Rockcliffe Park Public Library Annual Book Sale April 14-15, 2012 380 Springfield Road, Ottawa 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM Saturday 12:00 AM – 5:00 PM Sunday Proceeds go to support the Rockcliffe Park branch of the OPL.
Here are a few bookish events to add to your calendar for the upcoming year: Mini-Mammoth used book sale The Friends of the Ottawa Public Library hold a sale one Saturday every month of the school year to replace the annual Mammoth Used Book Sale, so keep an eye on their website for upcoming dates. [...]
We recently received a package in the mail from the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) detailing the campaign and efforts they have undertaken in an attempt to stem the tide of cutbacks, service discontinuation, and acquisition moratoriums that has assailed Library and Archives Canada (LAC) under their new mandate and restructuring policies. Efforts to [...]
EDGE DECORATION WORKSHOP: March 24th, 2012 Artist: Christine McNair workshop fee: CBBAG members: $85 non-members: $100 material fee: TBD A one-day workshop focusing on the range of edge decoration methods both modern and traditional available to the contemporary bookbinder. Techniques covered will include sprinkling, edge colouring, the painted edge, Japanese semi-gilding, mono offset, an image [...]
Here is the info for a couple of upcoming book launches from local mystery authors: Peggy Blair’s The Beggar’s Opera Thursday, 16 February, 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm The Orange Art Gallery, 233 Armstrong Street, Ottawa, Ontario There will be live Cuban music with the terrific Cuban duet of Caridad Cruz and César Ricardo. Cuban [...]
Mixed media and book artist Holly Dean will be hosting a series of weekend workshops starting the second Saturday in February at her studio in Merrickville. Workshops range from how to incorporate text into your artwork to creating hand-bound muse journals, all with the goal to help you learn new techniques and approaches to your [...]
Saturday, January 28, 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m at various libraries throughout Ottawa The concept An individual accepts to take part in the event as a Book Book reservations for specific time slots will be available the day of the event, at each site Books get “checked out” for 20 minutes by a Reader Talk [...]
Hope to see everyone there!!
spring 2011 edition Saturday, June 25, 2011 12 – 5pm Room 203 of the Jack Purcell Community Centre (on Elgin, at 320 Jack Purcell Lane). contact rob at rob_mclennan@hotmail.com to sign up for a table.
When: Saturday, April 16, 2011, 10am to 5pm and Sunday, April 17, 10am to 3pm Where: Nepean Sportsplex, 1701 Woodroffe Avenue, Hall F. Admission and parking are free. More than twenty thousand books of all types are available at bargain prices (most paperbacks will be $1 and most trade and hardcover books will be $2). For more information [...]