Bookmark Project: Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here

Spend some time learning about the culture and history of Al-Mutanabbi St. Why is intellectual and artistic freedom important?

Here is a link to a page that aggregates many of the activities and projects of this international group of poets, artists, writers.

Al-Mutanabbi Starts Here

Each student will make one bookmark (6.67" x 1.83" or 170mm x 46mm). This is your canvas size. On the back of all of the bookmarks produced in our class will simply be the words "Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here." On the front of the bookmark, each student will write/draw/collage/design/etc. 

We will scan each bookmark and gang them up to print on cardstock. Then we'll cut them. Lastly, we'll distribute them. Each student will have 49 bookmarks (7 bookmarks on 7 pages). Collectively, we'll have 539 bookmarks (49 x 11). We'll make an exchange (so everyone in class will have one of each), and we'll send 5 of each to the archive in San Francisco.