Massy Books Events

We’re experimenting with something new!

Starting tomorrow and running through the end of 2026, we’re offering *30% off books by all authors presenting/speaking at local Vancouver events (in 2026 only).

If your favourite author is coming to town, you can now get 30% off their books! Simply place your online order and put “AUTHORED EVENT” in the notes section at checkout. If we can’t find the event listing, we’ll contact you to confirm.

This offer includes pre-orders, newly released books, and forthcoming titles.

*Exclusions apply: official events only, does not apply to used books in our shop, preorders already placed, select events where Massy Books is involved, or Writers Festival events between Oct 18–25. Other restrictions may apply).

Some authors whose books you can get 30% off this year - Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor, Zadie Smith, Min Jin Lee, and more!

If you’re unsure whether a specific event qualifies, feel free to email Patricia at [email protected] to inquire!

📚 Book Launch: Sharing the Light: Stories and Reflections - Monique Gray Smith in Conversation with Chastity Davis-Alphonse
🗓 Friday, February 13th | 7 PM
📍 Massy Books, 229 E. Georgia St., Vancouver, BC

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/sharing-the-light-with-monique-gray-smith-chastity-davis-alphonse-tickets-1980575184693?aff=oddtdtcreator

Join Massy Books and House of Anansi Press as we host Monique Gray Smith in Conversation with Chastity Davis-Alphonse for the launch of “Sharing the Light: Stories and Reflections.” On Friday, February 13th at Massy Books, we will spend an evening reflecting on how we live, love, and remain hopeful in a changing, challenging world.

Registration is required and is expected to fill up quickly, so make sure to get your tickets soon!

Monqiue’s newest collection includes uplifting stories, vignettes, and reflections to inspire gratitude, love, joy, and hope in navigating life in a changing, challenging world. Something we could all use right now. This beautiful and welcoming book can be read cover to cover or used as a daily source of guidance, providing gentle wisdom that inspires and empowers. Through the lens of five transformative practices-gratitude, love, joy, happiness, and hope-bestselling author Monique Gray Smith weaves together short stories, poignant reflections, and thoughtful questions that invite readers to pause and reconnect with their inner light. And as an Indigenous author, Monique brings her cultural wisdom and unique perspective to each offering. Sharing the Light is a powerful reminder that when we embrace our light and share it with the world, that energy not only transforms us but ripples out to uplift everyone around us.

Books will be for sale at the event, followed by a book signing!

Join Massy, House of Anansi Press, Salia Joseph, and Quill Christie-Peters for an unforgettable event that dives deep into On Wholeness by Anishinaabe artist Quill Christie-Peters. Through storytelling that weaves together the body, healing, and resistance, Quill redefines liberation and reconnects us to our ancestors. A journey of pain, survival, and transformation.

Saturday, January 24th at the Native Education College at

Books will be for sale at the event, followed by a book signing!

Registration is free but required. https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/on-wholeness-anishinaabe-pathways-to-embodiment-and-collective-liberation-tickets-1979460841663?aff=oddtdtcreator&utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAdGRleAPDlOpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xMjQwMjQ1NzQyODc0MTQAAadwfGLd9VuFr2AM-ubha9Tm3VSAM2F_wy3o-qV1Tk6MI0fQ_10WkUsdiL4olA_aem_4wUcpsk_XeVZHnoSdcg_Mw

Venue:

The event will be hosted at the Native Education College, 285 E. 5th, Vancouver, BC. The venue has a gender neutral bathroom. Please refrain from wearing scents or heavy perfumes. Covid Protocols: Masks keep our community safe and are recommended. We ask if you are showing symptoms, that you stay home. Thank you kindly.

The Book:

A brilliant exploration embodied wholeness as a pathway to our collective liberation Through reflections on childbirth, parenting, creative practice, and expansive responsibility, Anishinaabe visual artist Quill Christie-Peters explores how reconnecting with the body can be an act of resistance and healing. She shows that wholeness-despite pain and displacement-is not just possible but essential for liberation, not only for Indigenous people but for all of us. In poetic and raw storytelling, Quill shares her own experiences of gendered violence and her father's survival of residential school, revealing how colonialism disconnects us from ourselves. Yet, through an Anishinaabe lens, the body is more than just flesh-it extends to ancestors, homelands, spirit relations, and animal kin. This fierce and enlightening book reimagines the way we understand settler colonialism-through the body itself. On Wholeness takes us on a journey that begins before birth, in a realm where ancestors and spirits swirl like smoke in the great beyond.

Author:

QUILL CHRISTIE-PETERS is an Anishinaabe educator and self-taught visual artist from Lac des Mille Lacs First Nation located in Treaty 3 territory. She is the creator and director of the Indigenous Youth Residency Program, an artist residency for Indigenous youth that engages land-based creative practices through Anishinaabe artistic methodologies. She holds a master's degree in Indigenous governance on Anishinaabe art-making as a process of falling in love. She has spoken at Stanford University, the University of Toronto, and California College of the Arts, and her written work can be found in GUTS magazine and Canadian Art. She is also a mother, beadwork artist, and traditional tattoo practitioner following the protocols of her community.

Moderator:

Salia Joseph is from the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and Snuneymuxw First Nation’s on her father’s side and is British and Jewish on her mothers. She is a graduate from the critical Indigenous studies program at the University of British Columbia. Salia is the executive director of The Sníchim Foundation which is a Sḵwx̱wú7mes language revitalization non-profit. She is also the co-owner of Host Consulting Inc. which is a public art consultancy focused on elevating the presence, designs and work of Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleilwaututh artists in their homelands. Salia is very grateful to come from such generous people and is always looking at ways to show reciprocity.

Santa called us today! He told us he, and Mrs. Clause (who is a very cool gal & avid reader 😉), are stopping by the bookstore on Tuesday, December 23rd between 1-3 pm!

What a treat, and right before the holidays! 🎄

Bring your kiddo’s, get a photo with Santa and a treat 🍭, and let him know what you’re hoping for this holiday season 🥰

This Saturday, the sale starts at 10 am!🥳

📣 Calling all book lovers, coffee lovers, and… procrastinators? If you’ve left your holiday book buying to the last minute, don’t worry, we got you 😉

We’ve partnered with the extraordinary to bring you a phenomenal offering:

This Saturday ONLY, EVERYTHING* in the bookstore is 20% OFF!! Plus, the first 65 customers that purchase a book, get a FREE drink from Bee and Bee Coffee ☕️ Check out the menu in the slides ➡️

Bee and Bee also made us a custom Massy Latte we recommend 😍

*This offer is for in-store purchases ONLY. Free coffee ends at 1pm. Early bird gets the worm, so show up early! No discounts on fundraising items (Laura Holland Earrings, Gaza Zines, Pins, etc) or already discounted books.

Questions? Leave them in the comments section and we’ll answer there for everyone to view.

Shop Indigenous, shop local!

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