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SUMMARY:Double Poetry Collection Launch: Patrick Grace and Tina Biello
DESCRIPTION:Please join Munro’s Books in celebrating the launches of two new poetry collections by local authors! \nPatrick Grace’s debut collection\, Deviant\, traces a trajectory of queer self-discovery from childhood to adulthood\, examining love\, fear\, grief\, and the violence that men are capable of in intimate same-sex relationships. Richly engaged with the tangible and experiential\, Patrick Grace’s confessional poetry captures profound\, sharp emotions\, tracking a journey impacted equally by beauty and by brutality. Coming-of-age identity struggles are recalled with wry wit\, and dreamlike poems embrace adolescent queer love and connections as a way to cope with the fear and cruelty that can occur in gay relationships. Later poems in the collection recall vivid moments of psychological trauma and stalking and explore the bias of the justice system toward gay men. Collecting memories\, dreams\, and fears about sexual identity\, Deviant makes important contributions to queer coming-of-age and intimate partner violence narratives. \nPATRICK GRACE is an author and teacher who divides his time between Vancouver and Victoria\, BC. He has read at literary festivals around Canada\, including Word Vancouver and Versefest Ottawa\, and will be appearing at the Edmonton Poetry Festival in late April. He has published two chapbooks: a blurred wind swirls back for you (2023)\, and Dastardly (2021)\, exploring aspects of love\, fear\, and trauma that represent a personal queer identity. Deviant\, his first full-length poetry collection\, continues to explore these themes. He works as managing editor of Plenitude Magazine\, and is this year’s judge for The Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Award for Poetry. \nIn Tina Biello’s new collection\, The Weight of Survival\, in a small logging town nestled near Lake Cowichan is an old elementary school. The child of immigrants from post-war Italy attends this school among the population of mostly white\, anglo-saxon families. She does not speak English. \nHer family is one of four who emigrated from southern Italy\, to this small forested community. There are other families\, from India\, who share a kinship of ‘other’ with the Italian families. What happens when your voice\, your food\, your home is different? How do you know how to be queer when there is no language or place for it? How do you remember a time not spoken of\, but passed on through the smell of walnut blossoms in the spring\, grapes in the fall? In The Weight of Survival\, Tina Biello chronicles this upbringing of otherness\, of being shaped by two very different communities\, of blending identities into one\, and what is left behind in the process. \nPoet\, playwright and actor\, TINA BIELLO was born in Lake Cowichan\, a small logging town here on Vancouver Island to immigrant parents. She has honed her skills of being from ‘two places’ and speaks a few languages because of it. She believes in the power of poetry to reach in\, grab hold and get us through. She had the great privilege of working with mentor Patrick Lane. ‘The Weight of Survival’ is her 4th book of poems. When she’s not writing poetry\, she’s gardening\, walking dogs and writing plays and more recently a screenplay. She was Nanaimo’s 2nd Poet Laureate from 2017-2020 and has just finished a 3 year cycle of writing librettos for composers with the Vancouver Island Symphony. \nWHEN: Wednesday\, April 3rd at 7:00 p.m. (doors at 6:30). \nWHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street. \nWHAT: Readings by Patrick Grace and Tina Biello\, followed by a Q&A with the audience and book signings. \nHOW: This event is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/double-poetry-collection-launch-patrick-grace-and-tina-biello/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet,Panel
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Boxing the Compass by Michael L. Hadley
DESCRIPTION:Join award-winning historian and mariner Michael L. Hadley on his international adventures as he launches his memoir\, Boxing the Compass: A Life of Seafaring\, Music\, and Pilgrimage (Heritage House\, 2024). \nFriday\, April 5\, 2024 | 3:30–5:00 pm\nMaritime Museum of BC | 744 Douglas St. | Victoria\, BC \nRegister at mmbc.bc.ca\nEvent included with museum admission or membership—come early to visit the museum\nBooks available for purchase and signing
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-launch-boxing-the-compass-by-michael-l-hadley/
LOCATION:Maritime Museum of BC\, 634 Humboldt St.\, Victoria\, BC\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Boxing the Compass by Michael L. Hadley
DESCRIPTION:Join award-winning historian and mariner Michael L. Hadley on his international adventures as he launches his memoir\, Boxing the Compass: A Life of Seafaring\, Music\, and Pilgrimage (Heritage House\, 2024). \nFriday\, April 5\, 2024 | 3:30–5:00 pm\nMaritime Museum of BC | 744 Douglas St. | Victoria\, BC \nRegister at mmbc.bc.ca\nEvent included with museum admission or membership—come early to visit the museum\nBooks available for purchase and signing
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-launch-boxing-the-compass-by-michael-l-hadley-2/
LOCATION:Maritime Museum of BC\, 634 Humboldt St.\, Victoria\, BC\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch
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SUMMARY:The Knot of My Tongue: Poems and Prose by Zehra Naqvi with guests
DESCRIPTION:On Friday\, April 12th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and Penguin Random House Canada for the launch of The Knot of My Tongue: Poems and Prose by Zehra Naqvi\, joined by Rahat Kurd\, Seemi Ghazi and Sarah Munawar. \nFor readers of Fatimah Asghar’s If They Come for Us\, here is a searing\, multidimensional debut about the search for language and self\, which is life itself. \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. We are located in the former MING WO building\, which is still the name on the facade of our building. \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 Knot of My Tongue (Penguin Random House\, 2024) \nI knew it was time to build what could carry\, what could find the high point to name what I knew to be the world and carry it with me \nAt the heart of The Knot of My Tongue is Zehra Naqvi’s storying of language itself and the self-re- visioning that follows devastating personal rupture. Employing a variety of poetic forms\, these intimate\, searching poems address generations\, continents\, and dominions\nto examine loss of expression in the aftermath of collisions with\npowerful forces\, ranging from histories to intimacies. \nNaqvi follows a cast of characters from personal memory\, family history\, and Quranic traditions\, at instances where they have either been rendered silent or found ways to attempt the inexpressible— a father struggling to speak as an immigrant in Canada; a grandmother as she loses her children and her home after the 1947 Partition; the Islamic story of Hajar\, abandoned in the desert without water; the myth of Philomela who finds language even after her husband cuts off her tongue. \nBrilliantly blending the personal and the communal\, memory and myth\, theology and tradition\, the poems in this collection train our attention—slow and immediate\, public and private—on our primal ability to communicate\, recover\, and survive. This example is striking for the power of its speaking through loss and a singular\, radiant vision. \nAbout the author \nZEHRA NAQVI is a Karachi-born writer raised on unceded Coast Salish Territories (Vancouver\, BC). She is a winner of the 2021 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers awarded by the Writers’ Trust of Canada. Her poem “forgetting urdu” was the winner of Room’s 2016 Poetry Contest. Zehra has written and edited for various publications internationally. She holds two MSc degrees in migration studies and social anthropology from Oxford University where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar. The Knot of My Tongue is her debut poetry collection. \nAbout the guests \nRahat Kurd is the daughter & granddaughter of Kashmiri women. She has studied Urdu and Persian poetry for several years. Her work includes COSMOPHILIA (Talonbooks 2015)\, a collection of poems\, and THE CITY THAT IS LEAVING FOREVER: KASHMIRI LETTERS (Talonbooks 2021)\, a hybrid book of correspondence and poetics co-authored with the Kashmiri poet Sumayya Syed. \nDr. Sarah Munawar (She/Her) is a Pakistani-Muslim and settler living in relationship with and sustained by the occupied and unceded land and waters of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish)\, Stó:lō and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (TsleilWaututh) Nations. She is a political science instructor at Columbia College\, a mother and a scholar of care ethics\, disability justice and health equity. In her writing\, she articulates the right of Muslims to think about care islamically\, and offers a vision of disability justice and collective accessibility that draws upon various lineages of anti-oppressive Islamic knowledge.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/the-knot-of-my-tongue-poems-and-prose-by-zehra-naqvi-with-guests/
LOCATION:BC
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SUMMARY:RCLAS presents Poetic Justice In Celebration of National Poetry Month Featuring Isabella Wang & Catherine Lewis with Alan Hill
DESCRIPTION:Royal City Literary Arts Society presents “Poetic Justice”\nIn Celebration of National Poetry Month\nSunday\, April 14 from 2-4pm \nFeaturing poets Isabella Wang and Catherine Lewis with host Alan Hill. \nPlus\, additional readings from “A Poetry of Place: Journeys Across New Westminster”\, the poetry postcard anthology project\, curated and edited by Alan Hill\, published in 2021 by the City of New Westminster. \nOpen Mic. \nLocated at the New West Artists exhibit at the\n📍#IHeartNewWest Community Art Space Columbia Square Plaza\, Downtown New West. \n📌UNIT 103\, 78 Tenth Street\, New Westminster. \nCatherine Lewis (she/her) is a Chinese Canadian writer and poet. Her debut poetry chapbook Zipless (845 Press) is a finalist for two Bisexual Book Awards\, including Bi Writer of the Year. Her writing has been longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize\, nominated for a Pushcart Prize\, and published in The Fiddlehead\, PRISM international\, The Humber Literary Review\, Pulp Literature\, and Plenitude Magazine. A graduate of SFU’s Writer’s Studio\, she is a two-time Banff Centre Literary Arts alumna. Born in Hong Kong and raised in Canada\, she lives in Vancouver on the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish\, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. \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 in her Masters of Sociology at SFU. An editor on the Room collective\, she is also a youth mentor with Vancouver Poetry House\, poetry mentor with the UBC Learning Exchange\, web coordinator with poetry in canada\, and directs her own non-profit editing and mentorship program\, 4827 Revise Revision St. \nAlan Hill was born in the UK and immigrated to Canada in 2005. He is the former Poet Laureate of the City of New Westminster\, BC (2017-2020)\, former president of the Royal City Literary Arts Society (RCLAS)\, and was the editor and curator of A Poetry of Place: Journeys Across New Westminster\, published in partnership with New Westminster Arts Services. His writing has been published internationally and his poetry has appeared in Event\, CV2\, Canadian Literature\, The Antigonish Review\, subTerrain\, Poetry is Dead\, among others. He works in the field of community development and immigrant settlement and lives in New Westminster\, BC. His book In the Blood was published by Caitlin Press in 2022.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/rclas-presents-poetic-justice-in-celebration-of-national-poetry-month-featuring-isabella-wang-catherine-lewis-with-alan-hill/
LOCATION:#IHeartNewWest Community Art Space Columbia Square Plaza\,  Unit 103 – 78 10th Street\, New Westminster.\, Unit 103 - 78 10th Street\, New Westminster\, BC\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Reading
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Kayla Czaga and Anne Fleming
DESCRIPTION:Join Munro’s Books in celebrating the launches of new books by two talented local writers!! \n“I feel like the crud / I accidentally touch sometimes\, whatever it is / that collects under cushions on my couch\,” writes Kayla Czaga in her third collection\, Midway\, an exploration of grief in all its manifestations. In her search for meaning in the aftermath of her parents’ deaths\, Czaga visits the underworld (at least twice)\, Vietnamese restaurants\, the beach\, London’s Tate Modern\, Las Vegas casinos\, and a fish textbook. Honest\, elegiac\, characteristically strange\, and frequently funny\, these poems take the reader through bright scenery like carnival rides with fast climbs and sudden drops. The meanings and messages Czaga uncovers on her travels are complicated: hopeful\, bleak-both comforting and not. Along with the parents the poet mourns\, this collection showcases a varied cast. A suburban father-in-law copes with a troubling diagnosis. Marge Simpson quits The Simpsons. Death is a metalhead who dates girls too young for him. Midway is a welcome and necessary collection from one of the most celebrated and accomplished poets of her generation. \nKAYLA CZAGA is the author of two previous poetry collections-For Your Safety Please Hold On (Nightwood Editions\, 2014)\, and Dunk Tank (House of Anansi\, 2019). Her work has been shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for poetry and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Frequently anthologized in the Best Canadian Poetry in English series\, her writing also appears in The Walrus\, Grain\, Event\, The Fiddlehead\, and elsewhere. She lives with her wife on the traditional territory of the Lekwungen people\, the Songhees nd Esquimalt nations.\n—\nAnne Fleming’s latest novel\, Curiosities\, opens with a present-day amateur historian\, Anne\, who describes her unexpected discovery of five seventeenth-century manuscripts that\, astonishingly\, tell the same strange story from vastly different points of view. And so it falls upon Anne\, the contemporary historian\, to piece together these interlocking stories\, discover the fate of a pair of lovers\, and add her own layer of “truth” to a history and time period when there were no labels for who these lovers might truly be. \nANNE FLEMING is the author of Pool-Hopping & Other Stories (Raincoast\, 1998)\, which was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction\, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize\, and the Danuta Gleed Award\, as well as the much-praised novel\, Anomaly (Raincoast\, 2005). She is also the author of a middle-grade novel\, The Goat (Groundwood\, 2017)\, which was a Junior Library Guild and White Ravens selection\, shortlisted for Italy’s Premio Strega\, optioned for film\, and named one of the Top Ten Children’s Books of the Year by The New York Public Library and the Wall Street Journal. Anne Fleming lives in Victoria\, BC. \nWHEN: Thursday\, April 18th\, 7:00 p.m. (doors at 6:30).\nWHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government St.\nWHAT: Readings of new work from Kayla Czaga and Anne Fleming followed by a Q&A with the audience and book signings. Refreshments will be provided. The audience will also be serenaded by lute playing from Anne Fleming and local musician\, Doug Hensley.\nHOW: This event is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-launch-kayla-czaga-and-anne-fleming/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch,Meet & Greet
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Always On Call • Terrace\, BC
DESCRIPTION:Join bestselling author Marion McKinnon Crook to launch Always On Call: Adventures in Nursing\, Ranching\, and Rural Living—the much-anticipated sequel to Always Pack a Candle! \nSaturday\, April 20\, 2024\n1–2 pm\nTerrace Public Library\, 4610 Park Ave.\, Terrace\, BC \n• free to attend — everyone welcome\n• Books for sale by Misty River Books
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/book-launch-always-on-call-terrace-bc/
LOCATION:Terrace Public Library\, 4610 Park Ave\, Terrace\, BC\, V8G 1V6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Launch
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SUMMARY:In Grief and Poetry with Patrick de Belen - screening + poetry + workshop
DESCRIPTION:In Grief and Poetry with Patrick de Belen – screening + poetry + workshop\nMonday\, April 22nd 2024\, 6:00 PM PDT\nOn Monday\, April 22nd at 6pm\, join Massy Arts and Massy Books in welcoming poet and filmmaker Patrick de Belen to the space for a screening\, poetry performance and workshop\, In Grief and Poetry.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/in-grief-and-poetry-with-patrick-de-belen-screening-poetry-workshop/
LOCATION:BC
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SUMMARY:10th Anniversary of BC Book Day
DESCRIPTION:WHEN: Tuesday\, April 23\, 2024 \nWHAT: BC Book Day invites British Columbians to celebrate the province’s book & magazine publishers\, authors\, illustrators\, bookstores\, libraries\, festivals\, and literary prizes that connect us with local stories. \nGOAL: To raise awareness among government and the general public of BC’s publishing ecosystem and its cultural and economic contributions. \nWHO: BC Book Day is coordinated by the Association of Book Publishers of BC\, which works to support the long-term health and success of the Canadian-owned book industry in British Columbia. \nDid you know? \n\nBritish Columbia is the second largest English-language book publishing region in Canada\, with more than 30 active publishers.\nBC publishers operate in several regions\, including the Southern Interior\, the Sunshine Coast\, Vancouver Island\, and the Lower Mainland.\nWe bring Canadian writing and culture to a global audience\, exporting to more than 40 countries each year.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/10th-anniversary-of-bc-book-day/
LOCATION:BC
CATEGORIES:Festival,Launch
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SUMMARY:Roundtable Discussion: Witnessing Genocide in Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Roundtable Discussion: Witnessing Genocide in Palestine\nTuesday\, April 23rd 2024\, 6:00 PM PDT\nOn Tuesday\, April 23rd at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and UBC Public Humanities in gathering for a roundtable discussion on the theme: “Witnessing Genocide in Palestine” with scholars Brenna Bhandar\, Adel Iskander\, Jasbir K. Puar\, and André Elias Mazawi. \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/roundtable-discussion-witnessing-genocide-in-palestine/
LOCATION:BC
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SUMMARY:Meet the Author: Robyn Harding: "A Drowning Woman"
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of engaging discussion with Robyn Harding\, about her latest book:\nThe Drowning Woman \nDrinks and light fare provided.\nWine supplied by Sage Hayward Vineyards. \nAbout the author:\nRobyn Harding is the author of numerous international bestsellers\, including The Party\, The Arrangement\, The Swap and The Drowning Woman. As a speaker\, she is definitely a Lyceum favourite – her presentation style is fluid so that she can meet the needs of everyone in her audience. Robyn has also written and executive produced an independent film\, The Steps. She lives in Vancouver\, BC\, with her family and two cute\, but deadly\, rescue chihuahuas.\nVisit her at RobynHarding.com or follow her on Twitter and Instagram @RHardingWriter or Facebook @AuthorRobynHarding.\nDo not miss out\, register soon and pick up your copy of The Drowning Woman at the Lyceum and save 15%. \nAbout the book:\nThe Drowning Woman is a deliciously twisted story of friendship\, retribution\, and betrayal about a homeless woman fleeing a dangerous past—and the wealthy society wife she saves from drowning\, who pulls her into a dark web of secrets and lies. \nLee Gulliver never thought she’d find herself living on the streets—no one ever does—but when her restaurant fails\, and she falls deeper into debt\, she leaves her old life behind with nothing but her clothes and her Toyota Corolla. In Seattle\, she parks in a secluded spot by the beach to lay low and plan her next move—until early one morning\, she sees a sobbing woman throw herself into the ocean. Lee hauls the woman back to the surface\, but instead of appreciation\, she is met with fury. The drowning woman\, Hazel\, tells her that she’s trapped in a toxic\, abusive marriage\, that she’s a prisoner in her own home. Lee has thwarted her one chance to escape her life. \nOut of options\, Hazel retreats to her gilded cage\, and Lee thinks she’s seen the last of her\, until her unexpected return the next morning. Bonded by disparate but difficult circumstances\, the women soon strike up a close and unlikely friendship. And then one day\, Hazel makes a shocking request… \nReview:\nWith deceitful characters who are not what they seem\, a myriad of unexpected twists and turns\, and a story that moves along at high speed\, “The Drowning Woman” is everything I love in a thriller. Robyn Harding keeps readers hooked until the end.”\n-Mary Kubica\, New York Times bestselling authot of “Local Woman Missing”
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/meet-the-author-robyn-harding-a-drowning-woman/
LOCATION:Christianne’s Lyceum of Literature and Art\, 4433 West 10th Avenue\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6R2H8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Meet & Greet
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SUMMARY:Poets in the Round
DESCRIPTION:Poets in the Round\nThursday\, April 25th 2024\, 6:00 PM PDT\nOn Thursday\, April 25th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts and Massy Books in welcoming Poets in the Round\, in celebration of poetry month. Featured poets include: Jen Currin\, Mercedes Eng\, Marc Perez\, Molly Cross-Blanchard\, Brandon Wint\, Rahat Kurd\, and Melanie Noel. \nPoets\, seated in a semi-circle\, will listen to other poets’ poems and respond with their own poems in a kinetic conversation of ideas and inspiration. \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/poets-in-the-round/
LOCATION:BC
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SUMMARY:Canadian Independent Bookstore Day at Munro's Books!!
DESCRIPTION:On Saturday\, April 27th\, celebrate Canadian Independent Bookstore Day with Munro’s Books!!! \nOn Saturday\, April 27\, readers across the country will have the opportunity to support local independent bookshops by participating in Canadian Independent Bookstore Day (CIBD). With more than 150 participating shops expected\, CIBD is an annual cultural celebration and an opportunity for book buyers\, authors\, illustrators\, and publishers to acknowledge the vibrant literary ecosystem created by our “indie” bookshops. The stores in this national network act as key community ambassadors\, convenors of important conversations\, and contributors to vibrant local economies. \nHere’s what will be going on at Munro’s: \nALL DAY:\nEarn double points with all purchases!\nEnter to win one of two prize packages!\nMatch the author to their book cover game!\nMunro’s bookmark photobooth!\nBookmark colouring station!\nBlind Date with a Book!\nPostcards to Munro’s: A display of postcards to Munro’s from some of our favourite authors! We’ve sent Munro’s Books postcards to authors\, both local and across the country and the world and have asked them to write about a favourite moment at Munro’s\, or what they love about Munro’s\, why Munro’s is important to them\, or just the importance of independent bookstores in general. On April 27th\, we’ll have these authors’ postcards on display for you to read! \nBOOK SIGNINGS:\nCome and meet these local authors! \n12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. – Gregor Craigie\n1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. – Michael Christie\n2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. – Sho Yamagushiku \nCHILDREN’S STORY TIME:\n3:00 – 3:30 p.m. – with Esi Edugyan\n3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. – with Monique Gray Smith \nWe hope you’ll join us to celebrate and continue to cultivate the important and special relationship that exists between writers\, readers\, and bookstores!! \nWHEN: Saturday\, April 27th all day (9:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.).\nWHERE: In-store at Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street in Victoria.\nWHAT: A celebration of Canadian Independent Bookstore Day!\nHOW: This celebration is free to attend.
URL:https://www.readlocalbc.ca/event/canadian-independent-bookstore-day-at-munros-books/
LOCATION:Munro’s Books\, 1108 Government Street\, Victoria\, BC\, V8W 1Y2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Meet & Greet
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ORGANIZER;CN="Munro's Books":MAILTO:events@munrobooks.com
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SUMMARY:Ward Toward by Cindy Juyoung Ok & Root Fractures by Diana Khoi Nguyen
DESCRIPTION:Ward Toward by Cindy Juyoung Ok & Root Fractures by Diana Khoi Nguyen\nSaturday\, April 27th 2024\, 6:00 PM PDT\nOn Saturday\, April 27th at 6pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books\, Yale University Press\, and Scribner in celebrating the dual launches of Ward Toward by Cindy Juyoung Ok & Root Fractures by Diana Khoi Nguyen\, with host Bronwen Tate. \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/ward-toward-by-cindy-juyoung-ok-root-fractures-by-diana-khoi-nguyen/
LOCATION:BC
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240428T140000
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SUMMARY:On Mother Tongues and Translingual Poetics: Yilin Wang and Guests
DESCRIPTION:On Sunday\, April 28th at 2pm\, join Massy Arts\, Massy Books and Invisible Publishing in celebrating the launch of The Lantern and the Night Moths by Yilin Wang\, with guests Penny So\, Karla Comanda\, and Dominique Bernier-Cormier. \nIn The Lantern and the Night Moths\, Chinese Canadian poet-translator Yilin Wang has selected and translated poems by five of China’s most innovative modern and contemporary poets: Fei Ming\, Qiu Jin\, Zhang Qiaohui\, Xiao Xi\, and Dai Wangshu. Their poetry expands and subverts the long lineage of Classical Chinese poetry that precedes them. \nWe would like to acknowledge the support of the League of Canadian Poets and the Canada Council for the Arts. This project has also 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/on-mother-tongues-and-translingual-poetics-yilin-wang-and-guests/
LOCATION:BC
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