Kerrytown BookFest – September 12, 2010
The 8th Annual Kerrytown BookFest will be held on Sunday, September 12, 2010.
KERRYTOWN BOOKFEST 2010 PROGRAM
Sunday, September 12 from 11:00 to 5:00
at the Ann Arbor Farmers’ Market
MAIN TENT
11:00 COMMUNITY BOOK AWARD PRESENTATION to Loren Estleman,
Michigan mystery writer, presented by co-Honorary Chairs
Joe and Karen O’Neal, local business owners. Estleman will be
interviewed by Doug Allyn after the presentation.
12:00 NORTHERN NOIR – Steve Hamilton, William Kent Krueger, and Bryan
Gruley – Interviewed by Craig McDonald
1:00 AUTHOR THOMAS LYNCH – Interviewed by Keith Taylor
2:00 PARANORMAL FICTION & POETRY: WEREWOLVES, VAMPIRES & GHOSTS
Toby Barlow, Jennifer Armintrout, and young adult author, Amy Huntley Interviewed by Colleen Gleason
3:00 CALDECOTT AWARD WINNING AUTHOR ILLUSTRATOR DAVID SMALL
Interviewed by Nicola Rooney
4:00 ILLUMINATING IMAGINATIONS: WRITING & ILLUSTRATING FOR
CHILDREN – Susan Kathleen Hartung, Mark Crilley, Debbie Taylor,
Colleen Monroe, and Michael Monroe – Interviewed by
Jackie LaRose
CHILDREN’S TENT
11-4:00 PAPERMAKING – artist Karen O’Neal
ART ACTIVITIES – Blue House volunteers
12:00 DRAWING – with Ellie McDoodle author, Ruth McNally Barshaw
1:00 TALES FROM NEPAL – storyteller Heather O’Neal
2:00 MOTHER GOOSE TALES – Mother Goose
3:00 SING & READ ALONG – author Deborah Diesen
ON-GOING THROUGHOUT BOOKFEST
OLD & RARE BOOK APPRAISALS – Free book appraisals by Garrett Scott and Jay Platt, owner of West Side Book Shop. Both Garrett and Jay are members of Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America
BOOK CONSERVATION TIPS – Tips on book repair and conservation from
Jim Craven of UM Bentley Historical Library, Shannon ‘Dr Book’ Zachary of UM
Dept of Preservation & Conservation, and Jon Buller of Bessenberg Bindery
BOOK & PAPER ARTS DEMONSTRATIONS – Various exhibitors and graduates of Hollander’s School of Book & Paper Arts in Farmers’ Market area
LINOTYPE STUDIO TOUR – Kent Burkhart offers a tour and demonstration of the historic linotype equipment owned by his late father, Ben Burkhart
KERRYTOWN CONCERT HOUSE
11:00 3rd ANNUAL BOOK COVER ART AWARD WINNERS – Judged by the author
of A Cold Day in Paradise, Steve Hamilton and Steve Klein, publisher
12:00 FICTIONAL MICHIGAN – Bonnie Jo Campbell, Michael Zadoorian,
Kristina Riggle, and Wendy Webb – Interviewed by Eric Olsen
1:00 REMEMBERING & FORGETTING: THE ART OF THE MEMOIR
Steve Luxenberg and Lev Raphael discuss their work with Steve Lehto
2:00 WORD WORKS – Teen authors recite their poetry
3:00 CHANGING HISTORY: HISTORICAL FICTION – John Smolens, Steve Amick, Donald Lystra, and Sharon Pomerantz – Interviewed by Judge William Whitbeck
4:00 MICHIGAN MURDERS – True crime writers Mardi Link and Gail Griffin
discuss their books and the re-release of The Michigan Murders –
Interviewed by Ellen McCarthy
HOLLANDER’S SCHOOL OF BOOK & PAPER ARTS
11-4:00 EDIBLE BOOK EXHIBITION AND CONTEST
4:00 EDIBLE BOOK CONTEST HISTORY & AWARD WINNERS Awards for Best Pun
Intended, Most Book-Like, People’s Choice, and Best in Show for
adults and People’s Choice and Best in Show for children under 18
HOLLANDER’S MINI WORKSHOPS — FARMERS’ MARKET
Workshops suitable for ages 10 and up
11:00 PAPER AIRPLANES – Arie Koewelyn teaches the folding of paper with
aerodynamic qualities using origami techniques – for young and old
1:00 TWO MINUTE MYSTERY BOOK – Barbara Brown, a former Community
Book Award recipient, leads participants in making an accordion
book with pockets to contain ultra-short mysteries
3:00 THREE SIMPLE BOOK STRUCTURES – Eric Alstrom teaches how to make
an accordion book, a pamphlet book, and a Japanese-style book
HOLLANDER’S UPSTAIRS KITCHEN
1:00 THE CHRISTMAS COOKIE CLUB: THE NOVEL & THE COOKBOOK
Author Ann Pearlman will discuss her book with Marybeth Bayer
who will be baking cookies from their collaborative cookbook
2:00 READINGS FROM A SMORGASBORD OF VERSE: EASY TO DIGEST FOOD POEMS
Author Marvin Brandwin, retired UM professor reads from his book, the delightful poems he wrote.
This program sponsored in part by Ann Arbor Observer,
City of Ann Arbor, Hollander’s, Kerrytown Concert House,
Kerrytown Market & Shops, WEMU, WUOM, Zingerman’s, and
Michigan Humanities Council, an affiliate of the National Endowment of the Humanities
For more information visit us at www.kerrytownbookfest.org
Add comment August 28, 2010
Artists in Residence – Summer 2010
Theater Book
This Artists in Residence program will feature Barbara Brown, Alvey Jones, current WSG members, and Marilyn Prucka, a former WSG member. The artists will be producing Theater Books with a water theme and their projects can be observed during the entire process. In addition, the public is invited to help build a hanging installation piece.
This event is free and open to the public daily between the hours of 12:00 and 3:00, downstairs in Hollander’s school.
Add comment July 13, 2010
The American Academy of Bookbinding at Hollander’s
Don Etherington and the American Academy of Bookbinding Workshop
Last week ended three weeks of intensive sessions at Hollander’s School of Book and Paper Arts, where the students learned various book restoration and conservation methods including such “finishing” techniques as gold tooling on leather covers.
The teacher and current director of the American Academy of Bookbinding is Don Etherington, a world-renowned fine binder and book conservation specialist. Don’s career in bookbinding spans over a half century and includes collaborating on the restoration of such documents as the Magna Carta and Declaration of Independence. He is also an award winning design binder and most recently his autobiography, Bookbinding & Conservation: A Sixty-Year Odyssey of Art and Craft, was published. This fascinating book chronicles Don’s formative years growing up in England and includes his contribution to the conservation effort in Florence, Italy after a great flood caused damage to thousands of books.
Before Don took over this year, the director of AAB for the past five years was his wife, Monique Lallier, who is also a world-renowned fine binder. She continues to teach for the American Academy of Bookbinding as well as independently. Together, they are two of the most recognizable and respected names in their field. Both are passionately dedicated to teaching others their combined fine bookbinding and restoration skills of over 100 years.
At one time, and not too long ago, bookbinder’s closely guarded their trade secrets. The popular feeling was that they had spent years learning how to become master bookbinders and didn’t want to allow others to gain this information too easily. In addition, some were fearful that they might be passing knowledge on to a potential competitor.
Combined with a general decline of making and repairing hand bound books, as everthing becomes digitized, there is a real danger of losing how it is done. Through teaching at the American Academy of Bookbinding, and as ambassadors in general, Don and Monique have made it their mission to preserve the traditional approach of this trade so that the next generation will have these skills.
Add comment June 13, 2010
Guild of Bookworkers in Ann Arbor
The Midwest Chapter of the Guild of Bookworkers is holding their annual meeting in Ann Arbor next weekend and all are invited to attend several free events including tours of the Bentley Historical Library and the Bessenberg Bindery.
These tours are open to the public and free of charge, but space is limited. Please contact Kazuko (kazuko@uky.edu or 859-523-3803) or Laura ( llarkin@illinois.edu or 217-333-7043) for reservation.
Friday, April 16, 2010
1:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Tour of Bentley Historical Library Conservation Lab at the University of Michigan – home of the University of Michigan and Michigan Historical Collection.
http://bentley.umich.edu/preshome/
4:00-5:00 pm
Tour of Bessenberg Bookbindery – a hand book bindery that offers a full range of original bindings and book repair.
http://www.bessenberg.com/
5:00-7:00 pm
Tour, Letterpress a Bookmark, and Evening refreshments at Hollander’s –
unique shop specializing in decorative papers, bookbinding supplies, & workshops http://www.hollanders.com/
In addition, the Guild of Bookworkers is sponsoring a marbling workshop at the Ann Arbor Art Center, which requires pre-registration.
Saturday, April 17, 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Note: This is a paid workshop.
Paper marbling lead by Steve Pittelkow at the Ann Arbor Arts Center
Please contact Laura for your questions concerning this workshop @ llarkin@illinois.edu or (217) 333-7043.
Add comment April 7, 2010
March Events at Hollander’s
Hollander’s cooking classes and book & paper arts workshops schedules for March are listed below. Click on the link for each class for details.
Be sure to see our new Spring and Easter displays in both our stationery and kitchen stores.
COOKING CLASSES IN MARCH
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3 — Indian Cuisine with Lakshmi Narayanan. SUNDAY, MARCH 7 — German Soft Pretzels with John Savanna. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10 — French Pastry Dough with Brigette. SUNDAY, MARCH 14 — St. Paddy’s Day Madness with Rita Conray-Martin.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17 — Salt & Pepper Tasting with Nancy Jenkins. SUNDAY, MARCH 21 — Chocolate Cake with Praline Crunch Buttercream with Heather Anne Leavitt.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24 — Quesdaillas Variations with Marge Biancke. SUNDAY, MARCH 28 — Wine and Food Pairings with John Jonna. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31 — Asparagus with Proscuitto & Spinach Pie with Francesca Girarraffa.
BOOK & PAPER ARTS WORKSHOPS
SUNDAY, MARCH 7 – Four Books For Beginners with Vicki Engling. SATURDAY, MARCH 13 and SUNDAY, MARCH 14 — Letterpress Printing Intensive with Phil Driscoll. SATURDAY, MARCH 20 — Introduction to Paper Making with Karen O’Neal. SATURDAY, MARCH 20 and SUNDAY, MARCH 21 — The Theater Book with Barbara Brown. TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23 and 24 — Collage Techniques: Beginning and Continuing with Karen Izenberg. SATURDAY, MARCH 27 — Advanced Paper Engineering – The Exploding Page! with Matt Shlian. SATURDAY, MARCH 27 — Continuing Paper Making with Karen O’Neal. SUNDAY, MARCH 28 — Two Exposed Spine Sewings for Beginners with Vicki Engling.
Add comment February 25, 2010
February Events at Hollander’s
This month features two cooking classes with Valentine’s Day themes. The first is a Valentine’s Day Dinner with Rita Conray-Martin on Sunday, February 7. Rita is the owner of The Sage Dish and passionately supports the use of local and organic ingredients. The other is Valentine Baguette with John Savanna on Sunday, February 14. John is the owner of Millpond Bread in Chelsea and specializes in using stone-ground flour and all organic ingredients.
Other Cooking Classes this month include French Crepes, Mediterranean Small Plates, Biscuits Three Ways, Two Soups: Calamari and Smoked pancetta Potato, Asian Style Favorites, and Chicken Tagine. Click on the links for details and to register.
In the Book & Paper Arts we are offering classes this month in Wood Engraving, Advanced Home Book Repair, Multiple Panel Screen, Mixed Media, Washi Egg Ornaments, Paper Sculpture, and such book structures as Gallery and Star Books, Flag Book, and Found Book – Concertina Journal. Click on the links for details and to register.
Add comment February 1, 2010
The New Year at Hollander’s
Welcome to Hollander's!
Last week we returned from a trade show in Atlanta where we looked for new and unique products. As we await the arrival of our new product lines, we already have new store displays in place that feature Valentine’s Day cards for kid’s and adults, gift wrap, and journals in our stationery store. Upstairs, in our Kitchen and Home store, we have many great gifts from pink champagne glasses to heart-shaped cookie cutters and ramekins.
We have also put together two full sets of classes for the new year. One is our traditional Book and Paper Arts Workshop Schedule, which is now in its 15th year, while the other is an offering of over 30 new Cooking Classes.
Our Book and Paper Arts workshops begin next weekend with a class in Basic Home Book Repair. The following weekend is a class in Box Making, which focuses on making several structures including the two that are featured in our box making book that was published last year. For those who would like to try their hand at an intriguing book arts structure, check out Jean Buescher’s Flax Book with Woven Tapes at the end of the month.
Our January Cooking Classes also begin next week. At these fast paced, one hour sessions this month, you can learn how to prepare Chicken Cordon Bleu, an International Brunch, Bolognese and Vodka Pasta Sauces, and two South American dishes called Chupe and Arepas. You can also check our website for details of these and future classes.
With all that is new at Hollander’s right now, we hope you get a chance to come in and visit us soon. We plan to continue to send out regular updates of happenings at Hollander’s.
Tom and Cindy
1 comment January 16, 2010
Make a Book! Learn to Cook!
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- Learn to Cook!
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- Make A Book!
Between the two schedules we have over 80 classes to choose from. We hope you get a chance to join us next term.
1 comment December 12, 2009
Upcoming Events/Schedules at Hollander’s
Holiday Table Setting
Also, Midnight Madness is on Friday, December 4, from 6:00 to Midnight, and once again we will be offering 10% off on all purchases made that evening.
In addition, we are putting together our teaching schedules for for both Hollander’s Book and Paper Arts workshops as well as our Kitchen’s cooking classes. The Book and Paper Arts schedule of workshops will be available online on December 1 and the Cooking Class schedule we hope to have online Dec 10.
There are still openings in both sets of classes for the remainder of November and into December. You can check those out on our website at www.hollanders.com.
Hope to see you soon!
1 comment November 10, 2009
New York Style Pizza
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- New York Style Pizza
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- Brian Steinberg
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- Using a Pizza Peel
Dorothy Hernandez of the Ann Arbor Food Examiner wrote a nice article about Brian Steinberg’s recent New York Style Pizza class at Hollander’s. http://www.examiner.com/x-21894-Ann-Arbor-Food-Examiner~y2009m10d5-Recipe-Make-New-York-style-pizza-at-home
Also, here is a link to Brian’s blog and all the detail you need for making your own New York Style Pizza. http://lastoneeating.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/new-york-style-pizza-class/
1 comment October 9, 2009
