Dark Room San Francisco Launch
Sunday 21 August, 3-5pm (free & open to all)
Folsom Street Community Center
145 9th Street, Suite 105
San Francisco, CA 94103
Dark Room by Phyllis Christopher is coming home to San Francisco with a very special launch at the Folsom Street Community Centre on 21 August! It’s the first and possibly only IRL event with all of the contributors – Phyllis will be joined by Susie Bright, Laura Guy, Shar Rednour and Michelle Tea. The event will be hosted by Centre for Sex and Culture and hosted by Carol Queen.
Phyllis says (via her Instagram): ‘we’ll share stories, do a few readings…I’ll do a slide show talk with some never before seen out takes from San Francisco in the 90’s. As I’ve been hunting through my archive I’ve been thinking about how we build beautiful queer families and this book is a collaboration, a celebration of that…it’s a victory that it exists at all!’
Books will be available to buy at the event. Please wear a mask if you can.
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Bookbinding for beginners – new evening class starting in September
Dates: Mondays from 19 September–7 November 2022
Time: 6.30–9.00 pm
Cost: £275 per student
Book Works Studio
19 Holywell Row
London, EC2A 4JB
An eight-week course in bookbinding taught by Ina Baumeister. Students will have the opportunity to learn hand bookbinding techniques which can later be applied to their own work. The course will feature multi-section binding, exposed spine books, Japanese-style binding and a concertina binding. The final two weeks will include making a slipcase to contain the books made during the course.
The course will be for a maximum of 8 students and will be run at Book Works Studio. Book below, or contact [email protected] with any queries.
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August Book of the Month: Katrina Palmer – The Fabricator’s Tale
Our book of the month for August 2022, with 30% off all month, is The Fabricator’s Tale by Katrina Palmer (2014).
This meta-narrative is punctuation by short, abstract, and often disturbingly violent stories, featuring nameless characters that expose the repressed tension between the animate and inanimate, the sick malaise of contemporary life, and the cracking points of human subjectivity.
Palmer’s misanthropic characters are embedded within their own obsession with objects, exposure, voyeurism, and the sexualised abuse of power. They appear to exist in a highly dysfunctional world, that parodies, and replicates both the conditions of art, and its place in contemporary society.
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