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SUMMARY:Poetry Workshops / Chasing The Poem – 4th Edition / All Queer Mentorship
DESCRIPTION:From July 11th to August 1st\, Massy Arts and Massy Books host\, Chasing The Poem – Fourth Edition\, an online poetry workshop marathon for emerging writers\, in three courses created by queer poets to demystify poetry writing\, to present useful writing prompts\, to incite imagination\, and to address political and poetic points of view through poetic literature. \nThe classes – conducted by published poets David Ly + Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch + Isabella Wang\, will be held through Zoom in an exclusively online method\, with 2-hours long experimental courses that will mix literary theory + artistic expression. \nBy the end of this writing marathon\, attendees will have received feedback about their writing by authors in production\, aware of the market’s demands – but also aware of poetry’s potential. \nThe event will be hosted at Massy Arts’ Zoom room. \nTickets are limited\, and registration is mandatory + required for participation. \nThis project has been made possible by the Government of Canada. Ce projet a été rendu possible grâce au gouvernement du Canada. \n: : \nChasing The Poem – A unique opportunity for emerging writers \nWhether an emerging poet\, unpublished author\, poetry enthusiast\, or someone searching for new ways of expressing their creativity – Chasing The Poem will connect our creative community in three courses: \nJuly 11 – Tue – 6pm to 8pm PST \nDavid Ly \nRe-imagining Your Mythologies \nJuly 18 – Tue – 6pm to 8pm PST \nEli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch \nForm as the container for the personal and the political \nAugust 1 – Tue – 6pm to 8pm PST \nIsabella Wang \nPoetry Lab: Form’s Experimental Roots \n: : \nThe Workshops \n: : \n“Re-imagining Your Mythologies: Writing to See Yourself in Imagistic Poetry” by David Ly \nA workshop for emerging and established poets to practice flexing their imagination in composing poetry with vivid imagery that pushes a narrative of the self forward. \nWhether you love to write with imagery\, or would want to imbue more of it into your poems\, this workshop will be guide you through discussions\, close-readings\, and a series of writing exercises an imagistic poem. While strongly imbuing your poem with images that speak to you\, the other purpose of this workshop will be refining your poem so that it reflects your identity\, and re-imagines ideas (“mythologies”) that you have about yourself. \nAs poets\, we often explore our sense(s) of self in our work\, and by the end of this workshop\, you will leave inspired to explore what other images you can include in future poems\, that resonate with you and speak to your identity. \nDavid Ly is the author of Mythical Man (2020)\, which was shortlisted for the 2021 ReLit Poetry Award\, and Dream of Me as Water (2022)\, both published under the Anstruther Books imprint of Palimpsest Press. He is also co-editor (with Daniel Zomparelli) of Queer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry (Arsenal Pulp Press\, 2022). David’s poems have appeared in publications such as Arc Poetry Magazine\, Best Canadian Poetry\, PRISM International\, and The Ex-Puritan\, where he won the inaugural Austin Clarke Prize in Literary Excellence. David is the Poetry Editor at This Magazine. \n: : \n“Form as the container for the personal and the political: How to write non-didactic political poetry” by Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch \nHow can writing about the daily minutia\, the sounds you like to hear\, the images you can’t get out of your head\, the construction in your city\, the long bus ride to work\, open up space to look at broader political\, social\, or interpersonal trials and difficulties? \nWriting poetry with a political or social “message” is difficult when trying to make sure it doesn’t come off as didactic or overbearing. One way of pushing through this difficulty is to lean on craft\, form\, and hybrid genres/forms in order to help shape your poetry\, the same way you would mold clay with your hands to create pottery. \nThis workshop will try to help workshop attendees to think about multiplicity as a strength in order to give their poems texture\, layers\, feeling\, energy\, elasticity\, and to avoid flatness or didacticism. We are working here with the everything\, the too much\, the big feelings\, the tiny little images stored in the back of ones head\, the gross\, the weird\, the strange\, and we’ll try to whittle it all down to a poem. \nOther ideas we’ll be thinking about: the personal vs. the political\, ways to create lenses through which we can write difficult subject matter\, caring about the self through the writing practice and also the impact on the reader. \nEli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch is a writer living in Tio’tia:ke. Their work has appeared in The Best \nCanadian Poetry 2018 anthology\, The New Quarterly\, Arc Poetry Magazine\, and elsewhere. They were longlisted for the CBC poetry prize in 2019. Their book\, knot body (2020)\, published by Metatron Press\, was shortlisted for the QWF Concordia First Book Award\, and their second book\, The Good Arabs\, published by Metonymy Press in 2021\, was granted the honorary mention for poetry by the Arab American Book Awards and won the Grand Prix du Livre de Montreal. They are an acquisitions editor at Metonymy Press. Their translation of Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay’s La fille d’elle-même from the French is forthcoming Spring 2023. With co-editor Samia Marshy\, they are editing El Ghourabaa\, an anthology of weird and experimental queer and trans writing by Arab and Arabophone writers\, forthcoming Spring 2024. \n: : \n“Poetry Lab: Form’s Experimental Roots” by Isabella Wang \nFocused on experimentation as a synaptic device in poetry. This workshop leads participants on an exploration of the experimental foundation of traditional poetic forms\, as well as the synergy from which new\, experimental forms arises from experimentation to shoulder the immediate\, aesthetic\, personal\, environmental\, and political visions of writers today. \nWe will journey with the term poiesis—a beloved term by poets—which translates loosely to mean ’the making of something out of nothing.’ Together\, participants will be encouraged to consider not only language’s ability to bring into being new feelings\, perspectives\, and original metaphors\, but equally how such perspectives are found in the unearthing of new experimental or hybrid forms. \nWhat is the relationship to form and poetic language? How do pre-existing forms or free-verse stanzas assist or hinder a poet’s intended creative representation? Is experimental poetry empowering? Political? An act of refusal and resistance? \nWe will begin by engaging in a series of writing exercises ranging from experimental prose poetry to diptych and triptych forms. Exercises will followed by periods of collaborative sharing. Breaks will be interspersed with sample poems by contemporary poets\, artists\, and activists whose works engage with experimentation\, new\, and found forms. \nWe will end with a fun and artsy individual project to take home\, commemorate our writing in our time together. \nIsabella Wang is the author of the chapbook\, On Forgetting a Language\, and her full-length debut\, Pebble Swing\, shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Among other recognitions\, she has been shortlisted for Arc’s Poem of the Year Contest\, The Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Contest and Long Poem Contest\, and was the youngest writer to be shortlisted twice for The New Quarterly’s Edna Staebler Essay Contest. She is completing a double-major in English and World Literature at SFU. She works in freelance editing\, is a youth mentor with Vancouver Poetry House\, and web coordinator for Poetry In Canada.
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LOCATION:Massy Arts\, 23 East Pender\, Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Ever-Arriving Openings: An Evening with Adeena Karasick
DESCRIPTION:On Thurs. Aug. 3 at 6pm\, join Massy Arts and Dialogos / Lavender Ink for the double launch of Adeena Karasick’s latest poetry books: Ærotomania: The Book of Lumenations and Ouvert Oeuvre: Openings . \nThrough a poetics of politically engaged aesthetic resistance\, Ærotomania negotiates turbulence\, loss\, nostalgia and hope\, while the poems in Ouvert Oeuvre speak-sing to re-entering the world after a long period in quarantine. Adeena will be joined by special guest Jim Andrews\, who will be screening some of their recent vispo collaborations: Lorem Ipsum\, Checking In 1\, Checking In 2\, Touching in the Wake of the Virus. \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 \nÆrotomania: The Book of LumenationsLavender Ink\, 2023) \nA lyrically explosive mix of pathos\, comedy\, and wit\, and a visual feast in full color. \nMarked by a playful “cognitive dissidence” and a lyrically and visually explosive mix of pathos\, comedy\, and wit\, Ærotomania: The Book of Lumenations is Karasick’s twelfth volume of poetry. Through a poetics of politically engaged aesthetic resistance\, this work negotiates turbulence\, loss\, nostalgia and hope\, inscribing a prescient “present” ever-arriving through jubilation and bereavement\, in immanence and irruption\, exposing how the airplane as an erotic theater functions like a language. \nOuvert Oeuvre: Openings (Lavender Ink\, 2023) \nAn ecstatically wrought\, never quite post-Covid celebration/trepidation of openings. \nInscribing what Levinas might call “espace vital” (the space we can survive)\, Ouvert Oeuvre: Openings is an ecstatically wrought\, never quite post-Covid celebration/trepidation of openings. Written by Adeena Karasick and visualized by Warren Lehrer\, the two poems track the pain of openings read through socio-economic\, geographic and bodily space. They explore a range of intralingual etymologies of the word opening\, laced with post-consumerist and erotic language\, theoretical discourse\, philosophical and Kabbalistic aphorisms. The poems foreground language as an organism of hope–highlighting the concept of opening as an ever-swirling palimpsest of spectral voices\, textures\, whispers and codes transported through passion\, politics and pleasure as we negotiate loss and light. This book is the first collaboration between poet\, performer\, cultural theorist and media artist Adeena Karasick\, and pioneer designer/author and vis lit practitioner Warren Lehrer. The poems\, written by Karasick\, speak-sing to re-entering the world after a long period in quarantine. Lehrer choreographs Karasick’s words on the stage of the page and through the pages of this volume. His typographic compositions give form to the interior\, emotional\, metaphorical\, historical and performative underpinnings of the poems. Together\, the writing and visuals create a new whole that engages the reader to become an active participant in the experience/performance of the poems. View the book’s website here. \nAbout the author \nAdeena Karasick\, Ph.D\, is a New York based Canadian poet\, performer\, cultural theorist and media artist and the author of 14 books of poetry and poetics. Her Kabbalistically inflected\, urban\, Jewish feminist mashups have been described as “electricity in language” (Nicole Brossard)\, “proto-ecstatic jet-propulsive word torsion” (George Quasha)\, noted for their “cross-fertilization of punning and knowing\, theatre and theory” (Charles Bernstein) “a twined virtuosity of mind and ear which leaves the reader deliciously lost in Karasick’s signature ‘syllabic labyrinth’” (Craig Dworkin); “demonstrating how desire flows through language\, an unstoppable flood of allusion (both literary and pop-cultural)\, word-play\, and extravagant and outrageous sound-work.” (Mark Scroggins). Most recently is Massaging the Medium: 7 Pechakuchas\, (The Institute of General Semantics Press: 2022)\, shortlisted for Outstanding Book of the Year Award (ICA\, 2023) and winner of the 2023 Susanne K. Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Symbolic Form. (MEA)\, Checking In (Talonbooks\, 2018) and Salomé: Woman of Valor (University of Padova Press\, Italy\, 2017)\, the libretto for her Spoken Word opera; Salomé: Woman of Valor CD\, (NuJu Records\, 2020)\, and Salomé Birangona\, translation into Bengali (Boibhashik Prokashoni Press\, Kolkata\, 2020). Karasick teaches Literature and Critical Theory for the Humanities and Media Studies Dept. at Pratt Institute\, is Poetry Editor for Explorations in Media Ecology\, Associate International Editor of New Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication\, 2021 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Award recipient and winner of the Voce Donna Italia award for her contributions to feminist thinking\, and has just been appointed Poet Laureate of the Institute of General Semantics. The “Adeena Karasick Archive” is established at Special Collections\, Simon Fraser University. Hot off the press is Ærotomania: The Book of Lumenations\, and Ouvert: Oeuvre: Openings\, (Lavender Ink Press\, 2023). \nAlso featuring: \nJim Andrews has been publishing https://vispo.com since 1996. It’s the centre of his work as a poet\, visual artist\, audio artist\, theoretician and programmer. Vispo.com is a site of interactive\, multimedia poetry.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/ever-arriving-openings-an-evening-with-adeena-karasick/
LOCATION:Massy Arts\, 23 East Pender\, Vancouver\, B.C.\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch
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SUMMARY:2nd Annual Sunshine Coast Art & Words Festival
DESCRIPTION:Come to the Gibsons Public Market on the Sunshine Coast August 10-14 to enjoy literary readings paired with an art exhibit\, writers’ and artists workshops and more.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/2nd-annual-sunshine-coast-art-words-festival/
LOCATION:Gibsons Public Market\, 473 Gower Point Rd\, Gibsons\, BC\, V0N 1V0\, Canada
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SUMMARY:SCWES Book Awards for BC Authors 2023
DESCRIPTION:The winners of the first Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society Book Awards for BC Authors will be announced at the Gibsons Public Market. The emcee is Vince R. Ditrich of Spirit of the West fame and author of the hilarious Liquor Vicar Series. Many of the finalists for the contest will be in attendance. The bookmobile from the Little Bookshop from Squamish will be present to sell the finalists books.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/scwes-book-awards-for-bc-authors-2023-2/
LOCATION:Gibsons Public Market\, 473 Gower Point Rd\, Gibsons\, BC\, V0N 1V0\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Francine Cunningham with Guests
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday\, August 15th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and Invisible Publishing for Francine Cunningham with Guests: Jónína Kirton\, Nadine Bachan & Jennifer B.S. Williams. \n“The stories in God Isn’t Here Today reveal Francine Cunningham as a gimlet eye observer of humanity\, with boundless empathy and a searing sense of humour.” — Doretta Lau\, author of How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun? \nThis project has been made possible by the Government of Canada. Ce projet a été rendu possible grâce au gouvernement du Canada. \nVenue & Accessibility \nThe event will be hosted at the Massy Arts Gallery\, at 23 East Pender Street in Chinatown\, Vancouver. \nRegistration is free and required for entrance. \nThe gallery is wheelchair accessible and a gender-neutral washroom is on-site. Please refrain from wearing scents or heavy perfumes. \nFor more on accessibility including parking\, seating\, venue measurements and floor plan\, and how to request ASL interpretation please visit: massyarts.com/accessibility \nCovid Protocols: Masks keep our community safe and are mandatory (N95 masks are recommended as they offer the best protection). We ask if you are showing symptoms\, that you stay home. Thank you kindly. \nAbout the Book: \nGod Isn’t Here Today ricochets between form and genre\, taking readers on a dark\, irreverent\, yet poignant journey led by a unique and powerful new voice. \nDriven by desperation into moments of transformation\, Cunningham’s characters are presented with moments of choice—some for the better and some for the worse. A young man goes to God’s office downtown for advice; a woman discovers she is the last human on Earth; an ice cream vendor is driven insane by his truck’s song; an ageing stripper uses undergarments to enact her escape plan; an incubus tires of his professional grind; and a young woman inherits a power that has survived genocide\, but comes with a burden of its own. \nEven as they flirt with the fantastic\, Cunningham’s stories unfold with the innate elegance of a spring fern\, reminding us of the inherent dualities in human nature—and that redemption can arise where we least expect it. \nAbout the Authors \nFrancine Cunningham is an award-winning writer\, artist\, and educator who spends her summer days writing on the Prairies and her winter months teaching in the north. Francine is a member of the Saddle Lake Cree Nation in Alberta but grew up in Calgary\, Edmonton\, and 100 Mile House\, BC. Francine is also Metis and has settler family roots stretching from as far away as Ireland and Belgium. She currently resides in Alberta and previously spent over a decade calling Vancouver her home. \nHer debut book of poems On/Me (Caitlin Press) was nominated for The BC and Yukon Book Prize\, The Indigenous Voices Award\, and The Vancouver Book Award. Her debut book of short stories God Isn’t Here Today (Invisible Publishing) was longlisted for the inaugural Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. Francine also writes for television with credits including the teen reality show THAT’S AWSM! among others and was a recipient of a Telus StoryHive grant. Her fiction\, non-fiction\, and poetry have also appeared in The Best Canadian Short Stories\, The Best Canadian Non-Fiction\, in Grain Magazine as the 2018 Short Prose Award winner\, on The Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Prose shortlist\, and on the 2022 CBC Poetry Prize longlist\, among others. \nYou can find out more about her at www.francinecunningham.ca. \nJónína Kirton\, an Icelandic and Red River Métis poet and citizen of the Métis Nation of BC currently lives in New Westminster BC\, the unceded territory of the Halkomelem speaking peoples. She was born in Portage la Prairie\, Manitoba\, Treaty 1\, the traditional lands of the Anishinaabe\, Cree\, Oji-Cree\, Dakota\, Dene peoples and the homeland of the Métis. She was sixty-one when she received the 2016 Vancouver’s Mayor’s Arts Award for an Emerging Artist in the Literary Arts category. Her second collection of poetry\, An Honest Woman\, was a finalist in the 2018 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Her third book\, Standing in a River of Time\, merges poetry and lyrical memoir to take us on a journey exposing the intergenerational effects of colonization on her Métis family. \nNadine Bachan was born in Trinidad and raised in the suburbs of Toronto. Her essays about culture\, family\, and identity have appeared in print and digital publications across North America including Maisonneuve\, Hazlitt\, Canthius\, The New Quarterly\, and Catapult. She has been anthologized in The Best Canadian Essays series and The Broadview Anthology of Expository Prose. Her debut in true-crime writing was published in the “Partners in Crime” edition of The Best New True Crime Stories series. When not at her desk\, Nadine can usually be found crocheting or knitting. \nNadine lives with her partner on the west coast near Jericho Beach. She is currently developing a memoir and a collection of linked short stories. You can learn more at www.linktr.ee/nadinebachan. \nJennifer B.S. Williams (Yes\, those are her middle initials) is a Gitksan/Sekani author and mother currently living in Chilliwack\, BC. Jennifer’s writing takes the form of creative nonfiction\, flash fiction\, scriptwriting and poetry. Her writing evokes the culture she represents\, giving a new voice to the ancestors she carries with her. With an Associates Degree in Aboriginal Studies from Langara College and a Bachelor’s Degree in Creative Writing from Kwantlen Polytechnic University\, Jennifer’s writing is immersed in her life experiences as an Indigenous woman. Each piece she creates represents an intentional move forward on her journey of cultural reclamation. In 2021\, Jennifer produced a manuscript of poetry\, including 25 distinct pieces\, titled “Disconnected Existence”. She is currently working on extending this collection of poetry under the mentorship of the N’we Jinan ArtWorks Emerging Artist program.
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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.
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SUMMARY:Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts
DESCRIPTION:Join Canada’s longest running summer gathering of Canadian writers and readers\, featuring established literary stars and exciting\, new voices… with opportunities for writers and readers to mingle amidst Rockwood’s heritage gardens.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/sunshine-coast-festival-of-the-written-arts/
LOCATION:Rockwood Pavilion\, 5511 Shorncliffe Ave\, Sechelt\, BC\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Seaside Art\, Photography & Book Fair
DESCRIPTION:Sunshine Coast artists\, photography and authors will be showcasing and selling their work at this free event at the Seaside Centre\, 5790 Teredo Street\, Sechelt\, BC. There will be literary readings and art workshops. \nArtists and Photographers include:\nRoger Handling\nKasia Krolikowska\nPaula O’Brien\nPaddy Meade\nKevin Wells\nVash Step and his Sunshine Coast photography group\nPaddy Meade\nCharmaine Bayntun \nAuthors\, include:\nHeather Conn\nMarion Crook\nCathalynn Labonte-Smith\nSCWES Members’ chapbook table\nSharon Eastwood\nKylie Hutchinson\nCat Mac\nHolly Talbot (eight-year-old author of two published books)
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/seaside-art-photography-book-fair/
LOCATION:BC
CATEGORIES:Festival
ORGANIZER;CN="Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society":MAILTO:sunshinecoastwritersandeditors@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230818T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230818T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T033428
CREATED:20230811T180218Z
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SUMMARY:From Queer to Asian to Publication: Aaron Chan\, CA Tanaka & Catherine Lewis
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, August 18th from 6-8pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books\, Signal 8 Press\, Orca Book Publishers\, and 845 Press for “From Queer to Asian to Publication”\, a reading and workshop with Aaron Chan\, Candie Tanaka\, and Catherine Lewis. \nIn celebration of Pride\, we are excited to host talented writers from the Queer Asian literary community in Vancouver for this hybrid reading and conversational workshop. \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\, 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 \nThis event will have ASL interpretation. \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: \nAaron Chan’s This City is a Minefield \nThis City is a Minefield is a collection of reflective memoir and personal essays told from a genuine and unique voice about growing up and coming of age as a young gay Chinese man in Vancouver. Thoughtful and honest\, the stories and essays recounted are unafraid of analyzing and criticizing the status quo\, whether it be Chinese culture’s unfavourable view of homosexuality\, or the gay community’s ill-addressed\, rampant sexual racism. At the same time an intimate\, tender love letter to Vancouver filled with mixed emotions – joy\, nostalgia\, sadness – Chan weaves together poignant\, heartbreaking experiences of navigating and reconciling conflicting cultural and queer identities\, complicated romantic relationships\, sex and trauma\, and overwhelming loneliness that coalesce to form a rounded portrait of a quiet soul on a search for love and belonging. This City is a Minefield serves as a marker of life as a young queer person of colour in this modern age. \nC.A. Tanaka’s Baby Drag Queen \nTransgender teen Ichiro enters a drag contest in hopes of earning enough money to live off the grid. \nIchiro is a transgender youth in his final year of high school. He has a job as a dishwasher to earn money to help support his single mother. But it’s not enough. Ichiro dreams of buying a camper van for the two of them so they can escape and live off the grid and not have to worry about money anymore. A budding drag queen\, he takes a second job performing drag at a local club and learns of an upcoming contest where the prize money would be enough to pay for a camper van. But nobody knows he does drag. So when some of his friends find out what he’s really doing in the evenings\, Ichiro is worried about what they will think of him. Will they still accept him? \nCatherine Lewis’ Zipless \n“Catherine Lewis’ Zipless wears femme armour. These poems are fortified by Valentino stilettos and sundresses in August’s heat. The thick-skinned and vivid voice firmly leads the reader to fertility clinics\, first dates and Pride parties. Zipless leads us further still—into the complex positionality of a mature polyamorous Asian bisexual navigating a queer world that is often too narrowly-focused to see her multitudes. Lewis widens the landscape of queer poetics\, punching 4-inch-deep heel marks into the ground as she goes.” — Amber Dawn \nAbout the authors: \nAaron Chan is a writer born and raised on unceded Coast Salish territories (Vancouver\, BC). He is the author of This City Is a Minefield (Signal 8 Press)\, a collection of memoir and personal essays about growing up gay and Asian in Vancouver. Currently\, Aaron is currently a Creative Writing MFA candidate at the University of California Riverside and is the recipient of the L.M. and Marcia McQuern Endowed Graduate Award in Non-fiction Writing. The Broken Heart\, his debut children’s picture book\, is forthcoming in June 2024 with Rocky Pond Books. \nCandie Tanaka is a multiracial trans writer\, artist and librarian challenging the binaries continually reconstructed between self and other while exploring archive and memory in a socio-political context. They are a creative writing graduate of The Writer’s Studio program at Simon Fraser University and have a BFA in Intermedia from Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design. Their first YA book\, Baby Drag Queen was published with Orca Books in April 2023. They’ve also published work in Resonance: Essays on the Craft of Life and Writing with Anvil Press and This Will Only Take A Minute: Canadian Flash Fiction with Guernica Editions. \nCatherine Lewis (she/her) is a Chinese Canadian writer and poet. Her debut poetry chapbook Zipless (845 Press\, 2021) is a finalist for two Bisexual Book Awards\, for Poetry and for Bi Writer of the Year. Her work has been published in PRISM international\, The Humber Literary Review\, and Plenitude Magazine. First runner-up for Pulp Literature’s 2023 Magpie Award for Poetry and longlisted for Surrey Muse’s 2022 Joy Kogawa Award for Fiction\, she has been shortlisted in creative nonfiction contests at Room Magazine and The Fiddlehead. She lives in Vancouver on the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish\, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/from-queer-to-asian-to-publication-aaron-chan-ca-tanaka-catherine-lewis/
LOCATION:BC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230822T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230822T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T033428
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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/
LOCATION:BC
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DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230824T190000
DTSTAMP:20260501T033428
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="Wordstorm Society of the Arts":MAILTO:wordstormsociety@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230824T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230824T220000
DTSTAMP:20260501T033428
CREATED:20230721T170127Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230721T170127Z
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="Wild Prose Reading Series":MAILTO:susan.sanford.blades@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230826T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230826T200000
DTSTAMP:20260501T033428
CREATED:20230811T180254Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230811T180254Z
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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/
LOCATION:BC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230827T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230827T160000
DTSTAMP:20260501T033428
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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/
LOCATION:BC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230830T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20230830T133000
DTSTAMP:20260501T033428
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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: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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ORGANIZER;CN="BC and Yukon Book Prizes":MAILTO:megan@bcyukonbookprizes.com
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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/
LOCATION:BC
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