Simple bookbinding - Sick! Workshop

Sick! Living with Invisible Illness is an art project that encourages an open and honest dialogue, to reduce the stigma and loneliness of living with a chronic condition and facilitate understanding and empathy.An exhibition of artworks created in response to this theme was on show at Sun Pier House in Chatham, Kent throughout August 2017. A programme of free workshops and talks accompanied the exhibition. This phase of the project was made possible with support from Arts Council England and Medway Council. It is hoped that the project will tour to other venues in the UK.In November 2017, the Wellcome Collection in London invited the Sick! team to run two zine workshops on the theme of invisible illness, and members of the public made their own mini-zines and contributed to the collaborative Sick! Zines #2 and #3.In December 2017 and January 2018, the Sick! project brings four more creative workshops to INTRA in Rochester, Kent. Creative visual and written approaches to self-publishing will be explored including therapeutic writing, drawing, printmaking and bookbinding. The workshops will be offered freethanks to a small grant from Involving Medway, as part of Medway Clinical Commissioning Group's work with community health.

Sick! Living with Invisible Illness

A workshop for people who want to use bookbinding for DIY publications or artists' books, to express experiences of living with invisible illness. In two hours, artist Xtina Lamb will show examples of techniques used by various artists, before demonstrating simple methods to bind pages together yourself.
There are many ways of binding self-made publications, from simple stapled zines, to books with inventive folds or covers made with book cloth. We'll study examples of bindings, then try out effective sewn pamphlets, accordion, hard covers, or experimental approaches to bind a book using decorated and plain papers, or your own content.
The workshop is open to Medway residents 16+ years old who are affected by invisible illness - those with illnesses themselves, but also carers, partners, friends or family etc. living in the Medway towns.
No previous experience of bookbinding is needed, this is a session for you to explore creative ways to cope with, heal from, or understand invisible illness in different ways. You may chose to use the methods to create your own small journal, sketchbook, zine or artist's book, or maybe use the skill to develop your own personal projects.
In the afternoon a separate 3 hour drop-in session will run, allowing people to continue with their bookbinding, read our collection of health-related zines, or create handmade publications in a number of ways. There is no need to book for the drop-in session, and you don’t need to have attended previous days. Each class and drop-in session is a separate event and you are welcome to attend as many or few as you like. The drop-in sessions are listed and described on our <A HREF="https://www.facebook.com/pg/sickexhibition/events/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Facebook events page</A>. 
This is the last in a series of four workshop days through December 2017 and January 2018, offered free thanks to a small grant from Involving Medway, as part of Medway Clinical Commissioning Group's work with community health.
If you live outside Medway but would like to join us, please message us as we may be able to invite you too, depending on availability.

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