In celebration of Black Futures Month, TSV staff have created a reading list containing our favourite books (ranging from non-fiction, art, fiction and theory) written by Black artists and authors. We’ve linked the list in our bio; we hope you find something that piques your interest and inspires your practice!
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Image Credit: Cover of “The African Desperate” by Martine Syms …
LILLIAN ALLEN / CHRISTINA BATTLE / RAYMOND BOISJOLY / DEANNA BOWEN / JOSHUA CHAMBERS-LETSON / KEYON GASKIN / CHE GOSSETT / SEAN D. HENRY-SMITH / IMANI ELIZABETH JACKSON / STEFFANI JEMISON / AISHA SASHA JOHN / JESSICA LYNNE / CHARMAINE NELSON / M NOURBESE PHILIP / TINA POST / KRYS VERRALL / KANDIS WILLIAMS / BEAR WITNESS
November 22 – 24 2019Toronto Media …
Visiting Speakers Series: France as a Black Space
Saturday, September 28 at 2pm, 2019
Or Gallery, Vancouver BC
On Saturday, September 28 at 2pm at Artspeak (233 Carrall St, Vancouver, BC) Or Gallery will host a conversation with Françoise Vergès (writer, activist, curator; Paris, France) and Olivier Marboeuf (writer, curator; Paris, France) as part of a series of multi-sited events called Bodies Borders Fields. Vergès …
with works by Kiera Boult, Jazmine V K Carr, Danièle Dennis, Marcelline Mandeng, and Dainesha Nugent-Palache, with commissioned texts by Jared Brown and Aurel Haize Odogbo
Curated by Jessica Karuhanga
11 January–03 March 2018 Opening Reception: 11 January 2018, 6-8PM;Performance by Marcelline Mandeng ft. Kim Ninkuru at 7PM.
Ineffable Blaze meditates on the exhaustive labours of self-articulation that cast the Black femme subject as dispossessed. Their …