Things to Do Thursday: Book in for More Than Words

Have you ever daydreamed about putting together a book?  Perhaps compiling something pictorial – a mix of word and images – like a family history with lots of photos included, an illustrated history of your house, or maybe a narrative about your local area with a selection of photographs and other images you’ve spent years collecting? 

If you share the dream of wanting to compile a compelling illustrated book, then join us for an online workshop, More Than Words, next Tuesday, 1 September, at 7pm. Erin Lewis-Fitzgerald will be presenting a webinar on how she wrote and produced photographs her book Modern Mending.  Erin is Australia's leading clothes-mending practitioner and a former journalist, editor and photographer.

Go to our Eventbrite page to book for More than Words

Like all of our Libraries Go Online events, the webinar will be hosted on Zoom (which is free, and very easy to use if you haven't tried it before).

We have lots of interesting online events coming up, including Tyson Yunkaporta discussing Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World,  Robyn Annear discussing her book on the history of second-hand Nothing New, and also a regular film chat group (next time they'll be chatting about the wonderful film Boy, which you can watch via Kanopy).

Check out all we've got on offer, make your bookings, and get your Zoom account ready. Perhaps I'll see you online next Tuesday.

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