This co-presentation with Metonymy Press and Elliott Bay Book Company celebrates of the launch of Callum Angus’ debut short story collection, A Natural History of Transition. The author is joined by special guests Hazel Jane Plante and Corinne Manning. A Natural History of Transition is a collection of short stories that disrupts the notion that trans people…
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Watch: The Bridge Book Launch with Keith Maillard
Author Keith Maillard is hosted by Lynne Quarmby and joined by special guests Andrea Bennett, Edward Carson, Lee Shedden and Debbie Willis for the launch of ‘The Bridge’, published by Freehand Books. About the Bridge: As a child, Keith Maillard asked his mother and grandmother, over and over again, “Am I a boy, or am…
Watch: The Colour of God Book Launch with Ayesha Chaudhry and Sarah Munawar
Canada Research Chair in Religion, Law and Social Justice Ayesha S. Chaudhry in conversation with Sarah Munawar. They discuss writing in community, decentering whiteness in storytelling, embodiment, and more. About ‘The Colour of God’: This is the story of a child raised in Canada by parents who embraced a puritanical version of Islam to shield…
Watch: Peter Quartermain with Colin Browne, Rachel Blau Duplessis, Marjorie Perloff, and Fred Wah
Peter Quartermain launches his long-awaited Growing Dumb: An Autobiography of an English Education (Zat-So Productions 2021) with readings by friends.
Watch: Satellite Love with Genki Ferguson and Kevin Chong
Set 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. In celebration of the launch of Satellite Love, author Genki Ferguson is in conversation with special guest Kevin Chong, author of The Plague,…
Watch: Lullabies in the Real World
Meredith Quartermain is joined by guests Shazia Hafiz Ramji and Rahat Kurd for a poetry reading, followed by a Q and A.
Listen: We All Go Back To The Land: The Who, Why, and How of Land Acknowledgements
An essential narrative for truth sharing and knowledge acquisition. read more
Watch: In Conversation - TK Torme, Rachel Taylor & Aaniya Asrani
Massy Arts Society is pleased to host the web release of Tara Kimberley Torme and Rachel Taylor’s In Conversation: Volume 1 with special guest interdisciplinary artist and visual storyteller Aaniya Asrani.
Massy Reads: On Interrogating the Colonial Frame
A Public Humanities Hub Conversation with UBC Authors Hannah Turner (School of Information) and David Gaertner (Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies).
Listen: George the Parasite
An audio release of S F Ho’s first foray into bound and printed fiction. read more