To experience Denyse Thomasos: just beyond, the retrospective exhibition of the Trinidadian-Canadian contemporary painter is to be dually encased: once by the sizeable dimensions of the canvases which, in consort, render the viewer physically encadré within their mesmerizing meshwork and bold colour palette, and, twice, by one’s critical assimilation of the complexities of these intense architectures.
A gorgeous picture book that pays homage to aviator Freddie Carmichael — the first Indigenous commercial pilot in the Arctic —with each month of the year highlighting moments from his life, the beauty of the North and the power of dreams.
With the help of a magical friend, a young girl searches for her missing father in this poignant story set during Japanese Canadian incarceration in World War II.
The story of the restorative power of art in one man’s life, set against the sweep of the twentieth century—from Toronto in the ’20s and ’30s, through the killing fields of World War II, to 1960s Sicily.
A slightly overcomplicated and highly hilarious guide to making a peanut butter sandwich with all your critter friends.
The poems in Tender chronicle the experiences of Black people, especially of Black women, in their quest for self- determination and their desire to live full, complex, unencumbered lives.
Drawing from her experiences as an Indigenous scientist, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer demonstrated how all living things―from strawberries and witch hazel to water lilies and lichen―provide us with gifts and lessons every day in her best-selling book Braiding Sweetgrass.
A bold, provocative collection of essays exploring the historical and contemporary Indigenous experience in Canada.
Dandelion Daughter is an intimate portrait of growing up having been assigned the wrong sex at birth.
Erin Welch’s The Never-Ending Sweater is a beautiful homage to intergenerational connections forged through making and sharing.
In her first-ever collection of essays, poet and novelist Lorna Goodison interweaves the personal and political to explore themes that have occupied her working life: her love of poetry and the arts, colonialism and its legacy, racism and social justice, authenticity, and the enduring power of friendship.
Author and radio personality Stanley Péan is a jazz scholar who takes us seamlessly and knowledgeably through the history of the music, stopping at a number of high points along the way.
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