The Sunday Summer Reading Series are a month-long series of critical discussions on readings chosen and hosted by various artists, curators and organizers in a public park, organized by Editor Lauren Lavery.
2021 Artists:
Emma Metcalfe Hurst (August 29, 2021)
- Information Activism: A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies by Cait McKinney
The event took place at China Creek Park North in Vancouver, BC.
Qian Cheng (August 22, 2021)
- The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker, Chapter One: Decide Why You’re Really Gathering
- taking space, holding space: curating-as-organizing in the time of need for solidarity at asia-art-activism by Annie Jael Kwan
The event took place at China Creek Park North in Vancouver, BC.
Emily Dundas Oke (August 15, 2021)
- an excerpt from Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko
- Boreal Swing by Liz Howard
- pākahamakew by Samantha Marie Nock
- Billy-Ray Belcourt: The Optics of Language in Canadian Art
- the plot so far and ᐸᐢᑎᐯᐤ, by Selina Boan
The discussion was hosted online on Zoom.
Fan Wu (August 8, 2021)
We read a selection of poetry, prose, theory, and spiritual texts chosen by Fan under the theme of Non-attachment to the Self: A Collective Reading.The discussion was hosted online on Zoom.
Featuring excerpts of writing including:
- Dennis Cooper, Dream Police
- Lao Tzu, Dao De Jing (trans. Stephen Mitchell)
- Eugene Thacker, In the Dust of the Planet
- Thich Nhat Hahn, The Other Shore
- Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Concordance
