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<p class="MsoNormal"><img width="0" height="0" align="left" hspace="12" style="margin-right:0px"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif"><br><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Nanaimo Art Gallery</span><br></p>
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Commercial Street</span></span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14.85pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif">Nanaimo, BC, V9R 5G6<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14.85pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif"><a href="tel:(250)%20754-1750" value="+12507541750" target="_blank">250.754.1750</a><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14.85pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif">Contact: Chris Kuderle (</span><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="mailto:chrisk@nanaimogallery.ca" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif">chrisk@nanaimogallery.ca</span></a></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif">)<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14.85pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif">For immediate release: <b><i>Black Diamond Dust </i></b>Book Launch & Readings<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14.85pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> <img src="cid:ii_j0a4iik32_15acf00771031b00" width="381" height="472"><br></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)"><a href="http://nanaimogallery.ca/index.php/events" target="_blank">Black Diamond Dust </a></span></i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Book Launch & Readings | Thursday, March 16, 7 PM </span></b><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif"><span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Free </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Join us to celebrate the launch of </span><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="http://nanaimogallery.ca/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif">Nanamo
Art Gallery</span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)">’s first major publication </span><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Black Diamond Dust</span></i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)">. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)">The event will feature readings by local historian Lynne Bowen, </span><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif;font-size:11pt">curator and co-editor Jesse Birch, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif;font-size:11pt">and
Vancouver based artist and writer Elisa Ferrari, who </span><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif;font-size:11pt">will share the work of the late Nanaimo
poet, </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Peter Culley. There will also be a reception </span><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif;font-size:11pt">with beverages, book signings, and an
opportunity to see </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif;font-size:11pt">our current exhibition </span><span lang="EN-CA"><a href="http://nanaimogallery.ca/index.php/exhibitions/downtown-exhibitions" target="_blank"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif">Landfall and Departure: Prologue</span></i></a></span><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)">.</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)">The publication expands on the
contemporary art exhibition by the same name that took </span><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif;font-size:11pt">place at </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Nanaimo Art Gallery in
2014. </span><i style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Black Diamond Dust </i><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif;font-size:11pt">refers to coal mining, an industry </span><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif;font-size:11pt">that formed and </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif;font-size:11pt">fragmented communities
through economic development, racial segregation, and labor inequity, while </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif;font-size:11pt">fuelling the modern </span><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif;font-size:11pt">world. This book brings to light forgotten or </span><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif;font-size:11pt">under-acknowledged histories, through </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif;font-size:11pt">artworks, poetry, essays, </span><span style="color:rgb(26,26,26);font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif;font-size:11pt">literature, folk songs, and archival images. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Black Diamond Dust </span></i><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> is co-published with Sternberg Press in Berlin and edited by Jesse
Birch with Will Holder. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)">It is the first of three curatorial projects to
engage the main resource industries of Vancouver Island </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)">(coal mining, forestry,
and fisheries) through contemporary art. <span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Black Diamond Dust</span></i><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)">publications are
available now at The Gallery Store for $30.00. The publication can also </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)">be
ordered by calling <a href="tel:(250)%20754-1750" value="+12507541750" target="_blank">250.754.1750</a>, shipping charges will apply.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"univers 45 light",sans-serif;color:black"><span></span></span></p></div></div>
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