4/11/2016

THE GUARDIAN - INTERNATIONAL RELAY OF EVENTS SET TO MARK UNESCO WORLD BOOK DAY

THE ILAB POP UP BOOK FAIRS ON UNESCO WORLD BOOK AND COPYRIGHT DAY IN THE PRESS:

"From a pop-up bookshop in Vienna’s giant ferris wheel to book fairs in cities across South Korea, antiquarian booksellers around the world are preparing to host a 24-hour run of events later this month to raise money for children in South Sudan. To mark Unesco’s World Book and Copyright Day on 23 April, 1,800 members of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) are preparing a series of pop-up fairs featuring rare books. A mix of presentations, exhibitions, lectures and performances, the events will take place from South Africa to Russia, and New York to Munich, and will raise money for Unesco and actor Forest Whitaker’s literacy projects in South Sudan.

ILAB president Norbert Donhofer, who came up with the idea for the pop-up fairs last year, said: “The purpose of ILAB’s participation … is to spotlight rare books and bookselling while raising money for what is at the very foundation of all we do – literacy.”

> Read the full article in THE GUARDIAN


No comments:

Post a Comment