April was a fantastic month for the Periodical – we’re very happy to report that we exceeded our goal of reaching 60 subscriptions (we actually reached 61) and are delighted to welcome 23 new subscribers into this growing community. Our new goal for May is to reach at least 80 subscribers and we have a [...]
Subscriptions Success + New Goal
May 1st, 2013 No Comments
Tags: Babette Wagenvoort · Kenneth Goldsmith · Raqs Media Collective · StoryCubes · the periodical · Warren Craghead
the Periodical Issues 1 to 7
April 30th, 2013 No Comments
Here is a picture of all the different publications that have been distributed amongst subscribers of the Periodical between October 2012 and April 2013. Each month at least one publication is chosen to be printed and sent out to subscribers, and we have also been adding other goodies sourced from our own archive of previous [...]
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the Periodical issue 7
April 26th, 2013 No Comments
Issue 7 is now out and this month we’ve selected something with a nod to the historical moment this month has brought to people in the UK. Tor Lukasik-Foss’s The New Worker’s Songbook Songwriters Workbook for New Worksongs! is a playful guide to creating your own workers’ song, helping you through the process of writing [...]
Tags: dodolab · Tor Lukasik-Foss · work songs
London Book Fair Special Offer
April 16th, 2013 No Comments
Since this week is the London Book Fair, we thought it only right we should offer something extra for any new annual subscribers signing up and quoting “lbf13″ – a copy of the fabulous Endless Landscape Magnet set (in addition to the Professor Starling’s Thetford-London-Oxford Expedition and the Social Tapestries : Case of Perspectives sets). [...]
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Modern London Cries
April 3rd, 2013 No Comments
image courtesy of Bishopsgate Institute via Spitalfields Life Artists Bookworks… Get Your Free Artists Bookworks… We’re currently on a subscriptions drive for the Periodical – we estimate that we need about 100 subscriptions to break even on printing and shipping costs, and if we can grow beyond that we’ll be able to explore starting new [...]
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the Periodical issue 6
March 30th, 2013 No Comments
We’re now half-way through our first year of publishing the Periodical and we’re delighted to share another quirky gem – Hard Hearted Hannah : The World of the Strange and Bizarre by Cartoon de Salvo. Back in 2009, Alex Murdoch, Artistic Director of theatre group Cartoon de Salvo, had a residency with Proboscis to explore [...]
Tags: Alex Murdoch · Brandon Cummerbund · Cartoon de Salvo · Cosmo China · Gillian Cowell · inspiration · joyce majiski · Matt Edgar · the periodical
the Periodical issue 5
February 28th, 2013 No Comments
This month we are very excited to bring a book we helped launch back in 2011 to a new audience, Picnic : order, ambiguity and community by Kevin Harris, illustrated by Gemma Orton. It is a true gem – a thoughtful essay on the role of picnic in contemporary society and specifically on community engagement and [...]
Tags: AccessArts · Gemma Orton · Kevin Harris · picnic · sketchbook · the periodical
New Feature : Collections
February 27th, 2013 No Comments
We are excited to announce another update to bookleteer including a new feature called Collections. This new feature allows for eBooks or StoryCubes to be grouped together to form a collection. This can be given its own title, author, publisher, colophon, summary, copyright info and a cover image. Collections can be shared or kept private [...]
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21 and counting!
February 20th, 2013 No Comments
Four months in and we’ve notched up 21 subscriptions to the Periodical. Our target is to reach 100 within the first year (i.e. before October) – which means attracting roughly 8 new subscriptions a month, so we’re a bit behind but ever hopeful that as more people see what lovely books are being sent out [...]
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Library Gems 2
February 18th, 2013 No Comments
Two more gems from the bookleteer library : Travelling Through Layers by Alice Angus, Giles Lane and Orlagh Woods was inspired by the discussions that took place during and after Paralelo : Technology and Environment, a meeting point for artists, designers and researchers in Sao Paulo in March/April 2009. A version was included in the [...]
Tags: Alice Angus · art · Birkbeck · ecology · Esther Leslie · Giles Lane · Henderson Downing · inspiring uses · Owen Hatherley · paralelo · Senate House · Victoria Macneile
Library Gems 1
February 11th, 2013 No Comments
Here are a couple of gems from the bookleteer library : Grand River Stories by Alice Angus – a record of Alice’s Grand River Stories project for Render exploring the Grand River in Canada in 2008. An A-Z of The Ting : Theatre of Mistakes – A by Marie-Anne Mancio – the first part of [...]
Tags: Alice Angus · drawing · examples · inspiring uses · library · Marie-Anne Mancio · research · writing
Seeking Sponsors for bookleteer
February 6th, 2013 No Comments
Could You Help? We are urgently seeking sponsors for bookleteer to help us cover the basic costs of hosting and maintenance and to continue our programme of enhancements and developments. We’re looking for supporters who share our ethos and drive to help communities across the world benefit from the simple, yet dynamic, communication possibilities that [...]
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Workbooks for community knowledge networks
February 4th, 2013 No Comments
Last year Proboscis collaborated with a group of local people and a community run centre (PAG) in Pallion, Sunderland to co-create and co-design a sustainable ‘knowledge network’ that could help people respond to the bewildering array of changes taking place in the benefits system. Our project became the Pallion Ideas Exchange (PAGPIE) – weekly meetings and [...]
Tags: collaboration · community · eNotebooks · Pallion
the Periodical Issue 4
January 28th, 2013 No Comments
Hard on the heels of the Periodical issue 3 we’re excited to announce what’s in this month’s package; The first publication is Whisker #1, edited and published by our very own Hazem Tagiuri, author of many a post here. Whisker is a pocket-sized literary magazine that showcases new poetry and short fiction, often from previously [...]
Tags: Hazem Tagiuri · poetry · short fiction · the periodical · Whisker · Will Davies
the Periodical issue 3
January 8th, 2013 No Comments
A bit late owing to the holidays, December 2012’s issue 3 of the Periodical includes two eBooks, If London Were Like Venice by Somer L. Summers and Towards an Anarchaeology of Belo Horizonte : Corners from our archive of previously printed projects, another of the books I made as part of my contribution to the [...]
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