Events

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Upcoming Events

Dead Weight: TYPE Gallery Reception

When
Friday, July 3, 2009 - 7:00pm

TYPE Books (Queen Street)
883 Queen Street West
Toronto, ON
Map to TYPE Books (Queen Street)

Details

Presenting.... A Scream Type Salon Series event.

“The Gothic fate of poor slain Poetry is the specter at this dwindling feast.” – Bruce Sterling.

Pay your respects to the book with artists Mark Laliberte, Craig Leonard, Danny Snelson and the intonations of Spamradio as we seal it in the tomb of the Type Books basement gallery.

As books shed their confines of form and structure, their remains are melted and encased in chemical caskets, squeezed into the metal sheaths of hard drives and otherwise left to decay. The show will run for the duration of the festival.

Cost: PWYC

See http://thescream.ca/festivals/... for more information.

Signal-to-Noise: The Poetry of Information - Type Poetry Salon

When
Friday, July 3, 2009 - 9:00pm
Where
Where

Perhaps the Information Age leaves no room for poetry. Or perhaps poetry imagined the Information Age. Choral selections from the history of catalogue poetry, including Homer, Chaucer, Sears Roebuck, Daniel Spoerri, Greg Curnoe and David Markson open poetry to the threat of a surfeit of information.

Hosted by the Scream Literary Festival.

Cost: PWYC

See http://thescream.ca/content/20... for more info.

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Scream Chapters 11: The Bankruptcy Walking Tour

When
Saturday, July 4, 2009 - 1:00pm
Where

Victory Cafe
581 Markham Street
Toronto, ON
Map to Victory Cafe

Details

Beneath Toronto’s storefronts lie the graves of our independent bookstores. Join a walking wake and take a tour through 100 years of Canada’s literary retail history. From the recently demised David Mirvish Books to Yorkville mainstays The Book Cellar and Britnell’s, this walk along Bloor reveals a virtual graveyard of loved and lost bookstores.

Short elegiac readings will occur along route by those who knew them best and you are invited to lament your favorite shuttered stores with spontaneous shrines and love notes.

Out of respect for the dead,it is requested that you wear black, come prepared with umbrellas for rain and a good, sensible pair of shoes.

The Scream invites you to take your own walking tour. They also encourage you to share your comments and memories online as they build a living memorial to the vital role of Toronto’s independent booksellers.

Cost: Free

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