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SUMMARY:In Her Voice Festival | Durga Chew-Bose and Scaachi Koul in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our In Her Voice Festival! \nDurga Chew-Bose and Scaachi Koul will be in conversation. \nFariha Róisín will be moderating the discussion. \nWHEN: \nFriday\, June 16th @ 7pm \nWHERE: \nCrow’s Theatre \n345 Carlaw Ave (at Dundas) \nTICKETS: \nAvailable here \n\n \nIn Too Much and Not the Mood\, Durga Chew-Bose flings us headlong into her most intimate philosophical\, and occasionally brooding\, thoughts. The result is a lyrical and piercingly insightful collection of essays and her own brand of essay-meets-prose poetry about identity and culture. \nReflective and highly astute\, Chew-Bose invites readers to join in her search for a clearer understanding of who we are and the world we live in. This is a beautiful and surprising exploration of what it means to be a young first-generation writer today\, shutting out the din in order to find her own voice. \nExhibiting the confidence of Lena Dunham\, the honesty of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie\, and the extraordinary vision of Zadie Smith\, Too Much and Not the Mood is a stunning debut from an author who is sure to become one of this generation’s most esteemed voices. \n\n\n\n\n\n \nDurga Chew-Bose’s writing frequently appears on websites such as Hazlitt\, The Hairpin\, BuzzFeed\, Grantland and Papermag. She has contributed articles to The Guardian and The Globe and Mail\, and to the magazines GQ\, Interview\, n+1 and Adult. Born in Montreal\, Chew-Bose now lives in Brooklyn\, New York. \n\n\n\n\n\n \nIn One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter\, Scaachi deploys her razor-sharp humour to share her fears\, outrages and mortifying experiences as an outsider growing up in Canada. Her subjects range from shaving her knuckles in grade school\, to a shopping trip gone horribly awry\, to dealing with internet trolls\, to feeling out of place at an Indian wedding (as an Indian woman)\, to parsing the trajectory of fears and anxieties that pressed upon her immigrant parents and bled down a generation. Alongside these personal stories are pointed observations about life as a woman of colour\, where every aspect of her appearance is open for critique\, derision or outright scorn. Where strict gender rules bind in both Western and Indian cultures\, forcing her to confront questions about gender dynamics\, racial tensions\, ethnic stereotypes and her father’s creeping mortality—all as she tries to find her feet in the world. \nWith a clear eye and biting wit\, Scaachi Koul explores the absurdity of a life steeped in misery. And through these intimate\, wise and laugh-out-loud funny dispatches\, a portrait of a bright new literary voice emerges. \n\n \nScaachi Koul was born and raised in Calgary\, Alberta\, and is a culture writer at BuzzFeed. Her writing has also appeared in The New Yorker\, The Hairpin\, The Globe and Mail and Jezebel. One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter is her first book. She lives in Toronto. \n\nFariha Róisín is a writer living on Earth. \n000000
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LOCATION:Crow’s Theatre\, 345 Carlaw Ave\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4M 2T1\, Canada
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