Past Events
By year: 2007 | 2008
Memory Festival
November 11, 2007
Memory Festival is a series of public events on public and private memory and the acts of memory and forgetting. Barbara Hodgson will be doing a slide show of her art at the launch of her new book Trading in Memories.
Cost: Free
Place: Listel Hotel, 1300 Robson Street, Vancouver
Schedule: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Share the Enthusiasm Series
November 14, 2007
Paul Whitney, Chief Librarian, Vancouver Public Library and noted collector will speak in the semi-annual Share the Enthusiasm series at which time book collectors speak of their collections and collecting. His topic is collecting modern firsts with an emphasis on British/Irish writers of the late '70s and later. As well he promises to speak of his collection of Ze records and a comic collection.
Cost: Free
Place: Wosk Centre for Dialogue, HSBC Executive Room 370
Location: 580 West Hastings,Vancouver
Time: 7:30 pm
An Evening Celebrating Robert Reid
November 16, 2007 | Bio: www.robertreidprinting.ca
Renowned West Coast artist Takao Tanabe will be the featured speaker. Takao Tanabe was introduced to Reid in the early 1950s by Joe Plaskett. Tanabe and Reid collaborated on a variety of printing and design work through the decade, and both taught at the Vancouver Art School. In the early '60s Tanabe's own Periwinkle Press further established his reputation as an innovative typographer and graphic designer. Other speakers will be Heavenly Monkey publisher Rollin Milroy, who will start the evening with an illustrated overview and highlights of Reid’s publishing work; and Professor Peter McNally, McGill School of Information Studies, who will speak about Reid’s work as designer for McGill University Press. Charlie Mayrs, once a student of Reid's at the Vancouver School of Art,will speak on those Reid as a teacher/mentor. The evening will conclude with a talk by Robert, focusing on some of the people who've had particular influence on his career. Click here for more event information. This is the Annual Yosef Wosk - Friends of SFU Special Collections - Alcuin Society Lecture.
Cost: Free. Reservations required call 778.782.4658 or email
library@sfu.ca Refreshments follow event.
Place: Simon Fraser University, 515 West Hastings (Fletcher
Challenge Canada Theatre Room 1900) [Map]
Time: 7:30 pm
Information: contact Eric Swanick 778.782.4626 or
eswanick@sfu.ca
The Robert Reid lecture is followed on Saturday 17 November by the third biennial Alcuin Society wayzgoose fine press fair, also in Vancouver. Work from two dozen letterpress publishers and book artists will be on display at the Vancouver Public Library Central Branch.
Biennial Wayzgoose
November 17, 2007
This year's Alcuin Wayzgoose will take place on 17 November from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. at the Vancouver Public Library Central Branch(350 West Georgia). This year's festivities will include BC private presses,book artists and demonstrations including paste papers and much more. For further information contact Eric Swanick 778.782.4626 or wayzgoose@alcuinsociety.com.
Cost: Free
Place: The Alice Mckay Room, Central Library, Vancouver Public Library
Time: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
JackPine Press' 5th Anniversary
Friday, December 7, 2007
From press release: JackPine Press, an independent Saskatchewan chapbook publisher, is pleased to announce the launch of three new unique limited-edition chapbooks: CosmoSonnets, a collection of poems by award-winning poet Mari-Lou Rowley, book design by Robert McNealy; the insistence of green/blue transport, poems by Judith Krause and book design by Shelley Sopher; and Ghost Works, correspondence and poetry by Alison Calder and Jeanette Lynes, book design by Onjana Yawnghwe. A launch and reading event will be held. For more information: Jill Robinson; Email: jackpinepress@gmail.com
Place: Refinery Arts & Spirit Centre, 609 Dufferin, Saskatoon, SK (Map)
Time: 7:00 pm
Printing in the Shadow of Aldus
Saturday, December 8, 2007
A symposium in celebration of Joseph Brodsky’s Watermark: A Memoir of Venice, with Photographs by Robert Morgan. The speakers are: Peter Rutledge Koch, artist, printer, writer, and publisher of fine editions and artist books. Mr. Koch will show slides and talk about the grand adventure of printing Watermark in Venice in collaboration with an international cast of distinguished printers, artists, and artisans. Sandro Berra, Executive Coordinator of the Tipoteca Italiana Fondazione and graphic designer will talk about the Tipoteca Italiana type and printing museum in Cornuda, Italy, and their involvement in the printing of Watermark. Mr. Berra will address what’s behind this collaboration: The idea and practice of keeping alive contemporary “humanism.” Jonathan Aaron teaches writing and literature at Emerson College in Boston. He’s currently the Margaret Bundy Scott Visiting Professor of English at Williams College. He is the author of three books of poetry, the latest being Journey to the Lost City, published by Ausable Press in 2006. Mr. Aaron will talk about Joseph Brodsky, Venice, and the writing of Watermark.
Cost: Free. Open to the public.
Place: San Francisco Public Library, Main Library’s Koret Auditorium, Lower Level
Time: 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. A reception will follow from 5:00 to 5:45 p.m. in the Skylight Gallery on the 6th Floor of the Main Library, where visitors will be able to view the current exhibition by the Hand Bookbinders of California.