[BCMA] Ashok Mathur @ UBCO and the Alternator

[Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv.]

The CULTURE/POWER Speaker Series presents:

Ashok Mathur
Thursday, November 19

Public Talk:
"Reconciliation: hoping through failure and the magical mystery tour of 
demanding the impossible."
                                                        UBC Okanagan -- 
ART112 @ 2:15pm

Book Launch:
/A Little Distillery in Nowgong
/            Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art (in the Rotary 
Centre) @ 7:00pm
                421 Cawston Avenue, Kelowna

These Events are FREE and Open to the Public       

*Ashok Mathur *is a Canada Research Chair in Cultural and Artistic 
Inquiry at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops where he is 
cross-posted to the departments of English & Modern Languages and Visual 
& Performing Arts. He directs the Centre for Innovation in Culture and 
the Arts in Canada (CiCAC) an artistic think-tank and residency 
programme dedicated to progressive creative research across visual, 
media, performance, and literary disciplines.

/A Little Distillery in Nowgong
/
"This fantastical historical novel, narrated by a child yet to be born, 
traces the lives of three generations of a Parsi family in India from 
the late 1800s to present day. The narrative follows the family from the 
intricacies of village life in the jungles of central India to the 
complications of urban life in turbulent pre- and post-independence 
struggles to contemporary diasporic realities in the United Kingdom and 
North America" (Arsenal Pulp Press).


This event is part of the Culture/Power Speaker Series, co-sponsored by 
the UBC Okanagan Cultural Studies program and the Alternator Gallery. 
This series draws in academics and artists working in the field of 
cultural studies to investigate the relation between culture and power. 
The aim of the series is to interrogate social, political, ideological 
and aesthetic ideas about what is deemed "normal" or "natural" and 
imagine the ways in which culture can be shaped, not through power, but 
through more egalitarian forms.


 For more information please contact Lindsay.Balfour at ubc.ca or 
David.Jefferess at ubc.ca
 
 
 

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*
Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art*
#103-421 Cawston Ave.
Kelowna, BC
V1Y 6Z1
250-868-2298
www.alternatorgallery.com
/
Celebrating 20 years of living on the edge!/  The Alternator is an 
artist-run centre - a welcoming site for radical art-making and 
community-building.


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NOVEMBER @ ALT*
*Thursday *November 19,* 7:30pm: Book launch with Ashok Mather/ - A 
Little Distillery in Nowgong./
Sunday *November 22*, 3pm: Members meeting, discussion on radical 
art-making and community-building.







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