Hello all! From the buzzing hive of Summit Central we bring you just a quick update to tide you over until our next entry – and we’ll be adding pictures to this one on Monday.

A wood engraving block by Brian Kelley. Image links to enlarged photo.

Now that our fabulous map guides are flowing out to tease people to come to all the events, we are on to the catalogue! Each one will have an original wood engraving on washi by one of Brian Kelley, George Walker or Will Reuter who have kindly offered their blocks for the printing at Justin Labine’s new letterpress business. Above right is one of Brian’s images which you may be lucky to get. There will be 6 possible images. At $25, the catalogue will almost surely be a sellout as we are printing only 1500.

Palenque by Sebastian Canovas. Image links to enlarged photo.

News from Mexico that Sebastian Canovas, a young artist, is coming to Toronto for the Summit with his family. His work (left) will be exhibited at the Lonsdale Gallery and he will be there for the opening!

The Japan Foundation, Toronto exhibition – Washi over Time – is ready to be put up next week in time for Open Doors, the architectural event that lets us see inside usually closed doors. The theme this year is Sacred Spaces, and we feel grateful that “The JFT” has been selected as one of the venues this year based on our exhibition. Washi is made with great spirit, and its beginnings 1400 years ago were in Buddhist temples as a surface for writing sutras. How much more sacred can you get?