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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:Almost Islands: Phyllis Webb and the Pursuit of the Unwritten by Stephen Collis Launch
DESCRIPTION:Massy Books and Talonbooks invite you to the book launch of Almost Islands: Phyllis Webb and the Pursuit of the Unwritten by Stephen Collis.\n– – –\nAlmost Islands is a powerfully introspective memoir of the author’s friendship with legendary Canadian poet Phyllis Webb – now in her nineties and long enveloped in silence – and his regular trips to see her. It is an extended meditation on literary ambition and failure\, poetry and politics\, choice and chance\, location\, colonization\, and climate change – the struggle that is writing\, and the end of writing. \n“I go to see her because she is poetry’s old crone and I am seeking. I go to her – usually three\, four times a year – because it is a small ministration I can perform for her\, and for her poetry\, as she slowly reaches into the finite – a long\, slow embrace of nothing … If living is a process of learning how to die\, then is writing a process of learning how to stop writing? I go in search of lost words\, in search of the hoped-for defence against the loss of words\, drawn to the shaping sounds of fate and mortality.” \nA meticulous collection of poetic\, political\, and philosophical digressions\, Almost Islands weaves numerous themes together. At its crux lies a literary project: to build upon and extend Webb’s exposition of a “poetic” sense of the political\, by proposing a political agent\, the “Biotariat\,” a government of Life\, that is both human and more than human – arrived at after following as many pathways as possible through Webb’s own reading and thought. Ultimately\, Almost Islands is a book obsessed with the problem of Webb’s not writing\, and the implications of this for a writer like Collis who\, in his own words\, may be writing “too much” – as well as the wider social\, political\, and world-historical implications of withdrawal\, self-silencing\, and not-doing.\n– – –\nThis event is taking place on the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh Nations. \nThe event is all-ages\, but we will have beer and wine available for purchase.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/almost-islands-phyllis-webb-and-the-pursuit-of-the-unwritten-by-stephen-collis-launch/
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