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SUMMARY:Poets Corner - Emerging Indigenous Poets
DESCRIPTION:January’s event will be a themed reading. This special event has been a long time coming but it will be worth the wait. To kick off 2019\, Poets Corner is going to host our very first Emerging Indigenous Poets reading. Younger rising starts in our First Nations community are coming to take over the microphone on January 16. So here is the lineup of talents for January’s reading: \n\nGunargie O’Sullivan\n\nGunargie O’Sullivan is a Kwakwaka’wakw who was born in Alert Bay\, BC. However her people originate from Turnour Island and are from the Tlowitsis Nation\, a proud and powerful people. She has a long history as a radio broadcaster who has developed community programming that closes awareness gaps on everything from fish farms\, to Missing and Murdered Women\, to tiny house warriors\, to Residential Schools\, to Sixties Scoop\, and to the poop on politics. She is also a multimedia artist who first explored acting at sixteen before joining the Spirit Song Native Theatre in the mid-80s. After discovering her writing skills several of her poems have been anthologized in the annual series\, Gatherings\, published by Theytus Publishing. She later began to explore journalism and film. She has produced several short films such as UNsettling\, Power of Prayer\, and most recently \, Demolishing Grief. Ms. O’Sullivan is also the Founder and now Acting Executive Director of the Red Jam Slam Society\, which exists to initiate celebrations\, events and festivals that feature Aboriginal artists and performers. \n\nTawahum Bige\n\nTawahum Bige\, Lutselk’e Dene and Plains Cree\, Two-Spirit and Nonbinary poet\, resides on unceded Musqueam\, Tsleil-Waututh and Squamish territory colonially-known-as Vancouver. Published in Red Rising\, Prairie Fire\, Event\, and Poetry is Dead magazines\, Tawahum’s poetry stokes the sacred fire of resurgence and decolonization on occupied Turtle Island. They’ve performed on stages including Talking Stick Festival and Verses Festival of Words. In their final year toward a BA in Creative Writing at KPU\, Tawahum’s poetry collection\, Political & Personal\, will be published in June 2019 with Metatron Press. Join them on this journey that is both emotionally personal and deeply political. \n\nJules Arita Koostachin\n\nJules Koostachin\, owner of VisJuelles Productions Inc. is Cree from Attawapiskat and a PhD candidate with the Institute of Gender\, Race\, Sexuality and Social Justice at UBC. She carries extensive experience working in Indigenous community in varying capacities such as counseling\, consulting\, teaching and management. Jules\, also known as a storyteller and digital media maker\, works to honour cultural protocols and build relationships within Indigenous community through her media arts practice. Her artistic endeavours are informed by her experience living with her Cree grandparents in northern Ontario. Her educational presentations utilize her media work to educate on Indigenous realities \n\nLarry Nicholson\n\nLarry Nicholson is Cree from Alberta but has lived in un-ceded Coast Salish territory since 1998 when he began classes at UBC towards his Fine Arts degree (in the Creative Writing Department). He wrote his first poem in 1982 (a LOVE poem)\, his first song in ’88\, his first short story in ’94\, his first play in ’96\, his first radio drama in ’97\, his first newspaper article in ’99\, his first grant proposal for an employer in ’99\, his first novella in 2000 (passionately thrown in a fireplace in 2001) and his first TV script in 2002. Larry is relieved to finally be emerging \n\nBrandi Bird\n\nBrandi Bird is a Two-Spirit Saulteaux and Cree poet from Winnipeg\, Manitoba\, currently living and learning on Musqueam\, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh territory. She has been published in Poetry Is Dead and Pearls\, and will be published in Prism early this  year. You can find her on Facebook as Brandi-Ann Oiseau. \nThese Aboriginal writers are going to blow you away with their poetic talents. Make sure you get a seat early for this reading on Wednesday\, January 16 at 7:00pm. \n 
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SUMMARY:Spawning Generations: A Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join Massy Books on January 17th as we welcome Sadie Epstein-Fine and Makeda Zook\, editors of the new collection Spawning Generations: Rants and Reflections on Growing Up with LGBTQ+ Parents from Demeter Press. \nJanuary 17th\, 7pm\nFree Entry\nPhoto by Jocelyn Reynolds \nSpawning Generations is a collection of stories by queerspawn (people with LGBTQ+ parents) spanning six decades\, three continents\, and five countries. Curated by queerspawn\, this anthology is about carving out a space for queerspawn to tell their own stories. The contributors in this volume break away from the pressures to be perfect\, the demands to be well adjusted\, and the need to prove that they turned out “all right.” These are queerspawn stories\, airbrushed for no one\, and told on their own terms. \n“Thoughtfully curated by co-editors who identify as queerspawn themselves\, this astute anthology highlights stories by people with LGBTQ+ parents ready to share their experiences without glossing over the complexities of family\, truth\, community\, and culture. Spawning Generations deftly demonstrates how authentic voices emerge when queerspawn have the opportunity to speak for themselves.”\n-Abigail Garner\, Author of Families Like Mine: Children of Gay Parents Tell It Like It Is
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SUMMARY:Launch: Minerva's Owl by Carol Matthews
DESCRIPTION:Join Massy Books on January 22nd as we celebrate the launch of Minerva’s Owl: The Bereavement Phase of My Marriage by Carol Matthews\, from Oolichan Books.\n\n\n \n\n\nFree Entry\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor 45 years\, Carol Matthews has worked as an educator\, writer\, researcher\, as a voice for social justice\, and an advocate for the arts and non-profit sectors. Author of four memoirs—her latest is Minerva‘s Owl. \n\n\n\n\nOriginal\, startling\, and deeply thought-provoking\, Minerva‘s Owl reflects on Hegel’s observation that the owl of Minerva\, the Roman goddess of wisdom\, spreads its wings only at twilight. Understanding comes late in life and\, as Hegel suggests\, the past cannot be rejuvenated\, only known. Part grief memoir\, part love story\, this account is an exploration of how bereavement after a long-term marriage\, can be experienced as part of an ongoing relationship. \nJoin us for an evening of mingling as we enjoy Carol’s thought-provoking reading on her roller-coaster journey of bereavement. \n\n\n\n“Carol Matthews has done the remarkable. Of the numerous books that have been written about loss\, Matthews has given us an original\, startling and deeply thought-provoking work. There is an intimacy to her writing that invites the reader in almost as an eavesdropper. What we hear are our own thoughts and questions. What we are left with is a sense of peace – the kind that comes with the knowledge that\, even in the darkest places\, we are not alone.” ~Eve Joseph\, author of In the Slender Margin
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/launch-minervas-owl-by-carol-matthews/
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SUMMARY:Offsite Book Sales - Ian Williams' Reproduction
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we sell books offsite at the launch for Ian Williams’ debut novel\, Reproduction. \n“In this novel about fathers who vanish and the families that spring up in their place\, the Vancouver-based poet deftly weaves together the voices of a 14-year-old Black boy\, a 16-year-old white girl and a motley crew of middle-aged parents who are all struggling to do right by their children—with mixed results.”— CHATELAINE Magazine \n“Reproduction’s genius is its weaponized empathy\, the precision-etched intensity of Williams’ gritty\, witty\, wholly unsentimental exploration of the collision of human hearts and the messy aftermath. Love\, and its lack\, form a spectrum that the characters bounce between\, searching for connections\, redemption and meaning.”— EDEN ROBINSON\, author of Monkey Beach and Son of a Trickster \n“The startling brilliance of Ian Williams stems from his restlessness with form. His ceaseless creativity in sussing out the right patterning of story\, the right vernacular nuance\, the right diagram and deftly dropped reference—all in service of vividly illuminating the intermingled comedy and trauma of family.”\n— DAVID CHARIANDY\, author of Brother \nJan 24th\, 6-8PM at the Vancouver Film School Cafe – 390 W Hastings Street. \nGet your tickets through eventbrite. \n 
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SUMMARY:Miriam Clavier and John Donlan: A Book Launch and Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join Massy Books and local authors Miriam Clavir and John Donlan for the launch of Clavir’s new mystery Fate Accompli: Murder in Quebec City\, and readings form Donlan’s new poetry collection\, Out All Day. Lyric Canadian nature poetry and a Quebec City murder; what’s not to like? \nJanuary 24th\n6:30-7:30\nFree Entry\, Refreshments provided. \nAbout Miriam Clavir\nMiriam Clavir is a writer and a professional art and cultural materials conservator. She is the retired senior conservator at the Museum of Anthropology and has authored a seminal work and many articles in conservation. Fate Accompli is her second mystery novel. She has also published literary short stories. \nFate Accompli: Archeology in a vibrant city reveals a mystery in its past and a horrid crime in its present. Bérénice “Berry” Cates\, preserving artifacts on the dig\, tracks down information while\, like Quebec City’s ancient stone Golden Dog\, she waits for her moment of revenge\, when she can “bite him who has bitten me”. \nAbout John Donlan:\nJohn Donlan inhabits and reimagines wilderness to reveal how much nature is a part of us. The poems in Out All Day evoke our sense of loss and mourning as we live through the sixth extinction of the natural world. \nOut All Day is John Donlan’s sixth poetry collection. He is a former public service librarian at the Vancouver Public Library\, and he and Miriam live in East Vancouver.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/miriam-clavier-and-john-donlan-a-book-launch-and-reading/
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SUMMARY:Offsite Book Sales: Entanglement: a poetry reading.
DESCRIPTION:We will be selling books offsite on January 30th at Entanglement: a poetry reading at the NEC (285 East 5th Avenue). Featuring Billy Ray-Belcourt\, Cecily Nicholson\, jaye simpson\, and Junie Désil\, hosted by Mercy Eng. \nBilly-Ray Belcourt is a writer and academic from the Driftpile Cree Nation. Belcourt’s works consider decolonial love\, grief\, intimacy and queer sexuality\, and the role of Indigenous women in social resistance movements. His debut poetry collection This Wound is a World won the 2018 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize. His sophomore book\, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Note from the Field\, drops in fall of 2019. \nCecily Nicholson is part of the Joint Effort prison abolitionist group and a member of the Research Ethics Board for Emily Carr University. She is the Interpretive Programmer at the Surrey Art Gallery and author of Triage\, From the Poplars\, winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize\, and Wayside Sang\, winner of the Governor General’s award for poetry. \nJunie Désil is a Haitian/Canadian settler poet who has performed at various literary events and festivals. Her work has appeared Room Magazine\, and was recently shortlisted for PRISM International’s Pacific Poetry Prize\, and has work currently published in PRISM International’s Summer 2018 Issue. Junie currently works on the traditional territories of Coast Salish peoples and lives on Qayqayt First Nation (New Westminster)\, juggling writing and life. \njaye simpson is an Oji-Cree trans femme two spirit writer\, performer\, and villain living on what is colonially know as Vancouver. they enjoy disrupting white narratives and challenging such colonial workings within the world of CanLit. they have most recently published in PRISM international’s Fall 2018 Dreams Issue.
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SUMMARY:Indigenous Brilliance All Day!
DESCRIPTION:Indigenous Brilliance is celebrating their one-year anniversary as a reading series with brilliant poets\, writers\, singers\, visual artists\, academics\, beadworkers\, medicine makers\, and more in a day-long event. This major event will feature four readings\, and will host Indigenous women/2SQ vendors\, entrepreneurs\, and artists throughout the entire day. \nEvent Type: Readings / Special Event\nVenue: Red Gate Revue Stage\nDate: Saturday\, March 9\, 11:00am – 8:30pm\nCost: Pay What You Can (recommended: $12.50 per reading or $40 for the day)\nASL Interpretation Available by Request Before February 15\, 2019 \nEVENTS: \nConcrete Roots: Urban Indigeneity // 11:15am – 1:00pm\nOfficially opening Growing Room’s Indigenous Brilliance is Salia Joseph. Concrete Roots dives into the relation of Urbanization and Indigeneity\, and how Indigenous brilliance can take root anywhere we choose to exist. Featuring Molly Billows\, Carol Rose Daniels\, Brandi Bird\, Lindsay Nixon\, and Samantha Nock. \nTender Rage: Keeping the Flame // 2:00pm – 3:30pm\nHow do we balance our rage with the gentle side of us? These exceptional creators lend us the privilege of sharing their Tender Rage: ways they love and yell\, care and seethe\, comfort and fume. Fire can both warm and burn you\, and Eden Robinson\, Valeen Jules\, Katherena Vermette\, and Arielle Twist know just how to do both. \nKegedonce Press 25th Anniversary Celebration // 4:30pm – 6:00pm\nKegedonce Press is a formidable literary press that has championed and published Indigenous authors and artists since 1993. Come and hear Jules Koostachin\, Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm\, and Joanne Arnott as we come together to celebrate their 25th anniversary. \nReinventing Narratives // 7:00pm – 8:30pm\nIndigenous brilliance comes from all kinds of places\, and that brilliance is big\, bright\, and transformative. Join Jónína Kirton\, Denali YoungWolfe\, Emily Riddle\, and Molly Cross-Blanchard as they share works that subvert and reinvent narratives\, and words that open up worlds. \nREADERS: \nKateri Akiwenzie-Damm is an Anishinaabe writer\, poet\, editor and the founder and managing editor of Kegedonce Press\, an Indigenous publisher based in the territory of her people\, the Saugeen Ojibway Nation in Ontario. Kateri’s recent collection of short stories\, The Stone Collection\, received a starred review from Publishers Weekly and was a finalist for a Sarton Literary Award. \nJoanne Arnott received the Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award for Literary Arts\, 2017. Métis/mixed-blood author of nine books\, EVENT Magazine’s poetry editor. \nMolly Billows is swift waters\, secrets and salal berries. Northern Coast Salish (Homalco)\, they are a queer\, trans nonbinary\, urban Indigenous\, spoken word poet and facilitator. \nBrandi Bird is a Two-Spirit Saulteaux and Cree poet currently living and learning on Musqueam\, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh territory. They study Creative Writing at Douglas College. \nMolly Cross-Blanchard is a Métis writer\, MFA student at UBC\, editor at PRISM international\, and author of the chapbook I Don’t Want to Tell You. \nCarol Rose Daniels is a Saskatchewan Author of award-winning novel Bearskin Diary. Her first book of poetry – Hiraeth – was released in early 2018 (Inanna Publications). Her second novel – Narrows of Fear – is also set to be released spring 2019 (Nightwood Editions). Carol is also an Aboriginal artist\, multi-disciplined in the areas of writing\, storytelling\, singing/drumming\, and visual art. \nValeen Jules is a radio producer\, youth outreach worker\, spoken word artist\, community organizer and full-spectrum doula from the Nuu-chah-nulth and Kwakwaka’wakw nations. \nJónína Kirton is a Red River Métis/Icelandic poet. Her second book\, An Honest Woman\, was a finalist in the 2017 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. \nJules Arita Koostachin\, owner of VisJuelles Productions Inc. is MoshKeKo Cree and a band member of Attawapiskat First Nation\, located in what is now called Northern Ontario. Jules is a PhD candidate with the Institute of Gender\, Race\, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia. \nLindsay Nixon is a Cree-Métis-Saulteaux curator\, award-nominated editor\, award-nominated writer\, and McGill Art History PhD student. They currently hold the position of Editor-at-Large for Canadian Art. Nixon has previously edited mâmawi­-âcimowak\, an independent art\, art criticism\, and literature journal\, and their writing has appeared in Malahat Review\, Room\, GUTS\, MICE\, esse\, Inuit Art Quarterly\, Teen Vogue\, and other publications. nîtisânak is their first book. \nSamantha Nock is a Cree-Métis poet\, writer\, and podcast host from Dawson Creek\, BC. Her family originally comes from Ile-a-la-Crosse\, Saskatchewan. \nEmily Riddle is nehiyaw from the Alexander First Nation in Treaty 6. She is a researcher/writer/policy analyst. She has been published in the Globe and Mail\, Teen Vogue\, Canadian Art\, and others. \nEden Robinson is a Haisla/Heiltsuk author who grew up in Haisla\, British Columbia. Her novel Son of a Trickster was shortlisted for The Giller Prize. Her latest novel is Trickster Drift. \nArielle Twist is an author and community educator from George Gordons First Nation\, Saskatchewan. Disintegrate/Dissociate is her first collection of poetry with Arsenal Pulp Press. \nKatherena Vermette is a Métis writer from Winnipeg\, Manitoba\, Canada. Her first book\, North End Love Songs (The Muses Company) won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry in 2013. Her novel\, The Break (House of Anansi)\, was a bestseller in Canada and won multiple awards. Vermette’s second book of poetry\, river woman\, was published in the fall of 2018. \nA survivor of the child welfare system\, adopted and raised in Nêhiyaw culture Denali YoungWolfe is now a UBC graduate student & public scholar focused on asserting and disseminating healthy narratives of Indigeneity for future generations. \nHOSTS: \nJessica Johns is nehiyaw and a member of Sucker Creek First Nation in Treaty 8 territory in northern Alberta. She is currently living on the traditional territory of the Musqueam\, Squamish\, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. \nPatricia Massy is Cree/English and a member of the As’in’i’wa’chi Ni’yaw Nation. She is the proprietor of Massy Books\, a 100% Indigenous owned bookstore operating on the traditional\, ancestral\, unceded\, and occupied territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish)\, or sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. \nEmily Dundas Oke is an emerging artist and curator. A 2018 graduate of Philosophy and Visual Art (BA) from Thompson Rivers University\, Emily has exhibited nationally and internationally. She is currently an artist in residence at Nida Art Colony (Lithuania). She is a grateful Cree\, Métis\, Scottish\, and English visitor on the unceded and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. \njaye simpson is an oji-cree two spirit trans femme writer\, artist and performer. they are the great grandchild of the savages and witches and catholic church couldn’t burn. \n_____\nThe venue is wheelchair accessible and ASL interpretation is available by request before February 15\, 2019. Detailed information about accessibility at Growing Room is available at: https://festival.roommagazine.com/venues-and-accessibility/. \nGrowing Room takes place on the traditional\, unceded\, and ancestral territory of the Musqueam\, Tsleil-Waututh\, and Squamish peoples. \nGrowing Room is made possible thanks to support from our major sponsors and partners: Canadian Heritage\, the Canada Council of the Arts\, the BC Arts Council\, the City of Vancouver\, Creative BC\, the Access Copyright Foundation\, The Georgia Straight\, and Massy Books. To learn more about our sponsors and partners\, please visit festival.roommagazine.com/sponsors.
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