BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Hugo House - ECPv6.3.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Hugo House X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hugohouse.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Hugo House REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20160313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20161106T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161102T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161102T210000 DTSTAMP:20240328T234405 CREATED:20160913T072100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160913T072100Z UID:248398-1478113200-1478120400@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:CONTAGIOUS EXCHANGES: Vivek Shraya and Chase Joynt DESCRIPTION:The monthly series hosted and curated by Lambda Literary Award-winning writer Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore continues with November’s installment\, featuring Toronto-based moving-image artist and writer Vivek Shraya and Toronto-based artist\, filmmaker\, and writer Chase Joynt. \nThe Globe and Mail called Chase Joynt’s new book\, You Only Live Twice: Sex\, Death and Transition\, “an intellectually expansive\, emotional gut-punch of a memoir.” \nIn this genre-transcending book\, Joynt and HIV-positive movie artist Mike Hoolboom come together over the films of Chris Marker to exchange transition tales\, confessional missives that map out the particularities of occupying what they call ‘second lives’: Chase’s transition from female to male and Mike’s near-death from AIDS. Weaving cultural theory with memoir and media analysis\, YOLT asks intimate questions about what it might mean to find love and hope through conversation across generations. \nVivek Shraya’s debut collection of poetry\, even this page is white\, is a bold\, timely\, and personal interrogation of skin — its origins\, functions\, and limitations. Poems that range in style from starkly concrete to limber break down the barriers that prevent understanding of what it means to be racialized. Shraya paints the face of everyday racism with words\, rendering it visible\, tangible\, and undeniable. \n\nCONTAGIOUS EXCHANGES features two dynamic writers bridging genre\, style\, sensibility\, and all the markers of identity in queer lives. Cross-pollinating spoken word with literary fiction\, poetic experimentation with creative nonfiction\, hybrid work with narrative prose\, CONTAGIOUS EXCHANGES seeks to explode boundaries so that critical engagement can thrive. \nThis event is free and open to the public. The bar will be open. \n\nChase Joynt was recently awarded the EP Canada/Canada Film Capital Award for Emerging Canadian Artist and jury awards for Best Documentary and Best Short. As a recipient of a Mellon Fellowship in Arts Practice and Scholarship at the University of Chicago\, Joynt’s recent speaking engagements include Harvard University\, Princeton University\, NYU\, The New York Academy of Medicine\, University of Manchester\, UC Berkeley\, and the Museum of Contemporary Art\, Chicago. Joynt holds a BA from the UCLA School of Theater Film and Television\, and is a PhD candidate in Film at York University where he holds a Provost Dissertation Scholarship. His latest film\, Between You and Me\, launched online as one of the lead projects for CBC’s new Digital Docs Series in June 2016. \n\n \nVivek Shraya is a Toronto-based artist whose body of work includes several albums\, films\, and books. Her debut novel\, She of the Mountains\, was named one of The Globe and Mail’s Best Books of 2014. Shraya is a three-time Lambda Literary Award finalist\, a 2015 Toronto Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award finalist\, and a 2015 recipient of the Writers’ Trust of Canada’s Dayne Ogilvie Prize Honour of Distinction. Her first children’s picture book\, The Boy & the Bindi\, will be published by Arsenal Pulp Press in 2016. \n\n \nMattilda Bernstein Sycamore is most recently the author of a memoir\, The End of San Francisco\, which won a Lambda Literary Award\, and the editor of Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?\, an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book. URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/contagious-exchanges-vivek-shraya-chase-joynt/ LOCATION:1634 11th Ave.\, Seattle\, WA\, 98112\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR