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Seven Days in Seven Dials

July 9th, 2010 No Comments

This week bookleteer has been supporting the project Seven Days in Seven Dials: a week in the life of London’s Culture Quarters organised by Dan Thompson of the Empty Shops Network. Over the past days more than 30 young staff of 9 arts organisations based in Seven Dials, Covent Garden, London have been working to [...]

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Don’t Forget – PU&P 10: Augmented Reading Tomorrow!

June 30th, 2010 1 Comment

Just a little reminder that we’re running Pitch Up & Publish 10: Augmented Reading tomorrow afternoon between 2 and 5pm. We already have some great people signed up and there is still room for a few more so do drop us a line if you’d like to come along. You can reach us at bookleteer [...]

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Too late for Papercamp

June 22nd, 2010 No Comments

Yesterday I wrote about the upcomimg Pitch Up & Publish which is on the topic of augmented reading, then, researching similar and related work I came across Papercamp which was first held in London in January 2009 with a second event happening in New York in February the same year. My first thought was that [...]

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PU&P 10 Augmented Reading: Thursday 1 July

June 21st, 2010 3 Comments

Date: Thursday 1 July 2010 Time: 2pm – 5pm Location: Proboscis Studio, 4th Floor, 101 Turnmill Street, London EC1M 5QP Map : http://bit.ly/PEBbb Cost: Free! Our next Pitch Up & Publish – No. 10 – will focus on the challenges and opportunities of using bookleteer.com for making and sharing books that go beyond text to call [...]

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bookleteer at Art of Digital London

May 27th, 2010 No Comments

Yesterday Giles presented bookleteer and the Diffusion eBook & StoryCube formats at the Art of Digital London Salon, “Publishing – The Digital Word and the Arts’. The event (held at the Free Word Centre) was organised and chaired by Simon Worthington of OpenMute, with Caroline Heron and was aimed at Arts Council England RFOs (Regular [...]

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Margate Harbour Arm PU&P

April 28th, 2010 No Comments

This Friday (April 30th) I’ll be at Margate Harbour Arm alongside Dan Thompson from Artists & Makers and the Empty Shops Network as a guest of Lynn at We Make Margate to give a demonstration of bookleteer to local people. Come along between 1-5pm if you’d in the area and would like to know more [...]

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PU&P 9 Coventry with Artists and Makers

March 25th, 2010 No Comments

We will be running a Pitch Up & Publish event with Artists & Makers in Coventry on Friday 26th March 2010, from 12noon until 4pm as part of the Empty Shops Tour. Come and join us to publish your stories, pictures and ideas as Diffusion eBooks and StoryCubes. Date : Friday 26th March 2010 Time [...]

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PU&P 8 – Carlisle with Artists and Makers

March 17th, 2010 No Comments

We will be running a Pitch Up & Publish event with Artists & Makers in Carlisle on Friday 19th March 2010, from 12noon until 4pm as part of the Empty Shops Tour. Come and join us to publish your stories, pictures and ideas as Diffusion eBooks and StoryCubes. Date : Friday 19th March 2010 Time : [...]

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some eBooks from Shoreham

March 15th, 2010 No Comments

Some eBooks by Dan Thompson, Debbie Zoutewelle and Russ Bravo made at PU&P 7 in Shoreham-by-Sea on Friday.

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PU&P 7 – Shoreham-by-Sea with Artists & Makers

March 7th, 2010 No Comments

We will be running a Pitch Up & Publish event with Artists & Makers in Shoreham-by-Sea on Friday 12th March 2010, from 12noon until 4pm as part of the Empty Shops Tour. Come and join us to publish your stories, pictures and ideas as Diffusion eBooks and StoryCubes. Date : Friday 12th March 2010 Time [...]

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PU&P 6 – at Brixton Village

February 5th, 2010 1 Comment

Hot on the heels of PU&P5, we will be heading down to Brixton’s Granville Arcade and the Spacemaker’s Brixton Village project to run another special PU&P with the BrixVill tenants. The aim is to introduce bookleteer to the tenants to begin to record and document some of their experiences, stories, photos and artwork using Diffusion [...]

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PU&P 5 – schools and learning

January 29th, 2010 1 Comment

Our next Pitch Up & Publish – No. 5 – will focus on using http://bookleteer.com in learning and schools contexts. The evening is aimed at teachers/educationalists and others who work in schools and formal/informal learning contexts – exploring ideas for and uses of Diffusion eBooks and StoryCubes as learning and teaching resources. The evening will be co-hosted [...]

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PU&P with We Are Words + Pictures

January 20th, 2010 3 Comments

Yesterday we held the first Pitch Up & Publish of the year with seven of the members of We Are Word + Pictures, a “team running comic and ‘zine themed events throughout the UK” – Matt Sheret, Michael Leader, Mark Higgins, Anne Hollowday, Emilie Chalcraft, Tom Humberstone and Julia Scheele… It was really inspiring for [...]

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Pitch Up & Publish 3

November 9th, 2009 No Comments

The next PU&P will be on Thursday 26th November: Time: 6.30pm Venue: Proboscis Studio, 4th Floor, 101 Turnmill Street, London EC1M 5QP (map) Join us for an evening of exploring bookleteer and creating/publishing your own Diffusion eBooks and StoryCubes. Please email us to reserve a place: diffusion (at) proboscis.org.uk or sign up via our Facebook [...]

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Pitch Up & Publish 2

October 28th, 2009 No Comments

The next PU&P will be on Thursday 5th November: Time: 6.30pm Venue: Proboscis Studio, 4th Floor, 101 Turnmill Street, London EC1M 5QP (map) Join us for an evening of exploring bookleteer and creating/publishing your own Diffusion eBooks and StoryCubes. Please email us to reserve a place: diffusion (at) proboscis.org.uk or sign up via our Facebook Event [...]

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Pitch Up & Publish 1

October 21st, 2009 1 Comment

The first event was a fun evening and everyone who attended created at least 1 eBook each, with the exception of Matthew who managed to create two lovely examples. Thanks to everyone who came (Christopher, Fred, Kati, Matthew & Sara), and the team (Karen, John & Stefan). The next Pitch Up & Publish will be [...]

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Pitch Up & Publish

October 8th, 2009 No Comments

Starting in October we will be running regular informal evening workshops for people to literally pitch up and publish using bookleteer.com. Initially these will be held at our Clerkenwell Studio for up to 15 participants – all you need is a laptop and some content (text /photos/ drawings etc) you’d like to create and share as eBooks [...]

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