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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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SUMMARY:Drug Tales: An Evening of Storytelling and Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Join Canadian Students for Sensible Drug Policy and Get Sensible for a fascinating conversation with Caitlin Donohue\, author of Weed: Cannabis Culture in the Americas and Dr. Emily Jenkins in an enlightening conversation about weed and its impacts on young people. \nFollowing the conversation\, Healthcliff (Heath D’Alessio) from Get Sensible will facilitate an open mic\, Drug Tales\, where folks can share their drug related stories. This will be an opportunity for audience members to come up on stage and share a story of their own. We recognize the stigma surrounding substance use\, and know that healing can come through sharing our experiences. In order to build better drug policies\, hearing stories from the community is essential. \nThis event is held at Massy Arts Society and food and beverages will be provided! The event starts at 6:30pm. This is a by-donation event (PWYC)\, with the suggested amount starting at $10. However\, no one will be turned away for lack of funds. \nAbout Caitlin \nCaitlin has been writing about marijuana for a decade. She started with her weekly column Herbwise at the San Francisco Bay Guardian alt weekly\, when now-legal California dispensaries’ battled with the federal government. She interviews figures from Mexico’s drug politics and culture every Monday for her Spanish language radio show Crónica. She has been a regular contributor to High Times and Snoop Dogg’s cannabis news website MERRYJANE. She sees cannabis as a way of understanding societal structures\, from international borders to health and wellness. \nIn Weed: Cannabis Culture in the Americas\, culture writer Caitlin Donohue crafts a comprehensive and thought-provoking review of cannabis in the Western Hemisphere. Donohue’s investigation spans from Vancouver\, Canada\, to Buenos Aires\, Argentina\, interviewing medical researchers\, educators\, activists\, artists\, business leaders\, and other experts to explore the long relationship between cannabis and the human race\, its almost universal prohibition in the twentieth century\, and modern efforts to legalize the much-maligned plant in all its forms. \nhttps://www.donohue.work/aboutcat \nAbout Emily \nDr. Emily Jenkins\, brings extensive clinical and research expertise from acute and community mental health and substance use settings. \nHer clinical training and experience informs her program of research\, which aims to enhance mental health outcomes and reduce substance use harms for Canadians through mental health promotion strategies and health services and policy redesign. She is recognized as a leader in the youth mental health and substance use field and has established policy\, practice and media channels that support knowledge mobilization and research impact. \nAbout Heathcliff \nHeathcliff is a people person who loves drugs\, which is why they’re thrilled to be hosting this Vancouver edition of Drug Tales! A performing artist\, facilitator\, community educator\, and all around pretty nice guy\, they’re passionate about harm reduction and storytelling and love facilitating safe spaces to talk about taboo subjects and bond over shared experiences while sharing knowledge and learning from each other \nExcited to see you there!
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/drug-tales-an-evening-of-storytelling-and-open-mic/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230923T140000
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SUMMARY:Fiction Writing Workshop with Patti Flather “Dialogue that Leaps Off the Page”
DESCRIPTION:Bring your characters to life through dialogue. Discover their unique voices. Create compelling conversations that advance your story while revealing character. Whether you’re writing fiction\, plays or screenplays\, this workshop offers useful guidelines\, practical examples and writing exercises to help make your characters distinct and memorable and your scenes sizzle. \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-dialogue-that-leaps-off-the-page/
LOCATION:North Vancouver Public Library – Capilano branch\, 3045 Highland Blvd.\, North Vancouver\, BC\, V7R 2X4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Halina! Kadto kamo! Sung na! - Celebrating Our Languages
DESCRIPTION:* The following words mean “Let’s go!” or “Come on!” – “Halina!” (Tagalog – halika + na); “Kadto kamo!” (Hiligaynon); “Sung na!” (Sinug). \nHalina at magsama-sama tayo para ipagdiwang ang ating mga wika! Dali kamo mag inistoryahanay kita! Agtitimpuyog ken agkaykaysa tayo nga mangrambak ti nadumaduma nga kultura! \nLet our languages come alive\, be heard\, and echo through the room! This event highlights the diversity of our languages\, with more than 150 languages hailing from the islands of the Philippines. \nTake the stage to read a captivating poem\, a mesmerizing story\, or sing a heartwarming song in any of the languages from the Philippines. Whether it’s your own creation or a piece by your favourite Filipina/x/o writer\, we encourage you to share the magic of our linguistic heritage. Don’t forget to provide credit to the original writer of the piece you choose\, or to let us know if it is an original creation. \nPerformers \nOnly 12 slots available for performers — secure your spot today! https://forms.gle/JusQjm1ryiEThAUK9 We will have a couple of spots available for sign up in person. Please note that we will be exclusively featuring performers who are Pinxy/Pinay/Pinoy or mixed race Pinxy/Pinay/Pinoy. \nRegister now \nWhile everyone is welcome\, we prioritize Pinxy/a/o attendees\, or that you have been invited to join by a Pinxy/a/o person. \nAdmission is free\, but please register in advance to help us manage the event smoothly. We can admit approximately 30 people. Snacks and refreshments will be available. \nKamaya’ daran! Pag-amping! \nThis event is presented by NPC3\, the National Pilipino Canadian Cultural Centre\, a registered non-profit society. \nAccessibility considerations \nThis event and venue requires attendees to wear a face mask as an extra precaution against COVID-19. Please bring your own mask\, or we can provide you one onsite. \nMassy Arts Gallery is accessible to folks who use wheelchairs\, mobility scooters\, and strollers. For detailed information about venue accessibility\, visit https://massyarts.com/accessibility/. \nStatement of solidarity\, and resistance \nIt is incredible that while we take pride that many languages remain alive and well-used across the islands of the Philippines despite colonization\, we also mourn the loss and the threats of losing many languages and their communicators as Indigenous and other ethnic groups continue to be displaced\, targeted for defending their lands\, and neglected in the Philippines. By highlighting the languages available and staying away from the framing of minimizing certain languages to “dialects”) \nwe are able to keep cultures alive and encourage pride in diversity. Staying connected to our languages is one of the privileges we have\, while also recognizing that languages and cultural knowledge were one of the colonial tactics used by Canada to oppress and subjugate Indigenous peoples on their lands. Speaking our languages while on stolen lands is one way we can resist global colonial projects\, sending a message that no matter where we are due to colonization and ongoing imperialism\, we will keep practicing our cultures and keep our ancestors’ ways of knowing and living alive. \nWe are on the ancestral\, unceded\, and stolen territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish)\, and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations\, and we are in solidarity with them and all Indigenous and oppressed peoples across the world to resist against white supremacy\, capitalism\, the patriarchy\, caste oppression and their products such as ableism\, transphobia\, homophobia\, classism\, and more. \nShare this campaign
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/halina-kadto-kamo-sung-na-celebrating-our-languages/
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SUMMARY:Race Memory Data
DESCRIPTION:At Simon Fraser University\, we live and work on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish)\, səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh)\, q̓íc̓əy̓ (Katzie)\, kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem)\, Qayqayt\, Kwantlen\, Semiahmoo and Tsawwassen peoples. \nJoin artist Henry Tsang\, historian Jack (John Kuo Wei) Tchen\, urban planner Andy Yan as they talk about their approach to the use of data and archives to counter master narratives that have defined and restricted conversations around race and memory. Moderated by Melissa Karmen Lee\, CEO of the Chinese Canadian Museum\, they will also discuss and reflect on Henry Tsang’s recent book\, WHITE RIOT: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver\, based on the 360 video walking tour\, 360 Riot Walk\, which reveals the yet unresolved histories of racialized communities targeted through legislation as well as physical acts of exclusion and violence. \nThe talk will be followed by a reception where book sales and signing will take place. Books will be available for purchase via debit or credit\, no cash purchase will be available. \nThis event is presented by SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement\, Emily Carr University of Art + Design\, SFU’s City Program\, Arsenal Pulp Press\, and Massy Books. \nPanelists\nJack (John Kuo Wei) Tchen is a historian\, curator\, dumpster-diver\, and teacher surfacing the disappeared stories othered by systems of power and wealth. Dr. Tchen is the Clement A. Price Professor of Public History & Humanities and Director of the Price Institute on Ethnicity\, Cultures\, and the Modern Experience at Rutgers University – Newark. His ten-years of work on anti-Asian xenophobia\, a two-hour PBS documentary on the “Chinese Exclusion Act\,” and exhibition at the New-York Historical Society led him to focus on intersectional history of American eugenics. He has been working with the Munsee Lunaape Elders and honoring enslaved in the region by documenting\, sharing\, and decolonizing the history of Newark and the larger bioregion. He is the founding director of the A/P/A (Asian/Pacific/American) Studies Program and Institute at New York University\, NYU. In 1980\, he co-founded the New York Chinatown History project\, now the Museum of Chinese in America with Charles Lai. \nAndy Yan is the director of The City Program at Simon Fraser University where he is an adjunct professor of Urban Studies. Prior to his SFU appointment\, Andy has worked extensively in the non-profit and private urban planning sectors with projects in the metropolitan regions of Vancouver\, San Francisco\, New York City\, Los Angeles and New Orleans. Andy holds a Masters of Urban Planning from the University of California – Los Angeles and a Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours distinctions in Geography and Political Science from Simon Fraser University. \nHenry Tsang is an artist and occasional curator who explores the spatial politics of history\, cultural translation\, community-building\, the mobility of people\, capital\, values\, desires\, and food in relationship to place. His recent book\, WHITE RIOT: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver (Arsenal Pulp Press\, 2023)\, explores the conditions leading up to and the impact of a demonstration and parade in Vancouver\, Canada\, organized by the Asiatic Exclusion League and the ensuing mob attack on the city’s Chinese Canadian and Japanese Canadian communities. \nHis art projects employ video\, photography\, interactive media\, convivial events\, and language\, in particular\, Chinook Jargon\, the North American west coast trade language. Presentations take the form of gallery exhibitions\, pop-up street food offerings\, 360 video walking tours\, curated dinners\, ephemeral and permanent public art. Henry is a past recipient of the VIVA Award and is an Associate Dean at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. \nModerator\nDr. Melissa Karmen Lee (Ph.D) 李林嘉敏 is a visual arts and literature scholar\, curator\, archivist and storyteller with research interests in public art and social engagement. She currently holds the appointment of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at the Chinese Canadian Museum\, in British Columbia\, Vancouver. From 2019-2022\, she was the Director of Education and Public Programs at the Vancouver Art Gallery. From 2016-2019 she was the education and public programs curator for Tai Kwun Centre for Heritage and Art. She holds degrees from McGill\, Canterbury and Lancaster Universities. \nFor purposes of documentation this event may be photographed\, audio recorded\, and/or filmed. By attending this event\, you consent to such recording media and its release\, publication\, exhibition or reproduction. \nCOVID-19 Safety: \nMasks are encouraged on our campuses\, particularly in spaces where people are in close proximity. Masks are not mandatory. \nFurther information on SFU’s Return to Campus policy can be found here.
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SUMMARY:Every Child Matters Book Launch with Phyllis Webstad
DESCRIPTION:Listen to Phyllis Webstad share her journey to reconciliation after attending Residential School and what Every Child Matters truly means.\nJoin Phyllis Webstad\, founder of Orange Shirt Day\, at the Songhees Wellness Centre for a powerful and intimate discussion about her time at Residential School. In her talks\, Phyllis shares her personal experiences of attending Residential School when she was just six years old and how the nuns took her shiny new orange shirt her granny had gifted her.\nPhyllis’s brave and compelling voice has brought attention to the need for education\, empathy\, and understanding about the mistreatment of Indigenous Peoples in Canada\, while fostering important conversation about the ongoing efforts to address historical and generational trauma\, and work toward a more inclusive and equitable future for Survivors\, families and Indigenous communities.\nWith her new book Every Child Matters being released in August 2023\, Phyllis talks about what Every Child Matters truly means and what wearing the Orange Shirt truly represents.\nThere will be dancers\, singers and drummers performing along with an opening prayer by Butch Dick!\nTickets are only $10.00 and all profits of ticket sales will go to the Orange Shirt Society.\nHandicap Parking Available\nA local bookstore will be present selling all of Phyllis’s books.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/every-child-matters-book-launch-with-phyllis-webstad/
LOCATION:Songhees Wellness Centre\, 1100 Admirals Rd\, Victoria\, British Columbia\, V9A 2P6\, Canada
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DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230916T170000
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SUMMARY:Closing Reception / Kyla Gilbert + Otilia Sabina + Nico McGiffin
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, September 16th from 2-4pm\, join Massy Arts\, and Vancouver-based artists Kyla Gilbert + Otilia Sabina + Nico McGiffin for the closing reception of our current exhibitions: Here I am\, in the in-between\, and Blue-Collar Sex Kitten. \nAt the event\, artists will meet audiences in-person to talk about their creative practice\, the show’s themes + aesthetics\, and the process of creating in the in-between. \nThis project is supported by the Community Arts Council of Vancouver + First Peoples’ Cultural Council. \nVenue & Accessibility \nThe event will be hosted at the Massy Arts Gallery\, at 23 East Pender Street in Chinatown\, Vancouver. \nRegistration is free\, open to all 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\, 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. \nThe Artists \nKyla Gilbert is a visual artist based out of Vancouver BC on the unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish)\, and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. She graduated with a BFA in performance from Concordia University in 2017 and spent the two subsequent years touring as a puppeteer with DJ Kid Koala. Her current practice revolves around intuitive encounter with materials. As a former puppeteer and performer\, she approaches her process as a site for improvisation that results in the creation of objects full of discrepancy\, juxtaposition\, awkwardness\, and joy. Kyla completed my MFA in Studio Art from Emily Carr University in spring of 2022. \nOtilia Sabina (she/her) is an interdisciplinary visual artist and designer born in Bucharest\, Romania and raised on the unceded\, ancestral\, and occupied\, traditional lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm\, Skwxwú7mesh and Səl̓ílwətaʔ Nations of the Coast Salish peoples\, also known as Vancouver. She holds a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design (2013). Otilia Sabina’s collage work re-contextualizes images and digital media to create new visual artifacts inspired by stories from both my life before and after immigrating to Canada. \nNico McGiffin (b.2002) is a non-binary\, queer assemblage sculptor investigating the ways in which found and fabricated objects work to bridge the gap between butch-queer identities and highly macho cis-masculinity. They are based in “Vancouver BC” on the unceded traditional territories of the xwməθkwəy̓ əm (Musqueam)\, Sḵwx̱ wú7mesh (Squamish)\, and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil- Waututh) Nations\, where they are completing their BFA in Sculpture + Expanded Practices at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/closing-reception-kyla-gilbert-otilia-sabina-nico-mcgiffin/
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DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230916T140000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Bus! Celebrating the 27th Year of Poetry in Transit
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with TransLink and BC Transit\, Read Local BC presents the launch of this year’s Poetry In Transit campaign at Word Vancouver. Now celebrating its 27th year\, this beloved community-engagement project displays the work of ten BC poets on public transit vehicles throughout the province. Join us to hear a selection of the featured 2023-24 poets read from their work\, followed by a short discussion and Q&A in which you can engage with the poets over your love of the written verse! Hosted by Evelyn Lau. \nReaders:\nSusan Braley – Tilling the Darkness (Caitlin Press & Dagger Editions)\nP.W. Bridgman – At the Bakery After the Pathology Report Arrives (Ekstasis Editions)\nEdward Byrne – Tracery (Talonbooks)\nMegan Fennya Jones – The Program (Goose Lane Editions)\nMark Leiren-Young – Big Sharks\, Small World (Orca Book Publishers)\nEmily Osborne – Safety Razor (Gordon Hill Press)\nKirsten Pendreigh – Best Canadian Poetry 2021 (Biblioasis)\nIan Thomas – Green Islands: Poems from the Great Bear Rainforest (Rainbow Publishers & Raven Chapbooks)
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/poetry-bus-celebrating-the-27th-year-of-poetry-in-transit/
LOCATION:UBC Robson Square\, 800 Robson St\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6E 1A7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival,Launch,Meet & Greet,Panel
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230919
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SUMMARY:Write on Bowen Festival for Readers & Writers
DESCRIPTION:This annual festival brings together readers and writers and all lovers of the spoken and written word. We gather on idyllic Bowen Island to spend two days engaged in stimulating writing workshops\, facilitated by professional writers\, authors\, poets\, screenwriters and others. We feature special events including author readings\, panel discussions and other activities.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/write-on-bowen-festival-for-readers-writers/
LOCATION:Bowen Island Public Library\, 430 Bowen Island Trunk Rd\, Bowen Island\, BC\, V0N 1G0\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Festival,Meet & Greet,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230915T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230915T180000
DTSTAMP:20260430T221422
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SUMMARY:The Family Code by Wayne Ng + Discussion with Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, September 15th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and Guernica Editions in celebrating the Vancouver launch of Wayne Ng’s The Family Code. \nWayne Ng talks with Wiley Wei-Chiun Ho about his new book\, The Family Code\, his first work not featuring an Asian protagonist. They will discuss both straying from and remaining within the lane of immigrant tropes. \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 Family Code by Wayne Ng \nEvery family has rituals and routines holding them together. But sometimes they are the very things that tear them apart. The Family Code is a gritty family drama featuring the troubled life of Hannah Belenko\, a young single mother dogged by the brutality of past traumas and a code of silence that she must crack in order to be free—or else lose everything. Hannah was raised by this code and rules her own family by it. When she loses her daughter to the state and her boyfriend threatens her\, she flees from Ottawa to Halifax with her remaining son\, six-year-old Axel. While she bulldozes her way through everything and schemes to protect him\, Axel flounders in the chaos. He begins to doubt his mother and her dream of a way out. With her life crashing down\, Hannah is driven by desperation to survive yet hangs on to elusive hope. With unvarnished and high-voltage prose\, The Family Code unabashedly reveals the power and perils of parenting\, but also the longing and vulnerability of children. \nAbout the author \nWayne Ng was born in downtown Toronto to Chinese immigrants who fed him a steady diet of bitter melons and kung fu movies. Ng works as a school social worker in Ottawa but lives to write\, travel\, eat and play\, preferably all at the same time. He is an award-winning author and traveler who continues to push his boundaries from the Arctic to the Antarctic. His previous books are Letters From Johnny\, which won Best Crime Novella at the Crime Writers of Canada Excellence Awards\, and Finding The Way: A Novel of Lao Tzu. Connect with Wayne at WayneNgWrites.com \nAbout the host \nWiley Wei-Chiun Ho is a freelance technical writer\, blogger and creative non-fiction writer. Her short stories and personal essays have won awards and been published in the literary journals PRISM international\, Ricepaper\, River Teeth\, and Room. Wiley is in the throes of completing her first book\, a memoir about growing up with parents overseas\, in a Taiwanese-Canadian “astronaut” family.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/the-family-code-by-wayne-ng-discussion-with-wiley-wei-chiun-ho/
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SUMMARY:Erosion: The Inte/ruption of Home
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday\, Sept. 14th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books\, Caitlin Press\, Mother Tongue Publishing\, and Raven Books in celebrating the work of Adrienne Fitzpatrick\, Daniela Elza\, and Ian Thomas. \nErosion encompasses the environmental impacts on home\, as well as the emotional and spiritual. Erosion can be subtle\, not even noticeable and then suddenly devastating. Inte/ruption disrupts the flow\, alluding to the breaking apart of the narrative of home. \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: \nInstructions for a Flood by Adrienne Fitzpatrick \nIn Instructions for a Flood: Reflections on Story\, Geography and Connection\, a spare\, powerful book\, Adrienne Fitzpatrick writes with eloquence and raw honesty about the land that defines her. Taking us to the rivers and lakes that are an integral part of her personal history\, she shows us the power and metaphor of water – it’s lurking dangers\, how it gives and takes life\, what it carries when it floods\, what it leaves behind. In stories about her formative years in the ‘rough beauty’ of central and northern BC\, and later working with First Nations on the contentious issues of extractive industry\, she reveals how humans – and water – have impacted these territories and their ancient cultures. \nthe broken boat by daniela elza \nIn her fourth book of poetry\, daniela elza deftly builds a raft of questions to stay afloat amidst the breakage of things. The end of a twenty-year marriage mirrors subtler fragmentations in our world. How to survive this loss of meaning\, this “wintering through”? The intricacies of light\, nature\, water\, absences glint through grief to astonish and lift the heart into understanding again; transforming and coupling the deeper self with the soulful eros/ions of our world. \nGreen Islands by Ian Thomas \nWritten in the unceded territory of the Haíɫzaqv (Heiltsuk) First Nation\, this collection of poems focuses on the landscapes and wildlife of BC’s Great Bear Rainforest. These poems explore the ecology of the coastal rainforest and how its living creatures\, bears\, wolves\, whales\, birds\, and salmon\, shape their world and are shaped by it. Green Islands celebrates the complexity\, beauty\, and mystery of the non-human world. \nAbout the authors: \nAdrienne Fitzpatrick grew up in the north and returned to complete her Masters in English at the University of Northern British Columbia; her creative thesis won the John Harris Prize for the best in Northern Fiction. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Prairie Fire\, CV2\, subTerrain\, The New Quarterly and Thimbleberry. Her art reviews have appeared in Border Crossings\, C Magazine and Canadian Art and book reviews in the BC Review. She explores the phenomenological experience of place in her work and her first book\, The Earth Remembers Everything is based on her experiences travelling to massacre sites in Europe\, Asia\, the Central Interior and Northwest Coast of BC; it was also short-listed for the 2014 George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature. Instructions for a Flood\, based on her experiences of living and working with Indigenous Nations in the Central Interior and Northwest of BC\, is published in the Spring of 2023 by Caitlin Press. \nDaniela Elza lived on three continents before immigrating to Canada in 1999. Her latest poetry collections are the broken boat (2020) and slow erosions (2020). In 2021\, she became a founding member of the Place Mattering Matters Collective and has been actively involved in preserving the affordable housing in her community in Vancouver\, located on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish)\, and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. She is also working on a manuscript on the topic. \nIan Thomas\, born in Vancouver\, is a biologist and poet with a lifelong passion for the ecosystems and wildlife of the BC coast. He currently works for the Ancient Forest Alliance\, a non-profit that works to protect BC’s endangered old- growth forests. Green Islands is his first published book.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/erosion-the-inte-ruption-of-home/
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Lorna Crozier and M.A.C. Farrant
DESCRIPTION:Join Munro’s Books in celebrating the newest releases from two incredibly talented local authors! \nLorna Crozier’s After That is a book written from the dark hollow we fall into when we lose those we love. Lorna’s sure poetry engages with the grief that comes from the death of her partner\, the writer Patrick Lane\, with whom she’d lived for forty years\, many of them tumultuous. With grace and precision\, she illuminates sorrow. M.A.C Farrant’s Jigsaw comprises ninety-three literary puzzle pieces that mimic the actual practice of assembling a jigsaw puzzle. By turns whimsical\, insightful\, meditative\, funny\, and factual\, the “pieces” of Jigsaw touch on several themes readers of Farrant have encountered before: existence\, love\, joy\, science\, history\, aging\, roads\, and Buddhism – as well as our universal love of jigsaw puzzles.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-launch-lorna-crozier-and-m-a-c-farrant/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch
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SUMMARY:Elephant Mountain Lit Fest
DESCRIPTION:Elephant Mountain Lit Fest will be sparking literary flames in Nelson\, BC from September 11 – 17\, 2023. We are a festival with events for both readers and writers\, with workshops\, readings\, panels\, blue pencil sessions and more. \nLearn more here.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/elephant-mountain-lit-fest/
CATEGORIES:Festival
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230910T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230910T170000
DTSTAMP:20260430T221422
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SUMMARY:Dead Poets Reading Series
DESCRIPTION:Join Massy Arts Society on Sunday\, September 10th at 3pm for the next Dead Poets Reading Series\, as deep threads of connection and solidarity are drawn between local\, contemporary poets and a diverse array of poets from the past. \nWe welcome you to an afternoon reflection and celebration\, as poetic conversation and recitation travel through time. \nRegistration is free/by donation\, open to all and required for entrance. \nVenue & Accessibility \nThe event will be hosted at the Massy Arts Gallery\, at 23 East Pender Street in Chinatown\, Vancouver. \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. \nFeatured readers and poets include: \nNatalie Lim reading Jason Shinder \nNatalie Lim is a Chinese-Canadian poet living on the unceded\, traditional territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish\, and Tsleil-Waututh Peoples (Vancouver\, B.C.). She is the winner of the 2018 CBC Poetry Prize and Room Magazine’s 2020 Emerging Writer Award\, with work published in Arc Poetry Magazine\, Best Canadian Poetry 2020\, and elsewhere. Her debut chapbook\, arrhythmia\, was published in 2022 by Rahila’s Ghost Press. \nJason Shinder (1955–2008) was an American poet who authored three books and founded the YMCA National Writer’s Voice\, a network of independent literary arts centers at YMCAs across the U.S. The network is dedicated to giving voice to people through accessible\, quality-based\, community-driven\, innovative literary arts programming and is currently the U.S.’s largest network of literary arts centers. \nAlongside his three books of poetry\, Shinder also edited numerous anthologies\, served as director of the Sundance Institute Writing Program\, and was a Poet Laureate of Provincetown. \nShinder passed away in 2008 from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and leukemia. His final book\, Stupid Hope\, was published posthumously. \nKim Trainor reading Nadia Anjuman \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. Ledi(Bookhug\, 2018) was a finalist for the Raymond Souster Award. A thin fire runs through me (icehouse / Goose Lane) appeared in Spring 2023 and A blueprint for survival will appear with Guernica Editions in the spring of 2024. She lives in Vancouver\, ancestral\, unceded homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm\, Skwxwú7mesh\, and səlil̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ Nations. www.kimtrainor.ca \nNadia Anjuman (1980-2005) was born in Herat\, Afghanistan in 1980. In 1996\, she joined the underground Golden Needle Sewing School where young women students studied literature under the mentorship of Muhammad Ali Rahyab\, using the guise of learning to sew in order to avoid detection by the Taliban government. Her first and only book of poetry was published in 2005\, under the title گل دودی (“Gul-e-dodi\,” literally\, “Flower of Smoke\,” translated as Smoke Bloom or Dark Flower.) She was beaten to death by her husband in November 2005\, with whom she had a six-month-old son. The husband was given a five-year sentence but was freed after a few months. \nBronwen Tate reading Mina Loy \nBronwen Tate is the author of the poetry collection The Silk the Moths Ignore and a contributor to a collaborative book-length poem in homage to Bernadette Mayer called Midwinter Constellation. She teaches poetry\, nonfiction\, translation\, and creative writing pedagogy at UBC\, where she is also Undergraduate Chair. Her Substack newsletter Ok\, But How? goes deep on process and includes snacks. \nMina Loy (1882-1966) was a poet\, painter\, and tireless experimenter\, who has been called Futurist\, Dadaist\, Surrealist\, feminist\, conceptualist\, Modernist and Postmodernist. Born in London\, Loy studied painting in Munich and Paris\, wrote about sex\, childbirth\, and art\, and argued with Gertrude Stein\, Filippo Marinetti\, and other major avant-garde figures. Described by Ezra Pound as a poet of logopoeia (“a dance of the intelligence among words and ideas”)\, Loy published a poetry collection called Lunar Baedeker in 1923. Much of her most daring writing\, including a feminist manifesto written in 1914\, remained unpublished during her lifetime. \nBrandon Wint reading Derek Walcott \nBrandon Wint is an Ontario-born poet\, spoken word artist\, educator and multi-disciplinary storyteller based in western Canada. For more than a decade\, Brandon has been a sought-after touring performance poet\, having shared his work all over Canada\, and internationally at festivals and showcases in the United States\, Australia\, Jamaica\, Latvia and Lithuania. Brandon is ever-grateful for the power of poetry as a spiritual technology and social force. He is devoted to using poetry as a tool for refining his sense of justice\, love\, and intimacy. Brandon Wint’s poems and essays have been published in The Ex Puritan\, Event Magazine\, Arc Poetry Magazine\, and Black Writers Matter\, among other places. Divine Animal (Write Bloody North\, 2020) is his debut collection of poetry. His debut film\, My Body Is A Poem/The World Makes With Me screened at DOXA documentary film festival in 2023. \nDerek Walcott (1930-2017) was born in Castries\, Saint Lucia\, the West Indies in 1930. He published numerous poetry collections throughout his lifetime that dealt with the complexities of his African\, Dutch\, and English ancestry. A noted playwright\, Walcott also founded the Trinidad Theater Workshop and wrote several plays. Walcott’s honors include a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship\, the T. S. Eliot Prize\, the Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry’s Lifetime Achievement Award\, and he became the first Caribbean writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature\, in 1992. About Walcott’s work\, the poet Joseph Brodsky said: He gives us more than himself or “a world”; he gives us a sense of infinity embodied in the language.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/dead-poets-reading-series-2/
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SUMMARY:Becoming a Matriarch by Helen Knott with Troy Sebastian
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, September 9th at 6:00pm\, join Massy Arts Society\, Massy Books\, and Knopf Canada for the launch of Helen Knott’s Becoming a Matriarch with host Troy Sebastian. \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: \nTroy Sebastian |nupqu ʔak·ǂam̓ is a writer from the Ktunaxa community of ʔaq̓am. He is a doctoral student\, Vanier Scholar and Sessional Instructor in the University of Victoria’s Department of Writing. His story tax niʔ pikak̓— a long time ago- was longlisted for the 2018 CBC Short Story Prize and the 2019 Writers’ Trust Journey Prize. In 2020 he was selected as a Writer’s Trust Rising Star by Lynn Coady and was longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize. His story The Mission won the 2022 National Magazine Award Gold Prize for Fiction. His writing has appeared in Brick\, the Globe and Mail\, Toronto Star and The Walrus. He is represented by Rachel Letofsky at CookeMcDermid.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/becoming-a-matriarch-by-helen-knott-with-troy-sebastian/
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SUMMARY:Kids Book Launch: More Than Words by Roz MacLean
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, September 9th from 2-4pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and Henry Holt and Co. for the launch of More Than Words: So Many Ways to Say What We Mean by Roz MacLean. \nThis tender\, stunningly illustrated picture book explores and celebrates the many forms of expression—signing\, speaking\, singing\, smiling\, among others— and culminates in a poignant story about connection and understanding. \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. \nThis event will include ASL interpretation. \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\, 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: \nIn the tradition of All Are Welcome and The Day You Begin comes a touching picture book about the many unique ways we communicate\, and how we can better listen to and respect these different modes of expression. \nNathan doesn’t say much. \nHe sure has a lot on his mind\, though. \nAt school\, Nathan quietly observes the ways his peers communicate. Even when they’re not talking\, they’re expressing themselves in all sorts of ways! \nBy witnessing the beauty of communication diversity\, Nathan learns and shows his classmates the essential Not only does everyone have something to say\, but seeking to understand one another can be the greatest bridge to friendship and belonging. \nThis tender\, stunningly illustrated picture book explores and celebrates the many forms of expression—signing\, speaking\, singing\, smiling\, among others— and culminates in a poignant story about connection and understanding. \nAbout the author \nRoz MacLean lives on beautiful Vancouver Island where she loves to make art\, spend as much time as possible in the forest and near the ocean. While she now spends all her time writing and illustrating\, she worked for over a decade supporting students with disabilities and diverse needs in public schools. Roz incorporates her passion for inclusion and promoting positive mental health in her books.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/kids-book-launch-more-than-words-by-roz-maclean/
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SUMMARY:WORD Vancouver
DESCRIPTION:WORD VANCOUVER READING & WRITING FESTIVAL\nSEPT 8TH – 23RD 2023 ONLINE AND IN PERSON \nMAIN HYBRID EVENT AT UBC ROBSON SQUARE\nSEPT 16TH 2023\, 10AM-5PM
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/word-vancouver/
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DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230907T210000
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SUMMARY:Dear Friends &: A reading with Junie Désil\, Tawhida Tanya Evanson\, and Isabella Wang
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, September 7\, 2023\nDoors at 7 pm / Readings at 7:30 pm\nFree admission \nIn-person at Western Front + Virtual attendance by livestream \nDear Friends\, \nThe Capilano Review and Western Front are pleased to invite you to the next event in our monthly reading series\, Dear Friends &. Please join us at 7:30 pm on Thursday\, September 7th\, 2023 at Western Front for an evening of poetry by Junie Désil\, Tawhida Tanya Evanson\, and Isabella Wang. The evening will be hosted by Deanna Fong. \nThe event will celebrate the close of Tawhida Tanya Evanson’s week-long Vancouver residency. Come celebrate with us! \nAdmission is free\, but registration is required for in-person attendance. The event will also be available to virtual audiences by livestream. \nSpecial thanks to Western Front for collaborating with us on this programming and to the Kootenay School of Writing for its additional support. \nWe can’t wait to see you\, \nThe Capilano Review
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/dear-friends-a-reading-with-junie-desil-tawhida-tanya-evanson-and-isabella-wang/
LOCATION:The Western Front\, 303 East 8th Avenue\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V5T 1S1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:Reviving RIOT FOOD HERE
DESCRIPTION:In commemoration of the 116th anniversary of the 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver\, artist and author Henry Tsang will be reviving his RIOT FOOD HERE pop-up food art project. Chef Kris Barnholden will be recreating the original menu that reflects five cuisines of the people in the area at the time of the riot: European\, Chinese\, Japanese\, Indigenous and Punjabi. \nRIOT FOOD HERE was installed in 4 locations over 4 weekends in May and June 2018. These sites track the route taken by the Asiatic Exclusion League’s parade and demonstration demanding a White Canada\, inciting a mob that attacked Chinatown and Powell Street for the following two days. The project launched with a walking tour led by Michael Barnholden\, author of Reading the Riot Act: A Brief History of Riots in Vancouver\, which inspired Henry to create 360 Riot Walk\, a 360 video walking tour of the 1907 riots\, which in turn further developed and expanded into the recently released book\, WHITE RIOT: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver (Arsenal Pulp Press). \nHenry will reflect on his motivations and experiences in creating and presenting RIOT FOOD HERE\, as well as 360 Riot Walk and White Riot\, accompanied by the food offerings. Larger portions will be served because it will be dinnertime. \nThis is a ticketed event\, tickets are extremely limited and cost $40 + fees. \nMenu: \nCandied salmon with pickled spruce tips \nSweet corn congee with bbq pork \nLentil daal with naan \nRoast beef\, Yorkshire pudding\, with horseradish \nSweet red bean mochi \nRIOT FOOD HERE stimulates dialogue and awareness of this historic event as a way to reflect upon the ongoing struggle since colonial times about who has the right to live and eat here. Join us for a taste of the times and lively conversation. \nWHITE RIOT: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots will be available for sale and signing by the author. \nAbout the book White Riot: \nWHITE RIOT: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver explores the conditions leading up to and the impact of a demonstration and parade in Vancouver\, Canada\, organized by the Asiatic Exclusion League and the ensuing mob attack on the city’s Chinese Canadian and Japanese Canadian communities. Emblematic of a systemically racist era\, White Riot reveals the social and political environment of the time\, when racialized communities were targeted through legislated as well as physical acts of exclusion and violence. \nBased on 360 Riot Walk\, a 360-degree video walking tour by artist and author Henry Tsang\, White Riot offers an intersectional approach to this pivotal moment in the history of racialized communities and a cultural and social context for understanding for the current wave of anti-Asian sentiment. It features photographs of the riots colourized by Tsang as well as those of contemporary Vancouver where the riots took place. Essays by Tsang and others speak to the colonial times that preceded and followed the 1907 riots\, as well as issues that Chinese\, Japanese and other racialized communities in North America are facing today. White Riot poses the question: in the current ethos of anti-racism and decolonization\, what does it take to reconcile our collective histories within the legacy of white supremacy? \nIncludes essays by the Asian Canadian Labour Alliance\, Paul Englesberg\, Melody Ma\, Angela May and Nicole Yakashiro\, Jeffery R. Masuda\, Aaron Franks\, Audrey Kobayashi and Trevor Wideman\, and Andy Yan\, with a foreword by Patricia E. Roy. \nAbout the author and chef: \nHenry Tsang is an artist and occasional curator who explores the spatial politics of history\, cultural translation\, community-building and food in relationship to place. His projects employ video\, photography\, interactive media\, convivial events\, and language\, in particular\, the west coast trade language Chinook Jargon. Presentations take the form of gallery exhibitions\, pop-up street food offerings\, 360 video walking tours\, curated dinners\, ephemeral and permanent public art. Henry is a past recipient of the VIVA Award and is Associate Dean at Emily Carr University of Art & Design. \nKris Barnholden is … (bio coming soon) \nVenue & Accessibility \nThe event will be hosted at the Massy Arts Gallery\, at 23 East Pender Street in Chinatown\, Vancouver. \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)\, except when eating and drinking. We ask if you are showing symptoms\, that you stay home. Thank you kindly.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/reviving-riot-food-here/
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SUMMARY:Brandi Bird + Friends Celebrate the Launch of The All + Flesh
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, September 6th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and House of Anansi Press to celebrate the launch of The All + Flesh by Brandi Bird. \nBrandi Bird will be joined by Samantha Nock\, Mallory Tater\, Heather Saluti and host Selina Boan at this celebration of Brandi’s long-anticipated debut poetry collection. \n“I … will be reading these poems for the rest of my life.” — Billy-Ray Belcourt\, author of A Minor Chorus \n“These poems are tender and surprising; they are holes travelling through time and space. They are able to shapeshift God into pills\, prayers\, seeds\, and stars. The All + Flesh has taken root in my mind and I’m happy to let it grow there.” —Jessica Johns\, author of Bad Cree \nThe All + Flesh will be available for purchase at the event\, care of Massy Books. \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: \nThe All + Flesh (House of Anansi Press\, 2023) \nBrandi Bird’s long-anticipated debut poetry collection\, The All + Flesh\, explores the concepts of health\, place\, and memory. These frank\, transcendent poems expose binaries that exist inside those relationships\, then teases them apart in the hope of moving toward a decolonial future. Bird’s work is highly concerned with how outer and inner landscapes move and change within the confines language\, a tradition of movement that has been lost for many who don’t speak their Indigenous languages or live on their homelands. Bird ultimately writes poetry for their kin\, whether they be ancestral or chosen. \nAbout the author & readers: \nBrandi Bird is an Indigiqueer Saulteaux\, Cree and Métis writer from Treaty 1 territory. They currently live and learn on the land of the Squamish\, Tsleil-Waututh & Musqueam peoples. Their chapbook I Am Still Too Much was published by Rahila’s Ghost Press in Spring 2019. Their first full-length poetry collection The All + Flesh was published in August 2023 by House of Anansi Press. Their work can also be found in Poetry is Dead\, Room Magazine\, Brick Magazine\, and others. \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. \nMallory Tater is the author of the poetry collection This Will Be Good (Book*Hug Press 2018) and a novel\, The Birth Yard (HarperCollins Canada 2020). She is the publisher of Rahila’s Ghost Press\, a recently retired poetry chapbook press. \nHeather Saluti is an Italian/Ukrainian poet\, visual artist\, and expressive arts therapist based on the unceded ancestral lands of the Musqueam\, Squamish\, & Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Their poems have appeared in Canthius\, Beyond the Veil Press\, CV2\, LBRNTH and others. They probably want to talk to you about their fandoms and enjoy making lists. \nAbout the host: \nSelina Boan is a white settler-nehiyaw (Cree) writer living on the traditional\, unceded territories of thexʷməθkʷəy̓əm (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. \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/brandi-bird-friends-celebrate-the-launch-of-the-all-flesh-2/
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SUMMARY:ELIXIR OF LIFE—Free Verse Poetry: A workshop with Tawhida Tanya Evanson
DESCRIPTION:Time: Tuesday\, September 5\, 2023 | 6-8pm \nLocation: Grand Luxe Hall\, Western Front (303 East 8th Avenue\, Vancouver) \nRegistration: $25 CAD* / Free for Indigenous participants \nWorkshop Description:\nThe human being is both stream and tsunami\, yet we have difficulty flowing around obstacles. Engage with a free verse poetry that taps into the conscious and subconscious using a basic unifying substance as our guide: water. We will use text\, videopoetry and tonal sound therapy to contemplate\, meditate\, write\, edit\, experiment\, question\, share\, give and receive feedback\, co-create safe space and predict the future of humankind. \nThere are a total of 15 in-person workshop spaces available. Participants should bring along a pen or pencil and some paper for the writing exercises. \nIndigenous registrants: Please email us at contact@thecapilanoreview.com to register directly. \nNo one will be turned away for lack of funds. If the registration fee presents a barrier to you\, please contact us at contact@thecapilanoreview.com. \n*Workshop registration includes a complimentary one-year print subscription to The Capilano Review.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/elixir-of-life-free-verse-poetry-a-workshop-with-tawhida-tanya-evanson/
LOCATION:The Western Front\, 303 East 8th Avenue\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V5T 1S1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Under the Table Masks4EastVan Fundraiser Ft. Jane Shi & Kay Kassirer
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday\, Sept 5th at 6pm PDT\, join Massy Arts Society and a collective of brilliant poet organizers for Under The Table Masks4EastVan Fundraiser featuring Jane Shi & Kay Kassirer. \nThere is a suggested donation of $10 to support Masks4EastVan\, but this event is PWYC. \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. This month’s open mic will only have 5 spots to leave time for our wonderful DOUBLE FEATURE! \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. \nWe will have books for sale by our feature artists and organizers with all proceeds going to Masks4EastVan. Grab a copy of A Whore’s Manifesto\, Leaving Chang’e on Read\, and HIR: an LGBTQIA+ South Asian Zine. \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. \nAbout Masks4EastVan \nMasks4EastVan is a grassroots mutual aid project that distributes N95 or equivalent masks to neighbours in East Van that began in May 2022. We aim to make information about the importance of high quality pandemic protections accessible to the general public. We conduct home deliveries and have pop-up distribution events. Masks4EastVan was founded by two disabled and neurodivergent queer trans people of colour\, and has expanded to be now run by a small group of volunteers. https://linktr.ee/masks4eastvan \nThis event has been made possible by Massy Voices\, the Government of Canada\, and Kickstart Disability Arts and Culture. \nWith Featured Poets \nJane Shi lives on the occupied\, stolen\, and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish)\, and səlil̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. Her writing has appeared in the Disability Visibility Blog\, The Offing\, and Queer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry (Arsenal Pulp Press)\, among others. She is the author of the chapbook Leaving Chang’e on Read (Rahila’s Ghost Press\, 2022) and the winner of The Capilano Review’s 2022 In(ter)ventions in the Archive Contest. Her debut poetry collection echolalia echolalia comes out Fall 2024 with Brick Books. She wants to live in a world where love is not a limited resource\, land is not mined\, hearts are not filched\, and bodies are not violated. \nKay Kassirer (they/them) is a spoken word poet whose autobiographical poetry focuses on gender & sexuality\, grief\, disability\, and sex work. Kay has toured internationally performing at venues like Buddies in Bad Times Theatre\, Busboys and Poets\, and the Bowery Poetry Club. They have competed at over a dozen national and international poetry slam festivals earning their place on several competitive final stages. Kay curated and edited A Whore’s Manifesto: An Anthology of Writing and Artwork by Sex Workers published by Thornapple Press. Their work has been featured in numerous places\, including Button Poetry\, Slamfind\, Write About Now\, and Voicemail Poems.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/under-the-table-masks4eastvan-fundraiser-ft-jane-shi-kay-kassirer-2/
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SUMMARY:It Stops Here with Rueben George and Guests
DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, August 30th at 7pm\, join Massy Arts Society\, Massy Books\, SFU Library\, and SFU Public Square for a special evening with prominent environmental activist\, spiritual leader\, and Sundance Chief\, Rueben George\, for the launch of his book\, It Stops Here: Standing up for Our Lands\, Our Waters\, and Our People. The event will be moderated by Andrea Crossan and feature co-author Michael Simpson and special guests. \nIt Stops Here is a healing\, personal account of one man’s confrontation with colonization that illuminates the philosophy and values of a First Nation on the front lines of the fight against an extractive industry\, colonial government\, and the threat to the life-giving Salish Sea. \n“Rueben George is a force of nature—literally. He is carrying on his family’s long history protecting nature in all its forms. Devastating extractive practices in the form of pipelines\, mining\, clearcutting\, and overfishing threatens the health\, safety\, and wellbeing to Indigenous lands\, waters\, and all of nature. Rueben’s book is a powerful call to action rooted in the teachings of his ancestors\, to gather warriors from all nations and take back control over our collective futures.” —Dr. Pamela Palmater\, Mi’kmaw lawyer\, professor\, and Indigenous rights advocate from Eel River Bar First Nation \nRegistration is free/by donation\, open to all and required for entrance. \nIt Stops Here: Standing up for Our Lands\, Our Waters\, and Our People will be available to purchase before and after the event. There will be an opportunity for book-signing following the moderated portion of this event. \nVenue & Accessibility \nThe event will be hosted at the Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema at 149 West Hastings Street at the Downtown SFU campus. \nWe will reserve 20 seats for elderly community members who do not operate computers/ are otherwise unable to register. \nCovid Protocols: Masks keep our community safe and although not mandatory at SFU\, they are recommended (N95 masks are best as they offer the best protection). We ask if you are showing symptoms\, that you stay home. Thank you kindly. \nAbout the book \nIt Stops Here: Standing up for Our Lands\, Our Waters\, and Our People \nIt Stops Here is 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 recounts the intergenerational struggle of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation to overcome the harms of colonization and the powerful stance they have taken alongside allies and other Indigenous nations across Turtle Island against the development of the Trans Mountain Pipeline—a fossil fuel megaproject on their unceded territories. \nThe book provides a firsthand account of this resurgence as told by Rueben George\, one of the most prominent leaders of the widespread opposition to the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion. He has devoted more than a decade of his life to fighting the project and shares stories about his family’s deep ancestral connections to their unceded lands and waters\, which are today more commonly known as Vancouver\, British Columbia and the Burrard Inlet. Despite the systematic attempts at cultural genocide enacted by the colonial state\, Rueben recounts how key leaders of his community\, such as his grandfather\, Chief Dan George\, always taught the younger generations to be proud of who they were and to remember the importance of their connection to the inlet. \nPart memoir\, part call to action\, It Stops Here urges us to prioritize the sacred over oil and extractive industries\, while insisting that settler society honour Indigenous law and jurisdiction over unceded territories rather than seeing lands as natural resources to be exploited. \nAbout the authors \nRUEBEN GEORGE is Sundance Chief and a member of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation (TWN). After working as a family counsellor for twenty years\, he became manager of the TWN’s Sacred Trust initiative to protect the unceded Tsleil-Waututh lands and waters from the proposed Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion. Over the past decade\, he has travelled across the world and built alliances with Indigenous people fighting for water\, land\, and human rights\, and has become an internationally renowned voice for such issues. Rueben has been adopted and made a Sun Dance Chief by two Lakota families\, and incorporates his cultural and spiritual teachings in all aspects of his life and work. \nMICHAEL SIMPSON is Lecturer in the School of Geography & Sustainable Development at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. \nAbout the moderator \nANDREA CROSSAN is a member of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation. She is an award-winning radio journalist with over 30 years of experience\, reporting from over a dozen countries\, including Afghanistan\, Pakistan\, Ukraine\, South Africa\, Uganda\, and Brazil. She is currently the executive editor of the Global Reporting Centre (GRC)\, an independent news organization based out of UBC. \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/it-stops-here-with-rueben-george-and-guests/
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SUMMARY:Storied: Turning memories and personal experiences into stories and art with Harrison Mooney\, Kim Spencer\, and Sheryda Warrener
DESCRIPTION:Join the BC and Yukon Book Prizes for Storied: Discussions on Books\, Publishing\, and the Creative Process. \nOn Wednesday\, August 30th\, Harrison Mooney\, Kim Spencer\, and Sheryda Warrener will be offering mini-lectures on taking personal experiences and memories and turning them into art and stories for an audience. Harrison Mooney’s book Invisible Boy: A memoir of self-discovery is a finalist for the 2023 Jim Deva Prize for Writing that Provokes and the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize. Kim Spencer’s book Weird Rules to Follow is a finalist for the 2023 Sheila A. Egoff Children’s Literature Prize. Sheryda Warrener’s book Test Piece is a finalist for the 2023 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/storied-turning-memories-and-personal-experiences-into-stories-and-art-with-harrison-mooney-kim-spencer-and-sheryda-warrener/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Summer Issue Book Club: In(ter)ventions in the Archive
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, August 30\, 2023\n12:00pm PST / 3:00pm EST\nFree Admission\nVirtual attendance by Zoom (Register on Eventbrite) \nTo celebrate the summer launch of Issue 3.50: In(ter)ventions in the Archive\, The Capilano Review invites readers to join us for an open “book club”-style discussion of the issue alongside co-editors Deanna Fong and Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross. The event will open with an informal discussion of how the issue’s archival concept and contents materialized. We will then open the floor to readers. Which pieces spoke to you and why? What is your own experience working in archives\, and how did the issue reflect (or not reflect) that experience? What connections did you find between pieces? Bring your thoughts and questions for discussion. We value your engagement and are excited to connect with you in this new forum! \nAccessibility and joining information:\nThe event will be held over Zoom. Attendees are invited to pre-register through Eventbrite. If you have trouble accessing the Zoom link through Eventbrite\, email us at contact@thecapilanoreview.com for access. \nThe Capilano Review is committed to ensuring an inclusive and respectful environment for all that is free of harassment\, violence\, and discrimination. We will not tolerate any disrespectful conduct at the event\, and are committed to preventing and eliminating inappropriate behaviour through active moderation.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/summer-issue-book-club-interventions-in-the-archive/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Panel
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SUMMARY:Imperial Currents with Fareh Malik\, Hasan Namir\, Brandon Wint\, & Ivan Zarin
DESCRIPTION:On Sunday\, August 27th at 2pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books\, Book*hug Press\, Mawenzi House Publishers\, Write Bloody North\, and Talonbooks in presenting the poetry reading Imperial Currents with Fareh Malik\, Hasan Namir\, Brandon Wint\, and Ivan Drury Zarin. \nImperial Currents brings together four dynamic poets navigating colonialism\, racism\, masculinity and their overlaps. Join us for an exploration of collectivity and the power of story to breathe hope into being. \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: \nStreams That Lead Somewhere (Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.\, 2022) \nFareh Malik’s debut collection\, Streams That Lead Somewhere\, aims to explore the intersection between mental illness and social racialization. The poet dives deep into his long history with Islamophobia\, racism\, and other forms of discrimination. The book focuses on perseverance and the silver lining that is ever on the horizon with the expectation that you can make it out of any trial or tribulation\, if you just follow your dream to wherever it leads. \nWar / Torn (Book*hug Press\, 2019) \nLambda Literary Award-winner Hasan Namir’s debut collection of poetry\, War / Torn\, is a brazen and lyrical interrogation of religion and masculinity—the performance and sense of belonging they delineate and draw together. Namir summons prayer\, violence\, and the sensuality of love\, revisiting tenets of Islam and dictates of war to break the barriers between the profane and the sacred. \nDivine Animal (Write Bloody North\, 2020) \nDivine Animal is the debut poetry book by celebrated\, Ontario-born poet and spoken word performer Brandon Wint. The collection is an elegant\, expansive mapping of Brandon Wint’s relationship to the legacy and wake of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade\, as one of its living\, Black descendants. The Atlantic ocean is figured as both a historical site and diasporic metaphor from which to explore the complex journeys and negotiations that brought his family to Canada from Jamaica and Barbados. \nDivine Animal reckons with the ways the logic of colonialism has brought humankind into an era of ecological devastation\, climate change catastrophe and eco-grief. In this way\, Brandon Wint offers a thoughtful\, empathetic poetics that seeks to re-connect the human world with the natural world. Above all\, Divine Animal is a work that lives powerfully at the intersection of celebration and grief. These poems testify to the realities of beauty on Earth\, while casting a necessary eye upon the human proclivity to invent sophisticated\, resilient modes of violence and inequity. \nUn (Talonbooks\, 2022) \nAgainst a backdrop of moderate gains and terrible defeats\, Un laments socialism’s failure to deliver formerly colonized peoples out of imperialism’s terrible grasp. Drawing on the US War on Terror and the disappearances of people extrajudicially apprehended from the Middle East and North Africa\, this collection of poetry interrogates the subjectivity of Western revolutionary socialism in the early twenty-first century. Absence\, negation\, and unbeing echo throughout the text: the negativity of a global class struggle now forty years in retreat. But because Un’s philosophical method is dialectical\, negation does not mean hopelessness or final defeat. Instead\, Un hints at new revolutionary possibilities – the emergence of old\, tidal syntheses – through the combination of historical difficulty with the arrival of unknown days ahead. \nAbout the authors \nIraqi-Canadian author Hasan Namir graduated from Simon Fraser University with a BA in English and received the Ying Chen Creative Writing Student Award. He is the author of God in Pink (2015)\, which won the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Fiction and was chosen as one of the Top 100 Books of 2015 by The Globe and Mail. His work has also been featured on Huffington Post\, Shaw TV\, Airbnb\, in the film God in Pink: A Documentary\, Breakfast Television Toronto\, CTV Morning Live Saskatoon. He was recently named a writer to watch by CBC books. He is also the author of poetry book War/Torn (2019\, Book*Hug Press)\, children’s book The Name I Call Myself (2020\, Arsenal Pulp Press)\, Umbilical Cord (Book*Hug Press) and Banana Dream (2023\, Neal Porter Books). Hasan was the 2021 LGBTQ2s+ guest curator for Word Vancouver. He lives on the unceded territories of the Kwantlen\, Katzie\, Semiahmoo and Tsawwassen First Nations with his husband and their child. \nFareh Malik is an author and artist from the Greater Toronto Area. Originally a spoken word poet\, he has been recognized internationally by many literary presses and has won several poetry awards in his emerging career. Recently\, he was named the 2022 PEN Canada New Voices Award winner\, and his book Streams That Lead Somewhere was longlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. \nBrandon Wint is an Ontario-born poet\, spoken word artist\, educator and multi-disciplinary storyteller based in western Canada. For more than a decade\, Brandon has been a sought-after touring performance poet\, having shared his work all over Canada\, and internationally at festivals and showcases in the United States\, Australia\, Jamaica\, Latvia and Lithuania. Brandon is ever-grateful for the power of poetry as a spiritual technology and social force. He is devoted to using poetry as a tool for refining his sense of justice\, love\, and intimacy. Brandon Wint’s poems and essays have been published in The Ex Puritan\, Event Magazine\, Arc Poetry Magazine\, and Black Writers Matter\, among other places. Divine Animal (Write Bloody North\, 2020) is his debut collection of poetry. His debut film\, My Body Is A Poem/The World Makes With Me screened at DOXA documentary film festival in 2023. \nIvan Drury Zarin is a long time socialist organizer\, writer\, and publisher\, who lives on the unceded territories of the Squamish\, Musqeam\, and Tsleil Waututh nations\, in Vancouver. He is a new parent with family around Vancouver\, central Saskatchewan\, and western Belarus. He teaches history and labour studies at Fraser International College at SFU and drives a paratransit bus as a member of the Amalgamated Transit Union. He is the author of Un\, a book of poems published by Talon Books in 2022\, and is editor and contributor to Red Braid Alliance’s book of essays\, A Separate Star: Politics and Strategy for Anti-Capitalist\, Anti-Colonial\, and Anti-Imperialist Struggle\, published by ARP Books in 2023.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/imperial-currents-with-fareh-malik-hasan-namir-brandon-wint-ivan-zarin/
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SUMMARY:Not That Kind of Place by Michael Melgaard with Guests
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, August 26th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books\, and House of Anansi Press\, ECW Press\, and Atria Press for the launch of Not That Kind of Place by Michael Melgaard with guests Curtis LeBlanc and Scott Alexander Howard. \nProvocative and haunting\, Not That Kind of Place is a literary anti-mystery\, a compelling exploration of our obsession with true-crime stories and the devastating effects of systemic violence on our most vulnerable populations. \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 \nNot That Kind of Place (House of Anansi Press\, 2023) \nIn May 1997\, eighteen-year-old Laura McPherson left her house for a run and didn’t return. Twenty years later\, a reporter arrives in the small town of Griffiths to write an article about the unsolved murder of Laura McPherson. He is the most recent in a long line of journalists\, podcasters\, and amateur sleuths seeking new insights into what really happened to Laura. \nLaura’s younger brother\, David\, a repressed and stuck thirty-something\, is dealing with the recent death of his mother when the reporter comes knocking. The last surviving family member\, David has lived a sheltered life\, protected from the prying eyes of the media by his mother. But David cannot escape the past forever\, and soon finds himself confronting the lasting impact of his sister’s death. As David learns more about his sister and the history of Griffiths\, his eyes are opened to the casual violence\, misogyny\, and racism that lurk just below the surface of his seemingly placid community. \nProvocative and haunting\, Not That Kind of Place is a literary anti-mystery\, a compelling exploration of our obsession with true-crime stories and the devastating effects of systemic violence on our most vulnerable populations. \nSunsetter (ECW Press\, 2023) \nWhen two teens\, Dallan and Hannah\, attend the opening night of the infamous Sunsetter rodeo\, they find themselves entangled in the suspicious deaths of their two closest loved ones. Driven by loss\, rage\, and their gut instincts for justice\, they channel their grief and confusion into uncovering the criminal truth about their small town of Perron\, a prairie community that has been long deserted by industry\, leaving a ghostly emptiness of abandoned gravel pits\, golf courses\, and storefronts. They soon discover that Perron — with its population of bored and discontented youth\, as well as police officers who are only looking out for themselves — is the ideal place for a mysterious and omnipresent drug trade to flourish. Soon enough\, Dallan and Hannah are being tailed by Deputy Arnason\, who has been tasked with protecting the reputation of the local police\, even as his conscience screams in protest with every move he makes. \nEqual parts crime novel and literary fiction\, Sunsetter is an unflinching story about the opioid crisis\, teen isolation\, police brutality\, and the fickleness of late-stage capitalism. \nThe Other Valley (Simon & Schuster\, 2024) \nSixteen-year-old Odile vies for a coveted seat on the Conseil. If she earns the position\, she’ll decide who may cross her town’s heavily guarded borders. On either side\, it’s the same valley\, the same town. To the east\, the town is twenty years ahead in time. To the west\, it’s twenty years behind. The towns repeat in an endless sequence across the wilderness. \nWhen Odile recognizes two visitors she wasn’t supposed to see\, she realizes that the grieving parents of her friend Edme have been escorted across the border\, on a mourning tour\, to view their son while he’s still alive in Odile’s present. \nEdme––who is brilliant\, funny\, and the only person to truly know Odile––is about to die. Sworn to secrecy\, Odile now becomes the Conseil’s top candidate. Yet she finds herself drawing closer to the doomed boy\, imperiling her entire future. \nAbout the authors: \nMichael Melgaard is the author of the short story collection\, Pallbearing\, and the novel Not That Kind of Place. His writing has appeared in Best Canadian Stories\, LitHub and Joyland. He is a former book critic for the National Post and lives in Toronto. \nCurtis LeBlanc (he/him) is the author of two poetry collections\, Little Wild and Birding in the Glass Age of Isolation (Nightwood Editions). His debut novel\, Sunsetter\, was published in Spring 2023 with ECW Press. He is the co-founder of Rahila’s Ghost Press. \nScott Alexander Howard lives in Vancouver\, British Columbia. He has a PhD in philosophy from the University of Toronto and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard\, where his work focused on the relationship between memory\, emotion\, and literature. The Other Valley is his first novel.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/not-that-kind-of-place-by-michael-melgaard-with-guests-2/
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SUMMARY:Wild Prose Readings Presents: Troubled Towns and Waters with Curtis LeBlanc\, Michael Melgaard and Mike Sadava
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an evening of small-town and watery crime literature! The evening will begin with an open mic at 7 – bring your writing to share! Featured readers will begin at 7:30 p.m.: Vancouver-based poet and novelist Curtis LeBlanc will read from his debut novel\, Sunsetter\, which is about crime and drugs at a small-town rodeo; Toronto-based\, island-raised author Michael Melgaard will read from his debut novel\, Not That Kind of Place\, which is about the aftermath of a murder in a small town on Vancouver Island; and local author Mike Sadava will read from his debut novel\, Troubled Waters\, which is about a potential earth-changing experiment gone horribly wrong and the international crime behind it. \nPlease bring cash for admission and authors’ books.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/wild-prose-readings-presents-troubled-towns-and-waters-with-curtis-leblanc-michael-melgaard-and-mike-sadava/
LOCATION:Paul Phillips Hall\, 1923 Fernwood Road\, Victoria\, BC\, V8T 0A5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Open Mic,Reading
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SUMMARY:Ink Slinger Sampler:  Local Writers at the Night Market
DESCRIPTION:Wordstorm members will be showcasing their poetry\, fiction\, and creative non-fiction at a free family-friendly public event open to all ages on August 24th from 5 pm to 7 pm. The event happens in the atrium of the Harbourfront Library during Nanaimo’s Commercial Street Night Market. \nYou’ll be treated to twelve local poets and authors presenting excerpts of their work with a new presentation every ten minutes. You’ll get to meet and chat with poets and writers who will also have poetry chapbooks\, novels and other literary delights on display and available for purchase.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/ink-slinger-sampler-local-writers-at-the-night-market/
LOCATION:Vancouver Island Regional Library\, Nanaimo Harbourfront Branch\, 90 Commercial Street\, Nanaimo\, BC\, V9R 5G4\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230822T180000
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SUMMARY:Not That Kind of Place by Michael Melgaard with Guests
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, August 26th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books\, and House of Anansi Press\, ECW Press\, and Atria Press for the launch of Not That Kind of Place by Michael Melgaard with guests Curtis LeBlanc and Scott Alexander Howard. \nProvocative and haunting\, Not That Kind of Place is a literary anti-mystery\, a compelling exploration of our obsession with true-crime stories and the devastating effects of systemic violence on our most vulnerable populations. \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 \nNot That Kind of Place (House of Anansi Press\, 2023) \nIn May 1997\, eighteen-year-old Laura McPherson left her house for a run and didn’t return. Twenty years later\, a reporter arrives in the small town of Griffiths to write an article about the unsolved murder of Laura McPherson. He is the most recent in a long line of journalists\, podcasters\, and amateur sleuths seeking new insights into what really happened to Laura. \nLaura’s younger brother\, David\, a repressed and stuck thirty-something\, is dealing with the recent death of his mother when the reporter comes knocking. The last surviving family member\, David has lived a sheltered life\, protected from the prying eyes of the media by his mother. But David cannot escape the past forever\, and soon finds himself confronting the lasting impact of his sister’s death. As David learns more about his sister and the history of Griffiths\, his eyes are opened to the casual violence\, misogyny\, and racism that lurk just below the surface of his seemingly placid community. \nProvocative and haunting\, Not That Kind of Place is a literary anti-mystery\, a compelling exploration of our obsession with true-crime stories and the devastating effects of systemic violence on our most vulnerable populations. \nSunsetter (ECW Press\, 2023) \nWhen two teens\, Dallan and Hannah\, attend the opening night of the infamous Sunsetter rodeo\, they find themselves entangled in the suspicious deaths of their two closest loved ones. Driven by loss\, rage\, and their gut instincts for justice\, they channel their grief and confusion into uncovering the criminal truth about their small town of Perron\, a prairie community that has been long deserted by industry\, leaving a ghostly emptiness of abandoned gravel pits\, golf courses\, and storefronts. They soon discover that Perron — with its population of bored and discontented youth\, as well as police officers who are only looking out for themselves — is the ideal place for a mysterious and omnipresent drug trade to flourish. Soon enough\, Dallan and Hannah are being tailed by Deputy Arnason\, who has been tasked with protecting the reputation of the local police\, even as his conscience screams in protest with every move he makes. \nEqual parts crime novel and literary fiction\, Sunsetter is an unflinching story about the opioid crisis\, teen isolation\, police brutality\, and the fickleness of late-stage capitalism. \nThe Other Valley (Simon & Schuster\, 2024) \nSixteen-year-old Odile vies for a coveted seat on the Conseil. If she earns the position\, she’ll decide who may cross her town’s heavily guarded borders. On either side\, it’s the same valley\, the same town. To the east\, the town is twenty years ahead in time. To the west\, it’s twenty years behind. The towns repeat in an endless sequence across the wilderness. \nWhen Odile recognizes two visitors she wasn’t supposed to see\, she realizes that the grieving parents of her friend Edme have been escorted across the border\, on a mourning tour\, to view their son while he’s still alive in Odile’s present. \nEdme––who is brilliant\, funny\, and the only person to truly know Odile––is about to die. Sworn to secrecy\, Odile now becomes the Conseil’s top candidate. Yet she finds herself drawing closer to the doomed boy\, imperiling her entire future. \nAbout the authors: \nMichael Melgaard is the author of the short story collection\, Pallbearing\, and the novel Not That Kind of Place. His writing has appeared in Best Canadian Stories\, LitHub and Joyland. He is a former book critic for the National Post and lives in Toronto. \nCurtis LeBlanc (he/him) is the author of two poetry collections\, Little Wild and Birding in the Glass Age of Isolation (Nightwood Editions). His debut novel\, Sunsetter\, was published in Spring 2023 with ECW Press. He is the co-founder of Rahila’s Ghost Press. \nScott Alexander Howard lives in Vancouver\, British Columbia. He has a PhD in philosophy from the University of Toronto and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard\, where his work focused on the relationship between memory\, emotion\, and literature. The Other Valley is his first novel.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/not-that-kind-of-place-by-michael-melgaard-with-guests/
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