Massy Interviews / Romila

Massy Interviews / Romila

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…

Open Call | Window Exhibition Space Available Sept-Nov 2023

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…

Black Migration, Living Transformations: Massy Arts interviews Suzette Mayr 

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…

Chasing the Poem: an interview with workshop hosts Jónína Kirton, annie ross, and Justene Dion-Glowa

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…

Massy Interviews | Anna Moschovakis & Danielle LaFrance

Massy Interviews | Anna Moschovakis & Danielle LaFrance

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…

Massy Interviews / Soloman Chiniquay + Rachel Lau

Massy Interviews / Soloman Chiniquay + Rachel Lau

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…

Massy Interviews Alycia Pirmohamed, Author of Another Way to Split Water

Massy Interviews Alycia Pirmohamed, Author of Another Way to Split Water

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…