BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! We're taking over Sheffield Print Club!

We've got some huge, and very exciting, news...

From 1st September 2016, we're taking over Sheffield Print Club!

Sheffield Print Club is an open access screen printing studio, located in the heart of Sheffield. Sheffield Print Club empowers everyone to get creative by providing open access printing facilities and running regular screen printing workshops, which are suitable for all abilities and ages. Anyone can use Sheffield Print Club's facilities - which include exposure units, screen beds, inks, paper, and all the other kit you need to get printing! - for a very low price.

Sheffield Print Club was founded three years ago by Jane and Laurence, who have put a huge amount of work into establishing this amazing and accessible community space. However, due to other commitments, Jane and Laurence are having to leave Sheffield Print Club.

Sarah and David outside our new home!

We're thrilled to announce that we're therefore going to take over running the space! We're delighted that we can help continue Jane and Laurence's amazing work, by providing people across Sheffield an accessible community space where they can print, meet, and create. And we hope that we can help Sheffield Print Club continue to grow and develop.

We have lots of exciting plans for what we'd like to do at Sheffield Print Club - though our first few months will be a case of settling into our new home, getting to know the space and the community around it, and continuing Jane and Laurence's incredible work.

For the moment, we can confirm that we will continue to run monthly screen printing workshops (take a look at Sheffield Print Club's current programme here!), have regular open access hours (we plan on being open 3 - 4 days a week), and will continue all the other great creative services that Sheffield Print Club currently offers, such as cleaning, coating, and exposing screens.

We'll also start offering other printing facilities - such as letterpress workshops, using our beautiful 1930s Adana letterpress - and much more besides. So we hope to see lots of you there soon!

Learn how to design and print your own, beautiful, designs

The Edge of the Universe Printing Press will continue to exist as its own, separate, organisation. We'll keep building on the work we've been doing for the last three years, by offering open and accessible writing, self-publishing, andprinting workshops and services. Though we'll run some workshops out of Sheffield Print Club's space, we'll continue to be mobile, able to travel to the people and communities who need us. Our core focus is on inclusivity,accessibility, and education. We'll continue to work closely with a huge variety of educational organisations (from schools, colleges and universities, to community groups, lifelong learning schemes, and workplace-based training) to help empower people to develop their skills, confidence, and creativity. We'll also work with other cultural, community, and third sector organisations to help them bring writing, publishing and print to the people!

We move into Sheffield Print Club on 1st September. Until then, it's business as usual for the Edge of the Universe team! Don't forget that we're holding one of our ever-popular Try Out Screen Printing! events at the Moor Theatre Delicatessen on Saturday 20 August. Drop in between 11am - 3pm to try out crafting and printing your own design! We'll provide paper to print on, but feel free to bring your own tee shirts and totes (and tea towels, and pillow cases, and hoodies...!) to print onto as well. As always, Try Out Screen Printing! will run on a pay what you want donations basis.

The Facebook event for Try Out Screen Printing! is here: https://www.facebook.com/events/143062092789850/

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Create your own whale-y great designs at our Try Out Screen Printing! event

We hope to see lots of you at Sheffield Print Club soon. Follow us on Facebook / Twitter for announcements of our first workshops and events!

Yours in excitement,

The Edge of the Universe Printing Press team x​

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!

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!