Monday, Sept 29, 2025 7:00 - 8:30 pm Halifax Central Library RBC Room, 3rd Floor |
Guest Speaker A Modern Journeymanship: Katherine Victoria Taylor will share her experiences from her time travelling around North America to various Book Arts Centres, Printshops, and Artist Residencies. Katherine Victoria Taylor (BFA, NSCAD University) is a disabled, letterpress printer, bookbinder, press mechanic, and educator in Halifax (K'jipuktuk), Nova Scotia. |
Saturday, Oct 18, 2025 6:00pm - 12:00am The Artist's Quarters, lobby 2594 Agricola Street |
Nocturne NSBAG will be, once again, participating in Nocturne: Art at Night. Our project, called "Marked by Nature," is being coordinated by Sally Crawford. We will be exploring how elements of our local, natural environment can be used for making natural inks and mark-making tools. Visitors will be invited to experiment with the materials to create a bookmark that they can take home. We will need some volunteers to help at this event, so please get in touch if you would like to be involved! |
Wednesday, Nov 12, 2025 7:00 - 8:30 pm Halifax Central Library BMO Room, 2nd Floor |
Book Swap We will be having another book swap this year! Make a blank book, bring it to the meeting and swap it for a different blank book made by someone else in the group. You can read the guidelines here. |
Sunday, Nov 23, 2025 3:00 - 5:30 pm Halifax Central Library BMO Room, 2nd Floor |
Making Miniature Books Joe Landry and Katherine Victoria Taylor will be hosting a hands-on session for our group, making miniature books, suitable for holiday ornaments. It is free to attend and all materials will be provided, just let us know if you plan to come. RSVP by sending an email to novascotiabookarts@gmail.com |
Past Events
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. ![]() |
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