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Hollander’s Events @ Kerrytown BookFest 2011

September 9, 2011 at 12:11 pm Leave a comment

The 9th Annual Kerrytown BookFest takes place this Sunday, September 11th from 11am to 5pm in the Kerrytown Farmer’s Market and surrounding venues. In addition to a number of events at Hollander’s, this year’s event includes authors, panels, booksellers, book repair, mini book arts workshops, demonstrations, and a kid’s tent. All events are free.

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Presentations downstairs at Hollander’s Workshop space include:

11:00 Ann Arbor Women Book Artists. Five person panel from the Ann Arbor Women Artists group discuss their work in the book arts field. Group includes Kathy Frajbis, Cathy Hightower, Mia Risberg, Corinne Vivian and Katherine Willson.

12:00 Book Arts Summer Residency. Discussion of Hollander’s Summer Residency program with Ruth Bardenstein, Barbara Brown, & Alvey Jones. The artists will talk about the program and the impact their collaboration had on eachother’s work during the two weeks they were together.

1:00 Two Great Books about Books. Julia Miller and Cathleen Baker talk about their recently published books. Julia describes her book about historical bindings dating back to the earliest codex and Cathleen talks about the 19th century American paper making industry, technologies, materials, and conservation.

2:00 Experimental Books. Leslie Atzmon & Ryan Molloy discuss a book show, “Open Book— An International Survey of Experimental Books”, curated by the speakers and presented in May, 2010 at Eastern Michigan University.

3:00 The Last of the Hand Binderies. Jon Buller, owner of the Bessenberg Bindery in Ann Arbor was one of the last hand binderies in the country. Jon discusses hand binderies and the recent Thompson’s Shore’s acquisition of this long time local business.

4:00 Marketing 101 for Book Artists. Laura Russell, photographer, book artist and owner of 23 Sandy Gallery, a book arts gallery in Portland, Oregon will talk about how to successfully market your book art. She’ll discuss marketing plans, pricing, promotional materials, internet sales, book fairs as well as how to approach dealers, galleries, institutions and collectors.

Presentations upstairs in Hollander’s Kitchen include the following:

12:00 to 1:00 Tasting and Touring Michigan’s Homegrown Food. Author Jaye Beeler and photographer Dianne Carroll Burdick offer both a power point and a cooking demonstration from their book, Tasting and Touring Michigan’s Homegrown Food. This presentation is sponsored by the Kerrytown BookFest and includes taste samples! Free Event.

1:15 to 1:45 “A Smorgasbord of Verse” and “A Taste of Rhyme”. Marvin Brandwin reads a selection of food related poems that he has written from his two books.

2:00 to 3:00 Kerrytown BookFest Presents- “Ma Baseema” Jane Shallal presents Ma Baseema: Middle Eastern Cuisine with a Chaldean Flair. Jane gives you a taste of a culture that has one of the world’s oldest cuisines, dating back to ancient Mesopotamia. This presentation is sponsored by the Kerrytown BookFest and includes taste samples!

Hollander’s Outdoor’s Mini Workshops in the Farmer’s Market:

1:30 to 2:30 Learn to make a Flag Book with Ruth Bardenstein.

3:00 to 4:00 Learn to make an 8 page book from a single sheet of paper with Candra Gill.

For more information about all the events at the Kerrytown BookFest, go to
www.kerrytownbookfest.org.

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