Memory Festival Launch Party
Remembrance Day
Sunday, Nov 11, 1-4 pm
Listel Hotel, 1300 Robson St, Vancouver
Free admission
The Memory Festival is a free-floating series of public events focussed on public and private memory, and the questions that surround acts of memory and forgetting.
Vancouver book designer and writer Barbara Hodgson, whose collage appears above, is appearing at the Festival with slides from her new book Trading in Memories, http://www.tradinginmemories.com.
Trading in Memories is Barbara Hodgson’s collage of souvenirs and travel stories from around the world. These are not your ordinary souvenirs. The photos, illustrations and travel anecdotes are about lost and found art picked up off the street, treasures discovered at flea markets and documents uncovered from between the pages of other finds.
(Work Industries created the website for the book. Yes, I’m bias but I think the book is gorgeous. Look inside the book.)
But the event isn’t just about Barbara, other special guests presenting readings, slide shows, exhibits and salubrious conversation include:
* Stephen Osborne, writer
* Faith Moosang, artist
* John Paskievich, photographer
* Dan Francis, historian
* Mary Schendlinger, writer
* Goran Basaric, photographer
* Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, artist
* Sandra Shields, writer
* Jamie Long, playwright,
* Craig Hall, actor
* David Campion, photographer
* Katherine McManus, university administrator
* Anne Grant, photographer
Join the party and share your memories.