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Oct
29
Book Party and Launch for For Folk's Sake
Saturday, October 29th, 20167:30-9p.m.
L'Escalier Montréal, 552 Sainte Catherine St E, Montreal, Quebec H2L 2E1
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Join us Saturday after the UAAC Conference evening cocktail, for a book party and launch of Erin Morton's new book For Folk's Sake! The event will take place at Resto-Bar L'Éscalier and will be from7:30-9p.m.
Family Ties author Andrea Terry and Picturing Toronto's Sarah Bassnett will also be attending. Come have a drink with us and meet some great MQUP authors!
For Folk's Sake
Art and Economy in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia
By Erin Morton
A radical re-examination of art in Nova Scotia and the place of folk art in the cultural hierarchy of the twentieth century.
Folk art emerged in twentieth-century Nova Scotia not as an accident of history, but in tandem with cultural policy developments that shaped art institutions across the province between 1967 and 1997. For Folk’s Sake charts how woodcarvings and paintings by well-known and obscure self-taught makers - and their connection to handwork, local history, and place - fed the public’s nostalgia for a simpler past. Read me >
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L'Escalier Montréal
552 Sainte Catherine St E
Montreal, Quebec
H2L 2E1
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