Book-Making Workshop with Nicole Cecilia Delgado: Publication in Non-traditional Formats
Thu, Nov 14, 2024
2:00 PM–4:00 PM
Student Life Building, Lehman College, 2775 Jerome Ave, Bronx NY 10468, Conference Room. This bookmaking workshop is for Lehman College students and Bronx Community College students. Registration Required.
Learn to make a single-page format book with award-winning poet and publisher Nicole Cecilia Delgado of of La Impresora.
Join us for this book-making workshop with Nicole Cecilia Delgado of La Impresora to explore the general features of the editorial process for creating low-cost publications. Using analogous design techniques, participants will learn to make four different single-page publication formats inspired by the non-traditional formats of the Poema Suelto series from La Impresora.
Workshop Facilitator
Nicole Cecilia Delgado is a poet, translator, and book artist born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Her writing, often reviewed within the framework of ecofeminism and land art, explores the subtleties and contrasts of everyday Puerto Rican and Caribbean life, with an emphasis on place and territory. Her collection of poems Periodo especial (Ediciones Aguadulce & La Impresora, 2019), explores the fiscal crisis in Puerto Rico through the socioeconomic mirrors of the Greater Antilles. She recently published: A mano/By Hand, an autobiographical essay about independent publishing (Ugly Duckling Presse Pamphlet Series 2020, La Impresora/EEE, 2023), and the bilingual poetry anthology Adjacent Islands/islas adyacentes (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022, translated to English by Urayoán Noel). She is the founder and co-director of La Impresora, a poetry press and Risograph print shop dedicated to small-scale editorial work in Puerto Rico.
Eligibility:
Lehman College students and Bronx Community College students.
Registration:
This workshop has limited capacity, so we ask that you please commit once you sign-up, and communicate if you cannot attend to give another student the opportunity to attend.
Agenda
1-Presentation and show and tell of single-page publications
2-Hands-on workshop: How to make four different publication formats
Materials
-Paper of different sizes and colors, cardboard
-Pencils, markers and sharpies
-Magazines and newspapers for collage making
-Rulers
-Scissors
-Glue
-Box cutters, exacto blades and cutting board (optional)
X-erox or Risograph machine (if available)
Depending on the availability of resources, the workshop can be expanded to produce small editions of selected works produced during the session.
This workshop is in conjunction with Professor Mariposa María Teresa Fernández’s classes at Lehman College and Professor Grisel Y. Acosta’s classes at Bronx Community College, and is organized and co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities, Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative at the CUNY Graduate Center, and CENTRO (The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College).
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