Celebrating Swifts Printing Workshop

Create your own prints to celebrate the return of the swifts to Kendal! Learn simple drypoint printing techniques using waste packaging.
About this Event

Join us for a relaxed evening of creative fun whilst we celebrate and learn about these amazing birds.

We will create simple images of swifts for printing, using waste packaging. You’ll learn how to use a basic press to create several copies from your design, and some techniques and tools for texture in the finished piece.

We will make a garland of swifts with some of your creations, and you can take others home to frame or use as greetings cards.

Once you have learned these simple techniques, you can use them time and again and have fun experimenting and exploring the possibilities. Come and learn this technique with us!

After the workshop, weather permitting, we will invite you to join us for a short wander to try and spot some swifts above the town at dusk.

Suitable for beginners. Accompanied children 12 years + are welcome.

We will provide:

• all materials and tools you will need to create your prints
• step-by-step guided instruction to drypoint printing
• hot drinks and biscuits

What to bring

• old clothes that you’re happy to get dirty in!
• any printing tools if you have them (if not, we'll have plenty available to borrow or buy)
• £5 in cash if you would like to take a small set of printing tools (scalpel & etching tool) home with you.

Concession tickets

Being accessible and inclusive to everyone is important to us at Simply Repair. If you want to join us on any of the workshops but financial circumstances prevent this, please email [email protected] so we can help. All requests are confidential, and we offer a no questions asked policy. We will do our best to accommodate, and in the event where the workshop is already full we can discuss future options.

Your workshop hosts

Your hosts for this small group workshop are Helen Pateman of Happy Beagle Designs and Karen Bentley-Brown of Simply Repair South Lakes and Future Fixers CIC.

Refunds and Cancellations

Tickets will be refunded if:

• the event is cancelled
• the event is rescheduled, and you cannot make the new date
• the event changes location, and you cannot attend

Unfortunately, we cannot automatically offer refunds if you can no longer attend the event due to personal circumstances or if you have changed your mind about attending the event. If you are unable to attend, please email as soon as possible and we will refund your payment if we are able to resell your ticket.

If you have been charged a booking fee, unfortunately this cannot be refunded.

About Simply Repair South Lakes

Our making and mending workshops bring people together to learn or refresh a range of repair and crafting skills in a friendly, informal atmosphere led by local tutors and volunteers. All profits are used by Simply Repair to fund more repair cafes and share more repair skills.

Our aims at Simply Repair are to reduce waste, share skills, improve wellbeing and build communities. We bring together people with skills to repair and those who want to learn how. We hold repair events where you can get small electricals, clothes, furniture, toys and other household items fixed free of charge.

Keep up to date with us at:

www.facebook.com/SimplyRepairSL

www.simplyrepair.org.uk