Greetings, Book Peeps!
Whew, now that was an April! Thank you to all of you who attended and organized the Sacramento Book Festival, proving once again that we are a town of readers.
And another thank you to the two brilliant poets, Julia Levine & Liz Ryder Baxmeyer who came to read on Earth Day. Gorgeous stuff.
Ft. Bragg Graphic Designer & Photographer Kiersten Hanna asked the eccentric makers of Mendocino County to tell her a story about their favorite tools. Combining richly detailed photographs and graphic text, No Tools Loaned documents our rituals around craft and how tools inform our experience and memories. In this unprecedented time of digitization and attention economy, this collection of work reminds us, with humor and respect, that we are makers by nature.
Kiersten Hanna is a photographer, graphic designer, and sign maker in Ft Bragg, CA. She is the owner of Braggadoon creative agency, and she has single-handedly reinvented the visual language of signage along the coast one small business at a time. Kiersten has a BFA in Fine Art Photography from Columbia College and she's an alum of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland Maine. Aside from printing for world-famous photographers like Sally Mann and Paul Taylor, Kiersten has traveled all over the US working a rainbow of jobs, making friends, and amassing a world-class collection of tchatches.
Please join us for the reception this coming Saturday May 2 from 6-8:30 for a brief artist chat, drinks, snacks, and a live set by weirdo Mendo electro drum duo Animal Contest. FREE and open to the public. Kiersten's work will be on view and for sale throughout the month of May.
Are you seeing a theme? A subject that comes up almost daily in the bookstore is attention. We readers notice that it's harder to stay focused and that our mental health is under threat from overstimulation. Need a remedy to toxic digital virtual AI-laiden overload?
We are devoting an evening to discussion and attentional practices surrounding the newly published book Attensity! A manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement. The event will be led by Dr. Akua Banful who will discuss the realities of techno-fueled culture and offer practical strategies to reclaim our peace.
Dr. Banful is a Friend of Attention. She is also an Assistant Professor of English at UC Davis where she teaches courses on literature and food, the environment, and the global black diaspora.
ATTENSITY!: A Manifesto of the Attention Liberation Movement
(Crown, Jan 20) is a rallying cry from the leaders of a movement to reclaim our attention from corporate exploitation (the title revives an early-twentieth-century term for a type of “sensory clearness” that is sorely missing in modern times). Written collectively by a prescient group of artists, scholars, and activists who call themselves The Friends of Attention.
THIS EVENT IS FREE WITH PURCHASE AND WE'LL HAVE COPIES OF ATTENSITY! FOR SALE.
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