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Art From The Unknown
Bulletin Board, The Book as Performance Winston Pei Bulletin Board, The Book as Performance Winston Pei

Art From The Unknown

Welcome to any visitors who are arriving here from the Art from the Unknown virtual exhibit!

And if you ended up here first, I encourage you to go check out the Art of the Unknown, a virtual gallery sponsored by Rachel Notley and the NDP Caucus here in Alberta, in which I have the privilege and pleasure of being included for my dystopian altered book series.

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Shop Local
Bulletin Board Stacey and Winston Bulletin Board Stacey and Winston

Shop Local

While we here at the Butterflies & Aliens Library are always happy when people get books into their hands, we’re especially delighted if it happens by way of an independent bookseller. As part of supporting such efforts, we have begun adding connections to the Shop Local initiative of Bookmanager, a Canadian company that provides bookstore management software to many independent booksellers in Canada and the US.

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Some literary collective nouns
Bulletin Board Stacey and Winston Bulletin Board Stacey and Winston

Some literary collective nouns

We here at the Butterflies & Aliens Library are delighted to be ‘installing’ something every library needs… a bulletin board! (and yes, we’re installing it right next to our card catalogue… because #OldSchool…) And this cartoon by Tom Gauld, author of The Snooty Bookshop, is what got us to finally put up our board…

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