While doing some archival research this June, Alexandra dug up the Vancouver Women’s Bookstore’s inaugural 1973 catalogue. We examined the document as if it were excavated amber. More than just a record of its inventory, the warmly typewritten pages captured the spirit of a community formed during a critical period of intellectual production by and for women. The Bookstore was a setting where individual experience could be elaborated, made material, through social life. The books provided a common language; the shelves, a common space for conversation—between generations, continents. So consider this an invitation to its restaging. Rereading Room presents a collection of books, documents, and periodicals selected from the titles offered by the Bookstore in its nascent years. Come by, read, maybe talk over coffee; we have a lot to catch up on.
Vincent Tao, November 2016
Public Programming
Thursday, November 10, 7–10pm
Rereading Room opening
Discussion with founding member Jeannine Mitchell, followed by reception
Friday, November 18, 7–9pm
Hogan’s Alley (1993)
Screening with Cornelia Wyngaarden
Sunday, November 20, 7–9pm
LIT LIT LIT LIT
Anahita Jamali Rad, Kyla Jamieson, Danielle LaFrance, and Emma Metcalf Hurst
Tuesday, November 22, 7–9pm
Reading from a 1980s issue of Fireweed and dialogue
Unfastened Collective hosts Rhea Tregebov
Saturday, November 26, 2–4pm
Sex Work 101: Understanding Sex Worker Politics
Education seminar with Vancouver’s PACE Society
Tuesday, November 29, 7–9pm
I’m Like Me (Poems for people who want to grow up equal) by Siv Widerberg
Unfastened Collective hosts dialogue for gender-neutral parenting