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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: \nLydia lives and works in Vancouver as a clinical psychologist and a writer. She went to University of Toronto to do a Bachelors of Science degree in Psychology\, then spent 7 years at Queen’s University in Kingston getting her MA and PhD. While at Queen’s\, she started to take her writing more seriously and would drop into a writers’ group that met on the top floor of the Grad Club on Monday nights. In 1989\, the poems she submitted to two campus periodicals won prizes. It was also the year her poems were first published in a Canadian literary magazine: CV2 out of Winnipeg\, Manitoba. \nToday\, Lydia works out of her own office as a full-time psychologist at the edge of Chinatown and the Downtown Eastside in Vancouver. She has several published books\, including: This Place Called Absence\, The Walking Boy\, Pulse\, and her latest work— sinuous\, a long poem that spans about fourteen years\, and covers various experiences of living in Canada\, including her 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-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20181108T190000
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SUMMARY:We All Need to Eat by Alex Leslie Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join Massy Books November 8th as we celebrate the launch of Alex Leslie’s We All Need to Eat. Come find out why Kirkus Reviews calls this new Bookhug release “a magnetic collection that must be read over and over.” \nAbout We All Need to Eat:\nWe All Need to Eat is a collection of linked stories from award-winning author Alex Leslie that revolves around Soma\, a young Queer woman in Vancouver. Through thoughtful and probing narratives\, each story chronicles a sea change in Soma’s life. Lyrical\, gritty\, and atmospheric\, Soma’s stories refuse to shy away from the contradictions inherent to human experience\, exploring one young person’s journey through mourning\, escapism\, and the search for nourishment. The stories slipstream through Soma’s first three decades\, surfacing at moments of knowing and intensity. The far-reaching impact and lasting reverberations of Soma’s family’s experience of the Holocaust scrapes up against the rise of Alt Right media. While going through a break-up in her thirties\, Soma becomes addicted to weightlifting and navigates public mourning on Facebook. As a child\, Soma struggles to cope with her mother’s\nsorrow by becoming fixated on buying her a lamp for seasonal affective disorder. A friend’s suicide prompts a drinking game that takes mortality as its premise. But alongside the loss in Soma’s life is a pursuit of intimacy\, resounding in the final story’s closing words: “Look me in the eye.” \n“We All Need to Eat is a stunning inquiry into the sharpness of the world as it collides with the fragility – the ambiguities and possibilities – of the self. Alex Leslie is a tremendously gifted and compassionate writer. This bold and searing collection is a wonder.” —Madeleine Thien\, Scotiabank Giller Prize winning\nauthor of Do Not Say We Have Nothing. \nAbout Alex Leslie:\nAlex Leslie was born and lives in Vancouver. She is the author of the short story collection People Who Disappear (2012) which was nominated for the 2013 Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction\nand a 2013 ReLit Award\, as well as a collection of prose poems\, The things I heard about you (2014)\, which was shortlisted for the 2014 Robert Kroestch Award for Innovative Poetry. Winner of\nthe 2015 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers\, Alex’s short fiction has been included in the Journey Prize Anthology\, The Best of Canadian Poetry in English\, and in a special issue of Granta\nspotlighting Canadian writing\, co-edited by Madeleine Thien and Catherine Leroux.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/we-all-need-to-eat-by-alex-leslie-launch/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20181109T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20181109T210000
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SUMMARY:Almost Islands: Phyllis Webb and the Pursuit of the Unwritten by Stephen Collis Launch
DESCRIPTION:Massy Books and Talonbooks invite you to the book launch of Almost Islands: Phyllis Webb and the Pursuit of the Unwritten by Stephen Collis.\n– – –\nAlmost Islands is a powerfully introspective memoir of the author’s friendship with legendary Canadian poet Phyllis Webb – now in her nineties and long enveloped in silence – and his regular trips to see her. It is an extended meditation on literary ambition and failure\, poetry and politics\, choice and chance\, location\, colonization\, and climate change – the struggle that is writing\, and the end of writing. \n“I go to see her because she is poetry’s old crone and I am seeking. I go to her – usually three\, four times a year – because it is a small ministration I can perform for her\, and for her poetry\, as she slowly reaches into the finite – a long\, slow embrace of nothing … If living is a process of learning how to die\, then is writing a process of learning how to stop writing? I go in search of lost words\, in search of the hoped-for defence against the loss of words\, drawn to the shaping sounds of fate and mortality.” \nA meticulous collection of poetic\, political\, and philosophical digressions\, Almost Islands weaves numerous themes together. At its crux lies a literary project: to build upon and extend Webb’s exposition of a “poetic” sense of the political\, by proposing a political agent\, the “Biotariat\,” a government of Life\, that is both human and more than human – arrived at after following as many pathways as possible through Webb’s own reading and thought. Ultimately\, Almost Islands is a book obsessed with the problem of Webb’s not writing\, and the implications of this for a writer like Collis who\, in his own words\, may be writing “too much” – as well as the wider social\, political\, and world-historical implications of withdrawal\, self-silencing\, and not-doing.\n– – –\nThis event is taking place on the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh Nations. \nThe event is all-ages\, but we will have beer and wine available for purchase.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/almost-islands-phyllis-webb-and-the-pursuit-of-the-unwritten-by-stephen-collis-launch/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20181113T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20181113T200000
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SUMMARY:Offsite Book Sales - Personal and Political: Stories From the Women's Health Movement\, 1960-2010 by Lorraine Greaves
DESCRIPTION:We will be selling books offsite for the launch of Lorraine Greaves’ Personal and Political: Stories From the Women’s Health Monvement\, 1960-2010 at the VPL. Bring a young feminist with you!
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/offsite-book-sales-personal-and-political-stories-from-the-womens-health-movement-1960-2010-by-lorraine-greaves/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20181114T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20181114T203000
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SUMMARY:Offsite Booksales - Rabindranath Maharaj and Larissa Lai at the VPL
DESCRIPTION:We will be selling books at the Vancouver Public Library Central Branch for their autumn literary series.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/offsite-booksales-rabindranath-maharaj-and-larissa-lai-at-the-vpl/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20181115T190000
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SUMMARY:PRACTICALLY SHAMELESS: A Double Launch for new works by Leslie Timmins & Heidi Greco
DESCRIPTION:PRACTICALLY SHAMELESS! an evening of unabashed arty bits\, red-hot quantum action\, impractical tender verse\, and false love and true with Leslie Timmins\, Every Shameless Ray and Heidi Greco\, Practical Anxiety as they launch their fabulous new poetry collections from Inanna. In addition to anxiety-provoking words\, practical refreshments will be served.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/practical-anxiety-every-shameless-ray-launch-leslie-simmons-heidi-greco/
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SUMMARY:Offsite Book Sales: Refuse: CanLit in Ruins
DESCRIPTION:We will be selling books offsite at SFU Harbour Centre for the launch of Refuse: CanLit in Ruins (eds. Erin Wunker\, Julie Rak\, Hannah McGregor)\, a new collection of essays\, poems\, and conversations on the contemporary state of Canadian literature from Book*hug. \nHosted by Dina Del Bucchia and Jen Sookfong Lee of Can’t Lit\, and featuring readings by six of the collection’s 24 contributors: kim golberg\, Sonnet l’Abbé\, Keith Maillard\, Laura Moss\, A.H. Reaume\, and Erika Thorkelson. \nFind more info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/340311870049408/
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/offsite-book-sales-refuse-canlit-in-ruins/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20181119T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20181119T190000
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SUMMARY:Robin DiAngelo - White Fragility Reading
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Robin DiAngelo\, author of “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism\,” will be joining us at SFU November 19th to discuss and share from her critical Summer release. \nInfo and registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/white-fragility-an-evening-with-robin-diangelo-tickets-50551661380
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/robin-diangelo-white-fragility-reading/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20181120T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20181120T210000
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SUMMARY:James Fitzgerald - Dreaming Sally Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join Massy Books November 20th for the launch of James Fitzgerald’s Dreaming Sally. We will be joined in-store by Fitzgerald and Vancouver journalist George Orr (the book’s subject and unofficial co-author).\n\n\n \n\n\nAbout Dreaming Sally:\n\n\nPrize-winning author James FitzGerald explores how the death of an eighteen-year-old girl in the summer of 1968 forever changed his life and the life of the other man who loved her. Dreaming Sally is a deeply moving exploration of the weight of a life cut short.\n\n\n \n\n\nSally will die in Europe this summer.\n\n\nGeorge Orr dreamed that his girlfriend\, Sally Wodehouse\, would die on the trip she wanted to take\, and he begged her not to go. But Sally did not take him seriously–how could she? She left for Europe in July 1968 with twenty-five other private-school kids\, on “The Odyssey\,” a Sixties version of the Grand Tour. In August 1968\, only hours after becoming engaged to George via telegram\, she died as he had dreamed she would\, in a freak accident.\n\n\n Sally was George’s first love\, but she was also James FitzGerald’s. James first met Sally at a family cottage; he was drawn to her energy and warmth\, a stunning contrast to the chilly emotional life of his own family. At seventeen\, not exactly a hit with the girls\, James was delighted when he realized that he’d be spending the summer with his old friend. And soon\, even though he knew that Sally had a serious boyfriend back home\, they became inseparable\, touring the glories of Western culture by day\, dancing and drinking the nights away–giddily unshackled from the expectations and requirements of their class and upbringing. \n\n\n To George and James\, both sons of parents who knew how to make demands of their children but not how to love them\, Sally represented all the optimism and promised freedom of the ’60s. Her death has haunted both men for fifty years–arresting their development\, miring them in grief and unreasoning guilt. Dreaming Sally is a profound and evocative exploration of the long shadow left by an eighteen-year-old girl\, an uncanny story of first love\, sudden death and the complexity of trauma and mourning.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/james-fitzgerald-dreaming-sally-launch/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20181121T190000
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SUMMARY:Poet's Corner
DESCRIPTION:The November iteration of the monthly Poet’s Corner series. \nDetails TBA.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/poetry-reading-tba-9/
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SUMMARY:Offsite Book Sales: Beyond Forgetting
DESCRIPTION:We’ll be selling books offsite at The Cultch for the launch of Beyond Forgetting: \nRodney DeCroo + The Wise Blood\, known for country-noir inspired songs with a poetic swagger\, are celebrating the life and work of Al Purdy\, who was coined Canada’s unofficial poet laureate for his colloquial style and rowdy yet sensitive persona. This concert marks the launch of Beyond Forgetting\, an anthology of poems paying tribute to Purdy from Canada’s best-known writers\, published in honour of Purdy’s 100th birthday. Readers from the anthology include Ian Williams\, Rob Taylor and Wednesday Hudson\, as well as Purdy’s long-time publisher Howard White. Concert proceeds go to the Al Purdy A-Frame Association and its writer-in-residence program. \n  \nFind more info at https://thecultch.com/events/beyond-forgetting-rodney-decroo-the-wise-blood-celebrate-100-years-of-al-purdy/?fbclid=IwAR2xwaT5i53V5KzELgXLPvMyMqiHTm-aVnWyGh7wGSf6uMUpAU0iaQGr4Zg \n 
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/offsite-book-sales-beyond-forgetting/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20181123T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20181123T213000
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SUMMARY:Indigenous Brilliance Reading Series
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URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/indigenous-brilliance-reading-series-3/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20181128T190000
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SUMMARY:Offsite Book Sales - Thea Lim and Kevin Chong at VPL
DESCRIPTION:We will be selling books at the Vancouver Public Library Central Branch for their autumn literary series.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/offsite-book-sales-thea-lim-and-kevin-chong-at-vpl/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20181129T190000
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SUMMARY:Double Book Launch: Suitcase and the Jar and One Strong Girl
DESCRIPTION:Join Massy Books\, Caitlin Press\, and Pottersfield Press as we celebrate the double launch of two new stories of motherhood and loss from Becky Livingston and Lesley Buxton. \nThe Suitcase and the Jar: Travels With a Daughter’s Ashes by Becky Livingston tells of the unconventional turn Livingston’s lifew takes when a brain tumour takes the life of her twenty-three-year-old daughter Rachel. Rachel\, an avid traveller\, had one wish: to keep exploring the world. \nSo\, for twenty-six months Livingston travels — untethered and alone — to Italy\, Spain\, Switzerland\, Australia\, India\, England\, Ireland and North America\, coast to coast. In her suitcase: Rachel’s ashes\, heavy but compact. As she gradually merges her daughter’s remains with the elements\, Livingston learns how to forge a new sense of belonging in an unfamiliar world. \nThe Suitcase and the Jar is a profoundly moving story of a mother’s courage and resilience. It explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: how one finds the strength to reconfigure a new life by necessity. \nOne Strong Girl: Surviving the Unimaginable\, a Mother’s Memoir is Lesley Buxton’s vivid account of what it is like to lose her daughter\, India\, to a rare debilitating disease. The story is a bold description of what it means to deal with deep sorrow and still find balance and beauty in an age steeped in the denial of death. At ten\, India climbed the highest on the rope at gymnastics\, yet by sixteen was so weak she was unable to even dress herself. The narrative follows the six-year fight for answers from the medical community. Finally\, after the genetic testing of India’s DNA\, it was discovered there were two mutations on her ASAH1 gene\, a deadly combination. Today her cells are alive in a research lab at the University of Ottawa. This is a legacy that cuts both ways\, a point of pride and pain. One Strong Girl is a story of what it’s like to outlive an only child. It describes the intensity of loving a dying child and most importantly\, the joy to be found\, even amidst the sorrow.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/double-book-launch-suitcase-and-the-jar-and-one-strong-girl/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20181130T190000
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SUMMARY:Book Launch - Swelling With Pride: Queer Conception & Adoption Stories
DESCRIPTION:Join Massy Books and Caitlin Press November 30th for the launch of Sara Graefe’s new collection\, Swelling With Pride: Queer Conception & Adoption Stories.\n\n\n \n\n\nThere’s no straightforward path to LGBTQ2 parenthood and just as every queer person has their own coming out story\, every LGBTQ2 family has a unique conception or adoption story.\n\n\n \n\n\nIn Swelling with Pride: Queer Conception and Adoption Stories\, creative non-fiction writers celebrate LGBTQ2 families and the myriad of ways we embark upon our parenting journeys. These honest\, heartfelt\, unabashedly queer stories cover a gamut of issues and experiences\, including the varied paths to queer conception—from DIY methods at home with the so-called “turkey baster” to pricey medical interventions at the fertility clinic—and the daunting task of choosing a sperm donor. This groundbreaking anthology portrays the journeys to LGBTQ2 parenthood that start or end with adoption and the countless hurdles that go along with it: from surviving the home study process and dealing with systemic homophobia to transitioning an adopted child into a new home. There are tales of shared nursing\, blended families\, communal parenting and non-binary pregnancy. There are also stories of grief\, all too often suffered in silence\, such as coping with infertility\, pregnancy loss\, stillbirth and adoption breakdown. These are the journeys of the early mavericks that formed families under the radar when fertility clinics were not open to singles and lesbians\, as well as the Gen X and Millennial queers who’ve become parents during the current “gayby” boom.\n\n\n \n\n\nEditor and proud queer mom Sara Graefe has assembled more than twenty-five creative non-fiction LGBTQ2 authors from across North America\, both well-known and up-and-coming\, including Andrea Bennett\, Marusya Bociurkiw\, Jane Byers\, Susan G. Cole\, Caitlin Crawshaw\, Rachel Epstein\, Terrie Hamazaki\, Nicola Harwood\, Natalie Meisner and many more. Together\, their candid\, moving\, thought-provoking stories celebrate what it is to be queer and give voice to both the challenges and joys of building a LGBTQ2 family in a predominantly straight\, cis-gendered world.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/book-launch-swelling-with-pride-queer-conception-adoption-stories/
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