Sharing the Light with Monique Gray Smith & Chastity Davis-Alphonse

Schedule

Fri Feb 13 2026 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

Massy Books | Vancouver, BC

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Join Massy, House of Anansi Press, Chastity Davis-Alphonse & Monique Gray Smith for the launch of Sharing the Light, Feb 13th at 7 pm!
About this Event

Join Massy Books and House of Anansi Press as they host Monique Gray Smith in Conversation with Chastity Davis-Alphonse for the launch of Friday, February 13th at Massy Books. Doors open at 6:30, event starts promptly at 7 pm.
Books will be for sale at the event, followed by a book signing!
Registration is free but required.
Venue:

The event will be hosted at Massy Books, 229. E. Georgia St., Vancouver, BC. The venue has a gender neutral bathroom. Please refrain from wearing scents or heavy perfumes. Covid Protocols: Masks keep our community safe and are recommended. We ask if you are showing symptoms, that you stay home. Thank you kindly.
The Book:

Uplifting stories, vignettes, and reflections to inspire gratitude, love, joy, and hope in navigating life in a changing, challenging world. This beautiful and welcoming book can be read cover to cover or used as a daily source of guidance, providing gentle wisdom that inspires and empowers. Through the lens of five transformative practices-gratitude, love, joy, happiness, and hope-bestselling author Monique Gray Smith weaves together short stories, poignant reflections, and thoughtful questions that invite readers to pause and reconnect with their inner light. And as an Indigenous author, Monique brings her cultural wisdom and unique perspective to each offering. Sharing the Light is a powerful reminder that when we embrace our light and share it with the world, that energy not only transforms us but ripples out to uplift everyone around us.

MONIQUE GRAY SMITH is an award-winning, bestselling author of books for children and adults, as well as an accomplished international speaker and consultant. Of Cree and Scottish descent, she has been sober and on her healing journey for more than thirty-four years. Her debut novel, Tilly: A Story of Hope and Resilience, won the 2014 Burt Award for First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Literature. Monique Gray Smith and her family are blessed to live on the traditional territory of the WSÁNEC people near Victoria, British Columbia.

CHASTITY DAVIS-ALPHONSE is a mixed-heritage woman of First Nations and European descent. She is a proud member of the Tla’amin Nation and married into the Tsilhqot’in Nation. Chastity is the sole proprietor of her own multi-award-winning consulting business. She has worked with 125+ First Nation communities in BC and several well-known corporations, companies, not-for-profits, and Indigenous organizations. Chastity’s work is completed in the spirit of reconciliation and focuses on building knowledge and capacities for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous individuals, organizations, communities, and governments.

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