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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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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
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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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SUMMARY:A Stranger in the Citadel by Tobias Buckell with Guest Karen Lord
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, October 18th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and Tachyon Publications in celebrating Tobias Buckell’s A Stranger in the Citadel. Tobias will be joined by guest reader Karen Lord. \n“With A Stranger In The Citadel\, Tobias Buckell writes to the moment we live in\, with a clarity and urgency that only fable can provide. Read it.” —John Scalzi\, author of The Kaiju Preservation Society \nThis project has been made possible by the Government of Canada. Ce projet a été rendu possible grâce au gouvernement du Canada. \nVenue & Accessibility \nThe event will be hosted at the Massy Arts Gallery\, at 23 East Pender Street in Chinatown\, Vancouver. \nRegistration is free and required for entrance. \nThe gallery is wheelchair accessible and a gender-neutral washroom is on-site. Please refrain from wearing scents or heavy perfumes. \nFor more on accessibility including parking\, seating\, venue measurements and floor plan\, and how to request ASL interpretation please visit: massyarts.com/accessibility \nCovid Protocols: Masks keep our community safe and are mandatory (N95 masks are recommended as they offer the best protection). We ask if you are showing symptoms\, that you stay home. Thank you kindly. \nAbout the books: \nA Stranger in the Citadel (Tachyon Publications\, 2023) \nFrom powerful storyteller Tobias Buckell (Crystal Rain\, The Tangled Lands)\, a complex novel of humanity’s passion for the written word. At the revolutionary crossroads of magic\, betrayal\, and long-forgotten truths\, a naïve\, compassionate royal and a determined\, hunted librarian discover a dangerous world of mortal and ancient menaces. \nThe life of the youngest musketress of Ninetha has been one of hard training. But Lilith’s days have also contained many pleasures\, the royal privileges of her family’s guardianship of the Cornucopia\, a mystical source of limitless bounty. Lilith has never seen a book\, and she never expects to encounter one within the safety of the citadel. \nWhen Ishmael\, an outcast librarian\, shows up outside the Afriq Gate\, Lilith saves him from immediate execution by her father’s second-in-command\, the zealot Kira. As Lilith’s curiosity draws her to Ishmael\, she lets slip her family’s most dangerous secret to Kira\, sparking a deadly rebellion and an unexpected journey full of stunning revelations. \nThe Blue\, Beautiful World (Del Rey\, Penguin Random House\, 2023) \nAs first contact transforms Earth\, a team of gifted visionaries race to create a new future in this wondrous science fiction novel from the award-winning author of The Best of All Possible Worlds. \n“A complex story of first contact from a unique perspective that is warm\, engaging\, and wildly original.”—Martha Wells\, New York Times bestselling author of The Murderbot Diaries \nThe world is changing\, and humanity must change with it. Rising seas and soaring temperatures have radically transformed the face of Earth. Meanwhile\, Earth is being observed from afar by other civilizations . . . and now they are ready to make contact. \nVying to prepare humanity for first contact are a group of dreamers and changemakers\, including Peter Hendrix\, the genius inventor behind the most advanced VR tech; Charyssa\, a beloved celebrity icon with a passion for humanitarian work; and Kanoa\, a member of a global council of young people drafted to reimagine the relationship between humankind and alien societies. \nAnd they may have an unexpected secret weapon: Owen\, a pop megastar whose ability to connect with his adoring fans is more than charisma. His hidden talent could be the key to uniting Earth as it looks toward the stars. \nBut Owen’s abilities are so unique that no one can control him and so seductive that he cannot help but use them. Can he transcend his human limitations and find the freedom he has always dreamed of? Or is he doomed to become the dictator of his nightmares? \nAbout the authors: \nCalled “violent\, poetic and compulsively readable” by Maclean’s\, science fiction author Tobias S. Buckell is a New York Times bestselling writer and World Fantasy Award winner. He is biracial\, and was born in the Caribbean\, grew up in Grenada\, and spent time in the British and US Virgin Islands. His Xenowealth series begins with Crystal Rain. Along with other standalone novels and his almost one hundred stories\, Buckell’s works have been translated into twenty different languages. He has been nominated for the Hugo and Nebula Awards\, and the Astounding Award for Best New Science Fiction Author. Buckell currently lives in Bluffton\, Ohio with his wife and two daughters\, where he teaches Creative Writing at Bluffton University. He’s online at http://www.TobiasBuckell.com and is also an instructor at the Stonecoast MFA in Creative Writing program. \nBarbadian novelist Dr. Karen Lord is the author of Redemption in Indigo\, which won the 2008 Frank Collymore Literary Award\, the 2010 Carl Brandon Parallax Award\, the 2011 William L. Crawford Award\, the 2011 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature and the 2012 Kitschies Golden Tentacle (Best Debut). Her other works include the science fiction novels The Best of All Possible Worlds and The Galaxy Game\, and the crime- fantasy novel Unraveling. She edited the anthology New Worlds\, Old Ways: Speculative Tales from the Caribbean. Her latest book\, The Blue\, Beautiful World\, was published in August 2023.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/a-stranger-in-the-citadel-by-tobias-buckell-with-guest-karen-lord/
LOCATION:BC
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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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SUMMARY:Crushed Wild Mint by Jess Housty with Guests
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday\, October 17th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and Nightwood Editions in celebrating the launch of Jess Housty’s Crushed Wild Mint with guests. Jess will be joined by host Selina Boan\, and reader Samantha Nock. Audrey Siegl will provide the Welcome. \nVenue & Accessibility \nThe event will be hosted at the Massy Arts Gallery\, at 23 East Pender Street in Chinatown\, Vancouver. \nRegistration is free and required for entrance. \nThe gallery is wheelchair accessible and a gender-neutral washroom is on-site. \nPlease refrain from wearing scents or heavy perfumes. \nFor more on accessibility including parking\, seating\, venue measurements and floor plan\, and how to request ASL interpretation please visit: massyarts.com/accessibility \nCovid Protocols: Masks keep our community safe and are mandatory (N95 masks are recommended as they offer the best protection). We ask if you are showing symptoms\, that you stay home. Thank you kindly. \nAbout the book \nCrushed Wild Mint (Nightwood Editions\, 2023) \nCrushed Wild Mint is a collection of poems embodying land love and ancestral wisdom\, deeply rooted to the poet’s motherland and their experience as a parent\, herbalist and careful observer of the patterns and power of their territory. Jess Housty grapples with the natural and the supernatural\, transformation and the hard work of living that our bodies are doing—held by mountains\, by oceans\, by ancestors and by the grief and love that come with communing. \nHousty’s poems are textural—blossoms\, feathers\, stubborn blots of snow—and reading them is a sensory offering that invites the reader’s whole body to be transported in the experience. Their writing converses with mountains\, animals and all our kin beyond the human realm as they sit beside their ancestors’ bones and move throughout the geography of their homeland. Housty’s exploration of history and futurity\, ceremony and sexuality\, grieving and thriving invites us to look both inward and outward to redefine our sense of community. \nThrough these poems we can explore living and loving as a practice\, and placemaking as an essential part of exploring our humanity and relationality. \nWhen the mountains of your territory are your ancestors\, you paint the landscapes as Jess Housty does in this evocative\, powerful collection of poetry: in the language of ceremony as taut as the inner surface of a mussel shell when the meat is stripped away. Their hyperlocality is precise medicine\, an expansive\, generous meditation on the mutual care of mountains\, the forgiving veins of rivers\, all the liminal territories and beings soaked in the verdant magic of the Pacific Northwest Coast. –Eden Robinson \nI return to read and then stop to wonder\, return to read and still wonder: How is this so true? Let these words love you. They’ll sing. –Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas \nAbout the author: \nJess Housty (‘Cúagilákv) is a parent\, writer and grassroots activist with Heiltsuk (Indigenous) and mixed settler ancestry. They serve their community as an herbalist and land-based educator alongside broader work in the non-profit and philanthropic sectors. They are inspired and guided by relationships with their homelands\, their extended family\, and their non-human kin\, and they are committed to raising their children in a similar framework of kinship and land love. They reside and thrive in their unceded ancestral territory in the community of Bella Bella\, BC. \nAbout the host: \nSelina Boan is a white settler-nehiyaw (Cree) writer living on the traditional\, unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-waututh)\, and sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) peoples. Her debut poetry collection\, Undoing Hours\, was published in Spring 2021 by Nightwood Editions which won the 2022 Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Indigenous Voices Award for Published Poetry in English. Her work has been published widely\, including The Best Canadian Poetry 2018 and 2020. She is a poetry editor for CV2. \nAbout the reader: \nSamantha Nock is an apihtaw’kos’an iskwew who grew up in Treaty 8 territory in Northeast BC. Her family is originally from Ile-a-la-Crosse (Sakitawak)\, SK. Her debut book of poetry A Family of Dreamers will be available Fall 2024 with Talon Books \n______ \nThis project has been made possible by the Government of Canada. Ce projet a été rendu possible grâce au gouvernement du Canada.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/crushed-wild-mint-by-jess-housty-with-guests/
LOCATION:BC
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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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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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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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SUMMARY:Sonnets from a Cell by Bradley Peters with Guests
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, October 13th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and Brick Books in launching Bradley Peters’ Sonnets from a Cell. Bradley will be joined by Rob Taylor\, Kayla Czaga\, Marc Perez\, Nick Thran\, and host\, Sheryda Warrener. \nThis project has been made possible by the Government of Canada. Ce projet a été rendu possible grâce au gouvernement du Canada. \nVenue & Accessibility \nThe event will be hosted at the Massy Arts Gallery\, at 23 East Pender Street in Chinatown\, Vancouver. \nRegistration is free and required for entrance. \nThe gallery is wheelchair accessible and a gender-neutral washroom is on-site. Please refrain from wearing scents or heavy perfumes. \nFor more on accessibility including parking\, seating\, venue measurements and floor plan\, and how to request ASL interpretation please visit: massyarts.com/accessibility \nCovid Protocols: Masks keep our community safe and are mandatory (N95 masks are recommended as they offer the best protection). We ask if you are showing symptoms\, that you stay home. Thank you kindly. \nAbout the book: \nSonnets from a Cell (Brick Books\, 2023) \nPoems for and about the incarcerated. \nMoving from riots to mall parkades to church\, the poems in Bradley Peters’ debut Sonnets from a Cell mix inmate speech\, prison psychology\, skateboard slang and contemporary lyricism in a way that is tough and tender\, that is accountable both to Peters’ own days “caught between the past and nothing” and to the structures that sentence so many “to lose.” Written behind doors our culture too often keeps closed\, this is poetry reaching out for moments of longing\, wild joy and grace. \nDrawing on his own experiences as a teenager and young adult in and out of the Canadian prison system\, Peters has written both a personal reckoning and a damning and eloquent account of our violence- and enforcement-obsessed capitalist and patriarchal cultures. \nAbout the author: \nBradley Peters is a poet\, actor\, and carpenter from Mission\, BC. His poetry has been published in numerous literary magazines\, has been shortlisted for The Fiddlehead‘s Ralph Gustafson Award\, has twice been the runner-up for Subterrain‘s Lush Triumphant Award\, and in 2019 placed first in Grain Magazine‘s Short Grain contest. Sonnets from a Cell is his first book. \nAbout the host: \nSheryda Warrener is a poet and teacher\, most recently the author of Test Piece (Coach House Books\, 2022). Her work has been published in the Malahat Review\, Maisonneuve\, Hazlitt\, The Believer\, among other journals. A recipient of the Puritan’s Thomas Morton Memorial Prize for poetry and a finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize\, she teaches poetry and interdisciplinary forms in the School of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. \nAbout the readers: \nRob Taylor is the author of four poetry collections\, including The News (Gaspereau Press\, 2016) and Strangers (Biblioasis\, 2021). His fifth collection\, Weather\, will be published by Gaspereau Press in Spring 2024. He lives in Port Moody\, on the unceded territory of the Tsleil-Waututh and Kwikwetlem peoples\, and teaches creative writing at SFU and UFV\, where he gets to work with talented writers who sometimes – like tonight! – go on to do great things. \nKayla Czaga is the author For Your Safety Please Hold On and Dunk Tank\, which were both nominated for the BC and Yukon Book Prizes’ Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Often anthologized in the Best Canadian Poetry in English series\, her work also appears in PRISM International\, The Walrus\, The Fiddlehead\, and elsewhere. Her third collection\, Midway\, will be released by House of Anansi in 2024. \nMarc Perez is the author of the chapbook\, Borderlands (Anstruther Press\, 2020)\, and the full-length collection\, Dayo (Brick Books\, Spring 2024). His fiction\, creative nonfiction\, and poetry have appeared in The Fiddlehead\, EVENT\, decomp journal\, CV2\, PRISM international\, among others. His poems are also forthcoming in Magdaragat: an Anthology of Filipino-Canadian Writing (Cormorant Press\, 2023). Born and raised in Manila\, he lives with his wife and two children in the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish\, and Tsleil-Waututh nations. \nNick Thran is the author of three collections of poems. His second collection\, Earworm (Nightwood Editions\, 2011)\, won the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. After stops in Toronto\, Victoria\, New York\, Calgary\, Madrid and Montreal\, he now lives in Fredericton\, New Brunswick\, on the unceded and unsurrendered territory of the Wolastoqiyik\, where\, in addition to writing\, he works as an editor and bookseller.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/sonnets-from-a-cell-by-bradley-peters-with-guests/
LOCATION:BC
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SUMMARY:Reuniting with Strangers by Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio with Guests
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, October 12th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and Douglas & McIntyre in celebrating the launch of Reuniting with Strangers\, a novel by Jennilee Austria-Bonifacio. Jennilee will be joined by Kawika Guillermo\, Leah Ranada\, Vincent Ternida\, and Christine Añonuevo. \nThis project has been made possible by the Government of Canada. Ce projet a été rendu possible grâce au gouvernement du Canada. \nVenue & Accessibility \nThe event will be hosted at the Massy Arts Gallery\, at 23 East Pender Street in Chinatown\, Vancouver. \nRegistration is free and required for entrance. \nThe gallery is wheelchair accessible and a gender-neutral washroom is on-site. Please refrain from wearing scents or heavy perfumes. \nFor more on accessibility including parking\, seating\, venue measurements and floor plan\, and how to request ASL interpretation please visit: massyarts.com/accessibility \nCovid Protocols: Masks keep our community safe and are mandatory (N95 masks are recommended as they offer the best protection). We ask if you are showing symptoms\, that you stay home. Thank you kindly. \nAbout the author: \nJennilee Austria-Bonifacio’s work as a school board consultant\, researcher\, journalist\, Little Manila tour guide\, and settlement worker led to her novel\, Reuniting with Strangers. As the founder of Filipino Talks\, she builds bridges between Canadian educators and Filipino families. Her stories have been published in Geist\, TAYO Literary Magazine\, Changing the Face of Canadian Literature\, and Magdaragat: An Anthology of Filipino-Canadian Writing. She was a finalist for the Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Authors Award. As a founding member of Pluma\, a collective of Toronto-based Filipino writers\, she loves launches that are a celebration of multiple Filipino-Canadian books! \nHer favourite Tagalog word is “kwan” because it’s a brilliant filler for many words! \nAbout the host: \nKawika Guillermo is an award-winning author of two novels and the just-released prose-poetry book\, Nimrods: a fake-punk self-hurt anti-memoir (2023). Under his patrilineal name\, Christopher Patterson\, he is an Associate Professor in UBC’s Social Justice Institute\, and is the author of the nonfiction books Transitive Cultures and Open World Empire. \nHis favourite Filipino word is “pogi” because someone called him that once and it made his day. \nAbout the readers: \nLeah Ranada’s stories have been published in On Spec\, Room Magazine\, Santa Ana River Review\, emerge 2013\, and elsewhere. Her writing is informed by her childhood in Metro Manila and eventual move to Vancouver in 2006\, where she made writing her permanent home. \nIn 2013\, she attended The Writer’s Studio (TWS) at SFU. She released her debut novel\, The Cine Star Salon (NeWest Press)\, in 2021. She is honoured to have her work included in Magdaragat: An Anthology of Filipino-Canadian Writing. \nHer favourite Tagalog word is “kilig” (a shiver of pleasure) which has no translatable word in English. \nVincent Ternida is the author of the novella The Seven Muses of Harry Salcedo. His essays\, articles\, and poetry have appeared in several publications including The Polyglot\, The British Columbia Review\, rabble.ca\, Rappler\, Voice and Verse Poetry Magazine\, and PR&TA Journal. Acacia\, a short story he developed in Diaspora Dialogues has been selected in Magdaragat: An Anthology Filipino-Canadian Writing; published by Cormorant Books in 2023. He lives in Vancouver. \nHis favorite Filipino phrase is “Bahala Na”. Reframing the usual dismissive usage for said term\, he sees it more as an absurdist rebellion against late stage capitalism’s kafkaesque rules and mores we mindlessly adhere to everyday; wherein he can just say “Bahala Na”\, do the said activity anyway\, throwing all of his faith to either\, knowing that everything will be just fine. \nChristine Añonuevo is a writer\, community organizer & PhD candidate in Human and Health Sciences at the University of Northern British Columbia. Christine dwells in South Hazelton on the unceded and ancestral territory of the Gitxsan nation. She enjoys long walks with her dog Ruckus along the Skeena river. Her favourite pastime is prying her kids away from their electronic devices to teach them how to write cursive\, read analogue watches and identify constellations. \nShe loves the Tagalog word “tadhana” because it evokes our relationship with the cosmos.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/reuniting-with-strangers-by-jennilee-austria-bonifacio-with-guests/
LOCATION:BC
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231015T213000
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SUMMARY:Victoria Festival of Authors
DESCRIPTION:Since 2016\, Victoria Festival of Authors (VFA) has been the largest celebration of books and book lovers on Vancouver Island. Each fall we invite authors from our region and beyond to share their books and ideas with Victoria’s readers. We showcase established and emerging poets\, prose writers\, and other storytellers\, with artistic achievement\, creative innovation and a diversity of voices driving our mandate. Our traditional five-day festival includes author readings\, discussion panels and workshops. Since 2021\, VFA has been a hybrid festival\, with in-person and virtual-only events. Most of our in-person events are livestreamed\, with recordings available on VFA’s YouTube channel. \nThis year VFA is focused on accessibility and inclusion; we are addressing all barriers to participation\, including financial barriers. As such\, tickets for all virtual events and most in-person events will have sliding-scale pricing\, with a “no fee” option. All events will be captioned\, with ASL translation upon request.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/victoria-festival-of-authors/
LOCATION:Langham Court Theatre\, 805 Langham Court\, Victoria\, BC\, V8V 4J3\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival
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DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231011T180000
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SUMMARY:River Meets the Sea by Rachael Moorthy with guest Harrison Mooney
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, October 11th\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and House of Anansi Press in celebrating Rachael Moorthy’s debut novel\, River Meets the Sea. Rachael will be joined by guest reader Invisible Boy author Harrison Mooney. \n“Brilliant and inventive\, River Meets the Sea is elegantly told in heartrending poetry\, flowing smoothly between the protagonists’ histories\, the forces that propel them\, and their inevitable meeting.” —FRANCESCA EKWUYASI\, AUTHOR OF BUTTER HONEY PIG BREAD \nThis project has been made possible by the Government of Canada. Ce projet a été rendu possible grâce au gouvernement du Canada. \nVenue & Accessibility \nThe event will be hosted at the Massy Arts Gallery\, at 23 East Pender Street in Chinatown\, Vancouver. \nRegistration is free and required for entrance. \nThe gallery is wheelchair accessible and a gender-neutral washroom is on-site. Please refrain from wearing scents or heavy perfumes. \nFor more on accessibility including parking\, seating\, venue measurements and floor plan\, and how to request ASL interpretation please visit: massyarts.com/accessibility \nCovid Protocols: Masks keep our community safe and are mandatory (N95 masks are recommended as they offer the best protection). We ask if you are showing symptoms\, that you stay home. Thank you kindly. \nAbout the book: \nRiver Meets the Sea (House of Anansi Press\, 2023) \nAn enthralling nautical epic\, River Meets the Sea traces the dual timelines of two men with displaced Indigenous identity: a white-passing foster child in 1940s Vancouver and a teenage immigrant in the suburbs of Nanaimo who is racially coded as Black in the 1970s. \nA natural-born storyteller\, Ronny is a left-handed “alley mutt” without a birth certificate who searches for his mother everywhere — most powerfully\, he hears her voice in the surging Stó:lō River. Born in the middle of the ocean on a merchant ship departing Ceylon\, Chandra is a dark-skinned Dravidian boy with complicated roots and who finds his haven from his colourist mother and the pressure to assimilate by swimming and surfing in the Salish Sea. \nMoving gracefully between these parallel stories like a wave\, the novel traces the seemingly separate lives of these sensitive young men\, their displaced Indigenous identities\, and their everlasting connections to water. When their troubled paths inevitably cross\, they form a sacred bond based on the mutual understanding of what it means to be othered\, illuminating the interconnectedness of humanity and our innate relationship with the natural world. \nAbout the author: \nRachael Moorthy is a storyteller of all trades from the Salish Sea to Switzerland. She grew up identifying the way the world told her to: half Black\, half white\, because including the complexity of her diasporic and displaced Indigenous roots often took too much breath. Today she exists in a perpetual state of Mixed Girl Blues. Her debut novel\, River Meets the Sea\, featured on CBC’s Canadian Fiction to Read in 2023 list and Capsule Stories Most Anticipated Books of 2023\, follows the seemingly separate timelines of two young men with displaced Indigenous roots: one coded as Black\, one white-passing\, until their lives ultimately intersect on the sequoia-lined Salish Coast. Her writing was short-listed for The Malahat Review’s 2020 Far Horizon Award and has appeared in publications such as PRISM\, SAD Mag\, and TSOW. \nAbout the guest reader: \nHarrison Mooney\, Invisible Boy (HarperCollins\, 2022) is a writer and journalist. Born to a West African immigrant mother\, he was adopted as an infant by a white family and raised in the Bible belt of British Columbia. He has worked for the Vancouver Sun for nearly a decade as a reporter\, an editor and a columnist. His writing has also appeared in the National Post\, the Guardian\, Yahoo and Maclean’s. Harrison Mooney lives in East Vancouver with his family.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/river-meets-the-sea-by-rachael-moorthy-with-guest-harrison-mooney/
LOCATION:BC
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DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231011T140000
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SUMMARY:Reconciliation Reading Series (#6): “Birdie”
DESCRIPTION:Spiritual Path to Awakening (SPA) is proud to offer Julia Rohan’s Reconciliation Reading Series\, as an opportunity for learning and dialogue related to reconciliation. SPA takes pride in our commitment to making Indigenous Knowledge and Truth and Reconciliation an integral part of our event culture. This Reconciliation Reading Series is the seventh Active Allyship Event. \nThe sixth Reconciliation Reading Series will take place over 3-consecutive weeks in October 2023 and focus on “Birdie” by Tracey Lindberg. \nAdditional details and registration can be found on our website: https://abbyspa.com/collections/programming/products/reconciliation-reading-series-6-birdie
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/reconciliation-reading-series-6-birdie/
LOCATION:Trinity Memorial United Church\, Abbotsford\, 33737 George Ferguson Way\, Abbotsford\, British Columbia\, V2S 2M4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Spiritual Path to Awakening (SPA)":MAILTO:path.awakening@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231010T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231010T180000
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SUMMARY:“And So To Tenderness I Add My Action”: Illness\, Disability\, & Poetry
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday\, October 10th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts and Massy Books in welcoming Steffi Tad-y\, Kess Mohammadi\, and Jody Chan for an online poetry event around the topics of tenderness and disability. \nVenue & Accessibility \nThis event will be held on ZOOM at 6pm Pacific Time. \nClosed captioning is available through ZOOM. \nThis event is free but registration is required. \nAbout the authors: \nBorn and raised in Manila\, Philippines\, Steffi Tad-y (she/her) is a poet & writer based in the territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish\, & Tsleil-Waututh Nations\, also known as Vancouver\, British Columbia. Her chapbook of poems Merienda published by Rahila’s Ghost Press was nominated for the 2021 bpNichol Chapbook Award. In 2022\, she published her debut book of poetry From the Shoreline with Gordon Hill Press. Steffi’s poems often reflect on kinship\, diasporic geographies\, & formations of the mind. \nKhashayar “Kess” Mohammadi (They/Them) is a queer\, Iranian born\, Toronto-based Poet\, Writer and Translator. They were shortlisted for the 2021 Austin Clarke poetry prize\, 2022’s Arc Poem of the year award\, The Malahat Review’s 2023 Open Season awards for poetry and they are the winner of the 2021 Vallum Poetry Prize. They are the author of four poetry chapbooks and three translated poetry chapbooks. They have released two full-length collections of poetry with Gordon Hill Press. Their full-length collaborative poetry manuscript “G” is forthcoming with Palimpsest press Fall 2023\, and their full-length collection of experimental dream-poems “Daffod*ls” is forthcoming from Pamenar Press Fall 2023. \nJody Chan (they/them) is a writer\, drummer\, therapist\, and organizer based in Toronto/Tkaronto. Their writing explores themes of home\, belonging\, kinship\, queerness\, and Madness/disability. They are the author of haunt (Damaged Goods Press)\, all our futures (PANK)\, and sick (Black Lawrence Press)\, winner of the 2018 St. Lawrence Book Award and 2021 Trillium Award for Poetry. They are also a performing member of Raging Asian Womxn Taiko Drummers (RAW). Their work has received fellowships and support from VONA\, Tin House\, Feminist Art Collective (FAC)\, Toronto Arts Council\, Ontario Arts Council\, and Canada Council for the Arts.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/and-so-to-tenderness-i-add-my-action-illness-disability-poetry/
LOCATION:BC
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DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231008T170000
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SUMMARY:An Afternoon with Claire G. Coleman
DESCRIPTION:On Sunday\, October 8th at 2pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and Emily Carr University of Art and Design in welcoming bestselling and award-winning author Claire G. Coleman. \n“Coleman’s targets in Enclave are clear: racism\, homophobia\, transphobia\, inequality – all enabled\, amplified\, by an atomised\, consumerist society. … ‘Aboriginal people live in a dystopia every day\,’ Coleman told the Guardian in 2017; as she wrote in Lies\, Damned Lies\, ‘the apocalypse is not coming\, the apocalypse has begun.'” — The Guardian \nVenue & Accessibility \nThe event will be hosted at the Massy Arts Gallery\, at 23 East Pender Street in Chinatown\, Vancouver. \nRegistration is free and required for entrance. \nThe gallery is wheelchair accessible and a gender-neutral washroom is on-site. Please refrain from wearing scents or heavy perfumes. \nFor more on accessibility including parking\, seating\, venue measurements and floor plan\, and how to request ASL interpretation please visit: massyarts.com/accessibility \nCovid Protocols: Masks keep our community safe and are mandatory (N95 masks are recommended as they offer the best protection). We ask if you are showing symptoms\, that you stay home. Thank you kindly. \nAbout the author: \nClaire G. Coleman is a Wirlomin Noongar woman whose ancestral country is on the south coast of Western Australia. Born in Perth she has spent most of her life in Naarm. She writes fiction\, non-fiction and verse and has been extensively published. \nHer debut novel Terra Nullius was published by Hachette in Australia and Small Beer in the US and was listed for over 15 awards. The Old Lie (Hachette 2019) is her second novel. Lies Damned Lies: A Personal Exploration of the Impact of Colonisation\, her first nonfiction book\, was published in September 2021 by Ultimo Press and won the 2022 University of Queensland Non Fiction Award. Enclave (Hachette 2022)\, her third novel\, was long listed for the Miles Franklin Literary Award. \nAbout the moderator: \n(coming soon) \nAbout the books: \nTerra Nullius (Small Beer Press\, 2018) \nTerra Nullius (def): land belonging to no one; no man’s land \n“Jacky was running. There was no thought in his head\, only an intense drive to run. There was no sense he was getting anywhere\, no plan\, no destination\, no future. All he had was a sense of what was behind\, what he was running from. Jacky was running.” \nThe Natives of the Colony are restless. The Settlers are eager to bring peace to their new home\, and they have a plan for how to achieve it. They will tear Native families apart and provide re-education to those who do not understand why they should submit to their betters. \nPeace and prosperity are worth any price\, but who will pay it? This rich land\, Australia\, will provide for all if only the Natives can learn their place. \nJacky has escaped the Home where the Settlers sent him\, but where will he go? The Head of the Department for the Protection of Natives\, known to Settlers and Natives alike as the Devil\, is chasing Jacky. And when the Devil catches him\, Sister Bagra\, who knows her duty to the ungodly\, will be waiting for Jacky back at Home. \nAn incendiary\, timely\, and fantastical debut from an essential Australian Aboriginal writer\, Claire G. Coleman. \nDo you recognize this story? Look again. \nThis is not Australia as we know it. This is not the Australia of our history books. This Terra Nullius —shortlisted for the 2018 Stella Prize and Highly Commended for the Victorian Premiers Literary Awards — is something new\, but all too familiar. \nEnclave (Hatchette Australia\, 2023) \n‘These are troubling times. The world is a dangerous place\,’ the voice of the Chairman said. ‘I can continue to assure you of this: within the Wall you are perfectly safe.’ \nChristine could not sleep\, she could not wake\, she could not think. She stared\, half-blind\, at the cold screen of her smartphone. She was told the Agency was keeping them safe from the dangers outside\, an outside world she would never see. \nShe never imagined questioning what she was told\, what she was allowed to know\, what she was permitted to think. She never even thought there were questions to ask. \nThe enclave was the only world she knew\, the world outside was not safe. Staying or leaving was not a choice she had the power to make. But then Christine dared start thinking . . . and from that moment\, danger was everywhere. \nIn our turbulent times\, Claire G. Coleman’s Enclave is a powerful dystopian allegory that confronts the ugly realities of racism\, homophobia\, surveillance\, greed and privilege and the self-destructive distortions that occur when we ignore our shared humanity. \n_____ \nThis project has been made possible by the Government of Canada. Ce projet a été rendu possible grâce au gouvernement du Canada.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/an-afternoon-with-claire-g-coleman/
LOCATION:BC
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DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20231007T170000
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SUMMARY:Daddy Lessons by Steacy Easton with host Andrea Warner
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, October 7th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and Coach House Books for the Vancouver launch of Daddy Lessons by Steacy Easton with host Andrea Warner. \nPart memoir\, part literary study\, part formalist exercise in excitement\, Daddy Lessons is a transgressive text of pleasure\, bodies\, the Lord\, and the West. \nVenue & Accessibility \nThe event will be hosted at the Massy Arts Gallery\, at 23 East Pender Street in Chinatown\, Vancouver.\nRegistration is free and required for entrance. \nThe gallery is wheelchair accessible and a gender-neutral washroom is on-site. Please refrain from wearing scents or heavy perfumes. \nFor more on accessibility including parking\, seating\, venue measurements and floor plan\, and how to request ASL interpretation please visit: massyarts.com/accessibility \nCovid Protocols: Masks keep our community safe and are mandatory (N95 masks are recommended as they offer the best protection). We ask if you are showing symptoms\, that you stay home. Thank you kindly. \nAbout the book: \nDaddy Lessons (Coach House Books\, 2023) \nIn this post-gender\, post-sexuality\, queer prairie Decameron\, Steacy Easton’s sexual anxiety becomes textual anxiety. This is a messy history of Mormon missionaries\, bathhouses\, Anglican boarding schools\, the back rooms of prairie bars\, Montreal classrooms\, and the many religious spaces that have tried to snuff out queer desire while turning a blind eye to abuse. These are provocative tales to turn on\, offend\, and sentimentalize. Easton explores the seminal texts of their sexuality\, from Frank O’Hara to Neil LaBute\, Kip Moore to Lorelei James\, and delves into their own encounters as they came of age. These daddy lessons are blunt about the ambivalences of trauma and the pleasures of disobedience\, slippery and difficult\, reveling in the funk of memory and desire. \nAbout the author: \nSteacy Easton is a writer and visual artist\, originally from Edmonton\, who has lived in Hamilton for more than seven years. They have written on gender\, sexuality\, and country music for publications including Slate\, NPR\, and the Atlantic Online. Their upcoming books include Why Tammy Wynette Matters for University of Texas and a 33 1⁄3 Volume for Bloomsbury. They were the 2022 Martha Street Artist Residence in Winnipeg. \nAbout the host: \nAndrea Warner writes and talks. A lot. She’s the author of 2023’s Rise Up and Sing! Power\, Protest\, and Activism in Music\, 2018’s Buffy Sainte-Marie: The Authorized Biography\, and co-wrote the 2022 documentary Buffy Sainte-Marie: Carry It On. Andrea is a settler who was born and raised in Vancouver on the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish\, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. \n____ \nThis project has been made possible by the Government of Canada. Ce projet a été rendu possible grâce au gouvernement du Canada.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/daddy-lessons-by-steacy-easton-with-host-andrea-warner/
LOCATION:BC
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SUMMARY:Becoming a Matriarch by Helen Knott with Jónína Kirton
DESCRIPTION:RELAUNCHED WITH NEW DATE: \nOn Friday\, October 6th at 6:00pm\, join Massy Arts Society\, Massy Books\, the Museum of Vancouver\, and Knopf Canada for the launch of Helen Knott’s Becoming a Matriarch with host Jónína Kirton. \n“Becoming a Matriarch is a feast of remarkable\, colourful\, deep and profoundly raw storytelling. Helen Knott is one of the greatest Indigenous literary artists of our time.” —Brandi Morin\, author of Our Voice of Fire: A Memoir of a Warrior Rising. \nThis project has been made possible by the Government of Canada. Ce projet a été rendu possible grâce au gouvernement du Canada. \nRegistration is free/by donation\, open to all and required for entrance. \nPurchase Becoming a Matriarch at Massy Books in advance or in person at the event. \nVenue & Accessibility \nThe event will be hosted at the Museum of Vancouver’s Joyce Walley Room\, 1100 Chestnut St\, Vancouver\, BC. \nRegistrants can enjoy free admission to the museum all day\, at any time before the event [10am to 6pm]. Just show your ticket to the event at the front desk. To see which exhibitions are currently on view\, check out this link: https://museumofvancouver.ca/current-exhibitions \nPlease refrain from wearing scents or heavy perfumes. \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. \nParking & Directions \nThe Museum of Vancouver website has detailed descriptions of how to reach the museum by bus\, ferry\, on foot or by car. Note that the MOV parking lot is an Easy park lot with Easy park rates and is strictly monitored by Easypark. A parking violation ticket can cost $80! \nPlease visit their site to find out how best to arrive. \nAbout The Book: \nBecoming a Matriarch (Knopf Canada\, 2023) \nWhen matriarchs begin to disappear\, there is a choice to either step into the places they left behind\, or to craft a new space. \nHelen Knott’s debut memoir\, In My Own Moccasins\, wowed reviewers\, award juries\, and readers alike with its profoundly honest and moving account of addiction\, intergenerational trauma\, resilience\, and survival. Now\, in her highly anticipated second book\, Knott returns with a chronicle of grief\, love\, and legacy. \nHaving lost both her mom and grandmother in just over six months\, forced to navigate the fine lines between matriarchy\, martyrdom\, and codependency\, Knott realizes she must let go\, not just of the women who raised her\, but of the woman she thought she was. \nWoven into the pages are themes of mourning\, sobriety through loss\, and generational dreaming. Becoming a Matriarch is charted with poetic insights\, sass\, humour\, and heart\, taking the reader over the rivers and mountains of Dane Zaa territory in Northeastern British Columbia\, along the cobbled streets of Antigua\, Guatemala\, and straight to the heart of what matriarchy truly means. This is a journey through pain\, on the way to becoming. \nAbout the author: \nHelen Knott is a Dane Zaa\, Cree\, Metis and mixed Euro-descent woman from Prophet River First Nations living in Fort St. John\, B.C. She is the author of the nationally best-selling book\, In My Own Moccasins. Her second book\, Becoming a Matriarch\, has been released through Knopf Doubleday Publishing. Helen has a bachelor’s degree in social work and has worked in advocacy and wellness with Indigenous communities for almost a decade. Helen has pieces published ranging from poetry to academic articles that focus on the connection between violence against Indigenous lands and violence against Indigenous bodies. She is currently taking time to work on her third book\, a fiction\, whose story will be rooted in her peoples territory. \nAbout the host: \nJónína Kirton\, an Icelandic and Red River Métis poet was born in Portage la Prairie\, Manitoba\, Treaty 1\, the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe\, Cree\, Oji-Cree\, Dakota\, Dene peoples and the homeland of the Métis. She graduated from the Simon Fraser University’s Writer’s Studio in 2007. She released her first book\, page as bone ~ ink as blood\, in 2015 and was sixty-one when she received the 2016 Vancouver’s Mayor’s Arts Award for an Emerging Artist in the Literary Arts category. Her second collection of poetry\, An Honest Woman\, was a finalist in the 2018 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Her third book\, Standing in a River of Time\, released in 2022\, merges poetry and lyrical memoir to take us on a journey exposing the intergenerational effects of colonization on her Métis family.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/becoming-a-matriarch-by-helen-knott-with-jonina-kirton/
LOCATION:BC
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SUMMARY:Furniture Music by Gail Scott with guest Cecily Nicholson
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, October 5th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and Wave Books for the Vancouver launch of Furniture Music by Gail Scott. Gail will be joined by HARROWINGS author Cecily Nicholson. \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: \nFurniture Music (Wave Books\, 2023) \nIn Furniture Music\, Montreal luminary Gail Scott chronicles her years in Lower Manhattan during the Obama era\, in a community of poets at the junction between formally radical and political art. Immersing herself in a New York topography that includes St. Mark’s Poetry Project and the Bowery Poetry Club\, Scott writes from a ‘Northern’ awareness that is both immediate and inquisitive\, from Obama’s election to Occupy Wall Street and Hurricane Sandy. Here\, readers are situated in conversations around citizenship\, gender performance\, class\, race\, feminism\, and what it means to be writing now. Scott’s project is polyvocal\, also resonating with the voices of a host of earlier writers and philosophers\, notably\, Gertrude Stein\, Viktor Shklovsky\, and Walter Benjamin. The result is a staggering work of insight and hope during a critical time in American politics and art. \nHarrowings (Talonbooks\, 2022) \nSet mainly in the rural\, HARROWINGS connects with Black intellectual and art history in relation to agriculture. The poems include pulses of memoir from the poet’s childhood growing up on a farm\, as well as from more recent pandemic experiences volunteering for a local agricultural enterprise led by people who were formerly incarcerated. Considering movements organizing for food security and related\, resurgent practices\, HARROWINGS also contends with “the farm” as a tract of colonial advance. Tropes of tradition and supremacy are confronted in this study of biome\, plants\, and soil. Despite episodic and chronic illness\, and by way of practical tasks such as sowing\, pruning\, and watering\, the poetry advances with love towards abolitionist futures. \nAbout the authors: \nGail Scott’s prose works are laboratories for concocting tales about cities across language/ genre/gender boundaries. Her 2021 poetics\, Permanent Revolution\, engaging with radical prose writers across the continent \, was short-listed for Le Grand Prix du livre de Montréal. Other acclaimed city novels include The Obituary\, a fractalled tale of suppressed diversity in post-millennial Québec\, also a Grand Prix finalist; Heroine\, about radical art and politics in turbulent 80s Montréal; and My Paris\, about a sad diarist looking for a lost avant-garde in 90s Paris. Her translation of Michael Delisle’s Le désarroi du matelot was a Governor General finalist. She won major studio grants (Le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec) for New York and Paris. She was an invited writer at Brown\, UCSD\, University of Alberta\, and Université de Montréal\, where she taught creative writing for fifteen years. Scott lives in Montréal. \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.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/furniture-music-by-gail-scott-with-guest-cecily-nicholson/
LOCATION:BC
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SUMMARY:When My Ghost Sings by Tara Sidhoo Fraser
DESCRIPTION:On Wed. October 4th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and Arsenal Pulp Press for the launch of Tara Sidhoo Fraser’s When My Ghost Sings: A Memoir of Stroke\, Recovery\, and Transformation. \nCome and absorb Tara Sidhoo Fraser’s lucid exploration of amnesia\, selfhood\, and who is left behind when the past is obliterated. Tara will be joined by host Lanika Yule. \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: \nWhen My Ghost Sings: A Memoir of Stroke\, Recovery\, and Transformation(Arsenal Pulp Press\, 2023) \nTara Sidhoo Fraser is thirty-two years old when a rare mutation in her brain causes a stroke\, and she awakens after surgery with no memory of her previous life. Through a haze of amnesia\, memories do begin to surface\, but they are seen through someone else’s eyes—the person whose body she stole\, whom she calls Ghost. \nFighting to stabilize her existence\, Tara struggles with the gulf between who she was and who she is now while constantly battling and paying penance to Ghost—whose voice becomes stronger\, and memories buried in the body they now share of hospital visits\, old desires\, and her ex threaten Tara’s new relationship. \nShe burrows deeper into the mystery of who she once was\, recognizing the need to fuse herself and Ghost into one. When My Ghost Sings is a lyrical memoir of healing\, a farewell letter\, and a reclamation of selfhood. \nAbout the author: \nTara Sidhoo Fraser (she/her) is a queer writer and creator who lives on the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish\, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (Vancouver\, Canada). A woman of South Asian and Scottish ancestry\, she is split between family histories. She graduated from the University of Victoria with a BA in Anthropology in 2016 and has since published stories with Autostraddle and Anathema magazine. Her first book\, When My Ghost Sings: A Memoir of Stroke\, Recovery\, and Transformation\, is a love story centred in selfhood and who is left behind when the past is obliterated. tarasidhoofraser.com \nAbout the host: \nLanika (Lah-NEE-kah) is a tender-hearted scribe who lives in the valley of the Stó:lō\, on the sunny side of the street. Their poem “Mikveh” will be in the Federation of BC Writers 2022 Literary Contest Anthology. You can find her many squishy feelings at Lanika.ca \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/when-my-ghost-sings-by-tara-sidhoo-fraser/
LOCATION:BC
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Freddie by Grant Hayter-Menzies • Victoria\, BC
DESCRIPTION:Join local author Grant Hayter-Menzies as he presents Freddie: The Rescue Dog Who Rescued Me\, a book for anyone who has ever loved and lost an animal. \nFreddie is the moving memoir of a writer—a biographer of historical animals—whose life was forever changed when a rescue dog came into his life. \nTracing their journey from Freddie’s adoption and socialization through his growing bond with Grant to his devastating cancer diagnosis in 2020\, this memoir reminds us of everything that animals can teach us about love\, loyalty\, and courage\, and is a call to action to end the unethical and abusive treatment of animals everywhere. \n• Free to attend\n• All ages welcome\n• LGBTQ friendly\n• Books will be available for purchase and signing\n• To RSVP: To register for this event\, use the ‘Buy Tickets’ (free) button at bolenbooks.com https://bolenbooks.com/events/29491\nhttps://www.heritagehouse.ca/book/freddie/
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-launch-freddie-by-grant-hayter-menzies-victoria-bc/
LOCATION:Bolen Books\, #111-1644 Hillside Ave.\, Victoria\, BC\, V8T 2C5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch
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SUMMARY:Under the Table - Poetry Open Mic Series featuring Erin Kirsh
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday\, October 3rd\, at 6pm PDT\, join Massy Arts Society and a collective of brilliant poet organizers for Under The Table Open Mic Series\, featuring Erin Kirsh. \nDoors and sign-up at 5:45\, show starts at 6 \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. \nIf you’re signing up for the open mic\, when possible please come with a physical or electronic copy of the poem that can be shared with the ASL interpreters\, to provide better access for d/Deaf & hard of hearing audiences. \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. \nVenue & Accessibility \nThe event will be hosted at the Massy Arts Gallery\, at 23 East Pender Street in Chinatown\, Vancouver. \nMassy Arts Gallery is a single-level space\, in one single room. The entryway to the building is 38″ wide\, with a transition less than 0.5″. The front door is a push door that swings inward to the left. There is no automatic opening door or switch but the door will stay open until the show starts. There is one gender inclusive bathroom in the space. The door is not automatic. Pull to enter\, push to exit. The width of the doorway is 90cm / 35.5in. The bathroom is 45sq ft. There are two sets of grab bars located behind and to the right of the toilet.The space is a scent-free space. We kindly ask that event attendees refrain from wearing scented products in the space. The venue has a scent free soap and uses scent free cleaning products. \nASL interpretation is confirmed for the event. Please note that there may be some hiccups in interpretation for poems they are not able to read beforehand. For more info on accessibility including transit and parking\, seating\, and venue measurements and floor plan\, please visit: massyarts.com/accessibility. If you have questions about accessibility at this event please email us at patricia@massybooks.com or underthetablepoetry@gmail.com \nCOVID-19 SAFETY \nMasks are required for this event (N95 masks are recommended as they offer the best protection) and will be provided for anyone who does not bring one. There will be an air purifier in the space as well as antibacterial microphone covers. The host and feature poet will rapid test before the event and we encourage attendees to rapid test before coming as well. We ask that you stay home if you are showing symptoms or had a recent exposure. \nAbout Under The Table: \nUnder the Table is a space where the richness that is queer and disabled life and art\, flourishes and finds a home. It’s a space to share work that’s asking to be told\, but might not be welcomed in other spaces\, if you are able to access those spaces at all. It’s a space where being queer and/or disabled (whether or not those specific words resonate for you) makes your work a brilliant fit\, regardless of how queer or disabled you think the poetry you wish to share is\, how connected you are to disabled and/or queer community\, and whether you feel disabled and/or queer “enough” to participate. 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 The League of Canadian Poets\, Kickstart Disability Arts and Culture\, and the Canada Council for the Arts. \nWith Featured Poet: \nErin Kirsh is a queer\, hard-of-hearing writer and performer from Toronto. Kirsh is a two-time member of the Vancouver Poetry Slam team and served as the Managing Director for the 2016 Verses Festival of Words. Erin’s poetry\, fiction\, and essays have appeared in magazines worldwide. When she’s not talking about books\, Kirsh enjoys pop culture hot takes and befriending the neighbourhood cats.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/under-the-table-poetry-open-mic-series-featuring-erin-kirsh/
LOCATION:BC
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SUMMARY:Take the Compass by Maureen Hynes with guest poet Kim Trainor
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, October 2nd at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books\, McGill-Queen’s University Press and Goose Lane Editions in welcoming Maureen Hynes with guest Kim Trainor. \nHynes’ Take the Compass and Trainor’s A thin fire runs through me travel in time through the troubled present and into our perilous collective futures\, interrogating existence\, courage\, and complexity on the journey. \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 books \nTake the Compass (McGill-Queen’s University Press\, 2023) \nA strong theme of journeys is threaded through Maureen Hynes’s Take the Compass. In a sense\, every poem is itself a journey—into the past or the present\, or toward what we hope and fear for the future. Poems can be journeys of repair and recovery\, adventure and discovery. However\, even in these pandemic times when our “journeying” is confined or even curtailed\, when we are abiding in one physical location with chafing and restiveness\, we are still travelling. And of course\, one of those journeys is discovering where language can take us. \nThe poems in Take the Compass travel through cities and their outskirts\, to rivers\, forests and graveyards. They travel in time through the troubled present\, across decades into early childhood and into our perilous collective futures\, seeking guides for these explorations. The title poem addresses the search for tools and instruments that will “ward off adversity\,” and help us move forward to our chosen destinations. Take the Compass calls on art and nature as invisible helpers\, and on uncountable things – personal values and traits\, such as courage – to “break the bad news into nine living petals.” \nAs with all her collections\, Hynes shows a commitment to social justice\, to acknowledging historical and contemporary inequities\, to the search for sources of remedy\, repair and renewal\, and to the sustaining power of love. The variety of poetic forms she has chosen lets this search carry the complexity and seriousness of its themes. \nA thin fire runs through me (Goose Lane Editions\, 2023) \nIn A thin fire runs through me\, Kim Trainor interrogates what it means to exist\, to navigate the quotidian amidst the constant drip-feed of political and ecological disasters. \nWritten over an intense nine-month period in 2016 and 2017 amidst the stresses of heartbreak\, depression\, and the progression of a new love\, Trainor’s exquisite sequence of short poems offers meditations on different hexagrams in the I Ching\, or Book of Changes. Incorporating fragments from reportage on current events\, Jewish liturgy\, and lyric poetics\, she latches her readers to the present while acknowledging the inescapable presence of the past. \nAbout the poets \nMaureen Hynes lives in Dish with One Spoon territory/Toronto\, and is the author of six collections of poetry\, including Take the Compass\, from McGill-Queen’s University Press. Her first collection won the League of Canadian Poets’ Gerald Lampert Award and following collections have been finalists for the League’s Raymond Souster Award\, and twice for the Pat Lowther Award\, as well as the Golden Crown Literary Award for lesbian writers (U.S). Her poetry has been included in over 30 anthologies\, including three times in Best Canadian Poems in English (2010\, 2016 and 2020)\, and in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (2021). Maureen has given numerous poetry workshops and has taught at the University of Toronto’s Creative Writing certificate program. (www.maureenhynes.com). \nKim Trainor is the granddaughter of an Irish banjo player and a Polish faller who worked in logging camps around Port Alberni in the 1930s. A thin fire runs through me appeared with icehouse poetry in 2023. A blueprint for survival will appear in Spring 2024 with Guernica Editions. Her poems have appeared in Anthropocenes (AHIP)\, Ecocene\, ISLE\, Ecozon@\, Dark Mountain (UK) and Fire Season I and II (Vancouver). Her poetry films have screened at Zebra Poetry Film Festival (Berlin) and at +the Institute [for experimental art] (Athens)\, as well as in Ireland and the US. Her current project is “walk quietly / ts’ekw’unshun kws qututhun\,” a guided walk at Hwlhits’um (Canoe Pass) in Delta\, BC\, which she has co-curated with the artist Amy-Claire Huestis\, and which features contributions from artists\, scientists\, and Hwlitsum and Cowichan knowledge holders.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/take-the-compass-by-maureen-hynes-with-guest-poet-kim-trainor/
LOCATION:BC
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SUMMARY:Empty Spaces by Jordan Abel
DESCRIPTION:On Sunday\, October 1st at 2pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and McLelland & Stewart for the launch of Jordan Abel’s Empty Spaces. \nEmpty Spaces is a bold and profound new vision of history that decenters human perception and forgoes Westernized ways of seeing. \nJordan will be joined by moderator and author Mercedes Eng. \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 \nEmpty Spaces (McLelland & Stewart\, 2023) \nFrom the acclaimed\, boundary-breaking author of NISHGA comes a hypnotic and mystifying exploration of land and legacy. \nReimagining James Fenimore Cooper’s nineteenth-century text The Last of the Mohicans from the contemporary perspective of an urban Nisga’a person whose relationship to land and traditional knowledge was severed by colonial violence\, Jordan Abel explores what it means to be Indigenous without access to familial territory and complicates popular understandings about Indigenous storytelling. Engaging the land through fiction and metaphor\, the successive chapters of Empty Spaces move toward an eerie\, looping\, and atmospheric rendering of place that evolves despite the violent and reckless histories of North America. The result is a bold and profound new vision of history that decenters human perception and forgoes Westernized ways of seeing. \nJordan Abel’s extraordinary debut work of fiction grows out of his groundbreaking visual compositions in NISHGA\, which integrated descriptions of the landscape from Cooper’s settler classic into his father’s traditional Nisga’a artwork. In Empty Spaces\, Abel reinscribes those words on the page itself\, subjecting them to bold rewritings and inviting us to come to a crucial understanding: that the land knows everything that can and will happen\, even as our world lurches toward uncertainty. \nAbout the author \nJordan Abel is a queer Nisga’a writer from Vancouver. He is the author of The Place of Scraps (winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize)\, Un/inhabited\, and Injun (winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize). NISHGA won the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize and the VMI Betsy Warland Between Genres award\, and was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction\, the Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Nonfiction\, and the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize. Abel’s work has been published in numerous journals and magazines—including Canadian Literature\, The Capilano Review\, and The Fiddlehead—and his work has been anthologized widely\, including The Broadview Introduction to Literature. Abel completed a Ph.D. at Simon Fraser University in 2019\, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta where he teaches Indigenous Literatures\, Research-Creation\, and Creative Writing. \nAbout the moderator \nMercedes Eng is the author of Mercenary English\, Prison Industrial Complex Explodes\, which won the BC Poetry Prize\, and my yt mama. She is an Assistant Professor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design\, where she organizes the On Edge reading series. Mercedes dreams and works towards a prison-free future. \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/empty-spaces-by-jordan-abel/
LOCATION:BC
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SUMMARY:Launch of Hologram: an Homage to P.K. Page
DESCRIPTION:Join Munro’s Books for the launch of Hologram: an Homage to P.K. Page \nEditors Yvonne Blomer and D.C. Reid will host an evening of poetry with local poets John Barton\, Stephen T. Berg\, Barbara Black\, Wendy Donawa\, Beth Kope\, Dan MacIsaac\, Lynne Mustard\, Barbara Pelman\, Pamela Porter\, and Cynthia Woodman Kerkham in a poetic tribute to one of Canada’s most influential and celebrated poets. \nEdited by Yvonne Blomer and DC Reid\, and featuring pieces from renowned poets including John Barton\, Marilyn Bowering\, Lorna Crozier\, Eve Joseph\, Patrick Lane\, Alice Major\, kjmunro\, Patricia Young\, and many others\, Hologram is testament to the mentoring that P.K. Page offered through community and conversation\, as a living writer and through her poetry.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/launch-of-hologram-an-homage-to-p-k-page/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch
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SUMMARY:Foraging and Feasting in the Pacific Northwest: Lori Snyder and Robin Kort
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, September 28th at 6pm join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and TouchWood Editions for the launch of The Coastal Forager’s Cookbook by Chef Robin Kort. \nLearn how to connect with the flora and fauna in and around Vancouver through an inspired conversation between chef-author Robin Kort and herbalist Lori Snyder. \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 \nThe Coastal Forager’s Cookbook showcases foraged ingredients like wild mushrooms\, seaweed\, fish and molluscs\, flowers and evergreen tips\, and brings them together in 40 recipes to inspire forays into tide and woods and a sense of adventure in the kitchen. Along the way Robin shares memories of her childhood on the West Coast and her world travels\, tips on plant identification\, and guidance on mindful\, sustainable foraging. \nAbout the author \nRobin Kort is a Pacific Northwest chef\, forager\, sommelier\, and owner of Swallow Tail Culinary Adventures. She harvests and cooks between the mountains and the ocean near Vancouver\, BC\, and has been featured on the Food Network\, ItteQ Japan\, the CBC\, the Huffington Post\, Conde Nast Traveller\, and in the Globe and Mail. \nAbout the moderator \nLori Snyder is an Indigenous Metis Herbalist and Educator. She works on co-creating insightful dialogues in community\, remediating and reconciling with our Indigenous plants as we reintroduce them into our urban landscapes. She also promotes access to local Indigenous foods and medicines\, which supports collective resilience and deep ecological healing for all species.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/foraging-and-feasting-in-the-pacific-northwest-lori-snyder-and-robin-kort/
LOCATION:BC
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SUMMARY:Becoming Kin: Abolition\, Borders and Indigenous Futures
DESCRIPTION:On Monday\, September 25th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books\, Broadleaf Books and Fernwood Publishing for Becoming Kin: Abolition\, Borders and Indigenous Futures: Patty Krawec and Harsha Walia in Conversation. \nJoin these two singular thinkers and friends in conversation on the most pressing issues of our times; unforgetting our histories of racist nationalism and forging relational\, abolitionist futures. \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 authors: \nPatty Krawec is a Anishinaabe/Ukrainian writer\, speaker\, and co-host of the Medicine for the Resistance podcast where she\, along along with her cohost and guests\, confront barriers and challenge settler narratives. She is the co-founder of the Nii’kinaaganaa Foundation. Find her online at daanis.ca \nHarsha Walia is a Punjabi writer and organizer who has been involved in migrant justice\, anti-capitalist\, feminist\, abolitionist\, and anti-imperialist movements for the past two decades. Her work is in the anti-violence sector serving survivors. She is also the award-winning author of Border and Rule: Global Migration\, Capitalism\, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism (2021) and Undoing Border Imperialism (2013)\, and co-author of Never Home: Legislating Discrimination in Canadian Immigration as well as Red Women Rising: Indigenous Women Survivors in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. \nAbout the books: \nBecoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future (Broadleaf Books\, 2022) \nWe find our way forward by going back. \nThe invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast\, Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec says\, but we can still honor the bonds between us. Settlers dominated and divided\, but Indigenous peoples won’t just send them all “home.” \nWeaving her own story with the story of her ancestors and with the broader themes of creation\, replacement\, and disappearance\, Krawec helps readers see settler colonialism through the eyes of an Indigenous writer. Settler colonialism tried to force us into one particular way of living\, but the old ways of kinship can help us imagine a different future. Krawec asks\, What would it look like to remember that we are all related? How might we become better relatives to the land\, to one another\, and to Indigenous movements for solidarity? Braiding together historical\, scientific\, and cultural analysis\, Indigenous ways of knowing\, and the vivid threads of communal memory\, Krawec crafts a stunning\, forceful call to “unforget” our history. \nThis remarkable sojourn through Native and settler history\, myth\, identity\, and spirituality helps us retrace our steps and pick up what was lost along the way: chances to honor rather than violate treaties\, to see the land as a relative rather than a resource\, and to unravel the history we have been taught. \nBorder and Rule: Global Migration\, Capitalism\, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism (Fernwood Publishing\, 2021) \nIn Border and Rule\, one of North America’s foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delivers an unflinching examination of migration as a pillar of global governance and gendered racial class formation. \nHarsha Walia disrupts easy explanations for the migrant and refugee crises\, instead showing them to be the inevitable outcomes of conquest\, capitalist globalization\, and climate change generating mass dispossession worldwide. Border and Rule explores a number of seemingly disparate global geographies with shared logics of border rule that displace\, immobilize\, criminalize\, exploit\, and expel migrants and refugees. With her keen ability to connect the dots\, Walia demonstrates how borders divide the international working class and consolidate imperial\, capitalist\, ruling-class\, and racist nationalist rule. Ambitious in scope and internationalist in orientation\, Border and Rule breaks through American exceptionalism and liberal responses to the migration crisis and cogently maps the lucrative connections between state violence\, capitalism\, and right-wing nationalism around the world. \nIlluminating the brutal mechanics of state formation\, Walia exposes US border policy as a product of violent territorial expansion\, settler-colonialism\, enslavement\, and gendered racial exclusion. Further\, she compellingly details how Fortress Europe and White Australia are using immigration diplomacy and externalized borders to maintain a colonial present\, how temporary labor migration in the Arab Gulf states and Canada is central to citizenship regulation and labor control\, and how far-right nationalism is escalating deadly violence in the United States\, Israel\, India\, the Philippines\, Brazil\, and across Europe\, while producing a disaster of statelessness for millions elsewhere. \nA must-read in these difficult times of war\, inequality\, climate change\, and global health crisis\, Border and Rule is a clarion call for revolution. The book includes a foreword from renowned scholar Robin D. G. Kelley and an afterword from acclaimed activist-academic Nick Estes. \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/becoming-kin-abolition-borders-and-indigenous-futures/
LOCATION:BC
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SUMMARY:Maybe a Whale by Kirsten Pendreigh with Illustrator Crystal Smith
DESCRIPTION:#KIDSBOOK On Sunday\, September 24th at 3pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and Groundwood Books for the launch of Maybe a Whale by Kirsten Pendreigh with illustrator Crystal Smith. \nWe’ll read from the book\, share the magic of whale sounds and nighttime camping on the West Coast and make some whale crafts together with insights into Crystal’s amazing illustrations! Cake and refreshments will be provided. Hope to see you there! \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 \nMaybe A Whale (Groundwood Books\, 2023) \nAfter Grandpa dies\, a girl and her mother take the trip he had planned for her\, kayaking along the Pacific west coast to look for the whales that he loved. \nThe trip will do them good\, Mom says\, but the girl isn’t sure. How can that be true when Grandpa isn’t there? And how will they find a whale in all that water\, anyway? \nThere is so much to see as they paddle through white-tipped waves and calm coves: glowing moon jellies\, fluttering anemones and slippery seals. All the while\, the girl watches for whales. Could one be swimming beneath their kayak or along the shore of their camp? Are the whales even there? \nFinally\, in the dark of night\, they hear them — pushhhhhhhh\, pushhhhhhh — humpbacks breathing in the bay. \nIn this lyrical story\, luminously illustrated by Crystal Smith\, mom and daughter find the space to grieve Grandpa and reconnect with each other in the wild beauty of nature. And they come to realize that — perhaps like whales — those we’ve loved are always with us\, even if we don’t see them anymore. \nAbout the author \nKirsten Pendreigh is a poet and children’s author from Vancouver. Her children’s books celebrate our early instincts to care for the plants and creatures that share our planet. LUNA’S GREEN PET\, about a girl who raises a houseplant as a pet\, was a Quill & Quire Book of the Year. MAYBE A WHALE\, about a child discovering the healing power of nature on a kayak trip\, was a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection. Kirsten’s first nonfiction for children\, WHEN A TREE FALLS\, comes out in 2025. Kirsten’s poems are found in Canadian literary magazines and anthologies including Best Canadian Poetry 2021. One of her poems will be riding the bus this fall as part of Poetry In Transit. \nAbout the illustrator \nCrystal illustrates the natural world to spark curiosity and wonder\, kindle concern\, and illuminate issues. She is the daughter of a lighthouse keeper and started life on a tiny island in the middle of the ocean\, where groceries were delivered by helicopter and trips to town meant riding with the Coast Guard. She’s still an island girl —just on a bigger island now— off the coast of BC Canada. \n​Crystal has a BFA in Visual Arts and works on fine art\, illustration projects for environmental groups and other clients\, and has another children’s book coming out from Groundwood Books 2024.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/maybe-a-whale-by-kirsten-pendreigh-with-illustrator-crystal-smith/
LOCATION:BC
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SUMMARY:Fiction Writing Workshop with Patti Flather "Creating an Evocative Fictional World"
DESCRIPTION:A fully realized setting is a powerful element to bring your readers into the world of your story. Explore practical ways to create your setting\, using your imagination\, research\, observation skills\, and fresh original details. Capture the vivid landscape your characters journey through\, including and going beyond the physical to socio-political trends\, the cultural milieu\, inequalities\, and more. \nAbout Patti Flather \nAward-winning author Patti Flather\, originally from North Vancouver and now based in Whitehorse\, Yukon\, has an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC. Such A Lovely Afternoon is her first fiction collection; her plays including Paradise andSixty Below have been shared on stages across Canada and published. www.pattiflather.com \nBooks by the author will be available for purchase: \nSuch A Lovely Afternoon (fiction) $23\nParadise (play) $20\nPayment accepted: Cash\, personal cheque or e-transfer \nYou may register for one or both workshops in this series: \nDialogue that Leaps Off the Page – Saturday\, September\, 23 at 2:00pm \nCreating an Evocative Fictional World – Sunday\, September\, 24 at 10:30am \nRegistration required. Register online or call 604-987-4471\, ext. 8175.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/fiction-writing-workshop-with-patti-flather-creating-an-evocative-fictional-world/
LOCATION:North Vancouver Public Library – Capilano branch\, 3045 Highland Blvd.\, North Vancouver\, BC\, V7R 2X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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