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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:HarperPresents: 2020 Indie Fest with Matt Haig!
DESCRIPTION:Attend a virtual launch for  The Midnight Library  by internationally bestselling author Matt Haig! \n“A beautiful fable\, an It’s a Wonderful Life for the modern age.”\n–Jodi Picoult \nBuy a signed copy of  The Midnight Library  from Massy Books to get access to this exclusive virtual event on October 17th. Matt will be interviewed by author Bianca Marais. Purchase a copy here and you will receive registration for the event. \nAbout the Book\nBetween life and death there is a library.  \nWhen Nora Seed finds herself in the Midnight Library\, she has a chance to make things right. Up until now\, her life has been full of misery and regret. She feels she has let everyone down\, including herself. But things are about to change. \nThe books in the Midnight Library enable Nora to live as if she had done things differently. With the help of an old friend\, she can now undo every one of her regrets as she tries to work out her perfect life. But things aren’t always what she imagined they’d be\, and soon her choices place the library and herself in extreme danger. \nBefore time runs out\, she must answer the ultimate question: what is the best way to live? \nAbout the Author \nMatt Haig is the number one bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and Notes on a Nervous Planet and six highly acclaimed novels for adults\, including How to Stop Time\, The Humans and The Radleys. He has also written many books for children and has won the Blue Peter Book Award\, the Smarties Book Prize and been nominated three times for the Carnegie Medal. He has sold more than a million books in the UK and his work has been translated into over forty languages.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/harperpresents-2020-indie-fest-with-matt-haig/
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SUMMARY:Exhibition: Jocelyne Junker - The Artist Beheads Her Muse
DESCRIPTION:Massy Arts Society is pleased to be presenting a solo exhibition featuring paintings and photographic works by Vancouver based artist Jocelyne Junker upstairs in the gallery at Massy Books.⁣ \nJocelyne Junker is a Metis artist born in Saskatchewan. Her practice explores how photography can become entangled in performative gestures that affect the formulation and construction self identity. Through photography she engages in the questioning of representation and identity in the public sphere.⁣ \nFeaturing new bodies of work\, The Artist Beheads Her Muse confronts the fluctuating constructions of parasocial relationships – an audience’s mediated encounter with public figures in mass media. Created during times of intense isolation\, these photographs and paintings confuse the responsibilities associated with myth-making and archiving that surround public perception. Deliberate interchanging of subject and object replicate the harmful tendencies that come with the idolization of public figures. Junker implicates the personal\, solitary experience of watching others from afar\, and how the mystification of people expands as our own personhood is built up in new realms. Junker’s poised imagery speaks to the history of portraiture\, where the affluent had the ability to commission a narrative of their liking to be introduced into the world\, and it’s evolution into the massive proliferation of images we are witness to today. \nAccessibility: \nThis exhibition 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.⁣\n⁣\nMasks are mandatory while in Massy Books.⁣
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/exhibition-jocelyne-junker-the-artist-beheads-her-muse/
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: People Like Frank by Jenn Ashton
DESCRIPTION:Author Jenn Ashton is joined by very special guests Ranj Singh\, Waubgeshig Rice & Isabella Mori to celebrate the launch of “People Like Frank And Other Stories from the Edge of Normal”. Available for purchase through Massy Books.\nThis musical evening includes performance\, reading\, and discussion\, and is sure to be a lively event.\n\n𝐓𝐨 𝐣𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐮𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡 𝐜𝐨𝐩𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐬𝐞𝐫:\nhttps://youtu.be/fWJazAEEJlI\n\nABOUT THE BOOK:\nOn the edge of normal\, challenges take many forms—the everday can be an adventure and the ordinary a triumph.\n\nA young woman in a group home investigates a mysterious piece of knitting. An obsessed bag boy does grim battle with a squirrel. A woman\, an asparagus bag and a garbageman have a tumultuous short-term relationship. Otherwise unremarkable achievements become epic on the edge of normal.\nPurchase a copy from Massy Books: https://bit.ly/34zMtGD \n“In this superb collection of haunting and darkly humorous stories\, Jenn Ashton casts a compassionate eye over the banal and deftly plucks out the extraordinary.” \n– Carleigh Baker\, Author of Bad Endings \n\nABOUT THE AUTHOR:\nJenn Ashton is an award-winning author and visual artist living in North Vancouver\, B.C. She is the author of the prize-winning “Siamelaht” in British Columbia History in 2019 and of the forthcoming “People Like Frank\, and Other Stories from the Edge of Normal” by Tidewater Press. She is a Director on the Board of the Federation of British Columbia Writers as well as The BC Indigenous Writers Collective She is currently working on numerous projects including a book about the history of her family in the lower mainland. Jenn has also just completed a year as a Teaching Assistant in the Simon Fraser University’s Writer’s Studio and is now studying at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.\n\nABOUT THE GUESTS:\nRANJIT “Ranj” SINGH makes music with a distinct Indian-Western flair that draws on the singer-songwriter and self-taught guitarist’s love for rock music and heartfelt lyrics. He refers to his unique blend of music as “Indo-Canadian Folk”.\nIn the mid 80’s\, Ranj started his career performing with many folk-Punjabi and Hindi artists in the Vancouver area. In the 90’s he\, along with his talented brothers\, helped form the influential and critically acclaimed group Dal Dil Vog\, where their unique style of bhangara/rock music led to tours throughout North America and India.\nAfter Dal Dil Vog disbanded\, Ranj recorded two solo projects\, Simple Man and Man Cold\, and a third\, Found A Way Home\, with his band The Discriminators.\n\nWAUBGESHIG RICE is an author and journalist from Wasauksing First Nation on Georgian Bay. He has written three fiction titles\, and his short stories and essays have been published in numerous anthologies. His most recent novel\, Moon of the Crusted Snow\, was published in 2018 and became a national bestseller. He graduated from Ryerson University’s journalism program in 2002\, and spent the bulk of his journalism career at CBC. He lives in Sudbury\, Ontario with his wife and two sons.\n\nISABELLA MORE lives in Richmond and is the author of two books of and about poetry\, including “A bagful of haiku – 87 imperfections.” Isabella writes poetry\, short fiction\, novels and nonfiction. Publications have been in places such as the 2019 anthology “The Group Of Seven Reimagined.” Isabella is the founder of “Muriel’s Journey Poetry Prize\,” which celebrates loud\, edgy\, socially engaged poetry\, and is a regular contributor to and occasional editor of “Family Connections”\, a newsletter for families and supporters of people with mental health and substance use challenges. Isabella’s twitter handle is @moritherapy
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/jenn-ashton/
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Permanent Tourists by Genni Gunn
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate Genni Gunn’s Permanent Tourists  in an online launch with host Hal Wake. \nBuy the book through Massy Books: Click here.  \n\nClick here to join us for the launch on Facebooklive. \n\nAbout the Book: \n“In eight intersecting stories that range from a suicide pact on the tourist beaches of Mexico to Angkor Wat\, a stone museum in Italy\, and the Thai fleshpots that conceal a lost father\, Genni Gunn charts the blank spaces in human relationships: silences between loved ones\, dark histories neither escaped nor forgotten\, moral dilemmas that spin on a dime\, death that brings no redemption. Delicately rendered\, with characters that move restlessly from one landscape to the next\, these complex stories look without flinching into the heart of human longing.” \n       —Merilyn Simonds\, author of Refuge \nThe stories in Permanent Tourists feature displaced characters loosely connected through a support group\, all of them dealing with loss precipitated by an elusive father\, husband or lover\, by a wife’s death\, a lost child\, sibling rivalries. Tourists in their own lives\, these characters are often paralysed by emotional inertia and are fleeing to evade their responsibilities\, their failed relationships\, their own shortcomings. Within the unfamiliar\, their problems resurface and they’re forced to confront and re-examine them. Permanent Tourists presents physical\, emotional and psychological tourists\, all striving to delve more deeply into themselves\, their friendships\, their families\, their love relationships\, and ultimately\, to spur themselves to action \nAbout the Author: \nGenni Gunn\, author\, musician and translator\, has published eleven books: three novels –Solitaria\, Tracing Iris and Thrice Upon A Time\, three short story collections – the forthcoming Permanent Tourists\, Hungers and On The Road\, two poetry collections – Faceless and Mating In Captivity\, a collection of personal essays – Tracks: Journeys In Time And Place\, and three translations of poetry collections from Italian – Devour Me Too and Traveling In The Gait Of A Fox by Dacia Maraini and Text Me by Corrado Calabrò. Gunn’s opera libretto\, Alternate Visions\, was produced by Chants Libres (music by John Oliver) and premiered in Montreal in 2007. Her books have been translated into Dutch and Italian\, and have been finalists for major awards: Solitaria for the Giller Prize; Thrice Upon A Time for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize; Mating In Captivity for the Gerald Lampert Poetry Award; Devour Me Too for the John Glassco Translation Prize; and Traveling In The Gait Of A Fox for the Premio Internazionale Diego Valeri for Literary Translation. Her novel Tracing Iris was made into the film The Riverbank. Before she turned to writing full-time\, Genni toured Canada extensively with a variety of bands (bass guitar\, piano and vocals). Since then\, she has held many residencies and performed at hundreds of readings and writers’ festivals. Gunn has a BFA and an MFA and lives in Vancouver.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/book-launch-permanent-tourists-by-genni-gunn/
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