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SUMMARY:Myth and the Witch
DESCRIPTION:Stop by the Massy Gallery March 8th- April 2nd  to see Natasha Broad’s “Myth and the Witch\,” a series based in healing. \nDrawing insight from the depths of the 16th and 17th witch hunts\, Broad tunes into the underpinnings of the larger sociological and political realities of gender discrimination from which our patriarchal systems have been drawn. Broad’s drawings are delicate but exacting in their reclamation of women’s power; they inherit a dark history but do not play into any ruling ideologies. Her work addresses not only what it meant to be a woman in 16th and 17th century Europe\, but also how one inhabits this history\, and how the witch has been reframed to suit modern patriarchal and capitalist needs. Through the use of iconography that is both mythical and corporeal\, spiritual and scientific\, Broad permeates a system of symbols and practices that have been held hostage— reclaiming a malevolent magic\, an essential force. \nNatasha Broad grew up on Vancouver Island and left to pursue drawing at Emily Carr University. In 2013 she graduated with her BFA\, where shortly after she became pregnant with her daughter\, who now is her inspiration\, showing up occasionally in her art practice. Her daughter serves as a driving force to do better as an artist\, mother and womyn identified. Natasha won second place in a nation-wide competition in 2013\, was a nominee for the sustainable arts award in her graduating class and continues to show her work regularly in Vancouver and on Vancouver Island.
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SUMMARY:Launch: The Length of This Gap - Kristen E. Nelson and Guests
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an exciting evening of poetry\, hybrid prose\, vignettes\, and other liminal forms at the launch of Kristen E Nelson’s The Length of This Gap. \n\nMarch 23rd\, 7pm // Free Entry\n\n\nWith readings by:\n\n\nTC Tolbert\n\n\nGillian Jerome\n\n\nand Sommer Browning\n\n\nPraise for The Length of This Gap:\n\n“Death is not always tragedy\, but then again\, neither is love – its encounter\, its ennui\, its wound. Kristen Nelson’s the length of this gap revels in passionate ambivalence\, gliding between emotions without netted hearts to catch her fall. Oh foolish bravery! Sorrow becomes lust and lust becomes abandonment\, and Nelson makes me want to be bolder\, hotter\, sexier – and I crave. These poems persuade my addiction.” —Lily Hoang  \n“One of the most powerful\, breathtaking bodies of poetry fortifying the will to survive.  I am an enormous fan of Kristen Nelson’s poems and am always excitedly anticipating the next poem showing me the better parts of our species and how to love and thrive!” —CA Conrad \n\nAbout the Author:\nKristen E. Nelson is a queer writer and performer\, literary activist\, LGBTQ+ activist\, and community builder. She is the author of the length of this gap (Damaged Goods\, August 2018) and two chapbooks: sometimes I gets lost and is grateful for noises in the dark (Dancing Girl\, 2017) and Write\, Dad (Unthinkable Creatures\, 2012). Kristen’s poem “After the Crotalus atrox” was anthologized in The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guide and nominated for a 2016 Pushcart Prize by University of Arizona Press. She has published work in Bombay Gin\, Denver Quarterly\, Drunken Boat\, Tarpaulin Sky Journal\, Trickhouse\, and Everyday Genius\, among others. Kristen is the founder of Casa Libre en la Solana\, a non-profit writing center in Tucson\, Arizona\, where she worked as the Executive Director for 14 years. She Earned her MFA in Creative Writing in 2011 from Goddard College\, and her BA in English Literature with minors in Marine Science and Biology in 2000 from The University of Tampa. Kristen has been a creative writing instructor since 2010 and has taught at Naropa University\, UA Poetry Center\, STEP College Prep Program\, and Pima Community College. She specializes in teaching Personal Narrative Essay Writing\, Text/Image Collaborations\, and Divinatory Poetics. www.kristenenelson.com\n\n\nAbout the Readers:\n\nTC Tolbert often identifies as a trans and genderqueer feminist\, collaborator\, dancer\, and poet. And\, s/he’s a human in love with humans doing human things. S/he is Tucson’s Poet Laureate and author of Gephyromania (Ahsahta Press 2014)\, 4 chapbooks\, and co-editor of Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books 2013). www.tctolbert.com\n\n\n \n\n\nGillian Jerome lives and works in Vancouver where she’s writing a third collection of poems. She teaches at UBC. \n\n\n \n\n\nSommer Browning writes poems and draws comics in Denver. She is the author of EVERYTHING BUT SEX (Low Frequency Press\, 2017)\, WANT TO HEAR ABOUT THIS DREAM I HAD (Reality Beach\, 2017)\, YOU’RE ON MY PERIOD (Counterpath\, 2016)\, THE CIRCLE BOOK (Cuneiform Press\, 2015)\, BACKUP SINGERS (Birds\, LLC\, 2014)\, PRESIDENTS AND OTHER JOKES (Future Tense Books\, 2013)\, and EITHER WAY I’M CELEBRATING (Birds\, LLC\, 2011). She is the founder of GEORGIA\, an artist run art space\, and works as a librarian.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/poetry-launchreading/
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