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 - workshop day + exhibition!

An exhibition of art and writing created by young people in South Yorkshire.

Our We Can Be Heroes project, funded by Think Big, is now well under way! And we're celebrating all the brilliant stuff created by the young people we're working with by holding a free, public exhibition of their work.

Young people at The Link Community during one a We Can Be Heroes workshop

The We Can Be Heroes exhibition will be held at the Showroom Cinema, 15 Paternoster Row, Sheffield from Friday 14 - Sunday 23 August 2015. Drop in during the cinema's opening hours to take a look at the amazing prints, posters and publications that the young people have created!

And we'll be launching the exhibition with a whole day of free, creative workshops.

On Saturday 15 August, there will be a day of drop-in workshops taking place in the Showroom cafe. All the workshops are completely free, and are suitable for all ages and abilities!

Drop in any time between 11am - 4pm to have a go at...

• Screen printing!
• Zine making!
• Mexican paper craft (or 'papel picado'), with Designing Out Suicide and Free Hand!
• DIY paper garlands, with Handmade Cinema!

And while you're there, you can check out the incredible creative work of over 300 local young people, which will be on display throughout the Showroom.

Join the Facebook event, and spread the word!

Get a sneak peek at the magazines created by local young people!

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!