Join us Thursday, April 13 from 6 to 7 p.m. for Bletcher Hour, the Gallery’s monthly critical reading group. Readings explore key themes of the exhibitions and current events, with the intent to deepen our understanding of the artworks and their context within our community. 

Our April Bletcher Hour reading is selections from Tanya Lukin Linklater’s poetry book Slow Scrape. Tanya Lukin Linklater is an artist who works across dance, performance, video, photography, installation, and writing. Her Sugpiaq homelands are in southwestern Alaska, and she lives and works in Nbisiing Anishinaabeg aki in Ontario. Her work is featured in the Gallery's current exhibition My mind is with the weather, on view in the Gallery until April 22. Slow Scrape is Tanya's first book of poetry. In it, she draws on documentary poetics, concrete-based installations, event scores, and other texts to cite memory, Cree and Alutiiq languages, and contemporary Indigenous artists and scholars to embody modes of relational being and knowing. To support Tanya's poetry, we will read the introduction to the book, written by poet (and former Bletcher Hour feature) Layli Long Soldier, as well as a dialogue between Tanya Lukin Linklater and Mihcael Nardone, editor for the first edition of Slow Scrape.

This program is free to attend. Please contact Heather Kehoe, Program & Event Coordinator, to register. Readings are sent as PDFs in advance of the event.