"Son Of Greg Girard" by Thomas Girard in conversation with Angela Fama

Name: "Son Of Greg Girard" by Thomas Girard in conversation with Angela Fama
Start: 2024-10-16T19:00:00-07:00
Location: Massy Books

Schedule

Wed Oct 16 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Massy Books | Vancouver, BC

Join Massy Books & Thomas Girard for an evening of the book launch of "Son Of Greg Girard" in conversation with Angela Fama, Wednesday October 16th 7-9pm at Massy Books.
Venue & Accessibility
The event will be hosted at the Massy Books, at 229 East Georgia Street.
Registration is free, open to all and required for entrance. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/son-of-girard-by-thomas-girard-in-conversation-with-angela-fama-tickets-1017163341937?aff=oddtdtcreator
The Book store is wheelchair accessible and a gender-neutral washroom is on-site. Please refrain from wearing scents or heavy perfumes.
Covid Protocols: Masks keep our community safe and are mandatory (N95 masks are recommended as they offer the best protection). We ask if you are showing symptoms, that you stay home. Thank you kindly.
About the Book: We arrived at a strange hour at Phnom Penh airport and used the Visa on Arrival option, where a raggedy man in a makeshift booth rubber stamped our Canadian passports after a short flight. It was late and my dad recalls trying to check into a hotel room that had only one bed, which I refused, after which we tuk tuked around in the middle of the night if I remember correctly trying to find a hotel. I remember the first hotel…
About the Author: Thomas Girard (born 30 December, 1980 in Vancouver, Canada) is a Canadian scholar. Girard was accepted to attend University of Oxford in lectures equivalent to graduate coursework. Girard has received several Emerging Scholar awards, first at the Design Principles and Practices conference in Barcelona, Spain at the prestigious ELISAVA. At Emily Carr University of Art and Design he received his second Emerging Scholar award. Other awards include RBC Emerging Scholar, Royal Bank of Canada Foundation. For 2021, he has been awarded an Emerging Scholar award from the New Directions in the Humanities conference in Madrid, Spain.
About the Moderator: Angela Fama is an interdisciplinary artist interweaving their life, art, and work with self and community through pushing at the edges of sticky subjects (such as death, love, and trauma) with an ongoing intersectional commitment to transparency, awareness, accountability, connection, and care. Some of the hats Fama wears alongside artist are creator/facilitator of the Death Conversation Game, facilitator of SafeTeen workshops aimed at youth empowerment and assault prevention, musician, journalist, and photographer.