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Dark Room/Printed Matter event now online
Our Printed Matter Classroom event with Phyllis Christopher, Laura Guy, Lizzie Homersham and Michelle Tea is now available to watch back.
Category: Event
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Dark Room: online event with Phyllis Christopher, Michelle Tea & Laura Guy
At the 2021 Printed Matter Virtual Book Fair, Book Works will present an online event to present Dark Room: San Francisco Sex and Protest 1988-2003 – the first ever collection of Phyllis Christopher’s trailblazing photography of lesbian erotic life and political struggle.
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Licorice book launch and screening at The Horse Hospital
Book Works and Bridget Penney present an evening of screenings, readings and music at The Horse Hospital on 27 February 2020 to launch new novel Licorice and the Interstices series. Readings from Bridget Penney, Claire Makhlouf Carter and Timothy Thorton.
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2020 Bookbinding and Boxmaking Courses at Book Works Studio
We are running a number of courses over 2020 at Book Works Studio. Please check back for new dates to be added. SOLANDER BOXMAKING WEEKEND COURSE – 8 and 9 February On this 2 day course you will learn all the processes involved in making a clamshell-style solander box, suitable for housing books, photos or … Continued
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Airport Love Theme and Contact series launch
Join Book Works at PEER Gallery to celebrate the launch of Hamishi Farah’s Airport Love Theme and the new Contact series, edited by Hannah Black. Readings from Hamishi Farah and fellow Contact authors Momtaza Mehri, and Derica Shields. Friday 17 January 2020, 7pm-9pmPEER, 97-99 Hoxton Street, London N1 6QLFree – book a place here. Airport … Continued
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The Happy Hypocrite 11 & Katerina Gogou: Reinstating the Dark Side
Please join MayDay Rooms and Book Works to launch The Happy Hypocrite 11 – Silver Bandage with a screening and discussion on Greek film star, poet + anarchist Katerina Gogou with director Antonis Boskoitis + Happy Hypocrite editor Erica Scourti. MayDay Rooms, 8th November 2019, 7-9pm. Book here. We will be screening Katerina Gogou: Reinstating … Continued
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Bookbinding for Beginners Evening Courses – Starting September 2019 and January 2020
Bookbinding for Beginners Courses – Monday Evenings
23rd September to 18th November 2019
27th January to 23rd March 2020
A nine week course in hand bookbinding. Students will have the opportunity to learn hand bookbinding and boxmaking techniques including multi section binding, exposed spine books, Japanese style binding and slipcase making. There will also be a chance to develop a personal project in the latter stages. The 9 week course will be for a maximum of 8 students and will be run at Book Works Studio.
Time: 6.30 to 9.00pm
Cost: £260 per student
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Bookbinding for Beginners Course September 2018
A nine week course in hand bookbinding. Students will have the opportunity to learn hand bookbinding and boxmaking techniques including multi section binding, exposed spine books, Japanese style binding, concertina binding and slipcase making. All materials and tools will be supplied.
The 9 week course will be for a maximum of 8 students and will be run by Ina Baumeister at Book Works Studio in Shoreditch.
Tuesday Evenings – 18th September to 20th November 2018
(Half term break 23rd October)
Time: 6.30 to 9.00pm
Cost: £260 per student
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Winter 2018 Bookbinding and Boxmaking Courses
Book Works is running two evening classes, Bookbinding for Beginners and Boxmaking for Beginners.
Bookbinding for Beginners is a nine week course on Monday evenings starting on 29th January. Students will learn a variety of skills and techniques that will enable them to make different styles of books at home with minimal equipment.
Boxmaking for Beginners is a seven week course on Wednesday evenings starting on 31st January. Students will learn a variety of boxmaking styles and structures which would be appropriate for printed matter as well as 3D objects.
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BEYOND WORDS EXHIBITION, BOOK FAIR AND WORKSHOPS DURING FREEDOM FESTIVAL, HULL
THREE EVENTS AT HULL CENTRAL LIBRARY:
EXHIBITION, 3–22 SEPTEMBER
Between the Borders, Libita Clayton, Theresa Easton, Jacob V Joyce, Rudy Loewe and Nick Norton.
Focusing on issues of slavery and colonialism, sex and gender, freedom of information, protest and censorship Beyond Words presents the idea of freedom as part of a process of public dialogue, ongoing struggle, a rejection of the proprietary understanding of art and language, and a celebration of the challenges that artists can make to the status quo.