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SUMMARY:RETAIL VÉRITÉ: VANCOUVERAMA
DTSTAMP:20260624T231616Z
DTSTART:20260704T160000Z
DESCRIPTION:“Retail Vérité: Vancouverama” is A Maior’s second novella\, and
	 the outcome of\nwriting workshops led by A Maior at Western Front in Febr
	uary 2025. Through a\nblend of improvisation\, LARPing\, and speed dating\
	, the participants sketched the\ncharacters\, narrative\, and setting for 
	a supernatural mystery in real time.\nOperating in the spirit of exquisite
	 corpse\, the workshops followed\nimprovisational exchanges guided by prom
	pts. As a result\, the collective writing\nprocess generated its own disti
	nctive internal logic to draw a playful\, critical\nportrait of contempora
	ry retail phenomena.\n\nThe cohort featured James Albers\, Kathy Feng\, Ma
	non Fraser\, Fiona Glen\, Tiziana\nLa Melia\, Ben Lickerman\, Trey Le\, Au
	gust Mesic\, Nina Ortiz\, Paige Smid\, Kiel\nTorres\, and Yasmine Whaley-K
	alaora.\n\nA Maior is a clothing and home goods store located in the outsk
	irts of Viseu\,\nPortugal. Since 2016\, an eponymous exhibition program ha
	s been hosted within the\nshopping environment. A Maior is managed by the 
	staff\, the artist Bruno Zhu\, and\nhis family. In 2022\, A Maior was the 
	writer-in-residence at San Serriffe in\nAmsterdam\, who commissioned Retai
	l Vérité\, A Maior’s first novella.
URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/retail-verite-vancouverama
GEO:52.3735679;4.8972388
LOCATION:San Serriffe - Sint Annenstraat 30\, 1012 HE Amsterdam
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:amsterdam-centrum,exhibition,improv,oude kerk
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>“Retail Vérité: Vancouverama” is A Maior’s 
	second novella, and the outcome of writing workshops led by A Maior at Wes
	tern Front in February 2025. Through a blend of improvisation, LARPing, an
	d speed dating, the participants sketched the characters, narrative, and s
	etting for a supernatural mystery in real time. Operating in the spirit of
	 exquisite corpse, the workshops followed improvisational exchanges guided
	 by prompts. As a result, the collective writing process generated its own
	 distinctive internal logic to draw a playful, critical portrait of contem
	porary retail phenomena.</p> <p>The cohort featured James Albers, Kathy Fe
	ng, Manon Fraser, Fiona Glen, Tiziana La Melia, Ben Lickerman, Trey Le, Au
	gust Mesic, Nina Ortiz, Paige Smid, Kiel Torres, and Yasmine Whaley-Kalaor
	a.</p> <p>A Maior is a clothing and home goods store located in the outski
	rts of Viseu, Portugal. Since 2016, an eponymous exhibition program has be
	en hosted within the shopping environment. A Maior is managed by the staff
	, the artist Bruno Zhu, and his family. In 2022, A Maior was the writer-in
	-residence at San Serriffe in Amsterdam, who commissioned Retail Vérité, A
	 Maior’s first novella.</p>
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