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Meet the author: Claire Dederer
by Natalia
Biography & Memoir + Events + Vancouver / March 01, 2012
Claire Dederer will be at Banyen Books next Tuesday (March 6th) to discuss her new book Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses. The event starts at 6:30pm (full details are below).
Claire Dederer
Tuesday, March 6th: 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Banyen Books
3608 West 4th Avenue in Vancouver
Free admision
“Poser is a powerful, honest, ruefully funny memoir about one woman's openhearted reckoning with her demons . . . In the hands of a gifted writer, the universal is embedded within the personal. —The New York Times Book Review
“One part memoir, one part social critique, one part yoga history, Claire Dederer’s Poser: My Life in Twenty-Three Yoga Poses asks what contemporary motherhood ought to look like … Poser is superb.” —The Globe and Mail
“This memoir about her decade doing downward dog while raising two kids and trying to keep her marriage alive reads like Eat, Pray, Love for hip but harried moms . . . funny, well-observed, and ultimately inspiring.” —People four stars
Check out Claire's latest interview on NPR!
Brandon Sanderson Signing Tomorrow!
by Dan
Fiction / November 11, 2011
Author Brandon Sanderson will be at the Metrotown Chapters in Burnaby this Saturday signing copies of his new book The Alloy of Law!
Brandon, who teaches creative writing at Brigham Young University, is the bestselling author of Warbreaker, Elantris, and The Way of Kings, as well as 'The Mistborn Trilogy'—Mistborn, The Well of Ascension and The Hero of Ages. He is also completing the final books in Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time® series—The Gathering Storm, Towers of Midnight and the forthcoming A Memory of Light—based on Jordan’s notes and material!
The event starts at 2pm.
Brandon Sanderson Signing
Saturday, November 12th - 2:00 PM
Chapters Metrotown
Metropolis, Metrotown 4700 Kingsway
Burnaby, BC V5H 4M1
28th Annual Alcuin Awards for Excellence in Book Design
by Dan
Design & Typography + Events + Vancouver / October 19, 2010
This Thursday (October 21st) is the Vancouver presentation of the The Alcuin Society's annual Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, and we're really proud to say that speaker at this year's ceremony is none other than Chronicle Books' Creative Director Michael Carabetta. Michael will be giving a talk about Chronicle and "Seeing Things Differently".
The award-winning books from this year's design competition will also be available for viewing before (and after) the evening's events. As the event in Vancouver is free and open to the public, be sure to invite your book loving friends to come!
2009 Alcuin Award Winners Ceremony, hosted by Emily Carr University
6:45pm, Thursday, October 21st, 2010
Emily Carr University of Art + Design
Room 301, South Building
MC: Roberto Dosil (CCSP Press, Vancouver)
Speaker: Michael Carabetta (Chronicle Books, San Francisco)
KENK Vancouver Launch at Lucky’s
by Dan
Events + Graphica / May 17, 2010
Here are a few photos of the Vancouver launch of KENK: A Graphic Portrait at Lucky's Comics last week, courtesy of chandra v halko:
Books for sale!
Author and journalist Richard Poplak (left) discusses facial topiary with Peter MacDougall, Raincoast's National Account Manager (right).
Richard signing a copy of KENK.
Richard Poplak (right) looks on in admiration as Paddy Laidley, Raincoast's Executive VP of Sales and Marketing (left), closes yet another sale.
Richard will be at Yellowknife public library on Thursday discussing the project, while the rest of the creative team behind KENK will be appearing at the Kingston Arts and Letters Club tomorrow (details here).
The whole crew will be together again in Montreal at Librairie 211 on Thursday May 27th.
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DIY @ MOV
by Siobhan
January 20, 2010
Calling all Vancouver crafters!
This Thursday, January 21, the Museum of Vancouver is hosting what's bound to be a fun evening of creativity and craft. DIY@MOV is billed as a "A Night of Social Crafting" - there will be music, snacks, drinks, plus a craft market, and workshops:
Blim: button-making and screen printing workshops
Knitgirl: Knitting and Craftivism
Kirsti Wakelin: drawing/ exquisite corpse.
The DIY@MOV event is part of a new exhibit at MOV called The Art of Craft:
Art of Craft showcases 173 spectacular fine craft works in three parts:
Unity & Diversity: Selected Works - 75 pieces from across Canada recently on display at the 2009 Cheongju International Craft Biennale in the Republic of Korea.
By Hand/BC and Yukon - 51 pieces from Canada’s West Coast with a focus on the artists’ creative processes and studio environments.
Craft from the Republic of Korea - 47 pieces demonstrating the excellence of traditional and contemporary crafts.
Get all the details on the DIY@MOV event and the Art of Craft exhibit the on the MOV site - then come out and celebrate DIY, craft, art and design ... or whatever you want to call this stuff.
Personally, I love how these terms are overlapping, intersecting and merging more and more in recent years. Creativity is creativity, and, in my opinion, the tools or media you use don't determine what you create or how it should be perceived.
In that spirit, two of my favourite books on the list explore the ever-growing world of "makers": 
Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY, Art, Craft and Design is an overview of some of the amazing talents in the crafting community in the US today - people who have been part of the huge resurgance of craft that's been taking place for the past few years. Handmade Nation is also a film - watch the trailer.
By Hand: The Use Of Craft In Contemporary Art approaches 
the Art/Craft topic from another angle: showing how media and techniques and traditionally considered "Craft" - such as embroidery and knitting - are being used in the "Art" world. The paperback edition of By Hand is coming out in April 2010.
(Of course my list does not include all the lovely how-to and inspirational craft books. For a good list of these, check out the Chronicle Craft Catalogue for Spring 2010 (PDF).)