Launch of PrintRoom’s Leesmap of artist publishing
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Bebe Books x PrintRoom x Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva Calendar 2024
Saturday 16 December
18:00 – 21:00 at PrintRoom
An evening with artist presentations, wet-off-the-press-zines and a cheeky calendar. We welcome you with mulled wine and spicy soup!
Just in time for the holidays, we will launch our first edition of Leesmap!
It playfully gathers a range of (maga)zines by artists and publishing platforms, and will be distributed to multiple places: from the hairdresser and dentist to the art space, laundromat, library and (your?) living room.
PrintRoom’s Leesmap is inspired by the traditional Dutch ‘leesmap’, a file with mainstream magazines. Popular in the ‘70s and ‘80s, the leesmap was (and still is) a way for people to read a variety of magazines, and to have access to tabloids or erotica that one would hesitate to buy in a shop. The magazines, as well as the folder that holds them, come in an anonymous cover.
Our Leesmap will contain a women’s zine, a queer zine, an architecture zine, a children’s zine, a zine on parenthood and one on baking.
With contributions by Ruth van Beek, Basje Boer, MonoRhetorik/Matt Plezier, Jizz Taco, Czar Kristoff, Rose Nordin, Sarmad Platform/Alireza Abbasy, Priya Jay, Yusser Salih, Ulufer Çelik, Alaa Abu Asad, Claudia de la Torre, Eva Posas, Marie Déhé, Yuliya Gwilym, Happy Potato Press, Teuntje Fleur, José Quintanar, Cengiz Mengüç, Nicole Martens, Dongyoung Lee, and others.
* Artists and designers will present their contributions.
* Join the baking of traditional date cookies with Alaa Abu Asad.
* Purchase a special limited edition of Printing Plates: Books for Bread. Profit goes to Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP).
Back by dope demand: the Bebe Books x PrintRoom Calendar, this year by Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva.
Bebe Books, PrintRoom and Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva collaborated on a 2024 explicit wonder. This year’s Calendar will focus on longing, a daily reminder to connect with our bodies, to play with it and pleasure it, which can come in a myriad of different ways and forms.
Treat your eyes and soul and get your copy tonight!
