A sign reading "Chez Moi Books" hangs off a table stacked full of various vintage books.

Chez Moi Books

Chez Moi Books is a collector first, who sells a curated selection of secondhand and rare books that are separate from their collection.

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A blue and white, risograph printed, illustrated zine is shown folded and opened, titled RUN AWAY HAT.

Grace Vali

Grace Vali is a multidisciplinary illustrator based in Toronto and Mississauga. She recently graduated from OCAD University with a BDes in Illustration.

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A black table-clothed table displays multicoloured illustrative prints by Angela Zhang on bamboo racks.

Angela Zhang

Angela Zhang is an independent illustrator from Toronto, currently living in the Netherlands.

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Swapnaa Tamhane

Swapnaa Tamhane is an artist and curator, working between Canada and India. Her visual practice extends to decolonizing distinctions between art, craft, and design, while her curatorial practice is focussed on the wider South-Asian diaspora and contemporary art from India.

Tamhane graduated with a BA in Art History from Carleton University, Ottawa, an MA in Contemporary Art from the University of Manchester, and an MFA in Fibres & Material Practices from Concordia University, Montreal. She has been a Research Fellow with the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute (2009) and an International Museum Fellow with the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (2013). She has held positions as an Editor at Phaidon Press, London (2002-2006), an Assistant Curator at The Power Plant (2007-2008), Toronto, and a Producer of Contemporary Art Projects at Luminato Festival (2016).

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francesca ekwuyasi

francesca ekwuyasi is a learner, artist, and storyteller born in Lagos, Nigeria. She was awarded the Writers Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers in 2022 for her debut novel Butter Honey Pig Bread. Her novel was also shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award, the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, and the Amazon Canada First Novel Award, and longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and the DUBLIN Literary Award. As an accomplished writer and artist in her own right, Burnt Sugar at Critical Distance is francesca’s first curatorial project, and an experiment in storytelling across mediums.

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