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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:An Evening with Anakana Schofield
DESCRIPTION:The Consulate General of Ireland in Vancouver is delighted to invite you to an online evening with award-winning Irish author Anakana Schofield\, whose most recent novel Bina has been shortlisted for the 2020 Goldsmiths Prize. Anakana will read from Bina and share some of her thoughts on different topics in conversation with the Consulate. There will be some time for Q&A at the end so we look forward to your participation also!\n\nPlease join us on Thursday 5 November 2020\, 7-8pm PST.\nRegister here to attend: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZ0qcuCqqjkrH9TzFf1RhnEiIU70v…\n\nAbout the author:\n\nAnakana Schofield is the author of the acclaimed\, Giller Prize-shortlisted novel Martin John\, which was also a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize\, the Goldsmiths Prize in the UK\, a New York Times Editors’ Choice and named a best book of the year by the Wall Street Journal\, Globe and Mail\, National Post\, Sunday Business Post\, Toronto Star and Irish Times\, among others. Her debut novel Malarky won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award\, the Debut-Litzer Prize for Fiction in the United States and was a finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Her writing and reviews have appeared in the Guardian\, Irish Times\, Globe and Mail\, National Post\, London Review of Books blog\, and The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers. She lives in Vancouver\, British Columbia.\n\nAbout Bina:\n\nStartlingly original and horribly funny\, Anakana Schofield’s Bina is that rare thing: a black comedy about euthanasia. Composed as a series of warnings scribbled on the backs of envelopes from the safety of her bed\, the narrator is a septuagenarian who has had enough. And we can see why: her front garden is filled with political activists\, her back garden with medical waste; her lodger stayed on for an extra ten years and she is suspected of murdering her best friend. In all her despair\, and empathy for the despair of others\, Bina emerges from her elliptical missives\, addressed to everyone but no-one in particular\, as an eccentric heroine of monumental moral courage.\n\n*The author’s and publisher’s preferred bookseller in Vancouver where Bina is available to purchase:\nMassy Books\n229 E. Georgia St. Vancouver\, BC V6A 1Z6\nwww.massybooks.com\n604-721-4405\nYou can purchase Bina here:\nhttps://bit.ly/31OoSBA
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SUMMARY:Short Story Spectacular • Genni Gunn + Mary MacDonald + Madeline Sonik
DESCRIPTION:Short stories are like the hors d’oeuvres of reading. Grab a drink\, relax\, and enjoy our celebration of these delicious little morsels of literature. Join Caitlin Press\, Signature Editions\, and Anvil Press on Thursday\, November 12\, 2020 at 4:00 pm PT / 7:00 pm ET for Short Story Spectacular. \nEmbrace and revel in the power of short fiction with three exceptional Canadian writers: Genni Gunn\, Mary MacDonald\, Madeline Sonik\, and host\, Merilyn Simonds.\nTo purchase books\, please visit our online shop. \nPurchase Genni Gunn’s Permanent Tourists.\nPurchase May MacDonald’s The Crooked Thing.\nPurchase Madeline Sonik’s Fontainebleau. \nVisit Crowdcast to save your spot: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/shortstories \n– Free!\n– Online! No software download necessary.\n– Everyone welcome. \nEvent starts at 4:00 p.m. PT / 7 p.m. ET\nFind your timezone: https://bit.ly/37JPTK8 \nIf you need subtitles\, the event will be simultaneously livestreamed to YouTube which has a closed captioning function: https://youtu.be/AqLR3D3PxrE \n\n• • • • • \nWe acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada\, British Columbia Arts Council\, and the Manitoba Arts Council.
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SUMMARY:Massy Reads: On Interrogating the Colonial Frame Online Event
DESCRIPTION:A Public Humanities Hub Conversation with UBC Authors Hannah Turner (School of Information) and David Gaertner (Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies). \nA book launch series co-hosted by UBC Public Humanities and Massy Arts Society. Co-sponsored with UBC Press. \nBooks can be purchased through Massy Books.\nTo purchase a copy of Cataloguing Culture: Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Documentation by Hannah Turner\, click here. \nTo purchase a copy of The Theatre of Regret: Literature\, Art\, and the Politics of Reconciliation in Canada by David Gaertner\, click here.  \nThis event is free and open to the public.\nModerated by Daniel Heath Justice\, Professor\, Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies\nWednesday\, November 18\, 2020\n7:00 – 8:15 pm Pacific Time\nOnline via Zoom\nRegistration mandatory. Click here to register.  \nAbout the Books \nCataloguing Culture: Legacies of Colonialism in Museum Documentation\nBy Hannah Turner\nHow does material culture become data? Why does this matter\, and for whom? As the cultures of Indigenous peoples in North America were mined for scientific knowledge\, years of organizing\, classifying\, and cataloguing hardened into accepted categories\, naming conventions\, and tribal affiliations – much of it wrong. Cataloguing Culture examines how colonialism operates in museum bureaucracies. Using the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History as her reference\, Hannah Turner organizes her study by the technologies framing museum work over 200 years: field records\, the ledger\, the card catalogue\, the punch card\, and eventually the database. She examines how categories were applied to ethnographic material culture and became routine throughout federal collecting institutions. As Indigenous communities encounter the documentary traces of imperialism while attempting to reclaim what is theirs\, this timely work shines a light on access to and return of cultural heritage. Museum practitioners\, historians\, anthropologists\, and media scholars will find the practices and assumptions of their fields revealed in this indispensable work. \nThe Theatre of Regret: Literature\, Art\, and the Politics of Reconciliation in Canada\nBy David Gaertner\nThe Canadian public largely understands reconciliation as the harmonization of Indigenous–settler relations for the benefit of the nation. But is this really happening? Reconciliation politics\, as developed in South America and South Africa\, work counter to retributive justice. The Theatre of Regret asks whether – within the contexts of settler colonialism – the approach to reconciliation will ultimately favour the state over the needs and requirements of Indigenous peoples. \nInterweaving literature\, art\, and other creative media throughout his analysis\, David Gaertner questions the state-centred frameworks of reconciliation by exploring the critical roles that Indigenous and allied authors play in defining\, challenging\, and refusing settler regret. In 2007\, Canada became the first liberal democracy to formally implement a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) process\, a prominent element of global intrastate politics in the 1990s. Through close examination of core concepts in reconciliation theory – acknowledgement\, apology\, redress\, and forgiveness – Gaertner unpacks reconciliation within the contexts of Canadian settler colonialism and the international history of the TRC. In so doing\, he exposes the deeply embedded colonial ideologies that often define reconciliation in settler colonial states. The Theatre of Regret redirects current debates about reconciliation and provides a roadmap for the deconstruction of state-centred discourses of regret. Scholars and students of Indigenous studies\, cultural studies\, Canadian studies\, literature\, law\, and political science will find this book challenging and necessary\, as will thoughtful Canadian readers. \nAbout the Speakers \nHannah Turner is an information and museum studies scholar\, and is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information at the University of British Columbia. She has published in journals such as 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘮 𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺\, 𝘒𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘖𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯\, and 𝘊𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘘𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘺. From 2018 to 2019\, she was a lecturer in Museum Studies at the University of Leicester. \nDavid Gaertner is an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Critical Indigenous Studies at the University of British Columbia. His articles have appeared in Canadian Literature\, American Indian Cultural Research Journal\, and Bioethical Inquiry\, among other publications. He is the editor of  Sôhkêyihta: The Poetry of Sky Dance Louise Bernice Halfe and Read\, Listen\, Tell: Indigenous Stories from Turtle Island (with Sophie McCall\, Deanna Reder\, and Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill). \nDaniel Heath Justice is a Colorado-born Canadian citizen of the Cherokee Nation/ ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Literature and Expressive Culture at UBC on unceded Musqueam territory. His most recent book is Why Indigenous Literatures Matter\, a literary manifesto about the way Indigenous writing works in the world. He is the author of Our Fire Survives the Storm: A Cherokee Literary History and numerous essays and reviews in the field of Indigenous literary studies\, and he is co-editor of a number of critical and creative anthologies and journals\, including the award-winning The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature (with James H. Cox) and Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature (with Qwo-Li Driskill\, Deborah Miranda\, and Lisa Tatonetti)
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: The Fool by Jessie Jones
DESCRIPTION:In tarot\, the Fool represents continual beginnings\, not being able to see or think past the excitement and potential of a new start. The Fool is also associated with zero — a literal loop.\n\nLike Anne Carson writing poetry in the style of the poet alchemist Arthur Rimbaud\, Jessie Jones renders her reflections with acerbic brilliance. In her debut collection\, she examines the sensual\, cruel\, pleasing\, and depraved state of being human in the twenty-first century. All pro\, she’s ready to stage a coup d’état. \nWe hope you will join us for a special evening of poetry and discussion with Jessie Jones\, Kayla Czaga\, and Michael Prior. \n\nRegistration mandatory. Please register here:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.ca/e/book-launch-the-fool-by-jessie-jones-tickets-128882841047\n\nPurchase The Fool by Jessie Jones by clicking here. \n\nAbout the author: \nJessie Jones grew up on the Prairies\, spent a decade on Vancouver Island\, and now calls Montreal home. Her work has been shortlisted for the Malahat Review’s Open Season Poetry Award\, Arc’s Poem of the Year contest\, and PRISM International’s Poetry Contest. Her chapbook\, Nix\, was released in 2018 with Desert Pets Press. The Fool is her debut collection. \nAbout the guests: \nKayla Czaga is the author of For Your Safety Please Hold On and Dunk Tank\, which was a finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. She lives in Victoria\, B.C. and serves as the online poetry mentor for SFU’s The Writer’s Studio. You can read her work and learn more about her at kaylaczaga.com. \nMichael Prior is the author of Burning Province (McClelland & Stewart\, 2020) and Model Disciple (Véhicule Press\, 2016)\, which was named one of the best books of the year by the CBC. His poems have appeared in Poetry\, The New Republic\, Narrative Magazine\, Poetry Daily\, and the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day Series. \n 
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: The Juggling Mother by Amanda Watson
DESCRIPTION:On November 19th\, we invite you to celebrate the launch of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘑𝘶𝘨𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘔𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳: 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘜𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘨𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘯𝘹𝘪𝘦𝘵𝘺 with author Amanda Watson. Moderated by May Friedman\, this reading and discussion explores the idealized version of motherhood that perpetuates established inequities of race\, gender\, class\, and ability.⁣ This event takes place online via Zoom.\n⁣\n𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘑𝘶𝘨𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘔𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 is not about work-life balance. It is about how the expectation to manage competing labour demands impossibly well is pinned to women’s desire for political visibility and social inclusion. This controversial study makes the case that unfair labour distributions are publicly celebrated\, intentionally performed\, and intimately felt.⁣\n⁣\nSigned copies of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘑𝘶𝘨𝘨𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘔𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 can be purchased through Massy Books. ⁣\nhttps://bit.ly/2HPxT6p⁣\n⁣\nAbout the Author: ⁣\n⁣\nAmanda D. Watson is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Simon Fraser University. Her work has been published in the 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘍𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴\, 𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘚𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘑𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦\, and 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦 𝘥𝘦 𝘭’𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦. She teaches courses on the culture of capitalism\, power and conflict in Canadian society\, and the politics of family. Amanda lives here in East Vancouver with her partner\, kids and dogs.⁣\n⁣\nAbout the Moderator:⁣\n⁣\nMay Friedman blends social work\, teaching\, research\, writing and parenting\, often in the same five minute period. May’s research looks at unstable identities\, including bodies that do not conform to traditional racial and national or aesthetic lines. Most recently much of May’s research has focused on intersectional approaches to fat studies considering the multiple and fluid experiences of both fat oppression and fat activism. May works at Ryerson University as a faculty member in the School of Social Work and in the Ryerson/York graduate program in Communication and Culture. \nZoom Information:\nYour participation will result in the disclosure of personal information to Zoom Video Communications.\nTo consent to this disclosure\, visit the link below.\nhttps://www.surveymonkey.ca/r/zoomprivacy\nHave questions about SFU’s Zoom privacy and security guidelines\, visit the link below.\nhttps://www.sfu.ca/…/videoconferencing/zoom/privacy.html \nTopic: Book Launch: The Juggling Mother\nTime: Nov 19\, 2020 07:00 PM Vancouver\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nhttps://sfu.zoom.us/j/85283492653…\nMeeting ID: 852 8349 2653\nPassword: 279077\nOne tap mobile\n+17789072071\,\,85283492653#\,\,\,\,0#\,\,279077# Canada\n+12042727920\,\,85283492653#\,\,\,\,0#\,\,279077# Canada\nDial by your location\n+1 778 907 2071 Canada\n+1 204 272 7920 Canada\n+1 438 809 7799 Canada\n+1 587 328 1099 Canada\n+1 647 374 4685 Canada\n+1 647 558 0588 Canada\nMeeting ID: 852 8349 2653\nPassword: 279077\nFind your local number: https://sfu.zoom.us/u/kz025cLxY
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SUMMARY:Chinatown Pretty Book Talk (Online)
DESCRIPTION:Chinatown Pretty is a storytelling project (and now book!) that documents the street style of seniors in Chinatowns across North America. Started by Andria Lo and Valerie Luu six years ago\, the collection of photos and interviews use the seniors’ outfits as a gateway to their stories of immigration and values. Vancouver is the only Canadian city included in their book. Join us and the authors in an in-depth Q&A. \nPurchase and follow along with your copy of Chinatown Pretty. Indigenous-owned\, Vancouver Chinatown-based Massy Books is offering 10% discount off the retail price ($35.95). You can pick up a copy in-store or order here. \nAuthor bios: \nValerie Luu is a writer and one-half of the Vietnamese pop-up restaurant Rice Paper Scissors. She lives in San Francisco. @valerieluu \nAndria Lo is a freelance photographer whose work has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle\, the New York Times\, and Wired. She lives in Berkeley @aweilo \nThis virtual event is co-hosted by Youth Collaborative for Chinatown (YCC)\, Chinese Canadian Historical Society of BC (CCHSBC)\, Massy Arts Society\, and Raincoast Books. \nAttend the Event:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.ca/e/chinatown-pretty-book-talk-registration-124205819951
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SUMMARY:icehouse poetry & friends: Vancouver
DESCRIPTION:Join us online for icehouse and friends — Vancouver!\nFeaturing icehouse poetry’s Tanja Bartel (Everyone at This Party)\, Jessie Jones (The Fool)\, Chris Hutchinson (In the Vicinity of Riches)\, and friend Kayla Czaga (Dunk Tank). \nBooks are available for purchase from Massy Books.\nFollow this link to access the live stream: https://youtu.be/LYrLV9dP6Vo
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/icehouse-poetry-friends-vancouver/
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: Girl Minus X
DESCRIPTION:Join Anne Stone and guests Hiromi Goto and Emily Pohl-Weary for a riveting discussion in celebration of 𝘎𝘪𝘳𝘭 𝘔𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘴 𝘟\, a new speculative fiction title published by Wolsak & Wynn.⁣⁣⁣\n⁣⁣⁣\n“𝘎𝘪𝘳𝘭 𝘔𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘴 𝘟 is what happens when great writing meets a mesmeric\, page-turning plot. The best speculative fiction captures what we dimly imagine but intimately feel; and this book wins in its gripping tale of intense social crises\, complicated family members\, dismal pressures from school and a young woman awakening to her own uncanny power. Anne Stone will captivate both teens and adults alike.” – David Chariandy\, author of 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘺𝘢𝘯𝘵 and 𝘉𝘳𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳⁣⁣⁣\n⁣⁣⁣\nSigned copies of 𝘎𝘪𝘳𝘭 𝘔𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘴 𝘟 are available for purchase through @MassyBooks.⁣⁣⁣\nhttps://bit.ly/358YHry⁣⁣⁣\n⁣⁣⁣\nAbout the Speakers:⁣⁣⁣\n⁣⁣⁣\nAnne Stone’s latest novel\, 𝘎𝘪𝘳𝘭 𝘔𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘴 𝘟 (Fall 2020)\, tells the story of a girl with an eidetic memory and a traumatic past\, navigating a world in which a slow creeping virus erodes memory. Publishers Weekly called the novel “a prismatic look at disaster striking people already in crisis.” www.annestone.ca⁣⁣⁣\n⁣⁣⁣\nEmily Pohl-Weary is an award-winning author. Her most recent books are 𝘎𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘚𝘪𝘤𝘬\, a poetry collection about trauma and the changing Toronto neighbourhood where she grew up\, and 𝘕𝘰𝘵 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘖𝘳𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘞𝘰𝘭𝘧 𝘎𝘪𝘳𝘭\, a young adult novel about a rockstar who gets bitten by a giant dog and⁣⁣⁣\nstarts to change. Her previous books include a ghost love story\, a female superhero anthology\, a biography\, and a girl pirate comic. She teaches writing for teens and speculative fiction in the UBC Creative Writing Program\, and is working on a new teen novel.⁣⁣⁣\nwww.emilypohlweary.com⁣⁣⁣\n⁣⁣⁣\nHiromi Goto is a writer and editor who can’t stop writing across genres. She’s published 7 books for both adults and youth. Recently she moved from Musqueam\, Squamish and Tsleil-waututh Territories to Lekwungen Territory. Her first graphic novel\, 𝘚𝘩𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘸 𝘓𝘪𝘧𝘦\, with artist Ann Xu\, will be published in early 2021 with First Second Books. ⁣⁣⁣\n⁣⁣⁣\nRegister for the event:⁣⁣⁣\nhttps://www.eventbrite.ca/e/girl-minus-x-book-launch-tickets-128275789339
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SUMMARY:John Velten: The Gravity That Forms Us (Exhibition)
DESCRIPTION:John Velten’s artistic practice is a relational philosophy made material. Deeply invested in understanding selfhood from a continual\, circular\, set of emergent relationships\, Velten prompts visitors to ask themselves: what connections have been crucially important to me? His professional history attests to his strong belief in the power of relationship building. Velten’s artistic biography is rich with community and collaborative projects\, having worked on initiatives such as Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week\, Vancouver Art Community Live Painting\, Vancouver Mural Festival\, and many more.  \nHis articulation of relationality calls attention to the expansiveness of these cultivated networks. Across self\, persons\, earth\, and spirit\, the largest experiences of connection begin with the personal and a deep trust in intuition. Looking inwards\, one must take care of themselves\, recognizing that this self is always shaped by forces outside it. Velten calls attention to which worlds we ought to invest in\, and those that in turn invest in us. These worlds are often personal\, as are the artistic mentorships he has been a part of with Tahltan artist Alano Edzerza and Haida artist Rick Adkins. Yet\, they extend beyond the physical\, material\, bodily self into the spiritual and celestial. As gravity forms circles\, so to do circles form us \nAbout the Artist \nBorn and raised in Kwikwetlem (Coquitlam)\, John Velten has been an illustrator from a young age\, possessing over 10 years of drawing and illustrative practice\, three years of fine arts production and one year of event producing experience. John’s studied Business and Fine Arts production under the mentorship of Alano Edzerza and Design Foundations through the mentorship of Rick Adkins. He continues his practice carving and sculpting with Phil Gray and Klatle Bhi. Throughout the year of 2019\, John’s involvement with the community has been providing & facilitating meetups for artists\, providing spaces for creatives to pull together in the genres of visual art\, music\, dance and storytelling. He currently is studying part-time at the Visual College of Art and Design in the 3D modelling and animation program and is set to graduate December 2020. John works independently as a fine artist\, within modes of expression such as\, painting\, carving\, metal works\, mixed media\, 3D modelling and illustration. In the past 3 year\, portions of John’s  works have been commissioned by The City of Vancouver\, Vancouver Mural Festival\, Vancouver art community\, Lunar Fest and Foundry BC. John’s Mixed roots stem from Europe\, with German ancestry and North-West Territories with Dene ancestry. These Contrasting lineages speak to his perspective\, ability as an artist and affluence of different cultures. \nTo Purchase Artworks \nArtworks are for sale directly from the artist. Please visit: https://northweststyles.com/ \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/john-velten-the-gravity-that-forms-us-exhibition/
LOCATION:Massy Books\, 229 E. Georgia St.\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V6A1Z6\, Canada
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