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SUMMARY:The Truth Is - Lindsay Elliot\, Sarah Tesla\, and Adele Thomas in the Massy Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Show runs February 8th-March 7th. \nIn “The Truth Is..”\, artists and collaborators Lindsay Elliot\, Sarah Tesla and Adele Thomas present a selection of their photographic works focused around the interrelationships between people and place. \nUsing a mix of landscape and portraiture\, each photograph embodies an individual truth as it is manifest in experience: from the beauty of our very own backyard here in Vancouver\, to several locations across North and West Africa and the Middle East. \nThis event is taking place on the Unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh Nations.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/the-truth-is-lindsay-elliot-sarah-tesla-and-adele-thomas-in-the-massy-gallery/
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SUMMARY:Talking Stick Festival 2019: Indigi-Wordscapes at the Roundhouse Community Centre
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of tantalizing poetry with Indigenous poets Jo Billows\, Brandi Bird\, Jessica Johns\, and Tommy “Teebs” Pico (Kumeyaay Nation)\, winner of the 2018 American Book Award\, and 2018 Whiting Award for Poetry. Hosted by jaye simpson. \nMarch 1st\, 6-7:30pm\nRoundhouse Community Centre \nThis event takes place on the traditional\, unceded\, and ancestral territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh Nations. \nAbout Tommy Pico: –\nTommy “Teebs” Pico is author of the books IRL (Birds\, LLC\, 2016)\, winner of the 2017 Brooklyn Library Literary Prize and a finalist for the 2018 Kate Tufts Discovery Award\, Nature Poem (Tin House Books\, 2017)\, winner of a 2018 American Book Award and finalist for the 2018 Lambda Literary Award\, Junk (Tin House Books\, 2018)\, Feed (forthcoming 2019 from Tin House Books)\, and the zine series Hey\, Teebs. He was the founder and editor in chief of birdsong\, an antiracist/queer-positive collective\, small press\, and zine that published art and writing from 2008-2013. He was a Queer/Art/Mentors inaugural fellow\, 2013 Lambda Literary fellow in poetry\, a 2017 NYSCA/NYFA Fellow in Poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts\, was awarded the 2017 Friends of Literature prize from the Poetry Foundation\, won a 2018 Whiting Award\, and he’s been profiled in Time Out New York\, the New York Times\, and the New Yorker. Originally from the Viejas Indian reservation of the Kumeyaay nation\, he now lives in Brooklyn where he co-curates the reading series Poets With Attitude (PWA) with Morgan Parker at the Ace Hotel\, co-hosts the podcast Food 4 Thot\, and is a contributing editor at Literary Hub. @heyteebs \nAbout Jessica Johns:\nJessica Johns is a nehiyaw aunty and member of Sucker Creek First Nation in Treaty 8 territory in Northern Alberta and is currently living\, working\, and learning on the traditional territory of the Musqueam\, Squamish\, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. She is the poetry editor for PRISM international\, the Outreach and Education Coordinator for Room Magazine\, and is a co-organizer of the Indigenous Brilliance reading series in Vancouver. She has been published in Cosmonauts Avenue\, Glass Buffalo\, CV2\, SAD Magazine\, Red Rising Magazine\, The Rusty Toque\, Poetry is Dead\, and Bad Nudes\, among others. Her debut chapbook\, How Not to Spill\, is out now with Rahila’s Ghost Press. \nAbout Jo Billows:\nJo Billows is swift waters\, secrets\, and salal berries. Northern Coast Salish from the Homalco nation\, they were adopted-out and grew up in and around Victoria. They have been living as a visitor in Vancouver\, on the unceded territory of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations since 2011. They are a two-spirit\, queer\, trans non-binary\, mixed\, urban\, Indigenous feminist\, a spoken word poet\, facilitator and a youth worker. Molly hopes to weave together stories in ways that lift up their communities\, and contribute to collective healing\, rage\, resurgence and love. \nAbout Brandi Bird:\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 and have been published in Poetry is Dead and Pearls. They were shortlisted for the 2018 Indigenous Voices Awards and the 2019 Pacific Spirit Prize. \nAbout jaye simpson:\ntwo wings soaring ikwe of the Buffalo clan otherwise known as jaye simpson is an Oji-Cree Anishinaabe Two Spirit warrior whose roots hail from the Sapotaweyak & Skownan Cree Nations. jaye is a libra sun\, sagittarius rising\, scorpio moon but delusionally identifies as a scorpio since it’s all over their birth chart (also a former thespian). jaye holds firm their rage about being a former youth in care\, as well as a queer indigenous person & weaves it into poetry\, prose & essays. they are published in Poetry Is Dead Issue 17: Coven\, This Magazine: September/October 2018\, PRISM 57.1: DREAMS & SAD Magazine: Green\, GUTS Magazine online blog\, with work in the upcoming Room 42.1 Magic issue. they have an upcoming short story in the new Indigenous LGBT Sci-fi anthology\, Love After The End with Bedside Press and a piece in Arsenal Pulp Press’ upcoming anthology: Hustling Verse. they have also closed a runway for Evan Ducharme Studio’s HIRAETH 2018. jaye has also held the title of Kwantlen Polytechnic University Slamapalooza 2017 Champion & was on the Vancouver Slam Poetry 2018 Slam Team which are also National Finalists. jaye is Vancouver Slam Poetry’s 2019 Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion and representative. they are a displaced indigenous person resisting\, ruminating and residing on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-waututh)\, and sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) First Nations territories.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/talking-stick-festival-2019-indigi-wordscapes-at-the-roundhouse-community-centre/
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SUMMARY:The Art of Leaving Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join Massy Books and @Room magazine for the Vancouver launch of Ayelet Tsabari’s The Art of Leaving\, in conversation with Gurjinder Basran.\n\n\n \n\n\nMarch 2nd\, 7pm\n\n\nFree Entry\n\n\n \n\n\nAn intimate memoir in essays by an award-winning Israeli-Canadian writer who travels the world\, from New York to Vancouver to India\, searching for love\, belonging\, and an escape from grief following the death of her father at a young age.\n\n\n \n\n\nAyelet Tsabari was twenty-one years old the first time she left Tel Aviv with no plans to return. It was not the Intifada or the never-ending conflict that drove her away\, but the grief that had shaken the foundations of her home. The loss of Tsabari’s beloved father had left her alienated and exiled within her own large Yemeni family and at odds with her Mizrahi identity. By leaving\, she would be free to reinvent herself and to rewrite her own story.\n\n\n \n\n\nFor nearly a decade\, Tsabari travelled through India\, Europe\, the US\, and Canada\, falling in and out of love with countries\, men and women\, drugs and alcohol\, and running away from responsibilities as though her life might go stagnant without perpetual motion. A series of dramatic events led Tsabari to look more closely at her choices\, examine her Jewish-Yemeni background and the Mizrahi identity she had once rejected\, as well as unearth a family history that had been untold for years — a history marked by generations of headstrong women who struggled to choose between their hearts and their homes. Eventually\, Tsabari realized that she must reconcile the memories of her father and the sadness of her past if she was ever going to come to terms with herself.\n\n\n \n\n\nWith fierce\, emotional prose\, Ayelet Tsabari crafts a beautiful exploration of the lengths we will travel to try to escape our grief\, the universal search to find a place where we belong\, and the sense of home we eventually find within ourselves.\n\n\n \n\n\nAYELET TSABARI’s debut story collection\, The Best Place on Earth\, won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the Edward Lewis Wallant Award. The book was a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice\, was a Kirkus Reviews Best Book\, was nominated for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award and has been published internationally to great acclaim. Excerpts from The Art of Leaving have won a National Magazine Award and a Western Magazine Award. She is the recipient of a Chalmers Arts Fellowship and a graduate of both the Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University and the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Guelph. Tsabari teaches creative writing at the University of King’s College MFA in Creative Nonfiction and the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Education.\n\n\nHarper Collins Canada \n\n\n \n\n\nGURJINDER BASRAN’s debut novel\, Everything Was Good-bye\, was the winner of the BC Book Prize\, Ethel Wilson Fiction Award in 2011 and named as a Chatelaine Magazine Book Club pick in 2012. Gurjinder was named by the CBC as one of “Ten Canadian women writers you need to read”. Gurjinder studied Creative Writing at Simon Fraser University. She lives in Delta\, BC with her family. \n\n\n.\n\n\n.\n\n\n.\n\n\nThis event is taking place on the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh Nations.\n\n\n \n\n\nMassy Books’ downstairs event space is accessible! You can view the floorplan here: http://www.massybooks.com/accessibility/\n\n\nPlease feel free to reach out with any inquiries.\n\n\n \n\n\nThe event is all-ages\, but we will have beer and wine available for purchase.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/the-art-of-leaving-launch/
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SUMMARY:The Stone Frigate by Kate Armstrong
DESCRIPTION:Join Massy Books and Dundurn Press as we celebrate the release of The Stone Frigate\, a memoir from Kate Armstrong\, the first female cadet admitted to the Royal Military College of Canada. \nMarch 6th\, 7pm\nFree Entry\nIntroduction by Dr. Jacquie Leggatt \nKate Armstrong was an ordinary young woman eager to leave an abusive childhood behind her when she became the first female cadet admitted to the Royal Military College of Canada. As she struggled for survival in the ultimate boys’ club\, she called on her fierce and humourous spirit to push back against the whims of a domineering and patriarchal organization. Later in life\, feeling unfulfilled in her post-military career\, she realized that finding her true path forward meant she had to go back to the beginning and revisit the truth of what she had experienced all those years ago. \nAbout Kate Armstrong:\nKate Armstrong is the author of the memoir The Stone Frigate: The Royal Military College’s First Female Cadet Speaks Out. She worked as a military officer and an electricity trader\, before realizing that wasn’t her dream and becoming a writer. Armstrong is an alumna of the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity residency programs and of Sage Hill Writing residency. She lives in Nelson\, British Columbia\, with her husband and two black Labs.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/event-space-booked-2/
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SUMMARY:Woo: The Monkey Who Inspired Emily Carr Launch
DESCRIPTION:In 1923\, Emily Carr—a fifty-one year old unfulfilled artist by night and harried landlady by day—walked into a Victoria pet store and traded one of her dogs and $35 cash for a young macaque. For the next fifteen years\, Woo would become one of Carr’s most beloved companions and essential influence on Carr’s artistic legacy\, which is still revered today across the globe. \nNow chronicled in a stunning new book by acclaimed biographer Grant Hayter-Menzies\, “Woo\, the Monkey Who Inspired Emily Carr” is a compassionate and thoughtful look into Woo\, the politics that surrounded (and still surround) the keeping of wild animals\, and a celebration of the wondrous\, but tragically short\, life of Woo herself. \nPlease join us at Massy Books on Thursday\, March 7 for an intimate reading and discussion\, followed by a book signing. Bring your friends!
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/woo-the-monkey-who-inspired-emily-carr-launch/
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SUMMARY:Myth and the Witch
DESCRIPTION:Stop by the Massy Gallery March 8th- April 2nd  to see Natasha Broad’s “Myth and the Witch\,” a series based in healing. \nDrawing insight from the depths of the 16th and 17th witch hunts\, Broad tunes into the underpinnings of the larger sociological and political realities of gender discrimination from which our patriarchal systems have been drawn. Broad’s drawings are delicate but exacting in their reclamation of women’s power; they inherit a dark history but do not play into any ruling ideologies. Her work addresses not only what it meant to be a woman in 16th and 17th century Europe\, but also how one inhabits this history\, and how the witch has been reframed to suit modern patriarchal and capitalist needs. Through the use of iconography that is both mythical and corporeal\, spiritual and scientific\, Broad permeates a system of symbols and practices that have been held hostage— reclaiming a malevolent magic\, an essential force. \nNatasha Broad grew up on Vancouver Island and left to pursue drawing at Emily Carr University. In 2013 she graduated with her BFA\, where shortly after she became pregnant with her daughter\, who now is her inspiration\, showing up occasionally in her art practice. Her daughter serves as a driving force to do better as an artist\, mother and womyn identified. Natasha won second place in a nation-wide competition in 2013\, was a nominee for the sustainable arts award in her graduating class and continues to show her work regularly in Vancouver and on Vancouver Island.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/myth-and-the-witch/
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SUMMARY:Growing Room Festival - Indigenous Brilliance Youth Reading
DESCRIPTION:Details TBA!
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/growing-room-festival-indigenous-brilliance-youth-reading/
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SUMMARY:Growing Room Festival - New Shoots Youth Reading
DESCRIPTION:Details TBA!
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/growing-room-festival-new-shoots-youth-reading/
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SUMMARY:Growing Room - The Shoe Project (led by Caroline Adderson)
DESCRIPTION:Details TBA!
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/growing-room-the-shoe-project-led-by-caroline-adderson/
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SUMMARY:Poet's Corner
DESCRIPTION:The reading in March brings together an old hand with someone who has just launched his first volume of poetry.  George McWhirter\, Vancouver’s inaugural Poet Laureate\, will be coupled with relative newcomer\, P.W. Bridgman. Here are the bio’s of March’s duo: \nGeorge McWhirter is transatlantically anthologized in The Penguin Book of Canadia Verse and Irish Writing in the Twentieth Century (Cork University Press). Most recent books of poetry are The Incorrection (Oolichan Books) and The Anachronicles (Ronsdale Press). His story collection\, The Gift of Women\, appeared from Exile Editions in 2014. He served as Vancouver’s inaugural Poet Laureate and edited A Verse Map of Vancouver with photographs by Derek Von Essen for Anvil Press. Lately\, his poem “On a Globe Maple” appeared in the League of Canadian Poets’ 2018 Anthology\, Heartwood; the poem “Reef” appeared in CLI-FI\, Canadian Tales of Climate Change\, Exile Editions\, 2017. \nP.W. Bridgman’s first book of poems\, entitled A Lamb\, was published in September 2018 by Ekstasis Editions. A selection of short stories entitled Standing at an Angle to My Age\, published by Libros Libertad\, preceded it in 2013. Bridgman’s writing has appeared in\, among other outlets\, Grain Magazine\, The Moth Magazine\, The Antigonish Review\, The Honest Ulsterman\, The Galway Review and The Glasgow Review of Books. He was a participant in the writing summer school program offered by the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen’s University\, Belfast in July 2018 and describes that as one of the most formative experiences of his writing life. \n  \nOur full Open Mic segment is back for this reading!  Please arrive at least 15 minutes before we get underway to ensure you land a spot on the list. We will be starting at 7pm sharp on Wednesday\, March 20.  Looking forward to seeing you!
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/poets-corner-3/
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SUMMARY:Launch: The Length of This Gap - Kristen E. Nelson and Guests
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an exciting evening of poetry\, hybrid prose\, vignettes\, and other liminal forms at the launch of Kristen E Nelson’s The Length of This Gap. \n\nMarch 23rd\, 7pm // Free Entry\n\n\nWith readings by:\n\n\nTC Tolbert\n\n\nGillian Jerome\n\n\nand Sommer Browning\n\n\nPraise for The Length of This Gap:\n\n“Death is not always tragedy\, but then again\, neither is love – its encounter\, its ennui\, its wound. Kristen Nelson’s the length of this gap revels in passionate ambivalence\, gliding between emotions without netted hearts to catch her fall. Oh foolish bravery! Sorrow becomes lust and lust becomes abandonment\, and Nelson makes me want to be bolder\, hotter\, sexier – and I crave. These poems persuade my addiction.” —Lily Hoang  \n“One of the most powerful\, breathtaking bodies of poetry fortifying the will to survive.  I am an enormous fan of Kristen Nelson’s poems and am always excitedly anticipating the next poem showing me the better parts of our species and how to love and thrive!” —CA Conrad \n\nAbout the Author:\nKristen E. Nelson is a queer writer and performer\, literary activist\, LGBTQ+ activist\, and community builder. She is the author of the length of this gap (Damaged Goods\, August 2018) and two chapbooks: sometimes I gets lost and is grateful for noises in the dark (Dancing Girl\, 2017) and Write\, Dad (Unthinkable Creatures\, 2012). Kristen’s poem “After the Crotalus atrox” was anthologized in The Sonoran Desert: A Literary Field Guide and nominated for a 2016 Pushcart Prize by University of Arizona Press. She has published work in Bombay Gin\, Denver Quarterly\, Drunken Boat\, Tarpaulin Sky Journal\, Trickhouse\, and Everyday Genius\, among others. Kristen is the founder of Casa Libre en la Solana\, a non-profit writing center in Tucson\, Arizona\, where she worked as the Executive Director for 14 years. She Earned her MFA in Creative Writing in 2011 from Goddard College\, and her BA in English Literature with minors in Marine Science and Biology in 2000 from The University of Tampa. Kristen has been a creative writing instructor since 2010 and has taught at Naropa University\, UA Poetry Center\, STEP College Prep Program\, and Pima Community College. She specializes in teaching Personal Narrative Essay Writing\, Text/Image Collaborations\, and Divinatory Poetics. www.kristenenelson.com\n\n\nAbout the Readers:\n\nTC Tolbert often identifies as a trans and genderqueer feminist\, collaborator\, dancer\, and poet. And\, s/he’s a human in love with humans doing human things. S/he is Tucson’s Poet Laureate and author of Gephyromania (Ahsahta Press 2014)\, 4 chapbooks\, and co-editor of Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (Nightboat Books 2013). www.tctolbert.com\n\n\n \n\n\nGillian Jerome lives and works in Vancouver where she’s writing a third collection of poems. She teaches at UBC. \n\n\n \n\n\nSommer Browning writes poems and draws comics in Denver. She is the author of EVERYTHING BUT SEX (Low Frequency Press\, 2017)\, WANT TO HEAR ABOUT THIS DREAM I HAD (Reality Beach\, 2017)\, YOU’RE ON MY PERIOD (Counterpath\, 2016)\, THE CIRCLE BOOK (Cuneiform Press\, 2015)\, BACKUP SINGERS (Birds\, LLC\, 2014)\, PRESIDENTS AND OTHER JOKES (Future Tense Books\, 2013)\, and EITHER WAY I’M CELEBRATING (Birds\, LLC\, 2011). She is the founder of GEORGIA\, an artist run art space\, and works as a librarian.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/poetry-launchreading/
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SUMMARY:Readings for the Release of Water & Power by Stephen Dunn
DESCRIPTION:Join Massy Books as we host a night of readings celebrating the launch of Stephen Dunn’s Water & Power.\n\n\n \n\n\nMarch 24th – 6:30PM\n\n\nFree Entry\n\n\n \n\n\nHosted by Ben Draith\n\n\nwith readings by:\n\n\nSoma Feldmar\n\n\nKatrina Otuonye\n\n\nJunie Désil\n\n\nand Amal Abdirahman\n\n\n \n\n\n \n\n\nShortlisted for Granta magazine’s “Best of Young American Novelists\,” Steven Dunn is the author of two novels from Tarpaulin Sky Press: water & power (2018) and Potted Meat\, which was co-winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize and finalist for a Colorado Book Award. Steven was born and raised in West Virginia\, and after 10 years in the Navy he earned a B.A. in Creative Writing from University of Denver. He is currently an MFA candidate at Goddard College\, and on the faculty at Regis Univerisity’s Mile High MFA.\n\n\n \n\n\nSoma Feldmar is slowly making her way back to poetry\, or something\, after a traumatizing English PhD experience. Her one book\, “Other\,” was published in 2009\, the year her PhD degree work began\, by CUE Books. She hopes there will be another one. Since returning to the Vancouver area in May 2018\, Soma has been looking for steady work while being an extra in the Film & TV industry\, bartending\, and doing the odd editing / consulting job.\n\n\n\nKatrina Otuonye is a writer\, editor\, and educator from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. She holds a BA from the University of Tennessee and an MFA from Chatham University. She presented a pedagogy proposal at the Sorbonne as part of the &Now Festival and has taught courses in Pittsburgh\, Cookeville\, Nashville\, and Wuhan\, China. She often writes about personal experiences alongside her interests in art history\, health disparities\, and superheroes. Katrina’s fiction and nonfiction have appeared in publications such as Atticus Review\, Brevity\, Tarpaulin Sky Magazine\, Crab Orchard Review\, and The Toast\, among others. She is a 2018-2019 Hugo House Fellow\, a fiction editor at Pacifica Literary Review and was recently the Guest Editor of the Black Lives Matter Special Issue of Wild Age Press. You’ll find more of her work on her portfolio at katrinaotuonye.com.\n\n\n\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.\n\n\n.\n\n\n.\n\n\n.\n\n\nThis event is taking place on the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh Nations.\n\n\n \n\n\nMassy Books’ downstairs event space is accessible! You can view the floorplan here: http://www.massybooks.com/accessibility/\n\n\nPlease feel free to reach out with any inquiries.\n\n\n \n\n\nThe event is all-ages\, but we will have beer and wine available for purchase.
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SUMMARY:In Good Company and Good Cheer: An Evening of Wine Books with Roger Gale
DESCRIPTION:Massy Books is excited to host Roger Gale of Amicus Books for In Good Company and Good Cheer: An Evening of Wine Books! Be introduced to some familiar\, but mostly unusual\, wine tomes from Amicus’ 1\,000+ book collection\, dating from the mid-19th Century to the present. Come for a brief presentation and discussion around on your views on wine and reading about wine\, questioning ‘What is the role of books on wine today?” Stay for wine\, sherry\, tapas\, and the chance to browse and purchase from the collection. In good company and good cheer!\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, March 27th at 7pm\n\n\nDrop by for mingling any time until 9pm.\n\n\nEntry is Free but space is limited! Reserve your spot on Eventbrite.\n\n\n\n\n\nRoger Gale has been an archetypal psychologist\, an oenophile and book collector for over 40 years. He is the proprietor of Amicus Books dealing in antiquarian\, illustrated and eclectic books as well as specializing in books on wine. Roger has amassed over 1\,000 books on wine\, some classics\, some old and rare – all adding up to a deep and unusual tapestry of wine knowledge and wine history.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is taking place on the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh Nations.\n\n\n\n\n\nMassy Books’ downstairs event space is accessible! You can view the floorplan here: http://www.massybooks.com/accessibility/\n\n\nPlease feel free to reach out with any inquiries.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/event-space-booked-3/
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SUMMARY:The Forbidden Purple City Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join author Philip Hyunh at Massy Books on March 28 for the Vancouver launch of his new book The Forbidden Purple City from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM. \nBooks will be available for sale. This event is free and open to the public. Reserve your spot on Eventbrite. \nPresented by Goose Lane Editions. This event is organized with the assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts. \nPhilip Huynh was born in Vancouver to parents who had fled Vietnam during the civil war. His stories have been published in the Malahat Review\, the New Quarterly\, Event\, and the Journey Prize Anthology and cited in The Best American Stories. He is the winner of the Open Season Award from the Malahat Review\, a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award\, and the Asian Canadian Writers’ Workshop Emerging Writers Award. A practicing lawyer\, he lives in Richmond\, BC.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/the-forbidden-purple-city-launch/
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