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A riotous reworking of Shakespeare's Hamlet - with serious themes, nevertheless. Featuring Ophelia, her maid, St Joan and a couple of locals - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

This one day course is for the new or aspiring letterpress printer who is looking to set up a simple home studio using the popular Adana platen press.

Two Venetian gondoliers just wed, one of whom turns out to be the King of the island of Barataria. The only trouble is that nobody can remember which of the two gondoliers is the King, except for their old nursemaid, and she isn’t due to turn up until the end of Act II.

Welcome to the world of Dominic Wilcox’s ingenious imagination where stained glass cars, GPS shoes and an art exhibition for dogs are perfectly normal. This is a talk to help inspire your creative thinking and to break through creative blocks. Dominic will take us on a whirlwind creative journey showing his playful and thought provoking objects and drawings.

A hilarious musical featuring both puppets and human actors, part flesh, part felt and packed with heart.

This one day course is for the new or aspiring letterpress printer who is looking to set up a simple home studio using the popular Adana platen press.

Join us for an intimate evening with Mick Clayton in conversation with Catherine Dixon where he will share memories of working as a newspaper compositor on the presses of Fleet Street during its hey day.

Working is a delightfully funny and thoroughly touching musical which explores what goes through the minds of everyday people - from construction workers and waitresses to firemen, secretaries and cleaning women. It showcases the individuals' occupations and also laments their lost hopes and dreams - taking the average worker's viewpoint and showing that he or she is anything but average.

Come tour our printing workshop, historic rooms, and famous library. Get the chance to view some of the items in the library’s special collection, and learn more about the Foundation and its significant place in the illustrious history of the printing press trade. Perfect for designers, printmakers, or just lovers of history.

Six actors, six different plays…What could possibly go wrong?

This one day course is for the new or aspiring letterpress printer who is looking to set up a simple home studio using the popular Adana platen press.

Sunday 7th November 2021 12:00–4:00pm During this year’s spring clean of forgotten shelves, creaking cupboards and the little trodden Gollum’s cave, we have unearthed an array of surplus stock, from duplicate books to printers’ furniture. To help raise money for the library we will be selling this off to people who can give it a […]

Come tour our printing workshop, historic rooms, and famous library. Get the chance to view some of the items in the library’s special collection, and learn more about the Foundation and its significant place in the illustrious history of the printing press trade. Perfect for designers, printmakers, or just lovers of history.

Join us to celebrate recent contributions to the field of graphic design history, which seek to shake established narratives to expand the design canon. Our panel of speakers will share their thoughts on the imperative to reconsider women’s depiction in received design histories, and will highlight some past and present contributions by women to the fields of type, graphic design and publishing. The evening will also feature the launch of an exciting new website comprising a visualisation of the findings of the 'Women in Type’ Leverhulme funded project.

A community of people helps Jesus Christ tell different parables using a wide variety of storytelling techniques with plenty of comic timing. An eclectic blend of songs, ranging in style from rock to vaudeville, brings the story of Jesus' life to the stage. Dissolving hauntingly into the Last Supper and the Crucifixion, Jesus' messages of kindness, tolerance and love come vibrantly to life.

This one day course is for the new or aspiring letterpress printer who is looking to set up a simple home studio using the popular Adana platen press.

We regret that this workshop has been postponed.

Come tour our printing workshop, historic rooms, and famous library. Get the chance to view some of the items in the library’s special collection, and learn more about the Foundation and its significant place in the illustrious history of the printing press trade. Perfect for designers, printmakers, or just lovers of history.

This one day course is for the new or aspiring letterpress printer who is looking to set up a simple home studio using the popular Adana platen press.

This one day course is for the new or aspiring letterpress printer who is looking to set up a simple home studio using the popular Adana platen press.

This one day course is for the new or aspiring letterpress printer who is looking to set up a simple home studio using the popular Adana platen press.

This one day course is for the new or aspiring letterpress printer who is looking to set up a simple home studio using the popular Adana platen press.

Join us for an entertaining presentation by Bruce Kennett, author of W. A. Dwiggins: A Life in Design. American artist Dwiggins designed printing types and books but had many other talents: calligrapher, printmaker, illustrator, watercolourist, sculptor, marionettist, designer of theatrical sets, maker of furniture and tools. “WAD” also wrote plays, satire, fiction, fantasy, and essays. Deliciously funny by nature, Dwiggins employed his sharp wit for the simple pleasures of fun, but also often used satire to promote change. He concocted fake documents and invented colourful personalities to serve as his noms de plume in essays. WAD used drawings and words in equal measures to implement these schemes, which Bruce will explore in detail in his presentation.