THIS WAS ILAB ON UNESCO WORLD BOOK AND COPYRIGHT DAY, 23 APRIL 2016.
ILAB Pop Up Book Fairs - A mixture between bookish flashmob and speed dating for booklovers - Across the World!
4/24/2016
THANK YOU TO EVERYBODY ACROSS THE WORLD FOR BEING A PART OF IT!
1,800 ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLERS, ON 5 CONTINENTS, IN 16 COUNTRIES, IN 30 CITIES, IN ALL LANGUAGES BRINGING RARE BOOKS TO THE PEOPLE AND FIGHTING FOR A MORE LITERATE WORLD:
THIS WAS ILAB ON UNESCO WORLD BOOK AND COPYRIGHT DAY, 23 APRIL 2016.
THIS WAS ILAB ON UNESCO WORLD BOOK AND COPYRIGHT DAY, 23 APRIL 2016.
4 pm, Seattle, United States - THE FINAL ILAB POP UP BOOK FAIR ON UNESCO WORLD BOOK AND COPYRIGHT DAY 2016
And then it was over…
In Seattle, Washington, after a journey of thousands of kilometres the day of Pop Ups comes to a close (while we are waiting for the pictures of the Pop Up Fairs in New York and Chicago.) To the final minute of World Book and Copyright Day 2016 booksellers in Seattle work to improve the world in the way they know best – through books. Money for UNESCO’s literacy work in South Sudan has been raised, local people given expert advice without charge, and rare, quirky and interesting books have been shown to the citizens of Seattle and beyond! Seattle booksellers encapsulate all that is wonderful about the trade of antiquarian bookselling. They are generous, knowledgeable and supportive.
What a 24 hours 2016 World Book and Copyright Day has been! Inspiring, stimulating, and, we admit at times it has been exhausting and concerning (will enough people come?), BUT so much has come out of it. Relationships have been built, books talked about, admired and appreciated, libraries both public and private added to, and money raised to make this a more literate, equal world – what a day…. There will be many great days to come but not another quite like April 23, 2016.
April 2016 – For immediate release. Pictures: ILAB, UNESCO, the organizers
In Seattle, Washington, after a journey of thousands of kilometres the day of Pop Ups comes to a close (while we are waiting for the pictures of the Pop Up Fairs in New York and Chicago.) To the final minute of World Book and Copyright Day 2016 booksellers in Seattle work to improve the world in the way they know best – through books. Money for UNESCO’s literacy work in South Sudan has been raised, local people given expert advice without charge, and rare, quirky and interesting books have been shown to the citizens of Seattle and beyond! Seattle booksellers encapsulate all that is wonderful about the trade of antiquarian bookselling. They are generous, knowledgeable and supportive.
What a 24 hours 2016 World Book and Copyright Day has been! Inspiring, stimulating, and, we admit at times it has been exhausting and concerning (will enough people come?), BUT so much has come out of it. Relationships have been built, books talked about, admired and appreciated, libraries both public and private added to, and money raised to make this a more literate, equal world – what a day…. There will be many great days to come but not another quite like April 23, 2016.
April 2016 – For immediate release. Pictures: ILAB, UNESCO, the organizers
Today in the Republic of Korea - FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER THE BOOKSELLERS IN SEOUL, PUSAN, CHOONGJU AND DAEGU CELEBRATE WORLD BOOK AND COPYRIGHT DAY
The sun goes down on 23 April, UNESCO World Book and Copyright Day 2016. While it is 3 am and late at night here in Germany, my co-convenor Sally Burdon already said Hello and Good Morning via Skype from Canberra, Australia. And TJ Kim has sent pictures catching up a great ILAB Pop Up Day in the Republic of Korea.
The antiquarian booksellers in Asia have played a decisive role in this year's worldwide ILAB Pop Up celebrations. Rare book dealers in Japan hold a Pop Up Fair at the World Antiquarian Book Plaza. Tokyo bookseller Naoyuki Seki took students and booklovers on a tour through the Jimbocho bookshops, and at the sime time the booksellers in the Republic of Korea organized an amazing day of the book in various cities.
The South Korean booksellers and the president of their national association Kim Min Jae joined the ILAB booksellers for the first time in their worldwide celebrations of UNESCO World Book and Copyright Day. They hold Pop Up Fairs and fundraisings for UNESCO in beautiful bookshops and prominent places all over the country, beginning in the capital Seoul, handing the torch over to the book dealers in the second biggest Korean city Pusan and further on to the Choongju-Hangul Museum and to Daegu, the Korean city of books owing the most antiquarian bookshops throughout the country.
I wish I could have been there to visit the bookshops, to meet the ILAB booksellers in South Korea and explore a world of bibliophily so fascinating and so far away from Germany.
April 2016 – For immediate release. Pictures: ILAB, UNESCO, the organizers
The antiquarian booksellers in Asia have played a decisive role in this year's worldwide ILAB Pop Up celebrations. Rare book dealers in Japan hold a Pop Up Fair at the World Antiquarian Book Plaza. Tokyo bookseller Naoyuki Seki took students and booklovers on a tour through the Jimbocho bookshops, and at the sime time the booksellers in the Republic of Korea organized an amazing day of the book in various cities.
The South Korean booksellers and the president of their national association Kim Min Jae joined the ILAB booksellers for the first time in their worldwide celebrations of UNESCO World Book and Copyright Day. They hold Pop Up Fairs and fundraisings for UNESCO in beautiful bookshops and prominent places all over the country, beginning in the capital Seoul, handing the torch over to the book dealers in the second biggest Korean city Pusan and further on to the Choongju-Hangul Museum and to Daegu, the Korean city of books owing the most antiquarian bookshops throughout the country.
I wish I could have been there to visit the bookshops, to meet the ILAB booksellers in South Korea and explore a world of bibliophily so fascinating and so far away from Germany.
April 2016 – For immediate release. Pictures: ILAB, UNESCO, the organizers
Today in Moscow, Russia - BOOKS FOR ALL GENERATIONS AND AN ILAB POP UP FAIR AT BIBLIO-GLOBUS
The Russian rare book dealers - members of the Guildia Antikvarov-Knizhnikov (GAK) and many of them former students of the Moscow State University of Printing Arts - have great expertise, they are young, innovative and very active on the international market. One of these booksellers, Olga Shibalkina, runs Biblio-Globus: the biggest bookshop in Russia with over 250,000 titles in stock and about 3500 books, prints and objects of art in the antiquarian book department. Here, at Biblio-Globus in the city centre of Moscow, the Russian rare book dealers organized an ILAB Pop Up Fair for booklovers from all generations - with a talk for children on book binding by Professor Olga Tarakanova, while prominent Russian bibliophiles and book artists like Aleksei Vengerov, Victor Goppe, Mikhail Pogarsky and Valerii Korchagin spoke about their passion.
Photographic impressions from a great day for bibliophiles in Moscow!
April 2016 – For immediate release. Pictures: ILAB, UNESCO, the organizers
Photographic impressions from a great day for bibliophiles in Moscow!
April 2016 – For immediate release. Pictures: ILAB, UNESCO, the organizers
4 pm, Chicago, United States - TWELVE ILAB BOOKSELLER'S AT CHICAGO'S HISTORICAL "MILLIONAIRES' ROW"
The Chicago booksellers are having a great day! Since 10 am Jeff Hirsch (Jeff Hirsch Books), James M. Borg (Borg Antiquarian), Paul and Elizabeth Garon (Beasley Books), Owen Kubik (Kubik Fine Books Ltd), Larry Van De Carr (Bookleggers Used Books), Annette Kolling-Buckley (Columbia Books), Bradley A. Jonas (Powell's Bookstore), William L. Butts (Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.), Sammy Blade Berk (Harlan J. Berk, Ltd.), Daniel Weinberg (Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, Inc.), Rob Rulon-Miller (Rulon Miller Books), and the organizer Kurt D. Gippert (Kurt Gippert Bookseller) have been holding an ILAB Pop Up Fair at the historical Gessner House.
All dealers will donate 10 per cent of the proceeds of any sale made during Fair to UNESCO's Forest Whitaker Peace and Development Initiative to help fill the empty bookcases for the school children in South Sudan. Bravo!
April 2016 – For immediate release. Pictures: ILAB, UNESCO, the organizers
All dealers will donate 10 per cent of the proceeds of any sale made during Fair to UNESCO's Forest Whitaker Peace and Development Initiative to help fill the empty bookcases for the school children in South Sudan. Bravo!
April 2016 – For immediate release. Pictures: ILAB, UNESCO, the organizers
Back to Groningen, Netherlands - WINDOW SHOPPING AT FOLKINGESTRAAT, PART 2
Today, Groningen's Folkingestraat was full of wonders, full of amazing books, creative people, a very interesting exhibition of Jewish books at the Synagogue and fantastic shopping windows. A day and an ILAB Pop Up Event worth remembering:
April 2016 – For immediate release. Pictures: ILAB, UNESCO, the organizers
April 2016 – For immediate release. Pictures: ILAB, UNESCO, the organizers
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