Books & Ideas: Riva Lehrer with Chase Joynt

Award-winning author Riva Lehrer will join writer and director, Chase Joynt to discuss the socially challenged body in her new memoir, Golem Girl.

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Award-winning author Riva Lehrer will join writer and director, Chase Joynt to discuss the socially challenged body in her new memoir, Golem Girl.

RIVA LEHRER is an artist, writer, and curator whose work focuses on issues of physical identity and the socially challenged body. She is best known for representations of people with impairments, and those whose sexuality or gender identity have long been stigmatized. A longtime faculty member of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Riva Lehrer is currently an instructor in medical humanities at Northwestern University.

CHASE JOYNT is a writer and director whose films have won jury and audience awards internationally. With Aisling Chin-Yee, Chase co-directed No Ordinary Man, which was presented at Cannes Docs 2020 as part of the Canadian Showcase of Docs-in-Progress and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2020. His latest short film, Framing Agnes, premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, won the Audience Award at Outfest in Los Angeles, the Juror Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, and is being developed into a feature film with support from Telefilm Canada’s Talent to Watch program. Joynt’s first book You Only Live Twice (co-authored with Mike Hoolboom) was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist and named one of the best books of the year by The Globe and Mail and CBC. Most recently, Chase directed an episode of Two Sentence Horror Stories for the CW, which is now streaming on Netflix.

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Koffler Centre of the Arts

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In Partnership with:

Penguin Random House Canada, Glad Day Bookshop

Start Date: May 20, 2021

7-8 PM

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Books & Ideas: Riva Lehrer with Chase Joynt

Award-winning author Riva Lehrer will join writer and director, Chase Joynt to discuss the socially challenged body in her new memoir, Golem Girl.

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Presented by:

Koffler Centre of the Arts

A Kultura Collective Member

In Partnership with:

Penguin Random House Canada, Glad Day Bookshop

Start Date: May 20, 2021

Virtual

Zoom

Website:

Koffler Centre of the Arts

Email

Get Tickets

Free

Accessibility

If accessibility options not listed, please contact the venue to confirm

Related Events

Happening Now

TSA: The Spirit of the ’60s: A Cultural History of the Grooviest of Decades

April 10, 2026

to May 15, 2026

Upcoming

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April 14, 2026

to May 19, 2026

Upcoming

Hebrew 101 (Spring 2026)

April 14, 2026

to June 17, 2026

Upcoming

How Do Hugh Write a Grant? Grant Writing for Creatives

April 15, 2026

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