SUMMER OPEN LIBRARY 

a space for collective work, study, and neighbourhood conversation

Tuesday evenings

drop in 6-9PM

July 7, 14, 21, 28, August 4

Join us for drop-in hours at Whippersnapper this summer to read and chat about the relationship between art and labour, cultural work and community organizing, collective space-making and neighbourhood life. We’re interested in forms of struggle and coalition against displacement in Kensington and Chinatown specifically, while inspired by artists’ experiments in building autonomous infrastructure around the world, such as gwobean (Hong Kong), Tofu Stand (Berlin), and KUNCI Study Forum and Collective (Yogyakarta). We will have zines, pamphlets, books, articles, and supplies to write or draw with. 

Please email programming@whippersnapper.ca if you have printed materials you’d like to donate or lend to our collective library! 

With a DIY ethos, and in the spirit of moving cultural work from the gallery into the real world, we’d love to see all your very real ephemera: photocopied flyers, workshop handouts, teach-in reading lists, out-of-print movement journals, leftover wheatpasting posters, etc. 

We will provide coffee, tea, water, stretch breaks, and light snacks for morale. Feel free to bring more snacks or drinks to share!