[BCMA] Nanaimo Art Gallery: Black Diamond Dust Book Launch & Readings

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Nanaimo Art Gallery

150 Commercial Street

Nanaimo, BC

V9R 5G6

250.754.1750


For immediate release: *Black Diamond Dust   *Book Launch & Readings




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*Black Diamond Dust *

Book Launch & Readings

Thursday, March 16, 7 PM

Free



Join us to celebrate the launch of Nanaimo Art Gallery’s first major
publication *Black Diamond Dust*. The event will feature readings by local
historian Lynne Bowen, curator and co-editor Jesse Birch, and
Vancouver-based artist and writer Elisa Ferrari, who will share the work of
the late Nanaimo poet, Peter Culley. There will also be a reception with
beverages, book signings, and an opportunity to see our current
exhibition *Landfall
and Departure: Prologue.*



The publication expands on the contemporary art exhibition by the same name
that took place at Nanaimo Art Gallery in 2014. *Black Diamond Dust *refers
to coal mining, an industry that formed and fragmented communities through
economic development, racial segregation, and labor inequity, while
fuelling the modern world. This book brings to light forgotten or
under-acknowledged histories, through artworks, poetry, essays, literature,
folk songs, and archival images.



*Black Diamond Dust* is co-published with Sternberg Press in Berlin and
edited by Jesse Birch with Will Holder. It is the first of three curatorial
projects to engage the main resource industries of Vancouver Island (coal
mining, forestry, and fisheries) through contemporary art.



*Black Diamond Dust* publications are available now at The Gallery Store
for $30.00. The publication can also be ordered by calling 250.754.1750,
shipping charges will apply.
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