Name: ‘My Eyes Are Fuses’ by Norah Bowman Book Launch ft. Open Mic Holiday Special
Start: 2024-11-28T19:00:00-08:00
Location: BNA Burger

$\u2018My Eyes Are Fuses\u2019 by Norah Bowman Book Launch ft. Open Mic Holiday Special$

Special Holiday Open Mic event! Join us for an evening of poetry, prose, and music at BNA Burger! IWC is delighted to be hosting the launch of Norah Bowman’s newest book, My Eyes Are Fuses (Caitlin Press, 2024), featuring a Holiday Special Open Mic.
First, we will open with a holiday-themed open mic. Will IWC learn the true meaning of the holidays? Bring your festive writing and holiday outfits to find out! Next, local firedancer Alana Greenwood will offer a poetry performance. The evening will culminate with a reading and interview with author and artist Norah Bowman!
Copies of My Eyes Are Fuses will be available to purchase at the event.
About the book: Weaving together a modern retelling of Roman Empress Agrippina the Elder, a künstlerroman-inspired exploration of French sculptor Niki de Saint Phalle, and the contemporary portrait of an unhappily married mother, Bowman’s My Eyes Are Fuses is a bold exploration of tensions between freedom of art and the constraints of gender. Spanning centuries, these poems offer enchantments and antidotes, extract the poison from moments of pain, distil it down to a sweet elixir. Here, women are animals, witches, artists, rebels, imagined beyond their accomplishments, drawn together through time. With careful form, Bowman conjures a new chronicle for these women as time travellers, shapeshifters, goddesses akin to the three Fates, powerful beyond what their moments in time allowed of them.
About the author: Norah Bowman lives on Unceded Syilx Okanagan territory, home to ponderosa pines and bunchgrass. Norah is a poet, artist, and feminist writer whose interests include art, feminist movements around the world, equity for all, and protection of the earth. She is the author of Amplify! A Graphic Novel of Feminist Resistance (University of Toronto Press, 2019) and Breath, Like Water: An Anticolonial Romance (Caitlin Press, 2021).
Anyone can join for the open mic (music, poetry, fiction, dance, comedy, you name it, we welcome it).
SIGN UP IS AT 6:30PM SHARP WHEN OUR DOORS OPEN. TYPICALLY, WE HAVE A LINE BEGIN OUTSIDE THE VENUE BY 6PM FOR THOSE WANTING TO GET ON THE SIGN UP SHEET. DON'T BE LATE OR YOU WON'T GET ON STAGE!
Admission is $6-$10 sliding scale (this means you choose what works for your budget, no shame in paying what you got). Members get $5 entry into our Open Mic/Open Slam events. Membership is $10 annually, and available at the door or through our website. No one is turned away at the door for lack of funds. Just let us know!
All ages; no content restrictions
Bathrooms are single stall, non-gendered, with one that is wheelchair accessible.
We acknowledge our events take place on the unceded territory of the Syilx/Okanagan Peoples and that we are uninvited guests on their ancestral lands. We invite anyone who comes to our events to check out https://www.syilx.org/about-us/syilx-nation/ to learn about, connect with, and endeavour towards reconciliation within our community.