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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…

#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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

In anticipation of An Anti-Guide to Foreplay, the double launch of Participation by Anna Moschovakis and #postdildo by Danielle LaFrance, poet and author Hari Alluri interviews Anna Moschovakis and Danielle LaFrance on their two dissertations on desire. Bringing these authors into dialogue invites us to reflect on pleasure, gestures, joy and the act of reading/being…

January 17th 2023 – March 16th 2023, Massy Arts will host, Chinatown Looks: an intergenerational disposable camera project, a Chinatown-based photography project and workshop series showcasing the work of 21 Chinese seniors and youth members of Yarrow Intergenerational Society for Justice. Drawing inspiration from Megaphone’s Hope in Shadows, Chinatown Looks responds to an expressed need for intergenerational knowledge…

In celebration of the launch of Another Way to Split Water, poet and author Hari Alluri interviews Alycia Pirmohamed on this debut collection. In investigating this lyrical exploration of stories told and retold, ancestral memories reformed and transformed, and the imagined and reimagined—the two discuss fragmented and wholeness of selves, and the life-span of poems…

On Thursday, January 20th from 7pm to 8pm, login to Zoom + join scientist Jessica Hernandez for the virtual launch of her book “Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science” (2021, North Atlantic Books). At the event, Hernandez will talk about the book’s research process, and address questions about Indigenous science, settler colonialism,…