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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.
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SUMMARY:We All Need to Eat by Alex Leslie Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join Massy Books November 8th as we celebrate the launch of Alex Leslie’s We All Need to Eat. Come find out why Kirkus Reviews calls this new Bookhug release “a magnetic collection that must be read over and over.” \nAbout We All Need to Eat:\nWe All Need to Eat is a collection of linked stories from award-winning author Alex Leslie that revolves around Soma\, a young Queer woman in Vancouver. Through thoughtful and probing narratives\, each story chronicles a sea change in Soma’s life. Lyrical\, gritty\, and atmospheric\, Soma’s stories refuse to shy away from the contradictions inherent to human experience\, exploring one young person’s journey through mourning\, escapism\, and the search for nourishment. The stories slipstream through Soma’s first three decades\, surfacing at moments of knowing and intensity. The far-reaching impact and lasting reverberations of Soma’s family’s experience of the Holocaust scrapes up against the rise of Alt Right media. While going through a break-up in her thirties\, Soma becomes addicted to weightlifting and navigates public mourning on Facebook. As a child\, Soma struggles to cope with her mother’s\nsorrow by becoming fixated on buying her a lamp for seasonal affective disorder. A friend’s suicide prompts a drinking game that takes mortality as its premise. But alongside the loss in Soma’s life is a pursuit of intimacy\, resounding in the final story’s closing words: “Look me in the eye.” \n“We All Need to Eat is a stunning inquiry into the sharpness of the world as it collides with the fragility – the ambiguities and possibilities – of the self. Alex Leslie is a tremendously gifted and compassionate writer. This bold and searing collection is a wonder.” —Madeleine Thien\, Scotiabank Giller Prize winning\nauthor of Do Not Say We Have Nothing. \nAbout Alex Leslie:\nAlex Leslie was born and lives in Vancouver. She is the author of the short story collection People Who Disappear (2012) which was nominated for the 2013 Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction\nand a 2013 ReLit Award\, as well as a collection of prose poems\, The things I heard about you (2014)\, which was shortlisted for the 2014 Robert Kroestch Award for Innovative Poetry. Winner of\nthe 2015 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers\, Alex’s short fiction has been included in the Journey Prize Anthology\, The Best of Canadian Poetry in English\, and in a special issue of Granta\nspotlighting Canadian writing\, co-edited by Madeleine Thien and Catherine Leroux.
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