[Bcma-l] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, March 7, 2008

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, March 7, 2008
ATTENTION ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT EDITORS

*The Alternator Gallery Philosophers’ Café presents:*

LIT@ALT: A Reading and Discussion Series
With participants Ashok Mathur (TRU University) and Karen Olson 
(En’owkin Centre)

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Ashok Mathur’s A Distillery in Nowgong and Karen Olson’s Erotica Project*

KELOWNA, BC – On Saturday, March 22, 2008, at 8:00 p.m., Ashok Mathur 
(Canada Research Chair in Cultural and Artistic Inquiry at Thompson 
Rivers University) and Karen Olson (the Department Head of Creative 
Writing at the En’owkin Centre in Penticton) will be presenting their 
new, exhilarating literary works at the Alternator Gallery.

Mathur’s most recent project is a novel manuscript entitled A Distillery 
in Nowgong. This multi-disciplinary project explores Parsi histories and 
diaspora in contemporary politics of racialization, migration, and the 
fantastic. Mathur’s aim is to 'migrate' his novel from the page to an 
installation space and thereby create an inhabitation of the novel in a 
different presentational environment.

Olson is presently working on the Erotica Project. This text is born out 
of Olson’s conviction that for far too long Indigenous sexuality has 
been informed and defined by others. Her goal, she says, “is to take our 
sexuality back through the sharing of ancient stories which reveal a 
traditional Indigenous world-view of intimacy, sex and our emotional 
responses to these.”

At the Saturday evening LIT@ALT event, Mathur and Olson will read from 
their important new works and also participate in an informal chat with 
the audience. This is a rare opportunity to hear and interact with two 
of British Columbia’s most engaged and challenging writer-scholars.

The Philosophers’ Café: LIT@ALT Reading and Discussion Series, a new 
program designed to enhance the community’s understanding of 
contemporary art/writing and stimulate discussion about cultural issues, 
is organized by the Alternator Gallery, an artist-run centre in the 
Rotary Centre for the Arts at 421 Cawston Ave. Admission is by donation.

Call (250) 868-2298, check www.alternatorgallery.com or e-mail 
info@alternatorgallery.com for information.



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Alternator Gallery for Contemporary Art
#103-421 Cawston Ave.
Kelowna, BC
V1Y 6Z1
250-868-2298

www.alternatorgallery.com <http://www.alternatorgallery.com/>
info@alternatorgallery.com <mailto:info@alternatorgallery.com>


The Alternator Gallery is proud to present ON COMMON GROUND National 
Media Arts Festival & Conference, June 10-14 2008.

Exploring common visions while showcasing the history of Indigenous 
media art in the traditional territory of the Syilx Nation in beautiful 
Kelowna BC.
www.imaa.ca <http://www.imaa.ca/> or www.alternatorgallery.com 
<http://www.alternatorgallery.com/>