Latest Events in Roncesvalles(August Updated)

Join us for the launch of WEST OF WEST INDIAN (Mawenzi House) by Linzey Corridon! In conversation with Ronald Cummings. Join us for the launch of WEST OF WEST INDIAN (Mawenzi House) by Linzey Corridon! In conversation with Ronald Cummings. ABOUT WEST OF WEST INDIAN: West of West Indian constructs the Queer Caribbean experience as simultaneously individual and collective, embracing the language that continues to unsettle queer life. The collection is, at once, a summons and a love letter to familiar figures like the Bullerman, the Chichiman, the Funny man, and the Anty man. It collects a distinctly queer Vincentian Canadian account of love and autonomy, and while it represents a written journey into queer pain, it is also an exhibition of pleasure flowing through the bodies and minds of its many subjects. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Linzey Corridon is a mixed-race (Afro-Euro-Indo Caribbean) educator, and a Vincentian-Canadian poet and critic. He is the 2021 recipient of Canada’s Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship and is currently completing doctoral work on the nuances of the Queeribbean quotidian at McMaster University. His writing has been published in The Puritan, Kola, SX Salon, Hamilton Arts and Letters, Montreal Writes and more. He lives in Hamilton, Ontario. ABOUT RONALD CUMMINGS: Ronald Cummings is an associate professor of Black Studies at McMaster University. Information Source: Another Story Bookshop | eventbrite

Join us for reading and conversation with Diane Morrisseau and Elisabeth Brannigan, authors of ONE SECOND AT A TIME. Hosted by Nancy Cooper. Join us for the launch of One Second at a Time: My Story of Pain and Reclamation (UBC Press) by Diane Morrisseau, with Elisabeth Brannigan, in conversation with Nancy Cooper. ABOUT THE BOOK: Bullied and abused at the Fort Alexander Indian Residential day school, Diane Morrisseau fought back and left school at the age of fifteen. Despite her strength, a childhood of trauma and abuse led her into the arms of Edgar Olson, and by sixteen, the young Ojibway-Anishinabe woman had given birth to her first child and married the man who would become her tormentor for the next eighteen years. Notoriously violent, her abuser was aided and abetted by the systems of colonialism that failed to protect Diane during her childhood. Edgar was able to keep Diane and her children trapped in a cycle of violence for years, without being held accountable by law or society. What could have been a chronicle of unrelenting hardship instead becomes a narrative of how, in horrific circumstances, Diane found the strength to survive, reclaim her life, and eventually thrive. Today she draws meaning from her painful past, counseling women, children and men experiencing similarly difficult circumstances. ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Diane Morrisseau is an Elder and counsellor from Sagkeeng First Nation and lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba Elisabeth Brannigan is an elementary school teacher who lives with her family in Toronto, Ontario. ABOUT THE HOST: Nancy Cooper is a member of the Chippewas of Rama First Nation. Nancy is a Children's author and is working on her third book at the moment. Information Source: Another Story Bookshop | eventbrite

Swash & Serif is a group typography and lettering art show. Since 2014, we’ve featured over 200 artists and showcased over 400 artworks from Toronto and beyond. We bring together the design community to celebrate type in all its forms - from brushscripts to blackletter - and see what new boundaries are being pushed. Learn more at swashandserif.ca Opening night party: 7pm - 11pm, Thursday September 19 Show Hours: 12pm - 6pm, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday (closed Monday) Admittance to the art show is free! Tickets are not required but RSVPs are appreciated. Information Source: Toronto Design Directory | eventbrite

Join us for the launch of Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim (Book*hug) by Jacob Wren! In conversation with Malcolm Sutton. Bookhug will provide light snacks. ABOUT DRY YOUR TEARS TO PERFECT YOUR AIM: What are the best ways to support political struggles that aren't your own? What are the fundamental principles of a utopia during war? Can we transcend the societal values we inherit? Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim is a remarkably original, literary page-turner that explores such pressing questions of our time. A depressed writer visits a war zone. He knows it's a bad idea, but his curiosity and obsession that his tax dollars help to pay for foreign wars draw him there. Amid the fighting, he stumbles into a small strip of land that's being reimagined as a grassroots, feminist, egalitarian utopia. As he learns about the principles of the collective, he moves between a fragile sense of self and the ethical considerations of writing about what he experiences but cannot truly fathom. Meanwhile, women in his life-from this reimagined society and elsewhere-underscore truths hidden in plain sight. In these pages, real-world politics mingle with profoundly inventive fabulations. This is an anti-war novel unlike any other, an intricate study of our complicity in violent global systems and a celebration of the hope that underpins the resistance against them. ABOUT JACOB WREN: Jacob Wren makes literature, performances, and exhibitions. His books include Revenge Fantasies of the Politically Dispossessed; Polyamorous Love Song (finalist for the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and a Globe and Mail Best Book of 2014); Rich and Poor (finalist for the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and a Globe and Mail best book of 2016); and Authenticity is a Feeling. He is artistic co-director of the Montreal-based interdisciplinary group PME-ART. Wren lives in Montreal. ABOUT MALCOLM SUTTON: Malcolm Sutton lives in Toronto. His fiction has appeared in Maisonneuve and Joyland, and his writing on art has appeared in C Magazine and Border Crossings. He is the Founding Editor of The Coming Envelope journal of innovative prose, and the Fiction Editor at BookThug Press. Job Shadowing is his debut novel.Book Cover: Information Source: Another Story Bookshop | eventbrite

Join us for a signing and art activity with Andi Vicente and Allan Matudio, author and illustrator of One Box! ABOUT THE BOOK: One Box is a children’s counting story about a migrant worker sending a box of gifts and supplies to their loved ones in the Philippines. Also known as Balikbayan boxes, these are typically filled with things like canned goods, clothing and snacks. But in One Box there’s more than just stuff — it’s full of promises. With tenderness and gorgeous illustrations, this Filipino parent tells their child about all the things they will do together when they are reunited. Part of a young queer family separated by migration and indentured labour, they don’t count the days. They count the ways they will rebuild their relationships. ABOUT ANDI AND ALLAN: Andi Vicente (they/them) is a visual artist whose interdisciplinary practice is humbled and radicalized by their work with different communities. Through installation, image making and digital collage, they explore intersectional identities, precarious livelihoods and the juxtaposition of movements. Andi aims to broaden an understanding of oppressed experiences and encourage collective empowerment through answering the questions: “Who is not here with us and how can I be there for you?” Allan Matudio is a multidisciplinary artist born to Filipino parents in Tio'tia:ke/Montreal. He gravitates towards illustrations, comics and metalwork as his main mediums of expression. His art practice focuses on the Filipino-Canadian identity, migrant worker struggles and pre-colonial Filipino art and mythology. Information Source: Another Story Bookshop | eventbrite

Join Toronto Lit Up, the Toronto International Festival of Authors, the Toronto Arts Council at Another Story Bookshop to celebrate the launch of BREAD AND STONE by Toronto author, Allan Weiss (Black Rose Books, Montréal) with special guest, Honey Novick! 7:00 pm sharp! Monday, October 28, 2024 Another Story Bookshop 315 Roncesvalles Ave, Toronto, ON, Canada Free! All are welcome to attend. Seating is limited Bookstore accessibility: https://anotherstory.ca/faq/accessibility ABOUT THE BOOK: William McLean is an Alberta farm boy seeking the work that he believes God has put him on Earth to do. Returning from World War I in a crisis of conscience, he finds his calling when he is drawn into Winnipeg's labour movement by his army buddy Daniel Eckersley. As unrest mounts and the authorities respond with force, William finds himself in the midst of an upheaval that could mean freedom — or destitution — for all. In Bread and Stone, Allan Weiss skillfully combines the story of one of the most dramatic real events in Canadian history, the Winnipeg General Strike, with the spiritual journey of a young man growing to understand who he is, who he is becoming, and what it is that he must do. ABOUT ALLAN WEISS: Allan Weiss, a fiction writer and Professor of English at York University, was born in Montreal and later moved to Toronto to pursue doctoral studies after earning his BA and MA at Concordia University. He is the author of three story cycles: Living Room (2001), Making the Rounds (2016), and Telescope (2019). His short stories have appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines, including Fiddlehead, Wascana Review, On Spec, and the Tesseracts anthology series. His historical novel, Bread and Stone, was published by Black Rose Books (June 2024.) https://blackrosebooks.com/products/bread-and-stone-allan-weiss ABOUT HONEY NOVICK: Honey Novick is a singer, songwriter, voice teacher and poet. She is a full member of the League of Canadian Poets, the Writer’s Union of Canada, and Poetry in Voice. She has published eight recordings and 10 chapbooks. The Stop Community Centre awarded her 2024 Outstanding Neighbor and earned her 5th Gerstein Legacy Fund award in teaching Voice Yoga. Her Member of Provincial Parliament, Jill Andrew, nominated her for Poet Laureate of the Province of Ontario. She sings with bill bissett, George Elliott Clarke, Kyp Harness and is an artist in residence for the Friendly Spike Theatre Band and directs Liter-art-I and Womanvoice. www.honeynovick.com The Toronto Arts Council (TAC) and Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) have partnered on Toronto Lit Up, a three-year initiative designed to spotlight Toronto writers and empower local artists with career-building opportunities. The goal of Toronto Lit Up is to present Toronto authors to audiences across the city. These launches allow the public to learn about and access Toronto’s local writing community. For more information about Toronto Lit Up, visit http://festivalofauthors.ca/toronto-lit-up. Information Source: Another Story Bookshop | eventbrite

Join us for the launch of Bad Weather Mammals (ECW Press) by A-E Best! With Therese Estacion and Emma Rhodes. ABOUT THE BOOK “The sick should be good. / It is a kind of undoing,” Ashley-Elizabeth Best writes in her second collection. Bad Weather Mammals navigates the devastations and joys of living in a disabled and traumatized body. By taking a backward glance, she traces how growing up under the maladaptive bureaucracy of social services with a single disabled mother and five younger siblings led her to a precarious future in which she is also disabled and living on social assistance. In poems that explore a variety of formal constraints, such as the suite “ODSP 1, 2, & 3,” which infuses government forms with lyric poetry, she suggests all the ways the medical and bureaucratic systems can dehumanize and traumatize our most vulnerable citizens. By digging deep into her own experiences, Best has archived the ways we fail each other in our most desperate times — while at the same time outlining how we can show up to revel in disabled joy and community. Bad Weather Mammals disassembles dominant narratives about how disabled individuals should be and reconceptualizes the embodied experiences that recenter us in our own narrative. ABOUT THE AUTHOR A-E Best is a disabled poet and essayist from Kingston. Her work can be found in the Capilano Review, New Welsh Review, CV2, Ambit Magazine, Mslexia, and Chatelaine. Her work was longlisted for the 2021 CBC Poetry Prize. Her second collection, Bad Weather Mammals, is now available from ECW Press. She’s currently the Editorial Coordinator for Arc Poetry Magazine and a Marketing Assistant for Brick Books. Find A-E on Instagram as @capitatelikeahead or her website https://ashleyelizabethbest.com/ ABOUT THE GUESTS Therese Estacion is the author of a Phantompains—a collection of poems, published by Book*Hug, that explores her Filipinx heritage and disability. Phantompains was a finalist for both the 2021 Indies Foreword Reviews and 2021 CLMP Firecracker Award. She has been a guest editor for ARC poetry magazine and curated Smutburger’s 2023-2024 series. Therese currently teaches poetry at the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies and is a psychotherapist in training. Emma Rhodes (she/her) is a queer writer currently living and working in Tkaronto/Toronto. She is the author of the chapbook Razor Burn (Anstruther Press), a previous version of which was shortlisted for the Vallum Chapbook Award. She is a member of the Egg Poets, who published the chapbook All Things to Keep You Here (Qwerty). Her work has been published in Contemporary Verse 2, Prism International, Plenitude, and elsewhere. She works as a literary publicist, and is the Co-Editor in Chief of The Miramichi Reader. Information Source: Another Story Bookshop | eventbrite

Join us for a book talk with Nishant Upadhyay, author of INDIANS ON INDIAN LANDS. With Sanober Umar and Pamila Matharu. Moderated by Nadia Hasan, Assistant Professor, York University Cosponsored by Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, School of Gender, Women and Sexuality studies, Centre for Indigenous Knowledges and Languages, Centre for Feminist Research, Department of Social and Political Thought at York University ABOUT THE BOOK Nishant Upadhyay unravels Indian diasporic complicity in its ongoing colonial relationship with Indigenous peoples, lands, and nations in Canada. Upadhyay examines the interwoven and simultaneous areas of dominant Indian caste complicity in processes of settler colonialism, antiblackness, capitalism, brahminical supremacy, Hindu nationalism, and heteropatriarchy. Resource extraction in British Columbia in the 1970s through the 1990s and in present-day Alberta offers examples of spaces that illuminate the dispossession of Indigenous peoples and simultaneously reveals racialized, gendered, and casted labor formations. Upadhyay juxtaposes these extraction sites with examples of anticolonial activism and solidarities from Tkaronto. Analyzing silence on settler colonialism and brahminical caste supremacy, Upadhyay upends the idea of dominant caste Indian diasporas as racially victimized and shows that claiming victimhood denies a very real complicity in enforcing other power structures. Exploring stories of quotidian proximity and intimacy between Indigenous and South Asian communities, Upadhyay offers meditations on anticolonial and anti-casteist ways of knowledge production, ethical relationalities, and solidarities. Information Source: Another Story Bookshop | eventbrite

Join us for the launch of Andrea Freeman's RUIN THEIR CROPS ON THE GROUND. In conversation with Vinita Srivastava. ABOUT THE BOOK The first and definitive history of the use of food in United States law and politics as a weapon of conquest and control, a Fast Food Nation for the Black Lives Matter era. In 1779, to subjugate Indigenous nations, George Washington ordered his troops to “ruin their crops now in the ground and prevent their planting more.” Destroying harvests is just one way that the United States has used food as a political tool. Trying to prevent enslaved people from rising up, enslavers restricted their consumption, providing only enough to fuel labor. Since the Great Depression, school lunches have served as dumping grounds for unwanted agricultural surpluses. From frybread to government cheese, Ruin Their Crops on the Ground draws on over fifteen years of research to argue that U.S. food law and policy have created and maintained racial and social inequality. In an epic, sweeping account, Andrea Freeman, who pioneered the term “food oppression,” moves from colonization to slavery to the Americanization of immigrant food culture, to the commodities supplied to Native reservations, to milk as a symbol of white supremacy. She traces the long-standing alliance between the government and food industries that have produced gaping racial health disparities, and she shows how these practices continue to this day, through the marketing of unhealthy goods that target marginalized communities, causing diabetes, high blood pressure, and premature death. Ruin Their Crops on the Ground is a groundbreaking addition to the history and politics of food. It will permanently upend the notion that we freely and equally choose what we put on our plates. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Andrea Freeman is the Second Century Chair Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School, a Fulbright scholar, and author of Ruin Their Crops on the Ground and Skimmed: Breastfeeding, Race and Injustice. A pioneer in the field of food politics, Freeman has published and appeared in the LA Times, NPR's Weekend Edition, the Takeaway, and Here & Now, Huffington Post, Salon, The Washington Post, Lit Hub, Pacific Standard, and more. ABOUT DON'T CALL ME RESILIENT Don’t Call Me Resilient is a podcast that examines how systemic racism permeates our society. Through a sharply-focused anti-racist lens, host Vinita Srivastava dives into conversations with experts to break down what is happening in the world, to spark dialogue, and to present thoughtful solutions. Information Source: Another Story Bookshop | eventbrite

Join us for the launch of OmiSoore Dryden's GOT BLOOD TO GIVE! In conversation with Nehal El-Hadi. ABOUT THE BOOK Through storytelling, theorizing and discourse analysis, this book investigates how anti-Black homophobic nation-building policies became enshrined in blood donation. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Dr. OmiSoore H. Dryden (she/her/hers), a Black queer femme and professor at Dalhousie University, is the James R Johnston Endowed Research Chair in Black Canadian Studies, Faculty of Medicine, the Interim Director of the Black Studies Research Institute (in STEMM), and the co-founder and co-lead of the national organization, The Black Health Education Collaborative. OmiSoore engages in interdisciplinary scholarship and research that focuses on Black LGBTQI communities, blood donation systems in Canada, and anti-Black racism in healthcare, medical education, and Black health curricular content development. Information Source: Another Story Bookshop | eventbrite