All Consuming Letterpress Course: Glasgow Press x Lisette May Monroe

Please note: this course is 5 sessions over 5 weeks and the ticket prices cover all sessions. It will take place in person at Glasgow Press and Glasgow Zine Library.

Join us for a 5 week course where you will learn letterpress techniques with Glasgow Press, create content around tactics for survival within the cost of living crisis with Lisette May Monroe, and go away with your own printed materials to take home.

This course is for you if you are interested in looking at the history of independent publishing as a way to share survival tips through alternative networks and want to have a go at sharing your own cost of living survival tactics through letterpress printing.

Week 1: Intro to Glasgow Press and Letterpress

Thursday 6th February, 5:30-7:30pm @ Glasgow Press

Week 2: Content production and print planning with Lisette May Monroe

Sunday 16th February, 2-4pm @ Glasgow Zine Library

Week 3: Content production and print planning with Lisette May Monroe

Sunday 23rd February, 2-4pm @ Glasgow Zine Library

Week 4: Typesetting & Printing

Thursday 27th February, 5:30-7:30pm @ Glasgow Press

Week 5: Typesetting & Printing

Thursday 6th March 5:30-7:30pm @ Glasgow Press

More info about the sessions with Glasgow Press at their studio:

A special chance to create materials in a working museum of print that has functioned for 200 years and continues production today. You will learn about letterpress methods, both past and present, as well as having your own chance to set type, ink up and print a 8 page zine/ poster to take home.

More info about the sessions with Lisette May Monroe at Glasgow Zine Library:

All Consuming - working together to avoid getting eaten up.

In these sessions we will take our learned tactics for survival within the cost of living crisis and share them to make content for newsletters and open ended forms of printed matter to letterpress at Glasgow Press. Taking as a starting point Lisette's own newsletter All Consuming and looking at the history of independent publishing as ways to share survival tips through alternative networks, we will take the things we do to save money or cut a corner and shine a light on them. These things we might often hide because we are told penny pinching brings shame. These things which might seem small, to others could be the difference between paying a bill and not.

To be able to progress through the course, you will need to attend as many sessions as possible. Please note that we would like this course to prioritise those who might not usually have financial access to these types of studio courses, so please consider this while booking.
If you have any questions, please get in touch at [email protected]

CW: In these sessions there are potentials to discuss topics relating to financial insecurity, for example food scarcity and precarious living.

Lisette May Monroe is an artist and writer based in Glasgow. She writes regularly for publications such as the Guardian, Frieze and Elephant Magazine. Until recently, she also ran a monthly advice column with Sticky Fingers, All Consuming, a working-class girl in a capitalist (art) world, which offered hints and tips for surviving financial instability.

Find out more about Lisette.

Glasgow Press is a letterpress printing studio with a collection of antique presses wood and metal type in a variety of fonts and sizes. Glasgow Press is committed to preserving and sharing our knowledge of print with others through workshops and visits.

Find out more about Glasgow Press.

Please note: we can only issue refunds requested 72 hours before the course begins.

This event is for ages 18+ and will be held in person at Glasgow Press and Glasgow Zine Library.

There will be a maximum of 7 participants. During the event participants will be involved in: Group Discussions, Hands on activities, Reading, Writing, Sharing work that has been created, Q&A

Sessions take place at Glasgow Press and Glasgow Zine Library.

Access at Glasgow Press: . The workshop will take place on a ground level space - the toilet is also on this level although not adapted for disabled users.

Please see our website for access information for Glasgow Zine Library: https://www.glasgowzinelibrary.com/access

You can request for other attendees to wear masks, although please note, we cannot enforce this.

You may be asked to wear a mask at this event.

If you have any questions or access requirements, please get in touch with us via [email protected]

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