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It's National National Indigenous History Month!
We believe storytelling is one of the most powerful ways to build understanding, preserve knowledge, and celebrate culture.
Here are our top book picks from our Indigenous Arts + Culture section this year📚
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While we're all sold out of copies, you can still get your hands on one in most libraries, some indie bookstores, and second-hand online retailers📚
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🏳️🌈Happy Pride Month🏳️🌈
We're bringing back this Q&A with authors Dr. Craig Jennex and Dr. Nisha Eswaran, who reflected on the process of writing 'Out North: An Archive of Queer Activism and Kinship in Canada' (co-published with The ArQuives)
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The Place of Objects is available now!
John David Lawrence has amassed an idiosyncratic personal collection that includes ceramics, Indigenous art, jewelry, folk art, photography, and plant life, revealing the diverse talents in and around BC’s art scene.
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Figure 1 is proud to share that Space for Birds: Patterns and Parallels of Beauty and Flight by Dr. Roberta L. Bondar has won the Next Generation Indie Book Award in the Science, Nature, and Environment category!📚
Congratulations Dr. Bondar!
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Montreal, you're invited!
Join us in celebrating the Charles Gagnon exhibition opening and book launch this Saturday at the Galeries Bellemare Lambert📚
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Happy #Earth Day! Are you tuned into The Wetland Project slow radio broadcast?
Check out the print component of the project, a book that immerses you in the sonic phenomena produced by this small patch of Earth through colour and sound:
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It's a Heather's Pick!📚
Delighted to see Space for Birds by Roberta Bondar, the first female Canadian astronaut and an accomplished professional nature and landscape photographer, added to the list of Heather's Picks at Indigo!
Grab your copy today:
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With essays by Susan Aglukark, Kyle Aleekuk, Mark Bennett, Napatsi Folger, Jamesie Fournier, Janice Grey, Jonas Laurent Henderson, Jessica Kotierk, Nicole Luke, Malayah Maloney, Jocelyn Piirainen, Krista Ulujuk Zawadski, and others, it presents a vivid record of stories long buried.
Today's the day! Worlds on Paper by Emily Laurent Henderson is out now📚
This groundbreaking publication presents never-before-published drawings from artists in Kinngait, and we're proud to have co-published with @mcmichaelgallery.bsky.social
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Charles Gagnon: The Colour of Time, the Sound of Space, is out now!
Order your copy of this intimate perspective on one of Canada’s top 20th century artists, who was once described as “abstraction’s poet-philosopher,” or stop by an indie bookstore📚
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Delighted to share that To See What He Saw has won the Basil Stuart-Stubbs Prize🎉
“The impressive scholarship, beautiful design and splendid photography on display in this book are a testament to the authors’ intensely lived research”
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In honour of International Women’s Day on Sat, we’re spotlighting books that celebrate the stories of women we’ve had the privilege of creating books with, from a fashion designer to an astronaut to a mixologist!
Check out our IWD book picks below📚
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We are proud to be the publisher of "Eppich House II: The Story of an Arthur Erickson Masterwork," and love to see Arthur Erickson's story told in new ways.
Check out this new @knowledge.ca documentary "Arthur Erickson: Beauty Between the Lines"
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Book📚 loom.ly/aLuEXJE
My review of photographer Geoffrey James' new book from @figure1publishing.bsky.social , "Canadian Photographs," is now up on the @photoeditorial.bsky.social blog.
Have a read and let me know what you think!
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