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SUMMARY:Exhibition: Nicholas Tay - Amateur Cartography
DESCRIPTION:Nicholas Tay\nAmateur Cartography \nCurated by Pennylane Shen\nApril 17 – May 24\, 2021\nMassy Books\n229 East Georgia Street \n“It starts with my mother’s hands. Her delicate skin\, lined and creased\, as she tenderly traces the plump cheek of my youngest son. Her lines\, folding into rivers\, creasing into ravines\, dotting out into borders. The snowy smoothness of my son’s cheek\, undulating and open to promise.” \nMy mother’s hands are the map of her immigrant experience. My son still remains uncharted. I think of the journey that took my parents away from home. The journey that brought me from East to West. I think about the journeys my children may have to make. In time\, I feel we will all become part of the immigrant majority – ending far away from where we began with many stops in between. We will all know what it is to be alien. Our ideas will flow freely through borders\, our identities will uproot from earth\, and we will change and be changed by every new place. \nAmateur Cartography is a visual exploration of immigrant identity. What it is when one idea arrives upon another idea and the destruction and beauty that occurs in the dialogue. \nAbout the Artist: \nNicholas Tay likens his arrival and upbringing in the Pacific Northwest from the age five to falling in love. He dove into the freshness of the air\, the ice crystals that crunched beneath gravel fields\, street hockey in the freezing wet\, the stories of our First Peoples whisking him away on the wings of Raven and Thunderbird\, and later the liberal ideal of the multi-cultural mosaic. \nExploring multi-cultured identity is at the core of Tay’s artistic practice\, wherein vastly divergent ideas can be represented with emotional honesty in a single work of art: “I used to feel that being Chinese Canadian was akin to being lost between houses of separated parents\, or being an alien guest of a gracious host. Through the exploration of my art\, I have found that both cultures are truly at home in me and in my work.” \nEver flexible with his approach\, Tay’s choice of medium suits the stories and cultural forms he explores. Charcoal or paint lets him offer sensuous luxury as a contrast to our increasingly digital experience. At other times\, while he is wary of the seductive cleverness of digital processes\, these modern modes are ideal. Traditional forms carry immediacy\, and arrest creator and viewer alike in their visceral presence and the abstract\, emotional truth inherent in their mark making. Conversely\, using 3D software brings machine algorithms to every pixel. Through his training at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena\, California\, and his years working in Visual FX and video game development\, Tay became interested in the possibilities of working with technology as his collaborator. Through its interpretation of the artist’s instructions\, the technological mediator separates the creative output from potential artistic biases. \nArt has been a dominant part of Tay’s life since his earliest memories. Beyond words or numbers\, it has been the most clear\, honest\, and comforting means of expression. Identifying as an introvert\, and amalgamating diverse lines of heritage between China and Canada\, Tay embraces art to tell honest\, deeply personal stories in a way that would be daunting in other formats\, bridging the awkward and profound\, or in Tay’s words\, “the profoundly awkward”. \nTay received his formal art education at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena\, California. His current series\, Amateur Cartography\, explores the clash of cultures through a visual dialogue between representation and abstraction. \nAccessibility\n \nThis event takes place upstairs in the Massy Gallery\, which is only accessible by a flight of stairs. Unfortunately\, no audio tours are available at this time. \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:Find You First: Linwood Barclay Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:The New York Times bestselling author of Elevator Pitch and master of psychological suspense returns with a riveting thriller in which the possible heirs of a dying tech millionaire are mysteriously being eliminated\, one by one. \n“Find You First starts with a bang and ends with an even bigger one. . . . It’s the best book of his career.”  — Stephen King \nTech millionaire Miles Cookson has more money than he can ever spend\, and everything he could dream of—except time. He has recently been diagnosed with a terminal illness\, and there is a fifty percent chance that it can be passed on to the next generation. For Miles\, this means taking a long hard look at his past . . . \nTwo decades ago\, a young\, struggling Miles was a sperm donor. Somewhere out there\, he has kids—nine of them. And they might be about to inherit both the good and the bad from him—maybe his fortune\, or maybe something much worse. \nAs Miles begins to search for the children he’s never known\, aspiring film documentarian Chloe Swanson embarks on a quest to find her biological father\, armed with the knowledge that twenty-two years ago\, her mother used a New York sperm bank to become pregnant. \nWhen Miles and Chloe eventually connect\, their excitement at finding each other is overshadowed by a series of mysterious and terrifying events. One by one\, Miles’s other potential heirs are vanishing—every trace of them wiped\, like they never existed at all. \nWho is the vicious killer—another heir methodically erasing rivals? Or is something even more sinister going on? \nIt’s a deadly race against time . . . \nHow to Attend \nStep 1: Purchase Find You First from Massy Books to receive access to this exclusive\, virtual event. Purchase here: https://bit.ly/3lMcvPl\nStep 2: After purchasing your copy\, go to www.indiebookfest.ca to register for the event using your order number. \nAbout the Author \nLinwood Barclay is the author of eighteen previous novels\, and two thrillers for children. A New York Times bestselling author\, his books have been translated into more than two dozen languages. He wrote the screenplay adaptation for his novel Never Saw it Coming and his book The Accident has been made into a TV series in France. His novel No Time for Goodbye was a global bestseller. Born and raised in Connecticut\, he now lives in Toronto with his wife\, Neetha.
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SUMMARY:Presenting Callum Angus\, Hazel Jane Plante\, and Corinne Manning
DESCRIPTION:Massy Arts Society and Metonymy Press present Callum Angus in conversation with Hazel Jane Plante and Corinne Manning.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA celebration of the launch of A Natural History of Transition\, the debut story collection by Callum Angus. \nMassy Arts Society and Metonymy Press present the author in conversation with Hazel Jane Plante and Corinne Manning \nA Natural History of Transition is a collection of short stories that disrupts the notion that trans people can only have one transformation. Like the landscape studied over eons\, change does not have an expiration date for these trans characters\, who grow as tall as buildings\, turn into mountains\, unravel hometown mysteries\, and give birth to cocoons. Portland-based author Callum Angus infuses his work with a mix of alternative history\, horror\, and a reality heavily dosed with magic. \nHow to Attend: Register through Eventbrite to receive the Zoom webinar access. Live captioning provided. Register here: https://bit.ly/3eqmaYD \nCALLUM ANGUS is a trans writer and editor currently based in Portland\, Oregon. His work has appeared in Nat. Brut\, West Branch\, LA Review of Books\, Catapult\, The Common\, Seventh Wave Magazine and elsewhere. He has received support from Lambda Literary and Signal Fire Foundation for the Arts\, and he holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is the founding editor of the journal smoke and mold. \nHAZEL JANE PLANTE is a librarian\, cat photographer\, and writer. Her debut novel Little Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)(Metonymy Press\, 2019) was given a Lambda Literary award for trans fiction. She also releases music under the name lo-fi lioness and helms the podcast t4t\, which is about writing while trans. \nCORINNE MANNING is a prose writer and literary organizer. Their stories and essays have been published widely\, including in Toward an Ethics of Activism and Shadow Map: An Anthology of Survivors of Sexual Assault. Corinne founded The James Franco Review\, a project that sought to address implicit bias in the publishing industry. We Had No Rules (Arsenal Pulp Press\, 2020) is their first book. \nMASSY ARTS SOCIETY is a community hub dedicated to supporting the practices of Indigenous and underrepresented artists. \nThis event will take place over Zoom Webinar. Live captioning provided.
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