May 5 is National Day of Awareness for #MMIWG2S+ ❤️ #NoMoreStolenSisters Join us by wearing red, hanging something red in your window and/or lighting a candle!

I love this one! Torres Strait Islanders 🥺…When his grandparents stepped in, damn, felt the mana in their performance. Mālie! 😭👏🏾

Guess who’s editing this issue 👀💗

Please note the launch of Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes by Adrienne Gruber at @MassyArts has shifted to an online event on Tuesday, May 14 at 6pm PT. With special guest @eleekg. Register for free via Eventbrite: massyarts.com/event/monsters…

“When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else.” - Toni Morrison

Join Massy Arts and The DTES Writing Collective, for an evening of poetry, community, music by Wendy Gaspard and the unveiling of a 3D art installation by organizer, artist and curator Pari. Register for free or by donation tickets here: bit.ly/4bMZm1A

June 3rd – August 8th, 2024, Massy Arts will host, A Fusion of Traditions, a window display by artist Speplól Tanya Zilinski. Entrance is free!

Excited to reveal our Festival 2024 line-up ❤️📚💫

As an adoptee who was homeschooled by people who had no business raising me in the first place, the discourse around "parents' rights" in education is laughable and terrifying to me. Anyway here's my column on John Rustad's bid to censor school literature thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/0…

Dorothy Ashby: The Queen of Harps Kevin Whitlock looks at the life and career of Dorothy Ashby, the first great harpist in jazz, whose work is now receiving the consideration it deserves jazzwise.com/features/artic…

Thrilled to be hosting this event on Wednesday!!! See you soon, Vancouver!!! ✨❤️✨❤️✨

Consider me completely speechless… thank you thank you thank you 😿😿

Beautiful!

Thank you Javier Bardem for your decency, your courage, and love for all human beings. You are a beacon of light, amigo.

This is the destruction of the 800+ trees at Ontario Place that Ontario Place for Everyone and Doug Ford don't want you to see. It's happening right now.

October 23rd – December 12th, 2024 Massy Arts will host, Located in the Ink, a new group show by artists and writers Gary Barwin, Elee Kraljii Gardiner, and Isabella Wang.

Canadian multi-generic writer Wayde Compton subscribes to Keats's theory of Negative Capability: "...a writer is most interesting when they are learning through writing, rather than trying to deliver pre-thought themes to a reader. I write to discover what I think about

Tonight, I’m thinking about Justice Murray Sinclair and of the times that I was lucky enough to hear him speak about his work with the TRC. This moment stands out for me. It’s his answer when he was asked, “Why can’t you just get over it?”

congratulations to Winnipeg poet Chimwemwe Undi for winning the 2024 Governor General's Literary Award in Poetry! catch her and so many others later this month performing at VERSeFest: Ottawa's International Poetry Festival! League of Canadian Poets House of Anansi Press ; verseottawa.ca/en/versefest