Latest Events in Navarre(October Updated)

Don't miss the Autism Awareness Fundraiser 2024: ASWA Live Pro Wrestling event in Navarre, OH at Fairless Middle School Gymnasium on May 4th. ASWA partners with Dynamic Dylan for the annual fundraiser supporting the Autism Society of Greater Akron. Witness WWE/WCW legend ONE MAN GANG and other wrestling stars in thrilling matches, including championship bouts, a 6-Man Tag Team Match, and an electrifying Battle Royal. Featuring wrestling talents like Kongo Kong, The Veteran Jack Vaughn, The Living Nightmare Jimmie Lee, and autistic pro wrestler TANK. Highlights include heavyweight title match - ASYLUM vs. AXEL FURY, and universal title match - THE ACE NICK BRUTAL vs. KENNY THE HURRICANE HENDRIX. Join us for an exciting night of wrestling action for a noble cause. Tickets start at $10. Be there on May 4th to support autism awareness and enjoy the show. Get ready to cheer on your favorite wrestlers while contributing to a meaningful initiative. Don't miss out on this chance to have a great time for a greater cause!

Get ready to immerse yourself in the vibrant cultural extravaganza that is SUDACA VOL 4! // ARTE, MÚSICA Y DISEÑO LATINO. This must-see event is set to take place on May 18, 2024, at Espacio 88 in Barcelona. With a ticket price of only 4 €, attendees will have the opportunity to experience a fusion of Latin American art, music, and design like never before. Located at 88 Carrer de Pamplona, 08018 Barcelona, Espacio 88 provides the perfect backdrop for this celebration of creativity and diversity. From cutting-edge art installations to pulsating musical performances, SUDACA VOL 4! // ARTE, MÚSICA Y DISEÑO LATINO promises to be an unforgettable experience for art enthusiasts and music lovers alike. So mark your calendars and don't miss out on this unique opportunity to be part of a melting pot of Latin American culture right in the heart of Barcelona.

Art enthusiasts are invited to a captivating showcase at SCAN.GALLERY: ART EXHIBITION POP-UP en ESPACIO88 in Barcelona. This exclusive event will take place on the 28th and 29th of May at the venue located at 88 Carrer de Pamplona. Visitors will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in a collection of extraordinary artworks by renowned artists such as ALEIX BARAU, DANIEL ALPERNIA, UNCIELOLILA, LUCIA LAMATA, and RONALD PIZZOFERRATO, presenting his book MI PERRO. The event will also feature the release of the SCAN photobook. Entrance to this unique exhibition is free of charge, offering attendees a chance to explore a variety of art forms and styles. Don't miss out on this memorable experience that promises to inspire and captivate all who attend. Mark your calendars and join us at C/ de Pamplona, 88 for a one-of-a-kind artistic journey.

Join us for the launch of WEST OF WEST INDIAN (Mawenzi House) by Linzey Corridon! In conversation with Ronald Cummings. Join us for the launch of WEST OF WEST INDIAN (Mawenzi House) by Linzey Corridon! In conversation with Ronald Cummings. ABOUT WEST OF WEST INDIAN: West of West Indian constructs the Queer Caribbean experience as simultaneously individual and collective, embracing the language that continues to unsettle queer life. The collection is, at once, a summons and a love letter to familiar figures like the Bullerman, the Chichiman, the Funny man, and the Anty man. It collects a distinctly queer Vincentian Canadian account of love and autonomy, and while it represents a written journey into queer pain, it is also an exhibition of pleasure flowing through the bodies and minds of its many subjects. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Linzey Corridon is a mixed-race (Afro-Euro-Indo Caribbean) educator, and a Vincentian-Canadian poet and critic. He is the 2021 recipient of Canada’s Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship and is currently completing doctoral work on the nuances of the Queeribbean quotidian at McMaster University. His writing has been published in The Puritan, Kola, SX Salon, Hamilton Arts and Letters, Montreal Writes and more. He lives in Hamilton, Ontario. ABOUT RONALD CUMMINGS: Ronald Cummings is an associate professor of Black Studies at McMaster University. Information Source: Another Story Bookshop | eventbrite

The goal of this event is to raise funds to help meet the rising costs of maintaining a successful and efficient swim program at Navarre High School. These costs include but are not limited to the YMCA pool usage fee, equipment, uniforms, meet fees, hosting meets, travel, and food for the team. Register early online by August 17 for $40. Late online registration is August 18 to September 14 for $45. Online registration includes breakfast buffet and towel (while supply lasts). Registration is available in person on the day of the event for $50. Proceeds to benefit the Navarre HS Swim Team! For additional info contact Mary Moorer (850) 292-3570 Information Source: eventbrite

Join us for reading and conversation with Diane Morrisseau and Elisabeth Brannigan, authors of ONE SECOND AT A TIME. Hosted by Nancy Cooper. Join us for the launch of One Second at a Time: My Story of Pain and Reclamation (UBC Press) by Diane Morrisseau, with Elisabeth Brannigan, in conversation with Nancy Cooper. ABOUT THE BOOK: Bullied and abused at the Fort Alexander Indian Residential day school, Diane Morrisseau fought back and left school at the age of fifteen. Despite her strength, a childhood of trauma and abuse led her into the arms of Edgar Olson, and by sixteen, the young Ojibway-Anishinabe woman had given birth to her first child and married the man who would become her tormentor for the next eighteen years. Notoriously violent, her abuser was aided and abetted by the systems of colonialism that failed to protect Diane during her childhood. Edgar was able to keep Diane and her children trapped in a cycle of violence for years, without being held accountable by law or society. What could have been a chronicle of unrelenting hardship instead becomes a narrative of how, in horrific circumstances, Diane found the strength to survive, reclaim her life, and eventually thrive. Today she draws meaning from her painful past, counseling women, children and men experiencing similarly difficult circumstances. ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Diane Morrisseau is an Elder and counsellor from Sagkeeng First Nation and lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba Elisabeth Brannigan is an elementary school teacher who lives with her family in Toronto, Ontario. ABOUT THE HOST: Nancy Cooper is a member of the Chippewas of Rama First Nation. Nancy is a Children's author and is working on her third book at the moment. Information Source: Another Story Bookshop | eventbrite

Swash & Serif is a group typography and lettering art show. Since 2014, we’ve featured over 200 artists and showcased over 400 artworks from Toronto and beyond. We bring together the design community to celebrate type in all its forms - from brushscripts to blackletter - and see what new boundaries are being pushed. Learn more at swashandserif.ca Opening night party: 7pm - 11pm, Thursday September 19 Show Hours: 12pm - 6pm, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday (closed Monday) Admittance to the art show is free! Tickets are not required but RSVPs are appreciated. Information Source: Toronto Design Directory | eventbrite

Join us for the launch of Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim (Book*hug) by Jacob Wren! In conversation with Malcolm Sutton. Bookhug will provide light snacks. ABOUT DRY YOUR TEARS TO PERFECT YOUR AIM: What are the best ways to support political struggles that aren't your own? What are the fundamental principles of a utopia during war? Can we transcend the societal values we inherit? Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim is a remarkably original, literary page-turner that explores such pressing questions of our time. A depressed writer visits a war zone. He knows it's a bad idea, but his curiosity and obsession that his tax dollars help to pay for foreign wars draw him there. Amid the fighting, he stumbles into a small strip of land that's being reimagined as a grassroots, feminist, egalitarian utopia. As he learns about the principles of the collective, he moves between a fragile sense of self and the ethical considerations of writing about what he experiences but cannot truly fathom. Meanwhile, women in his life-from this reimagined society and elsewhere-underscore truths hidden in plain sight. In these pages, real-world politics mingle with profoundly inventive fabulations. This is an anti-war novel unlike any other, an intricate study of our complicity in violent global systems and a celebration of the hope that underpins the resistance against them. ABOUT JACOB WREN: Jacob Wren makes literature, performances, and exhibitions. His books include Revenge Fantasies of the Politically Dispossessed; Polyamorous Love Song (finalist for the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and a Globe and Mail Best Book of 2014); Rich and Poor (finalist for the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and a Globe and Mail best book of 2016); and Authenticity is a Feeling. He is artistic co-director of the Montreal-based interdisciplinary group PME-ART. Wren lives in Montreal. ABOUT MALCOLM SUTTON: Malcolm Sutton lives in Toronto. His fiction has appeared in Maisonneuve and Joyland, and his writing on art has appeared in C Magazine and Border Crossings. He is the Founding Editor of The Coming Envelope journal of innovative prose, and the Fiction Editor at BookThug Press. Job Shadowing is his debut novel.Book Cover: Information Source: Another Story Bookshop | eventbrite

Join us for a signing and art activity with Andi Vicente and Allan Matudio, author and illustrator of One Box! ABOUT THE BOOK: One Box is a children’s counting story about a migrant worker sending a box of gifts and supplies to their loved ones in the Philippines. Also known as Balikbayan boxes, these are typically filled with things like canned goods, clothing and snacks. But in One Box there’s more than just stuff — it’s full of promises. With tenderness and gorgeous illustrations, this Filipino parent tells their child about all the things they will do together when they are reunited. Part of a young queer family separated by migration and indentured labour, they don’t count the days. They count the ways they will rebuild their relationships. ABOUT ANDI AND ALLAN: Andi Vicente (they/them) is a visual artist whose interdisciplinary practice is humbled and radicalized by their work with different communities. Through installation, image making and digital collage, they explore intersectional identities, precarious livelihoods and the juxtaposition of movements. Andi aims to broaden an understanding of oppressed experiences and encourage collective empowerment through answering the questions: “Who is not here with us and how can I be there for you?” Allan Matudio is a multidisciplinary artist born to Filipino parents in Tio'tia:ke/Montreal. He gravitates towards illustrations, comics and metalwork as his main mediums of expression. His art practice focuses on the Filipino-Canadian identity, migrant worker struggles and pre-colonial Filipino art and mythology. Information Source: Another Story Bookshop | eventbrite

Join Toronto Lit Up, the Toronto International Festival of Authors, the Toronto Arts Council at Another Story Bookshop to celebrate the launch of BREAD AND STONE by Toronto author, Allan Weiss (Black Rose Books, Montréal) with special guest, Honey Novick! 7:00 pm sharp! Monday, October 28, 2024 Another Story Bookshop 315 Roncesvalles Ave, Toronto, ON, Canada Free! All are welcome to attend. Seating is limited Bookstore accessibility: https://anotherstory.ca/faq/accessibility ABOUT THE BOOK: William McLean is an Alberta farm boy seeking the work that he believes God has put him on Earth to do. Returning from World War I in a crisis of conscience, he finds his calling when he is drawn into Winnipeg's labour movement by his army buddy Daniel Eckersley. As unrest mounts and the authorities respond with force, William finds himself in the midst of an upheaval that could mean freedom — or destitution — for all. In Bread and Stone, Allan Weiss skillfully combines the story of one of the most dramatic real events in Canadian history, the Winnipeg General Strike, with the spiritual journey of a young man growing to understand who he is, who he is becoming, and what it is that he must do. ABOUT ALLAN WEISS: Allan Weiss, a fiction writer and Professor of English at York University, was born in Montreal and later moved to Toronto to pursue doctoral studies after earning his BA and MA at Concordia University. He is the author of three story cycles: Living Room (2001), Making the Rounds (2016), and Telescope (2019). His short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, including Fiddlehead, Wascana Review, On Spec, and the Tesseracts anthology series. His historical novel, Bread and Stone, was published by Black Rose Books (June 2024.) https://blackrosebooks.com/products/bread-and-stone-allan-weiss ABOUT HONEY NOVICK: Honey Novick is a singer, songwriter, voice teacher and poet. She is a full member of the League of Canadian Poets, the Writer’s Union of Canada, and Poetry in Voice. She has published eight recordings and 10 chapbooks. The Stop Community Centre awarded her 2024 Outstanding Neighbor and earned her 5th Gerstein Legacy Fund award in teaching Voice Yoga. Her Member of Provincial Parliament, Jill Andrew, nominated her for Poet Laureate of the Province of Ontario. She sings with bill bissett, George Elliott Clarke, Kyp Harness and is an artist in residence for the Friendly Spike Theatre Band and directs Liter-art-I and Womanvoice. www.honeynovick.com The Toronto Arts Council (TAC) and Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) have partnered on Toronto Lit Up, a three-year initiative designed to spotlight Toronto writers and empower local artists with career-building opportunities. The goal of Toronto Lit Up is to present Toronto authors to audiences across the city. These launches allow the public to learn about and access Toronto’s local writing community. For more information about Toronto Lit Up, visit http://festivalofauthors.ca/toronto-lit-up. Information Source: Another Story Bookshop | eventbrite

Join us for the launch of Bad Weather Mammals (ECW Press) by A-E Best! With Therese Estacion and Emma Rhodes. ABOUT THE BOOK “The sick should be good. / It is a kind of undoing,” Ashley-Elizabeth Best writes in her second collection. Bad Weather Mammals navigates the devastations and joys of living in a disabled and traumatized body. By taking a backward glance, she traces how growing up under the maladaptive bureaucracy of social services with a single disabled mother and five younger siblings led her to a precarious future in which she is also disabled and living on social assistance. In poems that explore a variety of formal constraints, such as the suite “ODSP 1, 2, & 3,” which infuses government forms with lyric poetry, she suggests all the ways the medical and bureaucratic systems can dehumanize and traumatize our most vulnerable citizens. By digging deep into her own experiences, Best has archived the ways we fail each other in our most desperate times — while at the same time outlining how we can show up to revel in disabled joy and community. Bad Weather Mammals disassembles dominant narratives about how disabled individuals should be and reconceptualizes the embodied experiences that recenter us in our own narrative. ABOUT THE AUTHOR A-E Best is a disabled poet and essayist from Kingston. Her work can be found in the Capilano Review, New Welsh Review, CV2, Ambit Magazine, Mslexia, and Chatelaine. Her work was longlisted for the 2021 CBC Poetry Prize. Her second collection, Bad Weather Mammals, is now available from ECW Press. She’s currently the Editorial Coordinator for Arc Poetry Magazine and a Marketing Assistant for Brick Books. Find A-E on Instagram as @capitatelikeahead or her website https://ashleyelizabethbest.com/ ABOUT THE GUESTS Therese Estacion is the author of a Phantompains—a collection of poems, published by Book*Hug, that explores her Filipinx heritage and disability. Phantompains was a finalist for both the 2021 Indies Foreword Reviews and 2021 CLMP Firecracker Award. She has been a guest editor for ARC poetry magazine and curated Smutburger’s 2023-2024 series. Therese currently teaches poetry at the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies and is a psychotherapist in training. Emma Rhodes (she/her) is a queer writer currently living and working in Tkaronto/Toronto. She is the author of the chapbook Razor Burn (Anstruther Press), a previous version of which was shortlisted for the Vallum Chapbook Award. She is a member of the Egg Poets, who published the chapbook All Things to Keep You Here (Qwerty). Her work has been published in Contemporary Verse 2, Prism International, Plenitude, and elsewhere. She works as a literary publicist, and is the Co-Editor in Chief of The Miramichi Reader. Information Source: Another Story Bookshop | eventbrite

Join us for a book talk with Nishant Upadhyay, author of INDIANS ON INDIAN LANDS. With Sanober Umar and Pamila Matharu. Moderated by Nadia Hasan, Assistant Professor, York University Cosponsored by Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, School of Gender, Women and Sexuality studies, Centre for Indigenous Knowledges and Languages, Centre for Feminist Research, Department of Social and Political Thought at York University ABOUT THE BOOK Nishant Upadhyay unravels Indian diasporic complicity in its ongoing colonial relationship with Indigenous peoples, lands, and nations in Canada. Upadhyay examines the interwoven and simultaneous areas of dominant Indian caste complicity in processes of settler colonialism, antiblackness, capitalism, brahminical supremacy, Hindu nationalism, and heteropatriarchy. Resource extraction in British Columbia in the 1970s through the 1990s and in present-day Alberta offers examples of spaces that illuminate the dispossession of Indigenous peoples and simultaneously reveals racialized, gendered, and casted labor formations. Upadhyay juxtaposes these extraction sites with examples of anticolonial activism and solidarities from Tkaronto. Analyzing silence on settler colonialism and brahminical caste supremacy, Upadhyay upends the idea of dominant caste Indian diasporas as racially victimized and shows that claiming victimhood denies a very real complicity in enforcing other power structures. Exploring stories of quotidian proximity and intimacy between Indigenous and South Asian communities, Upadhyay offers meditations on anticolonial and anti-casteist ways of knowledge production, ethical relationalities, and solidarities. Information Source: Another Story Bookshop | eventbrite

Join us for the launch of Andrea Freeman's RUIN THEIR CROPS ON THE GROUND. In conversation with Vinita Srivastava. ABOUT THE BOOK The first and definitive history of the use of food in United States law and politics as a weapon of conquest and control, a Fast Food Nation for the Black Lives Matter era. In 1779, to subjugate Indigenous nations, George Washington ordered his troops to “ruin their crops now in the ground and prevent their planting more.” Destroying harvests is just one way that the United States has used food as a political tool. Trying to prevent enslaved people from rising up, enslavers restricted their consumption, providing only enough to fuel labor. Since the Great Depression, school lunches have served as dumping grounds for unwanted agricultural surpluses. From frybread to government cheese, Ruin Their Crops on the Ground draws on over fifteen years of research to argue that U.S. food law and policy have created and maintained racial and social inequality. In an epic, sweeping account, Andrea Freeman, who pioneered the term “food oppression,” moves from colonization to slavery to the Americanization of immigrant food culture, to the commodities supplied to Native reservations, to milk as a symbol of white supremacy. She traces the long-standing alliance between the government and food industries that have produced gaping racial health disparities, and she shows how these practices continue to this day, through the marketing of unhealthy goods that target marginalized communities, causing diabetes, high blood pressure, and premature death. Ruin Their Crops on the Ground is a groundbreaking addition to the history and politics of food. It will permanently upend the notion that we freely and equally choose what we put on our plates. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Andrea Freeman is the Second Century Chair Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School, a Fulbright scholar, and author of Ruin Their Crops on the Ground and Skimmed: Breastfeeding, Race and Injustice. A pioneer in the field of food politics, Freeman has published and appeared in the LA Times, NPR's Weekend Edition, the Takeaway, and Here & Now, Huffington Post, Salon, The Washington Post, Lit Hub, Pacific Standard, and more. ABOUT DON'T CALL ME RESILIENT Don’t Call Me Resilient is a podcast that examines how systemic racism permeates our society. Through a sharply-focused anti-racist lens, host Vinita Srivastava dives into conversations with experts to break down what is happening in the world, to spark dialogue, and to present thoughtful solutions. Information Source: Another Story Bookshop | eventbrite

Join us for the launch of OmiSoore Dryden's GOT BLOOD TO GIVE! In conversation with Nehal El-Hadi. ABOUT THE BOOK Through storytelling, theorizing and discourse analysis, this book investigates how anti-Black homophobic nation-building policies became enshrined in blood donation. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Dr. OmiSoore H. Dryden (she/her/hers), a Black queer femme and professor at Dalhousie University, is the James R Johnston Endowed Research Chair in Black Canadian Studies, Faculty of Medicine, the Interim Director of the Black Studies Research Institute (in STEMM), and the co-founder and co-lead of the national organization, The Black Health Education Collaborative. OmiSoore engages in interdisciplinary scholarship and research that focuses on Black LGBTQI communities, blood donation systems in Canada, and anti-Black racism in healthcare, medical education, and Black health curricular content development. Information Source: Another Story Bookshop | eventbrite

CAT DRAW: A cat life drawing event at The Cat Show This night of life-drawing has a twist - the models are cats! Come draw some felines on Monday, November 25 from 7pm - 9pm at Northern Contemporary. BYOM (bring your own materials). Open to all skill levels. Besides the cuteness factor (which will be high) you get to practice a whole different set of textures and anatomy. We’ll have a variety of different cats and energies (these fur babies pose however they please!) - you get a night unlike any other and you’ll go home with a stack of personal masterpieces to frame and display. This event is taking place at The Cat Show, featuring feline art from Zack Rosen and Gillian Lahav from November 20-26. The Cat Draw is run by Zack Rosen and fellow cat-obsessed artist Katika Marczell. Zack has taught at the Grateful Den and exhibited in Toronto, D.C., and New York. Zack is also a certified professional dog trainer so you know you’re in good hands. Katika has taught at York University and exhibited in Toronto, Montreal, Markham, and Peterborough. She has worked with animals in various capacities since 2018 and is excited for everyone to get drawin’. Suggested materials: Paper (Newsprint, Mayfair, Canson, strathmore bristol, even printer paper!), a sketchbook, pencil crayon, pastel, oil pastel, charcoal, marker, whatever you find most fun and easy to work with. Information Source: The Cat Show | eventbrite

Welcome to the SEVO Friends & Family Film Festival! Join us for a day filled with fun and entertainment at the Revue Cinema. Get ready to enjoy a variety of films that are perfect for all ages. Bring your loved ones and spend quality time together watching some fantastic movies. Don't miss out on this exciting event that is sure to create lasting memories. See you there! Information Source: SEVO | eventbrite

This event takes place Saturday, November 30 - Sunday, December 1, 2024. This camp is open to musician & color guard students who want to audition for the 2025 Bluecoats or who want to get the Bluecoats Experience. Students will learn from our world-class educational team, meet other talented young performers from around the world, learn about the Bluecoats approach, and complete an individual audition. Bluecoats provides meals to students during the Audition Camp - we recommend eating a meal before you arrive. Ground transportation to/from Akron-Canton airport (CAK) is provided. Please fill out the shuttle request form at bluecoats.com/events. Overnight housing is provided on Saturday night only. Like during a drum corps tour, students should bring sleeping gear (air mattress/sleeping pad, sleeping bag, pillow) for sleeping on a gym floor. You must purchase the 2025 Techniques & Materials packet to participate in the camp. Registered students will receive an email when the packets are available. For more audition information, visit bluecoats.com/join. Information Source: Bluecoats | eventbrite

ABOUT THE BOOK: What was it like to be in the midst of the counterculture movement as a white teen girl with a critical eye? Out of Sight! is Barbara Sanford Rahder’s memoir, a coming-of-age story set in the iconic time and place of 1960s San Francisco. At sixteen, Barbara moved into her sister’s one-bedroom apartment in Haight-Ashbury and was quickly drawn into hippie life: dancing in the street, smoking pot, striking to expose racism in college, marching with thousands to protest the Vietnam war, joining a commune, living on a precarious houseboat. But there was a shadow side as well—sexism, racism, abuse, incarceration, and police brutality. Many of the changes of the era came with an underbelly of power, privilege, and violence that was hidden from view or forgotten. Out of Sight! weaves one young woman’s experience during a transformative time with unflinching observations on gender, race, and power. Sad, funny, painful, and always very real, Barbara’s story brings a new, critical perspective to the hippie era. And throughout it all ripples an undercurrent of disturbing family tensions. Things that are hidden “out of sight” are not easily confronted, but secrets have a way of surfacing. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Barbara Rahder, PhD, is professor emerita and former dean of the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University in Toronto. She has over sixty scholarly, professional, and activist publications, most focused on issues of equity and access to housing and community services for women at risk of abuse. She is a former member of Canada’s National Network on Environment and Women’s Health, National Action Committee on the Status of Women, Women and Environments Education and Development Foundation, and Women Plan Toronto, and a current member of Planners Network—the Organization of Progressive Planning, and a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Planners.​A Firefly Creative Writing course introduced her to non-academic writing, and from the first day, she was hooked. As Barbara wrote, she realized how much of her research and activism has been motivated by her early experiences. As a survivor of abuse who has undergone many years of intense therapy, she hopes her ability to heal may inspire others to seek help. Information Source: Another Story Bookshop | eventbrite

Join us for the Toronto launch of THE SACRED HEART MOTEL , by Grace Kwan! With guest reader Khashayar Kess Mohammadi. ABOUT THE BOOK: The Sacred Heart Motel is a map for lapses in time, for the air between the dust. Poems in a multiverse narrative bring the reader on a tour of the motel, from amenities to rooms to back alleys, through the generations of ghosts and queer love stories, until they are left alone with the heart at the centre of the narrative. Music forms the rungs of this manuscript, from nighttime quiet to an orchestral intermission to a crescendo of exposed interiors. New poet Grace Kwan is ruthless and nimble, guiding us through the recesses of body and roadside space. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Grace Kwan is a Malaysian-born sociologist and writer based in Vancouver, the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. Their recent poetry appears in Canthius, Room Magazine, and others. Find them at grckwn.com. ABOUT THE GUEST READER: Khashayar Kess Mohammadi is a queer, Iranian-born, Toronto-based poet, writer and translator. Information Source: Another Story Bookshop | eventbrite

Join social workers Wayne Ng and Farzana Doctor as they reunite after 32 years to chat about writing politicized BIPOC stories and how they both learned to cross genres and write YA fiction. Catch them at Another Story Bookshop in Toronto on Monday, Dec 9th at 7pm! Wayne was Farzana's student supervisor back in 1992 in Ottawa. Today, they’re both cranky, racialized writers with new YA books, nostalgically bonding over the '70s and '80s. Free and open to all—a mask-friendly event. JOHNNY DELIVERS by WAYNE NG (waynengwrites.com) Eighteen-year-old Johnny Wong’s dead-end life consists of delivering Chinese food and holding his chaotic family together in Toronto. When his sweet but treacherous Auntie, the mahjong queen, calls in their family debt, he fears the family will lose the Red Pagoda restaurant and break apart. Invoking the spirit of Bruce Lee and in cahoots with his stoner friend Barry, Johnny tries to save his family by taking up a life of crime, delivering weed with a side of egg rolls. He chases his first love, but his hands are already full with his emotionally distant mother, his dream-crushing father, and his reckless, sardonic little sister. As he fights to stay ahead of his Auntie, sordid family secrets unfold. With lives on the line, the only way out is an epic mahjong battle. While Johnny is on a mission to figure out who he is and what he wants, he must learn that help can come from within and that our heroes are closer than we think. Dripping with 1970s nostalgia, JOHNNY DELIVERS is a gritty and humorous standalone sequel to the much-loved and award-winning LETTERS FROM JOHNNY. THE BEAUTY OF US by FARZANA DOCTOR (farzanadoctor.com) September 1984, Thornton College private school. After 15-year-old Zahabiya’s father remarries, she can’t wait to leave home and convinces him to send her away to boarding school. But will she fit in? She joins a clique of smart students but isn’t sure if she measures up or how to read the mixed messages from a guy she’s crushing on. Seventeen-year-old Leesa has been at Thornton since middle school after her parents’ messy divorce. She’s been climbing the school’s social ladder with equal measures of meanness and manipulation. She’s also guarding a big secret that she has to work overtime to keep from her friends. Fresh out of university, this is Nahla’s first real teaching job, and she’s drowning. She has her distractions though: the flirty art teacher and a cryptic notebook left behind by her deceased predecessor, Mademoiselle Leblanc. Zahabiya and her friends — all racialized girls and victims of Leesa’s bullying — uncover Leesa’s secret. But can they help Leesa? Nahla, too, is embroiled in her own mystery, assisted by Mademoiselle Leblanc’s ghost. Each is indelibly changed by what they learn. Masterfully crafted, THE BEAUTY OF US is a gripping novel about surviving hardship, the power of friendship, and growing up. Information Source: Another Story Bookshop | eventbrite

This event takes place Friday, December 20 - Sunday, December 22, 2024. This camp is by invitation only for musicians with a callback or contract for the 2025 Bluecoats. This camp also acts as the first-round for conductor auditions. Conductors, please email join@bluecoats.com for a registration code to register before November 23. Bluecoats provides meals to students during the Callback Camp - we recommend eating a meal before you arrive. Ground transportation to/from Akron-Canton airport (CAK) is provided. Please fill out the shuttle request form at bluecoats.com/events. Overnight housing is provided on Friday and Saturday nights. Like during a drum corps tour, students should bring sleeping gear (air mattress/sleeping pad, sleeping bag, pillow) for sleeping on a gym floor. For more audition information, visit bluecoats.com/join. Information Source: Bluecoats | eventbrite

Readings and conversation with the authors of Black Cake, Turtle Soup, and Other Dilemmas – essays on music, memory and motion and Side Notes from the Archivist – poetry that elevates and illustrates the buoyancy of Blackness. ABOUT THE AUTHORS Gloria Blizzard is an award-winning Black Canadian woman of multiple heritages. Music, dance, science, spirit, and culture intersect in her work, which has won the Malahat Review Nonfiction Prize, and been nominated the prestigious Pushcart prize. Essays, reviews and poems have been published by the CBC, the Globe and Mail, Wasafiri International Contemporary Writing and World Literature Today. Gloria holds an MFA from the University of King’s College and has recently released a book of essays, Black Cake, Turtle Soup, and Other Dilemmas, published by Dundurn Press. a literary delight , dub poet and Toronto poet laureate Lillian Allen as captivating and lovingly written as any of her songs or poems” - Ms Magazine Anastacia-Reneé (She/They) is a multi-award winning queer writer, educator, interdisciplinary artist, playwright, former radio host, TEDX speaker, and podcaster. She is the author of (v.) (Gramma/Black Ocean), Forget It (Black Radish); Sidenotes from the Archivist (HarperCollins/Amistad), and Here in the (Middle) of Nowhere (HarperCollins/Amistad). Her most recent book of poetry, Side Notes From The Archivist was selected as one of “NYPL Best Books of 2023,” and, The American Library Associations (RUSA) “Notable Books of 2024.” ABOUT THE BOOKS Black Cake, Turtle Soup, and Other Dilemmas is a diasporic collection of personal essays that explore the spaces where music, dance, spirit, race and culture collide. In this powerful collection, Gloria Blizzard uses traditional narrative essays, hybrid structures, and the tools of poetry to negotiate the complexities of culture, geography, and language in an international diasporic quest. These essays of wayfinding accompany anyone exploring issues of belonging — to a family, a neighbourhood, a group, or a country. Here, the small is profound, the intimate universal; the questions are all relevant and the answers of our times require simultaneous multiple perspectives. Side Notes from the Archivist, is rich with beauty and nostalgia, a vivid plumage of detail and unflinching intimacy. The author invites us to experience an archive through the voice of the archivist and their side notes. In this book, full of Black femininity, identity and history, she asks the reader to take a listening and learning role. This collection of poems makes room for the open and precise exploration needed to create an expansive archive – Bellingham Review. Information Source: Another Story Bookshop | eventbrite

This camp is by invitation only. This camp is mandatory for conductors, brass, battery, and front ensemble performers with a contract or callback status. If needed, all final musician contracts will be given at this camp. You will have the option to make a payment in person at camp or be sent an invoice in the days following camp. All contracts offered at camp with be sent via DocuSign to your email following the conclusion of camp. Housing & AccomodationsBluecoats provides housing (overnight Friday and Saturday), meals, and ground transportation to students during the January Musician Rehearsal Camp. We recommend eating a meal before you arrive. You will need to bring sleeping gear (air mattress, sleeping bag w/ ground pad, pillow, blanket, etc.), shower gear (body wash, soap, towel, etc.), light athletic clothing that you can move in easily, and any rehearsal needs. Brass students - If auditioning still, please bring a Bb marching instrument (F mellophone) if possible. Please do not fly with a marching tuba. Front Ensemble and Battery equipment will be provided. Airport & Ground TransportationGround transportation to/from Akron-Canton airport (CAK) and Cleveland Hopkins International (CLE) is provided. Arrival: Shuttle service for arrivals will begin in the afternoon on Friday, January 17th. In order to get you to camp before rehearsal begins at 8:00 PM, plan to arrive no later than 6:00 PM. If arriving after 6:00 PM, we will provide a shuttle service, but you may arrive on campus after rehearsal beginsDeparture: Shuttle service for departures will begin at 3:00 PM on Sunday, January 19th. Please book travel after 5:00 PM. If an earlier departure is booked, Bluecoats may be able to provide ground transportation, but understand you may be asked to leave before rehearsal has concluded. Information Source: Bluecoats | eventbrite

Join author Nadia L. Hohn and illustrator Sahle Robinson to launch their new picture book, Patty Dreams, which celebrates the joys of Jamaican Patties. Through storytelling and music, art and discussion, we will get to the story behind the story. After the reading, author Sadé Smith will moderate the conversation with Nadia and Sahle over light refreshments, followed by a book signing. We look forward to an exciting evening as we also acknowledge the 40th anniversary of Toronto's Patty War. This event will take place at Another Story Bookshop. Information Source: eventbrite

Join us for DigiZine’s zine launch and artist panel featuring this year’s Residency participants! The DigiZine Program is a virtual residency for 2SQTBIPOC youth who are still practicing covid cautiousness, and is focused on zine making and community building! Artist talk and panel from 7-8 pm, and mingle and zine sales from 8-9 pm. masks mandatory and provided Information Source: Another Story Bookshop | eventbrite

Join us for the launch of COLOURS IN HER HANDS by Alice Zorn! With Christine Fischer Guy. ABOUT THE BOOK A witty, layered and compelling novel about a woman with Down Syndrome, exploring textile art, sibling relationships, friendships, and good intentions gone awry. What is intellectual disability? Ask Bruno, who is at his wits' end trying to predict what his sister, Mina, will do next. Ask Iris, who is entranced by the wildly inventive embroidery Mina creates. Ask Gabriela, who loves Mina and disagrees when Bruno uses Mina's constant demands as an excuse not to have a child. Meet Mina in her overstuffed Montreal apartment, surrounded by her treasures. She knows she is the best paper sorter at the recycling plant where she works. She is proud to be diabetic but equally happy to cheat on her diet. The colours she stitches hum with life. Colours in Her Hands is a nuanced and thought-provoking novel about family, about art, about questioning the way the world treats those who are different. With an unforgettable voice, Mina navigates the labyrinth that society sets for her with dignity, inventiveness, and aplomb. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Alice Zorn is the author of two novels and a book of short fiction. Her novel Five Roses was translated into French and was a finalist for the Ontario Library Association Evergreen Award. Her collection Ruins and Relics was a finalist for the Quebec Writers' Federation's First Book Award. She has twice placed first in Prairie Fire's fiction contest, won the Manitoba Magazine Award for Fiction, and has published stories in literary journals including The Fiddlehead and The New Quarterly. Originally from Ontario, she now lives in Montreal. ABOUT THE MODERATOR Christine Fischer Guy is a Toronto writer and journalist. She’s a 2024 VCCA fellow and is the author of The Umbrella Mender and Before the Music (coming in 2026). Her short fiction has appeared in Canadian, American and British journals. She was awarded a National Magazine Award and contributes criticism and interviews to literary journals. More: https://christinefischerguy.com/ Information Source: Another Story Bookshop | eventbrite

Join us for I See the Moon: On Black Art — A Conversation with Erica Cardwell and I. Augustus Durham! Erica N. Cardwell is a writer, art critic, and educator based in Toronto. She is the recipient of a 2021 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for her book, Wrong is Not My Name; Notes on Black Art (Feminist Press, 2024). She considers the consciousness and imaginations of people of color as a tool for social, spiritual, and collective movement. Erica centers Black feminist theory as her primary critical approach and often writes about print and paper-making practices, archival media, and interdisciplinary performance. Her writing has appeared in ARTS.BLACK, Art in America, Frieze, BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, C Magazine, The Kenyon Review, and other publications. Erica is currently Manuscript co-editor of Radical Teacher Journal and is a member of the International Art Critics Association and ACCUTE (Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English). She has written exhibition and catalogue essays for artists such as Crystal Z. Campbell, Rico Gatson, Samantha Box, Chitra Ganesh, and Sandra Brewster. Erica is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Toronto Scarborough. I. Augustus Durham is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toronto. A former President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in English at the University of Maryland, College Park, he worked in New York prior to his arrival at Toronto. His research interests span numerous centuries to account for the emergence, presence, and meaning of blackness in modernity. Durham’s first monograph is Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius (Duke University Press, 2023). He has published work in Syndicate, Black Camera: An International Film Journal, Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International, and Journal of Religion and Health; and an essay on the film Moonlight for an edited collection on Tarell Alvin McCraney. Durham is currently working on three new projects regarding a singer, a calendar year, and (re)invention. Information Source: Another Story Bookshop | eventbrite

Join us for I See the Moon: On Black Art — A Conversation with Erica Caldwell and I. Augustus Durham! Erica N. Cardwell is a writer, art critic, and educator based in Toronto. She is the recipient of a 2021 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant for her book, Wrong is Not My Name; Notes on Black Art (Feminist Press, 2024). She considers the consciousness and imaginations of people of color as a tool for social, spiritual, and collective movement. Erica centers Black feminist theory as her primary critical approach and often writes about print and paper-making practices, archival media, and interdisciplinary performance. Her writing has appeared in ARTS.BLACK, Art in America, Frieze, BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, C Magazine, The Kenyon Review, and other publications. Erica is currently Manuscript co-editor of Radical Teacher Journal and is a member of the International Art Critics Association and ACCUTE (Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English). She has written exhibition and catalogue essays for artists such as Crystal Z. Campbell, Rico Gatson, Samantha Box, Chitra Ganesh, and Sandra Brewster. Erica is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Toronto Scarborough. I. Augustus Durham is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toronto. A former President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in English at the University of Maryland, College Park, he worked in New York prior to his arrival at Toronto. His research interests span numerous centuries to account for the emergence, presence, and meaning of blackness in modernity. Durham’s first monograph is Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius (Duke University Press, 2023). He has published work in Syndicate, Black Camera: An International Film Journal, Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International, and Journal of Religion and Health; and an essay on the film Moonlight for an edited collection on Tarell Alvin McCraney. Durham is currently working on three new projects regarding a singer, a calendar year, and (re)invention. Information Source: Another Story Bookshop | eventbrite

Join us for the launch of Game Changers: Stories of Hijabi Athletes from around the World, by Charlene Smith! In conversation with Shireen Ahmed. Featuring Amreen Kadwa. ABOUT THE BOOK Meet 13 inspiring hijabi athletes who are changing the rules. Many of these women were the first in their sport to compete while wearing the hijab. Some were up against cultural traditions that didn't allow girls to play sports. And some fought to have institutional anti-hijab rules changed so that they, and Muslim girls after them, would be able to compete. Discover the stories of Egyptian beach volleyball player Doaa Elghobashy, UAE hockey player Fatima Al Ali, Afghani soccer player Hajar Abulfazl and Syrian-American runner Rahaf Khatib, among many others. Game Changers shows the next generation of Muslim girls that they don't have to choose between following their religion and following their dreams. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Charlene Smith is a hijabi who tries to keep up with her six children in various sports. She lives in Edmonton, Alberta. She enjoys downhill skiing in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta and downhill mountain biking in the Coast and Columbia Mountains of British Columbia. Game Changers is her first book. ABOUT THE MODERATOR Shireen Ahmed is an award-winning multi-platform Sports Journalist at CBC Sports, and Instructor of Sports Journalism and Sport Media at Toronto Metropolitan University. She is a global expert on Muslim women in Sport, and internationally recognized for her work on racism and misogyny in sports. Shireen lives in Mississauga with her husband, children and cat. She drinks coffee as a tool of resistance. Information Source: Another Story Bookshop | eventbrite

Join us for a reading and discussion with John Lorinc, author of No Jews Live Here! In conversation with Hamutal Dotan. ABOUT NO JEWS LIVE HERE A stolen sign, ‘No Jews Live Here,’ kept John Lorinc’s Hungarian Jewish family alive during the Holocaust. From pre-war Budapest to post-war Toronto, journalist John Lorinc unspools four generations of his Hungarian Jewish family's journey through the Holocaust, the 1956 Revolution, and finally exodus from a country that can't rid itself of its antisemitic demons. This braided saga centres on the writer's eccentric and defiant grandmother, a consummate survivor with a love of flashy jewelry and a vicious tongue. Lorinc also traces the stories of both his grandfathers and his father, all of whom fell victim, in different ways, to the Nazis’ genocidal campaign to rid Europe of Jews. This is a deeply reported but profoundly human telling of a vile part of history, told through Lorinc’s distinctively astute and compassionate consideration of how cities and cultures work. Set against the complicated and poorly understood background of Hungary's Jewish community, No Jews Live Here is about family stories, and how the narratives of our lives are shaped by our times and historical forces over which we have no control. ABOUT THE AUTHOR John Lorinc is a journalist and editor. He writes regularly about cities, climate, and planning for a range of media, including the Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, Corporate Knights, Walrus, and Spacing Magazine, where he is senior editor. John is the author of four previous books, including The New City (Penguin, 2006) and Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias (Coach House, 2022), which won the Writer’s Trust Balsillie Prize for Public Policy and the Pattis Family Foundation Global Cities Book Award. He has also contrib- uted to, co-edited, or project managed every volume of Coach House's uTOpia series, including The Ward: The Life and Loss of Toronto's First Immigrant Neighbourhood and House Divided: How the Missing Middle Can Solve Toronto's Affordability Crisis. John lives with his wife, Victoria Foote, and their labrador retriever, Nora, in Toronto. They have two sons, Jacob and Sammy. Away from his laptop, John is an enthusiastic but untalented hockey player and once (but never again) co-produced a musical cabaret about local history. ABOUT THE MODERATOR Hamutal has been an editor of magazine, newspaper, digital, and book-length journalism for over 15 years. She is the founding editor-in-chief of Scribe Quarterly, a magazine of Jewish life, culture, and ideas launching this spring, and teaches journalism at the University of Toronto and Toronto Metropolitan University. Information Source: Another Story Bookshop | eventbrite