New Book Works Trustees
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Book Works is supported by a board of trustees who input their range of expertise and interests into our development, and who play a vital role in advocating and promoting the organisation. We are delighted to have recently welcomed three new trustees to our board.
Maria Amidu is a UK-based visual artist and writer. Her artistic concerns focus on the voice, correspondence, materiality and what is hidden, obscured or unspoken in various social situations. She is currently a PhD student at the Royal College of Art, London.
Aliya Gulamani is an award-winning Commissioning Editor at Unbound and Editorial Lead for Unbound Firsts – a new imprint for debut writers of colour. In 2022, Aliya was named one of The Bookseller’s Rising Stars – an annual list of the book industry’s up and comers.
Claire Malcolm MBE is the founder and Chief Executive of New Writing North, the writing development organisation for the North of England that produces major literary awards and prizes, festivals and events and industry-leading programmes to support writers from underrepresented backgrounds to access opportunities. She is currently developing a new flagship Centre for Writing in Newcastle upon Tyne and has recently been part of the team that has launched a new MA in Publishing with Hachette UK and Northumbria University. Claire is a trustee of Book Works and the Community Foundation for Tyne and Wear and a board member of the North East Cultural Partnership and the North East Climate Coalition. She is one of The Bookseller’s 150, a list of the most influential people in publishing.
Book Works is a registered charity. To find out more about how to support our work, visit our support page.
Full list of trustees:
Teresa Drace-Francis (Chair)
Maria Amidu
Nick Brown
Aliya Gulamani
Michael Mack
Claire Malcolm
Gerrie van Noord
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New bookbinding evening class starting 26 September
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A nine-week course in bookbinding taught by Ina Baumeister. Students will have the opportunity to learn hand bookbinding 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 course will be for a maximum of eight students and will run at Book Works Studio.
Monday evenings (9 week course), 6.30–9.00 pm
Cost: £275 per student
For more details contact: [email protected] or call the studio on +44 (0) 20 7247 2536
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Graphic Negotiations #5 – Marwan Kaabour
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Tuesday 27 September, 1pm
Online, free but RSVP
Graphic Negotiations, our series of online lunchtime talks with designers, is back. In it we invite graphic designers to talk about or present their work in a format or style of their choice – whether a lecture, conversation, visual presentation or something else.
For this fifth event in the series we welcome Marwan Kaabour, who we recently worked with on Mahmoud Khaled’s Fantasies on a Found Phone, Dedicated to the Man Who Lost it, co-published with The Mosaic Rooms to coincide with the exhibition of the same name.
Marwan Kaabour is an independent graphic designer, visual artist and founder of Takweer. He moved from his hometown Beirut to London in 2011 to pursue a master’s degree, before joining Barnbrook – one of the UK’s most formidable and celebrated design agencies. He later set up his own design practice in 2020. In 2019, he founded Takweer, a platform that explores and archives queer narratives in Arab history and popular culture.
He has worked with some of the world’s most exciting cultural institutions, artists and publishers including the V&A Museum, Phaidon, Art Basel, The National Gallery, Thames & Hudson, Serpentine Galleries, Hayward Gallery, Somerset House, Banksy, and South London Gallery. He designed the much-celebrated Rihanna book, which was named as one of TIME magazine’s best photo books of 2019.
The next two events in the series will be with Fraser Muggeridge on 19 October and Sara De Bondt on 16 November.
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September Book of the Month: UR… A Practical Guide to Unconscious Reasoning by Marcus Coates
Our Book of the Month for September, with 30% off all month, is UR… A Practical Guide to Unconscious Reasoning by Marcus Coates.
Using a series of exercises and increasingly in depth ‘trips’, this book sets out clear and concise steps to enable individuals and groups to access their imagination and unconscious reason, to work on behalf of others. Using a series of exercises such as ‘Becoming a Bat’, ‘Crawling’, ‘Draw a Sound’ and ‘Impersonating a Human’, Marcus Coates has developed his own practical techniques to solve problems that we might otherwise remain dumbfounded by.
Illustrated throughout with Coates’ own drawings, the text is both beguiling and funny – though intentionally serious.
It comes with one last warning:
The book is a practical manual.
All the exercises have been tried and tested. All are achievable and have realistic aims, and have no need of prior knowledge.
The author and publisher of this book are, however, not responsible for any injury or trauma incurred from following the instructions, techniques and exercises.
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Sophie Collins & Rosa-Johan Uddoh event at Good Press, Glasgow
24 September 2022, 6.30–8pm
Good Press
32 St. Andrews St
Glasgow G1 5PD
Free but RSVP
Good Press + Book Works present an event with Rosa-Johan Uddoh and Sophie Collins to launch two new Book Works publications.
Rosa is an interdisciplinary artist and the author of Practice Makes Perfect, a new book which explores the production and performance of Black British identity through a range of figures and subjects such as the newsreader Moira Stuart; Beyoncé; the Black Madonna; Meghan Markle; Una Marson (a British-Jamaican activist, presenter and poet, and the first Black BBC radio producer in 1942); and Hercule Poirot (played in Uddoh’s reworking of the Agatha Christie classic, by the Martiniquan philosopher and poet, Édouard Glissant). Comprising of experimental texts, performance scripts, lyrics, stories and stickers, Practice Makes Perfect plays with form and register, to create a wide-ranging and original exploration of what it is to be Black and British today.
Sophie Collins is a poet, writer and translator and the author of small white monkeys: on self-expression, self-help and shame. Based on Glasgow Women’s Library’s collections, small white monkeys… is a fragmented essay, including poems and images, on self-expression, self-help and shame, based on research into the Glasgow Women’s Library’s collections. The book examines the author’s relationship with shame through a series of short studies on, amongst other things, cats, hair as a metonym for the self in poetry and fiction, and perceptions of sexual violence. It is published in a second edition by Book Works in 2022.
Both authors will read from their work, followed by a conversation around artist publishing, and their writing/research practices, in which they both use various forms of practical and ‘live’ research as the basis for texts.
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