Please join us for the launch of Another Order: Selected Works of Judith Copithorne (Talonbooks), edited by Eric Schmaltz

featuring short readings and responses to the book by Jessica Bebenek, Stephen Cain, Amanda Earl, Rasiqra Revulva, Eric Schmaltz, and Kate Siklosi.

LOCATION: Danu Social House (1237 Queen St W, Toronto)

TIME: Tuesday, April 2nd at 7:00 pm

With books for sale, refreshments, and a visual presentation of Copithorne's work throughout the night.

ACCESSIBILITY: Danu Social House is an accessible space with an accessible washroom on the main floor, and a ramp to get into the premises. More on Danu Social House here. https://www.danusocialhouse.ca/about

FREE ADMISSION

Books will be on sale but you can also order them here: https://talonbooks.com/books/?another-order

ABOUT THE BOOK: Another Order gathers the dynamic and previously inaccessible works of Judith Copithorne, the boundary-pushing writer, artist, community worker, and outspoken feminist who has been a key figure in Vancouver’s literary scene since the 1960s. Including poetry, fiction, visual art, comics, and life writing, Another Order captures Copithorne’s “embodied approach to text” and her tireless experiments with media – from typewriters and pens to computer software – in texts that engage issues of gender, sexuality, desire, subjectivity, spirituality, and revolution. Edited and introduced by Eric Schmaltz, this volume affirms Judith Copithorne’s position among the leading avant-garde poets and artists of her time.

TICKETS: https://lepointdevente.com/billets/czz230531002
DOORS: 7:15pm // SHOW: 8:00pm
$8 // $10 at door // NOTAFLOF

~ All ticket sales go directly to performing artists for their labour & travel expenses ~

~ Join us for UNHOLY UNION, a campy & devilish night of POETRY, LIVE EXORCISM, and BURLESQUE ~ feat. interdisciplinary performances by Jessica Bebenek, John Nyman, Mina Minou, Rasiqra Revulva, and Erin Lindsay ~

We'll be celebrating the launch of Jessica Bebenek's chapbook, I REMEMBER THE EXORCISM (Gap Riot Press), a long poem about haunting & heartbreak inspired by Joe Brainard's classic long poem, I Remember
https://www.jessicabebenek.art/publications
&
John Nyman's poetry collection A Devil Every Day (Palimpsest Press), a book of aphorisms, inner dialogues, and incantations, contemplating the problematic pleasures and unremarkable monstrosities of the contemporary West
https://palimpsestpress.ca/.../a-devil-every-day-john-nyman/

FEATURING
~ Rasiqra Revulva ~ sound & visual poet
https://www.wolsakandwynn.ca/authors-all/rasiqra-revulva
~ Mina Minou ~ mystical burlesque dancer
https://www.instagram.com/ghost_magick/
~ Erin Lindsay ~ interdisciplinary writer & dramaturg
https://crowlake.space/crowlakeprojects

ACCESSIBILITY INFO:
Masks will be required at this event in order to protect the heath of immune-compromised attendees & performers. La Sotterenea has a set of stairs at the entrance leading up and a second set of stairs leading down to the basement venue (approx. 38 steps). All-gender washrooms are located at basement level, alongside the event space, and are not wheelchair accessible. Please contact Jessica Bebenek (via FB) if you have any accessibility inquiries and we will do everything we can to help you enjoy this event.

May 17, 14h – 16h
Centre for Expanded Poetics
Concordia University (LB 681)
Webster Library building 1400 de Maisonneuve W.

In this workshop led by CEP Risograph Coordinator Jessica Bebenek, we will create collaged posters to print palimpsesticly on the risograph. Bebenek will give a short history of risograph printing traditions and demonstrate the fundamentals of the printing process, followed by a group collage session in which each participant will create an 11×17” poster. We will then over-print our posters, creating spontaneous collaborative prints. All materials will be provided, but participants may bring their own collage supplies.

No advance registration required.

Jessica Bebenek is a poet & interdisciplinary artist currently based in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal). She teaches poetry & bookmaking and works as a risograph printer & bookmaker at Concordia University’s Centre for Expanded Poetics where she prints the Documents book series, and where in 2017 she co-organized the international Occult Poetics Symposium. k2tog, her collection of knitting patterns for poems, was released by Berlin’s Broken Dimanche Press (2018).

The Centre for Expanded Poetics is a collaboration space which organizes film screenings, equipment workshops, conferences, and symposia. Our library and reading room consists of a substantial collection of 20th and 21st century experimental poetry, as well as texts on art and architecture. Our equipment includes a Risograph digital duplicator for small press printing, a v-bed scanner for archival reproduction of printed text, and a suite of digital photography and video equipment. We are interested in collaborating on projects that link poetics with other arts and fields of formal inquiry (e.g. architecture, design, textiles, the sciences).

Poet Christian Favreau reads from his new chapbook kireji

Q&A with bookmaker Jessica Bebenek & Favreau

Register for the event here: https://jackpinepress.com/fall-launch-with-christian-favreau/

A three hour panel for Forfatterskolen / The Danish Academy for Creative Writing including artist talks and discussions on materiality in poetics