Join us for the closing night of the two-month exhibition of Transcendence at CSMA! The event will include a book launch celebration, reading, and book signing of Cai Quirk’s book “Transcendence: Queer Restoryation” published by Skylark Editions.

The book is finally almost here! After five years of hard work, “Transcendence: Queer Restoryation” will launch March 31st, published by Skylark Editions. The event will include a celebration, reading, and book signing from accompany the closing night of the two-month exhibition of Transcendence at CSMA (the Community School of Music and Art) in Ithaca.

5:30pm – event begins
6:00pm – reading and artist talk
6:45pm – book signing

Enter a world where distinctions of gender, time, and place become fluid and flexible, and new queer stories connect to ancient patterns. Cai Quirk’s “Transcendence: Queer Restoryation” explores many paths beyond supposed binaries: male and female, night and day, land and sea, earth and sky, life and death, self and other, self and earth.

In the spirit of myths, this book transcends boundaries and identities to reach a deeply human experience of connection. The 38 self-portrait photographs and six mythic tales open doors to new possibilities through stories of creation, of rebirth, of journey. See more about the project at CaiQuirk.com.

There will also be a virtual book launch around that time, date/time TBA.