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SUMMARY:A Collection of Self Portraits ( Queens\, Warriors\, Goddesses)
DESCRIPTION:Join us June 6th for the opening of Tajah Olson’s breathtaking series\, A Collection of Self-Portraits (Queens\, Warriors\, Goddesses). \n“My work is meant to be a celebration. It is a call to creative freedom. Using my own face and body\, I aim to go BEYOND the ordinary\, beyond stereotypes and negativity to a place where I can create beauty and achieve the extraordinary. My work is fierce. It celebrates the strength and creativity that allows us to endure through struggle and confront what frightens us.” \nAbout Tajah Olson:\nTajah Olson was born in Lilongwe\, in the southeastern African country of Malawi. She spent her early years living in a crowded two-room shack in the sprawling township at the edge of the city\, with her young single mom who made a living selling used clothing.\nTajah’s maternal grandparents had been forced to flee neighboring Zambia for political reasons\, settling in a village near Lilongwe. Though Tajah never knew her grandfather\, she often visited the village\, where her grandmother was a subsistence farmer\, raising chickens\, goats and growing her own food. “My artwork is inspired by my memories of home and my maternal grandmother Aswesi\, strong\, tough but yet kind hearted” Tajah says. “Most of all my art celebrates the strength and beauty of tribal African women.” \nTajah’s life changed at the age of 7\, when her mother married a Canadian UNICEF employee who worked in youth AIDS prevention in Malawi. Tajah spoke only Chichewa until she met her new dad\, but the change in her family circumstances gave her the courage to literally cross the busiest highway in the city of Lilongwe by herself from the township to an English-language school and take a front seat in a classroom. She was determined to learn English and never return to the crowded government school\, where 100-200 children had to share desks or sit on the dirty broken cement floors in the classrooms. The principal of the English-Language school was so impressed he allowed her to stay unofficially until her parents enrolled her. Eventually\, Tajah left Malawi and travelled to Canada\, to live with her dad’s family and attend high school in Victoria\, on Canada’s Vancouver Island. Her Canadian aunts and grandmother encouraged her creativity\, plying her with paints and other art supplies and pushing her to try new things. She had always liked making things with her hands – she has an early memory of making little figures out of mud when she couldn’t express her unhappiness as a child. \nTajah\, who is now a Canadian citizen\, was accepted into a degree program at the prestigious Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver. She has spent the years since graduation developing her art practice\, while working a wide array of jobs (including teaching African dance and working as senior care taker).\nA big break came when the City of Seattle bought Three of Tajah’s works for their Municipal Tower Gallery. By then Tajah was working with large-scale photo-based images using herself as a model\, using body paint and costume to depict powerful icons of African womanhood. She has shown her work in Vancouver and in New Orleans\, and continues to develop her art practice. \nShe hopes that her message of strength\, beauty and positivity resonate with women everywhere.\n.\n.\n.\nUnfortunately\, this event takes place on the second floor of Massy Books and is not wheelchair accessible. For other accessibility inquiries please to send us a message\, we will do our best to accommodate any needs. \nThis event is taking place on the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh Nations.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/a-collection-of-self-portraits-queens-warriors-goddesses/
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SUMMARY:Hope Matters Launch with Lee Maracle\, Columpa Bobb\, and Tania Carter
DESCRIPTION:Join us June 17th for the launch of Hope Matters\, a collaborative poetry collection from Lee Maracle\, Columpa Bobb\, and Tania Carter. \nJune 17th//7pm\nFree Entry \nThroughout their youth\, Columpa Bobb and Tania Carter wrote poetry with their mother\, award-winning author Lee Maracle. The three always dreamed that one day they would write a book together. This book is the result of that dream. \nThe wide-ranging poems in Hope Matters focus on the journey of Indigenous peoples from colonial beginnings to reconciliation. But they also document a very personal journey—that of a mother and her two daughters. \nWritten collaboratively by all three women\, Hope Matters offers a blend of three distinct and exciting voices that come together in a shared song of hope and reconciliation. \nLee Maracle is the author of a number of critically acclaimed works including: Ravensong\, Bobbi Lee Indian Rebel\, Daughters Are Forever\, Celia’s Song (which was long listed for CBC Canada Reads and a finalist for the ReLit Award)\, I Am Woman\, First Wives Club\, Talking to the Diaspora\, Memory Serves: Oratories\, and My Conversations with Canadians\, which was a finalist for the 2018 Toronto Book Award and the First Nation Communities READ 2018-19 Award\, and continues to be a nonfiction bestseller. She is also the co-editor of the award-winning My Home As I Remember. Maracle has served as Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the University of Toronto\, the University of Waterloo\, and the University of Western Washington. Maracle received the J.T. Stewart Award\, the Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Arts\, the Blue Metropolis Festival First Peoples Prize\, the Harbourfront Festival Prize\, and the Anne Green Award. Maracle received an Honorary Doctor of Letters from St. Thomas University\, is a recipient of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal and is an Officer of the Order of Canada. A member of the Sto:lo Nation\, Maracle currently lives in Toronto and teaches at the University of Toronto. \nColumpa Bobb has worked as a producer\, director\, playwright and performer for over 30 years. She is the recipient of a Jessie Richardson Theatre Award for Best Actress for the lead role in The Ecstasy of Rita Joe; she was also nominated for Jessie Awards in the categories of Best Supporting Actress and Best Ensemble Cast for her work in Only Drunks and Children Tell the Truth (Firehall Arts Centre). She was nominated for a Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best Actress for Sixty Below (Native Earth Performing Arts); she was also nominated for a Dora Award for Most Outstanding Production (Youth Category) for Jumping Mouse\, co-written with Marion deVries. Columpa was also nominated for a Returning the Gift Award for Contributions to North American Native Writing. For more than a decade Columpa ran Canada’s largest and most extensive empowerment through the arts training program for Indigenous youth in Winnipeg\, Manitoba\, which culminated in the creation of Urban Indigenous Theatre Company\, Manitoba’s only professional theatre organization by and for Indigenous people. \nTania Carter is an actor\, playwright and poet whose work has appeared in anthologies and scholarly journals. A member of the Sto:lo Nation\, she holds a BA in World Literature and a Masters Degree in Theatre\, with a specialization in Playwriting. After living in Toronto for twenty years\, she now lives in British Columbia. \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.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/book-launch-6/
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