READING RAVE (5)
📚✨ Box From Babel Presents: Reading Rave (5)
April 24th, 7–9PM | KW Art Gallery
Imagine independent reading time in 2nd grade—but with ambient techno, bookmark making, and an exhibit of forbidden books from the legendary Highway Bookstore.
Reading Rave is a slow rave for the curious, a literary salon for the lost, a place to read in public with strangers under soft lights and beautiful sounds. Bring a book, make a bookmark, sip a mocktail, and drift into the library inside your mind.
🎧 What to Expect
— BYOB (Bring Your Own Book)
— Ambient electronic DJ set to read to
— Bookmark-making table (submit your creation to the Weirdest Bookmark Contest)
— Exhibit: Echoes from the Highway — featuring rare and odd titles from Ontario’s most iconic roadside bookstore
— Mystery Box sales: curated books pulled from the Box from Babel archive
— Mocktails, mingling, and a collective return to deep attention
🎭 Dress Code
Librarian noir, Gutenberg glam, book-couture, byronic hero, Faustian minimalism.
Stick to informed uniform guidelines...
This event is free/pay-what-you-can. All are welcome.
Warning: Kindles will be politely confiscated.
About the Gallery:
Established in 1956, the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery is the oldest, largest collecting public art gallery in Waterloo Region. The Gallery’s mission is to connect people and ideas through art, which it does through nationally-acclaimed exhibitions, over 100 educational programs, and a Permanent Collection of 4,300+ works held in the public trust. https://kwag.ca/
Read amongst the art:
KWAG’s Expressions exhibition features work by 150 students from across Waterloo Region. Their work gives insight into the boundless potential we have to create the world we wish to inhabit, rather than the one we might otherwise inherit.
Location and Parking info:
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (in the same building as Centre in the Square)
101 Queen St. North, Kitchener
There are a limited number of free two-hour on-street parking spaces on Margaret Avenue, Mansion St and Ellen St between Victoria and Queen. Metered parking is available on Ahrens St and Roy St.
No parking in the Gallery loading dock or on Ring Road.
The closest parking is a Surface lot off Otto Street which is $2.60/hour to a maximum of $13/day.
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Reading Raves are series for Box from Babel an Aleph One Labs project.
You'll never read alone... don't forget to B.Y.O.B.
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