Children’s Book Fair at Garage

Every book contains an entire world—a world created by its designer.  What can it look like? Can it look like a house? During this workshop marking the publication of the book Thumbelina by Hans Christian Andersen and artist Alexey Buldakov, participants will make book-houses with the book’s designer, Maria Subbotina. The story contains descriptions of various animals’ homes, but Thumbelina has never had a house. Using collage and drawing, we will design a house for Thumbelina, an animal, and ourselves, while learning how books are made.

About the teacher

Maria Subbotina is an artist, book designer, and facilitator at Atelier at GES-2 House of Culture. Her work explores the form and potential of the book as a medium.

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Multidisciplinary artist and lecturer at Universal University Dasha Setevinets will speak about her work and explain how artistic research can be directed by the medium itself. She will share her experience of making objects from wood and show several of her works. During the workshop, participants will make sculptural objects, learn the basics of carpentry and explore the functionality of book stands. Using woodblocks, participants will design bookstands of various shapes, textures, and types of wood.

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Dasha Setevinets is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher, and tutor. She graduated from University of Hertfordshire via the British School of Art and Design. She is a lecturer at Universal University and a resident at Garage Studios.

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How is a book made? What path does is travel from the original idea to the shelf in a bookshop? A book is made by a team of many people, working together like a well-oiled machine. During the meeting with an editor from Samokat Publishing, we will take a closer look at this machine. What are its parts? Who are editors and what do they do? How do they choose what the book will be about? What is the author’s role in its making and what happens to the text after it has been written? How do illustrations influence our experience of a story and what do designers and proofreaders do? We will organize a publishing team and collaborate on the making of a book, starting from the idea and finishing with the cover.

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Asya Kravchenko is a psychologist, journalist, and mother. She has been shortlisted for several literary prizes, including Zavetnaya Mechta, Kniguru, the Korney Chukovsky Prize, and the Krapivin International Prize. She studied Psychology at Moscow State University and continued her education at the Sorbonne. She worked as the editor of Stanislavsky theater journal and published her first story (Who Will Ride the Courgette?) in 2002. Her book Hello Horse! was shortlisted for the Zavetnaya Mechta prize and won the Anne Frank Prize in Macedonia. In 2016, her novel The Universe, Revisited won the Krapivin Prize and in 2017 it was published by Samokat.

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Tanya Safonova’s book The Land of Constructivism: An Atlas of a New Life, published by Ad Marginem, is an illustrated guide to the world once imagined by constructivist artists for kids and adults. Her illustrations and brief descriptions help us understand the mood and the ideas of the constructivist era, as well as what everyday life was like, from holidays to kitchen factories. Together with the author and illustrator of the book, we will look at how architecture can change people’s lives and express incredible ideas, then we will become visionary constructivist architects.

About the teacher

Tanya Safonova is an artist and illustrator whose works have been shortlisted for international prizes, including Golden Bee (Moscow) and Nami Concourse (South Korea). She is the author of Land of Constructivism: An Atlas of a New Life.

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Together with engineer Rosa Rivera, we will find out how many mistakes an inventor can make, build a real catapult, test it, and describe the results of our experiments.

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Svetlana Andreeva is an organizer of interactive events that teach kids about nature and science and help them develop creativity and fine motor skills.

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