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Vancouver educator Derek Gladwin explores how storytelling is a way to overcome fear in new book

Read an excerpt from the local author’s Rewriting Our Stories: Education, Empowerment and Well-Being

READGail JohnsonMay 18, 2021read, books, BC books, BC authors, storytelling

Grace Eiko Thomson releases memoir of Japanese Canadian internment, racism, and resilience

The inaugural director-curator of what’s now known as the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre shares moving stories in Chiru Sakura—Falling Cherry Blossoms

READGail JohnsonMay 13, 2021read, books, BC authors, Japanese Canadian

JCC Jewish Book Festival presents a Conversation with Colum McCann, May 12

The author of Apeirogon joins Gary Barwin, Yiddish for Pirates writer, in a virtual public talk

Vancouver playwrights Kim Senklip Harvey and Christopher Cook join Governor-General's Literary Award finalists

Today’s postponed 2020 list also includes local authors Ivan Coyote, Billy-Ray Belcourt, and Lisa Robertson

THEATRE, READJanet SmithMay 4, 2021GG Books, Canada Council for the Arts

Reading List: Fiction in translation opens the door to discovery and delight

Four recommendations from Upstart & Crow for books originally written in other languages and published in English

READGail JohnsonMay 3, 2021Read, books, Upstart & Crow, fiction

Vancouver Art Gallery to host special live version of Diversity Reads bookclub-podcast on April 29 at 4 pm

Coral Santana hosts BLM activist Cicely Belle Blain and VAG’s Stephanie Bokenfohr in a discussion of Girl, Woman, Other

READ, PODCASTS, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithApril 26, 2021VAG

Canadian Independent Bookstore Day on April 24 celebrates the joy of booking

The 50-plus indie book shops in Metro Vancouver are a close community, note the bibliophiles at Upstart & Crow

Stir Q&A: Vancouver poet Joseph Dandurand on pain, the positives of isolation, and being shortlisted for 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize

The Kwantlen First Nation member and artistic director of Verses Festival of Words gains global recognition for his latest poetry book, The East Side of It All

READ, FESTSGail JohnsonApril 21, 2021Verses, Joseph Dandurand, Indigenous, poetry

Sarah Berman tries to see NXIVM leader through women's eyes in Don't Call It a Cult

Questions remain, as Vancouver author unravels the allure and mind control of Keith Raniere

READStir VancouverApril 21, 2021NXIVM

Verses Festival of Words celebrates poetry and more virtually, April 22 to May 1

Performances, workshops, masterclasses, and music merge in the online fest

FESTS, READ, WHAT'S STIRRINGGail JohnsonApril 19, 2021Verses, fests, spoken word, What's Stirring

Stir Q&A: In Hiromi Goto's new graphic novel, Shadow Life, the older Asian woman is a fierce queer hero

The local writer draws inspiration from her own grandmother for her book, which is illustrated by Ann Xu

READGail JohnsonApril 17, 2021Hiromi Goto, Read, Books, BC authors, BC books, graphic novels, queer fiction

Dance meets writing and storytelling in Made in BC conversations, April 15 at 2 pm

Guests include Ziyian Kwan, Justine Chambers, Celestine Aleck, and Peter Dickinson amid the guests

DANCE, READJanet SmithApril 12, 2021Made in BC, MADE IN BC

Alexandra Morton shares the urgency behind the quest to save wild salmon in Not on My Watch

The B.C. biologist’s new book, which looks at her work uncovering the catastrophic effects of open-net salmon farms on wild species, is as infuriating as it is inspiring

READGail JohnsonApril 9, 2021independent bookstores, Alexandra Morton