The San Francisco Center for the Book

2008	Mid-year
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Support our 2008 Mid-Year Campaign! Donate your gift of $250 or more and receive a special keepsake print from our past Roadworks events. Donate Now.

Volunteer and support the Center. Volunteers earn credits for free classes. You can also support the Center when you shop at Amazon. For more information click here.

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In the News

In a first-time collaboration, SFCB and the African American Museum and Library at Oakland are presenting the exhibit Banned and Recovered: Artists Respond to Censorship, opening August 15 in San Francisco and September 5 in Oakland.

The Bay Area is a center for the thriving art of hand bookbinding according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

In their annual Best Of issue, SF Weekly has named us the Best Place to Take an Art Class! See what they have to say.

There's more in our Press Room...

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Welcome to The San Francisco Center for the Book. We're a place where you can learn about the many arts and crafts of the book. Through workshops, exhibitions and public events, the SFCB promotes both knowledge of traditional book arts and exploration of experimental book forms. Have fun browsing our website.

Drawn and first published during the rise of Hitler, the Haggadah is Arthur Szyk's masterwork and a triumphant work of courage and hope, its style and themes remarkably prescient and enduringly relevant. A Polish Jew, Szyk (1894-1951) fused his two passions—art and history—into a visual commentary on the dangerous resonance between the Passover narrative of oppression and death and the alarming political events in Nazi-occupied Europe. Szyk saw illuminated manuscript painting as an ideal means of conveying contemporary truths. Irvin Ungar has published a new deluxe edition of Szyk's Haggadah that, while made using digital imaging and printing techniques, is also an exemplar of fine craft, scholarship, and design. Join us for a presentation in honor of this new release.

To see what's going on at the SFCB day by day, check out our Calendar. Or click on Workshops to learn about classes in Printing, Binding and Related Arts. Like looking at pictures? Click Book Pix for an eye-popping visual database of the books we teach. Learn more About Us by clicking here. And for driving directions and public-transit suggestions, click here.

Highlights

Freedom Unlimited: the Szyk Haggadah
Thursday Oct 16, 7-9pm
Irvin Ungar discusses a new deluxe edition of the Haggadah, Arthur Szyk's masterwork and a triumphant work of courage and hope, its style and themes remarkably prescient and enduringly relevant.

Mark Twain and the Censors
Saturday Oct 18, 3pm
This panel discussion is one is a series of 4 discussions for our exhibit Banned and Recovered and takes place at the African American Museum and Library at Oakland . The panel is free and open to the public.

Looking to Buy or Sell Equipment?
Check out our Equipment Exchange Bulletin Board

Visit Bookmaking for Kids
The Teacher Features blog has a new name and a new location. Please click Bookmaking with Kids to explore this resource for finding book projects to make with kids—in the classroom, at home, in libraries and at community events.

In the Austin/Burch Gallery: Banned and Recovered: Artists Respond to Censorship
Aug 15 - Nov 26
This exhibition presents work by visual artists in response to books that have been repressed, censored or banned. Click here to see a list of public programs associted with the exihibition.

Support the SFCB When You Shop On Amazon
Did you know that you can help the Center when you shop at Amazon.com? It's easy, by using this link to order, a portion of your purchase price will automatically go to the SFCB.

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