Get Involved!
So you want to be a part of the Traveling Book Show?!
Here’s how:
1. Make A Book!
It can be about any thing in the world. Check out Dorothy’s Great Zine to learn how to make a simple book, or get creative!
a. Some Ideas for books:
I. Drawings that dictate how your mom is feeling
II. Stains from what you ate for breakfast
III. Your route to work
Your book should have the following paragraph somewhere inside of it:
” This book is part of The Traveling Book Show, (optional description of the project) Winter 2010. To learn more, visit travelingbookshow.wordpress.com. Mail this book to anyone, and return it to the address below by or around February 28th:
Crossett Library
1 College Drive
Bennington VT , 05201 “
2. Post your address (Jan 4- Feb 28) as a comment on this page and check out the Facebook Group Page
3. Send your book to someone who has posted their address, or send your book to anyone that you would like to! Just make sure to include some information inside your book about its purpose.
Enjoy!
Cool!
Ariel Dreyer
14 Belknap St. Apt.2
Somerville, MA 02144
Is there anyone who hasn’t gotten a book yet? If so, I will gladly mail you one of mine
Guess it’s actually the “below” list….
I received Drew’s book from Joan Goodrich and my daughter and I just added a recipe and will be sending it off to my sister in Oregon tomorrow with a special request that she send it to someone from the above list. Amazing fun!
Elissa
Hear Oceana Wilson, winner of the national “I Love my Librarian” award on Vermont Public Radio!
You’re great, Oceana!
http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/87037/
Santa Wolanczyk
3301 Telegraph Ave, Apt 203
Oakland, CA 94601 !!!!!!!!!!!!
Zoe Donnellycolt
334 Winfield St
San Francisco CA 94110
i’d love to get one!
i’m making one called moving your mind.
about film.
Nice blog article about the Traveling Book Show from Bennington alumnus Sparrow Hall http://www.sparrowhall.com/blog/the-books-that-bind-us/
it’s so exciting to see that this is happening all over the place!
dana, your book is gorgeous… i was so happy to be holding it in my hands.
finally got cardboard to start mine!
to all:
faith f. griffiths
5145 w. carmen ave.
chicago, IL 60603
Faith – I made one and sent it to you but it just got returned in the mail. Sadness! Are you still at this address?
So excited!
1208 5th St. NW Apt. 201
Washington, DC 20001
My book is about wishes! Take a wish, make a wish or give a wish!
finishing my book now, new subject is “diary comics, diary drawings
Huzzah! That sounds like so much fun. Will you send it me at Benny?
This is Wonderful!
Thanks everyone for leaving your addresses!
I am very excited to see some books (despite my lack of appendix)
Sending my book out asap.
Marisa Prefer
c/o Cohen
5017 Radford Avenue,
Valley Village, California 91607
This is such a fun thing to do!
I’ll be sending one soon. But in the meantime, my address is:
Aurora Thornhill c/o Tekserve
114 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011
Hi Everyone – Congratulations to Evie! Her swing book shelf projects was picked up by a New Yorker blog about great images of books!!!
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2010/01/great-images-of-books-from-1.html
This is fabulous, Oceana, thanks so much for sharing!!
That is so fantastic! Congratulations Evie! I think I might have seen a bit of this project but I didn’t realize that you could lie down on the bookshelf and read! How awesome!
3090 King St.
Berkeley, Ca
94703-2456
<3
508 Raintree Trail
Lafayette, LA 70507
Yes. That’s me oh my.
yo check yo mail soon
jarin – i like raintree trail as an address.
I’m on the Bennington campus, so please send books to:
Kelly Raila
1 College Drive
Bennington, VT 05201
My address is this:
219 East Preston
Baltimore, MD 21202
What I’m working on is what I wrote below unless I decide it is something else.
It’s so fun to read all these! I have a few that I’ve mailed out – they are open-ended so the interpretation depends on the person receiving it – 1. Bon Bons 2. It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time 3. Out of the Blue 4. Literary Cocktails. Still working on a few….
212 George St. North Bennington, VT 05257
I sent “Out of the Blue” to my friend Viola a few days ago, Oceana–such fun!
368 Lamb Road
North Bennington, VT
05257
A secret holder.
my last name is Middleman.
mine is about love, whatever that means to you. true love/imaginary love/wished-for love/unrequited love/tainted love/my love don’t cost a thing/all you need is love/etc. open for interpretation.
Meg Osborn
108 Pascack Road
Park Ridge, NJ 07656
write a recipe… and add something to a previous recipe.
Drew Alexandra Gold
3090 King St.
Berkeley, Ca
94703-2456
i just got your book, drew, thank you!
To Sew: Uniting by Stitches
mail to:
M.Cornwell
Po Box 884
N. Bennington, VT 05257
My subject is basically about things that can’t speak speaking, and having awkward conversations (like parking meters, cars, dinosaurs, kitchen utensils, couches). And of course, would love to contribute with any and all, and will send an address out as soon as I establish one!
Much love,
Ethan
i feel like dinosaurs do talk. but maybe not to lampposts?
book:
just about friends and what they’re like.
my address:
3704 NE 67th Ave, Portland, OR 97213
Mine has to do with re-conceptualizing the definition of ‘power tool’. And another one I will leave in public places after recording something going on nearby me, asking others to do the same. Would always love to get books!
Dorothy Allen
Bennington College, Development Office
1 College Drive
Bennington, VT 05201
this one is a compilation of the seemingly unreasonable and wildly foolish thoughts that wander around our heads. record in graphic, verbal, edible, and/or audible forms! you choose and edit as you wish!
just try to record the anarchy of your mind(s).
always interested in collaboration and will check the p.o.box regularly!
coco
p.o. box 884
north bennington, vermont 05257
and of course you can write in it, too.
Subject: Lists & Diagrams (to do, to read, trivia for use at bars, ranking systems for cafés, dynamics of office conversation, etc.)
My address:
Sunny Cyr
89 5th Avenue, Room 306
New York, NY 10003
sunny, i’d like to be involved with yours.
3704 NE 67 th Ave, Portland, OR 97213
Hi Sunny! I’d love to get this one if you still have it! 212 George St. North Bennington, VT 05257
I think my book will be a story that I start and people add to.
My address until January 18th is:
Allie Lees
57 Broadway
Rockport, MA
01966
After that, it will be:
1 College Dr.
Bennington, VT
Please feel free to send a book my way even if you don’t know me
mine is called Vulnerable Is Beautiful…. and it’s the perfect book to add to since it has no pictures yet!
address:
Rachael Maddox
3925 7th St NW
Washington DC 20011
Subject: Favorite Recipes.
My address (if anyone wishes to send a book my way):
4633 SW Huber St, Apt. 5
Portland, OR 97219
3359 21st Street San Francisco, CA 94110
windows or doors?
a bit open ended…
can’t wait to see everyones’ work!
Sounds cool! Mine is on the subject of dinosaurs: which species would you bring back to the twenty-first century, if you could? Send your zine to
Rose Strickman
4317 Sheridan Street
University Park, MD 20782
Looking forward to it!
Rose
Title: to be decided, perhaps
Subject: How you met your best friend or tell about someone you love a lot
Collaborators wanted! definitely!
love always,
lauren