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SUMMARY: Reading and Performance with Rae Spoon (on Zoom)
DESCRIPTION: Join us for a reading and performance with Rae Spoon\, a music
 ian\, author and producer with twenty-five years of experience in the arts 
 industry. Rae has a passion for supporting artists in forging their own spa
 ces in the industry. Speaker Biography Rae Spoon is a musician\, author\, a
 nd producer with twenty-five years of experience in […]
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <blockquote><p>[image_spread img_url="https:/
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  performance with Rae Spoon\, a musician\, author and producer with twenty-
 five years of experience in the arts industry. <span style="font-weight: 40
 0\;">Rae has a passion for supporting artists in forging their own spaces i
 n the industry.</span></p><p>[buttons][button link_text="Attend the Event o
 n Zoom" link_url="https://ubc.zoom.us/j/61512499636?pwd=cXoxZEFvVjA4dWxCRGk
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 p><span style="font-weight: 400\;"><strong>Rae Spoon</strong> is a musician
 \, author\, and producer with twenty-five years of experience in the arts i
 ndustry. They have published three books with Arsenal Pulp Press and a humo
 rous booklet called </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400\;">How to (Hide
 ) Be(hind) Your Songs</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400\;"> (2017). T
 heir first book\, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400\;">First Spring G
 rass Fire </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400\;">(2012)\, was nominate
 d for a Lambda Literary award and the co-write </span><i><span style="font-
 weight: 400\;">Gender Failure</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400\;"> (
 2014)</span><i><span style="font-weight: 400\;"> was on the </span></i><spa
 n style="font-weight: 400\;">Over the Rainbow Project book list</span> <spa
 n style="font-weight: 400\;">was published in German. Rae’s first novel\, <
 /span><i><span style="font-weight: 400\;">Green Glass Ghosts</span></i><spa
 n style="font-weight: 400\;"> (2021)\, was illustrated by Gem Hall and revi
 ewed by Quill & Quire\, CBC and the Globe and Mail. In 2013 Rae was awarded
  a Dayne Ogilvie Prize Honour of Distinction by the Writers' Trust of Canad
 a and has been nominated for two Polaris Prizes and a Western Canadian Musi
 c Award.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400\;">Rae has a passion fo
 r supporting artists in forging their own spaces in the industry through so
 und recording workshops\, mentoring\, grant writing\, project management an
 d music production. In 2015\, Rae founded Coax Records in the hopes of usin
 g their experience to create a space in the music industry where under-repr
 esented artists from lots of communities can share their music on their own
  terms.</span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400\;">Rae is a settler with
  European ancestry. They grew up on Treaty 7 territory in Calgary (the trad
 itional and ancestral territory of the Blackfoot Confederacy: Kainai\, Piik
 ani and Siksika as well as the Tsuu T'ina Nation and Stoney Nakoda First Na
 tion). Rae currently lives in Tkoronto/Toronto (the traditional territory o
 f many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit\, the Anishnabeg\, 
 the Chippewa\, the Haudenosaunee and the Wendat peoples) and Tiohtià:ke/Mon
 tréal (the unceded Indigenous lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka/Mohawk Nation). R
 ae is a non-binary and trans artist who is cancer experienced and lives wit
 h disabilities.</span></p><hr /><h3>Visiting Writers Program</h3><p style="
 font-weight: 400\;">The School of Creative Writing’s Visiting Writers Progr
 am provides an opportunity for our students\, alumni and faculty to connect
  with insightful writers in small group settings. We encourage everyone in 
 Creative Writing to take advantage of this opportunity – it’s a unique bene
 fit of being involved in the School.</p><p style="font-weight: 400\;">These
  events are open to all Creative Writing students\, alumni and faculty. If 
 you’d like to bring a friend\, please do! Registration is not required to a
 ttend our public events. Follow the link provided at the top of this event 
 listing to participate.</p>
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