Salts Works

23/10/2022

Get your gang together! Modern Calligraphy workshop with Sally Riches, The Mindful Calligraphy Academy

Sat 29 Oct, 2.00pm
, Shipley

https://www.thepeoplepoweredpress.org/workshops-index

"Sally guided us through the workshop so effortlessly, she's a great teacher and it was easy to ask for instruction and support throughout. We both thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and learnt so much."

Perfect for beginners, you'll be going through the basic elements of calligraphy and getting to grips with the tools, learning strokes, shapes & joining letters.

Work through alphabets and phrases and go home with your own pen, nib, practice sheets, guidelines & ink to keep on practising your new-found skill.

Presented by the People Powered Press

15/06/2022

Cath’s back!

Cath Brooke is running another Drypoint Printing workshop here:

Sun 26 June
2.00pm - 5.00pm

https://www.thepeoplepoweredpress.org/workshops-events/drypoint-printing-with-cath-brooke-jun2022

Take home prints you've designed and made yourself.

The workshop will involve making an intaglio drypoint printing plate, using a plastic plate, before exploring different inking methods to create 3 or 4 variations of the same print.

You can work from your own sketches or photographs, or can be inspired by a range of images Cath will provide.

You’ll be introduced to a range of mark making tools and techniques, will learn about printmaking papers suitable for drypoint, and explore different inking methods. And you’ll also create a multi layered collaborative print together as a group and look at examples of drypoint combined with other printmaking techniques.

All workshops arranged by the People Powered Press.

26/05/2022

You can do ALL sorts with the four different shapes that make up Brico, the modular letterpress printing system from the People Powered Press.

Find out for yourself...

Design & Print Letterforms workshop
with Oli Bentley

Sat 18 June 2022, 14:00 – 17:00
Salts Works, 202 Saltaire Road, Shipley
https://www.thepeoplepoweredpress.org/workshops-events/design-print-letterforms-workshop-with-oli-bentley-jun2022

Have a go on the World Record-holding People Powered Press and take home a print featuring letterforms you've designed and printed yourself.

Try your hand at making giant letterpress prints on the largest printing press of its kind in the world, using Brico to design a letter in your own, unique typeface.

You'll get to design your own letterform, at any set of proportions, at any size up to 150cm x 100cm.

Brico is a collaboration between Oli Bentley of Split; designer, visual artist and printmaker Anthony Burrill; and wood type maker, designer and printer Thomas Mayo.

Comprising just four shapes cut into small, square wooden blocks, it offers near endless possibilities of letter forms, weights, sizes and styles. Brico was created so that anyone might share in the joy of type design.

25/05/2022

Designed by Anthony Burrill and Thomas Mayo in collaboration with Split's Oli Bentley, Brico is a letterpress printing system that allows you to make an almost infinite range of letterforms on the People Powered Press

... and now we'd love to see what you can do with it.

Design & Print Letterforms workshop
with Oli Bentley
Sat 18 June 2022, 14:00 – 17:00
Salts Works, 202 Saltaire Road, Shipley

https://www.thepeoplepoweredpress.org/workshops-events/design-print-letterforms-workshop-with-oli-bentley-jun2022

You'll get to design your own letterform, at any set of proportions, at any size up to 150cm x 100cm. And, of course, you get to take your print home with you.

23/05/2022

Designed by Anthony Burrill and Thomas Mayo in collaboration with Split's Oli Bentley, Brico is a letterpress printing system that allows you to make an almost infinite range of letterforms on the People Powered Press ...

... and now we'd love to see what you can do with it.

Design & Print Letterforms workshop
with Oli Bentley
Sat 18 June 2022, 14:00 – 17:00
Salts Works, 202 Saltaire Road, Shipley

https://www.thepeoplepoweredpress.org/.../design-print...

You'll get to design your own letterform, at any set of proportions, at any size up to 150cm x 100cm. And, of course, you get to take your print home with you.

18/05/2022

Little helpers wanted!!!

The is offering Half-Term Letterpress Printing sessions for Families

http://www.thepeoplepoweredpress.org/.../half-term...

Various slots are available to book from Monday 23 May to Tuesday 31 May.

The People Powered Press
Salts Works
202 Saltaire Road
Shipley, BD18 3JF

Bring the family to a private printing session, and make a big print – featuring up to four names or initials – to take home with you.

Join the team for an hour and a half – design your print together, set the letters of the giant steel typeface Graft, ink them up and print them using the world record-holding People Powered Press.

Suitable for family members of all ages and generations!

Beautiful photos © the marvellous Craig Goode

06/04/2022

Very pleased to be hosting Jane Robertshaw's next photography workshop on Saturday 9 April...

https://www.thepeoplepoweredpress.org/workshops-events/photography-intermediate-with-jane-robertshaw-one-last-picture-2

Still a couple of places left if you feel like conquering your camera and capturing some of Saltaire's well-known and lesser-known sights...

Jane's a fantastic tutor, and this is her last workshop before she goes on maternity leave, so it's going to be a good one!!!

21/12/2021

TA for all your support since we opened back in July!

And if you've got some thank yous you'd like to make, here's Split's festive fundraiser on behalf of the non-profit People Powered Press for this year...

They've made some new TA greetings cards (in packs of 10 with envelopes) and some more big TA prints and they're available now from the website:

https://www.split.co.uk/product/ta-prints-2/

All sales will help to support the work of the People Powered Press in communities around the north of England, so TA for that as well.

25/11/2021

The People Powered Press are offering a 3-for-2 bundle on these print technique workshops with the brilliant Cath Brooke...

| Drypoint Printing
| Sat 15 Jan 2022

| Mono Printing
| Sat 12 Feb 2022

| Collagraph Printing
| Sat 12 Mar 2022

https://www.saltsworks.com/workshops/workshops-index

All on sale now!

And maybe you know someone who’d love a place on three workshops as a Christmas present...?

25/11/2021

The People Powered Press are offering a 3-for-2 bundle on these poetry workshops featuring Poet in Residence Antony Dunn with his three invited collaborators:

| Zaffar Kunial & Antony Dunn
| Sun 5 Dec 2021

| Clare Shaw & Antony Dunn
| Sat 8 Jan 2022

| Malika Booker & Antony Dunn
| Sat 2 Apr 2022

All here at Salts Works, Shipley, and all on sale now!

https://www.saltsworks.com/workshops/workshops-index

24/11/2021

New workshop alert!

The People Powered Press has announced an additional Basics of Letterpress Printing workshop in its new programme of creative workshops here at Salts Works:

Sat 22 Jan 2022, 14:00

The one in the morning is almost sold out, so they're adding another one in the afternoon.

Might make a nice Christmas present for someone, too...

https://www.thepeoplepoweredpress.org/workshops-events/basics-of-letterpress-printing-workshop-with-oli-bentley-jan-1400

23/11/2021

This Sunday... Becca Macdonald Studio is bringing her Silver Clay Jewellery Making workshop to Salts Works for the People Powered Press

Silver Clay is a magical material that behaves like clay, but transforms into solid silver once fired.

Participants are going to design and make their own jewellery, which they get to take home!

Looks amazing, doesn't it??

Check it out, and all our other creative workshops, at the website.

https://www.saltsworks.com/workshops/workshops-index

18/11/2021

... printing a giant festive mural for the garden of Salts Works!

Tomorrow, Friday 19 November, we're printing a giant mural on the People Powered Press, with a mental health focus, to go up on our Big Mural Wall facing (the very busy) Saltaire Road – and we'd like your help.

Drop in during the afternoon to have a go yourself – no need to book, stay as long as you like, children very welcome – and find out why poet and broadcaster Ian McMillan described using the People Powered Press as "a joyful experience."

https://www.thepeoplepoweredpress.org/workshops-events/help-make-a-giant-festive-mural-on-the-people-powered-press

1.30pm - 5.00pm
Salts Works
202 Saltaire Road

11/11/2021

LAUNCHED! The People Powered Press's new programme of creative workshops is well and truly live and ready for your attention.

Hope you like the look of it – and hope to see you soon.

And by way of a THANK YOU for all your support, there's a 10% discount on any bookings you make by 18 November.

https://www.thepeoplepoweredpress.org/workshops-index

(Oh, sadly Eventbrite are having a few issues just now, so the booking links might take a while to materialise – sorry...)

09/11/2021

Just two days until our friends at the People Powered Press announce the details of their second workshops programme...

They've given us a bit of a sneak preview, and it's looking really fun! There are all kinds of beautiful things you can create and keep. Or give away, come to think of it. It's nearly Christmas after all...

Programme launch is Thursday 11 November, 5.00pm on all social media and their website: www.thepeoplepoweredpress.org

08/11/2021

What are you going to do when our friends at the People Powered Press invite you to take part in their new workshops programme?

They're launching it on Thursday 11 November, 5.00pm. So stand by!

Very pleased to be hosting such an eclectic and exciting range of arts and crafts workshops between November and April here at Salts Works!

You'll find all the details at:
www.thepeoplepoweredpress.org

19/10/2021

Delighted to welcome in for half term!

Love the sound of this!

"Sign up your child to experience the art of creativity. Creativity is the one essential skill that can’t be taught. At Saltaire Art School we encourage the children to express themselves creatively, let go, and learn that mistakes are fun and can lead to something wonderful."

25th October - 28th October

12:00 pm- 3:00 pm with a break for a snack

www.saltaireartschool.co.uk

29/09/2021

You get to work with a proper craftsman when you do a bookbinding workshop with Roger Grech.

Aaaand... you get to take home three beautiful notebooks you've bound yourself. So that’s three Christmas-present conundrums solved in one easy move!

He's running a workshop for the People Powered Press here at Salts Works, on Sat 9 Oct.

Price includes materials, refreshments and lunch from the legendary Edward St Bakery

https://www.saltsworks.com/workshops-events/bookbinding-workshop

No previous experience needed. Here's what one recent participant said:

“I had a wonderful time! Mr Grech was a very encouraging teacher, with endless patience.”

We’d love to have you along!

16/09/2021

Writing Workshop - Fellowship of Questions

Our friends, the are running a creative writing workshop at Chapel FM Arts Centre in East Leeds on Monday 20 September.

It's part of their new Arts Council England-funded Brico mural project, which will see them collaborating with lots of different people in lots of different workshops to make prints, murals, zines and more.

If you'd like to get involved in one element of it, have a look at this...

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/writing-workshop-fellowship-of-questions-tickets-172773920447

Join poet Antony Dunn for a two-hour writing workshop exploring how questions in poetry can sometimes tell us more than answers can.

Join poet Antony Dunn for a two-hour writing workshop exploring how questions in poetry can sometime tell us more than answers can.

08/09/2021

Very happy to be hosting Split's pop-up exhibition, These Northern Types, and the People Powered Press Open Studios throughout the Saltaire Festival.

We start Sunday 12 September (the rest of the festival starts the day before) and we're open until teatime on Sunday 19.

https://www.thepeoplepoweredpress.org/workshops-events/these-northern-types

Drop in, why don't ya? It's free, and we'd love to see you!
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01/09/2021

You get to work with some really beautiful materials when you do a bookbinding workshop with Roger Grech.

Aaaand... you get to take home three beautiful notebooks you've bound yourself. So that’s three Christmas-present conundrums solved in one easy move!

He's running a workshop for the People Powered Press here at Salts Works, on Sat 9 Oct.

Price includes materials, refreshments and lunch from the legendary Edward St Bakery

https://www.thepeoplepoweredpress.org/workshops-events/bookbinding-workshop

No previous experience needed. Here's what one recent participant said:

“I had a wonderful time! Mr Grech was a very encouraging teacher, with endless patience. I shall be practising notebook making with enthusiasm, as I think this is something I could really enjoy and find useful.”

We’d love to have you along!

27/08/2021

This is Roger Grech – and he's a lovely man.

And he's running one of his much-loved bookbinding workshops – for us, here at Salts Works – Sat 9 Oct.

Join in and take home three beautiful notebooks you've bound yourself.

Price includes materials, refreshments and lunch from the legendary Edward St Bakery.

https://www.thepeoplepoweredpress.org/workshops-events/bookbinding-workshop

No previous experience needed. Here's what one recent participants said:

“I had a wonderful time, despite being unable to judge the middle of anything! Mr Grech was a very encouraging teacher, with endless patience. I shall be practising notebook making with enthusiasm, as I think this is something I could really enjoy and find useful.”

Sounds good, doesn't it?

09/08/2021

Only TWO places left on the INTRODUCTION TO MODERN CALLIGRAPHY workshop with the wonderful Sally Riches

Presented by the People Powered Press
here at Salts Works, Saturday 14 August.

https://www.saltsworks.com/workshops-events/introduction-to-modern-calligraphy

Perfect for beginners, you'll be going through the basic elements of calligraphy.

Get to grips with the tools, learning strokes, shapes & joining letters.

Work through alphabets and phrases and go home with your own pen, nib, practice sheets, guidelines & ink to keep on practising your new-found skill.

"Sally guided us through the workshop so effortlessly, she's a great teacher and it was easy to ask for instruction and support throughout. We both thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and learnt so much."

“I had an absolutely fantastic afternoon with Sally Jane. I have been wanting to learn calligraphy for a while now and never been able to get the hang of it. Sally was wonderful and patient. I really can’t recommend Sally’s class enough! Thank You for giving me the confidence to keep going!”

Sally is a modern calligrapher based in Yorkshire. The Mindful Calligraphy Academy was created to pass on her passion for the beautiful art of calligraphy and to inspire and teach others to begin their calligraphy journey; to explore their creativity and find joy in a mindful, relaxing escape from the everyday.



http://www.sallyjanecalligraphy.com
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05/08/2021

WRITING FOR SELF-CARE WORKSHOP

Salts Works, Sat 21 Aug, 10:00-13:00
with Jane Claire Bradley, presented by the People Powered Press

Over and over again, it's been shown that creative writing can contribute to increased resilience, higher self-esteem, better moods, decreased stress and even improvement in issues with pain or sleep.



This workshop will feature exercises, tools and techniques you'll be able to use to support your emotional wellbeing – in the session and beyond. 



Led by a facilitator with a ton of knowledge, experience and empathy, you'll learn approaches to reflective and expressive writing; exploring memory, place and past experience; writing as a form of mindfulness; and writing as a form of escapism and play.


Jane Claire Bradley is an award-winning author, therapist and educator who loves empowering people to explore, restore and turbo-boost their creativity, magic and mental health.

Jane writes novels, short stories and performance poetry, mostly about teenagers, trauma, queerness and class, and is the winner of the Northern Debut Award from New Writing North.

https://www.thepeoplepoweredpress.org/workshops-events/writing-for-self-care

05/08/2021

"It was brilliant. Anyone who had the chance and didn't come seriously missed-out."

That was the verdict of Dave, a participant in the People Powered Press's POETRY, PROSE & PRINT workshop last weekend.

Want to make a last-minute booking for their Poetry Weekend with Poet in Residence Antony Dunn, maybe?

https://www.thepeoplepoweredpress.org/workshops-events/poetry-weekend

27/07/2021

Really love-love-loving this photo from yesterday's Kala Sangam company away-day, hosted here by the People Powered Press. Look at that smile on our new friend Sidra's face!

The team spent the morning discussing their plans and values, and the afternoon turning their thoughts into some very cool prints.

If you think this kind of thing might be fun for your company, drop Antony a note – [email protected] – to find out more...

We might see you soon, then!

21/07/2021

POETRY, PROSE & PRINT WORKSHOP, SAT 31 JULY
Meet the tutors: ANTONY DUNN, Poet in Residence

https://www.thepeoplepoweredpress.org/workshops-index

Antony Dunn has been a regular tutor for the Arvon Foundation and the Poetry School for over twenty years. He has published four collections of poetry; Pilots and Navigators, Flying Fish, Bugs and, most recently, Take This One to Bed (Valley Press).

In January 2018, Take This One to Bed was announced as one of ten books by writers from the North of England featured in New Writing North’s Read Regional 2018 programme.

He also edited and introduced Ex Libris, a posthumous collection of poems by David Hughes (Valley Press, 2015).

He has worked on a number of translation projects with poets from Holland, Hungary, China and Israel, and has been Artistic Director of Bridlington Poetry Festival and Poet in Residence at the University of York and Ilkley Literature Festival.

His poems as Poet in Residence for the People Powered Press have been printed and exhibited at Elsecar Heritage Centre as part of Barnsley’s Hear My Voice festival, and at Wentworth Woodhouse as part of Split’s CHANGE STARTED HERE exhibition in response to the climate emergency.

www.antonydunn.org