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SUMMARY:Nya Lewis for BlackArt Gastown: Quilt of Hope
DESCRIPTION:The Quilt of Hope is an installation that asks artists to consider their role in the movement\, and what art expression has to teach us about radical activism. It shares the perspectives of  practicing artists across  the Lower Mainland  in a collection of 25 quotes\, responding to the question “What is the role of Artists in dismantling anti-Black racism?” \nArtist and Curator: Nya Lewis for BlackArt Gastown \nAbout the Artist/Curator: \nNya Lewis’ practice is a culmination of centuries of African resistance\, love\, questions\, actions\, study\, embrace and exposure in the face of failed neo-colonial attempts at erasure. Nanyamka’s expression is powered by the perpetual engine of truth-explored\, uncompromised. It interrupts\, it educates\, it asks\, it unites\, it celebrates a Canada with all voices present\, with all voices heard\, with actions taken and commitment to justice declared. The artist sees her practice as a continuation of a long lineage of work undertaken by Black artists\, curators\, writers\, activists and thinkers who blaze(d) a trail of critical discourse surrounding the Black Canadian Experience. Lewis’ creative practice reflects upon the diversity of Black diasporic experiences and its many forms of expression. As such\, she works across the disciplines of art making\, curating and writing. Her work is multivalent in form and expression but is always driven by the reimagining and reclaiming of community. \nLewis is a MFA candidate at OCAD University\, an Independent curator currently serving as the Programming Coordinator at Vancouver Queer Film Festival and the founder and director of BlackArt Gastown. \nAccessibility\n \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:Vivek Shraya in Conversation with Bif Naked
DESCRIPTION:Official online book launch of How to Fail as a Popstar by VIVEK SHRAYA\nVivek Shraya in conversation with Bif Naked \nTuesday\, March 2\, 8 p.m. EST / 5 p.m. PST / 6 p.m. MST / 7 p.m. CST / 9 p.m. AST (online) \nHosted by the Eden Mills Writers’ Festival and Arsenal Pulp Press in partnership with the Hillside Festival\, The Bookshelf (Guelph)\, Another Story Bookshop (Toronto)\, Glass Bookshop (Edmonton)\, Massy Books (Vancouver) and Shelf Life Books (Calgary). \nHow to Attend: This free event will be livestreamed via Facebook. Head to the Facebook page to attend! https://fb.me/e/4cbKd5P5g \nThe first play by multi-media artist Vivek Shraya\, about fame and personal transformation. \nDescribed as “cultural rocket fuel” by Vanity Fair\, Vivek Shraya is a multi-media artist whose art\, music\, novels\, and poetry and children’s books explore the beauty and the power of personal and cultural transformation. How to Fail as a Popstar is Vivek’s debut theatrical work\, a one-person show that chronicles her journey from singing in shopping malls to “not quite” pop music superstardom with beguiling humor and insight. A reflection on the power of pop culture\, dreams\, disappointments\, and self-determination\, this astonishing work is a raw\, honest\, and hopeful depiction of the search to find one’s authentic voice. \nThe book includes colour photographs from the show’s 2020 production in Toronto\, and a foreword by its director Brendan Healy. \nAbout the Speakers \nVivek Shraya is an artist whose body of work crosses the boundaries of music\, literature\, visual art\, theatre\, and film. Her books include I’m Afraid of Men\, The Subtweet\, even this page is white\, She of the Mountains\, Death Threat\, and The Boy & the Bindi\, and her album with Queer Songbook Orchestra\, Part-Time Woman\, was nominated for the Polaris Music Prize. She is one half of the music duo Too Attached and the founder of the Arsenal Pulp Press imprint VS. Books. A six-time Lambda Literary Award finalist\, Vivek was a Pride Toronto Grand Marshal\, was featured on The Globe and Mail’s Best Dressed list\, and has received honours from the Writers’ Trust of Canada and the Publishing Triangle. She is a director on the board of the Tegan and Sara Foundation and an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Calgary. \nBif Naked is a celebrated and notorious performer in music\, TV\, film\, and dance\, and a tireless advocate and Humanitarian. Orphaned in India\, emancipated by punk rock\, and empowered by surviving breast cancer\, kidney failure\, heart surgery\, divorce\, and surviving as a Woman in The Entertainment Industry for twenty-five years\, Bif has transcended any and all obstacles placed in her path to become one of the world’s most unique\, recognizable and beloved icons. It is because Bif is such a tremendous performer and musician\, that she is able to seamlessly and successfully explore and record other mediums\, like writing\, painting\, choreography\, and of course- other genres of music. For over two decades\, Bif has been an original “Straight-Edge” and Vegan\, not utilizing alcohol\, meat\, dairy\, poultry\, or sea life. “I just want to live by example\,” Bif states\, “and encourage everyone to live compassionately and more fully\, in happiness.” When asked about what her favourite pastimes are\, she has only one answer: “Living Loudly.” When not on rock tours around the World\, Canada’s Queen of Punk splits her time between Paris\, France\, New Delhi\, India\, and her new home\, Toronto\, Canada. Her memoirs\, titled\, I\, Bificus was published by Harper Collins Publishers\, in April\, 2016.
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SUMMARY:Meredith Quartermain's Lullabies in the Real World: Book Launch with Guests
DESCRIPTION:Meredith Quartermain’s Lullabies in the Real World is a sequence of poems about a train journey from West Coast to East Coast that invokes a patchwork of regions\, voices and histories. Her language zings with train rhythms as she unfolds a complex conversation with poets such as bpNichol and Robin Blaser. \nJoin Meredith Quartermain with guests Shazia Hafiz Ramji and Rahat Kurd for an evening of poetry\, followed by a Q and A. \nBooks available from Massy Books! \nHow to Attend\nThis event will be hosted online via Zoom. The event will be recorded\, however audience members will not be heard throughout the event. Register for the event and the Zoom link will be emailed. \nRegister here: https://bit.ly/2LzRWYB \nLullabies in the Real World reflects and refracts Canada from diverse angles\, and challenges colonizing literatures such as the Odyssey and various canonical British and US voices. As it moves from west to east\, the book journeys back in time to interrogate historical events such as the Battle of the Plains of Abraham and the exclusion of Acadians. It ends by imagining a time before or outside colonization. \nRich\, playful and confrontational\, Lullabies in the Real World widens the poetic lens of poetry to investigate the place of a colonial nation in history\, and the place of a poet vis-à-vis the voices of other poets. \nAbout Meredith Quartermain: \nMeredith Quartermain is a poet and novelist living in Vancouver\, British Columbia. Her first book of poetry\, Vancouver Walking\, won a BC Book Award for poetry; Recipes from the Red Planet was a finalist for a BC Book Award for fiction; and Nightmarker was a finalist for a Vancouver Book Award. A novel called Rupert’s Land was released by NeWest Press in Fall 2013. She has since published a collection of stories entitled I\, Bartleby\, in 2015\, and a novel\, U Girl\, in 2016. She is also cofounder of Nomados Literary Publishers\, who have brought out more than 45 chapbooks of innovative Canadian and US writing since 2002. From 2014 to 2016\, she was Poetry Mentor in the SFU Writer’s Studio Program\, and she has enjoyed leading workshops at the Kootenay School of Writing\, The Toronto New School of Writing and Naropa University. In Spring 2020\, her latest collection of poems\, Lullabies in the Real World\, was released as a part of the Crow Said Poetry Series.
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SUMMARY:jaz whitford: next of kin to the mischief wind
DESCRIPTION:Artist Statement \nnext of kin to the mischief wind is a series of work that embodies artist my experience living as a chronically ill\, two-spirit indigenous person who has been displaced from their ancestral territories through ongoing colonization. The exhibition explores my relationships to spirituality and ancestral roots\, as well as my relationship to the lands and waters that I am displaced from. \nAbout the Artist \njaz is a 2 spirit anti-professional\, working as an interdisciplinary artist centering community care\, ancestral connections and qtpoc relief. they live semi-nomadically\, along the unceded west coast of turtle island as well as the interior of so-called british columbia. Jaz’s ancestry ties them to unceded secwepemculecw in the southern interior of so-called british columbia and more distantly to Scotland\, though the bulk of their art practice blooms within the Unceded Territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) nations where they have been overwhelmed with the warmheartedness\, generosity and support of the host nations and  indigiqueer community to whom they owe a well of gratitude. \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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SUMMARY:The Juggling Mother: Coming Undone in the Age of COVID
DESCRIPTION:On International Women’s Day\, join us for a conversation about COVID\, motherhood\, and paid and unpaid work. \nAmanda D. Watson is the author of The Juggling Mother: Coming Undone in the Age of Anxiety (2020\, UBC Press). The book explores how the popular representation of the contemporary mother — frantically juggling paid labour and unpaid care work — perpetuates established inequities of race\, gender\, class and ability. Mothers with the most power are complicit in the exclusion of less privileged ones\, but also in their own undoing. \nAt this event\, Watson will read selected passages from The Juggling Mother\, followed by a conversation with Michelle Eliot\, award-winning journalist and host of “BC Today” on CBC Radio One. Watson and Eliot will discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and intensified the challenges of this idealized version of motherhood. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER \n\n\n\n\nWhen: Monday\, March 08\, 2021 2:00 PM \n\n\n\n\nWhere: Online event. A link and password to join the event will be sent to registrants via Eventbrite. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmanda D. Watson\nAuthor of The Juggling Mother: Coming Undone in the Age of Anxiety \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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nMichelle Eliot\nHost of BC Today on CBC Radio One \nMichelle Eliot is the host of CBC Radio One’s midday open-line show BC Today. Michelle is an award-winning journalist with CBC Radio One\, and has become a familiar voice as a regular guest host on regional and national programs\, interviewing community members and prominent politicians\, as well authors and musicians such as Douglas Coupland and Bif Naked. But her true passion is for the open line\, where her skill at engaging callers probes further into their viewpoints and digs deeper into their personal stories. \n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Opener\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nElder Syexwaliya (Ann Whonnock)\nSkwxwu7mesh Uxwumixw (Squamish Nation) \nAs taught by her late grandparents\, Syexwaliya supports families and shares cultural teachings and protocols within and outside of her community. Her passion is to see that Squamish culture\, language and ceremonies continue to be the cornerstone of the Nation for future generations and the culture carried on by future generations and her snichim (language) to be used\, not only by herself\, but for all the families and future generations in their daily lives and ceremonies. Let’s not let our Culture and Snichim die out! \n\n\n\n\n\n\nMC\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTravers\nSociology Professor\, Simon Fraser University \nTravers is a Professor of Sociology at Simon Fraser University. Their recent book\, The Trans Generation: How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) Are Creating a Gender Revolution\, situates trans kids in Canada and the US\, white settler nations characterized by significant social inequality. In addition to a central research focus on transgender children and youth\, Travers has published extensively on the relationship between sport and social justice\, with particular emphasis on the inclusion and exclusion of women\, queer and trans people of all ages. Travers is Deputy Editor of the journal\, Gender & Society. \n\n\n\n\n\nPartners\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAccessibility\, Technology & Privacy\n\n\n\n\nAccessibility \nClosed captioning will be available at this event. \nIf you have any questions about accessibility for this event\, please contact psqevent@sfu.ca. \nRegistration and password \nA password to access this event will be sent to all registrants via email in the days and hours preceeding the event. \nTechnology requirements \nThis workshop will be presented in a participatory webinar format. To engage fully you will need: \n\nA laptop\, computer\, or smartphone\nA webcam\nA microphone\nSpeakers or headphones\n\nProtecting your privacy \nTo ensure that we are using online meeting technology in a privacy-conscious way\, we are following best practices for this online event series: \n\nWe will only circulate the meeting link to those who are registered for the event\nWe will password protect the meeting\nWe will enable end-to-end encryption\nWe will not use attention tracking\n\nTo protect your own privacy we suggest that: \n\nYou use a unique email address to log into the webinar. This is so that the webinar platform can’t cross-reference your profile with the rest of your digital profiles under your email address.\nWe suggest you do not use your Facebook profile to log into the webinar. This is so that the webinar platform can’t cross-reference you with your Facebook account.\nWe remind you that whatever you say in the webinar is public and recorded\, so please do not share sensitive information about yourself or others\, and do not say anything you do not wish to enter the public domain.\n\nTo protect the privacy of others we ask that: \n\nYou do not record or photograph yourself\, other participants\, or the hosts during the webinar\, unless permission is requested and given.
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SUMMARY:Massy Reads: Arts-based approaches to well-being education
DESCRIPTION:A Public Humanities Hub Conversation with Derek Gladwin\, George Belliveau\, and Graham W. Lea\nA book launch series co-hosted by UBC-V Public Humanities and Massy Arts Society. This event is co-sponsored with UBC-V Language & Literacy Education and the UBC-O Centre for Mindful Engagement. \nBooks can be purchased through Massy Books. This event is free and open to the public. \nPlease join us for a book launch and conversation with UBC authors\, moderated by Dr. Karen Ragoonaden (Professor of Teaching\, Okanagan School of Education\, and Director of the Centre for Mindful Engagement\, UBCO)\, with remarks by Dr. Farah Shroff (Adjunct Professor\, Faculty of Medicine)\, Dr. Marv Westwood (Professor Emeritus\, Faculty of Education)\, and Tim Laidler (BA ’09\, MA ’14\, veteran). \n  \n\nOur Stories: Education\, Empowerment and Well-being\n(Cork University Press)\nDr. Derek Gladwin\, Assistant Professor\, UBC Language and Literacy Education\nPurchase by clicking here.  \nThis book harnesses the therapeutic power of storytelling to convert feelings of fear and powerlessness into affirmative life narratives. Storytelling shapes our societies\, influencing personal\, sociocultural\, educational\, and public discourses that impact how we live. Creating and communicating the language of stories — to ourselves and others — enhances our innate voices and can empower us to engage in greater empathy\, compassion\, and possibility. \n  \n \nContact! Unload: Military Veterans\, Trauma\, and Research-Based Theatre\n(UBC Press)\nEdited by Dr. George Belliveau\, Professor and Head\, UBC Language and Literacy Education\, and Dr. Graham W. Lea\, Assistant Professor of drama education and language and literacy\, Curriculum\, Teaching & Learning\, University of Manitoba\nPurchase by clicking here.  \nThis book is a call to action to responsibly address the sometimes difficult transition many soldiers face when returning to civilian life. It explores the development\, performance\, and reception of Contact! Unload\, a play that brings to life the personal stories of veterans returning home from deployment overseas. \nThursday\, March 11\, 2021\n4:30 – 5:30 pm Pacific Time\nOnline via Zoom\n*Registration Mandatory* Register by Clicking Here*\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. \nThis event is being broadcast from the unceded territories of the Musqueam\, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.
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SUMMARY:Eden Robinson in conversation with Cherie Dimaline
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome Eden Robinson in conversation with Cherie Dimaline! Purchase a copy of Return of the Trickster to receive access to this exclusive virtual event\, in partnership with Penguin Random House Canada. \nHow to Attend: Purchase a copy of Return of the Trickster from independent and Indigenous owned Massy Books to receive access to this virtual event. Open for orders here: https://bit.ly/37FAo5a \nAbout the Book\nIn the third book of her brilliant and captivating Trickster Trilogy\, Eden Robinson delivers an explosive\, surprising and satisfying resolution.\n\nAll Jared Martin had ever wanted was to be normal\, which was already hard enough when he had to cope with Maggie\, his hard-partying\, gun-toting\, literal witch of a mother\, Indigenous teen life and his own addictions. When he wakes up naked\, dangerously dehydrated and confused in the basement of his mom’s old house in Kitimat\, some of the people he loves–the ones who don’t see the magic he attracts–just think he fell off the wagon after a tough year of sobriety. The truth for Jared is so much worse.\n\nHe finally knows for sure that he is the only one of his bio dad Wee’git’s 535 children who is a Trickster too\, a shapeshifter with a free pass to other dimensions. Sarah\, his ex\, is happy he’s a magical being\, but everyone else he loves is either pissed with him\, or in mortal danger from the dark forces he’s accidentally unleashed\, or both. The scariest of those dark forces is his Aunt Georgina\, a maniacal ogress hungry for his power\, who has sent her posse of flesh-eating coy-wolves to track him down.\n\nEven though his mother resents like hell that Jared has taken after his dad\, she is also determined that no one is going to hurt her son. For Maggie it’s simple–Kill or be killed\, bucko. Soon Jared is at the centre of an all-out war–a horrifying place to be for the universe’s sweetest Trickster\, whose first instinct is not mischief and mind games but to make the world a kinder\, safer\, place.\n\nAbout the Speakers\n\nEDEN ROBINSON has matriarchal tendencies. Doesn’t have a pressure cooker\, but knows how to jar salmon. Her smoked salmon will not likely kill you. Hobbies: Shopping for the Apocalypse\, using vocabulary as a weapon\, nominating cousins to council while they’re out of town\, chair yoga\, looking up possible diseases or syndromes on the interwebs\, perfecting gluten-free bannock and playing Mah-jong. Be warned\, she writes novels and tends to be cranky when interrupted.\n\nCHERIE DIMALINE‘s young adult novel The Marrow Thieves shot to the top of the bestseller lists when it was published in 2017\, and stayed there for more than a year. It won the Governor General’s Literary Award\, the Kirkus Prize in the young adult literature category\, the Burt Award for First Nations\, Métis and Inuit Literature\, was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award and\, among other honours\, was a fan favourite in the 2018 edition of CBC’s Canada Reads. It was also a Book of Year on numerous lists including the National Public Radio\, the School Library Journal\, the New York Public Library\, the Globe and Mail\, Quill & Quire and the CBC. Cherie was named Emerging Artist of the Year at the Ontario Premier’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts in 2014\, and became the first Indigenous writer in residence at the Toronto Public Library. From the Georgian Bay Métis Community in Ontario\, she now lives in Vancouver.
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SUMMARY:Kazuo Ishiguro in conversation with Souvankham Thammavongsa
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the magnificent new novel from Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro–author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day. \n“The Sun always has ways to reach us.” \nKazuo Ishiguro will be in conversation with 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Souvankham Thammavongsa. \nHow to attend: Purchase a copy of Klara and the Sun from independent bookstore Massy Books to receive your exclusive entry to the event!\nPurchase here: https://bit.ly/39ZbAqs \n*First ten customers to place an order will receive a copy signed by the author!* \nFrom her place in the store\, Klara\, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities\, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse\, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her\, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever\, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans.\nIn Klara and the Sun\, Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly changing modern world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love? \nAbout the Speakers\nKAZUO ISHIGURO was born in Nagasaki\, Japan\, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. His eight previous works of fiction have earned him many honors around the world\, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize. His work has been translated into over fifty languages\, and The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go\, both made into acclaimed films\, have each sold more than 2 million copies. He was given a knighthood in 2018 for Services to Literature. He also holds the decorations of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from France and the Order of the Rising Sun\, Gold and Silver Star from Japan. \nSOUVANKHAM THAMMAVONGSA is the author of four acclaimed poetry books\, and the short story collection HOW TO PRONOUNCE KNIFE\, winner of the 2020 Scotiabank Giller prize\, finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, a New York Times Editors’ Choice\, a TIME 100 Must-Read Books of 2020\, out now with McClelland & Stewart (Canada)\, Little\, Brown (U.S.)\, and Bloomsbury (U.K.). Her stories have won an O. Henry Award and appeared in Harper’s Magazine\, The Paris Review\, The Atlantic\, Granta\, and NOON. Thammavongsa is a judge for the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize. She was born in the Lao refugee camp in Nong Khai\, Thailand and was raised and educated in Toronto.
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SUMMARY:A Town Called Solace - in Conversation with Shelagh Rogers
DESCRIPTION:New York Times bestselling author Mary Lawson\, acclaimed for digging into the “wilderness of the human heart”\, is back after almost a decade with a fresh and timely novel that is different in subject but just as emotional and atmospheric as her beloved earlier work. \nA Town Called Solace–the brilliant and emotionally radiant new novel from Mary Lawson\, her first in nearly a decade–opens on a family in crisis: rebellious teenager Rose been missing for weeks with no word\, and Rose”s younger sister\, the feisty and fierce Clara\, keeps a daily vigil at the living-room window\, hoping for her sibling”s return. \n– – – – – – – – – –\nHOW TO ATTEND: \nStep 1: Purchase a copy of A Town Called Solace  from indie bookstore Massy Books to receive access to this virtual event. Purchase here: https://bit.ly/3r3iUX6 \nStep 2: Fill out the registration with your order number to receive the Zoom info! http://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/lawson \n– – – – – – – – – – \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nMary Lawson was born and brought up in a small farming community in Ontario. She is the author of three previous nationally and internationally bestselling novels\, Crow Lake\, The Other Side of the Bridge\, and Road Ends. Crow Lake was a New York Times bestseller and was chosen as a Book of the Year by The New York Times and The Washington Post\, among others. The Other Side of the Bridge was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Lawson lives in England but returns to Canada frequently.
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SUMMARY:The Rose Code: A Conversation with Kate Quinn
DESCRIPTION:“The reigning queen of historical fiction” —  Fiona Davis\, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue  \n– – – – – – – – – –\nHOW TO ATTEND: Step 1: Purchase a copy of The Rose Code from indie bookstore Massy Books to receive access to this virtual event. Purchase here: https://bit.ly/2Qg5pa6\nStep 2: Step 2: Fill out the registration with your order number to receive the Zoom info! https://www.harpercollins.ca/harperpresents/indiebookfest/ \n– – – – – – – – – –\nABOUT THE BOOK \nThe New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Huntress and The Alice Network returns with another heart-stopping World War II story of three female code breakers at Bletchley Park and the spy they must root out after the war is over. \n1940. As England prepares to fight the Nazis\, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park\, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything—beauty\, wealth\, and the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses—but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl\, and puts her fluent German to use as a translator of decoded enemy secrets. Imperious self-made Mab\, product of east-end London poverty\, works the legendary codebreaking machines as she conceals old wounds and looks for a socially advantageous husband. Both Osla and Mab are quick to see the potential in local village spinster Beth\, whose shyness conceals a brilliant facility with puzzles\, and soon Beth spreads her wings as one of the Park’s few female cryptanalysts. But war\, loss\, and the impossible pressure of secrecy will tear the three apart. \n1947. As the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip whips post-war Britain into a fever\, three friends-turned-enemies are reunited by a mysterious encrypted letter–the key to which lies buried in the long-ago betrayal that destroyed their friendship and left one of them confined to an asylum. A mysterious traitor has emerged from the shadows of their Bletchley Park past\, and now Osla\, Mab\, and Beth must resurrect their old alliance and crack one last code together. But each petal they remove from the rose code brings danger–and their true enemy–closer…
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SUMMARY:Building Collective Power: a multi-sensory conversation
DESCRIPTION:There’s no greater threat to the status quo than collective power\, so how can we build revolutionary relationships in our lives and work?\n– – – – – – – – – –\n“Power is the ability to impact and affect the conditions of your own life and the lives of others” – Alicia Garza\, The Purpose of Power\n\nWe rarely name it\, but we almost always feel power. The different forms it takes\, how it shows up in our relationships\, our work\, and the systems we live in. While the default form of power that systems of colonialism\, capitalism\, and supremacism have historically exercised is power *over*\, we invite you to explore power in alternative ways that are nonhierarchical and interdependent.\n\nThere’s no greater threat to the status quo than collective power\, so how can we build revolutionary relationships in our lives and in our work? What would the experience of being in relationship with our colleagues\, friends\, family\, and neighbours be like if we are supported when we step into our internal power *within*? What would it feel like to reciprocate this and honour the lived experience of those we are in relationship with?\n\nIn this virtual event\, you’re invited to imagine and envision with all your senses: ***What does building collective power feel\, taste\, smell\, sound\, and look like?***\n\nYou’ll experience a multi-sensory conversation seeded with ways of building collective power that our special guests are already practicing in their work. You’re invited to create your own multi-sensory environment while you attend: surround yourself with music\, food\, art\, scents\, textures – whatever evokes collective power for you. Come to listen\, watch\, learn\, and share about practicing power in alternative ways that support you\, your values\, and the communities you work with.\n– – – – – – – – – –\nREGISTRATION MANDATORY: https://bit.ly/3r6aSNz\n– – – – – – – – – –\nLAND AND LOCATION\nGroundswell is situated on the stolen and occupied territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish)\, and səlil̓wətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. We will learn where each of our speakers are joining us from during the event\, and we also invite you to share about the land and territories where you are situated.\n– – – – – – – – – –\nACCESSIBILITY\nThis event will be happening via Zoom Webinar. Once you register for the event\, you will receive the link to join.\n\nCaptioning will be provided during the presentations.\nAll are welcome and invited to pay according to their financial circumstances. Choose from $20\, $10 or $0 tickets.\n– – – – – – – – – –\nFEATURING SPECIAL GUESTS:\n▶︎ Emily Dundas Oke\, Media Manager for Massy Books\, Curator for Massy Arts Society\n\nEmily Dundas Oke is an interdisciplinary artist and curator interested in the production and retention of embodied knowledge\, shared histories\, and generative acts of resistance. A 2018 graduate of Philosophy and Visual Art (BA) from Thompson Rivers University\, she is the recipient of numerous grants and awards. She has exhibited nationally and internationally. She was artist in residence at the Nida Art Colony (2019) and Access Gallery (2020)\, among others. Emily is the Curator at Massy Arts Society and Media Manager at Massy Books. Beyond her work with Massy\, she is the Arts Editor and Community Engagement with The Capilano Review.\n\n▶︎ Nura Ali\, Founding member of the Vancouver Artists Labour Union Co-op\n\nNura Ali is a black visual artist\, community organizer and social activist\, living and working on Treaty 7 territory (Calgary\, Alberta). Her multidisciplinary practise engages issues of linguistic world building\, displacement and power. Her work attempts to follow the mycelial trails underpinning the fabulation of race and slowly pull them apart to expose the invisible\, densely packed network that scaffolds white supremacy. Alongside her visual arts practise she is also committed to community oriented organizing and for this reason became one of the founding members of the Vancouver Artists Labour Union Coop (VALU) and The Arts and Cultural Workers Union (ACWU\, IATSE Local B778)\, a unionized workers cooperative and labour union for independent artists and cultural workers. Through the Co-op and the Union we hope to fight the income precarity\, exploitative labour practices and job insecurity artists face and campaign for the rights of artists to live and work with dignity\, respect and fairness. She is deeply invested in strategies to dismantle oppressive supremacist structures and is keenly motivated to create welcoming and equitable spaces in the art world and beyond.\n\n▶︎ Tinthi Tembo\, Co-creator of BIPOC-CA\, partner at Origin Papers\n\nTinthi Tembo is a Human Geographer and community advocate for diversity and inclusion. She minored in Critical Studies in Sexuality\, a self-directed study\, where Tinthi her centered research on critical examinations of race\, sexuality and social justice. Tinthi wears multiple hats\, she is the Co-Founder of Origin Papers and BIPOC Creative Association. Tinthi also works in the film industry-Costume Department\, leading an entrepreneurial career where she aims to gain the knowledge towards opening a BIPOC owned production house. Ubuntu is an African philosophy which notions that one’s humanity is inextricably linked to one another. Being Indigenous to the African continent\, there are similarities in knowledge transfer\, engagement with the land\, and fundamental human values that Tinthi shares with Indigenous communities on Turtle Island. Ubuntu is the framework/lens for which Tinthi approaches community building.\n\n▶︎ Vidya Crawley\, CEO of Groundswell Alternative Business School\nVidya (they/she) brings an inclusive and experiential approach to leadership\, business\, and design education for social change. Having supported over fifty organizations and hundreds of individuals on the path to values-based work since 2001\, they enjoy subverting “business as usual” with ways of working that are rooted in emotional intelligence\, relational principles\, equity\, and strengths-based approaches. They have a particular flair for creating thoughtful experiences\, practices\, and cultures that make business and work more human. Vidya identifies as non-binary and is a second generation South Asian immigrant & settler currently living and working on occupied xʷməθkwəy̓əm\, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh\, and səlil̓wətaʔɬ territories.
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