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SUMMARY:Tree Shaman - Lydia Kwa in the Massy Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Massy Books is proud to present “tree shaman\,” an exhibition of photo-based works and accompanying chapbook by Vancouver writer and clinical psychologist Lydia Kwa. \nJoin us for an opening party on October 26th at 7PM\, and stop by any time through November 22 to catch her work in the Massy Gallery. \n“I walked east along the avenue and saw the cut\nstumps of the birch tree. I surmised the tree must\nhave developed some kind of disease\, and\nthe Parks Board people had to come cut it down. \nI was seized with an urge to photograph the dead\,\ndismembered tree. Three days later\, on 24th August\n2015\, I went to buy an old Polaroid camera\, and\nloaded it with film made by the Impossible Project. \nTwo rolls—eight shots in the morning; and eight\nlater that same afternoon. \nThree years later\, this project has come to fruition.” \nProceeds from the sale of this chapbook will be\ndonated to Pacific Wild Alliance\n(pacificwildalliance.org). \nAbout Lydia Kwa: \nLydia lives and works in Vancouver as a clinical psychologist and a writer. She went to University of Toronto to do a Bachelors of Science degree in Psychology\, then spent 7 years at Queen’s University in Kingston getting her MA and PhD. While at Queen’s\, she started to take her writing more seriously and would drop into a writers’ group that met on the top floor of the Grad Club on Monday nights. In 1989\, the poems she submitted to two campus periodicals won prizes. It was also the year her poems were first published in a Canadian literary magazine: CV2 out of Winnipeg\, Manitoba. \nToday\, Lydia works out of her own office as a full-time psychologist at the edge of Chinatown and the Downtown Eastside in Vancouver. She has several published books\, including: This Place Called Absence\, The Walking Boy\, Pulse\, and her latest work— sinuous\, a long poem that spans about fourteen years\, and covers various experiences of living in Canada\, including her reflections on the nature of trauma\, the resilience of the human spirit\, and the healing that comes from practices such as meditation and ki aikido.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/tree-shaman-lydia-kwa-in-the-massy-gallery-2/
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SUMMARY:Launch: Fireworks by Jules Boykoff\, with Special Guest Hari Alluri
DESCRIPTION:Join Massy Books on Halloween night for the launch of Jules Boykoff’s new collection of poetry\, Fireworks\, from Tinfish Press. Boykoff will be joined by Hari Alluri and Junie Désil! \nOct 31st\, 7pm\, Free Entry. \nAbout Jules and Fireworks: \nJules Boykoff is a serious man. Jules Boykoff is a critic of global capitalism\, especially as manifest in the Olympic movement\, about which he has written three important books. Jules Boykoff is a serious champion of whatever is anti-hegemonic\, anti-hierarchical\, and anti-patriarchal. Jules Boykoff is a serious family man. Jules Boykoff is also full of what he calls “felonious spunk\,” in a poem called “Overdetermination Meets Polysemy in a Two-Fall-Ten-Minute-Time-Limit\, Pay-Per-View Cage Match at the Convention Center in Portland\, Oregon.” In other words\, Jules Boykoff is a wordslinger\, his third book of poems offering content strained through many forms (including collages and photographs)\, but always walking a tightrope between anger\, angst\, and puckish punsterism. Reminiscent to this reader of the mad tonal shifts of The Death of Stalin\, this book shows us a different mode of resistance\, one that with mordant wit seeks to destroy the humorless flat acreage of incipient (or actual) fascism. \nAbout Hari Alluri: \nHari Alluri\, who immigrated to Vancouver\, Coast Salish territories at age twelve\, is the author of Carving Ashes (CiCAC\, 2013) and The Promise of Rust (Mouthfeel\, 2016). An award-winning poet\, educator\, and teaching artist\, his work appears widely in anthologies\, journals and online venues\, including Chautauqua\, Poemeleon and Split This Rock. He is a founding editor at Locked Horn Press\, where he has co-edited two anthologies\, Gendered & Written: Forums on Poetics andRead America(s): An Anthology. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from San Diego State University and\, along with the Federico Moramarco Poetry International Teaching Prize\, he has received VONA/Voices and Las Dos Brujas fellowships and a National Film Board of Canada grant. Hari currently serves as editor of pacific Review in San Diego\, Kumeyaay land. \n\n\n\n\nAbout June Désil: \nJunie Désil is a Haitian/Canadian settler poet who has performed at various literary events and festivals. Her work has appeared in Room Magazine\, and was recently shortlisted for Prism International’s Pacific Poetry Prize\, and has work currently published in PRISM International’s Summer 2018 Issue. Junie currently works on the traditional territories of Coast Salish peoples and lives on Qayqayt First Nation (New Westminster)\, juggling writing and life.\n.\n.\n.\nThis event is taking place on the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh Nations. \nMassy Books’ downstairs event space is accessible! You can view the floorplan here: http://www.massybooks.com/accessibility/\nPlease feel free to reach out with any inquiries. \nThe event is all-ages\, but we will have beer and wine available for purchase.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/jules-boykoff-launch/
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