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Update: open regular hours, noon – 5pm, on Good Friday and on Saturday March 30. This is the last week to catch the Luminous Books|Owl Cave temporary bookshop at UNIT/PITT Projects! Come by this week to check out new additions to the library from Paravion Press. Additions include: The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll,…

Donate Now! Unit/Pitt is pleased to announce that we have just signed a 15-year lease on a new location. The new building, at 236 East Pender Street, was formerly occupied by a grocery (and after that, a herbalist), and will provide us with a larger and better-equipped presentation space (indoor plumbing!), room onsite for our…

ALTERNATIVE ORGANS is an online resource for alternative publishing and book art projects presented by Luminous Books | Owl Cave in conjunction with the Luminous Books residency at UNIT/PITT Projects. . Taking its name from a publication within The Whole Earth Catalog, Alternative Organs draws on the catalog’s original aims to facilitate, reflect and build communities through independent…

Kevin Murphy: Atlantean Timepiece March 22 to May 4, 2013 Opening this Friday, March 22 2013, 8 pm Kevin Murphy’s Atlantean Timepiece is the fourth project in UNIT/PITT’s series What Future. Influenced by widespread concerns surrounding sea level rise, geological instability, earthquakes, and flooding in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland, Atlantean Timepiece imagines the future…

This week at UNIT/PITT Projects Luminous Books has added a collection  from their Space Library at the Luminous Books|Owl Cave temporary bookshop. This collection includes a selection of moon and space themed books alongside reading lists on a lunar theme provided by both A Coelacanth Press and Luminous Books. The list includes Epitaphs by Ezra pound, A Trip…