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A nine week Bookbinding & Boxmaking Evening Course on Mondays.

Students will have the opportunity to learn hand bookbinding and boxmaking techniques including concertina binding, starbook with pop- up elements, two-part box, clamshell style box and folded card portfolio.

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.

This opportunity is now closed

This job will offer an opportunity to work as part of our team here at Book Works, and would be suitable for anyone looking to further develop their skills and experience in editing and art publishing. There will be some initial in-house training given as part of the job. The job will be for a two-year period and we are looking for someone who can commit to that period of time to work on specific projects with us

*** This course is full. Please check the website for our Monday evening course. ***

A nine week Bookbinding for Beginners Evening Course on Wednesdays.

Students will have the opportunity to learn basic bookbinding and boxmaking techniques referring to a variety of historical and contemporary styles. During the course we will use a range of different materials.

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.

Beyond Words, a new open call seeking proposals for two artists’ residencies based at the Hull History Centre and Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery (WISE) in Hull, with specific reference to the special collections on slavery past and present, pressure groups including Parity, Liberty, and the archives of leading activists and campaigners.

Beyond Words, a new open submission seeking proposals for artist’s publications responding to the theme of Freedom

OOMK is organising a small press & zine fair at OSE – featuring over 40 small publishers and zine stalls. There will be work for sale as well as reference displays of zines and artists’ book collections. Stalls are free but each stall holder will be required to donate a zine or book to OOMK’s Future Library project at Open School East.

Music: Big Joanie
Food + Drink: BARBEDOUN

Exhibitors
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OOMK
Book Works
OSE
Abondance Matanda
Ameena Khan
Authorrising
Backwards Burd
Banner Repeater
Brigid Deacon
British Values
Centrala UK
Chloe Spicer
Clod Magazine

We are delighted to announce that issue 9 is guest edited by Hannah Sawtell.

#ACCUMULATOR_PLUS will be published by Book Works in September 2016 and broadcast online as a radio show. The Happy Hypocrite is now looking for submissions for this forthcoming issue.

This new issues asks how sound and writing interact, and how, in keeping with Sawtell’s own work, we might relate sound to text, and text to sound.

Two nine week Bookbinding for Beginners Evening Courses on Mondays or Wednesdays.

Students will have the opportunity to learn basic bookbinding and boxmaking techniques referring to a variety of historical and contemporary styles. During the courses we will use a range of different materials.

Each 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.