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SUMMARY:Exhibition: Jocelyne Junker - The Artist Beheads Her Muse
DESCRIPTION:Massy Arts Society is pleased to be presenting a solo exhibition featuring paintings and photographic works by Vancouver based artist Jocelyne Junker upstairs in the gallery at Massy Books.⁣ \nJocelyne Junker is a Metis artist born in Saskatchewan. Her practice explores how photography can become entangled in performative gestures that affect the formulation and construction self identity. Through photography she engages in the questioning of representation and identity in the public sphere.⁣ \nFeaturing new bodies of work\, The Artist Beheads Her Muse confronts the fluctuating constructions of parasocial relationships – an audience’s mediated encounter with public figures in mass media. Created during times of intense isolation\, these photographs and paintings confuse the responsibilities associated with myth-making and archiving that surround public perception. Deliberate interchanging of subject and object replicate the harmful tendencies that come with the idolization of public figures. Junker implicates the personal\, solitary experience of watching others from afar\, and how the mystification of people expands as our own personhood is built up in new realms. Junker’s poised imagery speaks to the history of portraiture\, where the affluent had the ability to commission a narrative of their liking to be introduced into the world\, and it’s evolution into the massive proliferation of images we are witness to today. \nAccessibility: \nThis exhibition takes place upstairs in the Massy Gallery\, which is only accessible by a flight of stairs. Unfortunately\, no audio or visual tours are available at this time.⁣\n⁣\nMasks are mandatory while in Massy Books.⁣
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: People Like Frank by Jenn Ashton
DESCRIPTION:Author Jenn Ashton is joined by very special guests Ranj Singh\, Waubgeshig Rice & Isabella Mori to celebrate the launch of “People Like Frank And Other Stories from the Edge of Normal”. Available for purchase through Massy Books.\nThis musical evening includes performance\, reading\, and discussion\, and is sure to be a lively event.\n\n𝐓𝐨 𝐣𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐮𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐬𝐞𝐫:\nhttps://youtu.be/fWJazAEEJlI\n\nABOUT THE BOOK:\nOn the edge of normal\, challenges take many forms—the everday can be an adventure and the ordinary a triumph.\n\nA young woman in a group home investigates a mysterious piece of knitting. An obsessed bag boy does grim battle with a squirrel. A woman\, an asparagus bag and a garbageman have a tumultuous short-term relationship. Otherwise unremarkable achievements become epic on the edge of normal.\nPurchase a copy from Massy Books: https://bit.ly/34zMtGD \n“In this superb collection of haunting and darkly humorous stories\, Jenn Ashton casts a compassionate eye over the banal and deftly plucks out the extraordinary.” \n– Carleigh Baker\, Author of Bad Endings \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR:\nJenn Ashton is an award-winning author and visual artist living in North Vancouver\, B.C. She is the author of the prize-winning “Siamelaht” in British Columbia History in 2019 and of the forthcoming “People Like Frank\, and Other Stories from the Edge of Normal” by Tidewater Press. She is a Director on the Board of the Federation of British Columbia Writers as well as The BC Indigenous Writers Collective She is currently working on numerous projects including a book about the history of her family in the lower mainland. Jenn has also just completed a year as a Teaching Assistant in the Simon Fraser University’s Writer’s Studio and is now studying at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.\n\nABOUT THE GUESTS:\nRANJIT “Ranj” SINGH makes music with a distinct Indian-Western flair that draws on the singer-songwriter and self-taught guitarist’s love for rock music and heartfelt lyrics. He refers to his unique blend of music as “Indo-Canadian Folk”.\nIn the mid 80’s\, Ranj started his career performing with many folk-Punjabi and Hindi artists in the Vancouver area. In the 90’s he\, along with his talented brothers\, helped form the influential and critically acclaimed group Dal Dil Vog\, where their unique style of bhangara/rock music led to tours throughout North America and India.\nAfter Dal Dil Vog disbanded\, Ranj recorded two solo projects\, Simple Man and Man Cold\, and a third\, Found A Way Home\, with his band The Discriminators.\n\nWAUBGESHIG RICE is an author and journalist from Wasauksing First Nation on Georgian Bay. He has written three fiction titles\, and his short stories and essays have been published in numerous anthologies. His most recent novel\, Moon of the Crusted Snow\, was published in 2018 and became a national bestseller. He graduated from Ryerson University’s journalism program in 2002\, and spent the bulk of his journalism career at CBC. He lives in Sudbury\, Ontario with his wife and two sons.\n\nISABELLA MORE lives in Richmond and is the author of two books of and about poetry\, including “A bagful of haiku – 87 imperfections.” Isabella writes poetry\, short fiction\, novels and nonfiction. Publications have been in places such as the 2019 anthology “The Group Of Seven Reimagined.” Isabella is the founder of “Muriel’s Journey Poetry Prize\,” which celebrates loud\, edgy\, socially engaged poetry\, and is a regular contributor to and occasional editor of “Family Connections”\, a newsletter for families and supporters of people with mental health and substance use challenges. Isabella’s twitter handle is @moritherapy
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