Smart Gals’ Reading Preserve at the
West Hollywood Book Fair

Sunday, October 4, 2009
10am to 6pm
West Hollywood Park
647 N San Vicente Blvd.
West Hollywood, CA 90069

Since leisure time is increasingly hard to come by and reading quietly to oneself seems to be an endangered act, Smart Gals’ Reading Preserve returns to the West Hollywood Book Fair, just in time to offer you a serene, cell-phone-free space for reading. Please bring along the book you’re currently reading, or peruse a galley of a forthcoming title courtesy of Simon and Schuster. No matter what your literary leanings, we invite you to come partake of this temporary sanctuary, designed by Los Angeles-based artist, Edith Abeyta and built by the Smart Gals community.

Explore the rest of the fair by engaging in Smart Gals Scavenger Hunt—a creative map for finding your way through the literary maze—and receive a limited edition Speakeasy bookmark selected from our archive.

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Edith Abeyta (edithabeyta.net) is an installation artist residing in Los Angeles. Frequently engaging in projects that involve audience participation and multi-artist collaboration to address social issues, historical concepts, and the relationship between art audiences and art making. In 2007 she was awarded a fellowship from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research as part of their CO-OPs program including a residency at the University of Utrecht. Summer, 2008 she traveled to Thailand to mount an installation for the group exhibition Navigational Accessories that she curated at the Eastern Center of Art and Culture, Burapha Art Museum and University. She is currently curating an exhibition of participatory art practices in Los Angeles at the Municipal Art Gallery with Michael Lewis Miller.

The West Hollywood Book Fair, now in its eighth year, is an award-winning, community-oriented literary celebration, complete with live readings, author signings, writing workshops and a myriad of cultural and literary exhibitors. [westhollywoodbookfair.org]

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Smart Gals Productions is a 501-C3, non-profit, public benefit arts organization, dedicated to creating original events in unlikely places, inspiring fruitful interaction, and cultivating the greater cultural community of Los Angeles.