GATHERING SPACE

Gathering Space is a chapbook, a non-virtual place for sharing ideas in the COVID era. In the book, sixteen people from fields spanning visual art, performance, design, somatic practices, writing, and the sciences play around with, explode, and explore ideas related to (or a digression from) the words “gathering” and/or “space.” The violence, grief, beauty, reflection, and imagination of this last year find form.

The book is free and we’re distributing it in NYC and beyond throughout 2021. We’ll post more locations on this site as they expand.

Gathering Space is edited and published by Aynsley Vandenbroucke. Book design is by David McNamara.

Contributors

  • Kenseth Armstead
  • Janani Balasubramanian
  • Aatish Bhatia
  • Louis Bury
  • Rebecca Davis
  • Nelson Downend
  • devynn emory
  • Nick Hallett
  • Christine Shan Shan Hou
  • Jaamil Olawale Kosoko
  • Cory Nakasue
  • Cori Olinghouse
  • Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste
  • Asiya Wadud
  • lu yim

Locations so far:

Books are sold out at most locations so check before you go.
But go anyways because these bookstores are amazing.

Cafe con Libros
724 Prospect Place
Brooklyn, NY 11216
347-460-2838

The Invisible Dog
51 Bergen Street
(between Smith St and Boerum Pl)
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718-260-8688

POWERHOUSE Arena
28 Adams Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
718-666-3049

Recirculation NYC
A Project of Word Up Community Bookstore
876 Riverside Drive
New York, NY 10032

Rough Draft Bar & Books
82 John Street
Kingston, NY 12401
845-802-0027

Unnameable Books
600 Vanderbilt Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11238
718-789-1534

WORD
126 Franklin St
Brooklyn, NY 11222
718-383-0096

Gathering Space pays its contributors.
You can make a donation toward future projects here.

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Gathering Space is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).

Contributors
Brooklyn Arts Council
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
Princeton University UCRHSS (University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences) Fund