9th Annual Kerrytown BookFest - Sunday, September 11, 2011

Please join us this year for a full schedule of events at Hollander's, as well as 10% off at our store all day of BookFest.

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 each other’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.


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

Presentations upstairs in Hollander's Kitchen are the following events:

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!


For the full schedule of events and participants or for more information, visit the
Kerrytown BookFest website at www.kerrytownbookfest.org.

This year’s theme will be  "Michigan Voices: A Sense of Place".

Each year our festival has grown, adding more exhibitors, more events, and of course, more visitors. In addition to our wonderful speakers, demonstrators, exhibitors and visitors, this year we are celebrating writers and readers of Michigan, with the support of the Michigan Humanities Council.

The Kerrytown BookFest is an event celebrating those who create books and those who read them. The primary goal is to highlight our area’s rich heritage in the book and printing arts while showcasing our local and regional individuals, businesses, and organizations. Since 2003 we have been growing, sharing, and discovering more and more about the rich book culture in our region.

2010 was a great success with over 100 exhibitors including the libraries form our region, dozens of presenters and demonstrators, and over 4500 visitors. The weather was perfect, and the media coverage superb.You can see photos taken last year here. 2011 will be our 9th annual festival, and our 7th as an independent 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Whether a business or an individual, if you’d like to support us and help us continue to grow, please visit our Sponsoring page or our Volunteers page to join us.

We feature authors, storytellers, publishers bookbinders, book artists, book illustrators, poets, letterpress printers, wood engravers, calligraphers, papermakers, librarians, teachers, publishers, new, used, and antiquarian booksellers and many others associated with books and their diverse forms, structure, and content. Our children’s area, with storytelling and creative activities, is always popular as well.

We always strive to create a colorful mix of book related activities and showcase them all in one location. Visitors can watch bookbinders demonstrate how to bind books and do simple repairs, see papermakers make wonderful kinds of paper, and see book artists create marbled colors on paper, or make an entirely new piece of art from a book. There are even opportunites to print with your own hands commemorative bookmarks or poems from local poets with antique letterpress printing machines.

Please join us each fall for a wonderful day of speakers, education, and activities and join our rich and varied community of people who love the book and book arts.

If you’d like to be an exhibitor, please check our Registration page. If you’d like to volunteer to help us, please check our Volunteer page.

Many thanks to our sponsors from last year as well. If you would like to join us in supporting this unique event, please see our Sponsoring page.
 
Feel free to contact us at bookfest [at] kerrytownbookfest.org or 734.669.0451.