Nassau, The Bahamas – The Hub announces the hosting of Chapbooks Workshop: Folding and Sewn Books taking place on Saturday, July 25th at The Hub.
In this workshop poets, artists and interested persons, learn how to make simple book structures for your own work. For centuries, chapbooks have been a way for writers, artists, thinkers, politicians, teachers and prophets to quickly and effectively self-publish their work. Now, small presses and print shops around the world are releasing work by both well-known and emerging writers and artists through folded and hand-bound structures.
Come and learn a few of these simple forms. See how your work can exist not only as a book, but also as an art piece in itself through paper choice, binding choice, and additional art materials. Through instruction and diagrams that they can take home and refer to later, students will learn how to make a folded book that needs no binding, the accordion fold, the traditional three and five-hole pamphlet stitches, and a few traditional Japanese stab-binding structures.
In addition, students will learn how to consider paper and decorative choices, and also how to plan and layout the inner material of their chapbooks by choosing and modifying a book structure that best fits their work. In this way, by the end of the class, students will learn how the book can become part of their overall project, rather than simply a container for it.
Instructing this workshop will be writer and artist Sonia Farmer. Farmer has studied writing and art in New York for four years. She has been trained in the traditions of bookbinding, papermaking, letterpress and printmaking techniques under various masters of such crafts. She uses this knowledge to release limited edition chapbooks under her small press, Poinciana Press.
Chapbooks Workshop is one day only taking place at The Hub on Bay Street and Colebrook Lane, Saturday, July 25th beginning at 10:00am. The workshop is limited to 12 participants and is $20 per person. Supplies will be provided.
To sign up for this Chapbooks Workshop please contact Jonathan Murray at 322.4333 or e-mail exhibitionsdirector@thehubbahamas.org. Please do not hesitate to contact for further information.
About The Hub
Located in Nassau's urban heart, The Hub is a versatile, collaborative space that facilitates the sharing of ideas and resources across disciplines, particularly in the arts, but not exclusive to the arts.
The Hub sees collaborations between artists and non-artists (for example, environmental groups) as integral to its mission. The Hub could be described as the central location where all the various "spokes" meet and share. As such, it will enable individuals as well as organizations to form alliances, which serve to strengthen and support a sense of community within the larger cultural context of Nassau.
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Contact: Jonathan Murray
Tel: 322.4333
E-mail: exhibitionsdirector@thehubbahamas.org
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