Skater Girl is a collection of intensely personal essays. Themes of art, spirituality, and social justice run like a current through the book. Further, ideas about aging, loss, and mortality colour many of the essays. The book is about the formation of Robin Pacific's many selves: artist, writer and spiritual director.

 

Some of the SKATER GIRL essays:
 

• Running an extortion racket at eight at the Vancouver Kerrisdale Arena

• My mother’s near fatal stroke; my near fatal car accident.

• Being a Marxist feminist with a capitalist father who routinely sexually harassed his female employees

• Why Mark Rothko’s paintings make me cry.

• How I didn’t become a Maoist.

• When words transformed into 3D objects, launching my artistic career.

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“After reading the first few pages of honest, vivid, captivating, tragic, hilarious writing, we want to make friends with Robin Pacific and follow her forever. We go back and forth with the narrator, as she survives all manner of experiences – and men – and emerges, through New Age spirituality, hippiedom, Communism, breakdowns, theatre, artmaking, motherhood, and widowhood as a calm, devoted Anglican.”–Beth Kaplan, Midlife Solo

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Guernica group launch:
Sunday, April 21, 2024 3:30-6:00 at the Supermarket Bar and Variety, 268 Augusta Ave.
​Solo launch and art installation:

I made an installation to accompany the launch of my book at Gallery 1313 in Toronto. Each essay was printed on a long strip of paper, coated in beeswax, and hung them from the ceiling. Visitors could walk in and out and read the book in random order – a forest of words.

Thursday June 6, 6:30-8:30, 2024 Gallery 1313, located at 1313 Queen St. W.

Photos from the Gallery 1313 June 6 launch 

Global TV B.C. Interview June 9 

Brian Crombie Radio Hour Interview June 12​​​​​​​

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