Reading the Migration Library, a long-running artist project that has produced events and publications in the theme of migration and displacement, has just released its third and final series called RML3: Undercurrents and Folds. Host artists, Lois Klassen and Deanne Achong are thrilled to join the artists in these exciting launch events!
Thursday, October 3 2024 (6:30-8:30pm)
RML3: Undercurrents and Folds Artist TALK AT COMOX VALLEY ART GALLERY
The Comox Valley Art Gallery (CVAG) will be hosting a reading on Thursday, October 3rd, with artists Lois Klassen and Deanne Achong. The artists are conducting creative research and development during an artist-in-residency at the McLoughin Gardens.
Lois and Deanne will read from RML3: Undercurrents and Folds publications and discuss the process of making artist books and zines on the topic of migration. Bring your own zines or artists publications to exchange for RML3 titles.
Friday, September 27 2024 (5pm)
Artist talk and zine exchange
Centre A – #205-268 Keefer Street, Vancouver
- Featuring Deanne Achong (Mama D’Lo and Missy G Under the Sea), Candie Tanaka (Hanafuda 花札 [Flower Cards]), and Clare Yow (ac·cu·mu·la·tions).
- Publications will be available for exchange (bring your own artist book or zine to exchange – one per person) and by donation.
Saturday, September 28 2024 (1:15 – 2:15pm)
RML3: Undercurrents and Folds Official Launch
Word Vancouver Festival, UBC Robson Square, Vancouver . Registration required – Visit Festival Website
- Artist talk and Q&A with all artists involved in RML3: Undercurrents and Folds – Deanne Achong, Leah Decter, Lois Klassen, Peter Morin, Candie Tanaka, Sarah Shamash, Tania Willard, and Clare Yow.
Saturday, September 28 2024 (11am – 4:30pm)
Reading the Migration Library display
Word Vancouver Festival, UBC Robson Square, Vancouver
(No registration required. See festival website for more information.)
PAST EVENTS
Wednesday, September 18 2024 (7:30pm)
To Postpone the End of the World: Artist talk and Zine Exchange
grunt gallery – #116-350 East 2nd Avenue, Vancouver
- Featuring Sarah Shamash (Didactics to Postpone the End of the World) and Lois Klassen, with special guests, Sue Shon and the students behind Palestine A to Z, a zine that illustrates the poem of the same name by Mosab Abu Toah.
- Publications will be available for exchange (bring your own artist book or zine to exchange – one per person) and by donation.
RML3: Undercurrents and Folds would not be possible without funding and support from BC Arts Council (Individual Arts Award); Canada Council for the Arts (Research Creation, Explore and Create grant); SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at Critical Media Art Studio, School of Interactive Art and Technology, SFU; Centre for Inter-Media Arts and Decolonial Expression (CIMADE), NSCAD and Canada Research Chairs Program; SITE/ation Studio, UBCO; and, Light Factory Publications.
