So Loud! A Musical Book Launch at the Nanaimo Conservatory of Music

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Sunday, May 19th, 2024
11:30 AM to 12:30 PM

Author Sahar Golshan will be presenting a collaborative musical book launch of her debut picture book So Loud!

Join Sahar, cellist and instructor Alexandra Lee, and NCM students for a collaborative musical reading and performance!

So Loud! was published in March 2024 with Annick Press and is illustrated by Shiva Delsooz. It was featured by CBC Books as a Canadian book for children to check out in spring 2024.

“A beautiful celebration of girls who spill outside set boundaries and their powerful flowing voices. You will fall in love with irrepressible Rudy and this howlingly sweet, roaringly sonic debut.” —Kyo Maclear, author of The Wish Tree More information about So Loud! https://www.annickpress.com/Books/S/So-Loud

Book description:

A fun and touching debut that explores the power of finding your voice.

Rudābeh (Rudy for short) loves to talk, sing, jump and shout. There’s just one problem: the adults in her life are always telling her that she is SO LOUD. When her grandmother (Māmān Bozorg) visits from Iran for the first time, Rudy worries that she might be too loud for her. But as she tries to be quieter, Rudy starts to feel less and less like herself. Listening closely to the many sounds in her world—from husky howls and streetcar chimes to Māmān Bozorg’s roaring sneezes—Rudy tries to figure out the full range of her own voice, discovering along the way the joy in being loud.

With exuberant illustrations by Shiva Delsooz, this charming story will resonate with readers who love to make noise and are still learning where and when to take up space.

About Sahar:

SAHAR GOLSHAN is a writer based in Mississauga, Ontario. She is the 2022 winner of the Marina Nemat Award for Creative Writing in Non-Fiction and received the 2019 Air Canada Short Film Award for her short documentary KAR.