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SUMMARY:Offsite Book Sales - Oil's Deep State
DESCRIPTION:Massy Books be selling books offsite at the North Shore Unitarian Church for Kevin Taft’s tour of “Oil’s Deep State.” Get more info here: https://kevintafttour.ca/
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/offsite-book-sales/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20180911T190000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: 9x11 by Michael Turner
DESCRIPTION:Join Massy Books for the launch of Michael Turner’s new poetry collection\, 9×11: and other poems like Bird\, Nine\, x\, and Eleven. \nHow you view 21st century life depends largely on the view from your place\, which depends on where you can afford to live. In this suite of texts and poems written over twenty years that span the infamous towers\, Michael Turner drops in to see what condition he’s in\, a subject whipped into insistence by the rhythms that shape his city\, his neighbourhood\, his universe. \nWhat arises out of the debris of these towers is a vision of contemporary history that sees them — their creation and destruction — existing within a web of capital relations that leave no landlord or office worker unturned. \nIn her Globe and Mail review of Turner’s “startlingly straightforward and minimalist” 8×10 (2009)\, Zoe Whitall concludes: “8×10 is an unsettling and daring work\, a tangible symbol of our anxious world and the stark emotional devastation of war. I hope Turner starts a trend in Canadian literature\, because Canada needs more writers like him.”
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/book-launch-9x11-by-michael-turner/
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SUMMARY:The Vancouver Poetry Slam Fundraiser!
DESCRIPTION:Vancouver Poetry slam in Partnership with Massy Books would like to present to you: The Vancouver Poetry Slam Fundraiser! \nEntry is PWYC/Sliding Scale $0-10\, If you are feeling generous please consider donating $15+. \nThere will be a raffle for a $50 gift card for Massy Books\, graciously donated by Patricia Massy. We will also be offering “Sponsor a Poet” where you can sponsor the poets’ meal/travel expenses! That can look like donating $50/day for a poet to eat\, with sponsoring please consider the intersections of identity and that we are all “starving” artists.\nThis event is happening in the what is the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh village of Lek’lekí\, \nThere will be an open mic of 7 slots\, with 4 slots reserved for IBPOC artists. Each person on the open mic please keep the pieces to 5 minutes maximum for your time slot. \nThe Vancouver Poetry Slam Team 2018/2019 is comprised of Rabbit Richards\, mitcholos touchie\, Kay Kassirer & jaye simpson. In a few short weeks they will be flying to Guelph\, Ontario to compete in the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word 2018. Rabbit\, mitcholos\, Kay and jaye fuse sacred storytelling and modern mischief to bring remix of Ancestral cacophony. They would like to deeply acknowledge that they get to do this work and art on ancestral\, traditional and unceded territories of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓-speaking xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) and səlil̓wətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations\, the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Sníchim-speaking Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation).
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/vancouver-poetry-slam-team-fundraiser/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20180919T190000
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SUMMARY:Poet's Corner
DESCRIPTION:Poets Corner Presents: \nWilliam H. New and Onjana Yawnghwe \nWednesday September 19\, 7:00 – 9:00pm \n This month we have two talented poets. Shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize\, Onjana Yawnghwe will be reading from her just-released The Small Way. Joining her is William New\, an Order of Canada recipient and major figure in Canadian literature. Our regular Open Mic segment is back\, too.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/poetry-reading-tba-7/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20180920T190000
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SUMMARY:Double Book Launch: Klara du Plessis and Emily Osborne
DESCRIPTION:Join Massy Books as we celebrate the launch of two new poetry collections: Klara du Plessis’ Ekke (Palimpsest Press) and Emily Osborne’s Biometrical (Anstruther Press). \nHosted by David Ly\, featuring readings from Du Plessis\, Osborne\, and Adèle Barclay \nKlara du Plessis is a poet and critic originally from Bloemfontein\, South Africa. Klara’s chapbook Wax Lyrical was shortlisted for the bpNichol Chapbook Award. Her poems\, essays\, and reviews have appears in print and online. Klara curates the monthly Resonance Reading Series\, and she is the editor for carte blanche. She lives in Montreal. \nEmily Osborne is the winner of The Malahat Review’s 2018 Far Horizon Award for Poetry. Her poetry has been published in CV2\, The Literary Review of Canada\, The Antigonish Review\, Canthius\, Minola Review\, and elsewhere. She earned a PhD in Old Norse-Icelandic Literature from the University of Cambridge\, and her full-length book of translations\, Quarrel of Arrows\, is forthcoming from Junction Books. Emily serves as a poetry editor for Pulp Literature. She lives with her husband on Bowen Island\, BC.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/double-book-launch-klara-du-plessis-and-emily-osborne/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20180925T190000
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SUMMARY:Offsite Book Sales at the Emerald
DESCRIPTION:Massy Books will be selling offsite at an event for the Pacific Immigrant Resource Society. \n555 Gore Ave\, Vancouver\, BC V6A 2Z6
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/offsite-book-sales-at-the-emerald/
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SUMMARY:tree shaman - Lydia Kwa in the Massy Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Massy Books is proud to present “tree shaman\,” an exhibition of photo-based works and accompanying chapbook by Vancouver writer and clinical psychologist Lydia Kwa. \nJoin us for an opening party on October 26th at 7PM\, and stop by any time through November 22 to catch her work in the Massy Gallery. \n“I walked east along the avenue and saw the cut\nstumps of the birch tree. I surmised the tree must\nhave developed some kind of disease\, and\nthe Parks Board people had to come cut it down. \nI was seized with an urge to photograph the dead\,\ndismembered tree. Three days later\, on 24th August\n2015\, I went to buy an old Polaroid camera\, and\nloaded it with film made by the Impossible Project. \nTwo rolls—eight shots in the morning; and eight\nlater that same afternoon. \nThree years later\, this project has come to fruition. \nProceeds from the sale of this chapbook will be\ndonated to Pacific Wild Alliance\n(pacificwildalliance.org).” \nAbout Lydia Kwa:\nI live and work in Vancouver as a clinical psychologist and a writer.\nI’ve been living in Canada since 1980. I went to University of Toronto to do a Bachelors of Science degree in Psychology. Then I spent 7 years at Queen’s University in Kingston getting my MA and PhD. While I was at Queen’s\, I started to take my writing more seriously and I would drop in to a writers’ group that met on the top floor of the Grad Club on Monday nights. It was a terrifying but wonderful experience. In 1989\, the poems I submitted to two campus periodicals won prizes. That was encouraging. It was also the year my poems were first published in a Canadian literary magazine: CV2 out of Winnipeg\, Manitoba. \nI spent a couple of years after graduation working in Calgary\, first at the University of Calgary Counselling Service\, then at the Calgary Women’s Health Collective. I moved to Vancouver in the summer of 1992. I started out working full-time as a psychologist in an organization\, but I soon realized I needed to restructure my working life so I could create more room for my writing practice. That was 1994\, around the same time The Colours of Heroines came out. I began my private practice at that time\, and also have worked over the years with various organizations. I am now in my own office at the edge of Chinatown and the Downtown Eastside in Vancouver. Since then\, I’ve published several books: This Place Called Absence\, The Walking Boy\, Pulse\, and my latest work — sinuous\, a long poem that spans about fourteen years\, and covers various experiences of living in Canada\, including my reflections on the nature of trauma\, the resilience of the human spirit\, and the healing that comes from practices such as meditation and ki aikido.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/tree-shaman-lydia-kwa-in-the-massy-gallery/
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SUMMARY:Sarah Clement Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The Massy Gallery will be booked out at these times for a workshop with artist Sarah Clement.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/sarah-clement-workshop-4/
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SUMMARY:Launch: Dromomania by Bill Arnott
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the upstairs gallery for the launch of Bill Arnott’s Dromomania. \nFeaturing live music and readings from Michael Averill\, Helen Gowans\, Mala Rupnarain\, and Kyla Rose Tremblay.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/launch-dromomania-by-bill-arnott/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20180928T190000
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SUMMARY:Poetry Launch - Neil Surkan\, "On High"
DESCRIPTION:Join Massy Books on September 28th as we present the launch of Neil Surkan’s debut poetry collection\, “On High.”\nCome out for a night of poetry from Surkan and special guests Jessica Johns\, David Ly\, and Adèle Barclay. \nAll songs have skin\, / all skin has holes. \nOn High\, Neil Surkan’s debut collection of poetry\, searches for spirits in myriad places. Wondering how\, why\, and when to act with a conscience\, speakers try out steep hikes\, strong drugs\, and earnest meditations as they attempt to make meaning in a divided and distracting world. \nCareful and tense\, On High balances on all kinds of tightrope-like lines: a trout fisher revels after riding a moose\, a buzzed lover speculates about human connection\, new condo owners toast from balcony to balcony\, a young woman kicks a hornet’s nest into her hometown library’s erotica/poetry/religion section. \nReaching for the sprigs of our shared humanity\, Surkan’s poems offer courage and compassion in violent times. As the speaker in “The Branch Breaker” muses\, “sarcasm won’t dissolve our enemies.” On High is a book for the contemporary moment.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/poetry-launch-neil-surkan-on-high/
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SUMMARY:Offsite Book Sales at AfterWord
DESCRIPTION:Massy Books will be selling books offsite at the AfterWord event at Native Education College\, hosted by Chelene Knight and Meghan Bell. \nEvent details here: https://www.facebook.com/events/2134984953197257/
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