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SUMMARY:Vivek Shraya in Conversation with Bif Naked
DESCRIPTION:Official online book launch of How to Fail as a Popstar by VIVEK SHRAYA\nVivek Shraya in conversation with Bif Naked \nTuesday\, March 2\, 8 p.m. EST / 5 p.m. PST / 6 p.m. MST / 7 p.m. CST / 9 p.m. AST (online) \nHosted by the Eden Mills Writers’ Festival and Arsenal Pulp Press in partnership with the Hillside Festival\, The Bookshelf (Guelph)\, Another Story Bookshop (Toronto)\, Glass Bookshop (Edmonton)\, Massy Books (Vancouver) and Shelf Life Books (Calgary). \nHow to Attend: This free event will be livestreamed via Facebook. Head to the Facebook page to attend! https://fb.me/e/4cbKd5P5g \nThe first play by multi-media artist Vivek Shraya\, about fame and personal transformation. \nDescribed as “cultural rocket fuel” by Vanity Fair\, Vivek Shraya is a multi-media artist whose art\, music\, novels\, and poetry and children’s books explore the beauty and the power of personal and cultural transformation. How to Fail as a Popstar is Vivek’s debut theatrical work\, a one-person show that chronicles her journey from singing in shopping malls to “not quite” pop music superstardom with beguiling humor and insight. A reflection on the power of pop culture\, dreams\, disappointments\, and self-determination\, this astonishing work is a raw\, honest\, and hopeful depiction of the search to find one’s authentic voice. \nThe book includes colour photographs from the show’s 2020 production in Toronto\, and a foreword by its director Brendan Healy. \nAbout the Speakers \nVivek Shraya is an artist whose body of work crosses the boundaries of music\, literature\, visual art\, theatre\, and film. Her books include I’m Afraid of Men\, The Subtweet\, even this page is white\, She of the Mountains\, Death Threat\, and The Boy & the Bindi\, and her album with Queer Songbook Orchestra\, Part-Time Woman\, was nominated for the Polaris Music Prize. She is one half of the music duo Too Attached and the founder of the Arsenal Pulp Press imprint VS. Books. A six-time Lambda Literary Award finalist\, Vivek was a Pride Toronto Grand Marshal\, was featured on The Globe and Mail’s Best Dressed list\, and has received honours from the Writers’ Trust of Canada and the Publishing Triangle. She is a director on the board of the Tegan and Sara Foundation and an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Calgary. \nBif Naked is a celebrated and notorious performer in music\, TV\, film\, and dance\, and a tireless advocate and Humanitarian. Orphaned in India\, emancipated by punk rock\, and empowered by surviving breast cancer\, kidney failure\, heart surgery\, divorce\, and surviving as a Woman in The Entertainment Industry for twenty-five years\, Bif has transcended any and all obstacles placed in her path to become one of the world’s most unique\, recognizable and beloved icons. It is because Bif is such a tremendous performer and musician\, that she is able to seamlessly and successfully explore and record other mediums\, like writing\, painting\, choreography\, and of course- other genres of music. For over two decades\, Bif has been an original “Straight-Edge” and Vegan\, not utilizing alcohol\, meat\, dairy\, poultry\, or sea life. “I just want to live by example\,” Bif states\, “and encourage everyone to live compassionately and more fully\, in happiness.” When asked about what her favourite pastimes are\, she has only one answer: “Living Loudly.” When not on rock tours around the World\, Canada’s Queen of Punk splits her time between Paris\, France\, New Delhi\, India\, and her new home\, Toronto\, Canada. Her memoirs\, titled\, I\, Bificus was published by Harper Collins Publishers\, in April\, 2016.
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SUMMARY:Meredith Quartermain's Lullabies in the Real World: Book Launch with Guests
DESCRIPTION:Meredith Quartermain’s Lullabies in the Real World is a sequence of poems about a train journey from West Coast to East Coast that invokes a patchwork of regions\, voices and histories. Her language zings with train rhythms as she unfolds a complex conversation with poets such as bpNichol and Robin Blaser. \nJoin Meredith Quartermain with guests Shazia Hafiz Ramji and Rahat Kurd for an evening of poetry\, followed by a Q and A. \nBooks available from Massy Books! \nHow to Attend\nThis event will be hosted online via Zoom. The event will be recorded\, however audience members will not be heard throughout the event. Register for the event and the Zoom link will be emailed. \nRegister here: https://bit.ly/2LzRWYB \nLullabies in the Real World reflects and refracts Canada from diverse angles\, and challenges colonizing literatures such as the Odyssey and various canonical British and US voices. As it moves from west to east\, the book journeys back in time to interrogate historical events such as the Battle of the Plains of Abraham and the exclusion of Acadians. It ends by imagining a time before or outside colonization. \nRich\, playful and confrontational\, Lullabies in the Real World widens the poetic lens of poetry to investigate the place of a colonial nation in history\, and the place of a poet vis-à-vis the voices of other poets. \nAbout Meredith Quartermain: \nMeredith Quartermain is a poet and novelist living in Vancouver\, British Columbia. Her first book of poetry\, Vancouver Walking\, won a BC Book Award for poetry; Recipes from the Red Planet was a finalist for a BC Book Award for fiction; and Nightmarker was a finalist for a Vancouver Book Award. A novel called Rupert’s Land was released by NeWest Press in Fall 2013. She has since published a collection of stories entitled I\, Bartleby\, in 2015\, and a novel\, U Girl\, in 2016. She is also cofounder of Nomados Literary Publishers\, who have brought out more than 45 chapbooks of innovative Canadian and US writing since 2002. From 2014 to 2016\, she was Poetry Mentor in the SFU Writer’s Studio Program\, and she has enjoyed leading workshops at the Kootenay School of Writing\, The Toronto New School of Writing and Naropa University. In Spring 2020\, her latest collection of poems\, Lullabies in the Real World\, was released as a part of the Crow Said Poetry Series.
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