Downtown Eastside book gets Galiano launch
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A book launch at Galiano Island’s South Hall next weekend puts the focus on a topic that’s often in the news, dissected by three people who have seen it on the ground.
A Thousand Dreams, Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside and the Fight for its Future, is a mix of history, journalism, political analysis and first-person accounts.
Written by former chief coroner and Vancouver mayor Larry Campbell, renowned criminologist Neil Boyd and investigative journalist Lori Culbert, it offers a portrait of one of North America’s poorest, most drug-challenged neighbourhoods.
The Galiano event is on Sunday, Oct. 25 at 3 p.m. Author Campbell will be in attendance.
According to a press release, “A Thousand Dreams raises provocative questions about the challenges confronting not only Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside but also all of North America’s major cities and offers concrete, urgently needed solutions, including:
• Continued support for Insite, the safe injection site
• Decriminalization of prostitution and drugs
• The transfer of addiction services to the health ministry, allowing detox into the medical system
• More government-funded SROs and more affordable social housing.”
Campbell was mayor of Vancouver from 2002 to 2005 and oversaw the establishment of North America’s first legal injection site.
His career as chief coroner for B.C. inspired the Gemini Award–winning TV series Da Vinci’s Inquest.
He was appointed a Canadian senator in 2005 and now has a home on Galiano Island.
Boyd is a professor and associate director of the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University.
He is a frequent media commentator on drug law, drug policy, and criminal violence, and has completed community impact studies on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
Culbert is an award-winning journalist with the Vancouver Sun.
She has spent years writing about the Downtown Eastside, including the trial of accused serial killer Robert Pickton.
Galiano Island Books is hosting the event at the hall.
A Thousand Dreams is published by D&M Publishers Inc.
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