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The Essex Book Festival  will be hosting various events throughout March.All the details can be found on their website  www.essexbookfestival.org.uk
  
Artists from Artbookart will be showing a selection of work at the launch of the event at Chelmsford Library on March 1st 10.00am onwards. An exhibition of photograghs of artists books will be on show for the month of the festival.

We will also be holding a workshop,on March 16th. 'Bookbinding for the Curious' is an introduction to making your own books. The workshop will take place at Hadleigh Old Fire Station, Hadleigh Essex
For further infomation contact lolaswain@yahoo.co.uk.  

 An Inventory of Al-Mutanabbi Street opens today at the John Rylands Library, Manchester. A number of artists featured on Artbookart will be among the 260 artists from around the world taking part.Margaret Cooter, Gwen Simpson, Janet Bradley, Karen Apps and Chris Ruston will all be showing work.

The exhibition also opens in America, and a complete set of books has been donated to the National Iraqi Library. Poet Beau Beausoleil and Book Artist Sarah Bodman have worked tiressly to coordinate the project, to "reassmble" the "inventory" of reading material that was lost in the bombing of Al-Mutanabbi Street on 5th March 2007.
Book Artists were asked to reflect both the strength and fragility of books, but also the the endurance of the ideas within them.

There will be a curator tour on Tuesday 5th March 1.00pm-2.00pm, in which you can join Sarah Bodman, Angie Butler, and Pauline Lamont-Fisher as they walk around the exhibition.

If you are unable to visit Manchester more infomation can be found on 

 http://www.al-mutanabbistreetstartshere-boston.com/

All the books featured in the show can be viewed  at http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/mainmut12/gallery3.htm

Two further sites of interest include Annettes blog www.disslin_an.net:  and a great video by Stephanie Sauer  http://vimeo.com/57607979

Further events will be taking place to mark the  aniversary on the 5th March.