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The Invisibility Exhibit | Book Launch and Readings | Various Locations
Lovely and amazing Vancouver-based poet Sachiko Murakami has just launched her first book THE INVISIBILITY EXHIBIT with Vancouver press Talonbooks.
This project is an investigation of the troubled relationship between a specific marginalized neighbourhood (aka. Vancouver's troubled Downtown Eastside), its "invisible" populations both past and present, and the wealthy, healthy city that surrounds it. These poems interrogate the comfortable distance from which the public consumes the sensationalist news story by turning their focus toward the normative audience, the equally invisible public. In the speaker's examination of this subject, assumptions and delineations of community, identity and ultimately citizenship are called into question.
Sachiko Murakami will be reading at a number of events across the country:
April 13 | 6:30 pm | The Pilot Reading Series | The Main Hall | 5390 St-Laurent | Montreal
April 29 | 6:30 PM | The Short Line Reading Series | The Railway Club | 579 Dunsmuir Street | Vancouver with Shari Willis, Ashok Mathur and Aaron Vidaver.
May 1 | 7 PM | The Lo Pub | 330 Kennedy St | Winnipeg | Dual launch with Chandra Mayor (All The Pretty Girls, Conundrum Press)
May 2 | 8 PM | Calgary International Spoken Word Festival | Art Gallery of Calgary | 117 8th Ave SW | Calgary | With Talonbooks poets Weyman Chan, Steve Collis, Colin Browne, and Fred Wah.
May 7 | Time TBA | Official Talonbooks Launch | The Western Front | 303 East 8th Avenue | Vancouver | With Weyman Chan, Steve Collis, Colin Browne, and Fred Wah.
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