Kick off the holiday season by screenprinting your very own Christmas cards!
Join local screenprinter and artist Jenny Wright for a hands-on workshop learning the basics of screenprinting. Under Jenny’s expert guidance, you’ll design and print beautiful cards to share with your loved ones this Christmas.
All materials will be provided – just bring an apron or wear something you don’t mind getting a little messy!
Here’s what you’ll learn
Would you Adam and Eve it?! After the success of our 1940s themed ‘Cardi Arms Knees Up’ and our 1990s ‘School Assembly’ we’re bringing you a Victorian Christmas not to be missed! The Cardigan Arms is one of Leeds’ premier heritage pubs dating back to 1893.
The night will be hosted by our Maître de, played by Jude Kershaw. She doesn’t suffer fools; her pub, her rules!
Join us for the launch of the Make Mine Manga exhibition with a mini convention celebrating manga, anime, and Japanese culture. Dress up as your favourite character or learn to draw them, challenge your friends to a boardgame or a videogame, and browse the exhibition and our selection of manga and comic books.
11am - 12noon - Pokémon Pompoms
Choose your own starter Pokémon and make a fluffy friend to take home
In conjunction with Thought Bubble, the Yorkshire Comic Art festival and The Lakes International Comic Art Festival, Make Mine Manga is a free exhibition at the Compton Centre Community Hub & Library for anyone curious to discover more about Japanese Manga comics, as well as the avid fan.
Specially created by Paul Gravett; the curator of comic exhibitions across the UK and author of numerous books about comics and their creators, including ‘Manga: 60 Years Of Japanese Comics’.
Chemistry is back, with another night of poetry and spoken word, two brilliant headliners and our amazing open mic. This time round our headliners are Leeds legend Ian Duhig and Cheshire poet Angela Topping.
The events are themed on the elements of the periodic table, so this time it’s element number 16, which is S for Sulphur. The theme is entirely optional, but we hope you might use it as a creative prompt to come up with some new work to reveal on the night.
This workshop will introduce you to a version of collograph which uses relief inking methods to produce prints using our fantastic range of etching presses and equipment in the print workshop.
You’ll use oil based inks, stencils, collage and textures to create an exciting series of prints. This is a great introduction to the collograph technique.
On this one day workshop you will learn how to use the tools, materials and techniques to get started in bookbinding.
You’ll make books from scratch to take away with you using methods such as pamphlet stitch, concertina books and Japanese stab binding, and you will gain some knowledge to keep making books at home.
Bookbinding is great for creating notebooks, sketchbooks, albums or books which are art objects in themselves.
Join us for a taster session exploring linocut relief printing techniques and print a range of your own greeting cards, or designs onto paper.
Your tutor will guide you through designing an image for linocut. You will be shown how to carve the lino block, apply the inks, and print it – both with our traditional Albion and Imperial relief printing presses, and burnishing by hand. You will be shown examples of lino prints and advice on the kind of designs that work best.
The two day course will teach you the fundamentals of screen printing onto paper, introduce you to the equipment and develop your confidence as an independent screen printer. You will learn how to register and layer your designs, and print with multiple colours. By the end of the course, you will be able to use various stencil making techniques and understand their effects. You will gain an understanding of the photo stencil emulsion technique and will learn how to coat and expose screens.
Monoprinting uses a plate and stencil process and multiple layers of oil-based ink to make unique prints.
This process is a great first introduction into printmaking – you’ll learn about inks and paper, and use our fantastic range of etching presses and equipment in the workshop.
Starting out with simple shapes and block colours you can build up monoprints with complex designs, textures and shades to create a series of prints onto paper.