Apart from the annual MGIP London Dinner, the Motovun Group has never hosted one of their meetings in the UK to date. This is going to change in 2018. In fact, we will be there twice . . .
On 9th April, we will have our traditional London Book Fair dinner. As this year’s venue, we proudly present Stationers’ Hall at The Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspapers Makers. We have tried to get a ‘foot in their door’ for the last three years – and finally we have been successful, thanks in huge part to the support and intervention of Victoria Brightman and Piers Russell-Cobb.
The Stationers' Company is the City of London Livery Company for the Communications and Content Industries.
Founded in 1403, the members of the Guild of Stationers at that time were either writers, bookbinders or booksellers who worked at a fixed location (stationarius). Their members included manuscript illuminators as well as booksellers who sold manuscript books, printed copies and writing materials. The majority of their current members still work in the paper, print, publishing, packaging, office products, newspaper, broadcasting and online media industries.
Find out more about the Guild of Stationers on their website: www.stationers.org.
Don’t miss our dinner at this highly relevant place for publishers and for everyone involved in the world of books. More details and registration: office@motovungroup.org.
INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS CONGRESS
The Federation of Indian Publishers (FIP) hosted the 32nd International Publishers Congress in New Delhi from 10th to 14th February 2018. It was a great opportunity to interact with the international publishing fraternity.
The principal theme of the Congress was ‘Shaping the Future: Innovation meets Experience’. The four-day Congress programme encompassed major issues for publishers, such as copyright, freedom to publish, collective rights management, children’s and STM publishing. It was another wonderful opportunity to meet, network and interact with the top publishing executives and professionals from across the Globe. Jean Arcache and Christopher Hudson, as well as our local members Kiran and Pramod Kapoor, attended.
Now in its fourth year, the MGIP Bologna dinner is organized for the evening of the opening of the Children’s Book Fair. Our board member Juraj Heger set-up this annual dinner, which is organized with the support of Cristina Galimberti at a locanda in Bologna’s city centre. This year’s MGIP dinner takes place on the evening of Sunday 25th March. All members attending the Fair are invited to join us and bring their friends and colleagues.
The MGIP Summer Meeting 2018 will take place from 29th June to 2nd July at Cumberland Lodge, situated in Windsor Great Park.
Why Cumberland Lodge?
When Elisabeth Sandmann worked on a reissue of Amy Buller’s 1943 book, Darkness over Germany: A Warning from History , she built-up a strong connection to Cumberland Lodge, which Amy Buller founded in 1947 as a type of alternative university or college, where students and others could meet and attend courses and conferences. You can buy a copy of the 2017 reissue from Arcadia Books http://arcadiabooks.co.uk/. It is exactly the right place for our MGIP Summer Meeting as our raison d’être corresponds perfectly to Cumberland Lodge’s motto: ‘a place for exchanging views and inspiring minds’.
More details will follow, but please save the date for what promises to be three exceptional days this summer.
25th March MGIP Bologna Dinner
9th April MGIP London Dinner
29th June - 2nd July MGIP Summer Meeting & MGIP Book Award
9th October MGIP Frankfurt Dinner
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Office: Theresienstrasse 40 | D-80333 München Germany | phone: +49 172 961 74 03 | Secretary: Barbara Glauning | office@motovungroup.org | www.motovungroup.org Board of Directors: Jean Arcache (President) | Christopher Hudson (Chairman) | Juraj Heger (Treasurer)
Jean-Baptiste Bourrat | Martin Fontijn | Alberto Grimese | Kiran Kapoor | Jan Martens | Alexandra Papadakis | Elisabeth Sandmann | Robin Wood
