July 1, 2021 - Today, on a day formerly celebrated as Canada Day, Canadians are grieving with families and communities who are dealing with recent discoveries of unmarked grave sites on the grounds of former Indian Residential Schools. The …
Presentamos /Presenting: bosque brotante
Light Factory Publications is excited to present the print edition of bosque brotante, in the Present Cartographers Series. bosque brotante by Daisy Quezada Ureña documents conversations about ecology and culture that took place along the …
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Creative Media Responses to Diasporic Writing
Reading the Migration Library, in partnership with criticalMediArtStudio at Simon Fraser University (SFU), and Library of Africa and the African Diaspora (LOATAD) in Accra, Ghana, will soon be embarking on an experimental creative project that will …
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Reading the Diaspora Library
Reading the Migration Library of LFP is joining LOATAD (Library of Africa and the African Diaspora) to produce three new literary chapbooks by Ghanaian writers. Arguably the world's experts on the concept of "diaspora", these writers are expected …
Reading Black History
It's a little lost to history these days, but "Rum and Coca Cola" was an enormous hit for the Andrew Sisters in 1945. Their version offered to postwar Americans a singable, dance-able appropriation of Trinidadian calypso--just as Caribbean travel …