What’s On

It is an opportunity to bring blocks you are working on for individual technical and tutorial support to help with designing/cutting blocks, sharpening tools and printing.

During this course students will examine the processes and application needed to create their own work using letterpress. This includes hand composition of metal type and the use of our Albion, Columbian, Stanhope and Vandercook presses.

In this re-telling of Mary Shelley's classic story, Victoria Frankenstein creates a sapient creature in her quest to conquer death.

This short course, aimed at beginners, will introduce students to the basic skills involved in creating a multi signature book. Students will use a range of materials and will sew, trim and glue their own books.

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.

Arts Dance club proudly presents their third annual dance showcase on Saturday 2nd March 2019 at Bridewell Theatre. The show features students from across UAL, with routines from ballet, contemporary, K-pop, street and more.

Spend an evening with the legendary Erik Spiekermann, exploring what he calls ‘post-digital printing’.

At his studio p98a in Berlin, Spiekermann and his colleagues have developed new production methods (including a laser plate-maker, electronic layouts, new distribution channels etc.) to bring historical printing presses and other related machinery from the analogue into the digital age.

During this course students will examine the processes and application needed to create their own work using letterpress. This includes hand composition of metal type and the use of our Albion, Columbian, Stanhope and Vandercook presses.

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.

The multi-award winning drama college, The MTA, returns to the Bridewell with its flagship Revue, Something Old, Something New.

The history of typography is also a history of technologies. As the means of multiplying texts evolved through time, different tools left distinct marks on letterforms. This dynamic accelerated from the late nineteenth century, as technological developments began to radically change the making and setting of type. At increasingly shorter intervals new machines and techniques shaped how text was represented and multiplied.

‘May’ is a one woman show based on the life of ‘the crippled suffragette' May Billinghurst, whose story has been widely ignored by the history books. Using original letters and extracts between May Billinghurst, her family, and other Suffragettes including Emmeline Pankhurst, ‘May’ offers an exploration of the constricts facing women, the repression of LGBTQI+ individuals and the restricted lives of disabled people, in the claustrophobic Edwardian era.

A dark, bitterly amusing take on human relationships and their ability to descend into toxicity and madness.

The course provides an excellent introduction to wood engraving and the print workshop.

In this 1 day course students will learn how to binding in a Japanese or stab binding style. This techniques involves sewing through a block of paper and creating sewing patterns on the spine of the book. Students will undertake two different books one with a limp cover and one with a hard cover. All materials are supplied.

Seven and a half Years, is a true story of a man’s journey from success to despair and isolation, back to final rejuvenation portrayed through the power of music and words.

In an attempt to cure his ailing father’s mental illness by separating “good” from “evil” in the human personality, talented physician Dr. Jekyll inadvertently creates an alternate personality of pure evil, dubbed Mr. Hyde, who wreaks murderous havoc on the city of London.

You will be introduced to the process of wood engraving from preliminary drawings to printing a small limited edition of black and white prints.

Rattigan’s masterpiece combines elements of tragedy with savage and at times raucous humour, examining the themes of love, ageing and the capacity for people to change. It also showcases a range of extraordinary, larger than life characters that are engaging and enjoyable for audiences and actors alike.

In this 1 day course students will learn how to bind their own travel journal complete with pencil holder.

Full details coming in 2019.

How to Succeed is a witty, satirical show with an exhilarating musical score and a plethora of interesting and diverse characters.

Sweeney Todd returns to London to seek revenge on those who stole his life, and with the assistance of the delirious Mrs. Lovett he resumes his work as a master barber.