New Job: Editorial and Marketing Assistant, two year fixed term contract
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Why Edit? Approaches to Editing in Independent Art Publishing
This workshop is now fully booked.
Why Edit? Approaches to Editing in Independent Art Publishing
with Gavin Everall and Nina Power
Friday 5 December, 2.00 – 5.00pm
The Club Room
CCA
350 Sauchiehall Street
Glasgow, G2 3JD
BOOKBINDING FOR BEGINNERS – WINTER 2015
Two nine week courses in hand bookbinding, on either Monday evening or Wednesday evening. Students will have the opportunity to learn basic bookbinding techniques through a variety of historical and contemporary styles, and to use conventional and unconventional binding materials. There will also be a chance to develop a personal project in the latter stages.
The course will be for a maximum of 8 students and will be run by Ina Baumeister at Book Works Studio in Shoreditch.
Sophia Al-Maria: New guest editor of The Happy Hypocrite – Analysis Paralysis
We are delighted to announce that issue 8, is guest edited by Sophia Al-Maria and due to be published by Book Works, Summer 2015. The Happy Hypocrite is now looking for submissions for this guest edited issue Analysis Paralysis.
Dr Sinclair’s Drawer
‘ … It was a stationery drawer, but his guesswork had been almost entirely wrong. The imagined list of objects, a moment ago an array of potent presences in the room, instantaneously dematerialised as mere conjecture. Dr Sinclair silently replaced the items, slid the drawer back in, then moved the desk against the wall. He surmised that the drawer had a peculiarly clandestine way of being; suspended within a meta-structure, like a deeply nested fiction, it was inclined to partially conceal itself within another object.
Why Edit? Approaches to Editing in Independent Art Publishing
This workshop will act as an introduction to the process of editing in relation to artists’ books, covering questions relating to both writing and images, collaborative writing practices, rules and protocol, grammar and the spoken word, as well as the more nitty-gritty issues regarding collating texts, images, captions, and proofing.
PAST EVENT
VISITING HEAT ISLAND – Two events in New York
Friday, 26th September 2014, 7.30pm
Murray Guy
453 W 17th St # 3SW
New York, NY 10011
Launch with a performance by Charlotte Prodger
Saturday, 27 September 2014, 3pm
MOMA PS1 / Classroom Series
22-25 Jackson Ave
Long Island City
New York NY 11101
Readings and performances with Isla Leaver-Yap, Guiseppe Mistretta, Elaine Cameron-Weir and Charlotte Prodger
http://nyartbookfair.com/events/
Kickstarter Campaign for A Lebanese Archive by Ania Dabrowska
For more information and to follow or support our Kickstarter campaign, please click here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/723440909/736493386?token=0ae835b9
Book Works is launching a Kickstarter campaign here to raise funds to produce and publish Diab Alkarssifi’s lost archive of Lebanese and Arab photographs, which will be brought to light in a new book by Ania Dabrowska, published by Book Works and the Arab Image Foundation, April 2015
New Job: Financial Administrator/Bookkeeper
Book Works is currently seeking a part time financial administrator/bookkeeper to start work in late September/early October 2014. We are looking for someone who has bookkeeping experience to trial balance stage, and preferably someone who has experience of working in the voluntary/arts/publishing sector. A good working knowledge of Quickbooks accountancy package is essential.
Bird Songs for Marcus Coates
These are the sounds you can use for the Bird Song exercise in UR… A Practical Guide to Unconscious Reasoning by Marcus Coates
https://soundcloud.com/marcus_coates