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SUMMARY:Narrative Encounters
DESCRIPTION:Join us September 12th for Narrative Encounters: an evening of readings with D. Nandi Odhiambo\, Maureen Medved\, Leanne Dunic\, and Shazia Hafiz Ramji. Hosted by Tracey Murphy.\n\n\n \n\n\nSeptember 12//7pm\n\n\nFree Entry\n\n\n \n\n\nTracey Murphy is a researcher and educator\, currently living on the unceded territories of the WSÁNEĆ peoples. Her current work supports youth led art projects that disrupt colonial narratives\, and create a platform for alternative voices of historical truth telling. She received a SSHRC Connections grant for the collaborative feminist activist art exhibit “Disobedient Women” and more recently has published an essay in Liminalities.\n\n\n \n\n\nD. Nandi Odhiambo is the author of three novels: diss/ed banded nations (1998)\, Kipligat’s Chance (2003) and The Reverend’s Apprentice (2008). Originally from Nairobi Kenya\, Nandi moved to Winnipeg\, Manitoba in the 1970s. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Massachusetts\, Amherst\, and a PhD in English from the University of Hawai’i\, Manoa. Currently Nandi lives in O’ahu\, Hawai’i\, with his wife Carmen and two dogs\, where he works as an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Hawai’i\, West O’ahu.\n\n\n \n\n\nMaureen Medved‘s writing has been published\, produced\, and adapted internationally\, garnering nominations and awards. Her novel Black Star was published in 2018. Her screen adaptation of her first novel\, The Tracey Fragments\, opened the Panorama program of the 57th annual Berlinale\, winning the Manfred Salzgeber Prize\, and featuring at the Museum of Modern Art and film festivals internationally. Maureen is Associate Professor in the Creative Writing Program at the University of British Columbia. \n\n\n \n\n\nLeanne Dunic is a multidisciplinary artist\, musician\, and writer. Her work has won several honours\, including the 2015 Alice Munro Short Story Contest\, and has appeared in magazines and anthologies in Canada and abroad. Based in Vancouver\, British Columbia\, Leanne is the Artistic Director of the Powell Street Festival Society and is the singer/guitarist of The Deep Cove. To Love the Coming End is her first book. Learn more at leannedunic.com.\n\n\n \n\n\nShazia Hafiz is the author of Port of Being (Invisible Publishing)\, a finalist for the 2019 BC Book Prizes (Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize) and Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. It was named by CBC as a best Canadian poetry book of 2018 and received the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. Shazia’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry Northwest\, Best Canadian Poetry 2019\, Music & Literature and Quill & Quire. She is at work on a novel.\n\n\n \n\n\nThis event is taking place on the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh Nations.\n\n\n \n\n\nMassy Books’ downstairs event space is accessible! You can view the floorplan here: http://www.massybooks.com/accessibility/\n\n\nPlease feel free to reach out with any inquiries.\n\n\n \n\n\nMassy Books is easily accessible by transit! Close to the 22\, 3\, 8 and 19 bus lines at Main and Georgia/Gore and Georgia. There is metered street parking along Georgia\, or lot parking at the Sun Wah Centre around the corner (268 Keefer).
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SUMMARY:Poets Laureate on Social Justice Book Tour: Vancouver\, BC
DESCRIPTION:Undocumented: Great Lakes Poets Laureate on Social Justice co-editor Ron Riekki hosts an event featuring two Canadian Parliamentary Poets Laureate: George Bowering\, Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate 2002–2004\, and Fred Wah\, Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate 2011–2013. \nFred Wah studied music and English literature at the University of British Columbia in the early 1960’s where he was one of the founding editors of the poetry newsletter TISH. After many years of teaching in the West Kootenays and at the University of Calgary\, he now lives in Vancouver. Diamond Grill (1996) is a biofiction about growing up in a small-town Chinese-Canadian café. High Muck a Muck: Playing Chinese\, An Interactive Poem\, is available online (http://highmuckamuck.ca/). Some of his collaborations with visual artists were published in Sentenced to Light (2008). Recent books are is a door (2009)\, Scree: The Collected Earlier Poems 1962-1991\, and beholden: a poem as long as the river\, a collaboration with Rita Wong (2018). \nGeorge Bowering\, Canada’s first Poet Laureate\, was born in the Okanagan Valley. After serving as an aerial photographer in the Royal Canadian Air Force\, Bowering earned a BA in English and an MA in history at the University of British Columbia\, where he became one of the co-founders of the avant-garde poetry magazine TISH. He has taught literature at the University of Calgary\, the University of Western Ontario\, and Simon Fraser University\, and he continues to act as a Canadian literary ambassador at international conferences and readings. A distinguished novelist\, poet\, editor\, professor\, historian\, and tireless supporter of fellow writers\, Bowering has authored more than eighty books\, including works of poetry\, fiction\, autobiography\, biography and youth fiction. His writing has also been translated into French\, Spanish\, Italian\, German\, Chinese\, and Romanian. Bowering has twice won the Governor General’s Award\, Canada’s top literary prize. \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. \nMassy Books is easily accessible by transit! Close to the 22\, 3\, 8 and 19 bus lines at Main and Georgia/Gore and Georgia. There is metered street parking along Georgia\, or lot parking at the Sun Wah Centre around the corner (268 Keefer)
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LOCATION:Massy Books\, 229 E. Georgia St.\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V6A1Z6\, Canada
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