The Occasional Club: Visualizing the Sciences

The Occasional Club is a club open to the ECU community, with a focus on the sharing of collections, including ephemera, books, objects, and otherwise cool artifacts!

Join us between 11:30am-12:30pm on Thursday, March 27, in the Communication Design Studio (room c3215) for Visualizing the Sciences! With books about ecology, chemistry, biology, and physics (and a molecule building kit!) from the collections of Katherine Gillison, Brendan Denesiuk, and more. Take a chance to learn something new (or, do what I did as a kid, and just look at the cool pictures).

Organized by a team at the Occasional Press and The Stationery Project, the Occasional Club is a free and agile space that expands on our Ephemera Afternoons of the past. Our first event on January 23 focused on Children’s Picture Books, featuring vintage picture books (storybooks and non-fiction) from the collections of Katherine Gillieson and Morgan Martino, while our second meeting on February 6th had us looking at Food and Cooking Ephemera, with vintage cookbooks and old kitchen gadgets, alongside a collection of found grocery lists, from the collections of Gabe Wong and Morgan Martino. Our third meeting on March 13 had us looking at Vintage Games & Objects of Play, with physical copies and ephemera from tabletop roleplaying games, card games, board games, and vintage video games (including Chrono Trigger!) from the collections of Brendan Tang, Katherine Gillison, Brendan Denesiuk,and Morgan Martino.