Come to the Fair!
The 2015 fair will be held on Friday 16th and Saturday 17th October, 11am-5pm each day, at Manchester School of Art's Holden Gallery.
It's going to be the usual mix of zines and illustration, finely bound letterpressed books and screenprinted pamphlets, poetry and polemic, blank journals and woodcut posters - and plenty more on top of that. Every year there's a different mix of old and new, and it's always so exciting to see what a new fair brings.
We're going to give you the chance to make your own books, to create something new from old volumes, even to sit quietly in a corner with (what else?) a book or two. Learn a new word from an old dictionary, immerse yourself in an exhibition of two colleges from different continents working together to produce a body of work, listen to an Introduction to the beautiful artists' book collection of MMU's Special Collections, and above all enjoy the incredibly varied skills of everyone who brings their books to share with us at the fair.
We're going to give you the chance to make your own books, to create something new from old volumes, even to sit quietly in a corner with (what else?) a book or two. Learn a new word from an old dictionary, immerse yourself in an exhibition of two colleges from different continents working together to produce a body of work, listen to an Introduction to the beautiful artists' book collection of MMU's Special Collections, and above all enjoy the incredibly varied skills of everyone who brings their books to share with us at the fair.