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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:Disrupted Space (move over!) - Jackie Wong in the Massy Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Join us May 2nd for the opening of Jackie Wong’s Disrupted Space (move over!) in the Massy Gallery. \nOpening Reception: May 2nd 7pm-10pm\nOn display through June 2nd. \nDisrupted Space (move over!) \nThis body of work focusses on the notion of disrupted space. A variety of orb forms and shapes address the condition of place and how these extractions influence movement around them and how we perceive the path they disrupt. Orbs are often referred to as spiritual spirals\, shapes formed by one thing orbiting another. Perhaps one can look at the BC First Nation Ovoid shape\, it is the center of many designs in which other forms and shapes evolve/revolve around them. The orb is often the starting point to a sophisticated design\, it is the grounding and pivotal point of departure. This body of work includes not only includes the obvious orb forms that disrupt a given path\, but it includes the orb that one can transform a surface or place. \nThe exhibition includes clay works\, collagraph prints\, photographs\, oil and wax paintings\, and water colours. \nJackie Wong is a teacher during the day. At the side of her desk she curates exhibitions\, orchestrates projects with artist and students\, and finds time for her personal art practices. \nThis event is taking place on the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh Nations.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/disrupted-space-move-over-jackie-wong-in-the-massy-gallery/
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SUMMARY:Capture Festival
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the 2019 Capture Photography Festival Event Program. \nFREE\nDoors at 6 pm\, panel at 6:30 pm \nDigital camera technology has never been more advanced. And yet—analogue photography is in the midst of a commercial revival. How is this medium creatively relevant today? And why is it an affordable and accessible alternative to using digital tools for image creation? Join us at Massy Books as we search for answers. \nPanelists: \nNicole Langdon-Davies pushes the boundaries of photography\, sculpture and natural found beauty into thoughtful mixed media pieces. She is also the analog expert at local hub Beau Photo. \nLauren Ray is a recent graduate of Emily Carr University whose practice is created almost exclusively with 35mm analog camera technology. \nAlistair Henning (moderator) is an award-winning photographer whose work has been exhibited throughout North America and Europe. \nThis event is taking place on the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh Nations.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/capture-festival/
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SUMMARY:Launch: Q&A by Adrienne Gruber
DESCRIPTION:Join Massy Books for the launch of Adrienne Gruber’s new poetry collection – Q&A!\n\n\n \n\n\nApril 5th\, 7pm\n\n\nFree Entry\n\n\nWith readings by Raoul Fernandes and Rob Taylor\n\n\nHosted by Elee Kraljii Gardiner\n\n\nAnd featuring a Q & A!\n\n\n \n\n\nAdrienne Gruber’s third full poetry collection\, Q & A\, is a poetic memoir detailing a first pregnancy\, birth and early postpartum period. The poet is both traumatized and transformed by the birth of her daughter. She is compelled by the dark places birth takes her and as she examines and revisits those places\, a grotesque history of the treatment of pregnant and birthing women reveals itself.\n\n\n \n\n\nAbout Adrienne Gruber:\n\n\nAdrienne Gruber is the author of two books of poetry\, Buoyancy Control (Bookhug) and This is the Nightmare (Thistledown Press)\, and five chapbooks. She won The Antigonish Review’s Great Blue Heron poetry contest in 2015\, SubTerrain’s Lush Triumphant poetry contest in 2017 and has been shortlisted for the CBC Literary Awards. In 2012\, her chapbook\, Mimic was awarded the bpNichol Chapbook Award. Originally from Saskatoon\, Adrienne lives in Vancouver with her partner and two daughters. Q & A is her third book.\n\n\n \n\n\nAbout Rob Taylor:\n\n\nRob Taylor is the author of three poetry collections\, including The News (Gaspereau Press\, 2016)\, which was a finalist for the 2017 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Rob is\n\n\nalso the editor of What the Poets Are Doing: Canadian Poets in Conversation (Nightwood Editions\, 2018) and guest editor of the 2019 edition of The Best Canadian Poetry in English (Biblioasis\, 2019). In 2015 Rob received the City of Vancouver’s Mayor’s Arts Award for the Literary Arts\, as an emerging artist. He lives in Port Moody\, BC with his wife and son.\n\n\n \n\n\nAbout Raoul Fernandes:\n\n\nRaoul Fernandes lives and writes in Vancouver\, with his wife and two sons. He first collection of poems\, Transmitter and Receiver (Nightwood Editions\, 2015) won the Dorothy Livesay Award and the Debut-litzer Award for Poetry in 2016 and was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry. He has been published in numerous literary journals and anthologies\, including The Best of the Best Canadian Poetry in English.\n\n\n \n\n\nAbout Elee Kraljii Gardiner:\n\n\nElee Kraljii Gardiner is the author of Trauma Head and serpentine loop\, and the editor of the anthologies V6A: Writing from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and Against Death: 35 Essays on Living.\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.\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/launch-qa-by-adrienne-gruber/
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SUMMARY:Guernica's Spring Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Saturday\, April 6 for Guernica Editions’ first launch of the spring season! Meet with the authors and hear them read from their books of drama\, non-fiction\, and literary fiction. \nLaunching the following titles:\n• Trapped:A Mother’s Quest to Reclaim Her Daughters by Alexandra Karb\n• Revolt/ Compassion by Michael Springate\n• Quill of the Dove by Ian Shaw\n• The Afrikaner by Arianna Dagnino \nDoors open at 6:30 pm\, and the event begins at 7 pm. Free admission!
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/guernicas-spring-launch/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190417T190000
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SUMMARY:Poet's Corner
DESCRIPTION:The April Poet’s Corner will pair the Artistic Director of one of Canada’s most successful poetry series with a local talent whose star is rising faster than the CN Tower elevator. Daniel G. Scott and Chelsea Comeau are arriving on a Spring breeze and bringing with them some oh-so-powerful poetry. Here are the bios of April’s duo… \n \nDaniel G. Scott is the current (5th) Artistic Director of the Planet Earth Poetry Reading Series. He has published gnarled love\, terrains  and now Random Excess\, both with Ekstasis Editions. His black onionand two chapbooks: street signs and Interrupted were published with Goldfinch Press.  He has individual poems in anthologies and chapbooks as well as numerous academic publications and\, with Shannon McFerran\, The Girls Diary Project(University of Victoria\, 2013).  He won a one-act playwriting competition in New Brunswick in 1984. He is an Associate Professor Emeritus\, University of Victoria\, School of Child and Youth Care\, father and grandfather.   wwww.danielgscott.com \n \n  \nChelsea Comeau is a freelance writer and editor whose work has appeared in Freefall\, CV2\, and Roommagazine\, and is forthcoming in Prairie Fire. In 2018\, she received an Honourable Mention in both the CV2 Two-Day Poem Contest and the CV2 Young Buck Poetry Prize. She is currently the poetry editor at WordWorks magazine. \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\, April 17. Looking forward to seeing you!
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/poets-corner-2/
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SUMMARY:Capture Photography Festival: Cuba - Twilight of the Revolution Launch
DESCRIPTION:Cuba – Twilight of the Revolution\, a photobook by Alistair Henning\, is a capsule of nostalgia for a recent moment already passed—a moment heavy with the burden of clinging to a past that seemed to forestall all possible futures. In January 2012 Fidel Castro was still clinging to power\, while Cuba’s people grew increasingly impatient for meaningful and positive change. Henning documented this transitional time using the Hipstamatic app on an iPhone 4s. Although extremely low-fi by contemporary standards\, he feels that “many of these photos would not have been possible to make using a larger\, more conspicuous camera.” \nHenning has worked closely with specialty publisher Out of the Phone to create a signature limited edition half-linen hardcover using tritone offset printing. The launch includes an artist interview and book signing. Complimentary refreshments available.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/space-booked-for-book-launch/
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SUMMARY:This Heart Holds Many: A Reading with Koe Creation
DESCRIPTION:As polyamory becomes ever more present in our society; the question blooming in people’s minds is: What about the Children!? Fortunately\, Koe Creation is here with an answer; This Heart Holds Many is a memoir highlighting both the logistics and agreements that gave them one of the most positively unique childhoods you’ve ever heard of! During this reading\, Koe will share their stories of crowded parent teacher conferences\, queer youth summer camp\, and parental adoptions over potluck dinner that were typical of their otherwise divergent upbringing raised in a queer polyamorous family. In true polyam fashion; there will be plenty of opportunity for Q&A and you are encouraged to share your experiences in building intentional\, sex-positive family! \n  \nFree entry\, but make sure to register on Eventbrite.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/this-heart-holds-many-a-reading-with-koe-creation/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190424T190000
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SUMMARY:4 Poets and a Debut Novelist Walk Into a Bookstore
DESCRIPTION:Join Laura Matwichuk\, Sarah de Leeuw\, Cass Blanchard\, Victoria Hetherington\, and Patricia Young April 24th for the launch of their new books – Hosted by Amber Dawn! \nApril 24th//7 pm\nFree Entry \nSponsored in part by Read Local BC\, Nightwood Editions\, NON Publishing and Massy Books. \nAbout the books: \nLaura Matwichuk’s Near Miss:\nNear Miss considers the relationship between close calls and the tenuous conditions of contemporary life. From actual cataclysms such as meteor collisions and volcanic eruptions to everyday failures and accidents\, these inventive poems collide with the perpetual unease created by life’s unpredictability while contemplating mortality\, fragility\, gratitude and hopefulness. \nSarah de Leeuw’s Outside\, America\nCriss-crossing the Canadian/American border and making efforts to grasp a confused global state\, Outside\, America digs through grief\, loss\, aging\, technological frustrations\, environmental degradation and nationalism. This is poetry unfolding across a variety of scales\, from global spheres to the most intimate of domestic spaces: tethered to everything from climate change and scientific discovery\, from the death of parents to resource extraction\, divorce and career changes\, these poems touch down on whale extinctions and lounges in international airports\, on debris slides and suiciding pilots\, on sinkholes\, astronauts\, grocery-store magazines\, earthquakes and even sinking ferries and pop stars. \nCass Blanchard’s Fresh Pack of Smokes:\nDissecting herself and the life she once knew living a transient life that included time spent in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside as a bonafide drug addict\, Blanchard writes plainly about violence\, drug use and sex work in Fresh Pack of Smokes\, offering insight into an often overlooked or misunderstood world. \nVictoria Hetherington’s Mooncalves:\nMooncalves follows the bloody implosion of a cult in Sainte-Pétronille\, Quebec\, understood through the urgent voices of the living and a ring of ghostly\, shape-shifting watchers. Sensing the impending dissolution of society by technological progress\, the charismatic\, utterly unhinged Joseph Reiser forms “Walden”\, a collective of Luddite devotees—most still in their teens. A vicious act of sexual violence shatters the collective\, and devotee Erica Strickland barely escapes with her life. Through its tale of buried crime in rural Quebec and the mechanism of cult leadership\, Mooncalves explores the unshakable hold of first love\, the warped influence of unchecked ambition and sexual obsession\, and the uncomfortable gaze of the accumulating dead. \nPatricia Young’s Amateurs at Love:\nPatricia Young’s new collection confirms her status as one of Canada’s great and most versatile contemporary poets. In Amateurs at Love\, she explores the dynamic\, liminal space between lovers\, taking precise aim at the silent climacteric moments of the heart: the interrogating\, persuading\, confiding\, reflecting moments that help us feel and understand that distance. \nThis event is taking place on the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh Nations. \nMassy Books’ downstairs event space is accessible! You can view the floorplan here: http://www.massybooks.com/accessibility/\nPlease feel free to reach out with any inquiries.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/4-poets-and-a-debut-novelist-walk-into-a-bookstore/
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