Celebrate the launch of Another Order: Selected Works by Judith Copithorne and edited by Eric Schmaltz! Another Order compiles the phenomenal multidisciplinary poetry, fiction, visual art, comics, and life writing of cornerstone of the Vancouver literary scene, Judith Copithorne. Join Eric Schmaltz, Jessica Bebenek, Stephen Cain, Amanda Earl, Rasiqra Revulva, and Kate Siklosi as they share work from and inspired by the pieces in Another Order.
Admission is free! Danu Social House has an accessible washroom on the main floor and a ramp to enter the premises.
For more details, click here.
Another Order Launch
Danu Social House
Toronto, ON
April 2, 2024
7:00 p.m. EST
Head to Upstart & Crow for This is Embarrassing!, a night of poetry with Dina Del Bucchia and Daniel Zomparelli. Del Bucchia will share work from her oeuvre as well as poems from her new collection, You’re Gonna Love This, and Zomparelli will read a blend of older poems as well as work from his new book, Jump Scare. The pair will lead us in a discussion about the awkward in modern art and the role our daily dreads can play in writing. More information here.
This is Embarrassing! A Poetry Night with Dina & Daniel
Upstart & Crow
Vancouver, BC
April 4, 2024
7:00 p.m.
Save the date! Join us on April 24 at Pyatt Hall for Talonbooks’s spring 2024 launch. We can’t wait to introduce you to this season’s new titles.
Here’s what’s launching:
Eric Schmaltz will be reading from his introduction to Another Order.
Daniel Zomparelli will be launching his new poetry collection Jump Scare.
Tiziana La Melia will be launching her new poetry book Lettuce Lettuce Please Go Bad.
Leanne Dunic will be launching her new collection Wet.
Dina Del Bucchia will be launching her new poetry collection You’re Gonna Love This.
The launch will be hosted by Samantha Nock, author of A Family of Dreamers.
Help us welcome these fabulous books to the world! Doors open at 7:00 p.m.; readings begin at 7:30 p.m.
Pyatt Hall is wheelchair and scooter accessible. Snacks and drinks will be served. A live stream will be available on the Talonbooks YouTube channel, so tune in remotely if you can’t attend in-person.
Talonbooks Spring 2024 Launch
Pyatt Hall
843 Seymour St
Vancouver, BC
April 24, 2024
Doors at 7:00 p.m.; readings begin at 7:30 p.m.
Save the date! Join us in the Heritage Lounge at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre to celebrate the launch of Gaman – Perseverance: Japanese Canadians’ Journey to Justice by Art Miki! Enjoy a reading from Gaman – Perseverance, an introduction from Mohammed Hashim, executive director of the Canadian Race Relations Foundation, and a conversation between Art Miki and Lynn Kobayashi, president of the Toronto chapter of the National Association of Japanese Canadians!
Gaman – Perseverance is an in-depth memoir detailing the intense negotiations that took place in the 1980s between the Government of Canada and the NAJC – negotiations which finally resulted in the historic Japanese Canadian Redress Agreement of September 1988 and the acknowledgment by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney that Canada had wronged its own citizens. In Gaman – Perseverance, Art Miki recollects his past experiences and family history, revealing the beliefs and attitudes that shaped his life’s journey as a youth in British Columbia, an educator in Manitoba, and a community leader across Canada.
Mr. Art Miki is an active leader in the Japanese Canadian community, having served as president of the National Association of Japanese Canadians from 1984 to 1992. He led the negotiations to achieve a just redress settlement for Japanese Canadians interned during World War II. For his efforts nationally, provincially, and locally, he has received this country’s highest recognition, the Order of Canada, the Order of Manitoba, and recently, the Order of the Rising Sun from the government of Japan. He is past-president of the Japanese Cultural Association of Manitoba and the Asian Heritage Society of Manitoba. Art is a former teacher and principal, a Canadian Citizenship Judge, and a lecturer at the University of Winnipeg.
The Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre is fully wheelchair and scooter accessible.
Attendance is free! Seating is first-come, first-served. We can’t wait to see you there!
Gaman – Perseverance Launch
Heritage Lounge – Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre
Toronto, ON
May 1, 2024
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; the event begins at 7:00 p.m.
This event is made possible by the Canadian Race Relations Foundation.
A production of the 2004 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama winner Girl in the Goldfish Bowl by Morris Panych will be running in May of 2024 at the Peterborough Theatre Guild. Panych’s comedy about a dysfunctional family is full of his trademark wit and wisdom.
For more information and to purchase tickets, click here.
Girl in the Goldfish Bowl
Peterborough Theatre Guild
Peterborough, ON
May 4 to May 18, 2024
If you’ve not yet had the pleasure, there’s a run of The Piano Teacher by Dorothy Dittrich at Chemainus Theatre this fall! The Piano Teacher, a stirring story about love, loss, and the healing power of music, won the 2022 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama.
For more details about this production, click here.
The Piano Teacher
Chemainus Theatre
Chemainus, BC
September 27–October 20, 2024