Program Calendar 2010-2011
Second Wednesday of every month
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: 395 Wellington St., rm 154.
September 08
- After summer show & tell
- Swap reminder
- Hands-on: Playing with pamphlets and accordion folds (Maggie McGovern)
After intro bookbinding, we tend to leave these forms behind – but you can do a lot of creative stuff with pamphlets and accordions. Tonight, we’ll play with both formats and create a combination accordion and pamphlet stitched book.
October 13
Paper: the good, the bad and the ugly
Everyone brings in samples of their favourite papers and tells us:
- why they love them
- how they use them
- what they use them for
- who are their favourite sources for paper
If someone has horror stories about any paper, we want to hear that too.
November 10
Presentation: Graven Images: the joys and challenges of working with 19th C wood engravings (Larry Thompson)
Graven Images is a portfolio of 19th century wood engravings Larry printed from the original blocks. Tonight Larry’s going to regale us with tales of horror about paper, type, printing and the word that strikes fear into the heart of every printer: make-ready.
December 08
Holiday sale & swap
Sale: Those with goods to sell (either finished items or materials) are encouraged to bring them, with 10% of the proceeds of sales going to the guild coffers.
Swap: Bring a journal, take home a journal. We’re going to use a fun gift exchange process to redistribute the wrapped swap creations. Then we’ll open them up and talk about the different approaches.
January 12
Night at the Movies: The Machine that Made Us
(Marie Chabot)
A look at the story of Johann Gutenberg, inventor of the world's first printing press in the 15th century, and an exploration of how and why the machine was invented. Features Stephen Fry.
January 26—Special Presentation
Nancy Leavitt: In Search of Content, The joys and challenges of creating in the book form
Like an engineering project, a book is complex three-dimensional design made up of many parts. Content is the central idea of the design and narrative is how the story is revealed. Our goal as bookmakers is to intentionally integrate all aspects of the design to strengthen the structure, form, and content of our works. In this illustrated talk, Nancy discusses her rigorous yet playful method of researching, compiling data, developing, and realizing materials for her manuscript books.
See more.
February 09
Presentation: Conservation of 17-18th century leather bindings (Geneviève Samson)
Geneviève is going to tell us all about a recent workshop she took at Atelier d'art La Tranchefile, Montréal, organized by the Association des Relieurs du Québec. Olivier Maupin, a private conservator from France was the instructor for this course.
March 09
Hands-on: Iris folding (Susan Pinard)
Iris folding is a technique that can be used for greeting cards or book arts. Iris folding involves folding strips of coloured paper in such a way to form a design. The center of the design forms an iris—a shape reminiscent of the iris of an eye of a camera lens.
April 13
Presentation: Printing photographs on art paper (Susan Ross)
Working with photographs: techniques and challenges of printing photographs on art paper.
May 11
- Annual General Meeting—
- pre-book fair meeting (Larry Thompson)
Our 5th Annual Meeting: All are welcome to help define our program for 2011-2012. Elections for executive positions.
Update and last minute planning for Book Fair 2011.
June 11
National Handmade Book Arts Show and Sale.
A unique opportunity to meet the artists and see the breadth of the book arts movement in Canada. Over twenty five bookbinders, book artists, letterpress printers, printmakers, papermakers, book restoration artists, calligraphers, conservators, suppliers and more.
- Presenting the exhibition: "The Nature of Words" that brings together the works of seven prominent Canadian book artists.
- 2011 Speakers Program: This year's program features a series of short talks on a wide variety of book arts related topics, from historical binding techniques through book collecting and paper making to printing poetry.
- The keynote speaker will be award-winning wood engraver, book artist, teacher, author and illustrator George Walker, speaking on the "Future of the Book".
See more about the Book Arts Show & Sale.
See previous years' programs.