BIG Talk: A Contributor Chat & Online Book Launch

Join Caitlin Press for BIG Talk: A Contributor Chat & online book launch to celebrate the release of BIG, the anthology.

‘BIG: Stories about Life in Plus-Sized Bodies’ is a collection of personal and intimate experiences of plus size women, non-binary and trans people in a society obsessed with thinness.

Hear anthology editor Christina Myers, and contributors Sonja Boon, Amanda Scriver, Heather Van Mil, and Layla Cameron discuss issues and themes in the anthology and read from their work. Join us as we applaud bodies of all sizes. Q&A to follow.

• Free!
• Online! No software download necessary.
• Everyone welcome. All shapes & sizes.

WIFTV William F. White Live Coffee Chat with Fei Ren and Red Heartbreaker | IG Live

Born and raised in China, Fei Ren obtained her Psychology degree at UBC while working internationally as a model. Ren started her acting career in 2014 by training intensively in Vancouver and New York, and in a short time, has performed a diverse range of characters on TV, film, and stage.
She can be seen in various leading roles in TV series and films such as The Romeo Section (CBC), This Blows (CBC) (Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Supporting performance), and movies such as Supergridand Fatal Visit. Most recently, she starred in Netflix’s feature film Polar opposite Katheryn Winnick, Vanessa Hudgens, and Mads Mikkelsen. In addition, she guest stared as an voice actress in Robot Chicken created by Seth Green. Ren made her stage debut as a leading woman in Duncan Macmillan’s Lungs, which reviews as top ten plays in Vancouver in 2019.
Ren’s directing credits include The Mirror Test at the Annex Orpheum Theatre as well as the dark feminist comedy Commencing.

Red Heartbreaker is a composer with over 32 film and television credits to her name, as well as vocalist and vocal coach.  She is also a director of the board for Women in film and Television Vancouver.