Montez Press June News

June Interjection: First Letter To My Mother by Taha Afefe

Taha Afefe (b. 1991) is a multidisciplinary artist from Palestine who graduated from the visual communication department at Wizo Haifa. He lives and creates in Haifa. In his art he searches for a sense of belonging and asks questions about identity in the state of refugees. Moving between visual communication and art, also between digital art and material use, he is interested in using typography and language as a central role in the construction of identity. Afefe has participated in a number of group exhibitions including “Black Box” at the Digital Art Museum in Holon, “Design Week” in the Netherlands, “Bezalel Gallery for Contemporary Art”, “Freshpaint art & design fair” in Tel Aviv, and many more.

→ Read Taha’s writing here

Join us for the UK tour of The Ginny Suite, Stacy Skolnik’s debut [removed];

Thursday 4th July, 7 – 11pm, starts off the tour in London. Join us for an evening of celebration at iconic venue The Horse Hospital, featuring readings and performances from Stacy Skolnik, artist John Russell, and writers Ella Frears and Sheena Patel. Doors at 6pm, readings from [removed];

Saturday 6th July, 6 – 10pm, onto Glasgow for a night of readings and performances from Stacy Skolnik, Maria Sledmere and Suki Hollywood, in Burning House [removed];

Tuesday 9th July, 6:30 – 10pm, back to London with Stacy Skolnik, author of The Ginny Suite, and Hannah Regel, author of The Last Sane Woman, chaired by Montez Press editor Hasti, at Burley Fisher Books.

Perversely brilliant, fearlessly inventive, The Ginny Suite beautifully illustrates the horror of being a thinking person inside of a body and culture rushing toward the graveyard. — Brad Phillips, author of Essays and Fictions
 

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Celebrating 10 years of The Interjection Calendar

Thank you to everyone who joined us at Maximillian William on the 13th of June to celebrate ten years of The Interjection Calendar, with a night of readings and performances from our guest editors Rhea Dillon and Hasti, alongside Oisín Roberts, Abiba Coulibaly and Pear Nuallak. The night was broadcast live on Montez Press Radio hosted in collaboration with The Shelf and Maximillian William and is available in our radio [removed];

The Interjection Calendar is an online and print project. Each month an artist or writer is commissioned to produce a new piece of work for release on our website. The PDF can be downloaded for free and there are 12 releases per year, in line with the calendar theme. At the end of the year the collection is published, demonstrating a diverse range of collaborations and experimental works.The Shelf is an effort to broaden the discourse emerging from the gallery by giving space to an ecology of independent publishers, publications, and editorial projects.

→ Listen to the recording here 

MPR June Schedule

Monday 24th June, live from NYC with Saas-Fe and Defne Ayas.

Tuesday 25th June, with Saas-Fe and Stephanie Dinkins.

Wednesday 26th June, from London with an MPR mix of our best live performances of the [removed];

Thursday 27th June, for a series curated by Catherine Liu, featuring Jason Myles, Claywoman, Joshua Citarella, and Harry [removed];

Friday 28th June, with Stanley Schtinter, Katherine Siboni, Cat Gardère, Nick Klein, Emmanuel Olunkwa, Johanna Zwirner, Allie Wist, Peter Vack, Stacy Skolnik, Alex Vadukul, and Jon [removed];

Saturday 29th June, with [removed], Michelle Lhooq, Anthony Vine, Jon Dieringer, Caroline Golum, John Klacsmann, Prashanth Kamalakanthan, Artemis Shaw, Jay Bulger, and Domenick Ammirati.

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With love,
MPR & Montez Press