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Giller Prize-winning author Dr. Vincent Lam joins our distinguished 2023 Incite lineup with a novel that casts an insightful, urgent, and intimate eye upon the devastating experience of addiction.
In his practice as an emergency physician…
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“Mom, what are we?”
In Governor General Award winning author Norma Dunning’s new incredible work of nonfiction she shines a light on the Eskimo Disc System—a dehumanizing form of colonization that reduced Inuit identity to a mere…
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With only a few minutes to grab your attention, a talented line-up of established and emerging local writers showcase their works and bring you into their world.
Brian HaydenNatalie LangJana WilliamsDaphne Wright
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Though T.S. Eliot called April the “cruelest month”, at least we have the indomitable power of poetry to carry us through. Celebrate National Poetry Month with readings and musings from poets whose new collections will provoke, console, and…
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Tell Me Pleasant Things About Immortality is a collection of short stories like nothing you’ve ever read before. Lindsay Wong has written a book that defies simple categorization but “immigrant horror” manages to get the idea across. As a…
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Celebrate World Autism Awareness Day, and join comic author and illustrator Graeme Partridge-David as he introduces you to Max & friends. Max Velocity is a neurodiversity positive superhero comic for kids, with fun characters, engaging…
Registration requiredRegister for event Are you a white person with questions about how race affects different situations, but you feel awkward, shy, or afraid to ask the people of colour in your life? Are you a racialized person who is tired of answering the same questions over…
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With only a few minutes to grab your attention, a talented line-up of established and emerging local writers showcase their works and bring you into their world.
Michèle AdamsThancy FatLinda Dayan FrimerJane Silcott
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What happened in 1907 that led to a days long racist and violent demonstration against the Asian immigrant communities in Vancouver? How can we make sure something like it doesn’t happen again in the present? Based on his 360° Riot Walk…
Registration required (239 spots remaining)Register for eventCan telling our story help us move on from our traumas? Are the villains of our past worth giving a second look? At the crossroads of fact and fiction Kevin Chong’s The Double Life of Benson Yu is a coming of age story, an examination of…
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Join VPL’s 2023 Indigenous Storyteller in Residence Les George as he shares Tsleil-Waututh songs, history, stories, and drumming. George is a member of the səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nation and is the grandson of the late Tsleil-Waututh…
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With only a few minutes to grab your attention, a talented line-up of established and emerging local writers showcase their works and bring you into their world.
Marlo Andre BrownAnne KristiansenTom LockeIan Rodriguez
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Journey Through Time with Vancouver Author Angela Ahn at VPL's Summer Reading Club Launch! Her latest book, Double O Stephen and the Ghostly Realm, is full of mysterious steam clocks (sound familiar?), museum high jinks, and a long hidden…
Registration requiredRegister for event With only a few minutes to grab your attention, a talented line-up of established and emerging local writers showcase their works and bring you into their world.
Jane CullenElla Harvey
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