EXILE Quarterly – 50 years!

Sunday, April 2nd, 2:00 to 5:00

A very special celebration and fundraising event to celebrate EXILE Quarterly and 50 YEARS of exceptional publishing!

Reservations (or enquires) email: admin@exilequarterly.com
or call 519 334 3634 (1:00 to 7:00 EST)

Your $125 admission is a very important contribution toward all we do in support of Canadian literary and visual arts • writers and artists • the presentation of live events, and more…

This is also a fundraiser, and we ask you to consider making a donation, in any amount. Simply contact us by email at admin@exilequarterly.com about “How To Options” – or you can use the online portal/charitable organization Canada Helps: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/the-excelsis-group/

All donations will receive a charitable receipt for your tax purposes *

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Party details:

Join us at the Charles Pachter Museum and Gallery, 22 Grange Avenue (3 blocks north of Queen West, just off Beverly St. – Toronto) for an inimitable Exile afternoon extravaganza of food, drink, music, readings and art, featuring:

Authors presenting:
David Cronenberg • Anne Michaels • A.F. Moritz  • Michael Fraser • Katherine Alexandra Harvey

Musicians performing:
Dominic Mancuso • Louis Simao • Taborah Johnson

Artworks by, and on display for the silent auction:
Gabriela Campos • René Lagorre • Claire Wilks • Gail Prussky

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Literary works being presented & Art in the Auction

The Death of David Cronenberg (from EXILE 45.2)

On the day my life-size prosthetic corpse was carried into my home, the two women artists who had built the decaying body slung the 5’9” silicone dead weight over their shoulders, discreetly wrapped in green garbage bags so the neighbours wouldn’t call 911.

David Cronenberg’s reputation as an auteur has been firmly established by his uniquely personal body of work which includes Shivers, Fast Company, Scanners, Videodrome, The Fly, Dead Ringers, Naked Lunch, Crash, The Dead Zone, A History of Violence, and Cosmopolis. Cronenberg is a Chevalier in France’s Légion d’honneur, a Companion in the Order of Canada, and a Fellow of the British Film Institute. In 2014, he debuted his first novel, Consumed.

Infinite Gradation (includes a meditation on artist Claire Wilks) with Exile Editions

In lines as precise and profound as any Michaels has written, Infinite Gradation movingly explores the nature of responsibility in extremis and the forms it takes – it is about hope in art, what art makes of death, and bears witness to the love and lives of visual artists and writers who have made work at the limits of experience.

Anne Michaels is an internationally acclaimed, bestselling novelist and poet. Her books have been translated into over 45 languages, and have won dozens of international awards, including the Orange Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, and the Commonwealth Poetry Prize.

Morning Afternoon Evening Night (from EXILE 45.1) – paintings in response to Pablo Neruda; poems read by A.F. Moritz

A.F. Moritz has published 20 books of poetry. His work has received the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Guggenheim Fellowship, among others. Three books have been finalists for the Governor General’s Award. Moritz serves as Poet Laureate of Toronto, the sixth poet to hold this office.

With My Eyes Wide Open by Michael Fraser – a selection of poems (as appeared in EXILE Quarterly 45.4) from his forthcoming book with Exile Editions.

Michael Fraser has appeared in national and international journals and anthologies, and won 2016’s CBC Poetry Prize, the 2018 Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Award, and the 2022 Lesley Strutt Poetry Prize. With My Eyes Wide Open will be his fourth book.

Quiet Time a story by Katherine Alexandra Harvey (from EXILE Quarterly 45.2)

Katherine Alexandra Harvey is a writer and poet from St. John’s, Newfoundland. She is the Executive Director of ReLit, and the Founder and Editor of ReLit Magazine. She has been nominated for the Carter V. Cooper Award, the Writers Alliance’s Fresh Fish Award, and the Governor General’s History Award. Harvey’s first novel, Quiet Time, was released in 2022.

Artworks in the Silent Auction

Each work will be on display during the party. The Silent Auction will take place between 2:30 and 4:00.

1 — Oil paint on paper Monoprint, by Gabriela Campos. 44 x 36 cm

Gallery value $1,750. Starting bid $1,450.

2 — Acrylic on paper, by René Lagorre. 14.5 x 18 cm

Gallery value $500. Starting bid $350.

3 — Oil paint on paper Monoprint, by Claire Wilks. 57.5 x 42.5 cm

Gallery value $3,000. Starting bid $2,500.

4 — Acrylic paint on carved old barn wood, by Gail Prussky. 48 x 22 x 12 cm

Gallery value $700. Starting bid $400.

Artists bios (and each has appeared in EXILE Quarterly)

Gabriela Campos has studied with many masters across her native country of Mexico, and abroad. Her thematic and conceptual watercolours, monoprints, and etchings have been presented in over 25 solo exhibitions across Mexico and Canada, and numerous group shows in the U.S., Spain, and Brazil. 

René Lagorre was born in New York, but as a Frenchman chose to live and exhibit in Paris. He worked as both a figurative artist and in abstraction, particularly in a series dedicated to the possibilities of the letter “Z” from which this painting is taken. 

Claire Wilks (aka Claire Weissman Wilks; 1933–2017) had been shown and celebrated in Stockholm, Rome, Jerusalem, New York, Venice, Zagreb, Los Angeles, Mexico City, and her home city Toronto – and her works appeared in five books, among them collaborative projects with Irish poet John Montague and English poet D.M. Thomas.

Gail Prussky’s art has been in numerous exhibitions and is collected around the world. She has published the self-illustrated fiction and poetry books Broken Balloons and The Secret Life of Doris Melnick.

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* The Excelsis Group publishes EXILE Quarterly as part of its educational/cultural activities, and  is a CRA Registered Charitable organization (777897521RR0001). If you would like to make a donation, Any Amount is welcome: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/the-excelsis-group/  

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Thank you, Government of Canada

EXILE Quarterly and Exile Editions gratefully acknowledge the financial contributions from the Government of Canada’s Special Measures to Support Journalism component of the Canada Periodical Fund, and the Canada Book Fund’s Marketing and Shipping Recovery grant toward our 2022/2023 author & book events.