Cagibi craft fair
Le Cagibi 6596 Blvd. St Laurent, Montreal, Quebec, Canadalocal vendors, espace radicale.
*With a performance by the FOREVER CHORUS AT 8pm Sunday*
HOURS:
10.30am-9.30pm dimanche/Sunday
4pm-9.30pm lundi/Monday
Free
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Ottawa book launch: Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars
Venus Envy Ottawa 226 Bank Street, Ottawa, ON, CanadaKick off 2017 in Ottawa with Kai Cheng Thom's launch of her first novel, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir.
Free
Kingston book launch: Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars
AKA Autonomous Social Centre 75 Queen Street, Kingston, Ontario, CanadaBooks will be available for purchase at the event. All are welcome! This venue has an accessible entrance and accessible, single stall washroom. Please do not wear scented products at AKA. For more info contact germinations (at) riseup (dot) net
Free
Halifax launch of Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars
Venus Envy Halifax 1589 Barrington Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, CanadaBooks will be available for purchase at this free event. All are welcome! This venue has an accessible entrance.
Free
Vancouver launch of Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars
Spartacus Books 3378 Findlay Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaAuthor Kai Cheng Thom returns to her hometown to launch her Lambda Literary Award–nominated debut novel, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir.
Free
Kai Cheng Thom at the Blue Metropolis Festival
Stock Bar 1171 Ste Catherine East, Montreal, Quebec, CanadaMetonymy author Kai Cheng Thom will make two appearances at Montreal's 2017 Blue Metropolis Festival. Join her on Friday, April 28 and Saturday, April 29.
Kai Cheng Thom at the Festival of Literary Diversity
Peel Art Gallery, Museum + Archives 9 Wellington St. E, Brampton, Ontario, CanadaThey fight injustice, obliterate boundaries, and/or defy expectations – bringing real and imagined worlds to life. Meet badass female characters and the writers who created them. Join Kai Cheng Thom, M-E Girard and Sarah Raughley in conversation with Sheridan College Professor and Bluegate Reading Series coordinator Shoilee Khan in a power-packed panel all about women warriors in literature.
$10
jia qing wilson-yang at the Wakefield Writers Festival des écrivains La Pêche
Kaffé 1870 715 Riverside, Wakefield, Quebec, CanadaWakefield's quirky and talented Sheena Beena Turcotte hosts the festival’s most audacious sCrawl to date. You are invited to partake of the rhythmic word images and musical landscapes of two of Canada’s best spoken word artists—Queen Ka and Ian Keteku—and the fresh insights of authors Jasmine Aziz and jia qing wilson-yang on sex and gender identity.
Trish Salah & Friends: Hamilton Book Launch
Bryan Prince Bookseller 1060 King Street W, Hamilton, Ontario, CanadaTrish Salah returns to Hamilton for the launch of the Canadian edition of Lyric Sexology, Volume 1.
Joining her are 2017 Lambda Award finalists jia qing wilson-yang (winner of best trans fiction) and Kai Cheng Thom.
Where: The Reading Room at Bryan Prince Bookseller - 1060 King Street West.
Free, but seating is limited.
Free
Halifax launch of Lyric Sexology Vol. 1 (new edition)
Venus Envy Halifax 1589 Barrington Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, CanadaThis collection of lyric poetry draws on personal history and theory, anthropological and psychoanalytic archives, to “make a perfect mess of so much human experience that’s been too tidily categorized” (Michael V. Smith). The 2017 edition features four new poems and a new cover design by Kai Yun Ching and Wai-Yant Li.
Trish will be joined for the Halifax launch by local artist Anna Quon.
Free