The most exciting small press pop up store and literary festival on the entire planet (yes, the planet) has returned to Toronto. LITBANG! is an annual, month-long festival that takes small press magazines off the bottom of newsstands and features them front and centre in a combined event venue/storefront. The pop-up store is open during the day and a literary event space opens in the evenings.
This year LITBANG! is located at the Milk Glass and features more small-press magazines than ever, including Feathertale, CAROUSEL, Taddle Creek, Broken Pencil, Poetry is Dead, Maisonneuve, untethered and more. The shop also features limited edition art, posters, T-shirts, buttons and a curated selection of curious used books ($5 each, 4 for $20).
Milk Glass
1247 Dundas St. W
(Jun 14 – Jul 11, 2018)
Store hours
Mon – closed
Tues-Wed – 2-6PM
Thurs-Fri – 2-7PM
Sat-Sun – 11-5PM
Here’s the full list of LITBANG! events:
June 14
Zines & Chill: A Litbang! Festival talk about BIWOC art, activism and zine culture (hosted by Whitney French)
June 19
Literary, Great, Beautiful, True: Compass-confounding, gender-defying poetry and drama (hosted by Jade Wallace)
June 21
Feathertale’s Summer Bash: Trivia, beer, art and monkey madness
June 26
Robert Dayton and Andrew Werhun in Conversation (hosted by CAROUSEL Magazine)
June 27
Taddle Creek launch party: the general-interest literary magazine turns 41
July 5
Maisonneuve launch party: marking the 68th installment of Montreal’s finest collection of arts, opinion and ideas
July 7
Zine building workshop (hosted by Broken Pencil)
July 10
CAROUSEL launch party: the latest in hybrid lit for mutant readers
* Produced with the support of the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council
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