March 2024

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  • Private Event: Gary Community Ventures—Black Home Hownership
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  • Pop-Up for If>Then Philanthropy Conference
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  • The Mirror Cracked Opening Reception at DAVA
  • Power to the Print Opening Reception at the BRDG Project
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  • One-Day Letterpress Workshop
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  • Book Club to Remake the World
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  • Private Event: Chris-Anne Using Tarot and Oracle Cards for Healing
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  • Poetry Reading and Book Signing with Mx Yaffa
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Events & Book Services

We are now booking events in our new space, The Annex, at 2114 Market St. We are honing our process, so please email us your event request and we’ll get back to you. We need a few weeks of planning generally, but if you have an emergency on your hands, contact Debra.

We would LOVE to bring our BOOKSTORE POP-UP out into the Denver Metro area for conferences, corporate events, or organization fairs and festivals. Contact us with your details.

We create CURATED LIBRARIES for University Department Libraries, Law Office Libraries, Corporate DEI Resource Libraries, and Non-Profit Grant Projects. Reach out with specifics and we’ll make it easy for you!

We can order your selection or provide suggestions for BOOK CLUBS. We are flexible to arrange for local pick up, ship to each book club member, or deliver the books to one location. We customize solutions to fit your needs. Contact us with your special requests.

Grand Re-Opening

Save the Date! Saturday, February 24th, 11am-10pm for an all-day GRAND RE-OPENING celebration of our bookstore and community venue. Live music, cinema, authors, and more.

Open to the public.

Letterpress Printing Workshops

One-Day Workshop: Join us at MATTER for a day of letterpress printing instructed by Rick Griffith. We will kick off the day with some bagels and coffee and letterpress printing talk, then we’ll sling posters and roll out. Attendees will typeset and print whatever words they wish to immortalize. This workshop is beginner-friendly.
Typesetting instruction provided
Color backgrounds provided
Letterpress print anything as a poster
Minors must be accompanied by an adult
April 20th, Saturday, 10:00 am – 4:30 pm. Limited to 10 people. $220 per person. Register here.

Design Book Club

A book club dedicated to designers with a broad interest in design, and new discussions about design

Curated and led by Rick Griffith and friends, Design Book Club meets every odd* month on Zoom to talk all things design. You can join the meetings at no cost or sign up for the Design Book Club Subscription where we send you obscure & hard-to-find designed stuff monthly.

Sign up for Design Book Club here.

*odd months are January, March, May, July, September, and November

MATTERbeta Book Club

Welcome to the newly founded MATTERBETAs. This Book Club is a vital way to include our community in our bookstore’s curation. At the first meeting on 02/15, our participants will choose an Advanced Reader’s Copy from the scores of books that are sent to us by publishers and authors. Then, as Beta Readers of these titles, we all report back on the books we read. Books are free. One per month.
MATTERBETAs meet every 3rd Thursday of each month, 6-7:30pm
Simple evaluation rubric provided.

We hope to catch you MATTERBETA-ing.

RSVP here.

Book Club to Remake the World

Curated and hosted by Faatma, @handoffaatma and Dominique Christina, @dominiquechristina

One of the main features of imperial oppression is control over language. It tends to marginalize or erase anything outside of the standardized system it installed. Language is a culture keeper and a road opener. This book club, in the acknowledgment of that fact, is a post-colonial-futuristic-literary discussion portal to activate our imagination to “reworld” the world.

March’s book is The Ungrateful Refugee by Dina Nayeri. Purchase here.
Book Club to Remake the World meets every 2nd Wednesday of each month, 6-7:30pm, beginning March 13th.

RSVP here.