BOOKBINDING WORKSHOPS!

June 10 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

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Cost: $30.00-$40.00 Adults; $20.00-$30.00 for students

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BOOKBINDING WORKSHOPS!

Windsor Printmaker’s Forum presents Bookbinding Workshops in conjunction with Julia Fabricius’ upcoming exhibition, 8 Hours/Erasure, June 8-14, 2026. All workshops will take place at Artspeak Gallery, 1942 Wyandotte St. E | N8Y 1E4

Sign up for the workshops by emailing: [email protected] or [email protected]

Workshops by Julia Fabricius:
An important part of Julia Fabricius’ artistic practice is offering bookbinding workshops and assisting others with their creative work. These acts in themselves can be understood as a kind of performance. Julia will offer various bookmaking workshop formats, all relating to the works in her exhibition, Performing Instructions. Julia’s work incorporates the idea that instructions can be passed on to visitors to create a kind of collective knowledge that extends beyond the exhibition space; something that is long-lived and that might plant a seed for the creation of new book works.

Origami Book
Wednesday June 10th, 6pm – 7:30pm
Time: 1.5 – 2 hours
Participants: 6-8
Price: $30.00; Students with a valid ID: $20.00 All materials are included in this price.
No prior bookbinding knowledge/experience is needed; all levels are welcome to join.
The origami book is a playful and foldable paper object with a hard cover. During the workshop, participants will learn how to fold, glue and make a hard cover using bookbinding cloth. The origami book format is perfect for drawings, concrete poetry or a book of shorter text. The origami book is part of Julia Fabricius’ exhibition, with printed instructions on how to make it.

Experimental Folding
Saturday June 13th, 10:30am – 12:00pm
Participants: 6-8
Price: $30.00; Students with a valid ID: $20.00 All materials are included in this price.
No prior bookbinding knowledge/experience is needed; all levels are welcome to join. In this workshop, we will experiment with various types of bookbinding and folding. We will begin by warming up with the zine fold – one single paper folded and cut into a tiny booklet, followed by the saddle stitch — a simple, beautiful thread binding. We’ll also experiment with making a collective accordion book.

French Link Stitch Notebook
Saturday June 13th, 2:00 pm-4:00pm

Participants: 6-8
Price: $40; Students with a valid ID: $30.00 All materials are included in this price.

No prior bookbinding knowledge/experience is needed, all levels are welcome to join.
The French link stitch is a book binding technique where needle and thread are used to bind signatures of paper together. The aim of the workshop is to carefully go through the steps of preparation, such as folding, making a guide, using a hole punch and binding together. The French link stitch is featured in the exhibition as a performance that was executed by the artist, Julia Fabricius, during an 8 hour long binding session. The workshop thus invites visitors to gain practical understanding and insight of how Julia’s art work was made. Participants will leave with a notebook with an open spine that they have created.

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Julia Fabricius
Illustration & graphic design
[email protected]
kraterbooks.com
instagram.com/kraterbooks/

Artist bio
Julia Fabricius (born 1993 in Gothenburg, Sweden) lives and works in Berlin as an artist, graphic designer and book binder. She studied fine arts and art history at Brooklyn College (2014) and earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Communication Design at University of Europe in Berlin (2018). Following  her degree, she studied book history at Lund University in Sweden, and completed an internship at a bookbindery in Berlin. Her work includes a growing self-publishing project focusing on book making, graphic design, book binding and illustration. An important part of her practice involves giving workshops in book binding as well as supporting other creatives with their artist books. The content of her work primarily focuses on book making, instructions and topics related to everyday life. Her work can be found in collections such as the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Germany, and the Berlin State Library, Germany.
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Artspeak Gallery

1942 Wyandotte Street E
Windsor, N8Y1E4
Phone: 5199916350

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