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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Arleen Pare and Barbara Pelman
DESCRIPTION:Please join Munro’s Books for the launch of new books by two beloved local poets! \nAward-winning poet Arleen Pare’s latest collection\, Absence of Wings\, is both an intimate family portrait and a public documentation of how we\, as a society\, can fail to protect our children. \nAbsence of Wings depicts the extraordinary and tragically foreshortened life of A.—Paré’s niece\, Brazilian\, adopted\, racialized\, and living with multiple mental health diagnoses. In her deft and clear poetics\, accompanied by documentary pieces in the tradition of C.D. Wright’s One with Others\, Paré is both witness to and emotionally engaged in the life and death of A. The result is deep and heart-felt\, both factional and fictional\, poetry and prose\, holding its subject\, A.\, heart-close and 3\,000 miles away. Absence of Wings unfolds on many levels; it embraces the private and public spheres; it is as intimate as family\, as worldly as the public and personal politics that surround each life. It both observes and embraces\, always with the important question of the world’s unprotected children in mind. \nIn A Brief and Endless Sea\, award-winning poet Barbara Pelman presents a life lived in poetry\, delving into the small moments and spaces containing the greatest offerings of love\, hope and possibility. \nBorn out of waiting out the lockdown during the early days of the pandemic\, Barbara Pelman’s A Brief and Endless Sea explores a life in retrospect\, beginning with a high school typing class and ending with the Angel Purah\, cutting the ties that bind a soul to a body. Many of the poems in this collection are rooted in Jewish tradition: the prophet Isaiah’s words of comfort; the rabbinical story of the Lost Princess\, that angel and her counterpart\, the Angel Duma. Pelman takes us to difficult places—the dissolution of a marriage\, caring for a parent with dementia. But she doesn’t leave us there\, waiting. Using the power of words to map a route out\, A Brief and Endless Sea pulls us toward life in all of its vibrant details—the simple beauty of a small garden of tomatoes and roses\, the pleasures of teaching poetry\, long walks with a grandson\, and encounters with spirituality. For Pelman\, there is comfort in the making of a poem and in the “smallest life you can love.” Like the glosa form she turns to often\, something small transforms into something larger\, expansive. In A Brief and Endless Sea\, the ordinary becomes extraordinary\, and waiting in itself presents fertile ground for hope and possibility. \nWHEN: Thursday\, November 9th at 7PM (doors at 6:30) \nWHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government St. \nWHAT: A reading and Q&A with Arleen Pare and Barbara Pelman. \nHOW: This event is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-launch-arleen-pare-and-barbara-pelman/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
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SUMMARY:A Dream Wants Waking by Lydia Kwa with host Carleigh Baker
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, November 9th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and Wolsak & Wynn in celebrating the launch of Lydia Kwa’s A Dream Wants Waking\, with host Carleigh Baker. \n“The melding of the technical with the mystical is masterfully done. This thrilling and innovative tale will have readers hooked.” — A Dream Wants Waking (Publishers Weekly\, 15/08/2023) \nThis project has been made possible by the Government of Canada. Ce projet a été rendu possible grâce au gouvernement du Canada. \nVenue & Accessibility \nThe event will be hosted at the Massy Arts Gallery\, at 23 East Pender Street in Chinatown\, Vancouver. \nRegistration is free and required for entrance. \nThe gallery is wheelchair accessible and a gender-neutral washroom is on-site. \nPlease refrain from wearing scents or heavy perfumes. \nFor more on accessibility including parking\, seating\, venue measurements and floor plan\, and how to request ASL interpretation please visit: massyarts.com/accessibility \nCovid Protocols: Masks keep our community safe and are mandatory (N95 masks are recommended as they offer the best protection). We ask if you are showing symptoms\, that you stay home. Thank you kindly. \nAbout the book: \nA Dream Wants Waking (Wolsak & Wynn Publishers Ltd\, 2023) \nIn the mythical Luoyang of 2219 CE\, a half-human half-fox spirit Yinhe has been asked to help liberate the chimeric creatures enslaved in labour in Dream Zone and Interstitium\, two zones of the city where they have been confined. Will Yinhe be able to stop Gui the demon from wreaking destruction on the city and on humankind? This is a novel that interweaves different times and spaces; and speaks to the power of love to motivate discovery and liberation. \nAbout the author: \nLydia Kwa has published two books of poetry (The Colours of Heroines\, 1992; sinuous\, 2013) and four novels (This Place Called Absence\, 2000; The Walking Boy\, 2005 and 2019; Pulse\, 2010 and 2014; Oracle Bone\, 2017). Her fifth novel A Dream Wants Waking is published by Buckrider Books\, an imprint of Wolsak & Wynn in Fall 2023. A third book of poetry from time to new will be published by Gordon Hill Press in Fall 2024. \nShe won the Earle Birney Poetry Prize in 2018; and her novels have been nominated for several awards\, including the Lambda Literary Award for Fiction. \nAbout the host: \nCARLEIGH BAKER is an author and teacher of Cree-Métis and European descent. Born and raised on Stó:lō territory\, she currently lives on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish)\, and səl̓ilwəta (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. Her debut story collection\, Bad Endings (Anvil Press\, 2017)\, won the City of Vancouver Book Award\, and was also a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize\, and the Indigenous Voices Award for fiction. She is a co-editor of Carving Space\, the Indigenous Voices Awards Anthology. Her new story collection\, Last Woman\, is forthcoming with McClelland & Stewart in spring 2024.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/a-dream-wants-waking-by-lydia-kwa-with-host-carleigh-baker/
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SUMMARY:Under the Table Open Mic Series Ft. Sheniz Janmohamed
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday\, November 7th at 6pm PDT / 9pm EDT\, join Massy Arts Society and a collective of brilliant poet organizers for Under The Table Open Mic Series\, featuring Sheniz Janmohamed. \nZoom room and sign-up opens at 5:45 PDT / 8:45 EDT\, show starts at 6pm PDT / 9pm EDT \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. \nPlease join the zoom room with the same email you used on eventbrite. If you have any issues joining please email us at underthetablepoetry@gmail.com \nAbout Under The Table: \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 Voices and Kickstart Disability Arts & Culture\, Under the Table Open Mic Series will be on the first Tuesday of each month with some events in person at Massy Arts Society and others virtually on zoom. \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. It’s a space to witness and engage with the work of incredible artists\, anywhere on their path of sharing their work–from the person who has never shared in front of an audience\, to artists who have read or performed work many times. It’s a space where there’s room to be scared\, and choose to be in community\, share\, and engage with others’ work. It’s a space where we don’t claim to know all the answers\, but are willing to be in the messy\, nuanced space of learning together. Come to “Under the Table” to laugh\, cry\, celebrate\, sit in discomfort\, feel understood\, and be together. \nThis event has been made possible by Massy Voices\, The Government of Canada\, The League of Canadian Poets\, and the Canada Council for the Arts. \nVenue & Accessibility \nThe event will be hosted virtually via zoom. Automatic captioning will be turned on\, we recognize automatic captioning is imperfect. We are working towards securing funding for CART to improve the quality of captioning. We ask anyone speaking or performing to provide a visual description for blind and low vision audience members. We also ask that people don’t message in the chat during poems\, to increase accessibility for people using screen readers. \nWith Author & Featured Poet: \nSheniz Janmohamed was born and raised in Tkaronto with ancestral ties to Kenya and India. A poet\, artist educator and nature artist\, Sheniz is a graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing program at the University of Guelph. \nSheniz has been performing her poetry for 15 years\, including features at the Jaipur Literature Festival\, Aga Khan Museum\, and Vancouver Writers Fest to name a few. Her writing has been published in Arc Poetry Magazine\, Descant and Canthius and she is a regular reviewer for Quill & Quire. She has three collections of poetry\, published by Mawenzi House: Bleeding Light (2010)\, Firesmoke (2014) and Reminders on the Path (2021). \nHer nature art has been featured across Turtle Island\, including the National Arts Centre\, MOCA and the Art Gallery of Mississauga. \nA recipient of the Lois Birkenshaw-Fleming Creative Teaching Scholarship\, Sheniz holds an Artist Educator Mentor certification from the Royal Conservatory. She visits dozens organizations and schools to offer performances\, talks and workshops in poetry and nature art. \nSheniz served as the Writer-in-Residence at the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus (Winter/Spring 2022)\, and is currently working on her fourth book\, a collection of hybrid essays about her grandmother’s garden in the highlands of Kenya.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Author Presentation: Johnnie Christmas
DESCRIPTION:Students in grades 5-7 are invited to join this virtual author presentation with the award-winning author/illustrator of Swim Team\, Johnnie Christmas. \nThis splashy\, contemporary middle-grade graphic novel follows young Bree as she faces her fear of swimming head on\, while at the same time confronting the longstanding barriers of systemic racism set within the public pool system. Johnnie Christmas conveys an engaging story with courage\, and heart and shows us the wave of change can start with the smallest ripple. \nMr. Christmas will talk about his graphic novel Swim Team and how it was created. \nRegistration required. Elementary school teachers can register to receive a Zoom link to attend the presentation with their class. Register online\, email brownr@nvdpl.ca\, or call 604-984-0286\, ext. 8184.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/virtual-author-presentation-johnnie-christmas/
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CATEGORIES:Interview
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SUMMARY:Bottom Rail on Top by DM Bradford with Guests
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, November 6th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and Brick Books in celebrating the launch of Bottom Rail on Top by DM Bradford with with Cecily Nicholson and Junie Désil\, hosted by Mercedes Eng. \n“Not a collection of poetry but the sound of an opening door. Not a book but a tree on the riverbank. Not a line but a kinetic archive. Not a text but a heart. Not a page but a scene of the author at sunrise. Not a day but the gathering of the senses. Not a moment but the heavy low of another place.” — Jordan Abel\, author of Open Spaces\, Injun and NISHGA \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: \nBottom Rail on Top (Brick Books\, 2023) \nA rolling call and response between antebellum Black history and the present that mediates it. \nSomewhere in the cut between Harriet Jacobs and surveillance\, Southampton and sneaker game\, Lake Providence and the supply chain\, Bottom Rail on Top sets off a mediation between the complications of legacy and selfhood. In a kind of archives-powered unmooring of the linear progress story\, award-winning poet D.M. Bradford fragments and recomposes American histories of antebellum Black life and emancipation\, and stages the action in tandem with the matter of his own life. Amidst echoes and complicities\, roots and flights\, lineage and mastery\, it’s a story of stories told in knots and asides\, held together with paper trails\, curiosities\, and hooks — a study that doesn’t end. \nAbout the author & guests: \nDarby Minott Bradford is a poet and translator based in Tio’tia:ke (Montreal). They are the author of Dream of No One but Myself (Brick Books\, 2021)\, which won the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry\, was longlisted for the Grand Prix du livre de Montréal\, and was a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize\, Governor General’s Literary Awards\, and Gerard Lampert Memorial Award. House Within a House by Nicholas Dawson\, Bradford’s first translation\, was published in 2023 by Brick Books. Bottom Rail on Top is their second book. \nCecily Nicholson is the author of four books and a past recipient of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. She is an Assistant Professor in Poetry at the School of Creative Writing\, UBC and will be the 2024/2025 Holloway Lecturer in Poetry and Poetics at UC Berkeley. Cecily volunteers with community impacted by food insecurity and her most recent book HARROWINGS considers Black rurality\, agriculture\, and art history. \nJunie Désil is a poet. Born of immigrant (Haitian) parents on the Traditional Territories of the Kanien’kehá:ka in the island known as Tiohtià:ke (Montréal)\, raised in Treaty 1 Territory (Winnipeg). Junie’s debut poetry collection Eat Salt|Gaze at the Ocean (TalonBooks\, 2020) was a finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Junie currently lives on the traditional territories of the Homalco\, Tla’amin and Klahoose where she is currently working on a novel and a poetry manuscript. \nMercedes Eng is the author of Mercenary English\, Prison Industrial Complex Explodes\, winner of the BC Poetry Prize\, and my yt mama. Her writing has appeared in Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers’ Poetry\, Jacket 2\, Asian American Literary Review\, The Abolitionist\, r/ally (No One Is Illegal)\, and Survaillance (Press Release). Mercedes is at work on a women’s prison anthology as a 2023 SFU Shadbolt Fellow.
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SUMMARY:Your Body Is a Revolution by Tara Teng
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, November 4th at 2pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and Dundurn Press in celebrating Tara Teng’s Your Body is a Revolution: Healing Our Relationships with Our Bodies\, Each Other and the Earth. \nTara will be joined by guests (to be announced) and the event will feature some gentle forms of movement in the gallery space. \n“Highly recommended to anybody searching to decolonize their life through embodiment. A must-read to gain the insight and inspiration that’s needed in today’s world. Having hard conversations is something we need to move forward in a good way as a collective of human beings on Mother Earth.” — Dakota Bear\, Indigenous rights activist\, and cofounder of Decolonial Clothing \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: \nYour Body is a Revolution: Healing Our Relationships with Our Bodies\, Each Other and the Earth (Dundurn Press\, 2023) \nIt’s time to fully inhabit our lives\, to reclaim what has been stolen from us\, and to embrace the wisdom our bodies long to share. \nToo many of us are living disconnected from our bodies\, chasing a constantly moving target of ideal\, and accepting the societal narrative about which bodies are deserving of safety and protection. In an effort to keep ourselves safe\, we shame\, push aside\, and assimilate parts of ourselves that don’t align with the cultural norm. In turn\, we are disconnected from our bodies and therefore from our humanity\, losing sight of the true nature of who we are. \nEmbodiment coach Tara Teng helps us untangle ourselves from centuries of body-based oppression built into our societal systems or masquerading as religion. When we embrace our relationship with our bodies\, we come into alignment with all things: ourselves\, each other\, the earth\, and our spirituality. When we embrace ourselves\, we can take back what society says is too much — too loud\, too feminine\, too masculine\, too gay\, too worldly\, too unique. Now is the time to journey back to our bodies and to celebrate our whole selves. \nAbout the author: \nTara Teng (she/her) is an Embodiment Coach who works in the intersections of spirituality and sexuality. She helps people find their way back to their bodies\, overcome shame\, heal trauma and dismantle purity culture in a way that is in alignment with their values and beliefs so that they can build a healthy\, sexual ethic and thrive in freedom and wholeness. \nAside from her 1:1 coaching\, Tara hosts women’s circles\, workshops\, online classes and retreats on the topics of embodiment\, justice\, sexuality\, and relationships. Her debut book\, Your Body is a Revolution: Healing Our Relationships with Our Bodies\, Each Other and the Earth was published June 2023 from Broadleaf Books and Dundurn Press and is available in print\, e-book and audiobook everywhere books are sold.
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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
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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
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/double-lives-lovely-afternoons-kevin-chong-patti-flather-with-guests/
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231027T180000
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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
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/dream-house-by-cathy-stonehouse-with-guests/
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DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231027T160000
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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
CATEGORIES:Meet & Greet
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231026T180000
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231025T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231025T200000
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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/
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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
DTSTAMP:20260430T211547
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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/
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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
DTSTAMP:20260430T211547
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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
DTSTAMP:20260430T211547
CREATED:20231012T165359Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231018T180000
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/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231018
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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ORGANIZER;CN="Surrey International Writers' Conference":MAILTO:info@siwc.ca
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231017T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231017T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T211547
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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/
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231014T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231014T160000
DTSTAMP:20260430T211547
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:20260430T211547
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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:20260430T211547
CREATED: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.
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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/
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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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