What’s On

John Duffin is a painter and printmaker who makes images of London from unusual angles with dramatic lighting and a sense of implied narrative.

The South London Lettering Association is a thriving calligraphy group, who will be holding their annual exhibition in October. The theme this year is 'The Glory of The Garden'.

At a time of national disunity, this programme of five short films explores the power of community to find common ground, work together & get stuff done (or simply have a good natter over a decent pint!).

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 stories we tell about people & places reveal a lot about us. But how do our stories get out there & who gets to tell them? This programme of four short films shows how stories both define us & set us free.

There’s more to animation than princesses & talking animals (well, we’ve got a cute ninja deer, but you know what we mean?). This programme of eight animated shorts tells bold stories of both fact & fiction.

A celebration of difference for everyone who has ever come out, come of age or simply come alive. These shorts channel the fierce spirit to be yourself in an age of increasing conformity.

A Horriful night of new writing.

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

These shorts were all made on smartphones, showcasing the potential of the camera in your pocket to create a mini masterpiece (& we don’t mean your cat “playing” the piano…).

You can visit his house, walk around his home and see the furnishings and pictures that he acquired, the objects and mementos that he bought. But while working with the Emery Walker Trust in 2016 prior to Emery Walker’s House reopening the following year, Simon Loxley felt that a real sense of the man himself was strangely absent. His role as inspiration and facilitator for the private press movement – most notably through the Kelmscott, Doves, Ashendene and Cranach presses – and in the raising of general standards in printing and typography, is well- known among designers, bibliophiles and lovers of fine print.

Bitingly relevant, sprinkled with sass and inspired by the hit film, Bring It On The Musical takes audiences on a high-flying journey that is filled with the complexities of friendship, jealousy, betrayal and forgiveness.

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.

Life in London is a collage of constant choice & change. These shorts look at how the city is evolving & how the choices we make affect our lives & (possible) futures.

Join us this Halloween for a lunchtime lineup of short films with extra bite. These twisted tales will send shivers down your spine…

Start your weekend early – & celebrate the end of our first pop-up! – with a flip-out fantastic programme of joyous shorts that will lift your spirits & send you back out with a smile.

Based on H.G. Wells semi-autobiographical novel, Kipps. It tells the story of Arthur Kipps, an over-worked orphan draper’s assistant at the turn of the last century. When Kipps unexpectedly inherits a fortune that propels him into high society, it confuses everything he thought he knew about 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.

Invisible women: the contribution of Type Drawing Offices to twentieth century type-making By Alice Savoie

Ragtime is a sweeping epic musical about the birth of America that weaves together real celebrities and historical events with a timeless tale of three families in pursuit of the American Dream.

This course 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.

You will be introduced to the process of wood engraving from preliminary drawings and design; transferring drawings to blocks; cutting blocks; choosing papers and proofing to printing a small limited edition of black and white prints.

‘The Brunswick Prison Camp Map Printers’ is the little-known story of how a clandestine press was made and run by a group of industrious men in a German prisoner of war camp (Oflag-79) in order to mass produce escape maps, towards the end of the second world war. With Mark Evans’ knowledge of his father’s experiences as a printer in the camp and Ken Burnley’s life in printing, together they will bring this incredible story to life and shed light on the background, context and the circumstances in how these maps – all to scale and printed in three or four colours – were produced in secret, including the technicalities of their hand-made press, making of inks and printing.

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.

Bram Stoker's Dracula has been adapted countless times, so why a new adaptation? Quite simply because we have never yet seen one which does justice to this remarkable book.

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. You will be able to use St Bride Presses, inks, paper with some tools available but as wood engravers it is expected that you will bring your own type high blocks, tools and (if editioning rather than proofing) your own specialist papers.

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.