Joe Dixon, ‘Bookbinding Joe’ is a bookbinding tutor, restorer and producer of bespoke hand bound books. He runs workshops at the St. Bride Foundation in Fleet Street and also delivers specialist workshops in his role as ‘travelling tutor’. Joe begins our Creative Breaks project with an hour long workshop by the end of which everyone will leave with their own single signature three hole stitch quarter bound book.

Twelve places are available and all materials will be provided.

Read about Joe’s work here: http://www.bookbindingjoe.com/

Creative Breaks: making time for creativity in the working day has been developed by Sue Woodward, Angela Maddock and Jenny Oates. It is a well being project supported by King’s Cultural Institute. The project involves weekly hour-long arts-based lunchtime creative breaks over twelve weeks in 2018 for nursing and midwifery faculty staff and students Faculty members are invited to take part in a creative break based on the themes of ‘Five Ways to Wellbeing’: Keep moving, Invest in Relationships, Never stop Learning, Give to others, Savour the moment. The project will finish on 10 December with three separate extended workshops.

Please note: we are evaluating this project. If you take part you will be invited to complete a weekly online survey and some final evaluation. You are under no obligation to take part in the evaluation if you take part in the events.

These workshops are only for the staff and students of the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care, King’s College London.

Creative Break 1: Bookbinding