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ReReading Room & LIT LIT LIT LIT

Sunday, November 20, 2016 221a E Georgia st 7:00 PM-the end of patriarchy FB Event

Rereading Room presents a collection of books, documents, and periodicals from the titles offered by the Vancouver Women's Bookstore (1973-1996) in its nascent year. Join us at 221a in the evening of Sunday, November 20th to gather among this gleaned archive for readings by Anahita Jamali Rad, Danielle LaFrance, Emma Metcalfe Hurst and Kyla Jamieson as a part of the bi-monthly reading series LIT LIT LIT LIT organized by Steffanie Ling and Emma Metcalfe Hurst with unfailing support from Alexandra Bischoff this time around. The timeless combo of books and refreshments will be available for your reading and listening delight.

Paper Hound Bookstore will have a table set up with books available for purchase. Titles from the 1973 Vancouver Women's Bookstore catalog will be included, as well as titles from the evening's readers, the Somewhat Urgent Series and other contemporary feminist texts. Both cash and credit will be accepted.

We hope you can make it, there’s a lot to catch up on.

Special thanks to 221a, Paper Houng Bookstore and our guest readers Anahita, Danielle and Kyla for partaking in this extended restaging of the Vancouver Women’s Bookstore! The gratitude runs deep.

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ANAHITA JAMALI RAD was born in Shiraz, Iran, and now lives on unceded Coast Salish Territories a.k.a. Vancouver. Jamali Rad is the author and binder of handmade chapbooks such as Un In Uni Form, You and Me Baby, Patterns, Heart/Felt/Poems, and say what you like about my glasses, but i never get drunk and drank confused when i’m out with the working classes. Alongside Danielle LaFrance, she co-organizes the women’s critical reading and discussion group, About a Bicycle, and co-edits a biannual journal of the same name. She studied Philosophy at the University of British Columbia and is currently doing a diploma in Publishing at Langara College.

DANIELLE LAFRANCE is a poet, librarian, and independent scholar. She is the author of Species Branding (CUE, 2010) and the chapbook Pink Slip (SIC, 2013). Between 2012-2016 she organized the feminist materialist collective and journal series About a Bicycle. Her work deals with the ways “total war” and “Empire” infiltrate social relations as well as the intersections between language, revolutionary action, and self-abolition. And love. Since 1983 she has mostly resided on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Skxwú7mesh, Úxwumixw, Stó:lo, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples.

EMMA METCALFE HURST is a writer, curator, artist and facilitator currently based in Nanaimo, BC on Snuneymuxw land. She is a recent graduate of Emily Carr University where she majored in Critical & Cultural Practices and minored in Curatorial Studies. A more recent turn in her practice investigates sonic space as an alternative area to investigate through a curatorial lens; text based pursuits in relation to art practices and production, the crisis of space and subsequently displacement, as well as the importance of sharing and listening oral culture activates and preserves. Metcalfe Hurst is also an avid-and very fortunate-collaborator, as co-organizer of LIT LIT LIT LIT, CRCP Radio Mondays and Avenue (2015). She currently holds the position of Curatorial Intern at the Nanaimo Art Gallery.

KYLA JAMIESON lives and works on the unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations, and is an MFA candidate. Her writing has appeared in print or online for Sad Magazine, GUTS, Canadian Elle, and other publications. She has participated in the Banff Centre’s writing studio and received awards from the BC Arts Council and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. She is a member of the Three Sisters Collective and Sad Mag‘s Poetry & Prose editor.