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SUMMARY:Exhibition: Marc Bell - Shoe Reviews Online And Other Replacement Works
DESCRIPTION:For his solo-exhibition at Massy Books\, Vancouver based artist\, illustrator and editor Marc Bell showcases a body of works deliberately playful and confounding. Shoe Reviews Online And Other Replacement Works is the result of a creative proposition aimed at avoiding contributing to the wasteful habits of art collection practices\, while also initiating the creation of new work. Bell had donated several framed artworks to museums in Canada\, and as is often the case\, the museums did not wish to acquire the frames with the works. Bell used this refusal as an avenue to build a series of ink drawings that occupy the former homes of the works now resting in the museum collections. These “replacement” works reference their predecessor\, while inhabiting their former frame. \nUsing a visual stream of consciousness\, Bell overcrowds each ink drawing\, creating dense\, chaotic image planes reminiscent of labels and diagrams intended to be read but not followed. In his mixed media works\, Marc draws attention to seemingly random material (messy drawings other bits of paper that would normally be discarded)\, and builds these up in layers in a meditative process in an attempt to create an object of interest that is both “scrappy” and refined. \n“My process involves organizing “scrap material”\, whether it be actual scraps or ideas I have come up with and jotted down. I sometimes liken this idea to “using up what is left in the fridge”. Trying to make something interesting with what is at hand. “ – Marc Bell \nArtist Biography: \nMarc Bell is the author of ​Worn Tuff Elbow (Fantagraphics\, No World Books​)\, Stroppy\, Hot Potatoe [sic]\, Pure Pajamas (Drawn & Quarterly)\, and ​Shrimpy and Paul and Friends​ (Highwater Books)​ ​and is a co-founder of The All-Star Schnauzer Band (alongside  Jason McLean). His comics have appeared in many Canadian monthlies and weeklies\, Vice\, and LA Weekly. He has edited several books including Mark Connery’s ​Rudy (2D Cloud) and ​Nog A Dod ​(Picture Box/Conundrum). Marc’s work was recently included in ​Words In Pictures ​at Adam Baumgold Gallery (New York\, NY) and ​Exhibition Kramers Ergot ​ at Formula Bula\, (Paris\, FR). \n   \nImages:\nMarc Bell\, I Don’t Know OK?\, 2017\, ink on paper\, 10 x 8 inches (Replaces: Corkhead We Come In Peace)\, $600\nMarc Bell\, Tax Year USD Replace Art Post Art Career/Civic Hatchback\, 2016\, ink on paper\, 6.5” x 6.5”\, (Replaces: Celebrity Match-Up) $400\nMarc Bell\, Shoe Reviews Online\, 2017\, mixed media\, 11 x 9 inches\, (Replaces: That Ol’ Dull & Empty Feeling)\, $1000 \nAccessibility:\nThis exhibiition takes place upstairs in the Massy Gallery\, which is only accessible by a flight of stairs. Unfortunately\, no audio or visual tours are available at this time. \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). \nMasks are mandatory while in Massy Books. \n————————————\nMassy Books acknowledges that we operate on the traditional\, ancestral\, unceded\, and occupied territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish)\, and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/exhibition-marc-bell-shoe-reviews-online-and-other-replacement-works/
LOCATION:Massy Books\, 229 E. Georgia St.\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V6A1Z6\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Artist Meet & Greet: Marc Bell
DESCRIPTION:Vancouver based artist\, illustrator and editor Marc Bell will be at Massy Books signing books and sharing about his practice. Marc Bell is a Canadian cartoonist and artist\, initially known for creating comic strips (such as 𝘚𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘢𝘶𝘭)\, but Bell has since created a number of mixed media and watercolour drawings. ⁣ \n⁣\n⁣This event takes place in conjunction with Bell’s exhibition  𝘚𝘩𝘰𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸𝘴 𝘖𝘯𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘖𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘴. Using a visual stream of consciousness\, Bell overcrowds each ink drawing\, creating dense\, chaotic image planes reminiscent of labels and diagrams intended to be read but not followed. In his mixed media works\, Marc draws attention to seemingly random material (messy drawings and other bits of paper that would normally be discarded)\, and builds these up in layers in a meditative process in an attempt to create an object of interest that is both “scrappy” and refined. ⁣\n⁣ \nAccessibility information: this event takes place upstairs in the Massy Gallery\, which is only accessible by a flight of stairs.⁣ Due to Covid-19\, we will be limiting the number of people upstairs and in the store. Masks are mandatory while in Massy Books.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/artist-meet-greet-marc-bell/
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SUMMARY:Online Book Launch: Nothing You Can Carry by Susan Alexander
DESCRIPTION:Local poet Susan Alexander gives a reading from her new book of poetry 𝘕𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘊𝘢𝘯 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺. This beautiful evening is accompanied by musical performance by Montreal-based folk musician Le Ren.⁣ \nMissed the event? Watch it here \nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xab2X01k_2U&feature=youtu.be \nPre-order a book from Massy Books\, and receive a signed copy!\nClick here to order.  \nNothing You Can Carry  is rooted in a keen\, even holy\, sense of place within the natural world. Today that place is haunted by anxiety over a precarious present and a darker future. These poems take an honest\, sometimes ironic and sometimes broken-hearted look at how the self and society are implicated in our climate crisis and the systemic complexities surrounding it. Yet life goes on. The collection moves through environmental fears and spills into all the areas that absorb the self – memory\, story\, family\, love. These poems are vivid and vulnerable\, humorous and emotional. They summon the deeper mysteries of being human in a world that is increasingly separate from the sacred. \n\nAlexander’s poetry is specific\, local\, and universal at the same time. Her images are powerful and her language honed to the elemental common denominators of land\, water\, and sky\, and the natural forces that exist in these elements.\n\n——— \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nSusan Alexander is the author of two collections of poems\, Nothing You Can Carry\, 2020 and The Dance Floor Tilts\, 2017\, Thistledown Press. Her work received the 2019 Mitchell Prize for Faith and Poetry as well as the Vancouver Writers Fest and Short Grain awards. Writer Chelene Knight describes this new book as a “luxurious\, melodic dance to the loudest sounds that come in the quietest of moments.” Susan’s work has appeared in anthologies and literary magazines in Canada and the U.K.\, ridden Vancouver busses as part of Poetry in Transit and even shown up in the woods around Whistler. She lives and works on Nexwlélexm/Bowen Island which is the traditional and unceded territory of the Squamish people. \n     \n  \nABOUT LE REN \nLe Ren\, moniker of Montreal-based artist Lauren Spear\, released her debut EP Morning & Melancholia this summer with prestigious record label\, Secretly Canadian. She was introduced to US audiences last year when she opened for Orville Peck on his national tour. Lauren has studied folk and bluegrass going back to her early teens\, partaking in workshops all over North America. Growing up on Nexwlélexm/Bowen Island\, she was raised on the holy trinity of John Prine\, Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan. Their curious\, deadpan and cosmic approach to life’s most brutal swipes feed Le Ren’s sensibilities\, and her own lyrical couplets are as simply put as they are devastating.  \nhttps://secretlycanadian.com/artist/le-ren/ \n \n———\nMassy Books acknowledges we operate on the traditional\, ancestral\, unceded\, and occupied territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish)\, and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.\nSusan Alexander will be broadcasting from Nexwlélexm (Bowen Island)\, which is in the territory of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh peoples.\nLe Ren will be broadcasting from Tiohtià:ke (Montréal)\, the land of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation.\n———\nZOOM INFO \n\n\n\nSusan Alexander is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTopic: Susan Alexander “Nothing You Can Carry” Book Launch\nTime: Sep 21\, 2020 06:00 PM Vancouver\n\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/81590817057\n\nMeeting ID: 815 9081 7057\nOne tap mobile\n+13462487799\,\,81590817057# US (Houston)\n+16699006833\,\,81590817057# US (San Jose)\n\nDial by your location\n        +1 346 248 7799 US (Houston)\n        +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)\n        +1 929 205 6099 US (New York)\n        +1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)\n        +1 301 715 8592 US (Germantown)\n        +1 312 626 6799 US (Chicago)\nMeeting ID: 815 9081 7057\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFind your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kenuElfrc1
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/online-book-launch-nothing-you-can-carry-by-susan-alexander/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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SUMMARY:Massy Reads: On Ethics\, Rights and Democracy
DESCRIPTION:A Public Humanities Hub Conversation with UBC Authors Joel Bakan (Law) and Kimberley Brownlee (Philosophy)\n\nAt this first event of a new reading series from Massy Arts Society and UBC Public Humanities Hub\, Dr. Heidi Tworek will moderate a discussion between UBC Law professor Joel Bakan and UBC Philosophy professor Dr. Kimberley Brownlee in celebration of their new books. This is a free\, online\, Zoom event. Register through the following link to receive the Zoom registration information.\nhttps://publichumanities.ubc.ca/events/event/massy-reads-on-ethics-rights-and-democracy/\n\nJoel Bakan reads from How “Good” Corporations Are Bad for Democracy which follows his previous\, critically acclaimed book which inspired the award winning documentary The Corporation. Bakan’s newest title is a deeply informed and unflinching look at the way corporations have slyly rebranded themselves as socially conscious entities ready to tackle society’s problems\, while CEO compensation soars\, income inequality is at all-time highs\, and democracy sits in aprecarious situation. Purchase a copy of How “Good” Corporations Are Bad for Democracy from Massy Books before the event\, and receive a signed copy! https://bit.ly/3lkgXnx\n\nDr. Kimberley Brownlee’s Being Sure of Each Other: An Essay on Social Rights and Freedoms An Essay on Social Rights and Freedoms is a landmark work in the understanding of human rights\, putting a new kind of human right on the agenda where it belongs. Brownless champions our fundamental – but largely neglected – human right against social deprivation. Being Sure of Each Other is a cutting-edge exploration of core social needs and ethical dilemmas. It considers what it means to belong\, arguing that loneliness is a moral injustice.\n————————————\nA Note on Recording:\nPlease note that this event will be recorded via Zoom and posted publicly. The recording may contain attendees’ names and images. We recognize that this may be undesirable for some participants. If you do not wish for your name or image to be used in the video\, please leave your video turned off during the event. You may also change your name to something generic like “Participant” or “Anonymous” in the Zoom meeting room by selecting yourself from the participants list and editing your name. By registering for this event and clicking the Zoom link that will be emailed to you\, you consent to being recorded and are aware of actions you can take to anonymize yourself during the event. If you do not want to participate in the live session\, the recording will be posted at a later date to our YouTube channel.\n————————————\nAbout the Speakers:\nJoel Bakan writes and researches in the areas of Constitutional Law\, socio-legal studies\, legal theory and economic law. He has law degrees from Oxford\, Dalhousie\, and Harvard. He studied at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and served as Law Clerk in 1985 for Chief Justice Brian Dickson of the Supreme Court of Canada He joined the UBC Law Faculty in 1990 as Associate Professor after a year’s visit from Osgoode Hall Law School\, where he had been Assistant Professor since 1987. Professor Bakan teaches Constitutional Law\, Contracts\, socio-legal courses and the graduate seminar.\n\nDr. Kimberley Brownlee’s current work focuses on loneliness\, belonging\, social human rights\, and freedom of association. Her past work focused on civil disobedience\, punishment\, and restorative justice. Prior to her appointment at UBC\, she was a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick. She has held numerous visiting positions including a Visiting Fellowship at All Souls College\, Oxford (2019-20); a Visiting Fellowship at the Australian National University (2019)\, a Fulbright Visiting Research Chair at Vanderbilt University (2008); an HLA Hart Visiting Research Fellowship at University College\, Oxford (2009); a CEPPA Visiting Research Fellowship at St Andrews University (2009); and a Warwick-Monash Visiting Fellowship at Monash University (2015).\n\nAbout the Moderator:\nDr. Heidi Tworek is Associate Professor of International History and Public Policy at UBC Vancouver. She is the author of the multi-award-winning News from Germany: The Competition to Control World Communications\, 1900-1945 (Harvard University Press\, 2019). She has co-edited two books and written many articles on the history and public policy around communications and media. She is a non-resident fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the Canadian Global Affairs Institute.\n————————————\nA book launch series co-hosted by UBC Public Humanities and Massy Arts Society.\n————————————\nMassy Arts acknowledges that we operate on the traditional\, ancestral\, unceded\, and occupied territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish)\, and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/massy-reads-on-ethics-rights-and-democracy/
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SUMMARY:#HarperPresents: Reading With Pride
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the launch of three new exceptional works from HarperCollins with #HarperPresents: Reading with Pride.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Event \nModerator: Zoe Whittall \nIn Conversation With Alison Taylor (Aftershock)\, Natalie Zina Walschots (Hench) and Alex Myers (The Story of Silence) \nRegister: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/harperpresents-reading-with-pride-tickets-120408554227 \nWe have four official book stores supporting this event! \nToronto: Another Story \nOttawa: Octopus Books \nVancouver: Massy Books \nEdmonton: Glass Bookshop \nDon’t forget to purchase your copies of the books before the event. You can also find a new favourite store at bookfinder.ca! \nReserve your free e-ticket to the event! \nLearn more about the books below!: \nAlison Taylor’s Aftershock \nAftershock follows a mother and daughter’s parallel journeys through shared trauma: mother Jules struggles to regain control of her life and her OxyContin dependency while daughter Chloe goes off the map after a rocky visit to her father in New Zealand. Mother and daughter will need to reconcile before they can finally address the secrets surrounding the tragic death of a sister and the emotional impact they have wrought. \nAbout Alison: Alison Taylor was fired from jobs as a babysitter\, a chambermaid\, a barista and a farm hand\, before spending twenty years as a television editor in Toronto\, Ontario. They have previously published a short story in Exile Literary Quarterly\, performed deadpan stand-up on various comedy stages and made several internationally screened experimental short films. They now live in Fredericton\, New Brunswick with their partner and two bossy felines. Aftershock is their first novel. \nNatalie Zina Walschots’ Hench \nTold with razor wit and a love of all things Superhero\, Hench is a smart\, evocative crossover novel that examines the world of Supers through the lens of human resources and spreadsheets that builds to an incredible story of love\, betrayal\, revenge\, and redemption. \nAbout Natalie: Natalie Zina Walschots is a freelance writer\, community manager and bailed academic based in Toronto. She writes everything from reviews of science fiction novels and interviews with heavy metal musicians to to in-depth feminist games criticism and pieces of long-form journalism. She is the author of two books of poetry. In her free time she has been exploring the poetic potential of the notes engine in the video game Bloodborne\, writing a collection of polyamorous fairytales\, developing interactive narrative classes and composing short text-based body horror games. She also plays a lot of D&D\, participates in a lot of Nordic LARPs\, watches a lot of horror movies and reads a lot of speculative fiction. \nAlex Myers’ The Story of Silence \nA knightly fairy tale of royalty and dragons\, of midwives with secrets and dashing strangers in dark inns. Taking the original French legend as his starting point\, The Story of Silence is a rich\, multilayered new story for today’s world. \nAbout Alex: Alex Myers is a writer\, teacher\, and speaker. Born and raised in Paris\, Maine\, Alex was raised as a girl (Alice) and left Maine to attend boarding school at Phillips Exeter Academy. At Exeter\, Alex came out as transgender\, returning his senior year as a man after attending for three years as a woman\, and was the first transgender student in that Academy’s history. After Exeter\, Alex earned his bachelor’s at Harvard University\, studying Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Alex was also the first openly transgender student at Harvard and worked to change the University’s nondiscrimination clause to include gender identity. Subsequent to earning a master’s degree in religion at Brown\, Alex has pursued a career in teaching\, as a transgender advocate\, and as an active journalist contributing to the Guardian\, THEM and other publications. He currently lives in New Hampshire with his wife and two cats. The Story of Silence is his first book for Voyager. \nThis event will be live on Zoom at 7 PM ET. Zoom link will be provided in confirmation email under ‘Additional Information.’ \nRegister: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/harperpresents-reading-with-pride-tickets-120408554227
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