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SUMMARY:Genki Ferguson: Satellite Love Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate Genki Ferguson’s debut novel Satellite Love with a reading and discussion with the author and special guest Kevin Chong. Hosted in collaboration with Penguin Random House Canada and Massy Books. Satellite Love is available for purchase across Canada and the USA from Massy Books. \nPurchase here: https://bit.ly/3dDBimn \n*Registration Mandatory* Register here: https://bit.ly/3dN6srC \nSet in 1999 Japan\, Satellite Love is a heartbreaking and beautifully unconventional debut novel about a girl\, a boy\, and a satellite–and a bittersweet meditation on loneliness\, alienation\, and what it means to be human. \n“Satellite Love is one of those rare and affecting novels that will leave you breathless\, charmed\, and deeply thoughtful. A beautiful rumination on sentience\, imagination\, impermanence and friendship\, Genki Ferguson has written a story that lives on the precarious and satisfying edge of melancholy and exuberance.” — Ruth Ozeki\, author of A Tale for the Time Being \nGenki Ferguson was born in New Brunswick to a family of writers and grew up in Calgary. He spent much of his childhood in the subtropical island of Kyushu\, Japan\, where his mother’s family still resides. Fluent in Japanese and capable of making a decent sushi roll\, Genki was the recipient of the 2017 Helen Pitt Award for visual arts\, and recently completed a degree in Film Production while working part-time at Book Warehouse\, an indie store in Vancouver. \nKevin Chong is the author of six books\, most recently The Plague\, a retelling of Albert Camus’ novel of the same name. Based in Vancouver\, he teaches creative writing at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. The Plague is available for purchase through Massy Books: https://bit.ly/2MpVfSB
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SUMMARY:Growing Dumb: Book Launch with Peter Quartermain and Guests
DESCRIPTION:Peter Quartermain launches his long-awaited Growing Dumb: An Autobiography of an English Education (Zat-So Productions 2021) with readings too by friends Colin Browne\, Rachel Blau Duplessis\, Marjorie Perloff\, and Fred Wah. Hosted by Erín Moure. Come and join us and hear extracts from this wonderful work! \nABOUT THE BOOK \nBeloved writer Peter Quartermain is one of Canada’s best-kept literary secrets. He has dedicated his life to the study of poetry and poetics\, and to teaching\, drawing together poets and thinkers in English from both sides of the Atlantic. But where did he start? In Growing Dumb\, his “Boy’s Own” autobiography of an education\, he shows us a curious and spirited boy schooled in England during the Second World War\, discovering the world beyond his family\, and coping with an educational system so mired in tradition that it was anachronistic even in his time. Quartermain shows us an enchanting and fascinating world\, in which a boy with a lively mind is determined to find his own way into the future. \nAvailable for purchase through Massy Books: https://bit.ly/3mkQ9oi \nHOW TO ATTEND \nEmail info@massyarts.com to register. This event will be held over Zoom. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nPeter Quartermain taught modernist poetry and poetics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver\, Canada for over thirty years\, until retiring in 1999. He has had a major impact on poetic scholarship in English; his work brings together late 20th century English-language avant-garde poetry from both sides of the Atlantic. He is the author of Basil Bunting\, Poet of the North (1990)\, Disjunctive Poetics: From Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky to Susan Howe (Cambridge U Press\, 1992) and Stubborn Poetries: Poetic Facticity and the Avant-Garde (U Alabama Press\, 2013). He edited two volumes of the collected works of Robert Duncan – Robert Duncan: The Collected Early Poems and Plays (U California Press\, 2019) and Robert Duncan: The Collected Later Poems and Plays (U California Press\, 2019) and edited\, with Richard Caddel\, Other: British and Irish Poetry since 1970 (Wesleyan U Press\, 1999) and\, with Rachel Blau DuPlessis\, The Objectivist Nexus: Essays in Cultural Poetics (U Alabama Press\, 1999).
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/growing-dumb-book-launch-with-peter-quartermain-and-guests/
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SUMMARY:Indie Book Fest: Uzma Jalaluddin - Hana Khan Carries On
DESCRIPTION:For fans of “You’ve Got Mail\,” a young woman juggles pursuing her dream job in radio while helping her family compete with the new halal restaurant across the street\, in this sparkling new rom-com by the author of Ayesha at Last.  \nJoin Uzma Jalaluddin for a special book launch in partnership with HarperCollins Canada! \nHOW TO ATTEND: \nPurchase Hana Khan Carries on from Massy Books to receive access to this exclusive\, virtual event. Purchase here: https://bit.ly/3cfkgKr \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nUzma Jalaluddin is a teacher and also writes a funny parenting column named ‘Samosas and Maple Syrup’ for the Toronto Star\, Canada’s largest daily newspaper. Her debut novel is Ayesha at Last.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/indie-book-fest-uzma-jalaluddin-hana-khan-carries-on/
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SUMMARY:Alexandra Morton: The Fight to Save Wild Salmon
DESCRIPTION:The rise of industrial fish farming on the Pacific Northwest has created an existential threat to wild salmon and the ecosystems that rely on them. For years\, conservationists and biologists have sounded alarms on how pollution\, the plague of sea-lice and bacteria\, and unsustainable practices from this industry are affecting one of this region’s keystone species. \nCome hear biologist and activist Alexandra Morton discuss her new book\, NOT ON MY WATCH\, where she tells the story of her 30-year fight against big business and government corruption to save British Columbia’s wild salmon. \nShe will appear in conversation with journalist Emilee Gilpin\, who is the managing editor of IndigiNews. \n— \nUse this Zoom link to access event (on April 8 at 7pm) \nPlease register. Registration is not required to participate\, but it helps us anticipate the number of attendees\, and allows us to send you any updates about this event. \nTo join the event you will need a computer\, tablet or phone with the Zoom app. Headphones are recommended. \nNew to Zoom? Learn more about using it here. \n— \nThis event is in partnership with the Vancouver Public Library.\nNOT ON MY WATCH is available for purchase from Massy Books. 
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/alexandra-morton-the-fight-to-save-wild-salmon/
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SUMMARY:Exhibition: Nicholas Tay - Amateur Cartography
DESCRIPTION:Nicholas Tay\nAmateur Cartography \nCurated by Pennylane Shen\nApril 17 – May 24\, 2021\nMassy Books\n229 East Georgia Street \n“It starts with my mother’s hands. Her delicate skin\, lined and creased\, as she tenderly traces the plump cheek of my youngest son. Her lines\, folding into rivers\, creasing into ravines\, dotting out into borders. The snowy smoothness of my son’s cheek\, undulating and open to promise.” \nMy mother’s hands are the map of her immigrant experience. My son still remains uncharted. I think of the journey that took my parents away from home. The journey that brought me from East to West. I think about the journeys my children may have to make. In time\, I feel we will all become part of the immigrant majority – ending far away from where we began with many stops in between. We will all know what it is to be alien. Our ideas will flow freely through borders\, our identities will uproot from earth\, and we will change and be changed by every new place. \nAmateur Cartography is a visual exploration of immigrant identity. What it is when one idea arrives upon another idea and the destruction and beauty that occurs in the dialogue. \nAbout the Artist: \nNicholas Tay likens his arrival and upbringing in the Pacific Northwest from the age five to falling in love. He dove into the freshness of the air\, the ice crystals that crunched beneath gravel fields\, street hockey in the freezing wet\, the stories of our First Peoples whisking him away on the wings of Raven and Thunderbird\, and later the liberal ideal of the multi-cultural mosaic. \nExploring multi-cultured identity is at the core of Tay’s artistic practice\, wherein vastly divergent ideas can be represented with emotional honesty in a single work of art: “I used to feel that being Chinese Canadian was akin to being lost between houses of separated parents\, or being an alien guest of a gracious host. Through the exploration of my art\, I have found that both cultures are truly at home in me and in my work.” \nEver flexible with his approach\, Tay’s choice of medium suits the stories and cultural forms he explores. Charcoal or paint lets him offer sensuous luxury as a contrast to our increasingly digital experience. At other times\, while he is wary of the seductive cleverness of digital processes\, these modern modes are ideal. Traditional forms carry immediacy\, and arrest creator and viewer alike in their visceral presence and the abstract\, emotional truth inherent in their mark making. Conversely\, using 3D software brings machine algorithms to every pixel. Through his training at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena\, California\, and his years working in Visual FX and video game development\, Tay became interested in the possibilities of working with technology as his collaborator. Through its interpretation of the artist’s instructions\, the technological mediator separates the creative output from potential artistic biases. \nArt has been a dominant part of Tay’s life since his earliest memories. Beyond words or numbers\, it has been the most clear\, honest\, and comforting means of expression. Identifying as an introvert\, and amalgamating diverse lines of heritage between China and Canada\, Tay embraces art to tell honest\, deeply personal stories in a way that would be daunting in other formats\, bridging the awkward and profound\, or in Tay’s words\, “the profoundly awkward”. \nTay received his formal art education at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena\, California. His current series\, Amateur Cartography\, explores the clash of cultures through a visual dialogue between representation and abstraction. \nAccessibility\n \nThis event takes place upstairs in the Massy Gallery\, which is only accessible by a flight of stairs. Unfortunately\, no audio 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).
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/nicholas-tay-amateur-cartography/
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SUMMARY:Artist talk with Nicholas Tay
DESCRIPTION:“I used to feel that being Chinese Canadian was akin to being lost between houses of separated parents\, or being an alien guest of a gracious host. Through the exploration of my art\, I have found that both cultures are truly at home in me and in my work.” \nOn April 18th\, exhibiting artist Nicholas Tay will be in conversation with Massy Arts Curator Emily Dundas Oke to share insights into his multi-media practice. \nAmateur Cartography\, curated by Pennylane Shen\, is on view at Massy Books from April 17 – May 24\, 2021. \nAbout the Artist: \nNicholas Tay likens his arrival and upbringing in the Pacific Northwest from the age five to falling in love. He dove into the freshness of the air\, the ice crystals that crunched beneath gravel fields\, street hockey in the freezing wet\, the stories of our First Peoples whisking him away on the wings of Raven and Thunderbird\, and later the liberal ideal of the multi-cultural mosaic. \nExploring multi-cultured identity is at the core of Tay’s artistic practice\, wherein vastly divergent ideas can be represented with emotional honesty in a single work of art \nHow to Attend:\n \nRegister through the Eventbrite link to receive Zoom access!\nhttps://www.eventbrite.ca/e/artist-talk-with-nicholas-tay-tickets-147203530723 \n 
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/artist-talk-with-nicholas-tay/
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SUMMARY:How To Change Everything - Naomi Klein in conversation with Rebecca Hamilton and Naia Lee
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome Naomi Klein in conversation with youth climate organizers Rebecca Hamilton and Naia Lee!\n—————-\nHOW TO ATTEND\nPurchase a copy of How To Change Everything from Massy Books to receive access to this exclusive virtual event\, in partnership with Penguin Random House Canada.\nFind the book here: https://bit.ly/3cX3S04\n—————-\nHOW TO CHANGE EVERYTHING\nA long-awaited guide to climate action and justice for young readers by bestselling\, award-winning\, internationally acclaimed writer and climate activist Naomi Klein.\nTemperatures are rising all over the world\, leading to wildfires\, droughts\, animal extinctions and ferocious storms — climate change is real. But how did we get to this state\, and what can we do next? What if we could work to protect the planet\, while also taking action to make life fairer and more equal for the people who live on it?\nWe can — if we’re willing to change everything.\nIn her first book written for young readers\, internationally acclaimed\, bestselling author and social activist Naomi Klein\, with Rebecca Steffof\, lays out the facts and challenges of climate change and the movement for climate justice. Using examples of change and protest from around the world\, including profiles of young activists from a wide range of backgrounds\, Klein shows that young people are not just part of the climate change movement\, they are leading the way.\nHow to Change Everything will provide readers with clear information about how our planet is changing\, but also\, more importantly\, with inspiration\, ideas\, and tools for action. Because young people can help build a better future. Young people can help decide what happens next. Young people can help change everything.\n—————-\nNAOMI KLEIN is an award-winning journalist\, columnist\, and author of the New York Times and international bestsellers The Shock Doctrine\, No Logo\, This Changes Everything\, and No Is Not Enough. A Senior Correspondent for The Intercept\, reporter for Rolling Stone\, and contributor for both The Nation and The Guardian\, Klein is the inaugural Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media\, Culture\, and Feminist Studies at Rutgers University. She is co-founder of the climate justice organization The Leap.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/how-to-change-everything-naomi-klein/
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SUMMARY:2nd Annual Antiracist Book Festival
DESCRIPTION:The Annual National #AntiracistBookfest celebrates the nation’s leading antiracist writers and helps to prepare the writers of tomorrow.\n\n\nOn Saturday\, April 24\, 2021\, Boston University’s Center for Antiracist Research will host the 2nd Annual National Antiracist Book Festival. This event will be held virtually to protect the safety of our community.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe #AntiracistBookfest is the first and only book festival that brings together\, showcases\, and celebrates the nation’s leading antiracist writers and helps to prepare the writers of tomorrow. Panels are topically organized with two authors and a moderator. There will also be workshops for writers facilitated by leading book editors and literary agents. The National Antiracist Book Festival is a ticketed event. All proceeds from ticket sales will go towards the work of the BU Center for Antiracist Research. \nThe 2nd Annual National Antiracist Book Festival was originally scheduled for April 25\, 2020\, and postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic to Saturday\, April 24\, 2021. \nFull event details: https://bit.ly/2RaH325 \nAccessibility: Live CART captioning will be provided for every panel session. \nMedia Contact: Event is by RSVP. Media members are required to RSVP by March 31. Please contact antiracistbookfest@bu.edu \nHow to Attend: Registration mandatory. Purchase tickets here: https://bit.ly/2RaH325 \nTickets will be on sale until 4pm ET on Wednesday\, April 21st.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/antiracist-book-festival/
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SUMMARY:West Coast Poetry Launch: Tara Borin\, Molly Cross-Blanchard\, Selina Boan\, Terence Young & Dallas Hunt
DESCRIPTION:Spring 2021 has brought us phenomenal new poetry collections. Join us for the West Coast launch featuring Tara Borin\, Molly Cross-Blanchard\, Selina Boan\, Terence Young & Dallas Hunt! \nHow to attend: \nRegister through Crowdcast to attend: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/west-coast-poetry-launch/register \nTara Borin\, The Pit\nAvailable for purchase: https://bit.ly/3apkihi \nIn the melancholy atmosphere of the bar and the rooms upstairs\, the speakers of Borin’s poems find unexpected solace and belonging. The habits\, the routine\, the regulars\, the predictability of it all brings some kind of chaotic order to chaotic life \nMolly Cross-Blanchard\, Exhibitionist\nAvailable for purchase: https://bit.ly/3n3KALj\n \nOne minute she’s drying her underwear on the corner of your mirror\, the next she’s asking the sky to swallow her up: the narrator of Exhibitionist oscillates between a complete rejection of shame and the consuming heaviness of it. Painfully funny\, brutally honest\, and alarmingly perceptive\, Molly Cross-Blanchard’s poems use humour and pop culture as vehicles for empathy and sorry-not-sorry confessionalism. What this speaker wants more than anything is to be seen\, to tell you the worst things about herself in hopes that you’ll still like her by the end. \nSelina Boan\, Undoing Hours\nAvailable for purchase: https://bit.ly/2QhTUPL\n \nSelina Boan’s debut poetry collection\, Undoing Hours\, considers the various ways we undo\, inherit\, reclaim and (re)learn. Boan’s poems emphasize sound and breath. They tell stories of meeting family\, of experiencing love and heartbreak\, and of learning new ways to express and understand the world around her through nêhiyawêwin. \nTerence Young\, Smithereens\nAvailable for purchase: https://bit.ly/3guyx8u \nIn Smithereens\, Terence Young ranges widely among forms\, subjects\, tones and moods\, invoking the domestic world of family and home\, as well as the associated realms of work and play. He describes the simple pleasure of losing one’s bearings and seeing the world anew in “Tender is the Night\,” and in “The Bear” he records the near-magical appearance at a summer cabin of a creature that hasn’t been seen in the area in over fifty years. The ironic benefits of a house fire\, the late-night sounds of a downtown alley\, the smells of a summer morning in the Gulf islands—all of these serve as vehicles for reminiscence\, meditation and humour. \nDallas Hunt\, Creeland\nAvailable for purchase: https://bit.ly/3dyC1Vv \nCreeland is a poetry collection concerned with notions of home and the quotidian attachments we feel to those notions\, even across great distances. Even in an area such as Treaty Eight (northern Alberta)\, a geography decimated by resource extraction and development\, people are creating\, living\, laughing\, surviving and flourishing—or at least attempting to. \nThe poems in this collection are preoccupied with the role of Indigenous aesthetics in the creation and nurturing of complex Indigenous lifeworlds. They aim to honour the encounters that everyday Cree economies enable\, and the words that try—and ultimately fail—to articulate them. \n 
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/west-coast-poetry-launch/
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SUMMARY:Voices in Verse: Spring 2021 Poetry Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join Lori Cayer\, James Scoles\, and Caroline Wong with host Charlene Diehl\, for the Voices in Verse: Spring 2021 Poetry Book Launch.\n\n\n\nSupport poets and local bookstores! You can buy copies of Searching for Signal by Lori Cayer\, The Trailer by James Scoles\, and Primal Sketches by Caroline Wong from McNally Robinson Booksellers and Massy Books at the links below.\n\n\n\nSearching for Signal by Lori Cayer: http://bit.ly/SearchingForSignal\n\n\nThe Trailer by James Scoles: http://bit.ly/ScolesTheTrailer\n\n\nPrimal Sketches by Caroline Wong: http://bit.ly/PrimalSketches
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/voices-in-verse-spring-2021/
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SUMMARY:Christian Allaire: The Power of Style - Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Style is not just the clothes on our backs–it is self-expression\, representation\, and transformation. \nAs a fashion-obsessed Ojibwe teen\, Christian Allaire rarely saw anyone that looked like him in the magazines or movies he looked to for inspiration. Now the Fashion and Style Writer for Vogue\, he is\nworking to change that–because clothes are never just clothes. Men’s heels are a statement of pride in the face of LGTBQ+ discrimination\, while ribbon shirts honor Indigenous ancestors and keep culture alive. Allaire takes the reader through boldly designed chapters to discuss additional topics like cosplay\, make up\, hijabs\, and hair\, probing the connections between fashion and history\, culture\, politics\, and social justice. \nPurchase The Power of Style from Massy Books: https://bit.ly/3fc0Rfb \nHow to Attend\nEvent details arrivals shortly! \nAbout the Author\nAbout the Author Christian Allaire is an Ojibwe writer who grew up on the Nipissing First Nation reserve in Ontario\, Canada. His writing has appeared in ELLE\, FLARE\, and VOGUE\, among other outlets. He is based in New York City.
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/the-power-of-style-book-launch/
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SUMMARY:Book Launch: The Power of Style - Panel & Drag Performance
DESCRIPTION:Style is not just the clothes on our back—it is self-expression\, representation\, and transformation. Join NYC-based Word Up Community Bookshop\, Indigenous-owned Massy Books\, and Annick Press in celebrating The Power of Style with a panel of the book’s contributors—Christian Allaire\, Jamie Okuma\, Henry Bae and Shaobo Han\, and Halima Hossinzehi\, moderated by Korina Emmerich—followed by a drag performance by the great Ilona Verley. \n*Registration Mandatory* Register here: https://bit.ly/3e9DyQY \nPurchase the book from Indigenous owned Massy Books: https://bit.ly/3eb6NmE \nAs a fashion-obsessed Ojibwe teen\, Christian Allaire rarely saw anyone that looked like him in the magazines or movies he looked to for inspiration. Now the Fashion and Style Writer for Vogue\, he is working to change that–because clothes are never just clothes. Men’s heels are a statement of pride in the face of LGTBQ+ discrimination\, while ribbon shirts honor Indigenous ancestors and keep culture alive. Allaire takes the reader through boldly designed chapters to discuss additional topics like cosplay\, make up\, hijabs\, and hair\, probing the connections between fashion and history\, culture\, politics\, and social justice. \nKorina Emmerich is the founder of EMME Studio\, a small\, ethical\, slow fashion brand located on occupied Canarsee territories in greater Lenapehoking. Her work combines expression\, art\, and culture with a strong focus on social and climate justice. Her colorful work is known to reflect her patrilineal Puyallup tribal heritage. \nChristian Allaire is an Indigenous (Ojibwe) writer from Nipissing First Nation. He is the author of The Power of Style\, his debut book. Currently\, he is also the Fashion & Style Writer for Vogue. \nJamie Okuma is an Indigenous (Luiseño/Shoshone-Bannock) Fashion Artist based on the La Jolla Indian reservation in Pauma Valley\, California. \nHenry Bae and Shaobo Han are the co-founders of SYRO\, a footwear brand based in Brooklyn\, New York that creates “femme footwear for everyone.” \nIlona Verley is an Indigenous (Nlaka’pamu) Two-Spirit drag queen and makeup artist. She appeared on Canada’s Drag Race\, the first Indigenous queen to do so. \nHalima Hossinzehi is a Baloch-Canadian student who is currently pursuing a master’s in neuromechanics at the Ontario Tech University. \n\n\n\n\n\nFriday\, April 30\, 2021 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\n\nvia ZOOM\n\nNew York\, NY 10032
URL:https://www.massybooks.com/event/the-power-of-style/
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