September 30, 2021 – Canada’s first “National Day of Truth and Reconciliation” It is good to remember that the original woman was herself an immigrant. She fell a long way from her home in Skyworld, leaving behind all who knew her and who held …
Ghanaian Writing On Migration and Diaspora
Three poetry chapbooks are bound together in the set, Ghanaian Writing on Migration and Diaspora: On Loss: Two Poems from Ghana by A.B. Godfreed & SAANWe are Moulting Birds by Gabriel Awuah MainooWalking on Water by Jay Kophy The cover …
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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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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. …
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2020/21 RML Design Template
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 …