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SUMMARY:Namwayut—We Are All One: A Pathway to Reconciliation
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Massy Books and Raincoast Books.\n \nA Special Celebration with Chief Robert Joseph\nWe all share a common humanity. No matter how long or difficult the path ahead\, we are all one. In Namwayut\, Chief Robert Joseph\, globally recognized peacebuilder and Hereditary Chief of the Gwawaenuk People\, traces his journey from his childhood surviving residential school to his present-day role as a leader who inspires individual hope\, collective change\, and global transformation. His dedication to reconciliation has been recognized with multiple honorary degrees and awards. In this momentous event\, Vancouver Writers Fest invites our community to celebrate Chief Joseph’s legacy\, advocacy\, and wisdom on the eve of his 83rd birthday\, in conversation with his collaborator\, Lisa Thomas-Tench. \nPay-What-You-Can options are available for this event. Receive 10% off the retail price of Namwayut at this event\, courtesy of Massy Books\, who will be providing on-site sales.
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/namwayut
LOCATION:Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema\, SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts\, 149 W Hastings St\, Vancouver
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SUMMARY:Run Towards the Danger with Sarah Polley
DESCRIPTION:This event has been rescheduled for Tuesday\, June 28 at 7:30pm.\n \nPresented in partnership with VIFF.\n \nCanadian writer\, director\, and Academy Award-nominated actor Sarah Polley joins the Vancouver Writers Fest in celebration of her evocative release\, Run Towards the Danger. A complex and exquisite collection of essays\, the book captures keystone moments in Polley’s life\, as well as the “fallibility of memory\, the mutability of reality in the mind\, and the possibility of experiencing the past anew\, as the person you are now but were not then.” \nWell-known for her role in the miniseries for Margaret Atwood’s novel Alias Grace (2017)\, her directorial debut Away from Her (2006)\, and her Oscar-nominated adapted screenplay for Alice Munro’s “The Bear Came Over the Mountain\,” Polley’s Hollywood credentials are significant and trail-blazing. \nRun Towards the Danger is her dialogue between her past and present\, exploring what it is to live in a body which is constantly becoming\, learning\, and changing. “These are the most dangerous stories of my life\,” says Polley. “The ones I have avoided\, the ones I haven’t told\, the ones that have kept me awake on countless nights. As these stories found echoes in my adult life\, and then went another\, better way than they did in childhood\, they became lighter and easier to carry.” \nJoin us for a dazzling special event on June 28 as Sarah Polley sits down with Vancouver Writers Fest Artistic Director Leslie Hurtig for an intimate\, one-on-one conversation. \nPrices include all taxes and fees. \nCopies of Run Towards the Danger will be on sale at the event thanks to our bookseller\, Book Warehouse. This event is in-person\, and will be located at the Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema at Goldcorp Centre for the Arts in downtown Vancouver. Parking information is available here. \nThe Vancouver Writers Fest requires masks be worn indoors at all times for this event. Face masks continue to offer assurance and safety for many of the communities the VWF serves. We thank you for your understanding and consideration.
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/sarah-polley
LOCATION:Djavad Mowafaghian Cinema\, SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts\, 149 W Hastings St\, Vancouver
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SUMMARY:The Care We Dream Of with Zena Sharman\, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha\, jaye simpson\, and Joshua Wales
DESCRIPTION:Join us on November 24 for the ONLINE launch of The Care We Dream Of: Liberatory and Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health. CART (real-time captioning) and ASL interpretation are provided. \nFeaturing editor/author Zena Sharman in conversation with contributors Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha\, jaye simpson\, and Joshua Wales. \nZena Sharman\, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha\, jaye simpson and Joshua Wales come together to celebrate the launch of The Care We Dream Of. Join us for an evening of discussing what health and healing might look like if every aspect of our health care were rooted in a commitment to the flourishing and liberation of all LGBTQ+ people. LGBTQ+ health care doesn’t look like this today\, but it could. This is the care we dream of. \nAbout the book:\nThe Care We Dream Of is not quite an essay collection\, and not quite an anthology. Instead\, it’s a hybrid kind of book that weaves together essays on topics like queering health and healing\, transforming the health system\, kinship\, aging\, and death\, alongside stories\, poetry and non-fiction pieces. The book also includes interviews with activists\, health care workers and researchers whose work offers insights into what liberatory and transformative approaches to LGBTQ+ health can look like in practice. \nThis online event is Pay What You Can (starting at $0)!  Book a ticket to this event to receive a link to watch the livestream wherever you are. Can’t make the scheduled time? Ticket holders will receive access to a recording of the event\, including ASL and captioning\, which will be available to rewatch for one month. \nThis event is offered in partnership with Arsenal Pulp Press in celebration of Arsenal Pulp Press’s 50th anniversary! \nIron Dog Books is the local (Vancouver) bookselling partner for this event. If you’re near Vancouver\, please support Iron Dog by buying a copy of The Care We Dream Of in-store.  If you’re far\, please order your copy through your near-to-you local indie #shoplocal.
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/the-care-we-dream-of
LOCATION:Digital (Zoom)
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SUMMARY:Fall Book Club: Colson Whitehead in Conversation with Laura Lynch
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our Fall Book Club\, featuring Harlem Shuffle\, the highly-anticipated new release from Colson Whitehead\, a Festival favourite and the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Nickel Boys and The Underground Railroad\, both of which were also instant\, #1 New York Times bestsellers. Whitehead will be joined by award-winning journalist and CBC What On Earth host Laura Lynch in an electrifying discussion of his latest work. \nA gloriously entertaining novel of heists\, shakedowns\, and rip-offs in the 1960s\, Harlem Shuffle is centered around the unassuming Ray Carney\, an upstanding furniture salesman\, making a decent life for himself and his family. But cash is tight\, so Ray joins his cousin Freddie to rob the Hotel Theresa. The heist doesn’t go as planned and Ray gets mixed up with assorted Harlem lowlifes\, thus beginning the internal tussle between Ray the striver and Ray the crook. Harlem Shuffle is a family saga posing as a crime novel\, a hilarious morality play\, a novel about race and power\, and ultimately a love letter to Harlem. \nBe one of the first to read this powerhouse of a novel. Ticket buyers to our Fall Virtual Book Club will receive a hardcover of Harlem Shuffle\, publishing September 14\, as part of their purchase. \nFulfilled by Kidsbooks \n\nPresented in partnership with SFU Continuing Studies.
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SUMMARY:Jody Wilson-Raybould  in Conversation  with Dana Gee
DESCRIPTION:As one of the most high-profile political figures in Canada\, Jody Wilson-Raybould‘s experience in Trudeau’s Cabinet revealed important lessons about how we must continue to strengthen our political institutions and culture\, and the changes we must make to meet challenges such as racial justice and climate change. Inspirational and full of integrity\, Wilson-Raybould stood on principle at a critical juncture and resigned when the government failed to uphold its promises. \nIndian in the Cabinet: Speaking Truth to Power is Wilson-Raybould’s story of getting into federal politics\, her experience as an Indigenous leader sitting around the Cabinet table\, her proudest achievements\, the very public SNC-Lavalin affair\, and how she got out and moved forward. Hear a riveting and timely conversation on the eve of Canada’s next federal election on the power of change\, and our capacity to implement it\, as Wilson-Raybould is joined by the Vancouver Sun journalist Dana Gee online with this exclusive book launch event\, including a live Q&A with the audience. \nIndian in the Cabinet is available to purchase now from our partner bookstores for this event: \nKidsbooks\nBlack Bond Books (BookWarehouse)\nMunro’s Books\nVolume One Bookstore\nTalewind Books\nMassy Books\nHager Books
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/jody-wilson-raybould-in-conversation-with-dana-gee
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