British Letterpress

Tag: Events

  • St Bride Virtual Wayzgoose

    St Bride Virtual Wayzgoose

    Despite Covid restric­tions, the let­ter­press cham­pi­ons at St Bride are organ­is­ing a vir­tu­al wayz­goose. Details below!

    Due to the ongo­ing coro­n­avirus restric­tions in the UK, we have decid­ed to host a vir­tu­al wayz­goose on Sun­day 11 July from 10am–1pm BST online via the St Bride Foun­da­tion Twit­ter and Insta­gram accounts.

    https://twitter.com/stbridelibrary
    https://www.instagram.com/stbridefoundation

    We are invit­ing let­ter­press prac­ti­tion­ers, print­ers, and asso­ci­at­ed trades to share their wares with us on the day using the #SBFWayz­goose.

    All you will need to do is cre­ate an Instagram/Twitter post between 10–1pm BST on the 11 July shar­ing:

    • A photograph/s of your work
    • A link to your website/work/online shop
    • A short descrip­tion of who you are and what you do
    • Include the #SBFWayz­goose 
    • And tag us in the post using @stbridelibrary for Twit­ter and @stbridefoundation for Insta­gram

    We will then pro­mote anyone’s work/business who joins in on the day as long as the work being shared is appro­pri­ate and adheres to the above guide­lines. 

    Our aim is to cel­e­brate the fan­tas­tic wealth of cre­ativ­i­ty, trade and craft with­in the let­ter­press and print­ing com­mu­ni­ties around the globe, with the St Bride Library and Print Work­shop cham­pi­oning them at its heart. 

    This is free – no costs are need­ed to take part and it is open to all. Please share this with any­one you think would be inter­est­ed in tak­ing part. 

    Head­er Image: ​“St Bride Foun­da­tion Insti­tute” flickr pho­to by Howard­Lake https://flickr.com/photos/howardlake/3746315607 shared under a Cre­ative Com­mons (BY-SA) license

  • Pressing On: The Letterpress Film — St Bride Foundation

    Pressing On: The Letterpress Film — St Bride Foundation

    Friends at St Brides are show­ing Press­ing On: The Let­ter­press Film.  27 Octo­ber, 6pm to 9pm.

    More details on the St Bride web­site.

  • Type and Press: St Bride Wayzgoose

    Type and Press: St Bride Wayzgoose

    A love­ly write up of last mon­th’s Wayz­goose at the St Bride Foun­da­tion by Type & Press.

  • Shipley Wayzgoose — Report

    Shipley Wayzgoose — Report

    I had the plea­sure of vis­it­ing the first Ship­ley Wayz­goose organ­ised by the Paper­cut Bindery and the Print Project.  An excel­lent event!

    Great to meet new peo­ple, like Pat Ran­dle; put faces to names like Nick Gill, Nick Hand with his Print­ing Bike, and David Armes from Tod­mor­den; and meet old friends like Gra­ham Moss and Chris­t­ian Brett.

    Quite apart from the social the work on dis­play was tremen­dous and the oppor­tu­ni­ty to buy let­ter­press odds and sods could not be passed up.

    Ship­ley’s Kirk­gate Cen­tre was a great venue and encour­aged one to linger with tea and a bun.

    Ship­ley Wayz­goose: A hive of activ­i­ty with­in twen­ty min­utes of the doors open­ing!

    Thanks to those that trav­elled from far and wide (and on bikes) to get to Ship­ley and espe­cial thanks to Roger Grech and Nick Loar­ing for organ­is­ing.

  • Community

    Community

    The pop­u­lar con­cep­tion is that let­ter­press print­ing is dead. While it’s true that com­mer­cial let­ter­press has shrunk, there are a myr­i­ad of things you can do today to either learn more about let­ter­press print­ing from the past, or equip your­self for the future.

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  • Events

    Events

    On an almost-week­ly basis, let­ter­press events are tak­ing place all over the UK.

    Submitting Your Own Events

    I will be hap­py to pub­li­cise any let­ter­press-relat­ed event in the UK.  All I ask is that you use a stan­dard for­mat to help me keep on top of events.  You’ll need to email me with a Cal­en­dar Entry or Meet­ing Request from your cal­en­der­ing appli­ca­tions (like Out­look, Google Cal­en­dar, iCal etc.) with all the details: title, loca­tion, dates and times etc.  I can then import these in to my cal­en­dar.  Please use the con­tact form to get my email address.