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Future Cities - photos and stories from the world cities of tomorrow

For the last five years photographer Yvonne Brandwijk and journalist Stephanie Bakker travelled to five of the fastest-growing cities in the world. Not to Mumbai or Shanghai, but to the up-and-coming cultural, creative and economic hubs of tomorrow: Kinshasa, Lima, Yangon, Medellín and Addis Ababa.

On the occasion of the release of our new publication A Critical History of Media Art in the Netherlands. Platforms, Policies, Technologies, edited by Sanneke Huisman and Marga van Mechelen, and with a beautiful design by Mind Design, 
Jap Sam Books and LIMA present a series of (online) events, made possible with the support of the AFK.

'By investigating simple forms seemingly borrowed from objective reality, Lon Pennock developed an aesthetic language related to that informing Concrete Art, which draws solely on such geometric elements as the rectangular solid, the cube, the cone or the cylinder.' – Thomas Köllhofer

Artist/sculptor Lon Pennock died on March 9, 2020, after a short illness. Jap Sam Books published his last monograph Lon Pennock. Works in 2016 in cooperation with Foundation Lon Pennock. 

Two books of Jap Sam Books have been selected as The Best Dutch Book Design - Selection 2019.

MOVEABLE TYPES
Friday 7 February 2020, 6 – 11 pm
Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 February 2020, 11 am – 6 pm
Location: Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
Free

MOVEABLE TYPES is a curated book event by Frances Horn, and highlights the importance of printed matter and publishing for contemporary art. At Witte de With, the fair presents 18 publishers that especially have a close relation to poetry and performance.

We would like to invite you to the book launch of pietsjanke fokkema. Utwrydsk in Fries Museum, Leeuwarden and the opening of the exhibition Romte in galerie Getekend in Heerenveen

In 2019 we celebrated 10 years of Jap Sam Books. A moment to pause and reflect, as well as to enjoy this milestone. We would like to thank everyone who has contributed to this 10 years. Happy holidays and the best for the New Year.

The Guadalajara International Book Fair is the most important publishing gathering in Ibero-America. It is also an amazing cultural festival.