What’s On

An exhibition of work by Peg Morris RBA ASGFA

Bursting with energy, humour, and heart, GREASE is a vibrant celebration of young love, teenage rebellion, and the electrifying spirit of the 1950s.

This one day course is for the new or aspiring letterpress printer who is looking to set up a simple home studio using the popular Adana platen press.

Join us for this year’s international St Bride Foundation design conference, Sound & Vision, where we’ll explore the connection between music and visual culture.

Jeremy Heere is just an average nerdy teenager trying to survive his last year of high school. Bullied and mocked by his peers, and feeling let down by his recently divorced father, Jeremy wants nothing more than to fit in and be one of the cool kids. That’s when he finds out about “The Squip”; a tiny supercomputer that promises to solve all his problems, make life easier, and get him everything he desires.

The Signalman is a terrifying modern-day interpretation of Charles Dickens’ classic ghost story, written by award-winning writer, Dan Dawes. Set in the labyrinthine tunnels of the London Underground, a young man meets the eponymous Signalman before being dragged into his endless nightmare.

Print your own letterpress poster, using our historic printing presses and wood type in this hands-on workshop.

Get the chance to 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.

Set in the unforgiving winter of 1899 at the tail-end of the Alaskan Klondike Gold Rush, GOLDFISH is a darkly comic, atmospheric fable that tackles startlingly modern themes of fake news, mass hysteria, gender identity, and the desperate lengths a parent will go to for a dying child.

This one day course is for the new or aspiring letterpress printer who is looking to set up a simple home studio using the popular Adana platen press.

An evening of musical numbers from across the decades, taking you on a journey from the past to the present and beyond. There’ll be plenty of familiar faces and unexpected turns along the way…We can’t guarantee that we’ll arrive back where we started.

Presenting a range of designers from across the book cover industry they will explore and share insights into aspects of their work and how sometimes, moments of panic(!) can lead to the best outcomes.

Tony Kushner’s Angels in America is a sweeping, poetic two-part epic play about love, loss, and the search for meaning at the height of the 1980s AIDS crisis.

Print your own letterpress poster, using our historic printing presses and wood type in this hands-on workshop.

Get the chance to 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.

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