Sat March 8, Sun March 9, Sat March 22

2-5pm (3 classes, 9 hours of instruction)

$195 (10% discount for members. Not yet a member? Click here for details. Scholarships may be available – contact caroline@squeaky.org)

open to ages 16+

Register with the “tickets” button at the bottom of this page

Join us for a collaborative rapid bookmaking and community building experiment. Across the workshop, we will move from idea generation and imagination to publishing a physical book. As a participant, you will learn the process of using various print-on-demand services, rapid digital book layout using Affinity, collaborative writing practices, and generative world building.

In this workshop, our book will be a guide for the end of the world. The time spent together will determine the parameters and scope of the book. We will share and invent tools, practices, resources, and frameworks for community support and collaboration. While the guide might be speculative, the skills developed and communal networks formed will be extremely real and practical.

Please note the unusual schedule of this workshop: the first two classes are Sat/Sun back to back. After this intensive weekend, participants will work for two weeks on their own or in Squeaky’s media lab to further develop their ideas and page layouts. During the third and final class, the collaborative layout will be finalized and sent to print!

Come with objects, images, and texts that might be useful for community survival.

Class size limited to 10 students. All equipment provided, no experience necessary. Class fee includes one printed copy of the collaborative book; additional copies may be ordered directly.

Instructor: Jake Reber

Jake is a writer, artist, and educator living in Buffalo, NY. He also co-curates Hysterically Real, and is an editor for Recreational Resources.

In both writing and research, Jake explores the edges of textual materiality, experimental poetics, database aesthetics and glitch studies. He has several artist books and experimental projects, including Leech (1111 Press, 2023), Zer000 Excess (1111 Press, 2020), Invasive Species (Void Front Press, 2019), Bureaucratic Topologies (Gauss-PDF, 2018), and Lobster Genesis (Orworse Press, 2016), among others. You can find Jake’s work at vaticglitch.net