Part of Sunny Bank Mills Print Festival 2025.

In this workshop, we will learn how to turn everyday sheets of paper into different kinds of folded books, and then fill the pages with collage, drawings, and stories.

Zines can really be about anything, from real diaries or imaginary tales to funny jokes or secret obsessions. Turn your drawings and ideas into zines and share them with the world.

Part of Sunny Bank Mills Print Festival 2025.

Monoprint is one of the core families of printmaking processes—a method of creating unique, one-off prints by rolling ink onto a plastic plate surface. Ink can be added or wiped off in certain areas, and a print is then taken from the plate. Multiple plates can also be printed in register to achieve exciting layered compositions.

First Encounter: Date to Remember Launch!

Remember when meeting someone new was as simple as a chance encounter, a shared joke, or a glance across the room? We’re bringing that feeling back.

Join us for our very first A Date to Remember singles social—First Encounter—a relaxed evening of great conversation, laughter, and genuine connections, without pressure or pretense.

Part of Sunny Bank Mills Print Festival 2025.

Concertina is a really playful technique that can be used to create a variety of books and sketchbooks and combined with other binding techniques to create more complex outcomes. In this introductory session, Abbie will guide you through the process of constructing a simple concertina as well as making a decorative hard cover which will enable you to add colour and personality to your book.

Part of Sunny Bank Mills Print Festival 2025.

Part of Sunny Bank Mills Print Festival 2025.

In this workshop we will make a show-stopping journal, using the traditional bookmaking pamphlet stitch technique to bind multiple signatures into a faux leather wrap around cover and create a decorative spine in the process. Using provided templates and specialist equipment, we’ll plan the stitching for a decorative pattern on the spine; cut and collate our fabric and paper signatures; then stitch them together to create a satisfyingly chunky book, ideal for sketching, collecting and travelling.

Part of Sunny Bank Mills Print Festival 2025.

Collagraph is a traditional print technique that relies on building layers of texture that can hold ink to transfer your design from plate to paper. During this introductory session, Abbie will guide you through the process of layering textures and marks, and building tone, to create unique printing plates that will then be inked up and hand printed to create a range of original artworks.

BEP2025: NoRCEL's next science-in-society Leeds Hybrid Forum.

We open the practice by grounding and feeling into our bodies. A gentle heart coherence breathing practice will help us to drop out of the head and connect as a group. Lying down in a supported Savasana you will be taken on a journey of sound with Himalayan and Crystal Singing bowls. 

We will take time at the end to ground ourselves again before leaving.