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Story Club
Tue, February 25, 2020
4:00 P.M.
Children's Department
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Parkway Central Library
Come read, write, and illustrate stories with us!
Behind the Bookcase | Book Arts
Wed, March 4, 2020
6:30 P.M.
The Rosenbach
Do you prefer to judge a book by its cover, or does the inside matter more? In this tour of book arts, we’ll take a look at various rare books in The Rosenbach collection, their aesthetics, their functions, how the processes in creating books inform how we use them today, and vice versa.…
Book Arts Workshop: Basic stab binding
Sat, March 14, 2020
10:00 A.M.
Art Department
at
Parkway Central Library
Stab binding is a family of book binding techniques used for over two thousand years in Japan, China, and Korea. Both cathartic and simple, stab bindings are an efficient way to produce elegant books. Using thread to wrap around the spines, Japanese stab bindings are an ideal way to bind loose…
Voyages in Print: Show and Tell in the Print and Picture Collection
Wed, March 25, 2020
6:00 P.M.
Print and Picture Collection
at
Parkway Central Library
Explore original prints and poetry featured in Voyages by Road and Sea in the Free Library’s Print and Picture Collection. For free registration, email alames@ rosenbach.org or call 215-7321600 ext. 129. (Email registration preferred.)
Gallery Walk With Voyages by Road and Sea Co-curator Alex Ames
Fri, April 10, 2020
3:00 P.M.
First Floor Gallery West
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Parkway Central Library
Join co-curator Alex Ames for a 45-minute guided tour of the ​Voyages by Road and Sea exhibition.
Book Arts Workshop: Building with the Map Fold
Sat, May 9, 2020
10:00 A.M.
Art Department
at
Parkway Central Library
Starting with the classic map fold, we will build a variety of book or zine structures. Bring your prints, drawings, altered pages, or decorative papers to combine into stars, extend into chains, or create pop-up elements. Pages can be nested and combined with found objects for…