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November 15th we launched The Thinking Foot at Huis Vasari in Amsterdam! Written by Thomas A P Van Leeuwen, edited by Helen I. Jessup. Design by Joseph Plateau Grafisch Ontwerpers / Eliane Beyer. Published by Les Éditions du Malentendu, an imprint of Jap Sam Books.

THROWBACK ______ End of November we launched Role of Play: New Games, New Chances. A Future Perspective on Play in Society, @pakhuisdezwijger in Amsterdam. Ben Schouten organized a wonderful programme in the form of a talk show. A registration of the launch (in Dutch) is available through the website of Pakhuis de Zwijger: https://dezwijger.nl/programma/the-role-of-play-new-games-new-chances

Arianne Olthaar and Jap Sam Books would like to invite you for the book launch of The File on D. / Dossier D. by Arianne Olthaar on Thursday December 14th at West in the Hague from 7 p.m. 

Beginning of November we launched Myriad Ways of Being ~ Being of Myriad Ways by artist Simone Albers. This publication is published on the occasion of the granting of the Sieger White Award to Simone Albers in 2022 and of her solo exhibition at Maurits van de Laar Gallery, in The Hague. The eponymous exhibition is still on show until Sunday November 26. The artist is present during the finissage on Sunday from 1 - 5 pm.

On the occasion of the book launch of Role of Play. New Games, New Chances. A Future Perspective on Play in Society by Ben Schouten and Menno Deen, Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam organizes an evening to engage in conversation and playful interaction with various designers and researchers about how our gaming culture has changed since the digital revolution of the past 50 years. 

Jap Sam Books and Les Éditions du Malentendu have the pleasure to invite you to the book launch of The Thinking Foot. A Pedestrian Study of Paving by Thomas A P Van Leeuwen on Wednesday November 15th at the Vasari Huis of the Vrije Academie in Amsterdam.

Sunday November 12th, the publication A BLACK COLLAGE (as well as the Dutch edition EEN ZWARTE COLLAGE) will launch at Kunsthal KAdE in Amersfoort. During this event there will be a performance by jazz singer Luyi, a reading by essayist, columnist and presentor Stephan Sanders, and a talk and Q&A by Robbert Roos and Rob Perrée.