New workshops announced! Self-publishing short course, screen printing, letterpress, and more!

Thanks to the awesome CADS' equally awesome Space CADets programme, we've been given a free studio space until the end of June 2016. From our new home in the AVEC Building (which is opposite Yorkshire Artspace and The Rutland, and a stone's throw from the Showroom Cinema), we'll be running a super exciting programme of screen printing, writing, design, and self-publishing workshops, as well as offering open studio hours to folks who want a peaceful, welcoming space - that's stocked with a bountiful supply of stationery and general craft stuff! - to work on their own creative projects. Read on for details of our workshop programme...

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AN INTRO TO SELF-PUBLISHING SHORT COURSE: FROM WRITING TO PRINT

Attend sessions individually, or all four for £30 – a saving of more than 10%!  Each session may be attended as a stand-alone, self-contained workshop.

Register for the full course here: http://tinyurl.com/publishingcourse
Places on individual sessions are pay-on-the-door.

INTRO TO WRITING FICTION

Wednesday 25 May, 6.30 – 8.30pm

£7.00

An introduction to writing prose fiction. Get your creative juices flowing with mini-exercises that will introduce you to key concepts in creative writing, then craft your own short story.

What to bring: Your imagination! Oh, and maybe a pen and notebook.

What you’ll get: A completed first draft of a short story.

INTRO TO EDITING

Wednesday 8 June, 6.30 – 8.30pm

£7.00

Through a series of fun, practical exercises, you will learn about the rewrite formula, as well as loads of other tips and techniques to help make your writing better.

What to bring: An existing piece of your own writing that you want to redraft (this could be a story, poem, play, script, article, essay…!)

What you’ll get:  A new-and-improved draft of your writing

INTRO TO LETTERPRESS

Tuesday 14 June, 6.30 – 8.30pm

£10.00

In this hands-on workshop you’ll learn the basics of letterpress printing, then make your own prints using an 1930s Adana No2 High Speed Letterpress!

What to bring: A short quote or poem, up to 40 words in length

What you’ll get: A collection of A5 letterpress printed quotes

INTRO TO DESIGN: PAPER MARBLING AND BINDING

Wednesday 22 June, 6.30 – 8.30pm

£10.00

Learn how to marble paper, which can be used to create your own beautiful DIY publications. Whilst your marblelous designs dry, you’ll learn how to hand-bind your own publication.

What to bring: Nothing required – though you can bring A4 pages (of words, images, whatever…!) to bind into a notebook.

What you’ll get: 10 x sheets of marbled A4 card, plus an A5 hand bound notebook

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OUT OF THIS WORLD TEE SHIRT AND TOTE PRINTING!

Saturday 18 June, 10.30am – 1.30pm

£15. Register here: http://tinyurl.com/spaceprint

Inspired by NASA’s gorgeous Visions Of The Future reto-styled posters, we’ll be helping you create your own space-themed design that you’ll print onto tee shirts and tote bags! We’ve got amazing glow-in-the-dark ink to help make these prints truly space age, so we’re pretty excited about this ‘shop.

Places on this workshop are STRICTLY LIMITED. To give us time to order in your tee shirt, event registration closes on SUNDAY 12 JUNE.

What to bring: Nothing except your imagination! (Oh - we’ll need your tee-shirt size in advance, too)

What you’ll get: A black tee shirt + 2 x black tote bags printed with your own design (additional items can be printed at a surcharge)

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Please note that the AVEC Building is unfortunately not wheelchair accessible. We're really sorry for any inconvenience this may cause - and plan on running these workshops again in a fully accessible location!

Erasure poetry workshop - book your place!

Create and publish your own poetry collection!

11.00am – 1.30pm on Thursday 21 April 2016

Moor Theatre Delicatessen, Sheffield, S1 4PF

£9.50 in advance

£10.50 on the day

Book your place via online registration form

What is erasure poetry?

Erasure poetry is a way of creating poetry by rearranging and removing words in an already existing text.  You can take anything – a newspaper article, a page from a magazine, or even an entire novel – and turn it into poetry by blacking out lines, drawing, painting or collaging onto the existing text, or by cutting the original text up.

Many writers have created stunning new works of literature using erasure. A couple of the most well-known examples are Tom Phillips’ beautiful A Humument, and Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tree of Codes.

“I like to think of [erasure poems] like those old word search puzzles we used to do in elementary school – a field of letters with hidden messages to find.”

- Austin Kleon, word artists

What will happen during the erasure poetry workshop?

Participants will:

·         Be introduced to the concept of erasure poetry, and get to grips with it through some fun warm-up exercises

·         Under the guidance of the Edge of the Universe Printing Press tutors, create new works of poetry out of existing texts

·         Turn these poems into your very own poetry collection – which you’ll create during the workshop, and get to take home with you!

All participants will also be given the opportunity to sell their erasure poetry publications on commission through the Edge of the Universe Printing Press.

Who are the workshop tutors?

Sarah Christie graduated from the University of East Anglia’s English Literature with Creative Writing BA (Hons) in 2009 with a Starred First degree, and was awarded the UEA Jarrold Creative Writing Prize for the highest achieving creative writing student in her graduating year.  She completed her Creative Writing MA at the University of Manchester, and is currently writing her second novel.

David Gasi graduated in 2011 from Leeds College of Art with a BA Graphic Design degree with First Class Honours. He graduated in 2001 from Monash University in his native Australia with a BA Computing degree. He has worked as designer with studios throughout Australia, The Netherlands and the UK. His creative practice spans between fine art and graphic design, and he is currently an artist in residence at Sheffield Institute of Arts as part of the nationwide AA2A program.

Who is it suitable for?

Complete beginners are very welcome!  Never written a poem before?  Never fear!  The workshop is intended as an introduction to erasure poetry, and you’ll have lots of one-to-one time with the Edge of the Universe Printing Press tutors as you create and publish your erasure poetry collection.

Ages 16+

How do I register for the workshop?

Complete the online registration form and buy your tickets here: http://goo.gl/forms/LmIyYnwraU

Ticket payment is taken via PayPal, unless an alternate payment method is arranged. Your place at the workshop is only reserved once your ticket payment has been processed.

Tickets may be purchased on the day.  However spaces on the workshop are strictly limited, so we’d recommend booking in advance to secure your place.

In the case of event cancellation, refunds on ticket costs will be made after 21 April 2016.

Any questions?

Drop us a line at edgeoftheuniverseprintingpress@gmail.com.

We hope to see you there!

The Edge of the Universe Printing Press team x

We Can Be Heroes - exhibition and workshop day coming soon!

An exhibition of art and writing by young people from South Yorkshire

Friday 14 - Sunday 23 August, Showroom Cinema, 15 Paternoster Row, Sheffield

+ a day of free creative workshops! Drop into the Showroom Cinema any time between 11am - 4pm on Saturday 15 August to try your hand at screen printing, Mexican paper craft, zine-making, and making DIY paper garlands.

Facebook event here!

Massive thanks to Lisa O'Hara for the event poster.

We Can Be Heroes – creative opportunity for youth groups in the north of England

Are you part of a youth group or organisation based in South Yorkshire or the north of England? Want to take part in an exciting creative project that will see your group learn to design and publish your own magazine? Want to do all this for free? Then read on…

The Edge of the Universe Printing Press are excited to announce that we’ve won level 2 funding from O2 Think Big. We’re using this money to fund a project called We Can Be Heroes, which will see us team up with youth groups and organisations to help them each design, print and distribute their own magazine.

Each group’s magazine will be themed around the idea of heroes: personal role models, local leaders, and people whose lives and careers the group aspire to. The Edge of the Universe team will help the youth group members to arrange and conduct interviews with their role models, which will be included in their magazine alongside pages about people’s personal heroes. All the young people taking part will be given the equipment and skills they need to write, draw, doodle and screen print their own pages for the magazine.

Each participating youth group will take part in two linked workshops that will guide them through the creation of their magazine, from planning to printing. These workshops will take place between May – July 2015. We’ll come to you – all our equipment is totally portable! – and we can run our ‘shops during your usual group meeting times. After these workshops the Edge of the Universe team will collect your group’s finished pages and turn these into professionally printed magazines. Each group will receive fifty copies of their own We Can Be Heroes magazine, which the participants can share with their friends, families, schools and communities.

In August 2015 all the youth groups’ work will be showcased in a public exhibition, where all the participants can come together, swap skills, and share their creative talents with members of the public.

And you know what else? It’s entirely FREE to take part!

We’ve run these kinds of magazine-making workshops before with lots of different groups. The publications they made might give you an idea of the kind of thing your group might create:

I’m interested in taking part! What do I do next?

Drop us an email at edgeoftheuniverseprintingpress@gmail.com, letting us know who you are, who your group is, and when/where you normally meet, and we’ll explain more about the details of the project. We can’t wait to hear from you!