# (Insert Awesome Title Here) And Other Fantastic Stories

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What is your favourite book” Where did you dis­cov­er it?”

Mak­ing Books

Mak­ing Books

Mak­ing Buttons

Inter­view­ing

Screen Print­ing

Cake dec­o­rat­ed by students

Cov­ers ready for the perfect-binder

Wel­come to the launch

T‑shirts

Per­fect-bind­ing at the launch

Per­fect-bind­ing at the launch

Read­ing at the launch

Every­one enjoyed the cake. 

What is a book? What can books DO? Where can books take us?
And, once we make a book, how does it go out into the world?
 
# (Insert Awe­some Title Here) And Oth­er Fan­tas­tic Sto­ries is a book con­ceived, writ­ten, illus­trat­ed, designed and pub­lished by 13 artists in grades 6 to 8 dur­ing an 8 week work­shop at Sto­ry Planet.
 
Led by Shan­non Ger­ard and Joan­na Labri­o­la, the work­shop ques­tioned the nature and scope of pub­li­ca­tion. We focused on three dis­cus­sions. First, how and where we encounter books influ­ences the way we read them. Sec­ond, how artists use the form of the book to pro­duce uncon­ven­tion­al con­tent or struc­tures. Third, how pub­li­ca­tion is unique­ly sit­u­at­ed to give us polit­i­cal agency.
 
In addi­tion to pub­lish­ing a book, work­shop par­tic­i­pants learned to screen­print, made but­tons, cre­at­ed small zines, pro­duced tshirts, and launched every­thing at a clos­ing par­ty with per­for­mances and readings.