Black Diamond Dust | Book Launch & Readings

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Thursday, March 16th, 2017
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Black Diamond Dust | Book Launch & Readings

Thursday, March 16, 7 pm

Free

Join us to celebrate the launch of Nanaimo Art Gallery's first major publication Black Diamond Dust. The event will feature readings by local historian Lynne Bowen, curator and co-editor Jesse Birch, and Vancouver-based artist and writer Elisa Ferrari, who will share the work of the late Nanaimo poet, Peter Culley. There will also be a reception with beverages, book signings, and an opportunity to see our current exhibition Landfall and Departure: Prologue.

The publication expands on the contemporary art exhibition by the same name that took place at Nanaimo Art Gallery in 2014. Black Diamond Dust refers to coal mining, an industry that formed and fragmented communities through economic development, racial segregation, and labor inequity, while fuelling the modern world. This book brings to light forgotten or under-acknowledged histories, through artworks, poetry, essays, literature, folk songs, and archival images.

Black Diamond Dust is co-published with Sternberg Press in Berlin and edited by Jesse Birch with Will Holder. It is the first of three curatorial projects to engage the main resource industries of Vancouver Island (coal mining, forestry, and fisheries) through contemporary art.