Explore screen printing onto blank tote bags and t-shirts. This one day workshop will cover:
Preparing imagery for screen printing.
Coating and exposing screens.
Mixing inks.
Screen printing methods.
Heat setting/fixing inks to make them washable.
You’ll come away from the session with some finished products with your own design screen printed onto them and a whole lot of knowledge to continue with your own projects.
Explore a range of exciting portrait processes on this five-week course. During the course you will explore and be guided through a variety of techniques for representing the portrait including drawing, monoprint and painting. You’ll explore chiaroscuro in both drawing and monoprinting, will add decorative elements to your prints and learn how to observe and create accurate facial proportions.
This 5 week evening course will introduce you to some of the processes you can access at Leeds Print Workshop and give you the basic skills to continue using them after the course. The tutor will demonstrate:
Monoprinting – using oil based relief printing inks you will produce one-off multicolour prints working with paper stencils and our presses.
Collograph – you will use collage to create images that will be printed using our our presses.
Welcome to the world of Sorry. A band whose warped melodic sounds blur the lines of genre conventions and their two critically acclaimed records, 2020’s 925 and 2022’s Anywhere But Here have led to a devoted following on both sides of the Atlantic. Comprised of Asha Lorenz, Louis O’Bryen, Campbell Baum, Marco Pini and Lincoln Barrett, Sorry have been creating groundbreaking music since they were teenagers and have become the favourite band of everyone’s favourite band.
Explore the process of screen printing onto paper and develop your confidence as an independent screen printer on this 5 week evening course.
You will learn how to register and layer your designs, and print with multiple colours. You will gain an understanding of the photo stencil emulsion technique and will learn how to coat and expose screens using our UV exposure unit. Your tutor will also introduce you to relevant contextual artists and screen printing terminology.
In their four years of existence, much has changed for Teesside agitators Benefits. Over lockdown they morphed from spirited guitar-led punks into overwhelmingly brutal harsh noise-wielders, whose furious, eviscerating music garnered them the kind of word of mouth following most artists can only dream of. Frontman Kingsley Hall’s spoken (and screamed) vocals acting as a righteous rebuke to the divisive, xenophobic, poisonous rhetoric coming from elsewhere, spread by those who stand to profit from the fallout, that had all but overwhelmed our public discourse.
DJ Yoda is a world-class turntablist, music producer, and trailblazing video artist. Over three triumphant decades in the game, he’s dazzled audiences around the globe and shared big stages with giants from Snoop Dogg to Damon Albarn, Diplo to Dame Evelyn Glennie.
Kristin Hersh brings the Throwing Muses live show to Europe in Spring 2025.
Their first tour since 2011, the 'Muses will embark on a 2025 European tour as a three-piece, fronted by Kristin Hersh.
Kristin Hersh remains one of the most unique and singular talents of her generation, a celebrated and gifter writer as well as relentlessly-touring musician.
Throwing Muses-2025 finds Hersh going back to where it all began, with nearly 40 years of Muses-history behind them 2025 marks a new chapter in the project.
Representatives of all faiths and none join together in this annual celebration of what we have in common, in the Gatehouse Community Space.
Featuring singing, a chance for contemplation, food, stallholders and an opportunity to join us on our dusk walk to the Chapter House to close the day. Drop in, free.
Programme (all timings are approximate)
12 noon Welcome
12.30 pm - 12.50pm: Sikh values: Guru Nanak’s message to the world
(Lord Mayor arrives 1pm, departs at 2pm)
1pm: Lord Mayor welcome and Speech
On Saturday 7 December, we will be congregating at Abbey House Museum to remember those we have lost to suicide.
This occasion is a chance for anyone affected by suicide to come together in a family-friendly environment to remember our loved ones. There will be refreshments, optional activities and we will light candles in remembrance.
This is a non-religious event.
If you would like to join us, please email SBS@leedsmind.org.uk to register your place and to let us know if you will be bringing anyone with you.