Upcoming Events

Saturday, Jan 24, 2026 2:00 - 4:00 pm Halifax Central Library BMO Room, 2nd Floor	Origami Day We will be talking about origami, looking at origami, and most importantly, we will be making origami! We have several origami projects to share and everyone will have an opportunity to learn a number of origami structures. No registration needed, just show up! Bring along some origami paper and a bone folder if you have them.
Saturday, Jan 31, 2026	Registration Deadline for the Card Exchange If you want to participate in our Card Exchange you must register by January 31st, 2026. After the registration deadline, we will tell you how many cards to make and you will have six weeks to get them ready. The finished cards will be exchanged at our meeting in March. Register by sending an email to novascotiabookarts@gmail.com Read the Card Exchange Guidelines here.
Wednesday, Mar 18, 2026 7:00 - 8:30 pm Halifax Central Library BMO Room, 2nd Floor	Card Exchange & SABLE Table Everyone who participates in the card exchange must have their full set of handmade cards ready to exchange at this meeting. If you can't attend the meeting, please arrange to deliver them beforehand so they can still be included. At this meeting, we will also have a S.A.B.L.E. Table, which is for "Supplies Accumulated Beyond Life Expectancy." Bring any craft supplies, books, tools, etc that you no longer want, put everything on the table for others to take home! Someone else might bring something that you will want to take home. Any leftover supplies will be offered to Wonder'neath.

Past Events

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Saturday, Nov 23, 2025	We had a little workshop where everyone made a little book.
Wednesday, Nov 12, 2025	At this meeting we had a recap of our Nocturne project and we held our third handbound book swap.
Saturday, Oct 18, 2025	NSBAG participated in Halifax's Nocturne art festival, experimenting with natural inks and marking tools.
Monday, Sep 29, 2025	Katherine Victoria Taylor was our speaker for this meeting. She talked about her experiences travelling around North America to various Book Arts Centres, Printshops, and Artist Residencies.
Thursday, Jun 12, 2025	We visited the University of King's College Library for a tour and introduction to some items in their rare books and special collections.
Tuesday, May 6, 2025	At this meeting we had our first S.A.B.L.E. Table (Supplies Accumulated Beyond Life Expectancy) to exchange craft supplies. Also, we held our second group card exchange.
Monday, Feb 24, 2025	Paper conservator, Julia Landry, was our guest speaker at this meeting. She discussed her work maintaining and stabilizing the Oriental hand-painted wallpaper in the Morning Room at Government House.
Saturday, Feb 8, 2025	At this hands-on meeting, Heather Loney taught the group some stitching patterns that can be used for exposed bindings.
Monday, Nov 25, 2024	The second NSBAG book swap took place at this meeting.
Saturday, Oct 19, 2024	Our group hosted the Macro to Micro Bookbinding Blast as part of the Halifax Nocturne event.
Thursday, Sep 26, 2024	We had a fun, casual open studio event to start the new season.
Thursday, May 30, 2024	Our group hosted a handmade card exchange where members created an edition of cards and traded with each of the other participants.
Thursday, May 30, 2024	Marilynn Rudi gave a presentation about the Postcrossing project and her passion for mail art.
March 23 to April 21, 2024	A selection of handbound books by some of our NSBAG folks were included in the Book Club exhibit at Hermes Gallery.
Sunday, April 7, 2024	Our group held a workshop as part of the Book Club exhibit at Hermes Gallery.
Thursday, January 18, 2024	Our group looked at a variety of pop-up books and then we made some of our own.
Wednesday, November 29, 2023	The first NSBAG blank book swap took place at this meeting.
Saturday, October 14, 2023	NSBAG participated in the Halifax Nocturne art festival by inviting the public to help create a community art journal.
Monday, September 25, 2023	Jamie Pratt, the Halifax area representative of the Japanese Paper Place, spoke to our group about Japanese papers.
Wednesday, May 17, 2023	Joe Landry spoke to the group about various box structures and presented a wide range of examples from his collection.
Tuesday, May 2, 2023	Dalhousie University's Special Collections librarian, Karen Smith, introduced us to Douglas Cockerell's life and work and presented the library's Cockerell Collection of fine bindings and historic bindings.
Tuesday, March 7, 2023	Rhonda Miller presented her collection of hand made books and artists books from bookbinders and artists all over the world.
Tuesday, January 10, 2023	The January meeting was a social event during which we made some small bookbinding weights.
Wednesday, November 9, 2022	Dr. Stephanie Morley of Saint Mary's University spoke about her experience attending Jim Croft's "Old Ways" workshop in rural Idaho.
Thursday, September 29, 2022	NSBAG's first official meeting; a show-and-tell and meet-and-greet.