from time to new with Lydia Kwa,Tania De Rozario and Rita Wong
Schedule
Wed Oct 09 2024 at 06:00 pm
Location
23 East Pender Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada, British Columbia V6A 1S9 | Vancouver, BC
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Join Massy Arts and Lydia Kwa for the release of her book from time to new with guest Tania De Rozario and guest moderator Rita Wong, Wednesday Oct 9th from 6-8pm.Venue & Accessibility
The event will be hosted at the Massy Arts Gallery, at 23 East Pender Street in Chinatown, Vancouver.
Registration is free, open to all and required for entrance.
The gallery is wheelchair accessible and a gender-neutral washroom is on-site.
Please refrain from wearing scents or heavy perfumes.
For more on accessibility including parking, seating, venue measurements and floor plan, and how to request ASL interpretation please visit: massyarts.com/accessibility
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: from time to new
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This collection of poems titled from time to new from Gordon Hill Press weave themes of alienation and reconciliation between the past and the present. It is work that explores grieving and recovery from illness,touching on the unseen aspects of surviving intergenerational trauma, on the challenges of being part of the Asian diaspora in North America in a time of rising violence against BIPOC people, and on the isolation that accompanies living through a global pandemic. Through all these elements, the collection asserts the love of self as inseparable from the care of others.I attach #2 to 4 here. Photo credit: Joshua Paul.
About the Author: Lydia Kwa has published two books of poetry (The Colours of Heroines, 1992; sinuous, 2013) and five novels (This Place Called Absence, 2000; The Walking Boy, 2005 and 2019; Pulse, 2010 and 2014; Oracle Bone, 2017; A Dream Wants Waking, 2023). A third book of poetry from time to new will be published by The Porcupine's Quill Press in Fall 2024.
About the Guest Author: Tania De Rozario: Tania De Rozario is a writer, artist and the author of four books. Her latest collection, Dinner on Monster Island, (Harper Perennial, 2024), has been described as “sharp and searing” (Ms. Magazine), “unique” (Publishers Weekly), “a book with resonance” (Kirkus Reviews), “taut and riveting” (LA Times), “elegant”, “droll” and “magnetic” (British Columbia Review). Tania’s writing has won the New Ohio Review Nonfiction Contest (2020) and the Muriel Craft Bailey Poetry Contest (2021), has been a finalist at the Lambda Literary Awards (2021) and has been published in journals/anthologies across four continents. Her art has been showcased in Singapore, Europe and the US. Born in Singapore, she lives on the traditional unceded territories of xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.
About the Moderator: Rita Wong lives and works on unceded Coast Salish territories, also known as Vancouver, where she attends to questions of respect for water, decolonization, ecology and climate justice. Co-editor of the anthology Downstream: Reimagining Water (2017) with Dorothy Christian, Wong is the author of current, climate (2021), beholden (2018, with Fred Wah), undercurrent (2015), perpetual (2015, with Cindy Mochizuki), sybil unrest (2008, with Larissa Lai), forage (winner of Canada Reads Poetry 2011 and short-listed for the 2008 Asian American Literary Award for Poetry), and monkeypuzzle (1998). She has received the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and the Asian Canadian Writers' Workshop Emerging Writer Award.
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23 East Pender Street, Vancouver, BC, Canada, British Columbia V6A 1S9Event Location & Nearby Stays: