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It is time again for Beurs van Bijzondere Uitgevers. We are excited to be present again this edition, come by and say hello! We will bring our newest launches and a selection of our backlist.

November 5th, as part of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam together with journalist and documentary filmmaker Stephanie Bakker, we take an innovative look at emerging global cities. In the book Future Cities, stories behind the statistics of urbanisation and growth, she focuses not on the negative effects of urbanisation, but on the strength of the city. What lurks in the DNA of the city and its inhabitants? How does that come about? And how does it help the city move forward?

Friday November 4th the new publication Tools for Collective Learning wil launch at Kunstinstituut Melly. This publication about Melly's Name Change Initiative is co-published with Kunstinstituut Melly. The program is part of a weekend of celebrations featuring conversation, screening, performance and refreshments.

The nominees for the Black Achievement Awards 2022 have been announced! The Black Achievement Awards Ceremony took place on October 31st in the DeLaMar Theatre in Amsterdam.

Eleonoor Jap Sam, founder and editor of Jap Sam Books has been nominated in the entrepreneurship category. 

VPRO Tegenlicht made a documentary about Marjan van Aubels mission towards a bright future, showing all the unused possibilties of the sun.

Wednesday October 26th Ruta Butkute and Emliy Kocken will present a reading video performance of their publication How To Make Sculpture Move followed by a Q&A with the authors.

As Above, So Below documents twenty-one works made by Amsterdam-based artist, Ruchama Noorda over a twenty-year period. With O-Town House serving as Noorda's temporary time-space PORTAL (an installation adapted especially for the rooms at O-Town House), Noorda and California-based art and cultural critic Dick Hebdige will talk about the publication and the collaborative process that lay behind it.

Jap Sam Books will attend the Tokyo Art Book Fair 2022! From October 27th to October 30th you will be able to visit our booth in the entrance hall of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo.