TiPSY Press: June 2015

2015/06/27

We are happy to announce that the launch of Somnio: the Way We See It will be on Tuesday, July 28, 2015.

Date: Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Time: 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Location: Edmonton Room, Stanley A. Milner Public Library, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square in downtown Edmonton (driving directions; ETS trip planner)

I hope you can all come to see the three poets (Pushpa Raj Acharya, Sharmila Pokharel, and Yukari Meldrum) read their poems and to see the original prints (lithographs) by Tiffany Adair on display.

Original lithographs and copies of the book will be available for sale.

2015/06/16

A sneak preview: EPCOR Tower show

We are so happy to announce that there is a sneak preview of the contents of our book Somnio: the way we see it. This art show will have Tiffany’s prints and corresponding poems.

Art show location: 2nd floor of the EPCOR Tower, downtown Edmonton (10423 – 101 Street)

An opening event: 5:00 – 7:00 PM on Friday, June 19 at the EPCOR Tower (10423 – 101 Street)

You will be able to see the following:

The other shore (print by Tiffany Adair & poem by Pushpa Acharya)
White wolf (print by Tiffany Adair & poem by Pushpa Acharya)
The Battle (print by Tiffany Adair & poem by Sharmila Pokharel)

Book description

Somnio: The Way We See It is a book about mediation between images and words, words and worlds, visions and cosmos, and identities and locations. It is a collection of art and poetry translated into each other by an artist and three poets. They explore the visions of transformations in nature, in everyday lives, and in mobility from one culture to another. In their works, a profound meditation on ordinary details creates lyrical dreams, which are in turn embedded in the lines and shadows of reality.

Tiffany Adair's lithographs display a wide range of artistic engagements: the bio-organic worlds appear in creation and decay; the multilayered visions of reality imbricate each other; the blank spaces merge the images of both the outer and the inner worlds. Pushpa Raj Acharya's poems bond the changes in life with the complexities of nature. In this binding, he finds revelations of interconnected world and of forgiveness. Sharmila Pokharel listens to the cadence of immigrant voices and experiences. Living in between the emotions of new and old homes, she gives an authentic form to Nepali diasporic sensibilities. With her capacity of deep observation, Yukari Meldrum has found the magic of things and events in daily life. In her poems, the materiality of life opens a flight to a space where dream and awakening blend with each other, and the words give visibility to this space.

Somnio received the Cultural Diversity in the Arts Project Grant from the Edmonton Arts Council and the City of Edmonton for collaboration and publication.

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2015/06/27

2015/06/16

A sneak preview: EPCOR Tower show