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SUMMARY:Making a Chaputs\, with Joe Martin and Alan Hoover
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday\, September 22 at 7 p.m. for a fascinating exploration of the work of a celebrated master canoe maker… and enjoy discovering a hand-carved canoe right here at Upstart & Crow. \nTuutahkʷiisnupšiƛ Joe Martin and former museum curator Alan Hoover will discuss the meaning and method behind one of the most vivid and memorable symbols of the Northwest Coast: the dugout canoe. \nJoe is a member of the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation and a fierce advocate for the protection of old-growth forests and wild salmon. In the 1980s he travelled to Europe to campaign to publicise BC’s poor forestry practices\, and was a key figure in the protection of Meares Island and the wider effort to stop old-growth logging in Clayoquot Sound. He is a recognized master canoe maker who\, as of 2014\, estimated he had made more than 60 canoes. In addition to making canoes and mentoring apprentices\, he teaches schoolchildren and others about the cultural traditions of the Nuu-chah-nulth peoples. \nJoe and Alan will share more about the process\, the role and responsibilities of the canoe maker\, and describe the meaning behind the 10-foot canoe that will be on display in our space. The teachings Joe received from his father and the expertise he has gained in a lifetime of canoe-making make for an unmissable\, intimate event sharing culture and knowledge.\nThis event takes place on the unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish)\, and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.\nAbout Making A Chaputs: The Teachings and Responsibilities of a Canoe Maker (Royal BC Museum)\, $24.95\nJoe and Alan’s book is a rich visual testament to the practical and cultural power of the dugout canoe\, balanced with its descriptions of meaning and method. Both art form and technological marvel\, the chaputs carries Indigenous cultural knowledge passed down through generations\, not only of the practical forestry and woodworking that shape every canoe\, but also of the role and responsibilities of the canoe maker. \nThe text includes a step-by-step explanation of the canoe-making process from tree selection onward (carefully described and dynamically illustrated)\, along with the personal histories of a number of Joe’s canoes\, encompassing their planning\, creation\, cultural significance and role in the process of reconciliation. The teachings Joe received from his father and the expertise he has gained in a lifetime of canoe-making are recorded here in his own words for generations to come.\n\nAbout The Authors\nJoe Martin is a member of the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation and a fierce advocate for the protection of old-growth forests and wild salmon. In the 1980s he travelled to Europe to campaign to publicise BC’s poor forestry practices\, and was a key figure in the protection of Meares Island and the wider effort to stop old-growth logging in Clayoquot Sound. He is a recognized master canoe maker who\, as of 2014\, estimated he had made more than 60 canoes. In addition to making canoes and mentoring apprentices\, he teaches schoolchildren and others about the cultural traditions of the Nuu-chah-nulth peoples. In 2013\, Joe was one of five Indigenous artists who were awarded the BC Creative Achievement Award. He is also an elected councillor of the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation government. \nAlan Hoover worked for 33 years at the Royal British Columbia Museum as a curator and manager. He edited the anthology Nuu-chah-nulth Voices\, Histories\, Objects & Journeys (2000)\, co-authored with Eugene Arima The Whaling People of the West Coast of Vancouver Island and Cape Flattery (2011) and published a book on canoe racing titled Southern Northwest Coast Indigenous Canoe Racing: A Brief History (2018). \nPLEASE NOTE: \nAccessibility Information\nUpstart & Crow Literary Arts Studio is located on Granville Island\, and can be accessed by mobility devices. There is a bathroom in the back room which is available during events\, and accommodates mobility devices. Please be COVID-safe; do not attend this or other events if you feel sick\, and wear a mask in close proximity.\nPlease note: There is limited seating at Upstart & Crow. Priority will be given to people who require seats. Please arrive early should you need one. Otherwise\, our events are standing.
URL:https://upstartandcrow.com/event/making-a-chaputs-with-joe-martin-and-alan-hoover/
LOCATION:Upstart & Crow Studio\, 1387 Railspur Alley\, Granville Island\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6H 3R7\, Canada
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SUMMARY:The Petroleum Papers: Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating Geoff Dembicki’s anticipated new book\, The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change. \nJoin Greystone Books\, The David Suzuki Institute\, The Tyee and Upstart & Crow to celebrate Geoff Dembicki’s The Petroleum Papers\, called “essential”\, a “vivid expose”\, and “a truly needed compendium of Big Oil’s endless lies.” This is one of Kirkus Reviews’ most anticipated books of the year\, and is already receiving acclaim from critics and readers alike.\nWith experts now warning we have less than a decade to get global emissions under control\, The Petroleum Papers provides a step-by-step account of how we got to this precipice—and the politicians and companies who deserve our blame.\nAs Andrew Nikiforuk explains\, “Dembicki documents how oil industry executives willfully ignored the findings of their own scientists\, then spent nearly thirty years sowing confusion in order to paralyze public debate… Read this book on the power of lies and scream.”\nThe Petroleum Papers is published in partnership with the David Suzuki Institute.\nFree. Stop by from 5.30pm onwards. Light remarks at 6pm\, followed by book signings.\nEnjoy food\, drinks and good company until 10pm that evening. \nMORE ABOUT THE PETROLEUM PAPERS\nDrawing from hundreds of confidential oil industry documents spanning decades\, this explosive work of investigative reporting reveals for the first time the far-right conspiracy that’s stopped the world from preventing the climate crisis.\nIn The Petroleum Papers\, investigative journalist Geoff Dembicki tells the story of how the American oil companies that founded the tar sands in Alberta\, Canada—home to the third-biggest oil reserves on the planet—ignored warnings about climate devastation as early as 1959. Instead of alerting the world to act on this impending global disaster\, Exxon\, Koch Industries\, Shell and others created ad campaigns saying climate change isn’t real and that alternatives to oil are an economic disaster. These companies built a global right-wing echo chamber to ensure tar sands could keep flowing into the U.S.\, which helped elect Donald Trump and now leaves the Joe Biden administration with a sprawling climate mess.\nBut Dembicki also tells the high-stakes stories of people fighting back: the Seattle lawyer who brought Big Tobacco to its knees and is now going after Big Oil\, a young Filipino activist who saw her family drown in a climate disaster\, and a former engineer at Exxon who was pushed out for asking too many hard questions. With experts now warning we have less than a decade to get global emissions under control\, The Petroleum Papers provides a step-by-step account of how we got to this precipice and the politicians and companies who deserve our blame. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nGeoff Dembicki is an investigative climate change reporter from Alberta\, Canada\, home of the largest tar sand deposits in the world. His book Are We Screwed? won the 2018 Green Prize for Sustainable Literature. He is a regular contributor to the Tyee and VICE. He lives in Brooklyn. \nACCESSIBILITY AND LOGISTICS\nPlease RSVP here\, on Eventbrite\, so we have a sense of numbers. This event is first come\, first served so we recommend arriving around 5.30pm to secure your spot.\nThis event will be hosted outside rain or shine in order to be Covid safer. You go inside to order beer and non-alcoholic drinks and can order food from the food truck outside. If the weather is cooler\, do wear layers. We support wearing masks and maintaining distance when possible.\nWashrooms are inside as well. There is a ramp into the building and an accessible washroom on the main floor that includes a baby change table. There is a small upstairs lounge with about 20 stairs and a handrail and another washroom that is not wheelchair accessible.\nFor noise sensitivity\, this is a reasonably quiet area\, with busier streets about a block away.\nThere are several six-person picnic tables with umbrellas for seating. If you require seating\, we advise you to bring your own camping chair as there will be more guests than seats.\nContainer Brewing is located in ‘Yeast Van’ a block or so away from the intersection of Hastings and Clark Dr. There is street parking in this quiet warehouse district and the area is serviced by transit that runs down Hastings and Cordova/Powell Street including the 04\, 07\, R5\, 14 and 20 busses.\nExcited about the food and drink menu available for purchase or checking for food sensitivity? Find Container’s website here (https://www.drinkcontainer.beer/our-beers) and the food truck Burdy’s menu here (https://www.eatburdy.ca/). Non-alcoholic offerings available from Not Too Sweet Craft Sodas.\nIf you require other accessibility that is not listed here\, please email ecooper@thetyee.ca and Em will respond to see if we can meet your needs.\nIf you are unable to attend on this date\, you are in luck as there is a VPL talk featuring Geoff the next evening at the central library.\nThis event is based in what is commonly known as Vancouver\, British Columbia\, on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam)\, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) nations.
URL:https://upstartandcrow.com/event/the-petroleum-papers-book-launch/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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SUMMARY:Generation Dread Launch with Britt Wray
DESCRIPTION:  \n“What a gift! Generation Dread meets the unsettled soul with kinship and insight. In these brimming pages\, Britt Wray guides us through the interior and interpersonal landscape of the climate crisis\, helping us find a grounded\, collective path forward in our tangled time\,” says Dr. Katharine K. Wilkinson\, climate strategist and co-editor of All We Can Save. \nWe’re living in a world where climate and environmental-related fears are ever so rising. As with any type of stress\, eco-anxiety can lead to lead to burnout\, avoidance\, or a disturbance of daily functioning. In Generation Dread\, Britt Wray seamlessly merges scientific knowledge with emotional insight to show how these intense feelings are a healthy response to the troubled state of the world. We are delighted to be in conversation with Britt Wray as we discuss her latest book\, and talk about ways to learn from the past\, from our emotions\, and each other\, to survive and possibly thrive in this changing landscape. \nJoin us for this emotionally charged and inspirational conversation. \nPresented in Partnership with The Tyee. \nTicket Info \nTICKET: FREE\nBook + Ticket: $33.60 \n 
URL:https://upstartandcrow.com/event/generation-dread-launch-with-britt-wray/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211123T190000
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SUMMARY:Found in Translation: Mona Høvring on Because Venus Crossed an Alpine Violet on the Day That I Was Born
DESCRIPTION:Winner of the 2021 Dobloug Prize (Norway)\, Longlisted for the Prix Femina 2021 (France)\, Winner of the Norwegian Critics’ Prize for Literature\, Shortlisted for the Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize… and now a Found in Translation Feature at Upstart & Crow. \nWe are delighted to present an interview with the prolific and enigmatic Mona Høvring: an award-winning poet and author\, whose most recent work\, Because Venus Crossed an Alpine Violet on the Day That I Was Born\, has captured imaginations and hearts across Europe\, and now Canada. \nAimee Wall calls it\, “A luminous tale of the “burdensome tenderness” between sisters and the emotional tumult of breaking free\, Høvring’s novel transports you to the faded grandeur of a hotel high up in a Norwegian mountain village. Høvring’s prose\, in Rankin and Dickson’s translation\, is sensual and searching and allusive; it shimmers with a strange winter light. I fell immediately under its spell.” \nThis is one of our top recommendations of books this season. \nDon’t miss an opportunity to discover more about its author\, the inspiration behind it\, and the process of moving a book into translation. \n  \nTicket Info \nTICKET: FREE\nBook + Ticket: $24.95
URL:https://upstartandcrow.com/event/found-in-translation-mona-hovring-on-because-venus-crossed-an-alpine-violet-on-the-day-that-i-was-born/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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SUMMARY:On Time & Water: In Conversation with Andri Snær Magnason
DESCRIPTION:On Time and Water has been hailed by authors\, climate scientists and media across the globe as a beautiful\, literary way to look directly at the climate crisis; one that even offers hope at the future. Andri Snær Magnason wasn’t a climate scientist or specialist when he began this process but\, he explains\, “If you cannot understand our scientific findings and present them in an emotional\, psychological\, poetic or mythological context … then no one will really understand the issue\, and the world will end.” How\, then\, did the public intellectual—and one of Iceland’s most beloved writers—begin this vital challenge? Discover that and more—including how one writes an obituary for a glacier\, and how our understanding of human time can support a greater understanding of our obligations to one another. \n  \nTicket Info\nFREE OR BY DONATION
URL:https://upstartandcrow.com/event/on-time-water-in-conversation-with-andri-snaer-magnason/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211103T190000
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SUMMARY:The Environmentalist’s Dilemma: In Conversation with Arno Kopecky
DESCRIPTION:Gramsci once spoke of pessimism of the intellect\, optimism of the will. As we face the real and existential dangers in the climate crisis era\, grappling with humanity’s greatest calamity is both daunting… and essential. Award-winning journalist and author Arno Kopecky shares a collection of essays\, The Environmentalist’s Dilemma\, that help us to acknowledge both sides of the paradox we’re in: the planet may be dying\, but humanity’s doing better than ever. So how do we begin to answer questions about how to live within such a paradox?  Should we take down the government\, or try to change it from the inside? Is it okay to compare climate change to Hitler? Is hope naive or indispensable? How do you tackle collective delusion? Wise\, inquisitive and relatable\, this interview with Arno Kopecky will begin to answer some of these queries. \n  \nTicket Info \nFREE OR BY DONATION
URL:https://upstartandcrow.com/event/the-environmentalists-dilemma-in-conversation-with-arno-kopecky/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20211027T190000
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SUMMARY:Found in Translation: Yuri Herrera on Three Novels
DESCRIPTION:Read a sentence that wasn’t originally written in your primary language and immediately your perspective shifts. Combine that with discovering voices from different countries and different cultures\, and you begin to understand why Upstart & Crow is so passionate about fiction in translation. Our Found in Translation book club introduces members to some of the most interesting\, readable\, immersive books translated and available in Canada today. \nYuri Hererra is one of Mexico’s most accomplished writers and\, indeed\, one of the finest—and most revolutionary—writers of this generation. \nThree Novels combines the works that have made Hererra such a celebrated literary figure\, exploring life behind the stereotypes and violence of modern-day Mexico. If you haven’t read Signs Preceding the End of the Earth\, you’ll be grateful to find it within this collection. Hererra combines biting political and social commentary with myth and fairy tale\, centring around Makina\, who crosses borders to find her brothers. The singer Lobo in Kingdom Cons loves a drug lord’s daughter; a Redeemer is looking to broker peace between feuding families during a pandemic in The Transmigration of Bodies. Hererra is an author we should all know. \n  \nTicket Info \nTicket: FREE\nBook + Ticket: $37.50
URL:https://upstartandcrow.com/event/which-wine-when-with-claire-strickett/
LOCATION:Online via Zoom
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