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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 …
[Read more...] about Creative Media Responses to Diasporic Writing
A new book in the art project, Reading the Migration Library, invites us to to look over the field drawings from Madame Beespeaker’s notebook. The images and notes record local observations of the well-known migrator, the Painted Lady Butterfly. …
[Read more...] about New RML Book: Feeding the Migration (Painted Lady)
How does a socially-situated art project adapt to a prolonged pandemic? It takes up artist book publishing !! At RML headquarters the pandemic shut-downs of 2020/21 coincided with first-time research-creation project funding from BC Arts Council …
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 …
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 …
