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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.⁣
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LOCATION:Massy Books\, 229 E. Georgia St.\, Vancouver\, British Columbia\, V6A1Z6\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: ZOM-FAM by Kama La Mackerel
DESCRIPTION:Massy Arts Society and Metonymy Press are pleased to invite you to a special virtual book launch for Montreal-based Mauritian-Canadian poet Kama La Mackerel’s debut collection ZOM-FAM. La Mackerel will be joined by author Jillian Christmas for this Vancouver stop in a cross-country tour. \nRegistration mandatory: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_owtgnIgQRpWv8clApIAA-Q?fbclid=IwAR2py95re2DF5irywGivXLd_gxAS6DRj-T2vTS6waajQDK4m4SISBN_cQcw \nIn their debut poetry collection\, Kama La Mackerel mythologizes a queer/trans narrative of and for their home island\, Mauritius. Composed of expansive lyric poems\, ZOM-FAM (meaning “man-woman” or “transgender” in Mauritian Kreol) is a voyage into the coming of age of a gender-creative child growing up in the 80s and 90s on the plantation island\, as they seek vocabularies for loving and honouring their queer/trans self amidst the legacy of colonial silences. Multiply voiced and imbued with complex storytelling\, ZOM-FAM showcases a fluid narrative that summons ancestral voices\, femme tongues\, broken colonial languages\, and a tender queer subjectivity\, all of which grapple with the legacy of plantation servitude. \n\nStriking\, vivid\, tender\, intimate\, and political\, ZOM-FAM is a beautifully wrought journey that articulates a contemporary decolonial poetics and offers a roadmap for colonized and displaced queer and trans voices to (re)imagine themselves into being. \nZOM-FAM is available for purchase through independent bookstore Massy Books\, with delivery options available for across Canada and the USA. https://bit.ly/3ewF5k9 \n\n\nKAMA LA MACKEREL is a Montreal-based Mauritian-Canadian multi-disciplinary artist\, educator\, community-arts facilitator\, and literary translator who works within and across performance\, photography\, installations\, textiles\, digital art\, and literature. They have exhibited and performed their work internationally and their writing in English\, French\, and Kreol has appeared in publications both online and in print. They have lived in far-flung places such as Pune\, India and Peterborough\, Ontario. ZOM-FAM is their first book.\n\n\nKama’s work has been published in the Lambda Literary Award–winning anthology Glitter & Grit: Queer Performance from the Heels on Wheels Femme Galaxy (2015) and We Mark Your Memory: writings from descendants of indenture (2018). Their translation of Kai Cheng Thom’s From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea was published in French by Éditions Dents de Lion in spring 2019 and their co-translation of Vivek Shraya’s I’m Afraid of Men was published in French by éditions du Remue-Ménage in winter 2020. \nJILLIAN CHRISTMAS is a queer\, afro-caribbean writer living on the unceded territories of the Squamish\, Tsleil-Waututh\, and Musqueam people (Vancouver\, BC)\, where she works as Speaker Coordinator at Cicely Blain Consulting\, Spoken word curator of the Vancouver Writers Fest\, and formerly served for six years as artistic director of Verses Festival of Words. She has won numerous Grand Poetry Slam Championship titles and represented both Toronto and Vancouver at eleven national poetry events\, notably breaking ground as the first Canadian to perform on the final stage of the Women of the World Poetry Slam.  She has presented poetry and theory in a multitude of venues including the BC Civil Liberties gala\, the SFU 2018 grad conference closing keynote\, and numerous panels focused on the intersections of critical race theory and contemporary art. She is the author of The Gospel of Breaking (Arsenal Pulp Press 2020).
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