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Vancouver Art Book Fair 
Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre
July 4, 5-9pm
July 5, 11am-6pm
July 6, 11am-5pm

READ Books is pleased to be participating in this year’s Vancouver Art Book Fair at the Roundhouse Community Arts and Recreation Centre. Free and open to the public, VABF is a three-day celebration of artists’ publishing featuring over one hundred local, national, and international publishers, as well as a diverse line-up of programs, performances, and artists’ projects. 

For more information on VABF and book fair hours, please visit their website

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Care where no-one does 
Freek Lomme in conversation with Kevin Yuen-Kit Lo â¶Ä¯
July 5, 12pm â¶Ä¯

Freek Lomme of Set Margins’ publishing and designer Kevin Yuen Kit Lo will discuss what feels urgent and necessary within the field of design and publishing. Through their respective practices they address the need to develop frameworks of support integral to a critical engagement with the politics of visual culture under capitalism. â¶Ä¯

Both Lomme and Lo published titles with Set Margins’ in 2024. These include Lomme’s Care where no-one does: a grassroots style guide to progressive cultural production, anticipating neoliberal to national conservative times and Lo’s Design Against Design: cause and consequence of a dissident graphic practice. â¶Ä¯

Co-presented with Set Margins’ 

BIOS

Set Margins’ publications was initiated by ¹ó°ù±ð±ð°ì L´Ç³¾³¾±ð late 2022, named to express both cultural margins, graphic/design margins and perhaps as a pseudonym for Freek. Set Margins’ brings visibility and engagement to publishing ambitions, starting from productive support in the integral processing of editorial framing, design, finances, publishing, and print matters, and in delivering through distribution, promotion, and sales. Set Margins’ also offers services as an editorial and graphic studio. Freek has over 20 years of experience in small independent art spaces and publishing, as curator, director, editor and all of such, and has been involved as a board member in various lobby organizations, lectured, wrote about design and art etc. His engagement has always been with (visual) literacy and critical work towards rhetoric. In 2024 he published a book about this work, 'Care where no-one does'.

Kevin Yuen Kit Lo is Assistant Professor of Communication Design and Visual Culture in the Department of Design and Computation Arts. He works at the intersections of graphic design, cultural production, and social change with a research focus on publication practices and social movements. His research is invested in exploring the tensions between material and relational studies of design as a means of fostering greater social and political autonomy.  

Kevin founded the graphic design studio LOKI in 2014, working alongside community organizations, non-profits, cultural and educational institutions, unions, artists, researchers and activist groups, as part of broader movements for social change. The studio has worked on campaigns to stop racial profiling, designed protest graphics for anti-racist and anti-colonial social justice movements, created online platforms for critical journalism and supported the cultural production of marginalized writers and artists through the design of publications, exhibitions, and collaborative works.

Kevin holds an MA in Typographic Design from the London College of Printing (UAL). Prior to founding LOKI, he worked in interactive design, advertising and fashion. He is a member of the Memefest network and the Justseeds artist co-operative.

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Writing at the intersections of literary + contemporary arts practices â¶Ä¯
Panel discussion and book launch with Lara Mimosa Montes, Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross, Rachel Valinsky, and Sheryda Warrener. Moderated by Bopha Chhay. â¶Ä¯
July 5, 3pm â¶Ä¯  â¶Ä¯

Bringing together writers whose work sits at the intersection between literary, contemporary art, and independent publishing practices, the discussion will focus on their distinct approaches and methods of experimental and collaborative modes of writing, teaching, and learning, and what the role of independent publishers is in supporting and platforming these practices. â¶Ä¯

Copies of recently published titles The Time of the Novel by Lara Mimosa Montes (Wendy’s Subway, 2025) and The Longest Way to Eat a Melon (Sarabande Books, 2025) by Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross will be available. â¶Ä¯  â¶Ä¯

Co-presented with Wendy’s Subway 

BIOS

Lara Mimosa Montes is a writer, editor, and teaching artist whose practice and experiences span the fields of alternative publishing and experimental writing. She is most recently the author of The Time of the Novel (Wendy's Subway, 2025) in addition to two previous books of poetry, °Õ±á¸é·¡³§±á°¿³¢·¡³§â€¯(Coffee House Press, 2020) and The Somnambulist (Horse Less Press, 2016). Her writing has appeared in µþ°¿²Ñµþ, F±ð²Ô³¦±ð, P´Ç±ð³Ù°ù²â, The Institute for Studies on Latin American Art, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of artist residencies and fellowships from MacDowell, Jentel, Lighthouse Works, and Headlands Center for the Arts. She is a faculty member of the Creative Writing MFA program at Pacific Northwest College of Art. She also teaches in XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement Master’s program at NYU. She was born in the Bronx.

Rachel Valinsky is a writer, editor, and translator based in New York. She is co-founder and Artistic Director of Wendy’s Subway, a nonprofit arts and literary reading room, writing space, and independent publisher, and Director of Publications at the Center for Art, Research, and Alliances (CARA). Rachel has curated exhibitions, performances, and public programs at The Kitchen, where she was Curatorial Fellow (2017–18); The Queens Museum as Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow (2018-19); the Poetry Project as Friday Night Reading Series Co-Curator (2017-19); the Brooklyn Academy of Music; and elsewhere. Her writing on performance, dance, and moving image work has appeared in Artforum, Art in America, BOMB, frieze, e-flux criticism, and elsewhere and been published by the Berlinale International Film Festival, Danspace Project, Sternberg Books, among others. Her translations have appeared from Semiotext(e), Editions Lutanie, Pluto Books, and Editions 1989. Rachel holds an MPhil in Art History from the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and also teaches courses in performance studies, art writing, and critical thinking at The New School.

Sheryda Warrener is the author of the poetry collections Hard Feelings, Floating Is Everything, and most recently, Test Piece, which was shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Prize. She is a lecturer in the School of Creative Writing at UBC, and is the creator of , a series of material prompts for writers designed in collaboration with artists.

Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross is a writer and editor based in Vancouver, the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations. Her fiction, poetry, essays, and art criticism are frequently located at the intersections of experimental writing and artistic practice, and have appeared in BOMB, C Mag, The Ex-Puritan, Fence, Mousse, and elsewhere, as well as in the chapbooks Mayonnaise and Drawings on Yellow Paper (with Katie Lyle). By day, she works as an editor at The Capilano Review. By night, she drafts suspended scenarios and propositions. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph and a BFA in Studio Art from Simon Fraser University. The Longest Way to Eat a Melon, her debut collection of fictions, is forthcoming from Sarabande Books in 2025.