01/09/2010
Interview with Jürgen Kipp, Director of the Mainzer Minipressen Messe – International Book Fair for Small Publishers and Private Presses and Curator of the Gutenberg Museum, Germany.

Q: This International Book Fair will run from 2-5 June, 2011. Is entry to the fair free and is it open to the general public?
A: The International Book Fair for Small Publishers and Private Presses – The Mainzer Minipressen-Messe (MMPM) – regards itself as an open forum for small publishers and experimental bookmakers. The MMPM is free of charge for exhibitors and visitors and it can be visited by everyone. And it is a sales show, i.e. items may be freely sold on all four days of the fair.

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01/08/2010
Interview with José Luis Benito, Wildlife Illustrator.

Q: José Luis, you are a biologist and a wildlife illustrator. Where has this interest for animals and plants sprung from?
A: Naturally. I’d say vocational, as no-one in my family has ever worked in anything related to nature. As far as I remember, I was five when I was first drawn to birds; I was immensely fascinated by them.

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01/07/2010
Interview with Sin Red, a Free Improvisation music group, Spain.

Q: What is Free Improvisation?
A: It is a way of making, performing or playing based on composing music in real time. How? Mainly by listening to the elements you interact with, including the place where you play. Imitation, contrast, punctuation, emphasis, autarchy... these are some aspects a player might use in a performance. The idea is to create a new composition from nothing here and now, in sight and sound, in a sort of spontaneous combustion.

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01/06/2010
Interview with Juan Bautista García Díaz, Director and co-Founder of Estudio Dacar S.L., Film Producer, Spain.

Q: Juan, you are the Director and co-founder of Estudio Dacar S.L., founded in 1986. Tell us a little about its beginnings.
A: The beginnings were very tough, given that we started out with nothing, without premises, without equipment and without any kind of help; just our knowledge and skills in film and a lot of enthusiasm.

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29/04/2010
Interview with Julia Barella Vigal, Director of the Escuela de Escritura (Writing School) of Alcalá de Henares University, Madrid, Spain.

Q: What is the Escuela de Escritura (Writing School)?
A: The Escuela de Escritura is a pioneer initiative in the academic world. It was created with the aim to provide a document-writing service to the university, whether they be administrative or academic documents or research papers; but it was also to provide students with the opportunity to improve their use of (the Spanish) language if they had an interest in creative writing.

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01/04/2010
Interview with Lucy Holland-Smith, Marketing Manager at The London Book Fair, UK.

Q: What goes on in the international rights centre?
A: The IRC is the perfect opportunity to meet face to face with new and existing contacts in a purpose built centre created especially for the discussion of international rights during a key buying time for the industry.

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01/04/2010
Entrevista con Lucy Holland-Smith, Responsable de Marketing para London Book Fair, Reino Unido.

P: ¿Qué sucede en el centro de derechos internacionales (IRC)?
R: El IRC ofrece la oportunidad perfecta para encontrarse cara a cara con nuevos ó ya existentes contactos en un centro funcional que fue construido para la específica negociación de derechos internacionales durante unos días importantes de compra para el sector del libro.

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02/03/2010
Interview with Roberta Chinni, Project Manager for the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, Italy.

Q: This year marks the 47th edition of the Bologna Children’s Book Fair. Is there any other fair in the world that is comparable to BCBF?
A: As a matter of fact, the Bologna Children’s Book Fair is unique: there are other professional events, but not focused on children’s books. There are events dedicated to children’s books, but as they are open to the general public they are not the ideal place to do business in.

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08/02/2010
Interview with Juliet Heller, PR Manager for The Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy, UK.

Q: When were the Awards created and what was the motivation behind this initiative?
A: The awards were established in 2001 by Sarah Butler-Sloss who recognised the need to reward and promote sustainable energy schemes worldwide – many of which were undiscovered and unrecognised at the time.

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18/01/2010
Interview with Eduardo Martínez de Pisón and Sebastián Álvaro, authors of El Libro de los Hielos. On sale at our Bookshop.
Part Two.

Q: Is the South Pole out of danger?

Eduardo: The South Pole is an impressive ice dome of great thickness that lies in an extremely cold place, which means that its own physical inertia maintains it. It is a very arid land, so if there were humid winds from warmer marine latitudes, this might, paradoxically, cause snow levels to rise and therefore, its thickness...

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