The Month of Books by PUBLICS is a month-long program focusing on book-related artistic practices and other bookish things. For four weeks, The Month of Books has a weekly program including an evolving exhibition of and about books, workshops, pop-up bookstores, readings, interventions, discussions, and book launches.

The Month of Books takes place in the context of PUBLICS Library – an ever-growing and evolving public library with a dedicated bookstore. At the beginning of every week, a scheduled program will be announced. After prolonged restrictions, PUBLICS Library gradually reopens its sliding doors with The Month of Books. PUBLICS Library is a research space dedicated to ‘art & publicness’, critical social thinking, learning and education – a place for coming together, discussing, reading and thinking about contemporary art and its many publics.

The Month of Books includes:

ACAB ~ Asiya Wadud, James Hoff (Primary Information) & DeForrest Brown Jr. and guests in collaboration with FCINY ~ Arctic Art Book Fair / Mondo Books ~ The Temporary Bookshelf ~ Jonas (J) Magnusson & Cecilia Grönberg (OEI) ~ Third Space collective ~ Eloise Sweetman (Shimmer) & Flis Holland ~ Sezgin Boynik (Rab-Rab) ~ Maarit Mustonen & James Prevett (Parties for Public Sculpture); Kathrin Böhm, Paul O’Neill, Mick Wilson & Kerstin Bergendal ~ Rooftop Press ~ Nick Thurston ~ Pierre Leguillon ~ Jonna Karanka & Sakari Tervo (Sorbus) ~ If I Can’t Dance… ~ Ahmed Al-Nawas & Minna Henriksson & Ott Kagovere ~ In Character in collaboration with Index, Stockholm and Praksis, Oslo and their Teen Advisory Boards

And Books, and more Books, and many more readers.

Some parts of this event is being held as part of the Open Up, a project that has been co-funded by the European Commission under the Creative Europe Programme.