We’re excited to share some great BC book events happening around the province—including Victoria, Chilliwack, and Fort Nelson. Check out our round-up below, and we hope to see you at an event this week!
Tuesday, June 20 is World Refugee Day, to commemorate the strength, courage and perseverance of millions of refugees. Stepping Stones: A Refugee Family’s Journey (Orca Books) has been making waves since it was released last Fall—for the stunning stone artwork of Syrian artist Nizar Ali Badr, the dual language text in English and Arabic, and the resonating global message. Author Margriet Ruurs and translator Falah Raheem will be in Victoria on June 20 for a discussion of Stepping Stones.
Wednesday, June 21 is National Aboriginal Day. Griffin Poetry Prize winner Jordan Abel will be participating in an evening of poetry, music, and performance in celebration of National Aboriginal Day. Abel will be joined by Rain Prud’homme Cranford, Samantha Nock, and M’Girl.
If you enjoy your lunch hour with a splash of poetry, Lunch Poems at SFU is a monthly event at SFU’s Vancouver Harbour Centre campus. The reading brings together the cadence of poetry with the hustle and bustle of downtown Vancouver. On Wednesday, June 21, Lunch Poems at SFU presents Adele Barclay and Taryn Hubbard.
Shelley O’Callaghan will launch How Deep is the Lake: A Century at Chilliwack Lake (Caitlin Press) on Thursday, June 22. The book began as personal research into her family history and soon developed into an exploration and questioning of our rights as settlers upon a land that was inhabited long before we came. The launch will be held at the Chilliwack Museum.
Burnaby Public Library will host historian Kate Bird for an engaging talk and slideshow on Thursday, June 22 of Vancouver in the Seventies: Photos from a Decade That Changed the City (Greystone Books).
Sylvia Taylor, who participated in one of the Spring 2017 Read Local BC events in May, will be launching her new book on Thursday, June 22, aptly at the Vancouver Maritime Museum. Beckoned by the Sea: Women at Work on the Cascadia Coast (Heritage House Publishers) brings together the many voices and narratives of women on the coastal Pacific Northwest who devote their lives and careers to the sea.
Caitlin Press’ new imprint, Dagger Editions was launched one year ago with the mandate to publish the work of queer women. In conjunction with the Queer Arts Festival, Dagger Editions is hosting a “loud and proud” reading of poetry and prose. These short and powerful performances—beginning on Thursday, June 22 with Monica Meneghetti, Fatima Amarshi, and Jane Byers—are free and open to the public.
Fort Nelson is in for a treat! Caroline Woodward has multiple events scheduled to celebrate the new edition of Alaska Highway Two-Step (Harbour Publishing). When it was first released in 1993, it was selected as one of The Globe & Mail’s Top 100 Books and it’s now back in print just in time for the 75th anniversary of the Alaska Highway. Caroline will be holding a movie screening of “Building the Alaska Highway” on Friday, June 23, a Writing Workshop on Saturday morning, and a public reading on Saturday afternoon.
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