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  • November 2023

  • Wed 1
    November 1, 2023 | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

    Ali Blythe and Jason Jobin Book Launch

    Munro's Books 1108 Government Street, Victoria, BC, Canada

    Please join Munro’s Books in celebrating new books by two local authors: Ali Blythe and Jason Jobin! Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art — Breaking 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 […]

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  • Thu 2
    November 2, 2023 | 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

    Book Signing with Darrel J. McLeod

    Munro's Books 1108 Government Street, Victoria, BC, Canada

    Please join Munro’s Books for a book signing with beloved local author, Darrel J. McLeod!! Darrel J. McLeod will be in-store to sign copies of his debut novel, A Season in Chezgh'un. A subversive novel by acclaimed Cree author Darrel J. McLeod, infused with the contradictory triumph and pain of finding conventional success in a […]

    Free
  • Thu 2
    November 2, 2023 | 6:00 pm - 6:30 pm

    Double Lives & Lovely Afternoons: Kevin Chong & Patti Flather with Guests

    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'. The Double Life of Bensen Yu was just shortlisted for a Scotiabank Giller Prize and Kevin Chong will be joining this […]

  • Thu 2
    November 2, 2023 | 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

    Double Lives & Lovely Afternoons: Kevin Chong & Patti Flather with Marcus Youssef & Christine Quintana

    Massy Arts 23 East Pender, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

    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'. The Double Life of Bensen Yu was just shortlisted for a Scotiabank Giller Prize and Kevin Chong will be joining this […]

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  • Sat 4
    November 4, 2023 | 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

    Your Body Is a Revolution by Tara Teng

    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. Tara will be joined by guests (to be announced) and the event will feature some gentle forms of movement in the […]

  • Mon 6
    November 6, 2023 | 6:00 pm

    Bottom Rail on Top by DM Bradford with Guests

    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. "Not a collection of poetry but the sound of an opening door. Not a book but a tree […]

  • Tue 7
    November 7, 2023 | 9:00 am - 10:00 am

    Virtual Author Presentation: Johnnie Christmas

    Zoom

    Students in grades 5-7 are invited to join this virtual author presentation with the award-winning author/illustrator of Swim Team, Johnnie Christmas. This 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 […]

    Free
  • Tue 7
    November 7, 2023 | 6:00 pm

    Under the Table Open Mic Series Ft. Sheniz Janmohamed

    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. Zoom room and sign-up opens at 5:45 PDT / 8:45 EDT, show starts at 6pm PDT / 9pm EDT (we run on crip time […]

  • Thu 9
    November 9, 2023 | 6:00 pm

    A Dream Wants Waking by Lydia Kwa with host Carleigh Baker

    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. "The melding of the technical with the mystical is masterfully done. This thrilling and innovative tale will have readers hooked." — A Dream Wants Waking […]

  • Thu 9
    November 9, 2023 | 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

    Book Launch: Arleen Pare and Barbara Pelman

    Munro's Books 1108 Government Street, Victoria, BC, Canada

    Please join Munro’s Books for the launch of new books by two beloved local poets! Award-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. Absence of Wings depicts the extraordinary and tragically foreshortened […]

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