The Porcupine's Quill

Events

40th Annual Conference of The Art Libraries Society of North America

On Saturday, March 31, and Sunday, April 1, The Porcupine's Quill will be joining George Walker Books at the 40th Annual Conference of the Art Libraries Society of North America. We will be exhibiting our art books in the exhibition hall, featuring texts by George A. Walker such as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

The Conference will be held at the Sheraton Centre Hotel on Queen Street across from City Hall.

We will be exhibiting our books on Saturday from 9:30–1:30; 2:30–5:15 and Sunday from 9:00–12:30; 2:30–6:30.

For more information about The Art Libraries Society of North America, please see their website.

Antanas Sileika Reads at Weston Branch of the Toronto Public Library

Toronto Pulic Library, Keep Toronto Reading

This April, Antanas Sileika will be reading from his novel Buying On Time at the Weston Branch of the Toronto Pulic Library as a part of the city-wide Keep Toronto Reading Initiative.

The reading will take place on April 12 from 7 – 8:15. The library can be found at 2 King Street, at the corner of King Street and Weston Road. Visit the library's website here.

The Essential Robert Gibbs, Saint John Launch

University of New Brunswick

We will be launching The Essential Robert Gibbs in Saint John, New Brunswick, at the University of New Brunswick bookstore, Inprint.

The evening will be introduced by Anne Compton. Editor Brian Bartlett will introduce Robert Gibbs.

The launch is being held on Friday, April 27, at 7 pm. You will find Inprint Bookstore at 16 King Street, Saint John.

You may call the bookstore with inquiries at 506-648-2315. Please see the UNB website for hours of operation and more contact information.

Annual Grimsby Wayzgoose

Grimsby Wayzgoose

Please join us on Saturday, April 28, for the 34th Annual Wayzgoose in Grimsby, Ontario.

Every year on the last Saturday of April practitioners of traditional book-related crafts get together at the Grimsby Public Art Gallery to present their work to their peers and the public.

The annual wayzgoose brings together private presses from across Canada and the United States in celebration of the book arts.

There will be demonstrations and displays of paper making, book binding, calligraphy, paper marbling, and book making.

The Porcupine's Quill will be in attendance with George A. Walker to launch his much anticipated wordless novel, The Mysterious Death of Tom Thomson.

The Grimsby Public Art Gallery is located at 25 Adelaide St, Grimsby, Ontario. Admission for this event is free. Please contact the art gallery for more information at (905) 945 3246 or visit their website.

The Essential Robert Gibbs, Fredericton Launch

University of New Brunswick

We will be holding a second launch event for The Essential Robert Gibbs in Fredericton, New Brunswick.

Join us for poetry readings from Robert Gibbs, Shari Andrews, Nancy Bauer, Ted Colson, Robert Hawkes, M. Travis Lane, Ross Leckie, Ian LeTourneau, Michael Pacey, David Adams Richards, and Brian Bartlett.

The launch will be held at Alumni Hall on the University of New Brunswick campus. See here for a campus map.

The launch is being held on Monday, April 30, at 8 pm.

Toronto Comic Arts Festival

The Porcupine's Quill will be participating in the Toronto Comic Arts Festival again this year! The Festival is scheduled to be held on May 5th and 6th at the Toronto Reference Library, presented by Toronto Public Library and the Beguiling.

We will be exhibiting our wordless novels including Marta Chudolinska's Back + Forth and George A. Walker's new graphic novel The Mysterious Death of Tom Thomson.

The Toronto Reference Library is located at 789 Yonge Street, just north of Bloor. For more information, check out TCAF's website or email them.

Owen Sound Celebrates Tom Thomson with George A. Walker

TomThomson

George A. Walker will be presenting an illustrated talk followed by a book signing this summer in Owen Sound at the Owen Sound and North Gray Union Public Library. Mr. Walker will be speaking about his work, and specifically the newest edition to his wordless novel series, The Mysterious Death of Tom Thomson.

The library has a strong connection to Tom Thomson as it is adjacent to the Tom Thomson Art Gallery, which will be hosting a series of events this spring and summer to celebrate Tom Thomson's first journey to Algonquin Park.

The talk will take place on June 7 at 7 pm. The library can be found at 824 1st Avenue West in Owen Sound. For more information, please contact Nadia Danyluk at (519) 376 6623.

Many thanks to Richard Clewes at Clique Communications for the re-branding programme that will roll out incrementally over the coming months.

The Porcupine’s Quill is remarkable in Canadian publishing in that most of the physical production of our journal is completed in-house at the shop on the Main Street of Erin Village. We print on a twenty-five inch Heidelberg KORD, typically onto acid-free Zephyr Antique laid. The sheets are then folded, and sewn into signatures on a 1907 model Smyth National Book Sewing machine.

To take a virtual tour of the pressroom, visit us at YouTube for a discussion of offset printing in general, and the operation of a Heidelberg KORD in particular. Other videos include Four Colour Printing, Smyth Sewing and Wood Engraving. Photographs of production machinery used on these pages were taken by Sandra Traversy on site at the printing office of the Porcupine's Quill, December 2008.

The Porcupine's Quill would like to acknowledge the support of the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program. The financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund (CBF) is also gratefully acknowledged.