May 23rd 2023 – July 20th 2023, Massy Arts will host, Wong Pinter, a window installation by writer, facilitator and cyber-mystic of kejawen and Zoroastrian ancestry Romila, meant to invoke the feeling of being faced with a portal and invites viewers to sit in the potential discomfort of not receiving further invitation to pass through…
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Open Call | Window Exhibition Space Available Sept-Nov 2023
#OpenCall / Massy Arts Society is calling visual artists to send exhibition proposals for our September-November 2023 window exhibition. If you work through painting, drawing, photography, installation, and mixed media, send us your idea for a 2-month long show. We are offer to pay $500 for this display. Guidelines: Please provide us with: exhibition…
In the Defense of Liberty, an Interview with Keith Maillard
Photo of Keith Maillard by Mary Maillard. In anticipation of the Sunday, May 7th online launch event in support of Keith Maillard’s “In the Defense of Liberty”, we present an interview with the author. You are invited enjoy the power and urgency of this dynamic new novel from this experienced and celebrated author. Register for…
Black Migration, Living Transformations: Massy Arts interviews Suzette Mayr
On Wednesday, April 19th at 7pm, join Massy Arts Society, Massy Books and the Beaumont Studios for Speaking the Unspeakable: Black Migration, Living Transformations, an evening of conversation in celebration of Suzette Mayr’s new award-winning book The Sleeping Car Porter. Mayr will be In conversation with Wayde Compton, author of The Blue Road and other…
Shapeshifters: An interview with Délani Valin
In anticipation of the Thursday, April 20th reading at 6pm, where Massy Arts Society and Nightwood Editions host a celebration of Shapeshifters by Délani Valin, we present an interview with the author. Join us as we’re drawn into a moving, ever-shifting collection of poems that explore the complexities of urban Métis and neurodivergent experience, and moves…
Chasing the Poem: an interview with workshop hosts Jónína Kirton, annie ross, and Justene Dion-Glowa
In anticipation of Chasing The Poem – Third Edition, an online poetry workshop marathon for emerging writers, featuring three courses created by Indigenous poets Jónína Kirton, annie ross, and Justene Dion-Glowa, Massy Arts interviewed the creators and conductors of the courses. Although the event registration is almost full, we felt compelled to share the generosity…
Watch: under the table: Poetry Open Mic series featuring Nisha Patel
On Tuesday, April 4th at 6pm PST, join Massy Arts Society and a collective of brilliant poet organisers for the first event in our Under The Table Open Mic Series, featuring celebrated poet, spoken word artist and former Edmonton Poet Laureate, Nisha Patel. Under the Table is an open mic series centering disabled and/or queer…
Watch: Book Launch: The Moonlight Blade by Tessa Barbosa (w/ guest K.S. Villoso)
On Sunday, April 2nd at 12:30pm, join Massy Arts Society, Massy Books, and Entangled Publishing for the launch of The Moonlight Blade by Tessa Barbosa, alongside a guest reading by epic fantasy novelist K.S. Villoso. Come celebrate this thrilling, inspiring and gritty new YA novel. Get your book signed, enjoy a light snack or enter the…
Watch: Opening Reception / a genocide laid bare with jaz whitford + Manuel Axel Strain + Louise Bernice Halfe + Jónína Kirton + Karmella Benedito De Barros
On Saturday, March 25 at 6pm PST, join Massy Arts Society, and secwe̓pemc & mixed settler interdisciplinary artist jaz whitford for the opening reception of a genocide laid bare, a new show that juxtaposes visual artworks with ekphrastic poetry, installed at the gallery as an invitation to discuss heritage, systemic aggressions, and Indigenous history between mediums. At the…
Watch: Performance + Healing / My Petals are Bruised and I’m Still a Flower with Jotika Chaudhary Samant + KeAloha + Phiroozeh Petigara
On Friday, March 24 at 6pm, join Massy Arts Society, Massy Books and artists Jotika Chaudhary Samant, KeAloha, and Phiroozeh Petigara for My Petals are Bruised and I’m Still a Flower, a night of art, performance, and healing that brings together three Queer, Disabled Artists who are South Asian, Fijian of Indian descent and mixed-Indigenous. Gather with them as they…