Memories Book Container - Online - 2025WKSP-05-31

ONLINE: Memories Book Container with Anna Yevtukh

'The anticipation of all the discoveries to unfold'. Literally… During this workshop you will learn how to create a beautiful piece of book arts that can serve as a container for your memories, poems, memorabilia, photographs.

By folding, stitching and putting together simple constructive elements like paper, card and thread in a short space of time you will end up holding in your hands... very special 'Memories'.

Registrants can work along with Anna, watch the live session, or just watch the videos later.

Anna Yevtukh is a member of the Society of Bookbinders, Designer Bookbinders and the local Guild of Designer Craftsmen who studied art and bookbinding in Ukraine and has been utilising these skills to build her handmade books since 1998. Anna is Ukrainian but has been permanently based in Worcester, UK since June 2006.

Basing her ethos on the fact that ‘’books should not merely be perceived as a means from which to read or write within’’, Anna’s artistic view to bookbinding allows her to create pieces of book art that are not only constructed with passion and flare to the highest quality but that are completely unique and personal.

Anna conducted various bookbinding, book arts and book conservation workshops and courses across the UK since 2007 and also teaches online for the last 4 years. She was a bookbinding tutor at Malvern School of Art from 2011 until 2021.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/annayevtukhbooks/

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WORKSHOP DETAILS:

Location: ONLINE using Zoom

Dates: Saturday, May 31, 2025

Hours: 10:30 a.m. – 12:40 p.m. (EASTERN TIME)

Course fee: $65 members / $125 non-members

Prerequisite: none

Maximum Enrollment: 20

Registration closes Weds, May 21, 2025, 11:59 PM EST

This is a live workshop, but it will be recorded. Anna Yevtukh is willing to allow the registrants to download the videos for their personal use only. CBBAG will provide a download link to registrants only that is active for 30 days through Zoom.

TOOLS

• cutting board
• craft knife
• bonefolder
• scissors
• pencil
• needle
• awl
• PVA glue and small brush 

MATERIALS

• 1 x A3 double sided card, 200-250gsm Size: 29.7 x 41cm - you can decorate it yourself by painting, printing, stamping, etc.
• SMALL PAGES: 24 pieces of coloured paper, 100-130gsm Size: 12 x 3.8cm, short grain
• LARGE PAGES: Plain coloured card, 130-160gsm, Sizes: 2 pieces 14 x 14cm and 2 pieces 7 x 14cm
• POCKETS - DOUBLE SIDED: Decorative card size, 130-160gsm Sizes: 17 x 23cm, short grain, and other piece 6 x 18cm, short grain
• WRAPPER/FASTENER: Plain coloured card, 130-160gsm, 2 x 21, short grain
• 2 buttons, 1cm diameter maximum
• Coloured waxed linen thread 1.5m (thread does not need to be pre-waxed)

Online Workshop Process:

Materials should be prepared in advance of the workshop to the specifications which will allow participants to take the best advantage of the live format. Please review the technical requirements below prior to registration to be sure you can participate. Questions should be directed to workshop@cbbag.ca

Technical requirements for participation:

·       Access to the internet and to the Zoom application

·       Screen large enough to follow instructor’s video feed (cell phone is not ideal)

·       Microphone or Headset / Webcam

·       How to join a zoom meeting information https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201362193

Participant-requested cancellations will be accepted up to 3 days prior to the published cut-off date for registration and will be subject to a 10% cancellation fee (a minimum of $5). After that, the full fee will be forfeited. In the event of the workshop being cancelled by CBBAG, the workshop fee will be fully refunded.