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SUMMARY:Book Launch: This City Is a Minefield by Aaron Chan
DESCRIPTION:Join debut author Aaron Chan for the launch of his memoir This City Is a Minefield\, a collection of reflective memoir and personal essays about growing up and coming of age as a young gay Chinese man in Vancouver. With special guests Hiromi Goto and Candie Tanaka! \n“In crisp\, spare prose\, Chan strikes familiar notes in the Asian diasporic narrative while adding his own distinctive counterpoint meditations on the meaning of purpose\, desire\, and beauty. This is a lasting contribution to the growing canon of Asian queer literature\, and a must-read for all of us who have struggled to know the meaning of home.”– Kai Cheng Thom\, author of I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes From the End of the World \n— \nAaron Chan is a musician\, filmmaker\, and writer born and raised on unceded Coast Salish territories (Vancouver). He holds a BFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia\, and his writing has been published in literary magazines and publications including Existere\, Plenitude\, filling Station\, Polychrome Ink\, and Daily Xtra. His piece “A Case of Jeff” won subTerrain‘s Lush Triumphant Literary Award in Creative Non-Fiction\, and he has published a poetry chapbook\, Romantic Hopeless. His first book\, This City Is a Minefield (Signal 8 Press)\, is a collection of memoir and personal essays. \nHiromi Goto gratefully acknowledges the privilege of living on the unceded and ancestral territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tsleil Waututh Nations. She is the author of numerous books including Chorus of Mushrooms\, The Kappa Child\, and Half World. Shadow Life\, her first graphic novel\, with artist Ann Xu\, will be out in Fall 2020 with First Second Books. \nCandie Tanaka is currently writing their first fiction novel with the working title of Tanaka and Co. and penning a suite of poems about working on the waterfront. Side hustles include wrangling Drag Queens and being the Executive Director at the International Centre of Arts and Technology\, a literary focused community makerspace in Vancouver. \n— \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/book-launch-this-city-is-a-minefield-by-aaron-chan/
LOCATION:Massy Books\, 229 E. Georgia St.\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V6A1Z6\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception: Kim O'Brien - Still Standing
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the opening of the Massy Gallery’s newest exhibition\, Kim O’Brien’s “Still Standing”! \n— \nTwenty years ago Kim O’Brien was twenty five; two years later\, at the age of twenty seven\, she had a complete mental breakdown. It took a full three years to regain any sort of life. In 2002 it felt impossible. Unable to leave her home\, be left by herself or sleep\, she was debilitated by anxiety. It was through the love and dedication of her partner\, intensive therapy\, medication\, and coming face to face with her mental illness that she regained her life. \n“Eighteen years ago I thought my world was over. I didn’t think it possible to come back from the brink….but it was\, and I did\, and I’m telling you there is light at the end of the tunnel. ‘Still Standing’ is the art show I wish I had seen twenty years ago.” \nKim O’Brien is a textile artist whose work has been shown throughout British Columbia. “Still Standing” is a physical interpretive manifestation of her mental health battles. Her hope in creating these pieces is to gently pick away at mental illness stigma\, create a safe place to ask and share experience\, and most importantly to let others that also suffer see that they are not alone. Originally based out of Nelson B.C.\, she relocated to Vancouver in 2017. \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-kim-obrien-still-standing/
LOCATION:Massy Books\, 229 E. Georgia St.\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V6A1Z6\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Offsite Sales: 2020 Equality Breakfast
DESCRIPTION:The event is a celebration of the work of West Coast LEAF\, a chance to recognize and celebrate International Women’s Day\, and an annual fundraiser! Massy Books will be selling copies of the new anthology Until We Are All Free.\nKEYNOTE SPEAKER: SANDY HUDSON\n\nFounder of the Black Lives Matter movement Canada\, public intellectual and political activist \n \nA woman of boundless energy\, Sandy Hudson is the founder of Black Lives Matter in Canada\, sits on the Black Lives Matter Global Network Strategy Table\, is Vice-Chair of the Black Legal Action Centre\, is co-host of the Sandy and Nora Talk Politics podcast\, is the Editor-in-Residence of Kalamazoo College’s Praxis Center for Social Justice\, and regularly contributes to several major newspapers in the United States and Canada. \nSandy holds a Master of Arts degree in Social Justice Education from the University of Toronto\, and is currently pursuing a degree in law at UCLA. An award-winning community organizer\, the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education has awarded her with the Emerging Leader award for 2019\, and she received the Lincoln M. Alexander Award from Osgoode Law at York University in 2018. In 2016 she was named one of Toronto Life’s Most Influential People of Toronto and one of Post City Magazine’s Most Inspiring Women. \nSandy  is a published author who has contributed to two volumes\, Race and Racialization\, and New Framings in Anti-Racism\, as well an editor for the new anthology about Black life in Canada\, Until We Are All Free. \nTickets available here.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/offsite-sales-2020-equality-breakfast/
LOCATION:Fairmont Hotel Vancouver\, 900 West Georgia St.\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6C 2W6\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Offsite Sales: Mallory Tater's The Birth Yard Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Please join Mallory Tater \nfor the launch of The Birth Yard\, her debut novel published by HarperCollins Canada. \n** \nCelebrate a matinée of readings by writers \nAdèle Barclay & Rachel Jansen— \nan excerpt of The Birth Yard read by Mallory Tater— \na performance by Brunch Comedy duo— \nEvent hosted by Fainting Couch Feminist Podcaster Mica Lemiski— \nBooks for Sale by the wonderful Massy Books!! \n** \nTo attend this event\, please click the link below to RSVP and order your complimentary tickets as there is limited capacity at the venue. As per the theatre’s protocol\, entrance is by ticket only. \nhttps://www.showpass.com/the-birth-yard-book-launch/ \n** \nDrink sales inside the theatre by donation (sparkling water\, wine\, beer). All proceeds will go toward the afternoon’s guest performers. \nAll food and drink by Havana can be enjoyed before or after the event in the adjacent restaurant. Make a reservation to ensure your group gets a table. \n** \nThis event will take place on the traditional\, ancestral\, and unceded Indigenous territories of the ʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish)\, and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations. \n** \nAccessibility Info: \nThis venue has a wheelchair specific entrance\, with no ramps or steps. The venue likes to do pre-seating for wheelchairs\, so please arrive early if possible. There are two turns at the entrance to the venue (The hallway measures 60” / 152.5 cm across)\, and the bathrooms are easily accessible. Parking can be found on the nearby streets\, as there are no wheelchair specific parking spaces near the entrance to this venue. \n** \nPerformer Bios: \nADÈLE BARCLAY’s writing has appeared in Vallum\, The Heavy Feather Review\, glitterMOB\, The Pinch\, Cosmonauts Avenue\, The Puritan\, PRISM international\, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the 2016 Lit POP Award for Poetry and the 2016 Walrus Readers’ Choice Award for Poetry and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her debut poetry collection\, If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You\, (Nightwood\, 2016) won the 2017 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Her second collection of poetry\, Renaissance Normcore\, was recently published by Nightwood Editions. She was Arc Magazine’s 2018-19 Poet in Residence and Canadian Women in Literary Arts 2016 Critic in Residence. She is an editor at Rahila’s Ghost Press and the 2020 Writer in Residence at the University of the Fraser Valley. \n** \nRACHEL JANSEN lives and writes on the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish\, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Her writing has appeared in Maisonneuve\, Room Magazine\, Geist\, The Antigonish Review\, Maclean’s\, The Outline\, among others. She has been long-listed for Event Magazine’s Nonfiction Contest\, The Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest\, and has received nominations for a Journey Prize and National Magazine Award. \n** \nBRUNCH is an award winning sketch and improv duo from Vancouver\, B.C.\, comprised of Allie Entwistle and Kerri Donaldson. They’ve performed at All Jane Comedy fest\, Portland Sketch Fest\, Montreal SketchFest\, Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival\, JFL NorthWest & Edmonton’s Improvaganza\, to name a few. \n“The Vancouver\, BC\, two-piece (Allie Entwistle and Kerri Donaldson) blew me away at last year’s fest” – Portland Mercury \n“Brunch was new to me but they stood out as my favourite new discoveries of the festival” – My Entertainment World \n** \nMICA LEMISKI is a writer\, jingle-writer\, and podcast host. She is a regular contributor to Vice and has also published with The Walrus\, Maisonneuve\, SAD Mag\, Montecristo\, and others. She writes jewellery descriptions to earn her keep and is working on a memoir about coming of age as a millennial gal. \n** \nMALLORY TATER’s poetry and fiction have been published in literary magazines across Canada and shortlisted for several awards. She was the recipient of the 2016 Young Buck Poetry Prize. Her first book of poetry is This Will Be Good (Book*Hug Press 2018). She is the founder of Rahila’s Ghost Press\, which publishes limited-edition poetry chapbooks. She lives in Vancouver with her husband where she teaches at The University of British Columbia. The Birth Yard is her first novel. \n** \nAbout The Birth Yard: \n“With enough exquisite detail to draw a provocative landscape paired with fast-paced action\, The Birth Yard had me up all night. Mallory Tater has built an intricate and devious world and then walked us directly into the middle of it. Thankfully\, she has also given us the strong and conflicted Sable Ursu to walk us back out.” \n– Cherie Dimaline\, bestselling author of The Marrow Thieves and Empire of Wild \nhttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/article-winter-books-preview-36-reads-to-get-you-through-till-spring/ \nhttps://www.cbc.ca/books/the-birth-yard-1.5445913
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/offsite-sales-mallory-taters-the-birth-yard-book-launch/
LOCATION:Havana Theatre\, 1212 Commercial Drive\, Vancouver\, BC\, V5L 3X4\, Canada
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