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Unoppressive Non-Imperialist Bargain Books

Featuring Beatriz Browne, James Drougas, Katharina McCarty, Amanda Millet-Sorsa, and Ann C. Collins

Thursday, April 14, 2022 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.

Bookstore owner and curator James Drougas, filmmaker Beatriz Browne, curator Katharina McCarty, and artist Amanda Millet-Sorsa join Rail contributor Ann C. Collins for a conversation. We conclude with a musical performance by Dawn Landes.

In this Talk

Register to attend our live event and also receive a link and password to view Beatriz Browne's documentary 34 Carmine St., featuring Unoppressive Non-Imperialist Bargain Books.

More info and view trailer →

Also discussed in this event will be Amanda Millet-Sorsa's performance A Game of Tarot, an absurd five-person card playing performance using Millet-Sorsa’s tarot cards while reciting “Auguries of Innocence” by William Blake. Performance directed by Alexandra Zelman-Doring.

View the performance here →

Beatriz Browne

Based in Los Angeles and NYC, Beatriz Browne is a Webby Award winning producer, director, and filmmaker specializing in non-fiction storytelling. Beatriz has worked extensively with clients such as Google, Airbnb, Peerspace, The New York Times, CNN, Square and Fatherly, creating multi-platform original content. Outside of branded content, Beatriz has directed and produced 34 Carmine St., an award-winning short documentary. She excels at content ideation and story development/producing. With a knack for adaptability, Beatriz is able to tell stories from all over the world, in addition to speaking 5 languages fluently. Her stories are often character-centric and resonate with a worldwide audience.

James Drougas

Proprietor James Drougas is the owner and curator of Unoppressive Non-Imperialist Bargain Books located in the West Village of New York City.

Katharina McCarty

American curator and art dealer Katharina McCarty is the founder and executive director of the 8th House Arts Residency located in central Vermont, and the founder and owner of the 8th House Projects gallery in Mexico City.

Amanda Millet-Sorsa

Amanda Millet-Sorsa is an artist, arts writer and arts worker based in New York. She has exhibited at Spring Projects DUMBO, The Socrates Sculpture Park, Governor's Island, and Time Equities Inc, among others. She has received grants through the Fulbright Scholar award for Brazil, Materials for the Arts, NYC Cultural Affairs, and Queens council on the arts . She holds an M.F.A from the New York Studio School, a B.A. from Brandeis University, and has been a contributor to the Brooklyn Rail since 2021.

Ann C. Collins

Editor-at-Large to the Brooklyn Rail, Ann C. Collins holds a BFA in Film and Television from NYU and an MFA in Art Criticism & Writing from the School of Visual Arts. Her work has also appeared in Dear Dave, Met Perspectives, Degree Critical, and Variables West. Her film editing projects include Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold; Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters, and the Netflix series The Pharmacist. Her film work has screened at Sundance, Berlin, and New York film festivals. She lives in Brooklyn.

The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we're fortunate to have Dao Strom reading.

Dao Strom

Artist Dao Strom works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author of Instrument (Fonograf Editions, 2020) and its musical companion Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records, 2020); a bilingual poetry-art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else (AJAR Press); a memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, and song cycle, East/West; and two books of fiction, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof. Born in Vietnam, Strom grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California and lives in Portland, Oregon. She is co-founder of two collective art projects, She Who Has No Master(s), and De-Canon.

https://www.daostrom.com/

We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨