News/Events

Job Opportunity: Catalyst Evolve Project Coordinator for Book Works

FIXED TERM CONTRACT JULY 2018 – END OF DECEMBER 2019 (18 MONTHS)
Deadline for applications: 6 June 2018

to start July 2018
1 day per week subject to contract and negotiation/or freelance terms to be agreed
Salary £5,713 (£28,565 pro rata)

We have a new opportunity to work as part of our team here at Book Works, suitable for someone who already has some experience of fundraising and publicity in the arts sector, and who would like to support the development of a small arts organisation.

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Contact: a new open submission edited by Hannah Black

‘Contact’ is a new series guest edited by Hannah Black and selected from open submission.

We are delighted to announce Hamishi Farah, Momtaza Mehri and Derica Shields as our commissioned artists, now working with Hannah Black on three individual book projects proposed via open call.

Many thanks to everyone who submitted to this series: we will only be in touch with feedback if you were shortlisted.

Submissions for this series are now closed.

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PAST EVENT

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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Blog post 2: shame requires an audience by Sophie Collins

In the literature on shame I expected there to be competing definitions. In reality, most of the texts were tautological, both as a group and in and of themselves.…Wisdom proffers a distinction between shame and guilt that posits the latter as a uniquely private and inwardly felt emotion, and the former as dependent on external public judgement, or anticipation thereof. In Pride, Shame and Guilt, Gabriele Taylor writes that ‘shame requires an audience’…

– small white monkeys 1

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YOU MUST LOCATE A FANTASY – CHETHAM’S LIBRARY RESIDENCY

For this open call we are inviting artists to propose a project that engages creatively and critically with Chetham’s Library, and to produce new work including an artist’s publication after an initial period of research/residency.

You Must Locate A Fantasy is Book Works’ ongoing Library Residencies Programme, presenting a series of residencies and commissions for artists to work with libraries, special collections and archives located in the UK.

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Open Submission: Dialecty – edited by Maria Fusco, Book Works and The Common Guild

‘I am for adjectives like beezer, dreich, quare, and nouns like clart, drouth, gleed, mizzle, oxters, scoot-hole, smoor, and verbs like boke, fissle, greet, hunker, swither, and adverbs like furnenst. I am for non-standard English language as a legitimate and enriching form of critical and creative writing which does not take modalities of criticality as given, rather it tends to, and experiments with non-division between practice and theory, criticism and creativity.’ Maria Fusco

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Blog Post 1: Ruth Ewan finds the Warm Heart of Communism

Published in the centenary year of the Russian Revolution, Ruth Ewan’s project unearths the radical activities of Nan Berger, through her involvement in the Communist Party, anti-fascist action, the National Council for Civil Liberties, and the anti-apartheid struggle.

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BOOKBINDING FOR BEGINNERS – AUTUMN 2017

A nine week Bookbinding for Beginners Evening Course on Wednesdays.

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 course will be for a maximum of 8 students and will be run by Ina Baumeister at Book Works Studio in Shoreditch.

If you would like to book please email [email protected] or call 020 7247 2536.

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The Happy Hypocrite – Tolstoyevsky Call for Submissions

We are delighted to announce that issue 10 of The Happy Hypocrite – Tolstoyevsky is guest edited by Virginija Januškevičiūtė. It will be published by Book Works in October 2017. We are now issuing a call for submissions.

Submission deadline 15 May 2017

Please send submissions to:

Virginija Januškevičiūtė
The Happy Hypocrite, Submissions
c/o Book Works,
19 Holywell Row,
London,
EC2A 4JB

Or email:
[email protected]

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