Kit Dobson - Field Notes on Listening

Schedule

Wed Jun 29 2022 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

Location

1302 4 Street Southwest,Calgary,T2R 0X8,CA | Calgary, AB

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Join author Kit Dobson for a book launch and reading.
We are excited to have Kit Dobson in-store for the launch of his new book, Field Notes on Listening. Kit will be joined by Shazia Hafiz Ramji and Kyle Flemmer.
If you'd like to attend, please register to reserve your seat! Seating is limited, so registration is highly recommended.

*IMPORTANT* IN-STORE EVENT GUIDELINES
Though wearing masks is not mandatory in our store (it is, however, encouraged!), we will require attendees to wear masks when seated in the event area. This means that any refreshments (coffee, water) should not be consumed while seated. Authors/presenters will be able to take their masks off when up at the podium.

ABOUT THE BOOK
When Kit Dobson’s daughter looked at the field of stars on the screen at the beginning of a new Star Wars movie in the theatre and remarked to her father, “Yeah, right. There’s not that many stars,” Dobson suddenly realized his daughter had never truly seen the night sky. From then on Dobson began to think seriously about how little we, as humans, interact with the natural world and how that has changed our place within it. Field Notes on Listening is a response to our lack of connection to the land we call home, the difficult history of how many of us came to be here and what we could discover if we listened deeply to the world around us. Written in brief, elegant sections, Field Notes on Listening starts at Dobson’s kitchen table, a family heirloom, and wends through time and space, looking at his family’s lost farm, the slow violence of climate change, loss of habitat, the tensions of living in late-stage capitalism and through careful listening strives to find a way through it all, returning, in the end, to home and the same table.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Kit Dobson lives and works in Calgary / Treaty 7 territory in southern Alberta. His previous books include Malled: Deciphering Shopping in Canada (Wolsak & Wynn, 2017) and he is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary. He grew up in many places across Canada, but returned again and again to the landscapes of northern Alberta where his family members settled – and that continue to animate his thinking.
Shazia Hafiz Ramji is the author of Port of Being. Her writing has recently appeared in the Literary Review of Canada and is forthcoming in The Malahat Review and C Magazine. She lives and works in Calgary and Vancouver.
Kyle Flemmer is an author, editor, and publisher from Calgary in Treaty 7 territory. He studies digital poetics at the University of Calgary. Kyle's first books, Barcode Poetry, was published by The Blasted Tree in 2021.
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