Ok, two days to go until the Manchester Artists' Book Fair, then two days of fair, then it's all over for another year. Well, six months anyway. Well, most of the six months, at least. It shouldn't surprise me, how much lead time goes in to such a short event, but it does.
I hope lots of people turn up - book fairs are very sociable events, even just among the exhibitors, but crowds of visitors gives them a different sort of buzz. And sales, of course, which is at least part of what it's about. And maybe connections, with buyers and sellers, collaborators and like-minded enthusiasts.
I think the morning's talks on Collaboration and the Democracy of Book Arts will be great - a bigger potential audience would have been brilliant, but we've tried to reach the people that would love it, and if they don't want to come, that's their loss. I'll be sitting in the Holden Gallery, keeping an eye on things there and wondering how it's going. Which is a bit of a shame, but it can't be helped.
And after it's all over, I'll spend sunday doing nothing at all (except no doubt feeling rather flat), then unkink and do some work of my own. BABE is only six months away now, and I really don't want to wait until next april before I do anything...
I hope lots of people turn up - book fairs are very sociable events, even just among the exhibitors, but crowds of visitors gives them a different sort of buzz. And sales, of course, which is at least part of what it's about. And maybe connections, with buyers and sellers, collaborators and like-minded enthusiasts.
I think the morning's talks on Collaboration and the Democracy of Book Arts will be great - a bigger potential audience would have been brilliant, but we've tried to reach the people that would love it, and if they don't want to come, that's their loss. I'll be sitting in the Holden Gallery, keeping an eye on things there and wondering how it's going. Which is a bit of a shame, but it can't be helped.
And after it's all over, I'll spend sunday doing nothing at all (except no doubt feeling rather flat), then unkink and do some work of my own. BABE is only six months away now, and I really don't want to wait until next april before I do anything...
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