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SUMMARY:Opening Reception: Mike Alexander - Internal Landscapes
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the opening of the Massy Gallery’s newest exhibition\, Mike Alexander’s “Internal Landscapes”! \nThe opening reception will begin at 6 pm on February 1st in the Massy Gallery (upstairs at 229 E Georgia St). The show will be exhibiting until February 29th. \n— \n“Internal Landscapes” reflects the artist’s practice as a process of decolonization. Speaking of these paintings\, Mike Alexander says\, “These works document my ongoing transformation and reclamation of what belongs to me\, and in doing so\, I feel a closer connection to who I am and pride in what I am able to share from a good place in my heart.” \nMike Alexander is an emerging Anishinaabe artist originally from Swan Lake First Nation in Manitoba. He has attended the University of Victoria\, the Pacific Design Academy\, the Vancouver Island School of Art and the Victoria College of Art. He is honoured to receive mentorship from master carver and recipient of the Order of BC\, Carey Newman (Kwagiulth). Since 2015\, his large acrylic paintings have appeared in four solo exhibitions in Victoria\, Vancouver and Kamloops\, as well as several group shows across Canada. A student of the Woodlands School of Art\, Mike proudly celebrates his ongoing transformation and reclamation and reconnection he feels with his Ojibway culture using art as a process of healing. \n  \nThis event is taking place on the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh Nations. \nAccessibility information: the Massy Gallery is currently only accessible by a flight of stairs. \nMassy Books is easy to reach 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/opening-reception-mike-alexander-internal-landscapes/
LOCATION:Massy Books\, 229 E. Georgia St.\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V6A1Z6\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Reading: Abena Beloved Green
DESCRIPTION:Join Abena Beloved Green for a reading of new poems and poems from The Way We Hold On (Pottersfield Press 2018). \nA freelance writer\, dancer and poet\, Abena Beloved Green\, uses her artistic works as a means to elevate people of all ages and backgrounds. Maintaining a distinct and authentic voice\, her poems address cultural\, social\, and environmental issues. Reflecting on everyday life as a small-town raised\, semi-nomadic\, first-generation resident of Turtle Island. A Ghanian-Canadian who grew up in Nova Scotia\, she now resides in Eastern Ontario. \nIn 2016\, Abena became the poetry prize winner of the Writer’s Federation of Nova Scotia’s Nova Writes competition; and the third-place finalist in the 2017 Canadian Individual Poetry Slam (Verses Festival of Words). She was also a two-time Halifax Slam Team member in the Canadian Festival of Spoken Word (CFSW) in 2011 and 2016. Abena has gone on to share a stage with George Elliot Clarke\, Afua Cooper\, David Woods and Jessica Care Moore. Her work has appeared in the Global Fund for Women’s Imagining Equality project\, Oratorealis (Vancouver) and Open Heart Forgery (Halifax). Her spoken word album ‘Beloved’ debuted in July 2014 with the support of the Ontario Arts Council. The Way We Hold On (Pottersfield Press\, 2018 ) marks Abena’s first collection of poetry and was released in March 2018. \nAn enthusiast of African dance forms\, Abena has spent over ten years dancing and teaching traditional and modern West African Dances and Step (also referred to as stomp). Founder of the step team\, Lady Step in 2003\, Abena incorporates aspects of dance and movement into her poetic offerings. Abena enjoys exploring the connection between arts and health and culture. She has a graduate certificate in Creative Writing from the Humber School of Writers and wants for her words to carry weight and bring light. \nThis event is taking place on the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh Nations. \nAccessibility information: this event takes place upstairs in the Massy Gallery\, which is only accessible by a flight of stairs. \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/reading-abena-beloved-green/
LOCATION:Massy Books\, 229 E. Georgia St.\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V6A1Z6\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: The Imperilled Ocean by Laura Trethewey
DESCRIPTION:On February 11th at 6 PM\, join author Laura Trethewey to celebrate the launch of her new book\, The Imperilled Ocean: Human Stories from a Changing Sea. \nOn a life raft in the Mediterranean\, a teenager from Ghana wonders whether he will reach Europe alive\, and if he does\, whether he will be allowed to stay. In the North Atlantic\, a young chef disappears from a cruise ship\, leaving a mystery for his friends and family to solve. A water-squatting community battles eviction from a harbor in a Pacific Northwest town\, raising the question of who owns the water. \nImperiled Ocean\, by ocean journalist Laura Trethewey is a deeply reported work of narrative journalism that follows people as they head out to sea. What they discover holds inspiring and dire implications for the life of the ocean ― and for all of us back on land.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/book-launch-the-imperilled-ocean-by-laura-trethewey/
LOCATION:Massy Books\, 229 E. Georgia St.\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V6A1Z6\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Offsite Sales: Book Launch & Curated Conversation on Black History with Blair Imani
DESCRIPTION:Blair Imani\, activist\, writer and historian\, brings her second illustrated tome of radical history to Vancouver in time for Black History Month! This event celebrates Imani’s wisdom and authorship as well as invites local Black activists for an intimate dialogue on the parallel but different histories of Black Canadians.\n\n\n\nJoin for a rich discussion on the importance of Black history in the context of Black liberation with a collection of influential Black voices. \nThis event is organized in collaboration with Penguin Random House\, Massy Books\, SFU Public Square and Cicely Blain Consulting. \nMaking Our Way Home\nBook Synopsis \nA powerful illustrated history of the Great Migration and its sweeping impact on Black and American culture\, from Reconstruction to the rise of hip hop. \nOver the course of six decades\, an unprecedented wave of Black Americans left the South and spread across the nation in search of a better life–a migration that sparked stunning demographic and cultural changes in twentieth-century America. Through gripping and accessible historical narrative paired with illustrations\, author and activist Blair Imani examines the largely overlooked impact of The Great Migration and how it affected–and continues to affect–Black identity and America as a whole. \nMaking Our Way Home explores issues like voting rights\, domestic terrorism\, discrimination\, and segregation alongside the flourishing of arts and culture\, activism\, and civil rights. Imani shows how these influences shaped America’s workforce and wealth distribution by featuring the stories of notable people and events\, relevant data\, and family histories. The experiences of prominent figures such as James Baldwin\, Fannie Lou Hamer\, El Hajj Malik El Shabazz (Malcolm X)\, Ella Baker\, and others are woven into the larger historical and cultural narratives of the Great Migration to create a truly singular record of this powerful journey. \nBlair Imani \n \nBlair Imani is a critically-acclaimed historian\, outspoken advocate and activist\, and dynamic public speaker. The author of two historical books: Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History (2018) and Making Our Way Home: The Great Migration and The Black American Dream (2020)\, she centers women and girls\, global Black communities\, and the LGBTQ community. Blair has appeared on Fox News and MSNBC\, presented at colleges and universities\, spoken at conferences around the world\, and delivered powerful talks for organizations and brands including TEDx and GLAAD. \nCicely Belle Blain\nModerator / host \n \nCicely Belle Blain is the CEO of a social justice-informed diversity and inclusion consulting company with over 100 clients worldwide. They are noted for founding Black Lives Matter Vancouver and subsequently being listed as one Vancouver’s 50 most powerful people\, BC Business’s 30 under 30 and one of 150 Black women and non-binary people making change across Canada. Cicely Belle is an instructor in Executive Leadership at Simon Fraser University and the author of Burning Sugar (Arsenal Pulp Press\, 2020). \nPanelists \nStephanie Allen\, Udokam Iroegbu and Olivia Lucas will speak on Black Vancouver history\, West African history and Afro-Indigenous history respectively. \n\nIndigenous Welcome \nKwiigay iiwaans is a 2spirit musician and language learner from the Haida and Squamish Nations. Their sound mixes their traditional languages with originally composed electronic music. \n\n\nRegistration Disclaimer: \nIt is our policy to overbook events like this as there are routinely a high number of no-shows. In case of a full event\, registration may not guarantee entry. Seating is limited and will be available to registered attendees on a first-come\, first-served basis. Please arrive at least 15 minutes before the event starts to increase likelihood of securing a seat. \n\nAccessibility: \n312 Main is located at the corner of Main and Cordova. Please enter from the Cordova Street entrance. There will be volunteers to greet you at the door. Our event will take place on the main floor. \nGetting there\n312 Main can be reached via the 4\, 7\, 22\, 19\, 14\, and 16 bus routes. \nParking\n312 Main does not have on-site parking\, but there is metered parking in the neighbourhood and there are covered parking garages on 306 Cordova Street\, 144 Cordova Street and 437 East Hasting. \nWheelchair Accessibility\n312 Main is a wheelchair accessible venue. \nGender-Neutral Washrooms\nThere are wheelchair accessible\, gender neutral washrooms with individual stalls. \nIf you have any questions\, concerns\, or comments regarding this event’s accessibility\, feel free to connect with us at psqevent@sfu.ca or 778-782-5959. If you require ASL or other language interpretation please submit this request no later than 3 weeks in advance. \nWe respectfully acknowledge that this event takes place on the Unceded\, Traditional\, Ancestral Territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh\, səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ\, and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm First Nations.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/offsite-sales-book-launch-curated-conversation-on-black-history-with-blair-imani/
LOCATION:312 Main\, 312 Main St.\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V6A 2T2\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Pivot Point by Bren Simmers
DESCRIPTION:Join us on February 26th at 7 PM for the launch of Bren Simmers’s Pivot Point\, with special guest readers Raoul Fernances\, Shazia Hafiz Ramji\, and Rob Taylor! \nBren Simmers’s Pivot Point is a lyrical account of a nine-day wilderness canoe trip through the Bowron Lakes Canoe Circuit in British Columbia. At the heart of the expedition are three young women\, friends whose lives seem at risk of drifting apart as they approach middle age. While buoyed by the pleasures of adventure and camaraderie\, and by a deep reverence for nature\, Simmers finds herself struggling to inhabit the trip’s trickier elements—storms\, insects\, physical fatigue\, conflict\, doubt\, and disorientation—and\, as with the challenges and changes in her own life\, to embrace them with confidence. Recounted in a journal-entry style with poems interleaving each day’s narrative\, Pivot Point is a frank reflection on the roles friendship\, mindfulness and creativity play in the evolution of our lives. \nBren Simmers’ first book of non-fiction\, Pivot Point (Gaspereau Press\, 2019)\, is a lyrical account of a nine-day wilderness canoe journey and a frank reflection on the roles friendship\, mindfulness\, and creativity play in the evolution of our lives. She is also the author of two books of poetry\, Night Gears (Wolsak & Wynn\, 2010) and Hastings-Sunrise (Nightwood Editions\, 2015)\, which was a finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award. A lifelong West Coaster\, she now lives on PEI. \nRaoul Fernandes lives and writes in Vancouver\, BC. His 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. \nShazia Hafiz Ramji’s first book\, Port of Being (Invisible Publishing)\, received the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry and was chosen by CBC as one of the best Canadian poetry books of 2018. Her fiction and criticism have appeared in The Humber Literary Review and Quill & Quire\, respectively. She lives on unceded Coast Salish land (Vancouver) where she began the Intersections Reading Group and where she works as a publishing consultant and editor for various presses across Canada. \nRob Taylor lives in Port Moody\, BC with his wife and children. He is the author of Oh Not So Great: Poems from the Depression Project (Leaf Press\, 2017)\, The News (Gaspereau Press\, 2016) and The Other Side of Ourselves (Cormorant Books\, 2011). In 2017\, The News was shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Rob is also the editor of What the Poets are Doing: Canadian Poets in Conversation (Nightwood Editions\, 2018) and the guest editor of Best Canadian Poetry 2019 (Biblioasis\, 2019). \n— \nThis event is taking place on the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tseil-Waututh Nations. \nThe downstairs event space at Massy Books (229 E. Georgia St.) 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/book-launch-pivot-point-by-bren-simmers/
LOCATION:Massy Books\, 229 E. Georgia St.\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V6A1Z6\, Canada
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