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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:James Fitzgerald - Dreaming Sally Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join Massy Books November 20th for the launch of James Fitzgerald’s Dreaming Sally. We will be joined in-store by Fitzgerald and Vancouver journalist George Orr (the book’s subject and unofficial co-author).\n\n\n \n\n\nAbout Dreaming Sally:\n\n\nPrize-winning author James FitzGerald explores how the death of an eighteen-year-old girl in the summer of 1968 forever changed his life and the life of the other man who loved her. Dreaming Sally is a deeply moving exploration of the weight of a life cut short.\n\n\n \n\n\nSally will die in Europe this summer.\n\n\nGeorge Orr dreamed that his girlfriend\, Sally Wodehouse\, would die on the trip she wanted to take\, and he begged her not to go. But Sally did not take him seriously–how could she? She left for Europe in July 1968 with twenty-five other private-school kids\, on “The Odyssey\,” a Sixties version of the Grand Tour. In August 1968\, only hours after becoming engaged to George via telegram\, she died as he had dreamed she would\, in a freak accident.\n\n\n Sally was George’s first love\, but she was also James FitzGerald’s. James first met Sally at a family cottage; he was drawn to her energy and warmth\, a stunning contrast to the chilly emotional life of his own family. At seventeen\, not exactly a hit with the girls\, James was delighted when he realized that he’d be spending the summer with his old friend. And soon\, even though he knew that Sally had a serious boyfriend back home\, they became inseparable\, touring the glories of Western culture by day\, dancing and drinking the nights away–giddily unshackled from the expectations and requirements of their class and upbringing. \n\n\n To George and James\, both sons of parents who knew how to make demands of their children but not how to love them\, Sally represented all the optimism and promised freedom of the ’60s. Her death has haunted both men for fifty years–arresting their development\, miring them in grief and unreasoning guilt. Dreaming Sally is a profound and evocative exploration of the long shadow left by an eighteen-year-old girl\, an uncanny story of first love\, sudden death and the complexity of trauma and mourning.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/james-fitzgerald-dreaming-sally-launch/
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