Aos / Aros opportunity: Bookmarks

Skye Book Festival runs from the 25th to 28th July 2012 at Aros in Portree.

Aos is asking for people to make an edition of 5 bookmarks, size to be 21cm long by 5cm wide. One of these will be exhibited throughout the book festival at Aros whilst the other 4 will be available to be picked up. If you want to you can make a bigger editon and keep the extra ones.  There are no limitations but you may be inspired to make work in response to specific books or authors who will a part of this year’s festival.

These include – Allan Campbell McLean ‘The hill of the red fox’ and many others, Virginia Woolf ‘To the lighthouse’, Roger Hutchinson ‘Weaver of grass’, poet Aonghas MacNeacail, politician Tam Dalyell ‘ The Importance of being awkward’, children’s author Lari Don and many more.

If you would like more specific information please contact Donald Macdonald at Aros or look at the Aros website (http://www.aros.co.uk/)

You can make as many editions of bookmarks as you want. Please sign and edition all your bookmarks and if you have been inspired by a particular book, phrase or author please put this on the back.

Alongside the bookmarks there will be a folder with information about the individual artists involved, so please include an A4 sheet about you and your work and any business cards if you would like this to be included in the folder.

Please send your completed editions of bookmarks with your name, email, number of editions of bookmarks enclosed and a note regarding their inspiration to:

Caroline Dear, Creag nam Fangan, Fanks, by Portree, Isle of Skye IV51 9PX by Saturday 14th July 2012.

Source: Caroline Dear