What’s On

A collection of the works of Peter S Smith. He uses books of various sizes with drawings that were often studies for other works. He found a small drawing book to be more practical for daily use. These drawings became more focused on circumstances which he found visually interesting in their own right. However, some do become starting points for prints or paintings.

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.

Opera in the City Festival, presented by Time Zone Theatre in collaboration with the Bridewell Theatre, is an annual summer opera festival which presents works by the most exciting British and International artists. The festival shows new works, multi-disciplinary projects and rarely performed classics.

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.

Istrian National Theatre Pula and Croatian National Theatre in Varazdin present the UK premiere of Caccia Lontana: an opera of courtly intrigue and forbidden love by Croatian-Italian composer Antonio Smareglia. A rare chance to experience this recently rediscovered work in a critically acclaimed production.

Combining contemporary music with high fashion and dance, WEAR is an award-nominated opera about fashion at the end of the world: in a future where the commercial use of time-machine technology has ripped the universe apart. Presented by UU Studios.

A fusion of Antonio Vivaldi’s violin concert The Four Seasons and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther for actor, violin and orchestra.

Ilona Karwińska and David Hill will show their fabulous images from Poland’s ‘era of neon propaganda’ and tell the story of Europe’s first neon museum. Since 2005, photographer Karwińska and graphic designer Hill have been documenting and preserving Poland’s Cold War era neon signs – symbols of the creative expression that emerged alongside the ‘Khrushchev Thaw’ of the 1950s and 60s.

Classically-trained opera singers Miranda Westcott, Carleen Ebbs and Claire Egan blur the usual boundaries and conventions of classical music with their unique arrangements celebrating song and opera from the 16th Century to the present day. Working with a variety of instrumentalists (including piano, theorbo, drums and more) their programme encompasses a surprising variety of genres from opera to folk to pop.

Otello leads Samoa to the Rugby World Cup Final. The passions of rugby and opera face off in this imaginative retelling of the tragedy of domestic violence.

Music by: Claudio Di Meo. Presented by: Federica Nardacci On 16 September 1977, Maria Callas died in her Paris apartment aged 54. Her name went down in history as one of the greatest singers of all time. But who was this fascinating and extraordinary artist? This spoken monologue performed by Marco Gambino and accompanied by […]

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.

Everybody has a secret, and when an ENSA group attempt to put on a show, hilarity ensues as those secrets tumble out one by one. Theatre is very often, a facade. Full of pastiche songs, this is guaranteed to make you chuckle, whilst pull on your heartstrings in equal measure. War is never easy for anyone.

The MTA’s graduating year of 2019 end their course in traditional drama school showcase style. Please note the Acting Showcase will be 75 mins and the MT showcase will be an hour.

The MTA’s graduating year of 2019 end their course in traditional drama school showcase style. Please note the Acting Showcase will be 75 mins and the MT showcase will be an hour.

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.

For over ten years Ursula Jeffries has worked with the St Bride Library. Her current pursuit has been researching and exploring the extensive archive of John Southward – a nineteenth century journalist and writer who focused on all aspects of print. In her lecture she will explain how this fascinating collection of papers ended up at the Library and the diversity of topics they have revealed.

Raina Petkoff craves more out of life. Having read every book in the library, including all the romance novels, she’s sure there is more in store for her - she wants adventure, she wants love, she wants to get the hell out of town. So, when a charming soldier on the hop from the battlefield clambers into her bedroom, what’s a clever, practical minded girl to do? Offer him sanctuary, feed him chocolate and fall in love. It’s only natural.

Join a host of designers working across the publishing industry to discuss work that has had the high expectations of meeting the difficult ‘big book status’, or have suddenly found their work on the bestseller lists and have to manage seeing their own covers on briefing forms.

Lunchbreak Opera returns to the Bridewell Theatre after their appearance in the Opera in the City Festival 2018 with the final opera of Giacomo Puccini's Il Trittico. Gianni Schicchi is a comical farce inspired by characters from Dante's Divine Comedy and the theatrical style of Commedia Dell'Arte

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.

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.

Len is on his deathbed and in Basildon the family gather to say their farewells. His sisters still aren't speaking after nearly 20 years. His best mate, Ken, knows lots of secrets. His niece and nephew and their other halves all have issues. Why aren't the sisters speaking and what is in the will? A bitter sweet family drama that will make you laugh and cry. This play received 4-star reviews from the press when it was first shown at the Royal Court.

We would like to invite you to join us for an intimate evening held in our Passmore Edwards room, to get a closer look at some of the hidden treasures in the St Bride collection and learn more about them from font of all knowledge, Bob Richardson.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.