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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.

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.

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]

Beyond Words:
New work by Helen Cammock, Hannah Dawn Henderson and Lubaina Himid

Commissioned by Book Works and produced by the Freedom Festival Arts Trust

Private view: 6 April 2017
5:30–7.30pm
Talks and artist’s performance from 6.00pm
Exhibition: 7-27 April 2017
Hull Central Library, Gallery
Albion St, HU1 3TF

New Kickstarter Campaign
Upcycle this Book by Gavin Waded and designed by James Langdon

360 pages, 26 tests, 20 Years of artist-curating, 12 drawings, 1 book.

Book Works has launched a new Kickstarter campaign to help raise funds for this new publication with Gavin Wade.

Please visit our Kickstarter page here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/723440909/upcycle-this-book-by-gavin-wade-designed-by-james

*** Only few places left. ***

A nine week Concertina & Boxmaking Evening Course on Wednesdays.

Students will have the opportunity to learn hand bookbinding and boxmaking techniques including concertina binding, two-part box making, clamshell style box making, folded card slipcase and to work on a box of their own design.

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 course is full. Please check the website for our Wednesday evening course. Or contact Jan for the next round of courses in Autumn. ***

A nine week Bookbinding for Beginners Evening Course on Mondays.

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.

Deadline for applications: 28 November 2016
Interviews 14 December 2016
Start date: week starting 9 January 2017

Book Works is a leading arts commissioning organisation with a unique role as a publisher, studio and charity in supporting and enabling artists working with books, spoken word, and printed matter.

The Freedom Deficit by Between the Borders explores the collectives’ ongoing concerns about issues of citizenship and migration.

Libita Clayton’s FORGET THAT GUY (message from a freedom fighter), is a set of postcards that unpicks the conventional history of abolition and slave trading through a series of ‘conversations’ between the monuments set in the ports of Bristol and Hull, and the artist herself.