On November 26, Coach House Books launches The State of the Arts: Living With Culture in Toronto, volume two of the uTOpia series. The State of the Arts explores the Toronto arts scene from every angle, featuring 38 essays by Toronto writers, thinkers, musicians and city-builders that paint an honest portrait of where culture in Toronto is and where it can go.

To help you warm up during this bitter fall, Coach House Books, in conjunction with This Is Not A Reading Series and Wavelength, is holding a barn-burner of a book launch for The State of the Arts on Sunday, November 26 at The Gladstone Hotel. Heated discussions on 'official art' and 'unofficial art' in the afternoon and searingly hot Toronto musical acts like More Or Les, The Phonemes and Scarborough A/V in the evening will keep you nice and toasty. And your attendance at the launch means you'll be in the know when your friends start talking about the city as cultureshed, extolling the virtues of the Ex as an arts venue and heading out to the suburbs in search of Toronto's next great artists. Click here for contacts, details, and a map to the venue!

Sunday, November 26, 2006
Gladstone Hotel Ballroom (1214 Queen St. W.)
$5, or free with the purchase of a book
co-presented with Pages’ This Is Not a Reading Series

Doors open at 2 p.m.

3:00 p.m. – Panels
moderated by Misha Glouberman

Unofficial Culture: Karen Hines, Sarah B. Hood, John Lorinc, Stuart Ross and Carl Wilson.

Official Culture: Jason Anderson, Kat Collins, Natalie De Vito, Dylan Reid and RM Vaughan.

7:00 p.m. – Music
co-presented with Wavelength

The Phonemes, More Or Les and Scarborough A/V.

In its nearly 40 years of operation, Coach House has become and remained a hub of cultural and technological activity in this country. From its early days of printing draft-dodger pamphlets and commemorative flags to nurturing the literary careers of Ondaatje, Bowering, Anne Michaels and bpNichol to being the birthplace of current electronic publishing technology, Coach House has been the headquarters and meeting place for creative figures of every stripe. Located in the heart of the University of Toronto campus, Coach House was intimately involved with Rochdale College, the university’s first co-op residence and free university. It has also employed dozens of students over the years, offered regular tours to students and professors and printed books, catalogues, Christmas cards and letterhead for university clients such as the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, Hart House, the Art Centre, the History of the Book in Canada and many others. Coach House, over the years, printed the literary journals of every single college on campus.

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