March 15, 2014: Ghost Launch Bold Print Inc.

Yes, my lips actually froze while reading/talking/hosting at the ghost site today. I felt the frost heave, the forgotten world of Bold Print thawing with our presence. Thanks to everyone who joined us in our remembrance. Excited about how these ghost launches will unfurl in the coming months. Make sure you come to Gallery 1C03 at University of Winnipeg to see the show, My Monument, and pick up your copy of the chapbook that we launched.

Drawn together by a desire to gather at, remember, and occupy ghost bookstore sites – cam bush, Steven Leyden Cochrane, Paul Robles, and I, with special guest Chandra Mayor, read and launched a new work out front of 478 River, where the feminist bookstore Bold Print Inc. used to be located.

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It was terrific to hear Chandra’s Bold Print reflections from when she was 16 years old. It was a charming performance and I’m so glad she, and all others, visited this ghost site with us! We are not ghosts!

Chandra Mayor is the current Carol Shields Writer-in-Residence at The University of Winnipeg, author of three books of poetry and fiction, and Lambda Literary Award winner.

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See a recollection of Bold Print Inc by Heidi Eigenkind http://www.ghostlaunch.ca/

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From Chandra Mayor, Facebook, March 15: “It was freezing cold, but bravo to all who came out regardless! I was so pleased to be part of this afternoon. And to echo Willow – even in these remembered sites, we are not ghosts! It was good to be face to face, remembering and listening and talking and creating, monuments and texts and bodies. xo”

From Gallery 1C03, Facebook, March 17: “Thanks to all who came out for Ghost Launch on a chilly but bright Saturday afternoon! Don’t forget to join us at Gallery 1C03 this Thursday afternoon (March 20) for the durational performance “The Book is Happening” by Roewan Crowe!”