Join visual artist and bookbinder Elize de Beer for a hands-on workshop exploring the hardcover accordion (concertina) book. Participants will create a folded paper structure attached to rigid covers, resulting in a book that can be expanded, displayed as a sculptural object, or read sequentially.

It might be summer, but fear not—First Friday Coffee Club is still open for business!

Join visual artist and bookbinder Elize de Beer for a hands-on workshop exploring the art of exposed spine bookbinding. Participants will learn the fundamentals of traditional bookbinding while creating their own handmade notebook featuring a visible stitched spine.

How do the stories we tell about a place shape our understanding of community? Join us for an evening exploring a new research project that uses computational methods to examine nearly two decades of local news coverage from Svalbardposten.