St Bride’s annual Wayzegoose for 2019 is on Saturday 19 May 11am-4pm. Demonstrations, exhibitions, meet other printers, buy and sell letterpress equipment. For details of all the events and courses at the St Bride’s Foundation, see their website.
Exhibition at Merchiston Campus Library
April 12, 2019
Part of the Trust’s exhibition on the heritage of the printing industry in Scotland is now on display in the library at Edinburgh Napier University’s Merchiston Campus. The display features images from the Edward Clark Collection which consists of around 5,000 items illustrating the development of the book from the 15th century.
Conference on post-war printing
April 10, 2019
Paper proposals are invited for an interdisciplinary conference, to be held at Oxford on 10–11 October 2019, on post-war printing — covering all aspects of 20th-century bibliography, printing history, typographic history, print culture, social and economic history. For full details and how to submit a proposal — deadline 19 April 2019 — see the website […]
Edinburgh Printmakers summer school brochure
April 7, 2019
Edinburgh Printmakers re-open in their new home at the end of April. Their Summer school brochure is available online — including courses on etching and stone lithography. For full details of all their courses see their website.
Robert Smail’s re-opens for 2019
March 30, 2019
The National Trust for Scotland’s printing works, Robert Smail’s in Innerleithen, re-opens for the season on Monday 1 April. For full details of opening hours for this season, and how to get there, see their website.
Courses this spring at Dundee Contemporary Arts
March 28, 2019
Courses coming up soon at Dundee Contemporary Arts include Etching and Screen-printing. If you are not sure what to try, there are free tours of the studio on Thursdays and Saturdays until the end of April. Booking is essential. Full details of all courses and events, and how to book, are on the website.
St Brides Library opening hours in April
March 24, 2019
St Bride’s Library will be open on Wednesday 3 April and Wednesday 17 April from 12 noon – 8pm. Email in advance (library@sbf.org.uk) to let the library know that you intend to visit as space in the Reading Room is limited. Check the online catalogue and email a list of titles you wish to see […]
Technologies of print in Asia
March 2, 2019
A conference on the history of printing technologies in South and Southeast Asian printing history has been announced, to be held at the Royal Asiatic Society in London, on Tuesday 26 March 2019. The conference will focus on materials, processes, practices, as well as on labourers, tinkerers, entrepreneurs and other individuals in the history of […]
Tour of St Brides
February 15, 2019
Tour the printing workshop, historic rooms, and library at St Brides Foundation. On 27 February 2019 at 4pm you can 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 […]
Poetics of print
February 11, 2019
The Poetics of Print is a one-day symposium taking place on Thursday 21 February at Winterbourne House, University of Birmingham, which brings together speakers working across a range of disciplines. For more details of the speakers and how to book, see the website of the Centre for the History of Printing and Culture.
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