New Star Books Firebombing Benefit

Mar 31, 2012
Field:

Reading, Performance

Location:

Grand Luxe Hall, Western Front

Time:

3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Description:

Clint Burnham organized an afternoon of readings in the Grand Luxe Hall to raise funds in support of local publisher New Star Books after their headquarters on Commercial Street was firebombed.
 
Readers included David Chariandy, Clint Burnham, Stephen Collis, Peter Culley, Jeff Derksen, Roger Farr, Donato Mancini, Daphne Marlatt, Larissa Lai, George Stanley, Jamie Reid, Jacqueline Turner, and Fred Wah.

Western Front is a non-profit
artist-run centre in Vancouver.

We acknowledge the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations as traditional owners of the land upon which Western Front stands.