p.m. \nWHERE: Fortune Gallery\, 537 Fisgard St. in Victoria \nWHAT: Readings by Nicholas Bradley\, Kayla Czaga\, Hilary Clark\, Anna Moore\, and Joanna Streetly\, hosted by Yvonne Blomer. \nHOW: This event is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/best-canadian-poetry-in-english-2024-launch-party/
LOCATION:Fortune Gallery\, 537 Fisgard Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1R3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet
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