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In Review: The Week of June 24
This week: we got a head start on Canada Day with the perfect book and cocktail pairing, played casting director with Playwrights Canada Press, introduced a debut collection from author Philip Huynh and heard from a few of the contributing authors of Breaking Boundaries about their experiences with coming out in Canada.
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-We started the week off with a bang, collab’ing with Playwright’s Canada Press to dream up the perfect cast of celebrity characters (& movie poster!) Bang Bang. We think Spike Lee as the director would really do this dark and brilliantly funny piece some serious justice.-Our Pride Month celebrations closed with an interview from Breaking Boundaries (Rebel Mountain Press) Editor Lori Shwydky, who asked contributing authors of the collection more about their personal stories on coming out and what it means to be LGBTQ2s+ in Canada.-We got a head-start on the Canada Day long weekend with our recipe for a Smoked Plum and Gin cocktail/mocktail – the perfect pairing for Jason Christie’s collection of poems, Cursed Objects, which confronts the veiled versions of ourselves and the way in which we turn ourselves and others into objects.-The Forbidden Purple City (Goose Lane Editions) – a collection of stories that, through the voices of young and old, paint a picture of the Vietnamese diaspora. If we had to describe it, it’s kind of like David Bezmozgis meets David Fincher. If you’re not familiar with either of these references, just know, its one you need to read now.
