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Book Launch, September 2023
Alphabet Dreams and Other Poet Tree Scenes
This has been a looong time coming, so I’m very pleased to let you know that my first ever children’s book will be available as of September 16th 2023. Alphabet Dreams And Other Poet Tree Scenes was written by myself and illustrated by Jeff Blackburn (@thejeffblackburn).
This self published release is an 8x10inch super limited edition run of 100 books signed by both Jeff and I, and comes with a corresponding 8x10inch signed and numbered print.
We’ll be hosting a book launch at Stackt Market’s studio space on September 16th from 12-3pm as part of their Backyard program. I will be doing a reading and Jeff will be overseeing a table where people can sit and colour in a page from the book. Should be a fun and playful time. The remaining copies will be available online after that initial launch.
Pocket full of questions: A Series of zines
Pocket Full of Questions
Expressive Arts Therapist Virginia Jahyu and Art Therapist Patricia Ki are sharing a zine series, Pocket Full of Questions. The series of 3 zines are created as a resource from the authors' positions as racialized practitioners in the creative arts therapies. It comes from a process of putting together words and images that are meaningful to them, in conversations, poetry and collages.
They ask the questions: What if in addition to a toolbox full of therapeutic modalities, we also carry a pocket full of questions when we meet people who are looking for support? What if we step into each relational space not with things that make us believe we know what to do, but with questions to figure out what to do together with the person/people we are in relationship? What if the questions themselves are tools, or can help us form tools, to name our assumptions, biases, judgements – to name the patterns of harm and violence we are potentially replicating?
We invite you to question with us.
> Limited full-colour print copies available – $15 for the series incl. shipping. 100% of proceeds go to Toronto Indigenous Harm Reduction. Click here to request a copy.
This collaboration took place in Tkaronto, traditional territory of the Anishinaabek, Haudenosaunee, and Huron-Wendat, subject to Treaty 13 between the Mississaugas of the Credit and the Crown. We are settlers on this land, grateful for the unearned privileges and gifts from this land that support our livelihood and wellbeing, and committed to living into our responsibility in dismantling colonial and racist violence.
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CANADIAN ART THERAPY ASSOCIATION - ENVISAGE: VOL 3 ISSUE 2
"Finding Community and Connecting through the Arts Online"
Canadian Art Therapy Association, Online Magazine
Envisage Spring/Summer: Vol 3 Issue 2
Authors: Virginia Jahyu and Amanda Gee
Published: August, 2020
https://www.canadianarttherapy.org/envisage/envisage-springsummer2020-agee-vjahyu
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Frontline Initiative: Supporting Healthy Relationships
"Supporting healthy relationships for all: ALL means ALL" Vol 16, No 1
Authors: Virginia Jahyu and Luke Lynn
Published: April, 2020
https://publications.ici.umn.edu/frontline-initiative/16-1/lgbtq-community-disabilties
Please share freely with all your networks and anyone who might benefit from reading or listening to this work.
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