Subterrane (Violet Hour Book Club)

Schedule

Sat Dec 07 2024 at 03:00 pm to 04:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Casa d'Italia Montreal | Montreal, QC

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Join us for a special meeting of the Violet Hour Book Club, a reading group devoted to classic and contemporary works of LGBTQ literature.
The book we will be discussing is Subterrane (2024) by Valérie Bah. The event will be moderated by Christopher DiRaddo.
This month's event will be taking place on-stage at the Casa D'Italia (505 Rue Jean-Talon East, Jean Talon metro) during the Read Quebec Book Fair. During the last 30 minutes of the discussion, we will be joined by the book's author Valérie Bah.
Unfortunately, there is no possibility of joining via Zoom this month.
A reminder: All VHBC titles are available at Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore (2220, McGill College Ave) and Librairie Pulp Books & Cafe (3952 Wellington St.) at 10% off.
ABOUT THE BOOK ///
A speculative comedy comprised of a carousel of Black and Queer voices being pushed further underground by urban prosperity.
Subterrane connects us to a constellation of Black queer and trans voices, the hair braiders, tattoo artists, holistic healers, W**d dealers, and sidewalk horticulturists struggling to make a life in New Stockholm. Together they illustrate how entire communities, despite being exploited in the name of prosperity, resist and enact their own freedom. New Stockholm, a settler colonial metropolis like any other, is unofficially divided between two worlds. Its upwardly mobile form the facade of its gleaming eye, but their prosperity and affluence are not the focus of hot young artiste Zeynab’s government-funded experimental documentary. Her lens trails into the city’s depths instead, to the polluted and overlooked district of Cipher Falls, one of New Stockholm’s last affordable neighbourhoods, where creatives and other anti-capitalist voices increasingly find themselves pushed into demeaning, dead-end jobs. In this sprawling underground network, Zeynab’s lens focuses on activist Doudou Laguerre, as he attempts to sabotage an insidious construction project.
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Casa d'Italia Montreal, 505 Rue Jean-Talon E, Montréal, QC H2R 1T6, Canada,Montreal, Quebec

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