HandBill

HandBill
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saturday april 15th 12 to 5 at the diva

update on project status

after coducting a workshop with the Eugene Book Arts exhibit, we went on to hold a second workshop at the Baazar on the UO campus. both went extremely well. The book arts workshop was in the Eugene Public Library and we shared the space with about fifteen other book artists demonstrating techniques ranging from paper making to restoration. The event was made possible with the help of Jennifer Rowan at the AAA library. thanks Jennifer.
The Bazaar workshop was tons of fun becuase we brought in piles of discarded 3 X 5" photos for people to dig through. We used a drill and a jig to make japanese style books that are a lot quicker than the traditional monastic technique we teach in our zine. This allowed people to make books in fifteen minutes instead of two hours. We used the table I built for A Harbingerous Happening from a recycled door with the knob still in tact. The legs were re-used piping donated by Eddy the maintenence guy. The Bazaar was a hootin and hollerin blast and the highest energy workshop yet.

potential workshop

AnarchistBookFair, originally uploaded by skuz.

Alright, here's a shot, we're going to contact these folks and see if they wants a workshop. The dates couldn't be more perfect

tentative workshop

we also have a tentative workshop scheduled for June 1st in the Courtyard of Lawrence hall on the U of O campus. this workshop will be in conjunction with the Spring Bazaar produced by the Visual Continuity class, the Theater Department and the Factory Ceramics class. There will be live music, gourmet eats, ceramics for sale, performance art, media productions and of course, workshops. Exact details TBA.

workshop notice

we will be holding a workshop on May 21st in the Eugene Public Library, 10th and Olive St.
As always, the workshop is free. It will run from 1PM until 5PM on a drop-in basis.
Participants are encouraged to bring paper and cloth for their books, although we will also be providing materials.

workshop at smith family

i can't say without a hitch, becuase it took until 2 oclock for people to show up, but it sure was a fun workshop. We counted up at monroe st afterward and we think that we helped ten books come into this world beside the maybe eight that we made amongst ourselves. Kyle showed up at noon, about half an hour after jason showed up to make his book. They both got one done and took off, and about two oclock things were pretty slow. I was working on my third book when a girl named dove walked up and asked what we were doing. I think Christina sent her our way, but she decided to stay, and she made a book then went on to start her second. she'd been there 15 minutes when another person showed up and started in on a book. Within the hour we had about six more, all working on their own book. We were hard pressed to keep everybody on track, and things just started moving. Three people saw our posters and came, and they all fit our target audience. One of them was a woman who was eating breakfast at morning glory, couldn;t stop thinking about her friend who had tried to kil himself the night before. She saw our poster and realized that she needed to make him a book, so she walked over and checked it out. She told me that and I couldn't believe it, this is why, I supposed, we are doing this, do give people the opportunity to tell their own story.

workshop

we have a workshop in Eugene scheduled for the 19th of February in the Smith Family Bookstore downtown location (525 Willamette, across from the post office). The workshop will be from 10 am until 5pm on a drop-in basis. It will take you about three hours to bind your first book. Bring paper (look around you, it's EVERYWHERE) and cloth scraps if you have them. The workshop is free and open to all. email handbound@gmail.com with any questions.

work in progress

Jack and I have been slaving away (well, not really slaving because we love this) and we have the website up and running now, as well as a finished zine for the project. We have our manifesto up and will be posting a printable pdf version soon, and we still need to get the posters done as well as a guide to what happens in our workshops.
You can download the guide we just finished for making books from salvaged materials. you can get it from our web site or you can go here to download it. We have two versions, one is in numerical order, full size letter pages, and the other is designed to be printed out and photocopied double-sided then stapled together. It's titled debrisZineFolios.pdf. the other one is debrisbooks.pdf.