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Epics and Echoes: Victoria Festival of Authors
Diverse authors, and settings breathtaking in scope and marvelous in detail.
In-Person + Livestream
Sat. October 1st 2022 + Add to Calendar
Metro Studio
7:30pm
$11.17 - $19.62 (Livestream is free)
Artists
Chelene Knight
Tsering Yangzom Lama
J.M. Miro
Danny Ramadan
Peach Pyramic (Live Music)
Jen Severtson (Live Music)
Presented by:
Victoria Festival of Authors
PO BOX 8524 Stn Central Victoria BC
V8W 3S1
Event Description
Tibet after the Chinese invasion. Vancouver in the 1930s. Victorian London. Syria in 2003. The settings of the books featured are as diverse as the authors who imagined them, but all are breathtaking in scope and marvelous in detail. Tsering Yangzom Lama’s haunting novel We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies recounts a Tibetan family’s fifty-year journey through exile and their struggles to forge new lives of dignity, love, and hope. Chelene Knight’s Junie is a riveting exploration of the complexity within mother-daughter relationships set in the dynamic vitality of Vancouver’s former Hogan’s Alley neighbourhood. J.M. Miro’s spellbinding fantasy, Ordinary Monsters, presents a catastrophic vision of the Victorian world—and of the gifted, broken children who must save it. Danny ... more...Event Poster
