St Bride Foundation is holding its annual fundraising event on Sunday 20 May 2018, 10am-4pm. Buy and sell equipment, type, ornaments, books, prints, stationary and meet fellow printers. All proceeds go to St Bride Library. For more details see the St Bride website.
Print Futures Awards 2018
April 1, 2018
The application process is open for Print Futures Awards 2018. The grants are open to UK residents aged between 18 and 30, to help pay for recognised UK training courses or develop workplace skills. The applications are open until midnight on 29 April 2018, and more details can be found on the Printing Charity’s website.
St Bride’s Library opening
March 12, 2018
St Bride’s Library is next open on Wednesday 21 March 12 noon – 8pm. The library is open on the first and third Wednesday of each month. Please 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. There is no charge for […]
2018 programme now available
March 5, 2018
The 2018 programme of courses in printmaking techniques at Edinburgh Printmakers, including taster sessions and weekend and evening classes are now available for booking. See their website for more details.
St Bride’s Library
January 12, 2018
St Bride’s Library is next open on Wednesday 17 January 2018. The library is open on the first and third Wednesday of each month between noon and 8.00pm. Please email in advance (library@sbf.org.uk) to let the library know that you intend to visit as space is limited.
Courses in Dundee
January 5, 2018
If you would like to have a go at printmaking but aren’t sure what to try, the Print Studio at Dundee Contemporary Arts are running taster courses over the next few months. For more information and how to book, see their website.
Letterpress workshops at Robert Smails
October 24, 2017
Robert Smail’s Printing Works are running letterpress workshops again this autumn. Workshop participants will be able to use wooden poster type and hand presses to create your own letterpress artworks, posters and stationery, with Smail’s expert staff on hand to help. Workshops are running on Sunday 5 November, Saturday 11 November and Sunday 12 November, […]
Museum on the Mound to close
October 17, 2017
It has been announced that the Museum on the Mound in Edinburgh is to close at the end of 2017. As well as the displays of safe-cracking and a million pounds, there is a unique display of the varying types of printing plates used to produce banknotes and the measures taken to defeat forgers over […]
Edinburgh in Print guided walks
September 15, 2017
On Saturday 23 September and Sunday 24 September there will be Edinburgh in Print guided walks. As this year marks the 250th anniversary of the development of Edinburgh’s New Town, the walks will highlight the New Town’s links to the printing industry, and look at some of the traces that can still be seen. Booking […]
Baskerville Society Grant Scheme
September 12, 2017
The deadline for applications to the Baskerville Society small grant scheme (up to a maximum of £250) is on 30 September 2017. Applications are invited from scholars, independent or affiliated, who are either engaged in research connected to the printer and typefounder John Baskerville (1706–75), or whose work covers printing history or print culture of […]
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