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The Fredericton Small Press and Community Fair, Autumn 2010 edition, including author readings and a “Nuestro Espacio” display for Spanish-language publications, will happen on Saturday, 13 November, from 12 noon to 5 pm, at Gallery ConneXion, in the Chestnut Complex, 440 York St, Fredericton, NB. The event is organized by Gallery ConneXion and BS Poetry Society with support from Broken Jaw Press, Capítulo de Fredericton de la Academia Iberoamericana de Poesía, and revue ellipse mag. Admission is free.

Independent, small, and micro-press publishers of books, chapbooks, artist multiples, hand-bound books, broadsheets, postcards, zines, lit mags, crafters, social and literacy info groups and more will be in attendance. Exhibitors and authors include Anchorage Press (Jolicure, NB), BlackTop MotorCycle Gang, bookshandmade.com (Ottawa), Breaking the Silence–Fredericton Chapter, Broken Jaw Press, ChilZine Publications (Toronto), Craig Davidson, The Fiddlehead, Gallery ConneXion, La Leche League, Literary Translators Assoc. of Canada, Mansoureh Nasserchian, Qwerty magazine, Random Paper & Fabric, revue ellipse mag, Goose Lane Editions, and White Dwarf Editions (Montreal).

The fair will also feature La imagen es un Sendero/The Image is a Path/L’image est un chemin International Multicultural–Multilingual Poster Poem Exhibit and Poetry Reading (Nela Rio, founder & coordinator) organized in conjunction with the United Nations’ World Day for Audiovisual Heritage.

Gallery ConneXion, Fredericton’s artist-run centre, is wheelchair- and stroller-friendly. Gallery ConneXion gratefully acknowledges the continued support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Province of New Brunswick–Department of Wellness, Culture and Sport, the New Brunswick Foundation for the Arts, the City of Fredericton, and the New Brunswick Arts Board.


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Contact Joe Blades (506) 454-5127, joeblades@nb.aibn.com or Meredith Snider (506) 454-1433, connex@nbnet.nb.ca for more information.