Featured in the upcoming London Art Book Fair 2011, held at the Whitechapel Gallery, is The Portable Reading Room. Brainchild of Wild Pansy Press, this flat-pack pop-up booth acts as a gallery, bookshop, social space and studio, and will be debuted from the 23rd to the 25th of September. It’s an intriguing idea – a [...]
Entries Tagged as 'workshop'
The Portable Reading Room
September 14th, 2011 1 Comment
Tags: city as material · events · inspiration · library · workshop
Book-Making Workshop at New Cross People’s Library – 10th September
September 7th, 2011 No Comments
This Saturday, the 10th of September, we’ll be running a book-making workshop at the New Cross People’s Library, now reopened after its closure by the council in May, and currently staffed by local volunteers, aided by Bold Vision. We’re asking participants to bring lists and photos of their favourite books, to create a set of [...]
Tags: bookleteer · collaboration · eBooks · events · library · workshop
Bookleteer at Platform Festival
July 14th, 2011 No Comments
We’ll be running a drop-in Bookleteer workshop at the upcoming Platform Festival, which celebrates the launch of Islington’s new arts venue for young people, held during the 15th to the 31st of July. If you’re aged 13 – 19, bring your ideas and digital content – photographs, stories, text, art – on a USB key [...]
Tags: bookleteer · making · pitch up & publish · platform · workshop
Diffusion Archive Highlight: Expeditions in Paper Science
June 29th, 2011 No Comments
Created at our first Pitch Up & Publish event by Matthew Sheret, co-founder of We Are Words + Pictures, Expeditions in Paper Science is a compilation of blog posts written for his website. Matthew says: “I’ve long been interested in the idea of physicalising web articles, and while an industry has solidified around POD in [...]
Tags: bookleteer · diffusion · eBooks · inspiring uses · pitch up & publish · workshop
Training & Workshops
June 13th, 2011 No Comments
bookleteer – create, share, print, make Pitch up & Publish One day workshops to create and publish booklets and StoryCubes using bookleteer: guiding you from concept to publication and beyond, bring a particular project you want to undertake, or come for an introduction and to experiment. The day will be tailored to your needs so [...]
Tags: alpha club · bookleteer · booklets · Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination · dodolab · eBooks · events · get bookleteering · self publishing tool · Short Run Printing · StoryCubes · The British Museum · The Empty Shops Network · workshop
More dates for Pitch Up & Publish sessions
April 13th, 2011 No Comments
We’ve added some more dates (with different times of day) for Pitch Up & Publish sessions where you can find out more about using bookleteer for your own projects. These sessions are limited to just 6 people at a time so we can respond to your particular interest – whether you’re a complete beginner or [...]
Tags: bookleteering · pitch up & publish · workshop
Pitch Up & Publish 2011 – Book a place now
March 11th, 2011 No Comments
Giles posted about our upcoming Pitch Up & Publish workshops for 2011 last week – we’ve just confirmed the dates, and the Eventbrite page is now live. The sessions are taking place on: Tuesday 22nd March 2011, 12.00 pm – 2.00 pm Tuesday 12th April 2011, 12.00 pm – 2.00 pm Tuesday 26th April 2011, [...]
Tags: bookleteer · eBooks · making · pitch up & publish · StoryCubes · workshop
Pitch Up & Publish 2011
March 1st, 2011 No Comments
We’re starting a new regular series of Pitch Up & Publish workshops to help people get started and make the most use out of bookleteer as possible : guiding them from concept to publication and beyond. The 2 hour workshops will be held at our studio, will have a maximum of around 6 places and [...]
Tags: bookleteering · feedback · making · pitch up & publish · print on demand · user guide · workshop
CCI’s Library of Traces
February 21st, 2011 No Comments
Back in September Frederik posted a case study of Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination‘s use of bookleteer. They’ve continued using it as a creative and documentary resource, and in doing so have created a Library of Traces – a series of eBooks which enable both participants in their professional development workshops, and others, to follow the [...]
Tags: collaboration · education · examples · inspiration · inspiring uses · learning · making · workshop
Commission a local City As Material event
January 10th, 2011 1 Comment
Reflecting back on the 5 City As Material events of last Autumn, we’re really pleased both with the reception of the events themselves by participants and that of the resulting publications with friends and colleagues. Over the next few weeks we’ll be publishing the personal contributions of the guests (Tim Wright, Ben Eastop and Simon [...]
Tags: bookleteering · collaboration · making · pitch in & publish · workshop
First day at Soho Parish Primary School
December 15th, 2010 No Comments
When I heard I was going to be working on creative projects that combine art and publishing with year 5 and 6′s in a primary school is Soho, I was definitely excited about working with children on a project that sounded different, creative, and fun (both for the kids and adults involved!) However, hearing that [...]
Tags: bookleteering · education · learning · workshop
The Amplified Author at Crouch End Unlibrary
November 24th, 2010 1 Comment
Yesterday I took part in if:book‘s Amplified Author event at the Crouch End Unlibrary, giving a series of short workshops about bookleteer and print on demand alongside Anna Lewis of Completely Novel. Anna and I introduced 4 groups of people (many local writers) to the opportunities and limitations of print on demand systems (including our [...]
Tags: ppod · print on demand · workshop
Pitch In & Publish: Streetscapes
October 20th, 2010 3 Comments
Last Friday we had our first Pitch In & Publish: City As Material session at the Proboscis studio, “Streetscapes”. In attendance were Giles Lane, Tim Wright, Anne Lydiat, Fred Garnett, David Jennings and myself. After some introductions and hearing participants particular interests, we started pitching, planning what we would like to see in our collaborative [...]
Tags: bookleteer · pitch in & publish · workshop · zines
Seven Days in Seven Dials – eBooks
August 10th, 2010 No Comments
From Seven Days in Seven Dials: A week in the life of London’s Cultural Quarters About a month ago I mentioned that Alice was spending the week in Covent Garden as part of the Seven Days in Seven Dials project organised by Dan Thompson of the Empty Shops Network. For a week ten artists and [...]
Tags: eBooks · emptyshops · residency · workshop
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 [...]
Tags: demo · emptyshops · pitch up & publish · workshop
