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 [...]
Interested in the book arts? Curious as to what book binding courses may be happening in the Ottawa area? Want to know more about how you can get involved in the local books arts community? Look no further than the new CBBAG Ottawa Valley Site on Groupspaces.com for all your News, Events, Member Information and [...]
Mark your Calendars! The Future of the Book The 2011 CBBAG Book Arts Show and Sale Saturday, 11 June 2011, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Library and Archives Canada 395 Wellington St., Ottawa, Ontario. Open to the public and admission is free. Future of the Book is the theme for this year’s CBBAG Book Arts [...]
What looks to be a very interesting talk on the design and creation of books is coming up soon at the Library and Archive. Best of all, it’s free!!! The Details: When: 26 January 2011, at 7-9 p.m. Where: Library and Archives Canada, 395 Wellington St, Ottawa, Salle (Room) A Like an engineering project, a [...]
Memoirs of a Bookshop Girl is a wonderful little chapbook written by Heather E. Thomson, one of the friendly faces often found behind the counter at Patrick McGahern Books. I picked up a copy of the chapbook last weekend (from Heather herself, who was gracious enough to sign it for me), and a few days later read it in [...]