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Memory Festival Launch Party

Remembrance Day: Sunday, November 11, 2007

1:00 PM – 4:00 PM

 

Listel

1300 Robson Street, 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 is appearing 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 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.

 

 

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

 

Festival homepage:

http://www.geist.com/memoryfestival