✨📙PRESS RELEASE📙✨We’re delighted to announce that OOMK will be undertaking a Future Library residency supported by Book Works and Open School East (OSE) and Arts Council England.This residency will respond to the current Open School East library collection and is structured to facilitate research and exploration into the future of The Library. OOMK will be reimagining the function, aesthetic and user culture of the library and creating a publication in conjunction with Book Works. The project will include a free public workshop and a small-press publishing fair. Further information email oomkzine@gmail.comFuture Library Zine Making Workshop, 2-6pm, 14 November 2015 at Open School East43 De Beauvoir Rd, London N1 5SQOOMK will lead an afternoon workshop on zine making and self-publishing. The theme of the workshop will be Future Books with the collective facilitating a discussion around the theme and delivering two mini sessions in collage making and typography. Participants will be encouraged to invent their own titles and blurbs and will be provided with templates and collage materials to create their own zines to take away. The workshop will begin with a short talk by Leila Kassir, Librarian at LCC, on zines and self-publishing. Free and open to all but spaces are limited to 15, RSVP here. Publishing Fair, hosted by OOMK2-7pm, 19 December 2015 at Open School East 43 De Beauvoir Rd, London N1 5SQOOMK is organising a small press & zine fair at OSE - featuring over 40 small publishers and zine stalls. There will be work for sale as well as reference displays of zines and artists’ book collections. Stalls are free but each stall holder will be required to donate a zine or book to OOMK’s Future Library project for OSE. A full list of participants will be announced shortly.For further information or if you would like to participate, please contact Sofia Niazi oomkzine@hotmail.com  Future Library, 21 January 2016 at Open School East43 De Beauvoir Rd, London N1 5SQOOMK exhibition, publication launch and discussion around community libraries and artist book/zine collections with OOMK; Ruth Beale and Amy Feneck (Rabbit Road Library); Leila Kassir (LCC Library); Nicholas Brown (Stuart Hall Library, Iniva) and others tbc.For further information please contact Jane Rolo jane@bookworks.org.uk
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PRESS RELEASE

We’re delighted to announce that OOMK will be undertaking a Future Library residency supported by Book Works and Open School East (OSE) and Arts Council England.

This residency will respond to the current Open School East library collection and is structured to facilitate research and exploration into the future of The Library. OOMK will be reimagining the function, aesthetic and user culture of the library and creating a publication in conjunction with Book Works. The project will include a free public workshop and a small-press publishing fair. 

Further information email oomkzine@gmail.com

Future Library Zine Making Workshop,
2-6pm, 14 November 2015 at Open School East
43 De Beauvoir Rd, London N1 5SQ
OOMK will lead an afternoon workshop on zine making and self-publishing. The theme of the workshop will be Future Books with the collective facilitating a discussion around the theme and delivering two mini sessions in collage making and typography. Participants will be encouraged to invent their own titles and blurbs and will be provided with templates and collage materials to create their own zines to take away. The workshop will begin with a short talk by Leila Kassir, Librarian at LCC, on zines and self-publishing. Free and open to all but spaces are limited to 15, RSVP here.

Publishing Fair, hosted by OOMK
2-7pm, 19 December 2015 at Open School East
43 De Beauvoir Rd, London N1 5SQ

OOMK is organising a small press & zine fair at OSE - featuring over 40 small publishers and zine stalls. There will be work for sale as well as reference displays of zines and artists’ book collections. Stalls are free but each stall holder will be required to donate a zine or book to OOMK’s Future Library project for OSE. A full list of participants will be announced shortly.

For further information or if you would like to participate, please contact Sofia Niazi oomkzine@hotmail.com  


Future Library, 21 January 2016 at Open School East
43 De Beauvoir Rd, London N1 5SQ

OOMK exhibition, publication launch and discussion around community libraries and artist book/zine collections with OOMK; Ruth Beale and Amy Feneck (Rabbit Road Library); Leila Kassir (LCC Library); Nicholas Brown (Stuart Hall Library, Iniva) and others tbc.For further information please contact Jane Rolo jane@bookworks.org.uk

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