Announcing, RML3: Undercurrents and Folds
We are excited to announce the upcoming release of RML3: Undercurrents and Folds. Lois Klassen and Deanne Achong are excited to announce that they have begun work on phase three of Reading the Migration Library, or RML3: Undercurrents and Folds. This phase will result in publications produced collaboratively together with six artists.
Mail Art Report: 3 books
So far in 2024 three publications have landed in my hands. Fawn Daphne Plessner recently left a copy of the exhibition brochure Near Dwellers as Legal Beings in my work mail box. It is from a 2023 exhibition at The Tree Museum & Street Road Artists Space (Cochranville, PA) that is part of a year-long…
The Legacy of British Home Children
The 2023 production and release of Ginger Mason’s Henry Frederick Terry (1907-1980) ~ I Remember is linked to Franci Louann’s Charlie Henry Workman (1897-1976) ~The Unspoken (2017). Both publications recount the impact of the British Home Children program on the families of the authors. For Ginger Mason working on the RML publication offered her an…
Happy Exchanges from 37 Looe Street
In September, 2023 the RML project was featured in a week-long artist residency and artist talk and book exchange event at 37 Looe Street, Plymouth, UK. 37 Looe Street is a wonderful small-scale arts centre in an historic site that once held a larger regional art centre and vegan restaurant. Angela Piccini and Sef Penrose…
Presenting on Labour Day : Henry Frederick Terry (1907-1980) ~ I Remember by Ginger Mason
On Labour Day, Canada’s complicity with child immigrant labour is the theme at Reading the Migration Library headquarters. We are busy assembling the latest community publication, “Henry Frederick Terry (1907-1980) ~ I Remember” by Ginger Mason (Victoria). Here’s how it starts: “From the 1860s to the late 1930s the Government of Canada as well as…
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BP 2022 Zine Award – Best Political Zine
Reading the Migration Library is proud: Notas sobre un recorrido: el Centro de Procesamiento de El Paso / Notes on a Tour: the El Paso Processing Center by Gabriela Galíndez has been awarded the 2022 Broken Pencil Award for Best Political Zine! Also involved in this ‘zine are Victoria Lum and Ruby Lewis who worked…
Mail art from The Poem Factory (Ed Varney)
This nice packet of paper goods came in the mail from Ed Varney’s “The Poem Factory” in Courtney, BC (on Vancouver Island). I initiated the exchange by sending the DADA of mail art 2 full sets of RML books (with a few more poetry chapbooks, added in). I asked him if he would, after keeping…
Reading Diaspora / Reading Migration
Reading Diaspora / Reading Migration – is an interactive web project that responds to the voices of poets from Ghana and the Ghanaian Diaspora. The project was created by Catherine Pearce (concept and project director) and Rose Rouhani (interaction design), graduate students from School of Interactive Art and Technology (SIAT), Simon Fraser University Surrey Campus.…
Reading Migration / Reading Diaspora Launch – October 30, 2022
Sunday, October 20, 202210am (Pacific Time) Vancouver Black Library (268 Keefer Street, Basement Floor) and on-line Light Factory Publications (LFP) is excited to partner with Vancouver Black Library (VBL) to launch “Reading Migration / Reading Diaspora” an interactive website promoting contemporary Ghanaian writing by Catherine Pearce and Rose Rouhani. Reading Migration / Reading Diaspora features…
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Artist Book Publishing by American, Canadian, and Mexican Artists
Vancouver Latin American Cultural Centre (VLACC) presents American, Canadian, and Mexican creators who have recently produced artist books with Vancouver-based Light Factory Publications (LFP). Artists have been exchanging and collaboratively producing small publications for at least a century. Latin America and its diaspora have been particularly active in artist book publishing. These bilingual (Spanish, English)…
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Ghanaian Reading
Writers involved in the partnership project with Library of Africa and the African Diaspora (LOATAD) appeared at an online event hosted by Richmond Public Library (Richmond, BC, Canada) on November 27, 2021. To ensure that no one was lost during the cross-continent event, the presenters each prepared a recorded presentation. A special credit goes to…
Free Libraries
Reading the Migration Library is a free library! Copies of these small run books are available as downloads, by exchange, and at a free library near you. Distribution happens nearly daily at East Vancouver’s many free libraries (@littlefreelibrary) and even free art windows. Up to date details of #RMLdistribution are recorded in full colour on…
EVENT: RML at Richmond Public Library (November 27, 2021)
Join us for this in-person and online event in which Ghanaian writers and artists from the 2020/21 Reading the Migration Library (RML) Series will read and discuss the work they have recently produced. A Q&A with the writers will follow the reading. The event will be moderated by Alan Hill, former RML participant and New…
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Exchanging Files at the Fair
This year’s Vancouver Art Book Fair that just ended, offered alternatives to commercial circulation of physical objects that is typical in this vendor-style event. As a proponent of free digital and mail art book exchanges, RML noted some outstanding digital downloads on offer. Although art book fairs are peculiar offspring of international art and book…
RML at VABF
The 2020/21 Reading the Migration Library Series is now exhibited in the second online Vancouver Art Book Fair (October 18 to 26, 2021). VABF is Canada’s first, and longest-running, fair that features books, magazines, zines and printed ephemera as well as digital, performative or other experimental forms of publication. When you visit the online VABF…
Ghanaian Writing On Migration and Diaspora
Ghanaian Writing on Migration and Diaspora (set) Three poetry chapbooks are bound together in the set, Ghanaian Writing on Migration and Diaspora. Each chapbook is available by exchange or as downloadable files (by clicking on the titles below): On Loss: Two Poems from Ghana by A.B. Godfreed & SAAN We are Moulting Birds by Gabriel…
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 creatively circulate (or migrate) writing and art about diaspora. New funding from SFU’s Community Engagement Initiative (CEI) will enable…
New RML Book: Feeding the Migration (Painted Lady)
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. Nestled inside the drawings is a set of poems by Lori Weidenhammer that speak of the…
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