BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://ahva.ubc.ca/events/event/ X-WR-CALDESC:Department of Art History, Visual Art & Theory - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20211011T0437Z-1633927046.5811-EO-22061-37@10.19.146.15 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260915T231017Z CREATED:20170118T222454Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210816T191509Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20090430T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20090430T213000 SUMMARY: Roy Kiyooka\, The Artist & the Moose: A Fable of Forget DESCRIPTION: Invitation to a Book Launch Guest readers: George Bowering\, B rian Dedora\, Glen Lowry\, Daphne Marlatt\, John O’Brian\, Renne Rodin\, Fr ed Wah\, and Rita Wong. The Artist and the Moose: A Fable of Forget by the late artist/writer Roy K. Kiyooka. Edited with an afterword by Roy MikiOfte n zany and wildly humorous\, The Artist & the […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

In vitation to a Book Launch

Guest readers: George Bowering\, Brian Ded ora\, Glen Lowry\, Daphne Marlatt\, John O'Brian\, Renne Rodin\, Fred Wah\, and Rita Wong.

The Artist and the Moose: A Fable of Forget by the late artist/writer Roy K. Kiyooka.
Edited with an afterword by Roy MikiOften zany and wildly humorous\, The Artist & the Moose fe atures a narrator who is commissioned by the federal government to come up with a multicultural aesthetics for the 21st century. The answer\, he think s\, resides in the big mystery that surrounds artist Tom Thomson.

Was Thomson's sudden death in Algonquin Park\, in that fateful summer of 1917\ , an accident or was he murdered? To solve this mystery\, the narrator sets out from his hometown\, Forget\, Sasatchewan\, to visit the national archi ves in Ottawa. As his quest unfolds\, readers meet the usual suspects in th e Tom Thomson saga\, including Tom's love interest\, but as well a cast of fabulous non–human characters\, such as the little bird\, Thomson's pipe\, Plot\, Text\, and most prominent of all\, the magical Moose\, named Ol' Twi g–Eater.

While recognizing Thomson's artistic legacy\, Kiyooka's fabl e offers a compelling critique of Canadian cultural nationalism and its vio lent appropriation of native land and culture.\, a long process of coloniza tion that exiled the Moose from the very homely spaces once his own.

Complementing this newly edited work is the serial poem\, "letters purporti ng to be abt tom thomson\," first published in Artscanada in 1972. These po ems capture Kiyooka's initial thoughts on Tom Thomson and the Group of Seve n\, and set the stage for his writing on Tom Thomson in the years ahead.

The Artist & the Moose: A Fable of Forget is edited with an af terword by Roy Miki\, editor of Pacific Windows: The Collected Poems of Roy K. Kiyooka .

Roy Miki is a Vancouver poet\, critic\, and ed itor who has published widely on Canadian literature and culture. He is the author of Redress: Inside the Japanese Canadian Call for Justice (2004) and There (2006). His book of poem\, Surrender\, r eceived the 2002 Governor–General's award. 
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