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December 2024

Holiday Sip and Shop at Upstart & Crow

Getting all your holiday shopping done in one magical night — cocktail in hand? The dream! Join us on Thursday, Dec. 12 for a sip and shop night at Upstart & Crow. We’ll be fully stocked with the best and buzziest books and gifts for the season, while also offering beautiful cocktails, wine and beer ...read more

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November 2024

Homing: Vancouver Launch

Join us on Saturday, Nov. 30 at 6:30 p.m. to launch Homing, Alice Irene Whittaker’s powerful debut memoir that captures her profound journey from a commuter-lifestyle to a refuge in the woods. Overwhelmed by obsessive productivity and environmental anxiety, recovering perfectionist Alice Irene Whittaker and her family decide to retreat to a cabin in the ...read more

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‘Upon A Midnight Clear: More Christmas Epiphanies’ Book Launch

Join us on Saturday, Nov. 16 at 7 p.m. to launch Upon A Midnight Clear: More Christmas Epiphanies, edited by acclaimed memoirist JJ Lee. Featuring five writers from Metro Vancouver, this second volume of the Better Next Year non-fiction series collects even more true-life memories of dashed holiday hopes, Christmas catastrophes, and slender, heartbreaking shards of joy. The Tyee said ...read more

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Party in a Bookshop: An Upstart & Crow Fundraiser

Books, cocktails, and a party in a bookshop? There’s perhaps only one thing better than enjoying this combination: doing so to help a good cause. Get your tickets now for this special event at Upstart & Crow on Thursday, Nov. 7! All proceeds from ticket, drink and book sales will go toward our fall fundraising campaign to ...read more

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Two Tyee Titans: andrea bennett and Christopher Cheung in Conversation

Join us on Wednesday, November 6 as two staffers at The Tyee, B.C.’s best-read online news source, chat about their newest books! Combining journalism, cultural commentary, and personal reflection, andrea bennett’s Hearty explores appetite and desire in food media, the art of substitution, seed saving, complex societal narratives around health and pleasure, and more. For ...read more

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In Translation

A Sunday Morning with Yuri Herrera

Join us for a Found in Translation discussion on Sunday, Nov. 3 at 10am PDT with Yuri Herrera about history, justice, literature... and how 19th-century New Orleans can help us understand the world we live in. “Told in Herrera’s typically sparkling, form-exploding language, this one is screaming ‘modern epic.’” — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub A ...read more

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October 2024

In Translation

Ukrainian Voices: A Talk with Lyuba Yakimchuk

It’s our third Ukrainian Voices event! Join us for an online conversation on Sunday, October 27 at 10 AM. Our special guests will include Lyuba Yakimchuk—the award-winning Ukrainian poet, playwright, and screenwriter, renowned for her poem collections such as Apricots of Donbas—in conversation with Amelia Glaser, distinguished scholar, translator, and author. Apricots of Donbas is ...read more

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Drawing Your Daily Life: A Workshop with Teresa Wong

Learn how drawing your life experiences can help you see things in a different way. Drawing is something we all do as kids, but then stop because we think we’re bad at it. But drawing can benefit us all, no matter our skill level. Join the wonderful cartoonist and graphic memoirist Teresa Wong on Saturday, ...read more

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Premee Mohamed & Jes Battis in Conversation

Join us on Sunday, Oct. 20 at 4:30 p.m. for a conversation with authors Premee Mohamed and Jes Battis as they chat about their latest books and the themes that unite them. Expect discussions about anticolonialism, climate fiction, strange magical worlds and more! Mohamed is the author of the new We Speak Through the Mountain, published by ECW Press. Battis is the ...read more

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Storytime and an Expedition with David Suzuki

Calling all young nature lovers! Cozy up with us at Upstart & Crow on Saturday, Oct. 5 at 9:30 a.m. for a special storytime with celebrated author and activist, David Suzuki, in partnership with the False Creek Friends. At this special event, Suzuki will read from his latest children's book, Bompa's Insect Expedition (Greystone Books). ...read more

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The Pages of the Sea: Book Launch

Join us on Thursday, Oct. 3 at 7 p.m. to launch The Pages of the Sea, the tender debut novel by writer Anne Hawk. Hawk will be in conversation with author Jasmine Sealy. A story of sisterhood, secrets, and the sacrifices of love set on a Caribbean island in the mid-1960s, The Pages of the ...read more

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September 2024

Death and Decolonization: Jess Goldman and Jess Housty in Conversation

Join us on Friday, Sept. 27 at 7 p.m. for a special conversation about death and decolonization with Jess Goldman, Upstart & Crow’s 2024 writer in residence, and 'Cúagilákv, Jess Housty, essayist and Crushed Wild Mint poet. This event keys off Goldman’s residency project where they explore Jewish death practices as a possible site of ...read more