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SUMMARY:A Collection of Self Portraits ( Queens\, Warriors\, Goddesses)
DESCRIPTION:Join us June 6th for the opening of Tajah Olson’s breathtaking series\, A Collection of Self-Portraits (Queens\, Warriors\, Goddesses). \n“My work is meant to be a celebration. It is a call to creative freedom. Using my own face and body\, I aim to go BEYOND the ordinary\, beyond stereotypes and negativity to a place where I can create beauty and achieve the extraordinary. My work is fierce. It celebrates the strength and creativity that allows us to endure through struggle and confront what frightens us.” \nAbout Tajah Olson:\nTajah Olson was born in Lilongwe\, in the southeastern African country of Malawi. She spent her early years living in a crowded two-room shack in the sprawling township at the edge of the city\, with her young single mom who made a living selling used clothing.\nTajah’s maternal grandparents had been forced to flee neighboring Zambia for political reasons\, settling in a village near Lilongwe. Though Tajah never knew her grandfather\, she often visited the village\, where her grandmother was a subsistence farmer\, raising chickens\, goats and growing her own food. “My artwork is inspired by my memories of home and my maternal grandmother Aswesi\, strong\, tough but yet kind hearted” Tajah says. “Most of all my art celebrates the strength and beauty of tribal African women.” \nTajah’s life changed at the age of 7\, when her mother married a Canadian UNICEF employee who worked in youth AIDS prevention in Malawi. Tajah spoke only Chichewa until she met her new dad\, but the change in her family circumstances gave her the courage to literally cross the busiest highway in the city of Lilongwe by herself from the township to an English-language school and take a front seat in a classroom. She was determined to learn English and never return to the crowded government school\, where 100-200 children had to share desks or sit on the dirty broken cement floors in the classrooms. The principal of the English-Language school was so impressed he allowed her to stay unofficially until her parents enrolled her. Eventually\, Tajah left Malawi and travelled to Canada\, to live with her dad’s family and attend high school in Victoria\, on Canada’s Vancouver Island. Her Canadian aunts and grandmother encouraged her creativity\, plying her with paints and other art supplies and pushing her to try new things. She had always liked making things with her hands – she has an early memory of making little figures out of mud when she couldn’t express her unhappiness as a child. \nTajah\, who is now a Canadian citizen\, was accepted into a degree program at the prestigious Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver. She has spent the years since graduation developing her art practice\, while working a wide array of jobs (including teaching African dance and working as senior care taker).\nA big break came when the City of Seattle bought Three of Tajah’s works for their Municipal Tower Gallery. By then Tajah was working with large-scale photo-based images using herself as a model\, using body paint and costume to depict powerful icons of African womanhood. She has shown her work in Vancouver and in New Orleans\, and continues to develop her art practice. \nShe hopes that her message of strength\, beauty and positivity resonate with women everywhere.\n.\n.\n.\nUnfortunately\, this event takes place on the second floor of Massy Books and is not wheelchair accessible. For other accessibility inquiries please to send us a message\, we will do our best to accommodate any needs. \nThis event is taking place on the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh Nations.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/a-collection-of-self-portraits-queens-warriors-goddesses/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190702T183000
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SUMMARY:Art Song Lab 2019 Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join Art Song Lab 2019 Guest Poet Renee Sarojini Saklikar and the 2019 ASL poets for an evening of poetry readings at Massy Books. \nWith readings by:\nAriel Gordon\nAthena Kildegaard\nWinston Le\nChristine Leviczky Riek\nJ.J. Lokshtanov\nCarolyn Nakagawa\nDara-Lyn Shrager \nArt Song Lab (ASL) is a collaborative institute facilitating creative interaction between writers\, composers\, and performers from around the world to advance the genre of contemporary art song. Offering a 6-month collaborative opportunity which culminates in a week-long intensive program\, ASL sees its participating artists converge in Vancouver each summer for an annual public performance premiering new works. \nASL enables composers and writers who are eager to broaden their creative experiences to engage with other disciplines and artistic traditions. Our structure is designed to stimulate participants’ individual crafts while cultivating conversations among partners and the public. As writers\, composers\, performers and listeners connect\, they absorb each others’ visceral materials into diversely creative processes. The resulting works are direct expressions of contemporary experience. Since its conception in 2011\, ASL has connected 48 writers with 60 composers\, presenting world premiers of 72 new art songs. \nFind out more at artsonglab.com/ \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/art-song-lab-2019-poetry-reading/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190709T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190709T210000
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SUMMARY:Hello Nice Man - Jaclyn Desforges and Guests
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the celebration of Jaclyn Deforge’s first Chapbook\, Hello Nice Man from Anstruther Press! \nJuly 9//7pm\nFree Entry \nHosted by David Ly\nWith Anjalika Rogers\nNicole Baute\nand Shazia Hafiz Ramji \nJaclyn Desforges is a Pushcart-nominated writer\, editor and workshop facilitator whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Fiddlehead\, Contemporary Verse 2\, Minola Review and others. Her first poetry chapbook\, Hello Nice Man\, was published by Anstruther Press in early 2019. Her first picture book\, tentatively titled Why Are You So Quiet?\, will be published by Annick Press and released in 2020. She is the winner of the 2018 RBC/PEN Canada New Voices Award for her short story “The Gall\,” and is currently completing her MFA in creative writing at the University of British Columbia. Jaclyn co-founded CITADEL\, an MFA alternative for emerging writers\, with the poet Robin Richardson. She lives in Hamilton\, Ontario. \nAnjalika Rogers is Vancouver-based writer and former criminal lawyer. She is currently pursuing an MFA in creative writing at UBC and is at work on a novel set in Sri Lanka. \nNicole Baute grew up in Southwestern Ontario and has since lived in Toronto\, Vancouver\, and New Delhi\, India. Her fiction and creative nonfiction have been published in Wigleaf\, Joyland\, carte blanche\, Cleaver and River Teeth and last year she won The Pinch Literary Prize for Fiction. Nicole teaches creative writing online at Sarah Selecky Writing School and is a MFA candidate at the University of British Columbia. \nShazia Hafiz Ramji is the author of Port of Being\, a finalist for the 2019 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Her writing has recently appeared in Poetry Northwest\, Music & Literature\, and Canadian Literature. She is at work on a novel. \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. \nMassy Books is easily accessible by transit! Close to the 22\, 3\, 8 and 19 bus lines at Main and Georgia/Gore and Georgia. There is metered street parking along Georgia\, or lot parking at the Sun Wah Centre around the corner (268 Keefer).
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/hello-nice-man-jaclyn-desforges-and-guests/
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SUMMARY:Carp Dime - Emma Tilley at Massy Books
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the launch of Emma Tilley’s chapbook\, Carp Dime\, out on Rahila’s Ghost Press! \nJuly 12th\, 6-8pm\nMassy Gallery\nFree Entry + Chapbooks for Sale. \nThis event is taking place on the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh Nations. \nUnfortunately\, Massy’s upstairs event space is not wheelchair accessible. Please feel free to reach out with any inquiries. \nMassy Books is easily accessible by transit! Close to the 22\, 3\, 8 and 19 bus lines at Main and Georgia/Gore and Georgia. There is metered street parking along Georgia\, or lot parking at the Sun Wah Centre around the corner (268 Keefer).
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/carp-dime-emma-tilley-at-massy-books/
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SUMMARY:SEEN: Community Conversation No. 1
DESCRIPTION:Through the eyes of Black and brown queer womxn\, Seen explores how we choose to live at the intersection of personal healing and liberation work. \nOn our podcast\, Lala and Nic aim to co-create an intimate space where we can explore the parts of our lives\, selves\, and relationships where we need healing. Where we need freedom. \nBut we’re nothing without a community to guide\, nourish\, inspire\, and rage with us. \nJoin us for an evening of community and connection at Massy Books on Tuesday\, July 16 at 7pm\, where we will continue the conversations started on the podcast. \nDrinks will be served – cash bar \nThis event centres the identities\, experiences\, and expressions of BIPOC. While we welcome any and everyone\, we ask that white folks in attendance remain vigilant in checking their privilege. \nAccessibility information for Massy Books: \nThe entrance to Massy Books is street level and wheelchair accessible; the front door is 36” wide. The event will take place on the main floor. There is a gender neutral\, wheelchair accessible washroom with a grab bar on the main floor. The door to the washroom is 36” wide. \nPlease send us a message or email seenpodcast@gmail.com if you have any questions or to discuss access needs.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/seen-community-conversation-no-1/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190717T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190717T210000
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SUMMARY:Poet's Corner
DESCRIPTION:Our Next Poetry Reading \nIn July\, we are fortunate to have not one\, not two\, but three featured poets.  Two out-of-towners and one local will be stepping up to the microphone. And what do they have in common? A natural gift for writing poetry\, yet you are going to hear some of the most diverse poetic styles you’ll have in one evening. \nKerry Gilbert is flying in from Vernon. Clea Roberts is coming all the way from Whitehorse.  And Renée Saklikar\, Surrey’s Poet Laureate Emirata\, will round out this talented trio.  Here is a little more about each of July’s featured poets… \nKerry Gilbert lives in Vernon\, where she teaches Creative Writing at Okanagan College. Her first book\, (kerplnk): a verse novel of development\, was published in 2005 with Kalamalka Press. Her second book of poetry\, Tight Wire\, was published in 2016 with Mother Tongue Publishing. Little Red\, is a new verse collection\, also with Mother Tongue\, just released March 2019. Gilbert has won the Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Award for Best Suite by an Emerging Writer and has been shortlisted for ReLit\, for the Ralph Gustafson Prize for the Best Poem\, for the Pacific Spirit Poetry Prize and for the Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry for Best Suite by an Established Writer. \nClea Roberts lives in Whitehorse\, Yukon with her husband and two children. Her debut collection of poems\, Here Is Where We Disembark(Freehand Books 2010) was a finalist for the League of Canadian Poets’ Gerald Lampert Award for best first book of poetry in Canada and was published in German and Japanese. In reviewing her second collection of poetry\, Auguries (Brick Books 2017)\, the journal Canadian Literature hailed Roberts as “mistress of the line break”. It is rumoured that Clea has printed this enviable title on the back of all her t-shirts. Clea is currently completing a MFA degree at UBC\, teaching poetry and grief workshops through Hospice Yukon and learning to ride a motorcycle. \nRenée Sarojini Saklikar recently completed her term as the first Poet Laureate for the City of Surrey\, British Columbia. Her latest book is a B.C. bestseller: Listening to the Bees (Nightwood Editions\, 2018). Renée’s first book\, children of air india\, (Nightwood Editions\, 2013) won the 2014 Canadian Authors Association Award for poetry. Renée co-edited The Revolving City: 51 Poems and the Stories Behind Them (Anvil Press/SFU Public Square\, 2015\,) a City of Vancouver book award finalist. Renée’s chapbook\, After the Battle of Kingsway\, the bees\, (above/ground press\, 2016)\, was a finalist for the 2017 bpNichol award. Her poetry has been made into musical and visual installations\, including the opera\, air india [redacted].  Renée was called to the BC Bar as a Barrister and Solicitor\, served as a director for youth employment programs in the BC public service\, and now teaches law and ethics for Simon Fraser University in addition to teaching creative writing at both SFU and Vancouver Community College. She curates the popular poetry reading series\, Lunch Poems at SFU and serves on the boards of Event magazine and The Capilano Review and is a director for the board of the Surrey International Writers Conference.   Renée belongs to the League of Canadian Poets (LCP) and The Writer’s Union of Canada (TWUC) and is active on the TWUC Equity Committee. She is currently working on an epic-length sci-fi poem\, THOT-J-BAP\, that appears in journals\, anthologies and chapbooks. \n 
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/poets-corner-6/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190718T190000
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SUMMARY:Tess Liem and Guests at Massy Books
DESCRIPTION:**Update – moved to July 18th!** \nJoin us July 18th for an evening of poetry with Tess Liem and guests Adèle Barclay\, David Ly\, and Shazia Hafiz-Ramji. \nJuly 18th//7pm\nFree Entry \nTess Liem is a queer writer living in Montreal\, Tiotia:ke\, the traditional territory of the Mohawk nation. She is the author of the chapbook Tell everybody I say hi (Anstruther 2017) and her writing has appeared in Plenitude\, Room Magazine\, PRISM\, Best Canadian Poetry 2018 and elsewhere. Her essay “Rice Cracker” won the Constance Rooke Creative Nonfiction Prize in 2015. \nShazia Hafiz is the author of Port of Being (Invisible Publishing)\, a finalist for the 2019 BC Book Prizes (Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize) and Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. It was named by CBC as a best Canadian poetry book of 2018 and received the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. Shazia’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry Northwest\, Best Canadian Poetry 2019\, Music & Literature and Quill & Quire. She is at work on a novel. \nAdèle Barclay is the author of If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You\, which won the 2017 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. She is the recipient of the 2016 Lit POP Award for Poetry and The Walrus’ 2016 Readers’ Choice Award for Poetry and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her poems have appeared in Vallum\, Cosmonauts Avenue\, Room Magazine\, The Puritan\, Heavy Feather Review\, glitterMOB\, The Fiddlehead and elsewhere. She is Arc Magazine’s 2018-19 Poet in Residence and an editor at Rahila’s Ghost Press. \nDavid Ly’s poems have appeared in publications such as The /temz/ Review\, Prism international\, Pulp Literature\, The Maynard\, The Puritan\, and forthcoming in carte blanche. He is author of the chapbook Stubble Burn and the forthcoming full-length poetry collection Mythical Man. He responds well to GIFs of Michael Fassbender on Twitter @dlylyly. \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/tess-liem-and-guests-at-massy-books/
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SUMMARY:Lambent Forms - Adrienne Rempel in the Massy Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the opening of Adrienne Rempel’s “lambent forms” in the Massy Gallery. \nOpening Reception\, July 19th at 7pm\nExhibiting through August 14th. \nA suite of large-scale abstract paintings on canvas\, each composition in lambent forms features an elliptical form\, layered to create a sense of depth and movement across each canvas\, colour radiating from the central forms. With human-body sized canvases\, lambent forms invites you into an embodied and sensorial viewing experience\, allowing you to understand the works through your own unique interpretation of the meaning encoded in colour and form. \nAdrienne Rempel (she/they) is a visual artist with a BFA (2011) from Emily Carr University of Art + Design. They currently live and work on the traditional unceded territory of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations (Vancouver\, BC). Lambent Forms at Massy Books (2019) is their first solo exhibition. They have participated in group exhibitions including MONOMANIA II: Vancouver Emerging\, Trench Contemporary Art (2013); There is no Message\, Baron Gallery (2012); and The Divide\, Black + Yellow Gallery (2012); among others. Adrienne was interviewed by the CBC Radio in 2012 and the session gained national syndication. A strong supporter of the arts\, Adrienne has also worked for not-for-profit arts and culture organizations since 2012\, and volunteers regularly in the community.\n.\n.\n.\nThis event is taking place on the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh Nations. \nUnfortunately\, Massy Books’ upstairs event space is not wheelchair accessible. \nMassy Books is easily accessible by transit! Close to the 22\, 3\, 8 and 19 bus lines at Main and Georgia/Gore and Georgia. There is metered street parking along Georgia\, or lot parking at the Sun Wah Centre around the corner (268 Keefer).
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/lambent-forms-adrienne-rempel-in-the-massy-gallery/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190725T190000
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SUMMARY:Indigecovers Fundraiser
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190730T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190730T200000
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SUMMARY:Unpacked by Aly Coy: The Vancouver Book Launch and Workshop
DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday\, July 30th UNPACKED: a memoir of checked baggage will be released in Vancouver ! It’s the start to a cross-country tour all the way to Cape Breton. \nJoin Aly Coy with chapter readings with a musical backing by a local cellist Martin Reisle\, Q&A\, and book signing. If you’ve pre-ordered your book\, you can pick up your signed copy at the release. \nOrder your copy for $25 online or in person at the launch. Remember to mark ‘pick up’ at checkout to avoid shipping charges. \nwww.barefootdaughter.com/unpacked \nAbout UNPACKED…\nWith nothing but her backpack and an open-ended ticket\, Torontonian Aly Coy spends five years travelling Western Europe. She is faced with a decision: to stay in a tumultuous relationship homesteading in The Spanish Pyrenees\, or go back to a life she had given up as a young professional in Toronto. She attempts to live off-the-grid but finds herself planning an escape from an emotionally and verbally abusive partner. \nThe reader travels in time and space where Aly has little-to-no money\, works in tourism\, learns how to garden\, lives on a commune\, dumpster dives\, discovers herbal medicine\, and falls for all the wrong men and women. In her heartfelt travel memoir\, unpacked\, Aly Coy goes into raw detail about her sexually charged\, sometimes hilarious\, sometimes disturbing\, life abroad. \nFor every paperback sold a tree will be planted at the Seven Ravens Eco Forest. \n 
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/unpacked-by-aly-coy-the-vancouver-book-launch-and-workshop/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20190731T100000
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SUMMARY:SELF PUBLISHING WORKSHOP with Aly Coy
DESCRIPTION:SELF PUBLISHING WORKSHOP Wed July 31st 10-11:30am \nEver wanted to publish your work? Aly Coy gives a step-by step workshop on how to complete your manuscript with an attainable deadline\, gives a detailed calendar of a marketing and manuscript necessities\, elevator pitch and blurb\, and options for Print on Demand services. \nThis 1.5 hr workshop is Pay What You Can and includes a workbook and tea. Please RSVP in DM to Aly Coy
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/self-publishing-workshop-with-aly-coy/
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