Three more days until the Edible Book Festival!

The Edible Book Festival is on Sunday!  I hope you're excited about joining us for some delicious fun!  It's going to be a really great event this year as we partner with Queen Village Art Center.  Here's a "menu" of what we have planned:

• Starting at 4pm - Marvel at the smorgasbord of scrumptious volumes and vote for your favorites!  Have you entered your "treat"ise into the contest yet?  Enter here!
• Starting at 4:30pm - Enjoy refreshments while the artists speak about their work!  After the votes are tallied, we'll all eat their work too!
• At any time during the event, from 4pm-6pm, visit a craft table to make your own edible creations!  

Are you crafty, and do you enjoy helping others?  We could still use a few volunteers to assist at the craft tables and help with event clean up.  If you are interested in lending a hand, please contact Valeria Kremser (and THANKS, in advance)!

Edible Book Festival 2012 - Flyer and Information

Philadelphia Center for the Book and the Queen Village Art Center are happy to announce the Second Annual Edible Book Festival! The International Edible Book Festival is held annually world-wide on April 1st, partially to celebrate the birthday of French gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin (1755 - 1826), and partially to celebrate the fun of eating your own words. An edible book can be simply defined as an edible object that somehow relates to books. It may integrate text, illustrate literary titles or content, or represent book form. You can read more about edible books at the official website, www.books2eat.com. Join us for refreshments, crafts, and, of course, edible books. Vote for your favorite and then eat it! Artists’ talks will take place at 4:30 and, while the votes are being tallied, the eating of the books will begin. For more information or to volunteer, please contact Valeria Kremser at events@philadelphiacenterforthebook.org Want to enter your edible tome into the contest? Visit the PCB site http://philadelphiacenterforthebook.org/edible_book_festival_intent_to_enter_2012.pdf to download an entry form.

Call for Entry

The Poetic Pen: Celebrating Calligraphy and Poetry

Exhibition dates: June 22 - July 28, 2012

Location: 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, Oregon

Entry Deadline: April 20, 2012

23 Sandy Gallery invites you to celebrate the beautiful word by entering

The Poetic Pen, a juried exhibition of calligraphic artwork that uses

poetry as a primary textual focus.  Calligraphers throughout history have

employed poetry to illustrate the art and fine craft of lettering,

letterforms and calligraphic design. This show is open to pen or brush

works in the form of wall-hung pieces, broadsides, books, sculptural

objects and more. Will be held in conjunction with the Calligraphy

Northwest Calligraphy Conference, which will bring over 500 fans of

calligraphy to Portland in June 2012.

Complete information about this show can be found at

http://www.23sandy.com/poeticpen/callforentries.html