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February 2024

Sketchbook Practice: A Workshop with Louise Phillips

“Sketchbook practice is a wonder. A sketchbook is a portable studio, a place of exploration, and a document of discovery. I have filled over 60 sketchbooks. All are different and each has its own charm.” — Louise Phillips Enter the world of sketchbooks with artist Louise Phillips in this intimate, hands-on workshop for newbies and beyond. In ...read more

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Writing Climate Change and Social Justice: A Workshop with Renee Sarojini Saklikar

Join award-winning writer Renee Sarojini Saklikar at Upstart & Crow on Thursday, Feb. 22 for a free creative writing workshop focused on exploring and processing your reactions to climate change and social justice concerns through writing. This intimate workshop invites readers and writers into a pause moment to process the “unprecedented” by working through a ...read more

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Let It Go: An Evening with Chelene Knight

Let’s talk about joy! Join us the evening of Sunday, Feb. 18 as we celebrate the latest release from the prolific and ever-amazing writer, Chelene Knight. Her new book, Let It Go: Free Yourself from Old Beliefs and Find a New Path to Joy, is a candid and essential book that will guide the reader to ...read more

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December 2023

Top Shelf: Volume 3

Haters will say winter is dark and dreary, but the silver lining of those early sunsets? More time to curl up and read — in bed, by fire, or sprawled out on the couch in unergonomic bliss. Whatever your style, you’re invited to join the Friend Public Library and Upstart & Crow for Top Shelf ...read more

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November 2023

Memoir Writing: How to Piece Together the Past

**This event is sold out! Join the waitlist by emailing helloupstartandcrow.com. How do you write a memoir about something you don’t quite remember? Learn how to find your memories in the fragments that remain in this free and intimate writing workshop with Upstart & Crow’s 2023 Writer in Residence, RJ McDaniel. As a teenager, McDaniel ...read more

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Strandings: A Conversation with Peter Riley

Calling all lovers of whales, genre-defying books, and conversations about culture, climate and psychology! You’re invited to join our virtual event with Peter Riley, the author of the brilliant new work, Strandings, and Upstart & Crow cofounder Zoe Grams. Settle into a cozy seat at home for a wide-ranging, thoughtful discussion about a book as enthralling as ...read more

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Poetry Is for Everyone: A Workshop with Kyla Jamieson

**This event is sold out! Join the waitlist by emailing helloupstartandcrow.com. Join us for a two-part virtual poetry workshop series with Kyla Jamieson, hosted by Upstart & Crow. Designed for anyone who wishes to develop or deepen their writing practice, this series will incorporate readings, discussion, writing exercises and reflective journaling to help us attune ...read more

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An Evening with Cúagilákv Jessie Housty: Author, Activist and Curator of Thistalalh Library

Join us for an intimate evening and a spirited conversation on Wednesday, Nov. 8 with Jess Housty, a rising literary star and bad-ass activist, mother, organiser, community gardener, land-based educator, librarian and author of a brilliant new book of poems, Crushed Wild Mint (Nightwood Editions). Hear about a unique partnership between Upstart & Crow and ...read more

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October 2023

Canopy of Titans: Tofino Launch

Join us at Little Costa Rica Cafe in Tofino, B.C. to celebrate an essential and critical new book about the Pacific Coastal Temperate rainforest. In Canopy of Titans: The Life and Times of the Great North American Rainforest, authors Paul Koberstein and Jessica Applegate give us both a stunning biography of our part of the ...read more

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‘River Mouth’: A Conversation on Liminal Identities

Join us on Saturday, Oct. 21 for an intimate book and panel discussion in honour of River Meets the Sea, a moving new novel about the complex nature of identity by Rachael Moorthy. In this event, Moorthy will be in conversation with writers Junie Desil and karmella benedito de barros, discussing their work and topics such ...read more

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Canopy of Titans: Vancouver Launch

Join us on Sunday, Oct. 15 at Upstart & Crow to celebrate an essential and critical new book about the Pacific Coastal Temperate rainforest. In Canopy of Titans: The Life and Times of the Great North American Rainforest, authors Paul Koberstein and Jessica Applegate give us both a stunning biography of our part of the ...read more

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Pitfall: A Book Launch

The stakes couldn’t be higher: How can we mine the metals we need without replicating the environmental and human rights abuses of the past? Vancouver-based journalist Christopher Pollon grapples with that question and more in his critical new investigative work, Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World’s Most Vulnerable Places. Join us on Tuesday, Oct. ...read more