Dutch avant-garde composer and sound poet Jaap Blonk is performing at our store. In partnership with Western University’s Centre for Theory and Criticism, their Department of English, and their Department of Art, the wild and prolific Blonk will be sitting down in our antiquarian cubby to do what he does best starting at 7pm. It is an unexpected delight to be able to host him, and as we said above this is the sort of thing we’d expect to entertain only when we’re visiting friends in cooler places. Yet somehow it is appropriate that Blonk is performing in an old industrial area in East London; one with a blue bookmobile in its parking lot and vintage clothes and furniture everywhere. Perhaps when you radically change things an unexpected Joy returns to life. We’ve confused the Gods and they’re just throwing stuff at us now, wondering where we fit into the Great Scheme of Things.
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