The Ephemera Society - Events and Exhibitions

	news about membership events links Events and Exhibitions The Ephemera Society Special Fairs 2010 Sundays · 13 June · 5 December Holiday Inn London Bloomsbury Coram Street London WC1N 1HT United Kingdom Admission £3 11.00 - 17.00 Members from 10am with membership cards The Ephemera Society Bazaars 2010 2 May · 1 August · 3 October Holiday Inn London Bloomsbury Coram Street London WC1N 1HT United Kingdom Admission £2 11.00 - 16.00 Members from 10am with membership cards The Ephemera Society presents The Birmingham Ephemera Fair 2010 Sunday 19 September The National Motorcycle Museum Coventry Road Bickenhill Solihull West Midlands, B92 0EJ United Kingdom Admission £3 11.00 - 17.00 Members from 10am with membership cards Junction 6 on the M42, Solihull, West Midlands View PDF file for more information (305KB). Enquiries Performing Arts Book & Ephemera Fair 2010 Saturdays · 10 April & 9 October · 10.30-19.00 Specialist dealers will display for sale books and ephemera including playbills, posters, autographs, programmes, prints and photographs, ballet, dance, circus, memorabilia, and much more at prices ranging from a few to several hundred pounds. The Performance on Stage & Screen Fair is unique and attracts collectors from all over the UK and is a bonus feature for those attending performances at the National Theatre. The fair is organised by the Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association and the Ephemera Society. All are welcome. Olivier Stalls Foyer Royal National Theatre Southbank London United Kingdom Enquiries: +44 (0)1453 757107
	Book History Workshop Lyon, 31 August - 3 September 2010 For the eighth edition of its Book History Workshop, organised in collaboration with the Rare Book School (University of Virginia), the Lyon-based Institut d'histoire du livre is offering four advanced courses in the fields of book and printing history. Courses on offer this year are: Paper and Watermarks as Bibliographical Evidence (course in English) Neil Harris Printing Type: 1450-1830 (course in English) James Mosley Introduction to Physical (Analitical) Bibliography (course in French) Dominique Varry Printed Ephemera Under the Magnifying Glass (course in French) Michael Twyman The Book History Workshop is aimed at book and printing historians and at the many other specialists who encounter questions related to book and printing history in the course of their work: researchers, teachers, archivists, librarians, museum curators, antiquarian booksellers, collectors, designers, etc. The four-day courses offered by the Institut d'histoire du livre cover various aspects of the history of the book and graphic communications. Subjects are dealt with from both theoretical and practical points of view through illustrated lectures, discussions and close study of original documents. The courses make abundant use of the collections of Lyon City Library, Museum of Printing and City Archives. The courses will take place in Lyon from the 31 August to the 3 September 2010. Classes will be held at the École normale supérieure de Lyon with sessions at the Lyon City Library, the Printing Museum and the City Archives. Tuition fee: 490 euros (mid-day meals included). In order to facilitate access to collections of original documents, the number of participants is limited to twelve per class. Full details of the courses and registration can be found at: http://ihl.enssib.fr/siteihl.php?page=21&aflng=en Institut d'histoire du livre / Lyon Printing Museum 13 rue de la Poulaillerie 69002 Lyon France http://www.imprimerie.lyon.fr
	The Ministry of Food Until 3 January 2011 Seventy years ago the wartime government announced the introduction of food rationing - a control that was to remain in force for the next fourteen years. To mark this event Imperial War Museum London is opening The Ministry of Food, a major new exhibition to show how the British public adapted to a world of food shortages by ‘Lending a Hand on the Land’, ‘Digging for Victory’, taking up the ‘War on Waste’, and being both frugal and inventive on the ‘Kitchen Front’. Visitors will discover that growing your own food, eating seasonal fruit and vegetables, reducing imports, recycling and healthy nutrition were just as topical in 1940 as they are today. Imperial War Museum London Lambeth Road London, SE1 6HZ UK www.iwm.org.uk/
	Japantastic: Japanese-inspired patterns for the British home 1880-1930 Until 1 August 2010 In the 1870s and 80s, Britain experienced a craze for all things Japanese. Japanese art and design were seen as exciting and exotic by Europeans, because they were so different from Western culture. They offered a whole new way of looking at and representing the world. Arthur Silver was a British designer of wallpapers and textiles. He established his company, the Silver Studio, in 1880. He and his colleagues were avid collectors of Japanese source material. This exhibition looks at how the Silver Studio adapted Japanese materials, methods and motifs between about 1880 and 1930. The resulting designs are not straightforwardly ‘Japanese’ but are the result of a fascinating process of cross-cultural exchange. The Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture Middlesex University Cat Hill, Barnet Herts EN4 8HT United Kingdom t:020 8411 5244 www.moda.mdx.ac.uk
	Ephemera/30 19-21 March 2010 The Ephemera Society of America's 30th annual Conference and Paper Show will once again convene at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Old Greenwich, CT. The Conference will feature expert speakers on a variety of transportation topics, such as the Titanic tragedy, as told through ephemera. On Saturday and Sunday nearly 80 ephemera dealers will offer colourful and historic paper items for sale from five dollars to thousands of dollars. On Friday 19 March Valerie Jackson-Harris, chairman of the UK Ephemera Society, will address questions about English ephemera, including identifying and dating items. More information: www.ephemerasociety.org
	Seattle Book and Paper Show 2010 Saturday 22 May · 10-18.00 Sunday 23 May · 11-16.00 $5.00 good for both days 75 dealers of used, rare, collectible books, prints, photographs, posters, postcards and ephemera. Seattle Center Exhibition Hall Seattle WA USA www.seattlebookandpapershow.com/
	Salon du Livre et Papiers Anciens 8 - 11 April 2010 In the region of 200 European dealers will be offering a profusion of handwritten and printed documents of every sort and kind for this acclaimed paper fair. The metro is an easy ride from central Paris to Porte De Champerret. The theme on this occasion is Le Printemps. Salon Du Livre Et Papiers Anciens Paris 17ème Espace Champerret France www.organisation-joel-garcia.fr/
	Ms Understood: Women's Liberation in 1970's Britain Until 31 March 2010 This exhibition celebrates the 40th anniversary of the country’s first national Women’s Liberation Conference at Ruskin College, Oxford. During this event, over five hundred women came together and lay the foundation for the movement's key demands: Equal pay for equal work Equal educational and job opportunities Free contraception and abortion on demand Free 24 hour nurseries under community control The exhibition explores the prelude, birth, rallies, media, fashion, politics, disagreements and victories of this crucial phase for improving women’s rights. The Women's Library London Metropolitan University 25 Old Castle Street London E1 7NT United Kingdom http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/thewomenslibrary/
	OUTBREAK 1939 Until 5 September 2010 Seventy years after the announcement that signified the start of the Second World War and changed the lives of millions, this special exhibition explores how being a nation at war shaped the lives of ordinary men and women as well as those who were actively involved in the political negotiations and their aftermath. Historical material and personal memorabilia will illustrate the build-up to war and the early months of the conflict. Imperial War Museum London Lambeth Road London SE1 6HZ United Kingdom www.iwm.org.uk/
	Revolution on paper: Mexican prints 1910–1960 Until 5 April 2010 Free admission This exhibition is the first in Europe to focus on the great age of Mexican printmaking in the first half of the 20th century. It features 130 works by over 40 artists including prints by Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros. Between 1910 and 1920, Mexico was convulsed by a socialist revolution that aimed to topple the elite ruling class and improve conditions for society at large. The left-wing government which emerged laid great emphasis on art as a vehicle to promote the values of the revolution. Walls of public buildings were covered with vast murals, and workshops made prints for mass distribution. Room 90 British Museum Great Russell Street London WC1B 3DG United Kingdom www.britishmuseum.org

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